The original version of The Beach Boys hit ‘Help Me, Rhonda’
“We had two goes at it.”
Music Archives: 11/2023
How a misguided review of The Who led The Beatles to create ‘Helter Skelter’
A maelstrom of madness.
The Cover Uncovered: The Story of Delia Smith’s cake on The Rolling Stones album ‘Let It Bleed’
Smith was simply instructed to make a “gaudy cake”.
How ‘Hotel California’ led to the Eagles’ downfall
“I’ve always explained The Eagles’ break-up in two words, ‘Hotel California’.”
When James Taylor tried to use the internet to track down an old muse
James Taylor’s mission to find his lost love.
The pop group Radiohead’s Thom Yorke called the “antichrist”
The 1990s superstars represented everything he despised.
The Beatles song Paul McCartney thinks Yoko Ono wrote
The abstract side of the Fab Four’s masterpiece.