The Fab Four Remeasured: Ranking the Top Ten Studio Albums of The Beatles

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW Few cultural artifacts loom as large over the modern imagination as the discography of The Beatles. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr did not merely make popular music; they systematically rewrote the structural possibilities of Western pop, transforming it from a youth-oriented novelty into a high-art medium. Nearly six decades … Read more

The Roots of Beatlemania: 15 US Rock ’n’ Roll Tracks That Shaped the Fab Four

Executive Overview Long before the world succumbed to Beatlemania, before the screaming crowds at Shea Stadium, and before John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr cemented themselves as the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, they were simply music-hungry teenagers growing up in post-war Liverpool. In the mid-to-late 1950s, the Atlantic Ocean was … Read more

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