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Photo by Central Press/Getty Images Case in point. "Come Together" by the Beatles which is actually taken from Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" Here Berry performs the song after an intro by Alan Freed in the 1956 movie "Rock, Rock, Rock". Berry sings about his brand new airmobile which is so fast that you can't catch him. Berry goes on to tell the story of driving on the "New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours, rolling slowly cause of drizlin showers"   He goes on to sing a line very familiar to Beatles fans "Here come a flat-top" which is very similar to the "Here come old flat top...

"'Silly' is a lofty compliment!" Updated on 19 April 2021 In 2015, so many of us mourned the passing of Satoru Iwata at the all-to-young age of 55 as if we'd lost the closest of friends despite never having met. The impact of Nintendo's most charming leader is beautifully illustrated in Ask Iwata, a collection extracted from interviews conducted with friend and frequent collaborator Shigesato Itoi as well as from Iwata's own celebrated interviews with his developers. Ask Iwata review Publisher: VIZ Media Availability: Out now digitally, physical copies r...

Still, that’s exactly what John Lennon labeled the group’s 1965 single “Ticket to Ride.” Like the majority of Beatles compositions, the track was a Lennon-McCartney creation. Paul McCartney reportedly came up with the tune’s distinctive drum parts, as well as his own high harmony vocals. “‘Ticket To Ride' was slightly a new sound at the time. It was pretty heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making,” Lennon later argued. “It's a heavy record and the drums are heavy, too. That's why I like it.” Indeed, the drum part in particula...

The Beatles' laid-back "Eight Days a Week" has become one of their signature singles: a widely covered No. 1 hit that even inspired the name of a band documentary. So it's surprising to learn that John Lennon, the song's co-writer and lead vocalist, hated it — describing it as "lousy" in a 1980 interview. In the beginning, though, it was just another tune — the latest from a Lennon/Paul McCartney song factory that, by 1964, could churn out product with minimal effort. This time, the creative spark came from the titular phrase, which McCartney has most frequently attributed to a chauffeu...

The Beatles released 'Eight Days a Week' on Feb. 15, 1965, capping off an iconic streak of No. 1 singles.