On June 16, 1966, the Beatles performed “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” on Top of the Pops. Like many artists before, and after them, who appeared on the BBC show, the Beatles lip-synced through the two ...
In 1995, just shy of 30 years since the release of "Paperback Writer," and its B-side, "Rain," The Beatles' guitarist George Harrison remarked on The Beatles Anthology documentary series that "I ...
With hit after hit topping the charts, the group was at its creative peak. Yet at the same time, their world tour turned ...
Sixty years ago today, the biggest band in the world did something it had never done on a No. 1 single. It stopped singing about love. The result was "Paperback Writer," a song written as a letter ...
Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...