Promotional portrait of the British rock band The Beatles, circa 1963. Paul McCartney holds a cigarette, others are (left to right) Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and John Lennon. The ...

19th May 1967: The Beatles celebrate the completion of their new album, 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', at a press conference held at the west London home of their manager Brian Epstein. The ...

“Hey Jude” sums up the Beatles’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture. The single was a smash as soon as they released it on August ...

Not all of the 213 singles The Beatles recorded together were going to be extraordinary, though many of them were—their 1968 track, “Hey Jude”, being no small exception. From the circumstances ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "Hey Jude" ...

The Beatles were winding down in the late '60s, but there were still some songs that their U.S. label had never put on an album. Capitol remedied that with the Hey Jude LP on Feb. 26, 1970. By the ...