Colin Fleming, Author at Best Classic Bands

There’s no more representative piece of work to play for a visiting alien as testament to Wilson’s gifts than “Don’t Worry Baby.”

The song is an endless (and endlessly relatable) story, but also a finite one in that it takes place in less than three minutes.

After playing ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ the Beatles performed their first real U.S. gig in Washington., D.C.

They are rarely hailed as a band known for their guitar solos. But sorting out which ones stand apart from the rest is a pleasing task.

Although compiled to satisfy a contractual obligation, the collection of stray tracks is “a corner of the room worth spending some time in.”

When you listen to the LP as a cohesive experience, it feels like a genuine concept album—these guys being what they were.

Try to please everyone, and you please no one, including yourself. For the Beatles, January 1, 1962, was the day that the lesson was learned.

There is perhaps no Christmas special more beloved than this one from 1964.

The 1967 album emphasizes the collective and its vision, rather than that of an auteur with attendants helping to carry out his grand design.

This was like having friends over for a boozy party, minus the booze, and in a theater instead of a parlor.

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