Colin Fleming, Author at Best Classic Bands

This is the day when they issued both Rubber Soul and their double A-side single, “Day Tripper”/“We Can Work It Out.”

The Irish rockers’ concert album hits us again and again, and we like it. At its close, you feel like you should take a breather.

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.

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