JOHN & PAUL: A Love Story in Songs, by Ian Leslie In our culture, music is most often written about in terms of sales, streams and...
The tape sat unremarkably on a shelf behind the counter, collecting dust for five, maybe 10 years — so much time that Rob Frith says he...
YOKO: The Biography, by David Sheff Here’s the thing about Yoko Ono, the artist and widow of the murdered rock star John Lennon (usually not identified...
2. Dolly Parton: “Two Doors Down” In this perky 1977 hit from Parton’s pop crossover era, the narrator is nursing a broken heart when she hears...
In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played...
Rutherford Chang, a conceptual artist who turned his collection of the Beatles’ “White Album” into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic — and...
Writing in character is “one of my favorite tools of empathy,” Eilish said, and was often easier than writing unadorned about her own life, although the...
