It should surprise no one that the Beatles are the most-covered musical act of all time. Those covers have been coming pretty much since the Beatles began, so even as the Fab Four continued to put out ...
Covers are a dicey game for musicians. On one side of the coin, musicians can reimagine some lauded songs and become lauded individuals themselves. The other side isn’t so pretty, because if the ...
NEW MARLBOROUGH — In Mary Ann Palermo’s earliest memories of jazz, her father is at center stage. Growing up in New Rochelle, N.Y., she remembers visits to the city to see her grandmother with ...
The Beatles‘ songs have inspired covers of every flavor. Some women have reinterpreted the Lennon-McCartney catalog in fantastic ways. One gospel singer even blew The Beatles’ “Let It Be” out of the ...
Nobody does The Beatles like The Beatles themselves. However, quite a few musicians through the years have put out their renditions of famous Beatles tunes. And some of those covers might just rival ...
The Beatles wrote so many era-defining songs that it's easy to assume every track jumped straight off the pages of Lennon and McCartney's notebooks. But just like every legendary band, The Fab Four ...
There are two things I've always avoided in my explorations of the music. Beatles covers and Christmas jazz. But lately, I've noticed that Beatle jazz has been accumulating in the collection and I'm ...
When The Beatles landed at John F. Kennedy Airport on February 7, 1964, they were greeted by around three thousand fans. Two days later, when The Fab Four performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, the ...
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