Paul McCartney explained why he wrote The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.” He said the song was partly inspired by “archetypal” paperbacks. Paul revealed what John Lennon said as his bandmate wrote the ...

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Paul McCartney was a songwriter for the Beatles, writing a fictional story about wanting to be a “paperback writer.” This song came about, he explained, because of his love for the word “paperback.” ...

On June 16, 1966, the Beatles performed “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” on Top of the Pops. Like many artists before, and after them, who appeared on the BBC show, the Beatles lip-synced through the two ...

The Beatles wrote a lot of love songs, and at one point, according to Paul McCartney, someone had just about enough of it. “Years ago, my Auntie Lil said to me, ‘Why do you always write songs about ...

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago today, the biggest band in the world did something it had never done on a No. 1 single. It stopped singing about ...