An underrated part of the songwriting process is the environment in which the writer creates. Some little detail can push the song in a direction it might not have otherwise taken. Even the sound of ...

“I can be in a restaurant and someone is singing the lyrics,” Benitez tells Billboard of what happens ... Payne's Death ...

Paul McCartney remembered Quincy in a lengthy tribute ... What a guy. Loved him.” New Order, who Quincy signed to his label Qwest in the US, paid tribute, writing, “Very sorry to hear about ...

Paul McCartney gave John Lennon a “step by step ... Mintz describes in the book how he was so close with the couple that they had a special hotline for him and a red light would flash in ...

ON Sir Paul McCartney’s official Facebook page there’s a video clip of his concert earlier this month at the River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires. McCartney and his band are playing for the ...

For a deep dive into the history that shaped McCartney's music ... the man himself through Paul Is Live: In Concert on the New World Tour. Although not technically a book, this concert film ...

John Lennon loved making songs thematically substantial in the latter half of The Beatles. He said he wrote one madcap ...

But “Hello Goodbye,” written by Paul McCartney, sticks to very basic black-and-white contrasts. Harrison’s lyrics are a bit more involved and filled with the sly humor that he tended to ...

23, 2014 file photo, Producer Quincy Jones, of the documentary film “Keep On Keepin’ On,” poses for a portrait, in New York, Sept ... he had so many other strings to his musical bow,” Paul McCartney ...