The Beatles

Top 9 Songs of Spring

David Gilmour, George Harrison, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Modern English, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Robert Plant, Roger Hodgson, Roger Waters, Supertramp, Terry Jacks, The Beatles, The Doors, The Lovin Spoonful, Thin Lizzy

  With the arrival of Spring, we will look at some of the great rock songs that explicitly mention or implicitly conjure images of Springtime. We countdown this subjective list from #9 to […]

Top 9 Rock Moments 1964

1964 Albums, 2014 Special Features, Bob Dylan, Classic Rock Lists, Rock Influences and Legends, Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Supremes, The Who

The earliest year we will review on Classic Rock Review will be 1965. But this week we will cheat a little and look at the top moments from the preceding year, 1964, as […]

The Movie Soundtrack

2012 Special Features, Blue Oyster Cult, Cameron Crowe, Don Henley, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, Journey, Kenny Loggins, Led Zeppelin, Music History, Music Industry, Music Media, Rock Influences and Legends, Sammy Hagar, Steppenwolf, Stevie Nicks, The Beatles, The Byrds

The movie soundtrack has become a great source for discovering music. Many dramatic scenes are fully augmented by appropriate audio, which in turn drives sales of the songs themselves. It is a nice […]

The Beatles’ Last Audition

George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rock Influences and Legends, The Beatles

At the end of the Beatles last ever live performance (on a London rooftop) John Lennon jokingly said “I hope we passed the audition”. Well, there was actually a time when the band […]

The Beatles in India

Donovan, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

In early 1968, all four members of The Beatles traveled to northern India to attend a Transcendental Meditation training course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. While George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo […]

The Beatles in 1967

1967 Albums, 2012 Reviews, Album Reviews by Karyn Albano, British Artists, George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Buy Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Buy Magical Mystery Tour There has never been (nor probably will ever be) a year in which a single band produced so much quality material as […]

The Beatles 1^st Session

2012 Special Features, British Artists, George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rock Influences and Legends, The Beatles

At the very end of The Beatles’ very last live performance, an improvised concert on the roof of a building in January 1969, John Lennon jokingly stated, “I’d like to say thank you […]

The Album

2011 Special Features, Bob Dylan, George Martin, Music History, Music Industry, Music Media, Rock Influences and Legends, The Beatles

Classic Rock Review is built around the concept of the “album”, which we define as a collection of professionally recorded songs by a single artist published together usually through a single source of […]

Compilations and Box Sets

1967 Albums, 1971 Albums, 1976 Albums, 1988 Albums, 1990 Albums, 2013 Special Features, Bob Dylan, Classic Rock Lists, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, Journey, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Music Media, The Beatles, The Eagles

  Ever since the beginning of the rock era, there have been compilations. As we mentioned in our very first special feature on The Album, long playing vinyl albums were simply a collection […]

The Beatles

1968 Albums, 2013 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Buy The Beatles In 1968, The Beatles released their only double studio album, an eponymous release commonly referred to as The White Album. Despite the official title which emphasized group identity, the actual […]