Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Beatles’ “Now and Then” is the U.K.’s bestselling vinyl single ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Beatles score multiple U.K. chart wins this week, as “Now and ...

During the 1960s, music fans would always anticipate the latest single from The Beatles, who were taking the music industry by storm. The single’s A-side was almost guaranteed to be a hit, with the ...

The rock ballad was originally written and recorded by John Lennon as a solo track but was never completed before his death. The unfinished song floated around in limbo until Paul McCartney revived it ...

I know, I know: You're looking at that headline and thinking, "Uh, the Beatles broke up years ago, there are only two of them that are alive, how could they release a new single?" Here's the answer: ...

The Beatles in April 1969 (photo: Bruce McBroom / Apple Corps Ltd.) After Paul McCartney shocked the music world by teasing a “final Beatles song” this summer built around a late 1970s John Lennon ...

“We had a great track of John singing and playing piano and George [Harrison] playing rhythm guitar,” the 83-year-old rock legend noted. “There were terrible rumors that it’s not John, it’s AI, ...

“Yesterday” now stands as one of the most important songs in pop music history. It showed that a rock band need not release music reliant on the instrumentation we usually associate with the genre.