Did You Know The Beatles Invented Heavy Metal? The Beatles may not be the first band you think of when someone utters the words “heavy metal.” Indeed, they won a lot of admirers who were not ...

Rock history has rather unfairly rewritten The Beatles as omniscient free love gurus. This is unfortunate because it both alienates fans of more aggressive musical styles who are told that The Beatles ...

…and they’re not even the first metal musicians to do so. This got me thinking: what other metal bands have successfully, or semi-successfully, turned the music of the Fab Four into that of the Fatal ...

During their more experimental later years, The Beatles did produce some hard rock tunes like Helter Skelter and I’ve Got A Feeling. But there was one track in particular that John Lennon called “the ...

Well, this is clever: in a promo scheme to help push their new album Kids Love Metal, the British “kids’ metal band” Slay Duggee decided to put the idea proposed in their album title to the test by ...

“The Beatles” and “heavy metal” are largely regarded as residing on opposite ends of the musical spectrum. But every so often on a rogue 1960s track, the Venn diagram between these two phenomena ...

Canada-based animator Gerald Potterton – known in the rock world for his work on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie and the 1981 cult classic Heavy Metal – has died at the age of 91. The National ...

In the first part of this series with drummer Ginger Baker, he discussed Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love, his numerous false “deaths” reported by the media and how to make a proper cup of tea. In Part 2 ...

Paul McCartney’s Noisy Chaos of "Helter Skelter" Paul McCartney had a simple goal for writing “Helter Skelter.” He wanted to make it the loudest, grittiest, most chaotic rock song to date. And he ...