What did it take for The Beatles to make a masterpiece? It depended on the song and situation. With the epic “A Day in the Life,” John Lennon came in with the idea, Paul McCartney contributed his part ...

“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) “Somehow ...

“I Am the Walrus” is one of The Beatles’ most bizarre and surreal tracks. The song was written by John Lennon, who, according to Paul McCartney, also provided many of the weirder moments that improved ...

The Beatles’ 1967 track, “I Am the Walrus”, has as big an amalgamation of sources of inspiration as one might expect from a song that begins, “I am he as you are he, as you are me, and we are all ...

If you’re unclear what we’re talking about, two songs from both parties that utilize this lyrical form of expressionism are Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues” and The Beatles’ “I ...