There were enormous changes in the technology of recording during the 1960s. In the early part of the decade, EMI's Abbey Road was equipped with EMI-made British Tape Recorders (BTR) which were ...

In 1967, The Beatles and producer George Martin gathered in the studio to record the song “A Day in the Life.” They were far from the only people in the studio that day. In their typical fashion, the ...

John Lennon once defined himself as a “record man” — he preferred listening to records over attending live performances. Though I saw the Beatles live in Ed Sullivan’s studio, I have to agree with ...

Check out a previously unheard take of The Beatles’ “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” featuring humorous studio banter from John Lennon.

It's January 1969, and the Beatles are unrecognizable from the wide-eyed mop-tops who appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" just five years prior. Their popularity is unrivalled. They've stopped touring ...

George Martin turned the Beatles into studio musicians. Audio Coming Soon The Beatles would not have been able to make the transition from the stage to the studio without their producer Martin, who ...

Beatles fans, rejoice: More live rarities from the Fab Four are on the way. Nearly 20 years after the first volume of long-lost BBC recordings sold millions of copies, a second volume is here, and ...

Any CD or vinyl box sets worth releasing are worth re-releasing, ideally in expanded, more lavishly packaged and more expensive form. That is not an official business model for the record industry, ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — If you are a Beatles fan who prefers the mop top’s early music, but still loves everything they recorded, then you are in for a treat at the Majestic Theater on Wednesday, Aug. 6.

On this edition of All Songs Considered, I've got a conversation about The Beatles' last-released studio album, Let It Be. Producer Giles Martin discusses his work on the just-released super-deluxe ...