According to the book Lennon on Lennon: Interviews and Encounters with John Lennon, John discussed “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in a 1969 interview. “It’s something I wrote, and it’s like an old-time ...
Paul McCartney stole the bassline of The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” from Chuck Berry. He said “I Saw Her Standing There” proved basslines didn’t have to be original. Subsequently, Paul ...
His mother, like Johnny B. Goode's, told him he would make it, and make it big. A fan of blues, swing and boogie woogie, Berry studied the very mechanics of music and how it was transmitted. As a ...