The Beatles in India
In early 1968, all four members of The Beatles traveled to northern India to attend a Transcendental Meditation training course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. While George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo […]
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Top 9 Songs of Spring
With the arrival of Spring, we will look at some of the great rock songs that explicitly mention or implicitly conjure images of Springtime. We countdown this subjective list from #9 to […]
Rubber Soul by The Beatles
Buy Rubber Soul As the years have gone by, Rubber Soul has distinguished itself more and more from the “typical” early album by The Beatles. While the 14 selections remain pretty much bright […]
Help! by The Beatles
Buy Help! Their fifth overall studio album, Help!, is perhaps the final of The Beatles‘ pop-centric, “mop-top” era records released over the course of 30 months. Still, the group did make some musical […]
Let It Be by The Beatles
Buy Let It Be Released less than a month after the announcement of their breakup, Let It Be was a unique release by The Beatles on several fronts. First, the bulk of the […]
Top 9 Rock Moments 1964
The earliest year we will review on Classic Rock Review will be 1965. But this week we will cheat a little and look at the top moments from the preceding year, 1964, as […]
Abbey Road by The Beatles
Buy Abbey Road Short of careers cut short by tragedy, there are very few times in rock history where a band or artist finished with their greatest work. Abbey Road, the eleventh and […]
The Beatles
Buy The Beatles In 1968, The Beatles released their only double studio album, an eponymous release commonly referred to as The White Album. Despite the official title which emphasized group identity, the actual […]
Compilations and Box Sets
Ever since the beginning of the rock era, there have been compilations. As we mentioned in our very first special feature on The Album, long playing vinyl albums were simply a collection […]
The Beatles in 1967
Buy Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Buy Magical Mystery Tour There has never been (nor probably will ever be) a year in which a single band produced so much quality material as […]