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This is the full story of how The Beatles recorded Revolver, an album that changed popular music forever. Books featured in this video: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd is often considered the greatest guitar song of all time, featuring two of the greatest guitar solos of all time, but the story behind it is more difficult than it seems. The book featured in this video is ‘Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of […]

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is one of the most popular songs of all time, but the way it was created is just as incredible as the song itself.

00:00 Intro 00:06 The Beatles 00:46 Elvis Presley 01:52 Bill Withers 02:46 David Bowie 03:50 Elton John 04:26 Pink Floyd 05:25 Steely Dan 06:10 The Police 06:44 Peter Gabriel 07:39 The Who 08:16 Billy Joel 08:53 Prince 09:46 Guns N’ Roses 10:24 Christina Aguilera 11:13 James Blunt

John Fogerty wrote some of the greatest rock songs of all time, but a notoriously bad contract led him into the strangest songwriting lawsuit of all time.

Yellow Submarine is one The Beatles’ most well known and familiar songs, but the story behind the song is more unusual than you might think.

A Day in the Life by The Beatles features some of the most inventive songwriting and production ideas of all time. The book featured is ‘Here, There and Everywhere – My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles’ by Geoff Emerick.

Giant Steps by John Coltrane is often considered to have the most complex chord progression of all time. It’s based on a simple system found within the circle of fifths, but this proved nearly impossible to play.

An accidental LSD trip led to John Lennon creating the most incredible music with The Beatles, but he was soon forced to contend with a much bigger problem.