Music is always cyclical, and nothing is made in isolation from inspiration. Today, rock music has its sights set backward. Many rockers have taken inspiration from those who came before them, ...

The '80s were marked by dizzying highs and catastrophic lows for ex-members of the Beatles. The title of this sharp and snarky rocker, originally found in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, became ...

Paul McCartney began the '80s in much the same position as he'd entered the '70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Despite those ups and many downs, ...