The 10 Greatest Televised Musical Performances of the 1960s

A record-setting 73 million people tuned in on this day in 1964 to watch the Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.  read more

The Coolest Beatles Songs You Might Have Missed

Today’s list begins a series that will recur every Friday for the next few weeks, in which I’ll highlight my favorite lesser-known Beatles tracks. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr wrote and recorded such consistently amazing songs that, even if you ignore all their #1 hits and everything on their famous Red and Blue best-of compilations (which I’ll be doing for these more obscure Beatles lists), there are still dozens and dozens of amazing songs, some of which you might’ve missed along the way—even if The Beatles are the biggest, most influential band in rock history. As you...  read more