Released in the summer of 1965, Help! found The Beatles at a crossroads – caught between the screaming insanity of ...

The cover of Help! shows The Beatles in blue coats, lifting their arms in the air. From a distance, a quick glance could lead one to think they are spelling “help” with their arms — Paul McCartney ...

“Yesterday” now stands as one of the most important songs in pop music history. It showed that a rock band need not release music reliant on the instrumentation we usually associate with the genre.

When the Beatles sang that plea in 1965, I ached to answer the call. Here they were the Beatles — brilliant, beloved and vulnerable, too. That combination of mega-stardom and sensitivity sent my crush ...