Recorded for 1965’s ‘Help!’ album, “If You’ve Got Trouble” was the first song the group wrote for drummer Ringo Starr. It was almost immediately consigned to the vault ...

You see, I’ve always liked Epiphone guitars. As a budding young guitarist and obsessive Beatles fan, I clocked John Lennon's Epiphone Casino in the Fabs' “ Paperback Writer ” video, and a ...

Now, curiosity - and competition - had spurred them to deviate away from the thematic norms of pop songwriting (i.e. love, relationships and relentless positivity). On their sixth studio album, Rubber ...

1. “Girl” John Lennon’s guitar-playing in this song was on another level. The song as a whole is such an important one in the band’s discography, too.

"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon ...

Four years later, Beatlemania had swept the little-known Liverpudlians to global conquer, dropping a steady stream of smash LPs and singles and finally petering out as a live band in San Francisco’s ...

EDINA, Minn. (AP) — Joey Molland, a guitarist with the Welsh pop-rock band Badfinger that was known for such 1970s hits as “No Matter What” and “Day After Day,” has died at age 77. Molland was the ...

• An electric Rickenbacker 325 owned by John Lennon. • An electric Epiphone Casino owned by Lennon. • An acoustic Gibson J160E owned by Lennon.

The song begins with each Beatle entering one at a time. First, George's guitar, then Paul doubling on bass, then John's rhythm guitar, and, finally, Ringo's drums.

The guitar was reverse engineered using a 12-string Hootenanny from the Framus Vintage Museum, with the German guitar brand building it to the exact same specifications as the original, right down to ...

Au contraire, mon frère! There is much more of a difference than that. During 1961 when the Casino model made its debut, Epiphone guitars were built in Gibson’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory.

There’s also the Epiphone Casino, most remembered for its use on The Beatles’ impromptu rooftop gig atop Abbey Road in 1969. Manufactured by a branch of Gibson and released in ’61, Lennon had its ...