The Beatles' "Yesterday" is believed to be the most covered song in history, with about 2,200 known versions as of 2017. We're looking at 50 of them, from metal to jazz to classical to country (and ...

How does a great piece of popular music come into being? The movies have never been especially good at answering that question, though lately there have been significant efforts to prove otherwise.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Himesh Patel, who stars in the new movie Yesterday, which imagines a world in which no one knows The Beatles, except one man. Jack Malik is a kind of sad-sack rock musician ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A childhood comment that Paul McCartney made before his mother's death inspired a classic Beatles line in "Yesterday." Yes, folks, ...

Writing a melody as timeless and moving as The Beatles’ “Yesterday” isn’t something most of us would consider a “problem.” But in the mid-1960s, that’s precisely what that song was for the Fab Four.

LONDON - CIRCA 1964: Bassist Paul McCartney of the rock band "The Beatles" poses for a portrait sitting on a bed in circa 1964 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...

The art of the counterfactual is a tricky one, and it takes all sorts. If you are Philip Roth, you plow your deep dread into the thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt being defeated by Charles Lindbergh in ...