While many Beatles songs have interesting stories behind them, some are more intriguing than others. “Get Back,” the band’s 1969 hit single, offers a good example. That track may have been inspired by ...

Any singer who has presented ‘Hey Jude’ at a live show would vouch for this. The listeners would hum along till the song reached its tail-end, when there would be a remarkable upswing in their ...

With "Hey Jude," (above: the Smithsonian's 45 rpm single), the Beatles "seem to have struck their most resonant chord," says John Troutman, the curator of American music at the National Museum of ...