Released just eight months after their debut, With the Beatles sounds like a band sprinting to keep up with its own momentum.

For example, album covers were relatively tame until 1965, when the Beatles chose their own distorted photograph for “Rubber Soul.” The iconic “Sgt. Pepper” cover appeared two years later.

The Beatles released 123 songs between 1962 and 1970 and while some of the tunes may not as be as famous as Yesterday or Here ...

American music's equivalent to John Lennon has crossed the rainbow bridge, an ever-tedious euphemism for death.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...