This beloved Beatles track "nearly killed" John Lennon, so it's a good thing that it became a chart-topper all over the world ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

The Beatles‘ “Twist and Shout” became one of the Fab Four’s most famous covers. However, George Harrison revealed he eventually became sick of the song. Here’s why. George Harrison said part of The ...

Rock ’n’ roll staples don’t come much bigger than “Twist and Shout.” More than half a century since it was first penned by Bronx-born songwriter Bert Berns (and his occasional partner Phil Medley), it ...

The dance craze known as the twist seemed to take over the music world for a few years. When Hank Ballard wrote “The Twist” and put it out as the B-side of “Teardrops on Your Letter” in 1959, it was ...

The Beatles re-entered the U.S. singles chart more than 15 years after they broke up, with the re-release of “Twist and Shout” for the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” on this day in 1986. The 1963 ...