"A lot of the songs of the Beatles felt to me very complete, because they had a voice, they had lyrics, and it was fine that the songs were two, three, four minutes. But as an instrumental, without the voice and the lyrics and the fact that it was me making the record, I felt like I had to give it something else, and not do a cover of the song, but my own interpretations" - jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola told All Music about his approach in Beatles' covers album 'Across the Universe'. 'Norwegian Wood' is a good example of it - a 2-minute pop song is remade into a 6-minute epic - listen below.

British historian Mark Lewisohn, one of the world's leading authorities on the Beatles, played a tape to a Guardian journalist of a meeting held 50 years ago containing a disagreement that sheds new light on Beatles' breakup. It was "common knowledge" that the Beatles knew 'Abbey Road' was their last album and they wanted to […]

Thousands of Beatles fans came to London yesterday, on 50th anniversary of photo shoot that made the cover of Beatles' 'Abbey Road' record. The Beatles were pictured striding across the road the album was named after on 8 August 1969, now, it is one of iconic pop-culture photos. In 1969 it was one of the […]