The Beatles are one of the most essential classic rock bands, but they rarely made hard rock songs. This raises an interesting question: is “Helter Skelter” the heaviest Beatles song? There are a few ...

Recording engineer Chris Thomas received a note on Sept. 9, 1968 from producer George Martin saying: "Chris, hope you had a nice holiday. I'm off on mine now. Make yourself available to the Beatles." ...

Few songs can claim to be ground zero for heavy metal. Black Sabbath’s eponymous 1969 album opener is largely accepted as the genre’s starting point, but Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues," released in ...

The Beatles’ self-titled 1968 record (commonly known as the White Album) had everything except the kitchen sink. Twisted blues/surf-rock/R&B hybrid on “Back in the U.S.S.R.” The Jamaican ...

Isabella Soares is a Senior Writer for Collider, as well as a CherryPicks-approved critic. Born in Brazil, previously based in Canada, and now residing in the UK, she is passionate about stories that ...

If you are familiar with “Helter Skelter”, then you surely know the significant and dark context surrounding it. However, if you don’t, then it would behoove you to know that the famous cult leader, ...

In 1968, The Beatles were working on one of their most groundbreaking records, their self-titled album, better known as the White Album. They were coming off a psychedelic trend with Sgt. Pepper's ...

As with most children of the late 1960s and early 1970s, I grew up with the Beatles as a sort of force of nature, but because the group broke up in 1970, I experienced the whole thing secondhand. It's ...

Beginning tonight (July 11) the tour nobody thought would ever happen again kicks off in Detroit, at the exact venue where Zombie and Manson famously hurled insults at each other onstage at the ...

The term helter-skelter can be defined as either disorderly confusion or a slide that spirals around a tower at an amusement park. McCartney highlighted both meanings of the term through his opening ...