If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...

Official details released about “Blackbiird” credit McCartney as follows: “Associated Performer, Guitar, Composer, Lyricist, Producer.” However, there was no mention that the backing track included ...

Not so long ago, if critically touted jazz musicians put out an album of pop-tune covers, they would be roasted—or at least scrutinized—for “selling out.” This would be particularly true if they ...

If I played video games, I’d play “The Beatles: Rock Band,” released earlier this week on what is now being called International Beatles Day: 9/9/09. Somehow their songs never age and never reach the ...