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Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them
“It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles
Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon
"We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him": The song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues
And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner
“We could have been as big as Led Zeppelin”: The heavy rock innovators whose drummer was a star before John Bonham
“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"
“I asked if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’”: Inside a ’90s classic
"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”
“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad. And we had a great one”: How a soft rock classic was created
But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?
"The greatest pop record ever made”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – John Lennon's masterpiece
Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”
