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 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 ...

Twist and Shout has been named the greatest cover song in music history. The energetic song was covered by The Beatles, rock legends who sent it soaring up the charts. In fact, the song has come to so ...

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady” and “It’s Your Thing,” has ...

LexPhil stages 'Twist & Shout', an orchestral Beatles program on Jan. 23. Conductor Mélisse Brunet links Beatles' rapid output to Mozart's concentrated career. Tickets $28–$78 adults, $11 youth; ...