“EMI had very firm rules,” Paul McCartney recalled, “which we always had to break” ...

American Songwriter revisits the making of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” reporting studio accounts from the 1968 Beatles sessions ...

So, I’m not exactly sure what this is, but what it appears to be is a fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: ...

John Lennon was in the throes of a debaucherous, hedonistic, and at times violent “Lost Weekend” in the mid-1970s, so it’s unsurprising that the recording sessions he scheduled for his fifth and final ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #10 of Paste Magazine in June/July of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. The greatest albums and singles don’t drop from the sky to ...

Thirty-nine years ago, the biggest music stars in the world crammed into a recording studio in Los Angeles for an all-night ...

Albums aren’t always easy to make. Creating something out of thin air can be a struggle–even more so when you have tension with your collaborators. Below, find three tense recording sessions that ...

The Beatles and Abbey Road Studios are deeply connected. So much so that the studio was initially EMI Studios but changed its name after Abbey Road was a hit album. However, the fab four did not make ...

Longtime Prince collaborator David “Z” Rivkin recalled his early studio sessions with the musician, prior to his first record deal. Rivkin’s first time in the studio with Prince was with the ...