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 ...

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 ...

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 ...