Few releases reveal the friendly rivalry—and very different songwriting minds—of Lennon and McCartney quite like their 1967 double A-side Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane.

Liverpool is once again becoming the stage for the story that changed popular music, as film crews return to the city to recreate the Beatles' remarkable journey. For some, it's a trip down memory lane. For others, it's a chance to discover the part of the story that rarely makes it beyond Liverpool. If your Beatles story began that unforgettable weekend when thousands of fans gathered at New York's JFK Airport ahead of the band's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, you're among...

Ivan Vaughan is best remembered as the mutual friend who introduced John Lennon and Paul McCartney. But there was far more to his remarkable life. From the Quarrymen and the Beatles to Classics, teaching psychology, helping shape Michelle, and later documenting his experience of Parkinson’s disease, Ivan followed a fascinating path of his own. On the anniversary of his death in 1993, we remember the man behind one of music history’s most important introductions.