NEW YORKNEW YORK — Thirty-nine years ago, the biggest music stars in the world crammed into a recording studio in Los Angeles for an all-night session that they hoped might alter music history. Fans ...

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 ...

On this day (January 28) in 1985, some of the biggest names in music formed the short-lived supergroup called USA for Africa to record “We Are the World” to raise money to combat the famine in ...

The Beatles’ recording sessions were detailed by John Lennon in 1966, who said this rock band made everything from “electronic music” by clicking glasses together to “jokes.” Here’s what we learned ...

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 ...