If you were a fan of the Monkees, the Beach Boys or even the Byrds in the 1960s, a new book has a clue for you all: Your heroes were not necessarily playing the music on their own hit records. That's ...

Jumping down a music rabbit hole, I fell upon the book “The Wrecking Crew,” about a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles who shaped hit songs in the 1960s. They were the go-to team for many ...

The behind-the-scenes studio musicians who helped shape the sound of Motown finally got their due in the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” Backup singers to the stars received ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Immediate Family,” director Denny Tedesco’s follow-up to his acclaimed documentary “The Wrecking Crew.” That earlier film, which Magnolia also ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For working musicians in the 1960s, the Beatles destroyed as much as they created. The rise of the self-contained rock band — the sort of act that the Beatles embodied and popularized, ...