The Isley Brothers and The Beatles both found career-making hits in Twist and Shout – and the two groups would prove pivotal ...

Ernie Isley recently shared a special story about meeting Paul McCartney, where the two musicians ended up performing Twist and Shout together. This was a significant moment because both the Isley ...

"Twist and Shout" is a 1961 song written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns. It was originally recorded by the Top Notes, but it did not become a hit in the record charts until it was reworked by the Isley ...

In the early 1960s, when the Isley Brothers found themselves without a guitarist ... As Hendrix strung his guitar, he told the watching musicians how much he liked their song, ‘Twist and Shout.’ Then ...

Phil Medley and Bert Berns’ Twist and Shout was first popularized by the Isley Brothers in 1962, with everyone from the Beatles and Chaka Demus and Pliers covering it from there. Salt N Pepa’s version ...

But none extols this virtue more than The Beatles’ 1963 recording of the Isley Brothers’ “Twist & Shout,” characterized by John Lennon’s throat-shredding vocal. It never stops being ...

And it was there at that age, that’s the thing.” The twist with Oz’s brothers takes a more morbid turn when you realize his base of operations running his Bliss empire in an abandoned ...