Oddly enough, The Beatles' "Lovely Rita" wasn't a hit and the world has forgotten it even though it was on a massive album.

In an exclusive: interview with American Songwriter, Mike Love recalled when Paul McCartney played him a Beach Boys-inspired Beatles classic for the first time at a 1968 spiritual retreat in India.

While the opinions of rock critics have lost that aura of authority they had a few decades ago, and some of the big names, ...