It’s important never to put objects cotton swabs and ear candles in your ears. Despite popular belief, these may push the earwax further into your ear and cause serious complications.

Pepper’s. Perhaps Paul McCartney’s most playful album cover, 1993’s Off the Ground features nothing but the band’s feet, disappearing into a clear blue sky above a landscape far below.

It caught the attention of Jonathan Poneman, co-founder of the iconic indie label Sub Pop, who went on to release the band’s first single – a cover of Dutch psych-rockers Shocking Blue’s ...