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John Lennon's Chilling Final Words Revealed: Eyewitness Thought Shooting Was 'Filming A Movie'

In Apple TV+'s documentary about John Lennon's assassination, eyewitnesses shared the Beatles guitarist's final words before he died.

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“John called us and said he thought that we were the best stuff that he had heard since the Beatles… To hear that from John Lennon was like, ‘What?’ It was a wonderful compliment”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s smash-hit Beatles collab with John Lennon

How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit

MusicRadar

Stranger Things to The Beatles Anthology: the seven best shows to stream this week

Head back to Hawkins for one last hair-raising, horrifying showdown with Vecna. Plus: Peter Jackson works yet more miracles with stunning footage of the Fab Four

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"As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology

The bottom of the Abbey Road barrel approaches

Louder

Beatles museum to honour Liverpool’s other legends in ‘hall of fame’

The exhibition, at Liverpool Beatles Museum, will pay tribute to the city’s success stories.

Evening Standard

“Timeless songs that translate beautifully to guitar”: Ed Sheeran is the king of the guitar tabs

And Hallejulah is the most popular song

MusicRadar

“That's the weird thing. I'm thinking, ‘I can hear John, he's never even heard this and he was there!’”: Giles Martin explains how AI de-mixing has resulted in fresh live audio for the Beatles Anthology remaster

Martin shared how this pioneering de-mixing technology has enhanced classic Beatles live performances featured in Disney+'s Beatles Anthology remaster

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“The kind of partnership guitarists dream about”: Gretsch puts Abbey Road Studio’s legendary tech in a guitar for the first time with purpose-built Studiomatic

Featuring the studio’s innovative Rumble filter and some luxurious touches, it looks to offer mix-ready tones like never before

Guitar World

The Session Man review – Mick Jagger joins look at amazing life of keyboards ace Nicky Hopkins

The pianist played with the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and more, but remains little known beyond insider circles. This loving doc asks why – but leaves some questions unanswered

The Guardian - UK

“These are the tracks people dream of being able to pick up and play”: New study names the most inspiring bands for aspiring guitarists – and The Beatles have been beaten to top spot

UK retailer guitarguitar studied the top 5,000 guitar tabs from Ultimate Guitar to see which artists are having the greatest influence on today's players

Guitar World

“I was just too frightened – it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn’t do it”: Paul McCartney was meant to be the Beatles’ lead guitarist – then stage fright led him to George Harrison

McCartney explains how Harrison became the band’s primary soloist in this exclusive extract from The Beatles Anthology

Guitar World

Paul McCartney records silent track for AI protest album

Sir Paul McCartney has recorded a "silent" song in protest of the UK government's approach to AI copyright law.

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“We were afraid the record company was going to chuck us, so I started playing these chords. It all came about pretty quickly – like magic”: Dave Davies on the Kinks’ argumentative energy, mixed feelings on Van Halen, and Jeff Beck, the “loose cannon”

One of the O.G. progenitors of rock 'n' roll sits in with us to discuss the vital spark that lit the fire for a new generation – the sound, the fury, the friction, and the legacy

Guitar World

Lô Borges obituary

Singer-songwriter revered in Brazil for founding the Clube da Esquina collective and releasing two landmark albums of the 1970s

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Louder

"The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums": The story of the wild tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge

The Beatles queued up to give Joe Cocker their songs, but drink, drugs and wild times on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring circus almost finished him off

Guitar World

“After the show, they handed me what is to this day one of my most prized possessions”: Jim Carrey remembers Chris Cornell and Soundgarden’s generous guitar gift as he inducts them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Soundgarden played on the night with Mike McCready and Jerry Cantrell, while Olivia Rodrigo honored The White Stripes, the Tedeschi Trucks Band covered The Beatles, and Flea performed with Stevie Wonder

Louder

“Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix

Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beatles –Roger McGuinn has crossed paths with the them all

Guitar World

“It's more than an effect. It's an instrument in itself”: Made famous by David Gilmour, and employed by Rory Gallagher and the Beatles, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone

If you have even the most passing familiarity with Pink Floyd, you've heard an ethereal soundscape generated by the Binson Echorec. This is what it is, the unit's fascinating inner workings, and why it still matters

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Evening Standard

The top Beatles landmarks in London

From Abbey Road to the Palladium , we go through the top landmarks in the capital related to the Fab Four

Evening Standard

Heather Mills: I only dated carnivores to 'convert' them to veganism and then dump them

Heather Mills reveals she would only date ‘carnivores’ so she could ‘wean’ them off meat, fish and dairy

The Guardian - UK

Wings by Paul McCartney review – a brilliant story of post-Beatles revival

A compelling oral history traces the rise one of the most successful bands of the 70s from the ashes of a creative breakup

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Sir Paul McCartney was inspired to start Wings by Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter

Sir Paul McCartney proposed the idea of forming Wings to his late wife Linda McCartney after watching country icon Johnny Cash perform together with his spouse June Carter on television.

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney admits he ‘didn’t really know how to be in a band’ after The Beatles split

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The Independent UK

Paul McCartney reveals new details of life after The Beatles split

The legendary musician went on to form new band Wings with wife Linda McCartney

International Business Times UK

John Lennon's Killer Mark David Chapman Denied Parole Again After Admitting He 'Wanted Fame'

Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered Beatles legend John Lennon, has been denied parole for the 14th time after admitting he killed Lennon to 'be famous'.

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