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Beatles biopic star admits to surprising lack of knowledge about iconic band

Mia McKenna-Bruce says she couldn't even name the band members and that their music ’wasn't my jam’

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"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what it's like to be in a stadium filled with people singing War Pigs

Louder

How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison

Nirvana's first love song offered the world the first real glimpse of Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius

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'We wouldn't have been able to do most of what we did...' Eric Idle says political correctness would stop Monty Python movies

Monty Python member Eric Idle says that modern political correctness would mean that their films like The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life would not be made now.

BANG Premier

“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

MusicRadar

Sir Paul McCartney in tree row with neighbour over plan to chop down sycamores at London home

Beatles legend wants to fell two protected trees at £10m North London home but wealthy investor raises objections

Evening Standard

"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

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“Each of them impacted the instrument in their own way, as luthiers, hitmakers, session players, or air guitar-inspiring soloists”: Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2025

2025 has been a big year for the guitar, but we've also had to sadly say goodbye to dozens of guitar greats, from many eras, and every imaginable genre. Here, we recognize those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument

Guitar World

"There is no getting around the fact that he repeats the phrase 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' 17 times": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime

Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic

MusicRadar

Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...

Folk-rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

Louder

Sean Ono Lennon is worried that younger generations will forget about The Beatles

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon is fearful that younger generations could forget about The Beatles and his father's musical legacy.

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“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before

Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity

MusicRadar

The Divisive Beatles Movie Musical Is Finding New Appreciation on Social Media

Come to the Beatles, stay for Bono.

The Mary Sue

‘Beatlemania wasn’t like Taylor Swift — it came out of nowhere, like a meteorite’

Sean Ono Lennon has a timely festive message in his Oscar-winning film inspired by his parents’ song, Happy Xmas (War is Over) — and a thumbs-up to the actor who’s about to play his dad

Evening Standard

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"We were just tired, so we were like, 'Let's go live together in a cabin and take psychedelics', because that'll help, I guess." How The Beatles inspired one of emo's breakout bands to completely reinvent themselves

After taking the world by storm with their debut, Panic! At The Disco looked to the greats for inspiration for their next move

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Stranger Things actor's stop-motion George Harrison video is all heart and soul

Can you spot all the Easter eggs?

Guitar World

Höfner, the famed instrument maker behind Paul McCartney’s iconic Violin Bass, reportedly files for bankruptcy

The firm was founded in 1887, and designed the legendary Violin Bass that became Macca’s go-to in the Beatles and beyond

International Business Times UK

How Taylor Swift's 95 Weeks Atop Charts Built $1.6B Fortune Only The Beatles Can Match

Taylor Swift's 95 weeks atop the Billboard 200 made her the first musician billionaire from music alone. Only The Beatles' 132-week record stands between her and chart immortality.

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From Springsteen to Sabrina: pop stars and the fight for control

What pop stars have learn the hard way offers lessons for every creative.

Louder

“I decided I was going to sing it like Tom Jones”: how one of the greatest rock singers of the 90s channelled a crooning legend and reinvented himself on this epic Bond theme

Casino Royale kickstarted a new era for 007 and producers tapped up a grunge icon to ensure they had a theme tune to match

MusicRadar

“They had no monitors, but when you listen to the recordings it’s so damn good. It was stunning how good The Beatles were live”: Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on The Beatles and the Stones – and why rock stars were not supposed to last beyond 30

"They turned the world upside down!”

Guitar World

“Dad let me organically follow whatever I wanted. That was his main mantra: ‘Just play.’ It’s that simple”: Wolfgang Van Halen on Allan Holdsworth, unintentional Van Halen-isms, and his go-to guitar-test riffs

As the son of one of the world’s most influential rock guitar players, it’s understandably taken Wolfgang Van Halen some time to feel comfortable in his own skin. Mammoth’s third full-length, The End, is undoubtedly the sound of his confidence growing stronger and stronger

MusicRadar

How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass

At one point Harrison considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra

International Business Times UK

Taylor Swift Humbly Rejects The Beatles Comparison By Stephen Colbert

Taylor Swift politely rejected Stephen Colbert's comparison to The Beatles on The Late Show, stating they 'had a whole thing going,' and discussed her fans' 'post-concert amnesia.'

Louder

"These guys are simply timeless": Triumph's Rik Emmett picks five essential guitar albums

Canadian guitar legend and founding member of Triumph Rik Emmett picks five guitar classics that inspired his own path

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