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Sir Paul McCartney reveals what The Beatles 'liked' about their male fans in the US

The Beatles really appreciated the way their male fans behaved at their early gigs in America.

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Aimee Lou Wood admits Beatles biopic role is ‘quite intimidating’

White Lotus star will play George Harrison’s former wife in the ambitious series of films about The Beatles

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Stars turn out for Paul McCartney’s intimate Hollywood show

Rock legend played two gigs at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood after announcing his new album, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’

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Aimee Lou Wood says playing Pattie Boyd in Beatles biopics is ‘intimidating’

Wood will portray George Harrison’s former wife, model and photographer Pattie Boyd, in Sam Mendes’ biopic films about the lives of the Fab Four.

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Aimee Lou Wood on The White Lotus, the Beatles biopic and stepping out of her comfort zone: 'The moment you play it safe, you’re done'

The White Lotus made her a global breakout. Now, as she steps into the world of the Beatles and Jane Eyre, Aimee Lou Wood is embracing risk — and learning when not to trust fate

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“You start putting expectations on yourself. ‘OK, I’ve got to compete with Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and The Beatles!”: An in-depth conversation with rock guitar’s most maverick virtuoso, Paul Gilbert

Featuring: his “mouse” heartbeat, the jazz pianist so good he's “inhuman” and the most courageous thing a shredder can do

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“While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise”: How an unfamiliar guitar chord proved to be the catalyst for Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

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Paul McCartney returns with poignant new single and major announcement

Beatles legend shared the track at the same time as announcing plans to release his first solo album in six years

The Independent UK

"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

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Sir Paul McCartney mended John Lennon rift by bonding over baking

Sir Paul McCartney mended his friendship with John Lennon after the Beatles split by bonding over their shared love of baking.

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“A prototype given to George Harrison was prominently featured in the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, inspiring insatiable lust for the electric 12”: How the Rickenbacker 360/12 revolutionized the sound of ’60s guitar

Introduced in 1964, the jangle of the 12-string Ricky inspired generations of players, with the likes of TomPetty, Mike Campbell and Johnny Marr all making it their own

Guitar World

University of Liverpool acquires entire archive of poet Roger McGough

Archivist Jo Klett says the 40 boxes of material will provide ‘a full picture of Roger’s entire working career’

The Guardian - UK

“It puts the Black Strat in the neighborhood of the most expensive Stradivarius violins ever sold”: I was there when records were broken at the biggest guitar auction in history – and witnessed a new dawn in the value of the instrument

The monumental bidding wars that took place on the first night of the Jim Irsay Collection auction at Christie’s New York were a testament to the power of the instrument and the aura of the classic rock gods, and left attendees spellbound

Guitar World

'I was in my 20s ... girls absolutely loved me,' Sir Ringo Starr revealed all about life in The Beatles to Inbetweeners star James Buckley

Sir Ringo Starr candidly told The Inbetweeners actor James Buckley all the things he loved about being in The Beatles during a chat on the set of the film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

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“It was kept in Lennon’s attic studio… You can see the guitar in photographs right by his Farfisa and Brenell tape machines”: John Lennon’s ’64 Rickenbacker is officially a $1.3m guitar – but it was originally a replacement for a Beatles live show

This stunning stand-in Ricky was owned by both John Lennon and Ringo Starr in its time, and was one of the big sales in the Jim Irsay auction at Christie’s

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“Harrison put the SG into immediate use on recording sessions for Revolver”: George Harrison’s 1964 Gibson SG Standard is officially part of the multi-million dollar guitar club – but as a piece of Beatles history it’s priceless

Sold at auction for $2,271,000, Harrison’s SG is one of the most significant Beatles guitars

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“After the set, Hendrix came knocking on the dressing room door and said, ‘I want you to come on tour with me’”: Chicago bassist Peter Cetera reflects on signing for Columbia Records, opening for Jimi Hendrix and why Paul McCartney changed everything

The newly named Chicago were invited to open for The Experience on several dates during their 1969 US tour

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"They told us we couldn't say anything to Paul about the Beatles. We were bummed out." The day that Toto guitarist Steve Lukather defied orders and jammed Beatles songs with Paul McCartney

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"Lot after lot, we felt like we were making history”: John Lennon’s Broadway piano goes for a record-breaking $3.3 million

He used it to write A Day In The Life

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“To me, it was like being asked to tour with the Beatles”: Paul Gilbert on why he turned down the gig of a lifetime – and why not maintaining his “Whitesnake haircut” was a barrier to career progression

When Todd Rundgren called and invited Gilbert to tour with him there was only one answer, even if it pained him to say it

Guitar World

“Lot after lot we felt like we were making history”: World record for most expensive guitar shattered three times in one night as Jim Irsay auction sees David Gilmour's Black Strat fetch $14.5m

On any other night, $6,907,000 for Kurt Cobain's Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang and $11,560,000 for Jerry Garcia's “Tiger” would have been world records. But this wasn’t any other night...

The Independent UK

John Lennon’s Sgt Pepper piano sells for record amount at auction

It was sold as part of The Jim Irsay Collection: Hall of Fame on Thursday at Christie’s in New York.

Evening Standard

Piano John Lennon used to write Beatles songs fetches record amount at auction

It was sold as part of The Jim Irsay Collection: Hall of Fame on Thursday at Christie’s in New York.

The Independent UK

A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really?

MCCRUM ON BOOKS: Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John Lennon, but Robert McCrum argues that her role as the musician’s muse unleashed one…

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The Jim Irsay Collection sale live: David Gilmour's Black Strat sells for record-shattering $14.5 million in the biggest guitar auction in history

We were live on the ground at Christie's auction house in New York as the world's greatest guitar collection went under the hammer

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