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“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it”: Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?

Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?

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Sir Paul McCartney felt ‘dead’ after The Beatles broke up

In a candid extract from his new memoir, Sir Paul McCartney has admitted he felt “dead” after The Beatles broke up.

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How The Beatles Finally Opened the Vault: Exclusive Life-Story and Music Rights for the First Time

The biopic marked the first-time all the Beatles' living members and their families approved to use the band's complete music catalog for a scripted film.

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Saoirse Ronan, Aimee Lou Wood and more cast in Beatles biopics

Saoirse Ronan, Mia McKenna Bruce, Anna Sawai, and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sir Sam Mendes' Beatles biopics as the wives of the Fab Four.

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The Beatles: actors playing the spouses of the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ films confirmed

Mia McKenna-Bruce, Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sam Mendes’ forthcoming four-part film series

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Aimee Lou Wood and Saoirse Ronan confirmed to star in Beatles biopic films

The four films will follow the lives of the Fab Four and are due to be released in April 2028.

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“It made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, might just help them a little bit”: The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

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“An unspecified buyer dipped into their pocket for $2,857,500 – so fara record for any guitar previously owned by a Beatle”: The story of the Framus Hootenanny, the resurrected John Lennon favorite that was a key component of Beatles tone

Loved by the Animals, the Stones, and most famously John Lennon, what was it about this Framus 12-string that made it a staple of ’60s rock tone?

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Bruce Springsteen has enough 'chapters' for a Deliver Me From Nowhere sequel, says director

Director Scott Cooper believes Bruce Springsteen is keen to do another film about his life.

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Classic Interview: Soft Cell’s Dave Ball – “To my mind, Kraftwerk are as influential as The Beatles”

The late synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple

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Shirley Abicair obituary

Australian singer and musician who became a regular on children’s TV programmes in the UK in the 1950s and 60s

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“I once had a flirtation with heavy metal, and I regretted it very much. It didn’t seem to have any sense”: The British hellraisers who put legendary Beatles producer George Martin off working with hard rock bands

This is what happened when two worlds collided in the Caribbean

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"The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord

Join the Moody Blues for a psychedelic voyage through mysticism, melody, and late-60s cosmic curiosity

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“He moved from instrument to instrument as quietly as possible and blew my mind with his vocal performance and the beauty of that piece”: Prince’s collaborators on how he embraced The Beatles and recorded one of the most vulnerable ballads of his career

“He’d moved past the pop simplicity of Purple Rain - this was Gershwin-esque," says drummer Bobby Z

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“Lennon says, ‘Tell him we’ll put the guitar on our next album cover.’ The guy says, ‘Nope, sorry.’ The album was Sgt. Pepper’s”: The day the Beatles visited New York’s most legendary guitar store

The salesmen at Manny's Music were happy to give the Fab Four a free guitar, but needed permission from its manufacturer. No freebies, they were told – not even for the biggest band in history

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James Norton set for key role in Beatles movies

James Norton is reportedly set to play Beatles manager Brian Epstein in director Sir Sam Mendes' four-movie project.

The Guardian - UK

James Norton set to play Brian Epstein in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film project

The actor is reportedly in line to play the Beatles’ manager in the 1917 director’s ambitious saga about the Fab Four

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Caligula's Horse share previously unreleased cover of The Beatles' Across The Universe as they announce Bloom tenth anniversary release

Australian prog rockers Caligula's Horse will release a tenth anniversary reissue of third album, Bloom, featuring unreleased songs and new artwork, in November

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The Guardian - UK

The Guide #212: The Taylor Swift backlash has me asking: how much good music can one artist really produce?

In this week’s newsletter: The mixed response to The Life of a Showgirl is proof that even the biggest star isn’t immune to creative burnout

The Independent UK

Susan Kendall Newman death: Paul Newman’s daughter, who appeared in 1970s Beatles film, dies aged 72

Susan played one of the teenagers trying to meet The Beatles in ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’

The Independent UK

Beatles Paul McCartney biopic casts Oscar nominee as Linda McCartney

Saoirse Ronan will reportedly reunite with fellow Irish star Paul Mescal for role

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Saoirse Ronan 'to play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes' Beatles films'

American-Irish actress Saoirse Ronan has signed up to play Linda McCartney, the late first wife of Sir Paul McCartney, in Sir Sam Mendes' upcoming four Beatles films, The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.

The Independent UK

Sean Ono Lennon: ‘People say I grew up in the shadow of my dad – but Yoko really did’

INTERVIEW: The musician, producer and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono speaks to Louis Chilton about a landmark new boxset of his parents’ remastered live recordings, protecting the legacy of The Beatles, and why it took 50 years for his mother to be properly appreciated

The Guardian - US

Saoirse Ronan to reportedly play Linda McCartney in Beatles biopic

Oscar-nominated actor rumoured to play Paul McCartney’s first wife opposite Paul Mescal in Sam Mendes set of movies

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“My producer Mickie Most said, ‘We can’t let a wild boy like Hendrix in there. We have to control the song, Don’”: ’60s icon Donovan tells the story of the “heavy metal folk” song that connects him to Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles

But was Hurdy Gurdy Man really the template for Stairway To Heaven?

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