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‘It’s a bit emotional’: Paul McCartney plays new songs to fans at Abbey Road

The ex-Beatle hosted a playback previewing his next album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, telling stories along the way

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney surprises fans at Abbey Road Studios during secret album playback

Beatles legend shared stories about childhood crushes, memories of John Lennon and George Harrison, and collaborating with Ringo Starr

The Independent UK

John Lennon documentary director Steven Soderbergh defends using AI-generated scenes in film

The Beatles star’s final interview is the subject of Steven Soderbergh’s new documentary

The Independent UK

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Gabriela Montero review – radiant renderings of postcard Spain with an excursion into the Beatles

The Venezuelan pianist was mercurial and dazzling in this Spanish-themed recital including Chopin, Scarlatti and Albéniz adding improvisational mastery with a Purcellian take on Here Comes the Sun

The Guardian - UK

Letters and photos from Beatles’ early days to go on show in Hamburg

The collection, including donations from Paul McCartney’s brother, Mike, shows the band’s development from 1960-62

The Guardian - UK

“They were trying to figure out who to get to sing the high harmony stuff for Gene Simmons’ band. They said, ‘What about the guy who opened for us?’”Jason Walker on touring with the Kiss star – who’s a fellow Beatles freak

His professional career started at 14, but it was a chance booking in Las Vegas that really changed the Gibson fan’s life

Guitar World

"I was pissed off. This disrespects the band." Dave Brock slams BBC suggestion that Hawkwind were anti-Beatles and stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass

Paul McCartney: The Hunt For The Lost Bass tells the story of the former Beatle's long-lost Höfner violin bass

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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film

Footage from John Lennon’s only full-length performances after the Beatles – at Madison Square Garden, for charity, with the Plastic Ono Band – has been edited and restored

The Guardian - UK

"I wasn’t going to smoke angel dust or rob people, so I thought straight edge was a good antidote." The Beatles, Blondie, New York hardcore and those disgusting CBGBs toilets: an interview with Quicksand's Walter Schreifels

The Quicksand frontman reflects on the transformative power of music

Metal Hammer

Please Please Me review – fascinating tale of Brian Epstein, the Beatles and that trip to Torremolinos

Tom Wright’s play explores how the Fab Four, and a rumoured affair with John Lennon, helped shape their manager’s tragically short life

The Guardian - UK

Ringo Starr says Beatles bandmates ‘laughed hysterically’ at his early songwriting

Ringo Starr reveals his Beatles bandmates used to tease him over his first attempts at writing songs.

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Please Please Me review: Clumsy look at Brian Epstein's sexual obsession with John Lennon

2/5 Tom Wright’s play at the Kiln takes on the life and times of The Beatles’ manager in a stripped-back production

Evening Standard

Alan Osmond obituary

Oldest member of the family pop group that had Top 10 hits in the US and UK in the early 1970s

The Guardian - UK

'Ringo's Never Done This': Paul McCartney Teases Historic Reunion Track That Takes Fans Back to 1940s Liverpool

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on Home To Us, a new duet from The Boys From Dungeon Lane that revisits their Liverpool roots and long, tangled history together.

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It bombed in the charts, critics hated it – so how did the Ramones make one of the best debut albums ever?

INTERVIEW: Half a century ago, four New York misfits released a fast, loud, provocative first album that changed music forever. Kevin E G Perry talks to their manager Danny Fields, producer Craig Leon and photographer Roberta Bayley about how a chart bomb became one of the most influential records of…

Guitar World

“I talked my folks into buying me a plane ticket to London. I took my guitar and some songs, and I ran into some people…” How the Beatles launched the career of one of the all-time great songwriters

James Taylor’s encounter with Pete Asher led to an audition in front of Paul McCartney and George Harrison

MusicRadar

“They said ‘we’re going to let you on the plane, but you’re going to have to be sniffed by the dog'": Ringo Starr talks to Jimmy Kimmel about his duet with Paul McCartney, the Beatles biopics and having to prove his ID

His 22nd solo album is out this week

Guitar World

“No-one believed in us. The manager said, ‘You can only play for a few minutes.’ The entire audience jumped up on their tables”: The story of Fanny, one of the world’s first all-female rock bands

Fanny never topped the charts, but they made fans of everyone from the Beatles to David Bowie – despite constantly having to prove they could play

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Historic house linked to George Harrison up for sale sparking fan concern

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Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The two surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sing on ode to Liverpool called Home to Us

Guitar World

“A Strat with a P-90 at the bridge and a Jazzmaster pickup at the neck is not going to sound like anything else Fender makes”: Ariel Posen on Jeff Beck, amp strategies and how his thirst for fresh tones inspired one of the most unorthodox Strats ever

Posen's new album, Bannatyne, finds the Canadian flipping the script for rock guitar, exploring in full the creative potential of that quite brilliant signature Strat of his

Guitar World

“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions

From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments

The Independent UK

George Harrison’s pre-Beatlemania hideaway in Illinois goes up for sale

The ‘quiet Beatle’ went camping and jammed with locals during his stay

The Independent UK

Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield lost Beatles gig to Gladiator star: ‘There are roles you really, really want’

Sony is making for four films about the Beatles, set for release in 2028

MusicRadar

“I’d become involved in an anti-drug programme in New York. So in my mind I had to write that song. But oh, it was terrible! It was laughed at”: The crazy song that Neil Diamond wishes he hadn’t written

“Up till that point I’d never smoked pot”

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