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James Norton caused ‘pandemonium’ when he almost fainted at fashion event

The Happy Valley star, 41, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 22 and uses a continuous glucose monitor to help manage the condition.

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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

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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

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Sir Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono questioned if John Lennon was gay

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed Yoko Ono told him she thought John Lennon "might have been gay" in a phone call after the death of her husband.

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“Such A Creep”: Paul McCartney Makes Bombshell Revelation About Bandmate John Lennon In Resurfaced Interview

“Paul McCartney is such a creep. Only a nasty, evil man would sell out his past band-mate who is not around to defend himself.”

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In the entertainment industry, your name is your brand, and that means whatever you do—on stage, on screen, or off the clock—can shape how the media portrays you for years to come. As the whole Jim Carrey replacement conspiracy theory proved, people love creating narratives, even when they’re completely baseless.…

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"Fuelled by booze and pills, they cut their teeth delivering approximations of Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran." Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on why the early Beatles were so dangerous

As a young teen, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson fell in love with themop-top Beatles. But then he dug deeper and discoveredsomething darker, druggier and way more dangerous

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The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing

Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?

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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

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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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.

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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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“They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous”: How the Beatles won over America with one performance

We look back on that magical night when John, Paul, George and Ringo entranced a grieving nation and fired up the engine of Beatlemania stateside

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Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner makes rare appearance to honour manager

Could the Arctic Monkeys be up to something after frontman Alex Turner made a rare appearance at a music bash in London this week?

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Beatles biographer Ian Leslie on John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s ‘erotic’ bromance

INTERVIEW: Fascinated by psychology, Ian Leslie found much to sink his teeth into in the relationship between the two greatest Beatles. Nick Duerden speaks to the writer about his new, critically acclaimed book exploring pop music’s most tumultuous, competitive and ultimately loving friendship

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Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool?

So Sam Mendes has cast his Beatles tetralogy, but none are from Merseyside. Don’t worry, I’ve just invented the Beatles Cinematic Universe

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"Midas Man" feels like Beatles-lite

While Jacob Fortune-Lloyd delivers a compelling performance, the film glosses over key aspects of Epstein’s story

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“We’ve always been a rock group, The Beatles”: How the White Album sowed the seeds for music’s entire future

By 1968, The Beatles were falling apart – but that didn’t stop them recording their greatest artistic statement, The White Album

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‘I’m often the only woman in the room’: the female music managers changing the industry’s tune

With women now comprising 38% of its 1,500-strong membership, the Music Manager’s Forum typifies the changing face of the industry

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Midas Man: Brian Epstein biopic captures the complexity that made the Beatles manager so brilliant

A few minutes after I took my seat at an advanced screening of Amazon Prime’s Brian Epstein biopic, Midas Man, I found myself engaged in Beatles chat with the chap next to me. I wasn’t surprised to find a fellow Fab Four fanatic at such an event. But I was…

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Midas Man review – Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is heartfelt as Beatles’ kingmaker

As the ‘fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein, Fortune-Lloyd’s performance holds an otherwise sanitised narrative together in well-meaning biopic

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TV tonight: can Prince William really end homelessness?

People who have been homeless discuss their experiences with the prince, plus the stunningly intense documentary Helmand: Tour of Duty. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Lee to Music By John Williams: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The fierce Lee Miller is the role Kate Winslet was born to play, plus Steven Spielberg and more line up to wax lyrical about the most legendary composer in the history of cinema. What a bringer of joy

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"I asked George to turn it down a little. He looked at me and said: You don't talk to a Beatle like that": How The Beatles made Abbey Road, told by those who were there

Making it was by no means all love, peace and understanding, but 50 years on, Abbey Road is now considered by many to be the greatest of all the The Beatles’ albums

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‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming

Midas Man and One Hand Clapping are just the latest in a stream of movies telling a story we seemingly can’t get enough of

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