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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

The Guardian - UK

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…

The Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

"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

Louder

‘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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International Beatleweek: How The Beatles continue to influence fashion trends

From military jackets to mod suits.

The Independent UK

"We were getting more talented and George began to write lots of songs… he was lucky to get a track on an album." The lost 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on the Beatles' split when they insisted Michael Parkinson wore a black sack over his head

"It's total communication if you're in the bag"

MusicRadar

Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues

The Guardian - UK

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckraker

In this ‘director’s cut’ of their 1983 book, which Paul McCartney burned, a former Beatles employee and a music writer appear preoccupied with stirring up scandal around the band’s split

The Guardian - UK

“We didn’t realize we were breaking up as it was happening”: The Beatles intended to go back to their roots on Let It Be – instead, they documented the collapse of their magical creative partnership

A mix of rootsy, spirited rockers, stunning ballads, and unfocused jams, Let It Be captured the Fab Four looking to find their footing as a group again

Guitar World

Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

MusicRadar

Hotel Owner Reveals How She Gave Up Her Bed For The Beatles As A Teen

Guests love to think they are sleeping in the same beds as John and Ringo

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The bizarre story behind The Beatles logo

The design's road to fame was long (and winding).

Evening Standard

Beatles manager Brian Epstein's first London home on sale for £8.75m

Mayfair home was later sold to Thatcher era Cabinet minister Norman St John-Stevas

MusicRadar

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage

How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

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Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

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The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 review – watching the world change, almost overnight

Eyes of the Storm, which collects McCartney’s pictures taken as the Beatles’ fame went stratospheric, record a pivotal moment in pop culture

The Guardian - UK

‘John Lennon was violent. He’d fight about anything’: the inside story of Merseybeat, the UK’s early pop explosion

Early 1960s Liverpudlian pop may have been dominated by the Beatles, but it was a thriving scene whose acts filled the charts. Its artists explain why wild success gave way to heartbreaking failure

Liverpool Echo

'Sad irony' at closing theatre that is a 'little home from home'

"Liverpool needs The Epstein"

Louder

"I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy

How John Lennon took an amazing x-rated story – told to him at an orgy – and turned it into part of a psychedelic masterpiece

MusicRadar

One of the earliest live recordings of the Beatles emerges 60 years later, but will we ever get to hear it?

John Bloomfield was a teenager at the all-boys Stowe boarding school in 1963 when the Fab Four came to play, and after all these years, he reveals to the BBC that he recorded the set

Louder

An hour-long recording of The Beatles playing at a Buckinghamshire boarding school in 1963 has just been unearthed

It was 60 years ago today

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #78: Why just getting Beyoncé tickets felt like a massive cultural event

In this week’s newsletter: I fell to my knees when my confirmation email hit, knowing I will get my chance to witness the Renaissance tour – that’s the power of the stadium gig

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