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"Gee I’m sorry I ruined your night": John Lennon's killer issued a weird apology straight after shooting him, witness recalls in new true crime documentary

The new docuseries John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial will arrive next month and examine the murder of the ex-Beatle with witnesses, Lennon’s friends, psychiatrists and more

Louder

Merriam-Webster's word of the year – authentic – reflects growing concerns over AI's ability to deceive and dehumanize

When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was “authentic,” it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year.

The Conversation

Living the Beatles Legend by Kenneth Womack review – a long and winding roadie’s tale

He saved them from a car crash, snuck them drugs and inspired Let It Be… The detailed story of the Fab Four’s driver, bodyguard and confidant Mal Evans captures Beatlemania up close

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"I looked to John Lennon as a father figure when I was a kid": watch Chris Cornell discuss the influence of John Lennon, and perform a beautiful acoustic version of Imagine, on the Howard Stern show in 2011

The Beatles, and specifically John Lennon, had a huge influence on late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Watch him explain why to Howard Stern

Louder

"He liked the look of the knobs": The extraordinary story of The Beatles' Abbey Road mixing desk that was rescued from a skip and is now worth over a million pounds

Here comes the seven-figure sum - that's what you might have to pay for the desk that was used to record Fab Four's final album, then given to a school that binned it…

MusicRadar

The 16 most expensive guitars of all time

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction

Guitar World

Now and Then: How composition choices made John Lennon’s music memo into a Beatles song

The Beatles’ “last song ever,” released 61 years after their first single, was bound to be significant.

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"We have one rule: you can have body punches and choke-holds and throw bottles at each other, but we never crack each other in the face": What happens when bands fight

The 40 bitterest bust-ups in rock history: From fisticuffs to wars of words to litigation and beyond, rock'n'roll’s divorce courts are packed with ire and animosity:

Louder

“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

Guitar World

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story review – vivid snapshot of Lennon’s dysfunctional liaison

Documentary about May Pang, the woman with whom John Lennon had an affair during his marriage to Yoko Ono, reveals that Ono was pulling the strings

The Guardian - UK

How AI helped The Beatles recover decades-old music — and how you can do it too

The Beatles made headlines recently for using AI tools to recover decades-old recordings and release a new song. Here's how they did it, and how you can do basically the same thing using free tools.

Tom’s Guide

André 3000's comeback, Beatles hit No. 1

The rapper is back with an album solely focused flute flute-playing but he's not the only one having a resurgence

Salon

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54 years

The last Beatles song was released just eight days ago

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The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54-year gap

Now And Then is the group’s 18th chart-topper in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles set record 54-year gap between No 1 singles as Now and Then tops UK chart

Paul McCartney says success of band’s ‘final’ song together has ‘blown my socks off’, as it becomes the fastest-selling vinyl single this century

Louder

“Rock’n’roll is dead. It’s a toothless old woman. It’s really embarrassing”: how David Bowie turned his back on glam rock to make his ‘plastic soul’ masterpiece Young Americans

Drugs, madness and an ex-Beatle – the crazed story of David Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans

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Yoko Ono: her 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As her album Feeling the Space turns 50, we appraise the best of a bold and often underestimated artist

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Salon

Yoko Ono helped save Beatles' Holy Grail

A detailed account of how one woman refused to throw out road manager Mal Evans' invaluable records

Louder

The 50 best collaborations in rock

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

MusicRadar

What if John Lennon had written Now And Then with The Beatles in 1964? A musician using AI has the answer

And it's good!

MusicRadar

"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

The Guardian - UK

‘It will change the way we think about their story’: mythical archive of ‘first Beatles historian’ comes to light

Mal Evans neglected his family life to go on tour with the Beatles, amassing a priceless trove of ephemera and diary entries. Long after his untimely death, a new book has finally uncovered it

Salon

More Beatles music is "conceivable"

"With the world in the state it is, we need the Beatles to appear again"

Creative Bloq

The Beatles' new music video brings us into troubling territory

I'm emotional for all the wrong reasons.

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