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“I didn’t like playing music because my band were successful, or I’d get noticed as a guitar player. I just played because I missed my dad”: How Sean Lennon's legendary father inspired him to pick up the guitar

For Sean Lennon, the guitar was a means of connecting to the father who was taken from him when he was barely five years old. Though, he added in a new interview with GW, their playing styles are noticeably different

Guitar World

Tony Wilson obituary

Bassist and singer with Hot Chocolate who co-wrote some of their biggest hits, including You Sexy Thing

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

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Guns N’ Roses guitar fetches more than £230,000 at auction

A gold microphone presented to rock band Queen and used by frontman Freddie Mercury also sold for £151,200.

Evening Standard

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

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

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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"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed

Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance

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'For All Mankind' alternative timeline vs reality: How Apple TV's sci-fi show diverges from history

How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?

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“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

Guitar World

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

The Independent UK

'I'm just not threatened by it': Steven Soderbergh is defiant about AI use in filmmaking

Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh insists that he doesn't feel "threatened" by AI and is willing to use the technology if it improves the quality of his work.

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“It was the way for me to learn to approach the guitar a different way, because Jeff Beck was not an early influence”: Robben Ford on rearranging John Lennon, iconic collaborations and paying tribute to Jeff Beck and amp guru Alexander Dumble

Two Shades Of Blues was conceived as a tribute to Beck and Ford's favourite amp builder, and it finds him exploring the Strat and making his own weather with his Overdrive Special

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Steven Soderbergh planning to use 'a lot of AI' in new war film

Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh has confessed he's planning to use "a lot of AI" in his new film about the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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Four Beatles Biopics in the Works as Hollywood Reveals Ambitious Plan

Sam Mendes will direct four interconnected Beatles biopics starring Paul Mescal and Harris Dickinson. Discover the full cast and the innovative 2028 release strategy for this cinematic event.

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“Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution

“A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko”

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“I was never a huge Beatles fan. But I learned recently that John Lennon said that it’s the one song he wished he would have written”: The disco classic that sold 11 million copies and influenced famous songs by Lennon and ABBA

How the leader of KC And The Sunshine Band created a perfect floor-filler

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Guns N’ Roses guitar hopes to fetch £300,000 at music memorabilia auction

The Music Memorabilia Live Auction collection will go under the hammer at Propstore auction house in London next month.

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The Independent UK

Guitar used by Slash of Guns N’ Roses during iconic tour set to fetch up to £300,000 at auction

The instrument is due to go under the hammer at Propstore auction house in London next month

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Sir Paul McCartney reveals what The Beatles 'liked' about their male fans in the US

The Beatles really appreciated the way their male fans behaved at their early gigs in America.

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Cruz Beckham review: Cheeky, charming, actually talented

4/5 In front of his parents – and Geri Halliwell – Cruz Beckham’s show (one of three sold-out nights) at the Courtyard Theatre proved to be quite the success with decent indie-pop and real star quality

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Aimee Lou Wood says playing Pattie Boyd in Beatles biopics is ‘intimidating’

Wood will portray George Harrison’s former wife, model and photographer Pattie Boyd, in Sam Mendes’ biopic films about the lives of the Fab Four.

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Paul McCartney announces 18th solo album - ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’

Paul McCartney’s new album draws from the musician’s early childhood memories of growing up in Liverpool and his relationship with George Harrison and John Lennon prior to Beatlemania.

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“While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise”: How an unfamiliar guitar chord proved to be the catalyst for Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

Evening Standard

Sir Paul McCartney releases new single and announces first album for five years

The introspective 14-track record, titled The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, recounts a collection of memories from the singer’s formative years in Liverpool.

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