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Casting The Beatles for Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-film project on the beloved band

We've got some ideas for casting the upcoming four-film Beatles biopics.

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Four-part Beatles biopic announced

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes of movies like "American Beauty," "1917" and "Skyfall" will be directing

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Sam Mendes To Direct Four Separate Beatles Member Biopics

Four films focusing on individual Beatles members, directed by Sam Mendes and financed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, promise an innovative cinematic expe...

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Four fab Beatles biopics are on the way: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr will each get a full Sam Mendes movie

Oscar-nominated Bond and American Beauty director aiming to "challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies"

MusicRadar

‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member

Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison

The Guardian - UK

James Bond director to helm four Beatles biopics – and they're all releasing in the same year

Sam Mendes is directing four new movies about The Beatles

Total Film

The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"

Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”

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If The Beatles had never discovered drugs, says Killing Joke bassist Youth, then their music would have sounded very different – and so would everyone else's

"It's not hard to imagine how grey all our lives would be today if The Beatles had not paved the way for turning music into a kaleidoscope of colour explosions after the bland, sugar-sweet pop of the early sixties"

Louder

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructive

The Guardian - UK

Long-lost bass guitar returned to Paul McCartney after more than 50 years

Violin-shaped Höfner vanished after Beatles split up but has resurfaced in pub in west London after global appeal

The Guardian - UK

Gaza protesters disrupt Yoko Ono exhibition launch

Some applauded the demo at Tate Modern

Evening Standard

Yoko Ono's Artistic Journey Explored in Tate Modern Exhibition

Discover the incredible career of Yoko Ono at the Tate Modern exhibition in London. Explore her art, activism, and influential collaborations.

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Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at Tate Modern review - the artist sets the record straight at last

A well-overdue retrospective for ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist’

Evening Standard

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – wild shrieks, audacious instructions and bare bottoms

Shake hands with a stranger, write about your mum, colour in, step on, get up close and interact with Ono’s art at this crowd-pleasing retrospective

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The Beatles weren't fond of Muhammad Ali, witnessed initial meeting

Discover the intriguing story of the initial meeting between The Beatles and Muhammad Ali, where tensions rose and egos clashed. Find out why the band coul...

The Guardian - UK

‘She gave me Lennon’s shirt to wear on stage’: Moby, Peaches and more on their encounters with Yoko Ono

As a major retrospective of her work opens in London, artists and writers recall their brushes with a cultural one-off

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Paul McCartney's New Beatles Song Honors Band Members' Contributions

Discover how Paul McCartney respectfully incorporated the work of his late bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon in The Beatles' new song, Now and Then...

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Rare Unseen Beatles Film From ‘Help!’ Set To Be Auctioned

Candid 8mm footage captures Fab Four behind the scenes during iconic movie production in 1965.

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Paintings, letters … and a John Lennon novel? Archive of ‘fifth Beatle’ Stuart Sutcliffe up for sale

Artworks and Beatles ephemera including an incomplete novel about Lennon among work by visual artist and bass player who died aged 21

Louder

"Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles

After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

Louder

"What was really exciting for me was watching Paul's total respect for his band members": Giles Martin tells the inside story of the final Beatles song, Now And Then

You probably didn’t have a new (and final) song from The Beatles on your 2023 bingo card, but that’s what we got, surprising everybody

Louder

"I was diagnosed with an ulcer on my 21st birthday. The doctor asked me: 'What's the problem, kid? Is there something or someone…' I said: 'Let me stop you right there. There is indeed someone'": the tumultuous story of Jellyfish

Power-pop princelings Jellyfish were the new Beatles, ELO and Queen all in one – until bad vibes and psychic turmoil snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

Louder

The 10 greatest slide guitar moments in rock

From Johnny Winter to Led Zeppelin, here’s how a hit of slide guitar can lift a song to the heavens

The Guardian - UK

Winston Churchill’s false teeth expected to fetch at least £5,000 at auction

Gold-mounted dentures worn during ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech helped fix childhood lisp

Guitar World

“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

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