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The Black Sabbath icon was asked by Metal Hammer Guest Editors Jack Black and Kyle Gass about the musicians – alive or dead – he'd love to collaborate with. Safe to say it would have been a supergroup for the ages

Director William Nunez describes why he focused on a time when the poet Robert Graves – best known for a memoir Goodbye to All That and historical novel I, Claudius – left his wife and family in pursuit of creativity at any cost

If The Beatles wrote the soundtrack for the legend of Swinging Sixties London, then Mary Quant created the look, said Jess Cartner-Morley in The Guardian. One of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century, Quant, who has died aged 93, is most closely associated with the miniskirt.

Formed from the ashes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Rutles were a razorsharp pastiche of The Beatles with links to Monty Python and the Fab Four themselves

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story may have flopped at the box office, but it featured an hilarious scene with Jack Black, Paul Rudd and others portraying The Beatles

Elliot Mintz, a longtime insider with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, will release a memoir next year that will weave in behind-the-scenes moments with the famous couple

Macca had a new sense of freedom after the infamous break up

May Pang's name is well known to music fans as the woman John Lennon was romantically involved with in the early 1970s.

The singer and Supergrass frontman has a soft spot for 1-D and a certain naff Bowie-Jagger duet. But what do he – and Skid Row – like to sing at karaoke?