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“This was more than just music… It’s part of your DNA if you were that age at the time. It defines the times”: Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd alumni on what The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper did for prog

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night

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Watch Paul McCartney play 'new' Beatles song Now And Then for the first time during marathon hit-stuffed set in Uruguay

37 songs. Another 14 during the soundcheck. And he's 82 years old

Louder

"The quiet Beatle" amped in new book

Seth Rogovoy’s "Within You Without You" sheds new light on George Harrison’s pivotal contributions to The Beatles

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"George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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"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

Man dies on Jet2 flight to Liverpool from Bulgaria as pilot forced to make emergency landing

The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, after the man required medical assistance

The Independent UK

‘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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Get to know the Gallagher brood: what do Gene, Lennon, Anaïs and co do and who are their mums?

We all know a Gallagher child when we see one. But who belongs to who, and who does what? Maddy Mussen delves into the family tree

Evening Standard

Two of Us review – Lennon and McCartney come together for humdrum reunion

Stage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama

The Guardian - UK

"John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play

Written by co-founder Syd Barrett, See Emily Play gave the fledgling Pink Floyd their first UK Top 10 single

Louder

“It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison's proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude

Guitar World

“When I encounter Kurt Cobain’s Sky Stang I, I'm evaluating it like a tech. Then I'll have a beer and go, ‘Did that just happen?!’” From fixing Lennon’s Framus to giving Prince's Cloud III a CAT scan – it's all in the life of an A-list guitar appraiser

In his work for the prestigious LA auction house, Julien’s, Mike Adams has gone from guitar tech to guitar detective

Guitar World

Noel Gallagher’s Definitely Maybe guitars to fetch thousands after Oasis reunion

Other items up for auction include Prince’s guitar, items from John and Yoko’s Bed-in for Peace, and a piano played by Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse

The Independent UK

“I couldn’t work with John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I’d end up being beaten to death”: When we locked horns with Lemmy to talk Motörhead, Marshalls and why he wouldn’t fit in with one of his favorite bands

In a world full of rock ’n’ roll poseurs, Motörhead's hard-living bassist, Lemmy Kilmister, was a true original

Guitar World

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The Guardian - US

Elton John: Never Too Late review – thin portrait of a musical genius

The superstar’s husband and documentarian RJ Cutler have assembled a documentary that benefits from access but provides a limited view

Guitar World

“When David Bowie and John Lennon came in, the whole place stopped. I stopped recording – and then it was just us”: Carlos Alomar recalls playing guitar on Fame with two rock icons – and why he turned down dinner with a Beatle

The long-term Bowie collaborator says he had to put his guitar ideas first

Guitar World

“Mick Jagger was moving around like a marionette, responding to every squeak coming out of my guitar”: Eric Bazillian on playing with a Rolling Stone, writing Joan Osborne’s One of Us – and helping Cyndi Lauper find a career-defining hit

The Hooters frontman/guitarist has had a career like no other, scoring hit after hit as a session player, nailing solos in one take. This is how it all went down...

The Guardian - UK

‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat

‘I knew people who said John Lennon was angry, insecure and cruel in the early days. When I met Ian Hart, I saw he could provide that’

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“I was considered an ugly woman who took your monument away... some of his closest friends told me that probably I should stay in the background, I should shut up”: New Lennon doc throws light on the prejudice Yoko Ono faced

New documentary throws light on early years of Lennon's time in New York

Guitar World

“I’m like the power forward on a basketball team – I bring out the best in my teammates”: A pillar of the L.A. session scene, Bob Glaub might be the most famous bass player you’ve never heard of

Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks and oh so many more: for 50 years, Bob Glaub has kept things moving on hit after hit

The Guardian - UK

Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset

The Guardian - UK

One to One: John & Yoko review – fun, fierce, full-blooded portrait of Lennon and Ono

Kevin Macdonald’s surprising documentary catches a radioactively charismatic Lennon enjoying his rambunctious post-Beatles heyday in New York

Louder

“I go to the urinal and I feel a wet stream going down my left leg.” The night ex-Beatle John Lennon peed on one of the men who launched Woodstock festival

Music business legend Artie Kornfeld recalls the night that John Lennon peed on him during his Double Fantasy recording sessions

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Oasis star Noel Gallagher exclusive: 'I should be a Manchester United fan! The greatest player of all time played for United: my dad's brothers and our cousins are United fans, too'

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher on Manchester City, Maine Road, Celtic and why the Scottish leagues should merge with England

Evening Standard

The 50 best records of the 1990s: from Oasis to Aphex Twin

With Oasis reuniting, Dylan Jones takes a nostalgic look at the bands that epitomised Britain in the Nineties

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