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"I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain": The Beatles' greatest b-side was ahead of its time, but it also exposed a difference of perspective between Lennon and McCartney

Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future

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Rare new Beatles & James Bond insights

An Ian Fleming biography reveals the origins of the spy womanizer, while the Fab Four get candid in their own words

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"Because I don't read music, I didn't know what the melody that went with it was": Paul McCartney explains why his musical limitations and "stealing" benefitted the Abbey Road medley that gave us The Beatles' true swansong

"It's turned out to be quite soulful," the legendary songwriter reflects

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"Check your attic": Lost Lennon Help! guitar tipped to beat the current $2.4m Beatles six-string record at auction

Could it eclipse the $6m bill for Cobain's MTV unplugged acoustic?

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“We thought it was lost forever. This could be the guitar that sets a new world record”: John Lennon’s missing Help! Framus acoustic has been found in an attic after 50 years – and it could become one of the most expensive guitars ever sold

The 12-string acoustic guitar was used on a number of classic Beatles tracks, and is tipped to rival Kurt Cobain’s $6m Martin D-18e when it hits the auction block next month

Guitar World

Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics

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The Beatles And Solo Members Release New Music For Fans

The Beatles members release new music for Record Store Day 2024, including reissued albums and EPs. Limited editions available.

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Billy Idol, a Beatles "super-mega fan"

On "Everything Fab Four," the rocker talks MTV exposure and how his voice was once mistaken for Paul McCartney's

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"Jimi Hendrix lived a block from me in New York. We jammed together a lot": Al Kooper's stories of the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and more

He freaked out Lynyrd Skynyrd, produced The Tubes and more, hung out at Keith Moon’s house and had George Harrison hang out at his. He's the legendary Al Kooper

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“Your Dads Are Proud!“: John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Sons Release Song Together That Has Fans Obsessed

Proud father and Beatles member Paul McCartney said, "My son James has a new song out called 'Primrose Hill' ... And lots of love to Sean Ono Lennon." The post “Your Dads Are Proud!“: John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Sons Release Song Together That Has Fans Obsessed first appeared on…

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Housing costs keep inflation stubborn; New report on Maui wildfires released

Inflation is proving stubborn this year, and the cost of rent may be to blame. Hawaii's attorney general has released the first report into last year's Maui fires.

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“When I play the trill with my finger, my hand is not on the neck at all. It all comes from the wrist”: The story of B.B. King, the greatest blues guitar player of all time

How the King of the Blues heard his calling, found a guitar, and developed a style that made him the undisputed greatest of all time

Guitar World

“Once in a while, we would start playing a Beatles song, and John would go, ‘Cut that out!’” Session guitar legend Earl Slick on fast times with John Lennon and David Bowie – and saying no to Whitesnake

The venerable session ace has lived a life less ordinary and has the discography to show for it. Earl Slick tells us what it was like to share the stage and studio with music legends

Guitar World

A new Lennon-McCartney collab has dropped — but this time, it's by the Beatles' sons

A new single, "Primrose Hill," was co-written by Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney, the youngest sons of Beatles musicians John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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For a year Tommy James was bigger than The Beatles. Then the mafia ruined everything

With hits like Mony Mony and Crimson And Clover, Tommy James should have had the time of his life. Instead, he found himself robbed and threatened by the Mafia

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“We never did any TV-throwing – I’d rather nick ’em than throw ’em out the window”: Jeff Lynne recalls how easy it was for ELO to take over the 70s

From working with Roy Wood and hanging with the Beatles to finding that songs simply poured out of him, the bandleader still can’t believe his luck

Guitar World

“We started at a slow tempo, but as the session wore on, people were heading to the bathroom and sniffing stuff, and the tempo got to be almost twice as fast!” Klaus Voormann’s bassline on John Lennon’s Whatever Gets You Thru The Night is a must-listen

The German musician and artist was John Lennon's bass guitarist of choice for two decades

The Guardian - UK

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckraker

In this ‘director’s cut’ of their 1983 book, which Paul McCartney burned, a former Beatles employee and a music writer appear preoccupied with stirring up scandal around the band’s split

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"I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding. I just thought 'Christ, what have I done? Now we’re in for it'": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over

McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970

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Warning: with Back to Black and four Beatles movies, Hollywood’s most cliched genre isn’t going away

From Amy Winehouse to Elvis, musical biopics are ubiquitous – but it’s only the fake ones that are really worth watching, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

MusicRadar

'At his musical core, John Lennon had a wonderful way with chords': Here are 4 of his Beatles voicings and guitar rhythm ideas to inspire you

All my strumming, I will send to you

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"Songwriting for me, at the time of Rubber Soul, was a bit frightening because John and Paul had been writing since they were three years old": How The Beatles raised their game in 1965 to create a masterpiece that "broke everything open"

The Beatles' sixth album Rubber Soul was a colossal creative leap and marked the point at which albums began to be viewed as works of real artistic merit

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How the Beatles won Australia over minus the razzmatazz

In an era of blockbuster tours, a Beatles fan remembers how four boys in plain suits and ties captured Australia's heart without the fuss 60 years ago.

The Guardian - UK

Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse: ‘Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of’

The director’s new biopic about the troubled singer tells the story of a relationship scrutinised by the tabloids – something she knows all about. She talks about facing cancer, falling for a younger man and why she’ll always be drawn to ‘intense, deep subjects’

Guitar World

“I bought a right-handed Hofner, re-strung it and learned to play like a lefty, which was a nightmare”: How The Bootleg Beatles’ Steve White became a carbon-copy Paul McCartney

Think you can play a bit like Sir Paul? It’s not as easy as you think, says Bootleg Beatles bassist Steve White

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