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"There is no getting around the fact that he repeats the phrase 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' 17 times": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime

Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic, a Christmas song curiously "built around the most advanced synthesizers available in 1979”

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The 50 best albums of 2024: No 5 – Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter

This freewheeling embrace of the singer’s roots was also a triumphant reclamation of a genre that had long shunned its Black origins

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney review – extraordinarily sublime and humblingly beautiful

Stretching an almost three-hour set from the Quarrymen through to the ‘final Beatles single’ this is like an arena-sized Last Night at the Proms, with Beatlemania

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In 2024, a controversial Beatles song made Grammy history and raised eyebrows

AI helped deliver a new wave of Beatlemania, but worries about AI in the arts remain.

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Paul McCartney, Manchester review: The last great Sixties showman is nothing short of breathtaking

5/5 The 82-year-old delivers an extraordinary set drawn almost entirely from The Beatles and Wings canons, bringing tears, nostalgia and even screaming

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Mariah Carey makes chart history

Mariah Carey has become the first artist to top the Billboard 100 chart in 20 different years.

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Paul McCartney leaves Manchester spellbound as he rolls out the hits on first night of UK tour

At the first of two sold-out shows – part of his celebrated Got Back tour and his first UK gig since 2018 – The Beatles legend ‘duetted’ with his late bandmate, John Lennon, and gave fans an early Christmas present

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Sir Paul McCartney says ‘it’s good to be back’ as UK leg of tour begins

The Beatles star played the Co-op Live arena in Manchester.

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Sir Paul McCartney reveals why he gets 'very emotional' on stage

Sir Paul McCartney gets "very emotional" whenever he performs 'Now and Then' because it was written by John Lennon.

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Documents revealing insight into break-up of The Beatles auctioned for £9,000

The documents had been discovered in a cupboard, where they had been stored since the 1970s, according to Dawsons Auctioneers.

Evening Standard

Ringo Starr ‘loves’ his voice on new country album

Opening up about the sounds on his latest solo effort at a playback for reporters and celebs, Ringo Starr declared he “loves” the way his voice sounds on his upcoming country album.

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Kate Bush joins campaign against AI using artists’ work without permission

Singer-songwriter follows Paul McCartney and others in speaking out as ministers consider opt-out system

The Guardian - UK

Beatles biopic casting rumors breakdown

Sam Mendes' four-part biopic is set to drop in 2027, and some of Hollywood's buzziest stars could play the Fab Four

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Ridley Scott appears to leak Paul Mescal’s casting in new Beatles film

Sam Mendes has remained tight-lipped on the casting for his forthcoming four-piece Beatles biopic

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“Paul is actually stacked up, doing The Beatles next”: It’s (very nearly) official: Paul Mescal looks set to play Paul McCartney in new Sam Mendes biopic

Top directors and Ringo Starr just can’t keep schtum about who's in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics

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“There was a time you wouldn’t have touched a Superstrat, at least in my world – that was very illegal. It’s cool to be able to let go of those old feelings and those silly rules”: How Chris Shiflett learned to love his inner shredder

The Foo Fighters guitarist discusses playing with Brian May, the lessons of his podcast –and how his new Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe got its name

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“It could just take over and we don’t want that to happen”: It's Macca Vs The Machines as Paul McCartney wades in on AI’s threat to music makers

Despite embracing AI for their last release, it seems the ex-Beatles bassist has since had a change of tune

The Guardian - UK

Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott appears to confirm

Longstanding rumour on casting as Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’s big four-part project seems settled after comments by Gladiator II director

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Paul McCartney warns AI ‘could take over’ as UK debates copyright laws

Former Beatle speaks out amid fears the rise of AI threatens income streams for music, news and book publishers

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“Like something Paul and Linda cooked up while they were smoking”: The Asimov–McCartney alien musical that never was

Treatments revealed in new McCartney biography

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“The NME said, ‘There’s one of your Rutles songs on this Beatles bootleg album.’ I got them to play it to me over the phone. I said, ‘That’s me on Saturday Night Live!’” How prog were Neil Innes and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band?

The Bonzo Dog and Rutles man discusses his career and recent studio album Nearly Really...

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“Nothing ever came of this because McCartney couldn’t recognise good stuff.” Why Paul McCartney's dream of making a sci-fi musical film about earth-invading aliens with legendary author Isaac Asimov never got off the launch-pad

The story behind Paul McCartney's 1974 vision of making a sci-fi musical film about music-loving aliens

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like they were smoking something potent’: the ‘bizarre’ Paul McCartney alien musical that never was

Former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov – unearthed in the US

Louder

"His ear was very crusty." Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on meeting Paul McCartney for the first time

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne smoked a joint with Beatles icon –and was fascinated by Sir Paul's "crusty" ear

The Guardian - AU

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips: ‘It was insane. We all could have died’

The frontman talks about sharing a joint with Paul McCartney, a gig in Texas that almost went very wrong and his gruesome party trick

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