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“He was like, ‘Ronnie just had dinner with Paul McCartney, and Paul recommended that you be our producer, so what do you think?’": It took an intervention from Paul McCartney for Mick Jagger to offer Andrew Watt a job with the Rolling Stones

“This is some crazy dream as a kid with a guitar to have those names talking about you,” says Watt

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Beatles Paul McCartney biopic casts Oscar nominee as Linda McCartney

Saoirse Ronan will reportedly reunite with fellow Irish star Paul Mescal for role

The Independent UK

Saoirse Ronan 'to play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes' Beatles films'

American-Irish actress Saoirse Ronan has signed up to play Linda McCartney, the late first wife of Sir Paul McCartney, in Sir Sam Mendes' upcoming four Beatles films, The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.

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Saoirse Ronan to reportedly play Linda McCartney in Beatles biopic

Oscar-nominated actor rumoured to play Paul McCartney’s first wife opposite Paul Mescal in Sam Mendes set of movies

The Guardian - US

"People found out we weren't The Beatles and that came back to haunt us": The curious case of the band whose career was derailed by a rumour

They were The Beatles – or so amillion record buyers thought in 1977

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Amy Schumer shows off 'incredible' weight loss on night out after 'horrible' Ozempic experience

The comedian, 44, is currently recovering from surgery to correct issues caused from a surfing accident

Evening Standard

“I was attracted to melodic bass players like Carol Kaye. Why should a rock bassist play dumb notes all the time?” How Tony Visconti rethought rock bass for David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World

The legendary producer revisits his ground-shaking bass work on Bowie’s 1970 breakthrough album

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"I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked

When The Beatles cranked up the guitars, they really cranked up the guitars

Louder

"It's incredible to see them back together. Paul McCartney was actually there!" Leonardo DiCaprio gives his review of the Oasis reunion show in Pasadena, California

One of the world's most famous actors was present for one of the biggest reunions in history

Louder

Eric Idle at the Royal Albert Hall review: still finding life's bright side

This veteran comedian’s set brought together Monty Python memories, stories of Elvis Presley and the Masked Singer

Evening Standard

Sam Smith and Sophie Ellis-Bextor lead tributes to One Direction choreographer

Paul Roberts also worked with Katy Perry, Sir Paul McCartney and on the Spice Girls’ 2019 reunion tour across a 20-year career.

The Independent UK

Paul Roberts, One Direction and Harry Styles choreographer, dies aged 52

Choreographer worked with some of the world’s biggest music stars, as well as on critically acclaimed TV and stage shows

The Independent UK

Sir Paul McCartney performs solo Help! in full for the first time

Sir Paul McCartney kicked off his US tour by performing The Beatles' Help! in full for the first time in his solo career.

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Paul McCartney hadn’t played this Beatles classic in full since 1965. That changed last night

The opening night of McCartney‘s US tour saw him perform a Beatles classic for the first time in full since 1965

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"I think he'd been looking for Paul": Eric Idle gives horrifying account of George Harrison stabbing

Monty Python star Eric Idle reflects on the 1999 attack on The Beatles' George Harrison, in the latest episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast

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Graham Nash still wants very specific Paul McCartney collaboration

Legendary songwriter Graham Nash has revealed one career goal he still wants to achieve - and it involves The Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney.

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Have I Got News for You season 70: release date, star guests, episode guide and everything we know

Have I Got News for You season 70 lands on BBC One with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop at the helm.

MusicRadar

“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

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“There's a tendency to misremember as ‘John Lennon was a rock ‘n’ roll badass and Paul was kind of like happy poppy guy,’ but Paul made the weirdest music”: Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney was just as experimental as any of the Beatles, and still is

“I went to his studio one time and he was literally like step sequencing a Moog keyboard to make the weirdest sounds I've ever heard," he recalls

Guitar World

“I was falling out of love with music. Playing with Elton John woke me from my slumber. I got blisters every night because it was fun again!” Matt Bissonette’s “dumb-guy” approach to bass has taken him round the world with pop and rock royalty

Still buzzed about his excessive ’80s rigs and five-string instruments, the session bass hero explains how to work with David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Jason Becker and others, his big-fun, big-paying Friends TV gig, and the discovery that’s making him a better player

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"You’d be like, ‘Nah. I like him a lot, but I don’t love him.’ That would be the messaging if I didn’t play left-handed": Actor Paul Mescal reveals the lengths he's going to to perfect his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics

He says that meeting the former Beatle and playing Blackbird with him was like "having an out of body experience"

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“I will never forget it as long as I live. I got to play Blackbird with him”: Paul Mescal had to learn guitar left-handed to play Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopic – but also got to jam with him

Mescal is set to star alongside Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison in the highly-anticipated four-part Beatles biopic

The Guardian - UK

Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit

Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Elton John among creatives arguing that Labour’s AI proposals could result in ‘an artist’s life work to be stolen’

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“Imagine if Paul McCartney dies and there’s early 16-year-old Beatles recordings, and then right up to the 10 best of his entire career”: Ed Sheeran reveals that plans for posthumous album are already in his will

He’s got it all planned out

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“They had an 8-track demo for Livin’ On A Prayer. When the producer came in, we both agreed we had to come up with a better bassline”: How Hugh McDonald became Bon Jovi’s uncredited recording bassist

Hugh McDonald was at New York’s Power Station when he was asked to lay down a bass part for the band’s 1986 working-class anthem

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