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Beatles biopic star admits to surprising lack of knowledge about iconic band

Mia McKenna-Bruce says she couldn't even name the band members and that their music ’wasn't my jam’

The Independent UK

Mia McKenna-Bruce: I couldn’t name The Beatles before joining biopic movie

The 28-year-old said the 1960s rock-and-roll band ‘wasn’t my jam’.

Evening Standard

“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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‘Beatlemania wasn’t like Taylor Swift — it came out of nowhere, like a meteorite’

Sean Ono Lennon has a timely festive message in his Oscar-winning film inspired by his parents’ song, Happy Xmas (War is Over) — and a thumbs-up to the actor who’s about to play his dad

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney's favourite bass company is in trouble – Höfner's future uncertain as it files provisional insolvency proceedings

The German brand behind McCartney's iconic 500/1 Violin Bass has been in existence since its founding by Karl Höfner in 1887

MusicRadar

How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass

At one point Harrison considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra

MusicRadar

The Beatles’ early days to be focus of new BBC series

The Fab Four’s time in Hamburg in the early 1960s was highly influential on their career

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BBC to air series about early days of The Beatles

Hamburg Days is based on the book of the same name and follows the transformation of a group of teenagers into one of the world’s biggest bands.

Evening Standard

The Beatles Anthology's New Episode Is A Fantastic Addition, But It Reveals Something The Series Was Missing

The Beatles Anthology is better than ever, but it could have better still.

Cinemablend

Anthology 4 shows there’s still more to discover about the Beatles

A lot can happen in three decades. Since 1995, we’ve seen nine different UK prime ministers, the birth and death of the Minidisc, iPod and DVD. Manchester City sank to the third tier of English football then rose to become champions of Europe. One thing that hasn’t wavered, though, is…

The Conversation

The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band

This update of the 1995 documentary series is utterly authoritative. And its tweak of the Fab Four’s songs is a thing of wonder – their music absolutely thumps!

The Guardian - UK

Joanna Lumley says The Beatles spread ‘a magic’ that has ‘never been matched’

Following a screening of the upcoming Disney+ series, The Beatles Anthology, the actress opened up about her experiences of the Fab Four.

Evening Standard

The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing

Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?

The Guardian - UK

“Ringo used to say that the Beatles would have only made three albums if it wasn’t for Paul”: Giles Martin unpacks the upcoming remastered Beatles Anthology series

One of the greatest music documentaries of all time now has an all-new episode, as well as remastered picture and sound

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How The Beatles Finally Opened the Vault: Exclusive Life-Story and Music Rights for the First Time

The biopic marked the first-time all the Beatles' living members and their families approved to use the band's complete music catalog for a scripted film.

BANG Premier

Saoirse Ronan, Aimee Lou Wood and more cast in Beatles biopics

Saoirse Ronan, Mia McKenna Bruce, Anna Sawai, and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sir Sam Mendes' Beatles biopics as the wives of the Fab Four.

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles: actors playing the spouses of the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ films confirmed

Mia McKenna-Bruce, Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sam Mendes’ forthcoming four-part film series

Evening Standard

Aimee Lou Wood and Saoirse Ronan confirmed to star in Beatles biopic films

The four films will follow the lives of the Fab Four and are due to be released in April 2028.

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“It made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, might just help them a little bit”: The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

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James Norton set for key role in Beatles movies

James Norton is reportedly set to play Beatles manager Brian Epstein in director Sir Sam Mendes' four-movie project.

The Independent UK

Beatles Paul McCartney biopic casts Oscar nominee as Linda McCartney

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

BANG Premier

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.

The Guardian - US

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

Louder

"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

Metal Hammer

"Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne

Interviewing the Prince Of Darkness was not like interviewing other members of the rock royalty

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