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Quincy Jones’s shocking remarks about The Beatles – and how Paul McCartney responded

Producer of artists including Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra infamously said he thought the Fab Four ‘the worst musicians in the world’ when he first met them

The Independent UK

“They didn’t understand how important image was – they started the thing about us being academic geeks. It really hurt us”: The Zombies on living large, inheriting the Beatles’ studio and staff, and being prisoners in a concert hall

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades

Louder

"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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How to recreate classic recorded drum sounds from The Beatles, Metallica, Nirvana and more

ArtOfDrumming shows you how to make your drum recordings sound like the greats

MusicRadar

“Travis Scott sampled our song - that’s pretty cool!”: How a long-lost '80s rock track was finally heard by millions

A long-awaited victory for a band that could have been huge - if it wasn’t for the Pope!

MusicRadar

‘It just lifted me’: new research suggests shared reading groups combat loneliness – and the effects can be astounding

In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles asked: “All the lonely people – where do they all come from?” The answer to that question is complex, but loneliness is a widespread feeling among Australians. One in three people feel lonely, and one in six experience severe loneliness.

The Conversation

“Taylor is the ‘now’ one. We are the ‘still now’”: Ringo Starr has his say on people comparing Taylor Swift to The Beatles

“She’s pulling them in,” adds Starr, who first met Swift when she was just 14

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Ringo Starr announces first album in 6 years after cancelling tour dates due to illness

The Beatles legend has also confirmed new live dates to showcase his latest offering, which will feature 11 original songs

Evening Standard

“John Lennon’s death had a huge effect on me. He was the one who invited me to drink with The Beatles”: How Foreigner’s Mick Jones connected with a hero

The guitarist experienced Beatlemania first-hand

MusicRadar

Viral video explains how Apple hides a ‘tiny middle finger’ to The Beatles in every Mac

The lawsuit is long gone but this Easter egg remains.

Creative Bloq

BBC Radio poll reveals ‘the ultimate British group’

Poll was held by the BBC as part of National Album Day celebrations

The Independent UK

“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

Louder

Lucinda Williams releases epic cover of The Beatles' classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps comes from the seventh volume of Williams' Lu's Jukebox albums

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"

Louder

"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

The Guardian - 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

MusicRadar

"Cut for vinyl from the original master tapes using a completely analog signal path and with constant reference to first generation pressings of the original albums": Capitol reissues 7 US Beatles albums from the years of peak Beatlemania

"Cut for vinyl from the original master tapes": Capitol reissues 7 US Beatles from 1964-65

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Beatles' 1964 albums rereleased in mono

An upcoming box set, "The Beatles: 1964 US Albums in Mono," celebrates the band's onslaught on American shores

The Guardian - UK

Alex Morgan leaves sound of success behind and US women’s football in better place

Striker grew the game with skills and warmth, while raucous fans watched her like the Beatles were in town

Guitar World

“We're witnessing history in the same way that the Beatles changed the music industry in the early 1960s”: Gibson reveals Taylor Swift’s go-to guitars during the Eras tour and hopes for a signature model

Gibson’s Vice President of Product, Mat Koehler, discusses working with Swift’s team to execute her vision, delves into her J-180 love story, addresses the possibility of a signature model, and sets the record straight on the true color of that viral acoustic

PC Gamer

'The Beatles had a 25% hit rate': Randy Pitchford reassures fans that he'll carry on 'making stuff' even after a disastrous Risk of Rain 2 expansion and the Borderlands movie

"I don't know if I will ever make anything again that you like."

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’

Louder

"London was implicated in the collusion of a fat music industry bloated on cocaine and bereft of direction": How London lost its lustre

There was a time when all rock and pop roads led to London; you couldn't move without tripping over an icon or a star. Those days are long gone

Guitar World

Paul McCartney joins Andrew Watt and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith to perform Beatles and Neil Young classics at tiny show

The Beatles legend also revealed that he has written an as-yet-unreleased song with Watt

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