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As she exhibits the bloodstained bag John Lennon’s clothes were stored in after his murder, why the ex-Beatle’s fans are saying ‘You’re just a ghoul, Yoko’

By Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail | Yoko Ono rises early, often at dawn, and pads through the enormous apartment on the sixth floor of the Dakota Building that she used to share with John Lennon. She heads down the white-painted corridors, which are hung with Magrittes and Warhols, and past the w...

Readers recommend playlist: songs about anticipation

This week’s playlist is the one you’ve been waiting for and includes tracks from Arctic Monkeys, Buddy Holly and PJ HarveyBelow is this week’s playlist – the theme and tunes picked by a reader from the comments on last week’s callout. Thanks for your suggestions. Read more about the format of the we...

Genesis Publications Reveal Hello, Goodbye: The Beatles in Tokyo, 1966

For the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ 1966 Tokyo concerts, Genesis Publications announces a book of rare photos of the trip. Taken by Japanese photographer Shimpei Asai, these pictures have never before been published outside Japan. June 29, 2016 – In 1966, 50 years ago, The Beatles embar...

Making "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (LOVE Version)

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Effortlessly cool: Jean-Marie Périer's 1960s pop stars – in pictures

Périer was at the heart of the pop explosion of the 1960s, capturing homegrown stars such as Jacques Dutronc and Johnny Hallyday – along with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis – for the French magazine Salut les Copains Continue reading...

John Lennon Blood Soaked Shirt Sells At Auction For Over $40,000

From Monty Python to Children of Men: Battersea Power Station in films

As London’s landmark former power station is redeveloped, the memory of its famous towers and desolate post-industrial image will live on in the movies, from the Beatles’ Help! to The Dark Knight Continue reading...

Top 10 books about the Beatles

Paul McCartney’s biographer picks out the best work in a field that has often been marked by ‘leaden paragraphs overstuffed with show-offy facts’Writing about the Beatles has saddled me with two heavy burdens. The first is that almost everyone considers themselves an expert on what the band’s public...

THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS

Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide | Craig Brown

Elvis wanted an FBI badge from Nixon. Jacko fought drink-driving with Reagan. Jagger got lovebombed by Blair. Are these the strangest back-room deals in politics?Relations between pop stars and politicians have always been awkward. Each wants something off the other. The politician wants glamour, th...

The time I strummed Paul McCartney’s bass guitar

Loitering backstage in the hope of an interview, writer Philip Norman dared to talk to Paul McCartney – and ended up accessing the Beatles’ dressing roomOn 4 December 1965, the Beatles appeared at Newcastle-on-Tyne’s City Hall during what would be their last ever British tour. I was a 22-year-old re...

Paul McCartney embraces virtual reality to recall the Beatles' best recordings

Pure McCartney VR, a joint project with virtual reality app Jaunt, puts viewers in the room with him as he tells the story behind some of his best-known songsWhen we think of the Beatles, we think of black-and-white television footage, 45s playing on a turntable, and their reluctance to embrace stre...

Peter Owen obituary

Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinnersPeter Owen’s survival as a publisher across 60 years was against all commercial odds. In 1993 he described himself as “one of the few remaining independent publishers specialising in translation”, and at his death aged 89 his mission and...