Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London’s theatreland It’s quite a title. Adrienne Kennedy – now a belatedly revered American playwright – impulsively came to London in 1966, young son in tow. She m...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
Musician clarifies how artificial intelligence was applied to vocals by John Lennon, amid anxiety over how the technology will affect musicPaul McCartney has clarified how artificial intelligence has been used to create a new Beatles song, saying that “nothing has been artificially or synthetically...
John Lennon / Videos - 1 year ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Early 1960s Liverpudlian pop may have been dominated by the Beatles, but it was a thriving scene whose acts filled the charts. Its artists explain why wild success gave way to heartbreaking failureThriving locally in Liverpool in 1961, dominating the charts by 1963 and all but over by 1965, Merseybe...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
Musician says he used technology to ‘extricate’ John Lennon’s voice from an old demo and complete a decades-old songA new and final Beatles recording using artificial intelligence will be released later this year, Sir Paul McCartney has announced.The musician said he had used new technology to “extr...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
The Beatles are using artificial intelligence (AI) to complete what Paul McCartney calls “the last Beatles record”. Although he did not name the song, it is believed to be ‘Now And Then’, based on a 1979 John Lennon demo and worked on by McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National TheatreIn the mid-1960s, Beatlemania swept through the New York home of playwright Adrienne Kennedy. One of her sons, Adam, would s...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
The pictures the singer took of his friends and bandmates give a Beatle’s-eye view of the mania around the band in 1964. Seen here for the first time, these extraordinary behind-the-scenes moments capture four young men on the brink of immortalitySomewhere in the back of my mind, I always knew I had...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
The British musician, who performed with the Beatles for several gigs in 1960, went on to become a high school mathematics teacherChas Newby, the British musician who played bass guitar for the Beatles during their early days, has died at the age of 81. A cause of death has not been revealed.Tribute...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
David Hurn moved from wet, socialist Wales to a scorching, rightwing state in the US – but his eye for life’s eccentricities remained unchanged Continue reading...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
The home of the Beatles prepares itself for the song contest – an act of musical solidarity with UkraineAfter an extraordinary six-month commissioning spree, the city of Liverpool is opening its heart to a Eurovision song contest unlike any other. It was clear from the beginning that this would not...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
What was with all the brocade and brass on the Portobello Road? It was puzzlingLess than three months before Sgt Pepper was released, on 12 March 1967, the Observer took a bemused look at the craze for military uniforms. ‘Pop patriotics? Dandyism? Consolation for having missed national service?’ The...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 2 years ago
Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great storiesFor a baby boomer like me, 12 years old when the Beatles broke through in 1962 and a mere 19 when they called it a day in 1969, it’s curious to watch the love objects of my teenage years...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 2 years ago
Private-school pupils unselfconsciously screamed for their working-class heroesWhat’s on the set list? Why did he only tell you about the tape now after 60 years? Two of the questions I’ve been bombarded with since I made public the existence of an almost complete concert recording of the Beatles on...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 2 years ago
Sixty years ago, a little-known Liverpudlian band took to the stage at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire• Samira Ahmed: A tape that takes us back to an era of optimismIt was a sweet slice of cultural history and, at the same time, evidence of an unlikely clash of English social classes. The discovery...