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Harmony, melancholy and the Everly Brothers’ indelible influence

From Neil Young to Keith Richards, a generation of musicians revered Phil and Don’s haunting music• US music star Don Everly dies aged 84Among the hundreds of hours of outtakes from the recording sessions that eventually became the Beatles’ Let It Be album, there is a version of Two of Us, taped on...

Two Rare Handwritten Beatles Setlists Set To Go Under The Hammer

Petula Clark: I Sang On Give Peace A Chance By Accident

Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art

When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response“What do you suppose is the effect intended to be of equipping Rupert Bear with such a large sized organ?”Fi...

5 things I learned from Paul McCartney’s HULU documentary

Did you happen to watch Paul McCartney’s new HULU documentary called McCartney 3,2,1? The 6-part 3-hour special premiered on July 16, 2021 in the US and it offers fans an in-depth discussion between Paul and producer Rick Rubin about many Beatles songs and a few Wings and solo McCartney numbers....

50 years ago today George Harrison and Ravi Shankar held the Concert For Bangladesh

Rare Beatles Demo Goes To Auction

Rock sideman Earl Slick: ‘Bowie had gone levels into insanity’

He played through extreme drug-taking on Bowie’s Station to Station, and with Yoko Ono weeks after Lennon’s death. The guitarist explains why he’s great at backing legends – and terrible at selling timesharesIt’s not surprising that Earl Slick was in the middle of a tour when the first Covid lockdow...

A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS.

The Beatles: Get Back to stream on Disney+ in November

Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back is to stream exclusively on Disney+ in November 2021. The three-part documentary is to roll out on the digital service on 25, 26, and 27 November, with each episode lasting approximately two hours. The beauty of the documentary is that it doesn...

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass gets deluxe reissue treatment

George Harrison‘s third solo album, All Things Must Pass, is to be reissued in an array of formats including an ‘Uber Deluxe’ box set. The new versions will be released on 6 August 2021. Although billed as a 50th anniversary reissue, All Things Must Pass was originally released on...

The Beatles in India: ‘With their long hair and jokes, they blew our minds!’

Two new documentaries offer intriguing insights on how the Beatles’ 1967 escape to study transcendental meditation shaped the band and India, baffled the KGB – and saw Ringo survive on a diet of baked beansIn 1968, Paul Saltzman was a lost soul. The son of a Canadian TV weatherman, he was working as...

When Engelbert Humperdinck beat the Beatles | Brief letters

Music | Obituaries and birthdays | Culture wars | Royal yacht | CatsNow that Kenneth Ball’s friend Anders Clausager has offered to write his obit for “Other lives” (Letters, 31 May), I will happily cede the field and turn my attention to Kenneth’s other concern: how to get in the birthday list. I ha...

I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story review – tears, squeals and boundless devotion

Four generations of superfan discuss their teenage obsession, from the Beatles to One Direction, in a sensitive documentaryUnless you’ve experienced boyband fandom, it can be difficult to square the contrivance of commercial PG pop acts with the overwhelming, boundless, alchemic devotion felt by the...