Category : Beatles

‘The guys were waiting for me to fail’: Annie Nightingale on battling the BBC

Still doing a Radio 1 show at 80, the veteran DJ tells Desert Island Discs about Beatles secrets and breaking down a ‘wall of no’Veteran DJ Annie Nightingale, the first woman to do the job on Radio 1, has spoken of her suspicion that the BBC wanted h...

Fiona Adams obituary

Photographer whose images of 1960s musicians included memorable shots of the BeatlesIn April 1963 the photographer Fiona Adams took a picture with her old twin-lens Rolleiflex that more than 40 years later Terence Pepper, the curator of the National...

Top director to shoot biopic about Beatles manager Brian Epstein

Jonas Åkerlund-directed Midas Man to be produced by Trevor Beattie and shot in LiverpoolAn award-winning director, who has worked with Paul McCartney on music videos, is to direct a major British film about Brian Epstein, the visionary manager and im...

The Beatles song inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Jack Whatley·June 22, 2020 Far Out The range of inspiration from which The Beatles’ principal songwriters& Paul McCartney and John Lennon& drew their song ideas from is wide and extremely varied. However, even the most diehard fans would...

Was Penny Lane really named after the slave merchant James Penny?

by& Glen Huntley Update: 14th June 2020 We can now prove conclusively that the story of Penny Lane being named after James Penny the slave merchant has no basis in fact. We can also prove that when the story was started in 2006 by the p...

The Beatles: Peter Jackson’s Let It Be documentary movie Get Back release DELAYED to 2021

By GEORGE SIMPSON Disney, who hold the distribution rights, have moved The Beatles: Get Back’s release date to August 27, 2021. The delay is due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic and the studio want a cinematic release for the highly-antici...

Penny Lane signs defaced in Liverpool over slavery claims

Road signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced over claims they are linked to slave merchant James Penny. The markers had the word Penny blacked out and the word racist written above them on Thursday night. The city’s Intern...

Paul McCartney announces Flaming Pie reissue

Paul McCartney‘s tenth solo studio album, Flaming Pie, is to be reissued on 31 July, in the 13th release in the singer’s Archive Collection. Flaming Pie was released in May 1997, and was produced by McCartney, Jeff Lynne, and George Marti...

Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back delayed till 2021

Peter Jackson’s long-awaited Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, has been delayed until 2021, according to its worldwide distributor Disney. The film had originally been scheduled for release on 4 September 2020, but will now come out o...

Paul McCartney voices support for Black Lives Matter protests

Paul McCartney has released a statement expressing support for the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests. The statement was posted on McCartney’s website, and promoted by The Beatles’ official social media channels. As we continue to see...

Echo in the Canyon review – hopelessly lazy LA rock doc

Brian Wilson, Beck and Eric Clapton are among the star contributors, but the story of Laurel Canyon’s folk-rock scene remains a mystery – and where’s Joni?This documentary about the folk-rock scene in mid-60s Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, centres on an...

The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1

Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi QuatroWhat did we miss? Share your thoughtsAs the coronavirus lockdown continues, the Guardian’s music desk thought you might be in ne...

The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-2

The Specials’ Ghost Town lands at No 2, following entries from Donna Summer and Dead or AliveAs the coronavirus lockdown continues, the Guardian’s music desk thought you might be in need of a distraction – something to send you down memory lane, or t...

The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-3

We continue our Top 10 countdown, featuring classic Beatles, Donna Summer’s genre-busting hit and Dead or Alive’s majestic synth-popAs the coronavirus lockdown continues, the Guardian’s music desk thought you might be in need of a distraction – somet...

Judy Collins + 1,000 Friends Record Stunning ‘Amazing Grace’ (including Ringo Starr)

Over the past two weeks, 1,000 singers from across the globe, professional and amateur alike, have answered& Judy Collins’ call to sing “Amazing Grace” with her as a sign of solidarity in this unprecedented time. This new version of Judy’s histo...