Category : Beatles

Beatles' 'muse' Eleanor Rigby's burial deeds fail to go for a song

No buyer for papers on claimed inspiration for hit but George Harrison recording goes under hammer for £14,000Poor old Eleanor Rigby. Nobody came to her funeral and now nobody wants to pay enough for her grave, after the deeds to her Liverpool burial...

Django Bates: Saluting Sgt Pepper review – jazz maverick's winning Beatles tribute

Ronnie Scott’s, LondonThe unruly composer and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band began tentatively but soon let fly on an exhilarating reimagining of the Fab Four’s albumDjango Bates doesn’t play other people’s music often, but when he does, resemblances t...

Family life: My parents in a South African mine; She Loves You by the Beatles; and my grandmother’s Krautsalat

Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis photograph is one of many that my father took on the trip of a lifetime to South Africa to visit his brother and& family. As a child, the youngest of& three, I had no memories of Uncle Peter, my f...

A First Clue For Paul McCartney’s Upcoming Album?

https://www.facebook.com/PaulMcCartney/videos/10155755524278313/ Click that link to watch! and then read the “explanation” by Andre’ Homan Yesterday Paul McCartney published the video ‘Your Week Presented By Paul’ on Social Media. A...

‘We were just knocking about in the park. Then the Beatles turned up’

Ian Whittington remembers posing for Don McCullin with the Fab Four, 28 July 1968In July 1968, the well-known war photographer Don McCullin was commissioned to photograph the Beatles in different locations around London, for a& session known as the M...

Twist & Shop! The Beatles’ icon Sir Paul McCartney, 75, is every inch the family man as he joins step-son Arlen Blakeman, 25, on day out Paul’s wife Nancy shares Arlen with her ex-husband and American politician Bruce Blakeman

from Daily Mail By LILY WADDELL FOR MAILONLINE He’s preparing to take the stage by storm in Australia, which will mark his first tour since 1993. But Sir Paul McCartney put his family first on Saturday when he spent the afternoon with his step-...

Paul McCartney Plays Drums on What Will Ultimately Be the Best Foo Fighters Album

BY MATT MILLER AUG 2, 2017 Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins is a beast behind the kit. He often is the driving force of even the band’s more forgettable songs. While Dave Grohl is a charismatic frontman and performer, Hawkins gives the band...

Paul McCartney Fans: Let Him Lip Sync

by Pat Matthews “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m seventy-five?” He’s arguably the most successful musician in the history of our planet. Not only that, but he’s three quarters of a century old. You’d think that would be enoug...

The Beatles sang: why don’t we do it in the road? You asked Google: why don’t we? | Ralph Jones

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries• Ralph Jones is a freelance writerThe obvious answer is the traffic pile-ups. But we’ll get on to that la...

The evening I discussed dish-washing with George Harrison

It’s the early 90s, a small activity centre in the Brecon Beacons, and the man who wrote Here Comes the Sun wants to know how his young son’s getting onIt was the early 90s and I was at a loose end. I phoned a former employer and crossed my fingers.T...

In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs review – musical madeleines

A collection, edited by Andrew Blauner and featuring Rick Moody, Jane Smiley and others, combines personal memories with Fab Four favesAnd still, the Beatles. Will we ever get over them? However many remasterings of the records there are, however man...

Sir Paul McCartney is made a Companion of Honour for services to music

Sir Paul McCartney has been made a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours list. He was given the award for services to music, 20 years after he was knighted by the Queen, and two days before his 75th birthday. I’m very happy about t...

She’s Leaving Home review – an inventive riff on the Beatles song

Private homes in Toxteth, LiverpoolKeith Saha’s drama for the Sgt Pepper anniversary expands on its domestic setting with puppetry and magical realismThe Beatles didn’t just come from Liverpool, they were made here. The tang& of the city flavours the...

All 213 Beatles Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

By Bill Wyman www.vulture.com At Beatles anniversary time, the stories write themselves. “It was 25/30/40 years ago today!” “The act you’ve known for all these years!” “A splendid time was guaranteed for all!” Last week’s 50th anniversary of the U....

You say you want a sexual revolution: why 1967 is the year pop came out

Fifty years ago, homosexuality was decriminalised – and pop was never the same again. From Dusty and Motown to Mick Jagger and the Kinks, here are the songs, scenes, clubs and clothes that liberated BritainIn one of his very last acts as Beatles mana...