Category : Beatles

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr attend the world premiere of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were among celebrities attending the world premiere of the Ron Howard film The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years. The premiere, at the Odeon Cinema in London's Leicester Square, began at 6pm. It hosted...

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week review – moptops conquer the world

Ron Howard trashes the idea that there’s nothing new to say about the Beatles with a revealing survey of the four-year odyssey that changed everythingBlink and you’ll miss it, but Ron Howard’s intensely enjoyable documentary about the Beatles’ tourin...

Sold-out Desert Trip with The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney to Release More Tickets

BY VANESSA FRANKO / STAFF WRITER Published: Sept. 13, 2016 Updated: 11:20 a.m. from www.beatlesnews.com Did you miss out on tickets for what may very well be the biggest rock concerts ever staged? Have no fear, organizers are releasing more...

Desert Trip Releases More Tix To Paul McCartney, Stones

by Vanessa Franco, Sept. 13, 2016 Updated: 11:20 am, from Beatlesnews.com | Did you miss out on tickets for what may very well be the biggest rock concerts ever staged? Have no fear, organizers are releasing more tickets for the Desert Trip conc...

Album release: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

The Beatles have released Live At The Hollywood Bowl, an album of remixed and remastered recordings from 1964 and 1965. The album is released to coincide with the Ron Howard documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years, which promis...

‘The Beatles have got a lot to answer for in Liverpool’

Roger Appleton, the director of a new documentary about Liverpool’s music scene – and not just the Fab Four – is inspired by the romantic and beautiful place he sees as ‘the least English of English cities’Liverpool’s music scene is like the tide of...

The Beatles: Live at the Hollywood Bowl review – proto-punk and screaming fans

(Universal/Apple)The first thing you hear on this buffed-up version of live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is a wall of piercing fans’ screams. The sonic dominance of that cacophony over the Fab Four’s performance was one of the reasons that...

Did we baby boomers bring about a revolution in the 60s or just usher in neoliberalism? | Polly Toynbee

A new exhibition looks back at the time of psychedelia and protest. But for those of us who were there it’s an unsettling time warpI was right there in 1966. Was it bliss, very heaven to be young? To be honest, I’m not sure. Yes and no. The young are...

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years: exclusive clip – video

The first feature-length documentary authorised by The Beatles since the band’s breakup in 1970, Ron Howard’s new movie traces the history of the band through their concert performances, from early days playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg to...

Philip Norman on the 60s: ‘I never took holidays because every day was like one’

As London’s V&A prepares to stage an exhibition assessing the cultural impact of the late 1960s, the Beatles biographer reflects on his experience of the time• The revolutionary artists of the 60s’ colourful countercultureWhen the 1960s began, I...

‘Lost’ Beatles Demo Discovered By Cilla Black’s Nephew To Be Sold At Auction

UPDATE! Rare Beatles demo sells for $23,000! | A “lost” Beatles record that was missing for more than 50 years is set to be sold at auction today for tens of thousands of pounds. The demo recording of It’s For You, written for Cilla Black by John Le...