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10 months 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...
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10 months 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...
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10 months 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? Co...
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10 months 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 cur...
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11 months 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 a...
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11 months 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 unlike...
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1 year ago
(Nonesuch)In a powerful live recording, the piano virtuoso brings out the boogie, blues and gospel in the Fab Four’s songsBrad Mehldau, as inquisitive a philosopher as he is a tirelessly curious jazz-piano virtuoso, believes that an alluring strangen...
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1 year ago
When it comes to musical greatness, the Beatles deserve at least as much recognition as Bob Dylan, argues Gareth Calway, while Mike Pender is impressed by some lyrical changes to Dylan’s song Make You Feel My LoveDavid Cantwell’s observation, in Anni...
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1 year ago
Motown singer and songwriter whose hits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone and MoneyOf all the dozens of worldwide hits released by the Motown family of labels, few had a more profound impact than Money (That’s What I...
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1 year ago
Paul McCartney has announced a book and exhibition featuring his photography from the 1960s. 1964: Eyes Of The Storm is a 336-page hardback book featuring 275 images taken by McCartney in Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, DC, and Miami....
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1 year ago
From Presley to Prince, with just one song per artist, we celebrate 70 years of the the UK singles chart with a look at the best songs that didn’t quite make it to No 1The perfect one-hit-wonder single: an obscure American harmonica instrumental B-si...
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1 year ago
Paul McCartney is to release a singles box containing 159 tracks across 80 7″ singles. The 7″ Singles Box is limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, and each contains an additional test pressing and 148-page book, all held in an “FSC-app...
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1 year ago
Classic songs are now remastered to compete with contemporary pop on streaming services. But what do we lose when Yellow Submarine is ‘de-mixed’ for generation playlist?Yellow Submarine, Ringo Starr’s turn on Revolver, has been a gateway for children...
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1 year ago
Photographs show band performing at Liverpool venue more than a year before release of first official singleRare photographs have been discovered of the Beatles playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool before they had officially released any music.The...
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1 year ago
It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut singleI was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a plastic toy guitar and...