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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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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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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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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...
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The piano great tuned in to the hits of his day and played hard bop to a rock backbeat, crossing into the mainstream and becoming one of the most sampled musicians of all time• Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis dies aged 87For the first half of the...
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In our weekly interview about objects, the Take 5 host tells us about the time she made Paul McCartney sign her record and her teenage music obsessionsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThis month one of the ABC’s best-loved radio segments is...
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The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver is to be reissued in a range of special editions on 28 October 2022, featuring remixes and rarities. The flagship version will be a super deluxe edition, available as five-CD and four-LP plus 7″ vinyl comb...
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This Bond versus the Beatles study works best as a series of lively historical nuggets rather than a fight for the nation’s cultural soulIt is a curious fact that the Beatles’ debut single, Love Me Do, and the first James Bond film, Dr No, were both...
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The 2021 documentary Get Back has won five Emmys in the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The event was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on 3 and 4 September 2022. The three-part series, directed by Peter Jackson from January 1969...
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As Middle-earth buffs get ready for the new Rings of Power extravaganza, we follow Tolkien down the rabbit hole and find Orson Welles, Michael Gambon and the Fab FourYou might think it is time for something different after all the fantasy worlds in p...
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A statue of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein has been unveiled in Liverpool. The 1.94m bronze piece is situated on the corner of Button Street and Whitechapel, close to Epstein’s former NEMS store. Its unveiling coincides with the 2022...
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Liverpool sale will include net curtains, a brick and autographs from night that catapulted band to superstardom“For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands,” John Lennon instructed the 1963 Royal Variety Performance audience at the Prince o...
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15 July 1972: The McCartneys talk about their plans to take new band Wings on the road, and their long-drawn affray with the other Beatles“Did you know,” whispered a pop cognoscente, “that the Beatles invented Scotch and Coke? No one drank it before...
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The Beatles-related 2021 documentary series Get Back and McCartney 3,2,1 have been nominated for eight Emmy awards. The 2021 three-part series Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson from January 1969 footage, is nominated in five categories: Outstanding...
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Paul McCartney headlined the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 25 June 2022. Coming just days after McCartney celebrated his 80th birthday, the 2022 appearance made him the festival’s oldest ever headliner. The show took place 18 years since the...