Category : Tout sur les Beatles

John Lennon’s 1968 Rolling Stone Interview

by Jann Wenner I’ve listed a group of songs that I associate with you, in terms of what you are or what you were, songs that struck me as embodying you a little bit: “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” “Strawberry Fields,” “It’s Only Love,” “She...

Sir Paul McCartney’s Unreleased Collaboration With Former Beatles Bandmate Sir Ringo Starr Expected to Fetch up to £20,000 After Heading to Auction

An unheard track by Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr recorded after the Beatles split is heading for auction. “Angel In Disguise” could be the only song co-written exclusively by the band’s former bassist and drummer, acco...

Who Remembers The American Beetles?

reprinted from the 2/17/2013 DemocraticUnderground.com Anyone remember the American Beetles (spelled with a double “ee”)? I watched the American debut of the Beatles on Sunday night on the Ed Sullivan Show over 49 years ago. I was 13 years old. T...

How An Angry Moody Blues Fan Saved The Band

by Martin Kelly/ UltimateClassicRock.com The Moody Blues’ journey from waning pop group to groundbreaking prog-rock artists began one night in early 1967, when an angry fan told them that they’d ruined his night. With the success of the 1...

Lavish Book Celebrates Joe Cocker’s Legendary “Mad Dogs & Englishmen” Tour

by BOB RUGGIERO& |& APRIL 23, 2020 There once was a glorious age of Music Journalism Past, an era when the magical could happen. A time when interviews with rock stars weren’t 15-minute phoners with a publicist listening in, or concert pi...

Mick Jagger Responds to Paul McCartney’s Claim That ‘the Beatles Were Better’

ByANDY GREENE RollingStone.com Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show this week to promote the new Rolling Stones single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” which also gave them an opportunity to respond to Paul McCartney’s r...

Is the “Real” Paul McCartney Dead? Beatles Expert Bruce Spizer Debunks Old Rumor

from NOLA.com Was that guy who sang all those Beatles songs at the Smoothie King Center in May of last year really Paul McCartney? Not if you subscribe to the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory that first emerged in the late 1960s, around the ti...

One Two Three Four by Craig Brown review – all about the Beatles

Humour and skilful writing bring alive a collection of anecdotes that retell the Beatles storyIn the build-up to the general election of 1987, Margaret Thatcher agreed to an interview with Smash Hits, the now defunct fortnightly pop magazine that had...

Paul McCartney calls for ‘medieval’ Chinese markets to be banned over Coronavirus

The Guardian-U.S. Edition Beatles star and animal rights activist makes comparison with abolition of slave trade as he calls markets ‘obscene … they might as well be letting off atomic bombs’ Paul McCartney& has called Chinese wet markets...

Paul McCartney: Beatles were better than the Rolling Stones

By BRIAN NIEMIETZNEW YORK DAILY NEWS |APR 14, 2020 Paul McCartney performs at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.(Scott Audette/AP) Former Beatle Paul McCartney loves the Rolling Stones, but says his band with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo S...

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown – review

Craig Brown’s portrait of the band recaptures their heyday in a series of shimmering vignettesFifty years since their dissolution in April 1970 the Beatles live on. The band’s music, their significance and their individual personalities exert a hold...

The Beatles' handwritten Hey Jude lyrics sell for $910,000 at auction

Paul McCartney’s hastily scribbled notes for a 1968 studio recording fetches nine times its original estimate Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to The Beatles’ hit song Hey Jude has sold for $910,000, nine times its original estimate, auction house...

Day Trippers: Beatles fans in Liverpool – photo essay

A series of photographs by Craig Easton shot between 2016 and 2018 explores the legacy of the Beatles in Liverpool and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the band’s break-up‘I was shattered’ – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the day the Beatles...

Musings on COVID-19

By Pat Matthews/Beatlesarama.com Everyone needs to know they’re gonna be alright. Call me the eternal optimist, but I believe we’re going to come out on the other end of this Pandemic better as a people. Just look around you. People h...

Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney, Elton John Set for ‘One World’ COVID-19 Charity Special Lady Gaga curated all-star event benefitting Global Citizen’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

By JON BLISTEIN APRIL 6, 2020 Rolling Stone Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney, Elton John and more will participate in a COVID-19 charity special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization: One World: Together at Home, set to a...