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Unlimited editions: how the music box set has managed to survive

High-profile new box sets from Beyoncé, Radiohead and the Beatles are appealing to an audience still willing to spend big on physical mediaFor an album that is barely a year old, it’s somewhat astonishing that Beyoncé’s Lemonade is already getting th...

Welsh Singer Mary Hopkin to Sell Off 1960s Memorabilia

BBC News……..A collection of outfits and souvenirs is being sold off by Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. Hopkin, 67, from Pontardawe, shot to fame in 1968 with her number one single “Those Were The Days”. She was one of the first ar...

Duh! The Beatles, the Sex Pistols – I get it now | Peter Bradshaw

It took me years to work out how these bands got their names. And I’ve only just got the connection between Emmanuel Macron and En Marche!When the news of Emmanuel Macron’s triumph in the French presidential election broke, I embarrassed myself on so...

Grace Jones and giant confetti cannons: the 20 biggest festival moments of 2017

From disco queens and interactive fun to Aphex Twin blowing the roof off Field Day and Frank Ocean at Lovebox, here are this year’s ‘were you there’ highlights Read our guide to the best rock, pop and dance festivalsLondon’s most discerning day festi...

Artist’s tribute to Beatles manager

Turner prize winner honours Brian Epstein for 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper albumTurner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is to stage a haunting tribute to the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, in the run-up to events in Liverpool marking 50 years s...

These Never-Before-Seen Photos of The Beatles Will Make You Love Them Even More

DAVID MAGNUS by ADAM RATHE MAY 2, 2017 On June 25, 1967, performers representing 19 countries from around the world appeared on Our World, the first international television production broadcast by satellite. An estimated 400 milli...

Steve Bell’s If ... Tony Blair's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sir Jeremy’s political record is worth celebrating | Letters

Reader Tony Flynn looks forward to the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Sir Jeremy Beecham’s political careerJohn Harris (Opinion, 27 April) reminisces about the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album on 1 June 1967. On...

Imagine there’s no Sgt Pepper. It’s all too easy in the era of Trump and May | John Harris

This great Beatles album is as thrilling a listen as ever on its 50th anniversary: but it’s a melancholy time for the one-world counterculture the record soundtracked“At the time Sgt Pepper was released,” the American writer Langdon Winner once recal...

Giles Martin Defends His New Stereo Sgt. Pepper

from Mojo Magazine Inside the Beatles’ studio magic and how even history’s most famous album has been improved, with The Son Of Fifth Beatle George. By DANNY ECCLESTON APRIL 27, 2017 SINCE THE EARLY ’90s, when he was brought in to help o...

Jimmy Webb on John Lennon’s Lost Weekend, Writing for Frank Sinatra

from Rolling Stone Magazine (online) During the late Sixties and early Seventies, Jimmy Webb was arguably the most successful mainstream songwriter alive, churning out sweeping, richly orchestrated hits for Glen Campbell, Barbra Streisand and Frank S...

The 20 Best George Harrison Songs

For casual fans (and the terribly uninformed), George Harrison was a second-tier member of the Beatles—a member whose contributions only became essential when he wrote “Here Comes The Sun.” For a mid-level fan, and rock writers everywhere, he was an...

Statues of famous musicians around the world – in pictures

As Georgia announces a 7ft bronze statue of Tupac Shakur a week after it was revealed that he will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, here is a look at other artists who have been commemorated with statues, often with mixed results Cont...

Sgt Pepper is 50 – watch an exclusive trailer for a new documentary here

On 1 June 1967, the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and arguably changed the course of music. A new film celebrates its makingIt was, quite literally, 50 years ago today that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play. And now the...

Full details of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper 50th anniversary edition

The Beatles have announced the 50th anniversary edition of their 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The landmark album is to be reissued on 26 May 2017 on four formats: single CD; double CD; double vinyl; and a super deluxe edition cont...