Category : Tout sur les Beatles

The Beatles’ banned butcher cover: John Lennon ‘My idea was to decapitate Paul McCartney’

THE BEATLES’ banned butcher cover could have had a decapitated Paul McCartney, shared John Lennon. By GEORGE SIMPSONPUBLISHED: 07:00, Fri, Mar 26, 2021 | UPDATED: 07:09, Fri, Mar 26, 2021 Due to the butcher cover’s provocative imagery, Ca...

Paul McCartney announces McCartney III Imagined

Paul McCartney has announced McCartney III Imagined, a new version of his 2020 album McCartney III. McCartney III Imagined will contain re-recordings and remixes by a range of guest stars. The album will be released digitally on 16 April, with CD and...

Where have all the bands gone? Well, he’s in one

The Maroon 5 singer ruffled feathers with comments about the decline of groups, but going it alone is easier and cheaperAdam Levine, frontman of Maroon 5 – and let’s face it, if “name any member of Maroon 5” were a question on the final round of Poin...

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band to get super deluxe reissue

John Lennon’s first solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, is to be reissued in a range of formats on 16 April 2021. The super deluxe box set will include 159 tracks across six CDs and two Blu-ray discs, amounting to more than eleven hours of audi...

Matthew Modine's teenage obsessions: ‘In Utah, the Beatles were devil music’

The Full Metal Jacket actor, who stars in new horror film Wrong Turn, on Ernest Hemingway, Sean Connery, and why he turned down Top Gun I am the youngest of seven, so I got a steady diet of the Beatles from my brothers and sisters at a young age. The...

Abbey Road street sign sells for £37,200

A street sign from London’s world-famous Abbey Road has sold for £37,200 at auction. The sign had been predicted to sell for between £1,000 and £2,000. The hammer price was £30,000, but the total came to over £37,000 with the addition of buyer&...

Paul McCartney to publish 960-page book The Lyrics

Paul McCartney is to publish a 960-page two-volume book described as “a self-portrait in 154 songs”. The Lyrics will be published on 2 November 2021, and contains lyrics for 154 songs from 1956 to the present, arranged alphabetically. The...

Paul McCartney to publish 900-page lyrical 'autobiography'

The Lyrics, a ‘self-portrait in 154 songs’, will look at the people, places and circumstances behind songs written in boyhood, with the Beatles and beyondIt will be “as close to an autobiography” as Paul McCartney “may ever come”: the former Beatle i...

'He was the Steve Jobs of audio': how Rupert Neve changed the sound of music | William Stokes

The late audio engineer revolutionised recording with an innovative EQ design, his innovations used by everyone from the Queen to Dave Grohl“Many different rock records, in my opinion, are predicated not on a structure or a melodic line, or a rhythm...

Brexit: is it au revoir to the aubergine? | Brief letters

Nine Elms | Jab v jag | Ministerial maternity | Classic Beatles | AuberginesIt is a huge missed opportunity; Wandsworth borough council’s mega development at Nine Elms provides so little for local people, particularly housing (Penthouses and poor doo...

Covid variants don’t have nationalities | Brief letters

Tom Moore and the NHS | Coronavirus | The Stour valley | Eine Kleine Beatlemusic | Groundhog dayIt is sad indeed to hear of the death of Tom Moore (Report, 2 February). His fundraising on behalf of the NHS has been incredible. Let us not forget, howe...

The Velvet Mafia: the gay men who helped shape music in the 60s

In a revealing new book, the often overlooked input of queer men who helped advise, manage and steer artists in the swinging 60s is examinedThe story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the so...

Audrey Slaughter obituary

Pioneering magazine editor who created Honey, Petticoat and Over 21Audrey Slaughter, who has died aged 91, started work as a shorthand typist and went on to create three of the most successful titles – Honey, Petticoat and Over 21 – of the new age of...

Phil Spector dies

The music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81. Spector died on 16 January 2021 of complications relating to Covid-19, according to his daughter Nicole. On 31 he was transferred to San Joaquin General Hospital in Fre...

Heather Mills, 53, is ‘ENGAGED to her toyboy boyfriend Mike Dickman, 36’… 13 years after her bitter divorce from Paul McCartney

The Daily Mail 1/13/2021 The couple are said to have exchanged commitment rings just before ChristmasHeather and Mike’s relationship first became public in June 2019The couple love story began when the former model began sending him flirty m...