Category : Tout sur les Beatles

Yoko Ono Didn’t Break Up The Beatles, John Lennon Did

Rooting through record bins one day at the late, great Central Records in Cambridge, Mass., I came upon a stash of Yoko Ono albums and asked the sagely aging raver behind the counter what they were like. Were they song-based records or more of he...

Ringo returns with All-Starr Band

Ringo Starr, the man who put the beat in the Beatles, returns to the Bay Area with his All-Starr Band. The 76-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is touring behind his outfit’s most recent release, “Postcards From Paradise,” with its longest-running...

In 1966, an LP cost almost a quarter of a teenage pop picker’s pay | Letters

So John Harris believes that there were once some halcyon days when “pop music was a great leveller” (Opinion, 16 November). In 1966, aged 15, when I was earning £6& 10s& 6d a week in my first job, a 45 rpm single cost about 6s 8d, and an LP £1& 12s&...

This Letter From John Lennon Shows His Real Feelings About Paul McCartney

The nasty 1971 message makes it obvious why The Beatles didn’t last. The early 1970s were a tough time in the lives of The Beatles. The band had dissolved among growing tensions between the musicians, and in 1970 they decided to go th...

Stella McCartney unveils collection inspired by 'the men in my life'

The designer’s menswear range managed the ultimate coup – it outshone stars like Kate Moss and Orlando Bloom at the launchIn fashion, there’s no party like a Stella McCartney party – and that was the case on Thursday night. For the launch of her firs...

Magical history tour: the Beatles in infographics – in pictures

A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips Continue reading...

An MA in the Beatles? Yeah, yeah, yeah …

Art trafficking, comics and a master’s in the Beatles are just some of the more unusual postgrad subjects on offerOf all the subjects that you can study at postgraduate level, learning how to infiltrate the clandestine world of international art smug...

Hamburg was big on the music scene long before the Beatles | Letters

Your report on the embarrassingly delayed and over-budget Elbphilharmonie (2 November) says Hamburg and its port have traditionally enjoyed a reputation for “music of a more raucous kind”. Hamburg has had an opera house continuously in the Dammtor si...

48 Years Ago Today – George Harrsion Release First Beatles Solo LP ‘Wonderwall Music’

48 years ago today (11/1/68) George Harrison released his first solo album, Wonderwall Music on the Apple label. The songs which were mostly Harrison instrumentals, featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited banjo contribution by Peter To...

Everything Fab Four: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Pictorial Splendor of John, Paul, George, and Ringo!

from The Huffington Post The Beatles are no strangers to artistic interpretation. Even during their heyday, the group members were rendered as fun-loving cartoon characters getting into one playful adventure after another. By the time of their disban...

The Bridge Between the Brill Building & The Beatles Passes Away

by Pat Matthews More sad news in the music world to report today. Bobby Vee, a teen idol of the 1960s, who The Beatles covered in their early days, has died. He was 73. The always smiling pop singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern sta...

Honey, I bribed the kids. And now they’re star pupils | Barbara Ellen

An experiment has shown that incentives paid by the state to underprivileged students yield results. And what’s so wrong with that?In a study financed by the Education Endowment Foundation, the University of Bristol assessed the performance of 10,600...

Fans get ‘One on One’ with McCartney at California Saloon

Step right this way! And welcome to Pappy & Harriet’s! PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Paul McCartney, arguably the biggest pop star on the planet, gave one of his most intimate concerts for a largely locals-only crowd Thursday, providing the kind o...

Turn it up to 11 (or maybe 666): when numerology and rock collide

From Mozart and the Beatles to Led Zep and Wu Tang, musicians have always been fascinated by numbers and their occult connection, and now Bon Iver has joined the pantheon of musical number nerds casting arithmetical spells Related: Bon Iver: 'There a...

Lego launches Beatles Yellow Submarine set, complete with Fab Four figures

The 550-piece kit was developed after a suggestion to the company’s ideas section by amateur musician Kevin SzetoA Beatles fan has had his dream creation realised after Lego launched its Yellow Submarine set including mini figures of the much-loved b...