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Prodigious brothers from New York make lush, lo-fi pop inspired by the Beatles, Beach Boys and any number of eclectic influencesHome town: Long Island, New York. The lineup: Brian D’Addario (guitar, vocals, drums, horns, strings), Michael D’Addario (...

Bad vibraciones! The pop songs Franco didn’t want Spain to hear

From Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman to John Lennon’s Imagine and the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations, the fascist regime’s censors found the strangest reasons to prohibit certain recordsFor visitors to easy-going, freewheeling Spain, where same-sex marria...

Yoko Ono Donates Imagine Art In Response To Dallas Shootings

The Fatback Band: 'Everything was just raw energy'

The disco-funk band were prolific in the 60s and 70s and laid the foundations for modern rap. Here, founder Bill Curtis tells their story“Street Music is what I always called it because it came from the top off my head and we never rehearsed,” says a...

Kasabian's Unique Album

John Lennon Blood Soaked Shirt Sells At Auction For Over $40,000

Top 10 books about the Beatles

Paul McCartney’s biographer picks out the best work in a field that has often been marked by ‘leaden paragraphs overstuffed with show-offy facts’Writing about the Beatles has saddled me with two heavy burdens. The first is that almost everyone consid...

Peter Owen obituary

Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinnersPeter Owen’s survival as a publisher across 60 years was against all commercial odds. In 1993 he described himself as “one of the few remaining independent publishers specialising in trans...

Paul McCartney by Philip Norman review – the Beatle finally gets his due

Norman was one of the commentators who made popular the idea that John Lennon was the key member of the Beatles. In this flawed but powerful new book he admits he was wrongPhilip Norman’s biography of the Beatles, Shout!, has sold more than a million...

All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be

Stuffed with amazing footage, this magisterial history of pop – partly narrated by Liberace, partly written by Stephen Sondheim – got more than a little help from John Lennon’s contacts bookThe subheading to this 17-part documentary says it all: The...

Sean Lennon: 'I Feel Guilty About Surpassing My Dad's Age'

Paul McCartney: I was depressed after the Beatles broke up

McCartney spoke about Kanye (‘I love him – he’s a monster’), writing a love song for John Lennon and Wings (‘we were terrible’) before a star-studded Mastertapes audiencePaul McCartney has revealed that he started drinking heavily and came close to q...