Category : Tout sur les Beatles

'Johnny'll love that': Ringo Starr wishes Nasa Lucy mission well – video

The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr, was among those asked to add their messages to a Lucy mission plaque. The spacecraft has set off on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids, mostly around Jupiter's orbit. The mission was named after the 3.2m-year...

Nasa’s Lucy rockets into the sky with diamonds to explore asteroids

Spacecraft with name inspired by a skeleton and the Beatles, and with lab-grown gems, starts 12-year questA Nasa spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.Seven of the mysterious space...

The Beatles and India review – the fab four go looking for a guru

This engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to IndiaThe memory of the Beatles’ relationship with India is revived in this engaging documentary, and if there...

Drake: Certified Lover Boy review – drizzness as usual

Has hip-hop’s most self-pitying superstar finally grown up? The answer delivered by another album of toasts, boasts and dubious love songs is clear: you bet he hasn’tOn his last proper album, 2018’s Scorpion, Drake showed signs of maturing. While mus...

Let It Be remix and expanded editions announced

The Beatles’ final album Let It Be is to be reissued on 15 October 2021 in a range of formats, with a number of remixes and previously-unreleased outtakes. The Let It Be album has been remixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in...

McCartney 3, 2, 1 review – the Fab Four as you’ve never heard them before

This bounteous feast for Beatles fans sees Paul McCartney dive into the back catalogue with producer Rick Rubin – who then does something truly amazingLong before their mop-topped world domination, Paul McCartney and George Harrison went hitchhiking....

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80

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Everly Brothers: US rock ‘n’ roll star Don Everly dies aged 84

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Paul McCartney to reveal unseen Beatles lyrics in new book

The Lyrics will feature a ‘self-portrait’ in 154 songs, including the unrecorded Tell Me Who He IsPaul McCartney will include the previously unseen lyrics to an unrecorded Beatles song in his forthcoming book The Lyrics.On Monday, the former Beatle r...

Don Everly obituary

Half of the Everly Brothers, the famous US pop duo known for hits such as Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie and Cathy’s ClownDon Everly’s death at the age of 84 brings down the curtain on the Everly Brothers, the vocal duo that defined the rock’n’ro...

5 things I learned from Paul McCartney’s HULU documentary

Did you happen to watch Paul McCartney’s new HULU documentary called McCartney 3,2,1? The 6-part 3-hour special premiered on July 16, 2021 in the US and it offers fans an in-depth discussion between Paul and producer Rick Rubin about many Beatles son...

The Beatles: Get Back to stream on Disney+ in November

Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back is to stream exclusively on Disney+ in November 2021. The three-part documentary is to roll out on the digital service on 25, 26, and 27 November, with each episode lasting approximately two hou...

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass gets deluxe reissue treatment

George Harrison‘s third solo album, All Things Must Pass, is to be reissued in an array of formats including an ‘Uber Deluxe’ box set. The new versions will be released on 6 August 2021. Although billed as a 50th anniversary reissue...

The Beatles in India: ‘With their long hair and jokes, they blew our minds!’

Two new documentaries offer intriguing insights on how the Beatles’ 1967 escape to study transcendental meditation shaped the band and India, baffled the KGB – and saw Ringo survive on a diet of baked beansIn 1968, Paul Saltzman was a lost soul. The...

When Engelbert Humperdinck beat the Beatles | Brief letters

Music | Obituaries and birthdays | Culture wars | Royal yacht | CatsNow that Kenneth Ball’s friend Anders Clausager has offered to write his obit for “Other lives” (Letters, 31 May), I will happily cede the field and turn my attention to Kenneth’s ot...