Tag : Music

Tag: Music

The Beatles: Revolver Special Edition (Super Deluxe) review | Annie Zaleski's album of the week

(Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol/UMe)New details tease out songs’ deeper meanings and reveal their transformational journeys in this expanded, remixed and remastered albumThe Beatles’ career has been so exhaustively documented, chronicled and bootlegged, it...

Rare images emerge of the Beatles playing the Cavern Club in 1961

Photographs show band performing at Liverpool venue more than a year before release of first official singleRare photographs have been discovered of the Beatles playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool before they had officially released any music.The...

‘My teenage hormones were raging!’: stars salute the Beatles’ Love Me Do at 60

It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut singleI was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a plastic toy guitar and...

‘Butt-shakers and toe-tappers’: Ramsey Lewis brought jazz to the people

The piano great tuned in to the hits of his day and played hard bop to a rock backbeat, crossing into the mainstream and becoming one of the most sampled musicians of all time• Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis dies aged 87For the first half of the...

Three things with Zan Rowe: ‘I never washed my Take That T-shirt … then it started to smell’

In our weekly interview about objects, the Take 5 host tells us about the time she made Paul McCartney sign her record and her teenage music obsessionsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThis month one of the ABC’s best-loved radio segments is...

Beatles’ Revolver reissue shows band in new light: ‘This is the record where we were each most ourselves’

As the landmark 1966 album comes out again with revealing out-takes, two key figures tell of its enduring magicYou may think you know Yellow Submarine, that jokey, surreal number by the Beatles that Ringo Starr sings and children love. But an extraor...

Tell us: 60 years since the Beatles’ debut, share your memories of their earliest days

We would like to hear about your experiences of seeing John, Paul, Ringo and George at their early live shows, or how it felt to hear Love Me Do for the first timeThere’s a slew of Beatles anniversaries coming this year, not least the 60th anniversar...

Beatles auction rekindles memories of 1963 royal variety show

Liverpool sale will include net curtains, a brick and autographs from night that catapulted band to superstardom“For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands,” John Lennon instructed the 1963 Royal Variety Performance audience at the Prince o...

Winged Beatle: Paul and Linda McCartney interviewed – archive, 15 July 1972

15 July 1972: The McCartneys talk about their plans to take new band Wings on the road, and their long-drawn affray with the other Beatles“Did you know,” whispered a pop cognoscente, “that the Beatles invented Scotch and Coke? No one drank it before...

Sir Paul McCartney plays surprise pre-Glastonbury gig in Frome

Set at Cheese and Grain sold out in under an hour after being announced on Thursday nightSir Paul McCartney delivered a surprise performance the night before his Glastonbury festival headline set, which had caused traffic congestion as fans tried to...

Sir Ringo Starr among those wishing Sir Paul McCartney a happy 80th birthday

Ex-Beatle turned 80 on Saturday, days after a brief US tour which saw him joined on stage by Bruce SpringsteenSir Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen and Ronnie Wood were among stars who have been wishing Sir Paul McCartney a happy 80th birthday.The ex-Be...

At 80, Paul McCartney still makes genius look effortless

The former Beatle has aged with dignity – but not too much of it – and 60 years after his first hit will be headlining GlastonburyThere’s a lovely scene in Peter Jackson’s recent documentary The Beatles: Get Back that sums up the taken-for-granted br...

A picture in time: the Beatles arrive in Adelaide on their 1964 Australian tour

Hundreds of thousands of excited fans greeted the band in the staid South Australian capital at the peak of global BeatlemaniaWhen the Beatles arrived in Australia in 1964 for their first and only tour of the country, huge crowds greeted them everywh...

Archive film shows Belfast kids going wild to Hippy Hippy Shake in 1964

Recently rediscovered BBC footage of an exuberant Sunday afternoon disco in Ardoyne has gone viralIn 1964 it was the moment the children of Holy Cross parish in north Belfast waited for all week: at 3pm on Sunday their school held a disco.For the pri...