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Barry Keoghan 'couldn't look at' Sir Ringo Starr

Barry Keoghan "couldn't look" at Sir Ringo Starr when he went to visit the Beatles legend as part of his research into playing the drummer in an upcoming biopic.

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Sam Mendes’ four Beatles films to be written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne

The director has appointed the acclaimed Olivier, Tony, Bafta and Oscar winning talents to be the screenwriters for The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event

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Celine Dion joins Sir Paul McCartney's 3D film

Celine Dion has joined the cast of Sir Paul McCartney's 3D animated film, 'High in the Clouds'.

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Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?

She managed tours for Queen and Led Zeppelin and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split – but O’Dell is most proud of her legacy as a woman in a macho industry

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Soundgarden's Kim Thayil names the rock and metal bands he believes should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary prog band he can't believe hasn't been inducted already

"I don’t think realistically I would see myself in the same club as the Beatles or the Stones or Zeppelin!"

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Scholz to hand over power in Germany to sound of feminist anthem Respect

Song made famous by Aretha Franklin is on military band’s set list for handover of chancellery to Friedrich Merz

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‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our ongoing series of mood-lifting films is a love letter to Robert Zemeckis’s 1978 comedy about Beatlemania fangirls

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“We were drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs”: The unhinged story of Aerosmith’s Draw The Line, the album that sent them crashing off the rails

Drugs, dysfunction and 1977’s Draw The Line album sent Aerosmith into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of

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‘I don’t want to die in a hotel room somewhere’: Black Sabbath on reconciling for their final gig – and how Ozzy is living through hell

Heavy metal’s godfathers are preparing a star-studded farewell – but will Ozzy Osbourne, after ‘horrendous’ surgery, be well enough to perform? In their first interview for two decades, the original lineup talk about their hopes and fears for rock’s ultimate gig

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“We could see John begin smiling. At the end of the first verse, he gave an exuberant thumbs-up and McCartney and Harrison began slapping each other on the back”: How one Beatles track spawned a recording technique revolution

Originally called ’The Void’, the groundbreaking song found the Fab Four exploring higher planes of consciousness - and leaning on the studio more than ever before

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Paul Mescal to make National Theatre debut in two 20th century plays

It comes after it was announced the actor is play Sir Paul McCartney in four films directed by Sir Sam Mendes about The Beatles.

Evening Standard

West End's Saville Theatre set for return of live shows after 55 years

The Saville Theatre was transformed into a two-screen cinema in 1970

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“There was a girl who wrote letters to Fish in her own blood, and there was an American you could imagine having a John Lennon moment with. You have to be careful”: Steve Rothery’s life and times with Marillion

It’s always been about music for the veteran guitarist, although distractions have included catching fire at the band’s first gig, realising he should be much richer than he actually was, and an alternative career he came close to pursuing

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Missing ingredients, brand new colours and the chances of alien life – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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‘Filling in these gaps’: Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Gagosian showcases previously unseen pictures taken by the musician during the rise of Beatlemania

The Independent UK

Sean Lennon shares rare message with fans about his relationship with half-brother Julian

Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who is also a musician, does not often address his relationship with Julian Lennon in public

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"There’s plenty for us guitarists to learn – and ‘less is more’ is the overriding lesson": how to play like George Harrison on The Beatles' Abbey Road

Learn the guitar style of the most expressive and accomplishedplaying The Beatle would ever commit to tape

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“We hadn’t really rehearsed. As we were walking to the stage, he said, ‘Hang on, boys!’ And he went in the corner and vomited”: Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led, motley crew supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles

Though the band's set at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was ragged, it confirmed in stone a hugely consequential decision Lennon had made just before the festival

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I tested Sony's cheap new ANC earbuds, and if noise-cancelling is king, you just found your new budget buds

Sony's newest budget noise-cancelling earbuds sound good and come with perks – and that's before we get to the excellent bubble-of-silence ANC.

Evening Standard

The Who axe legendary member from group after on-stage 'fall out' with Roger Daltrey and bandmates

An insider said the fallout is ‘a little acrimonious to say the least’

Guitar World

“I hope they never do one of Van Halen. I told Wolfie, ‘Make sure I’m dead’”: Eddie Van Halen's former wife, Valerie Bertinelli, rules out Van Halen biopic

Bertinelli reveals that she told her son, Wolfgang, to not approve any biopics until after she's dead

The Conversation

Yoko Ono, ‘the first female punk rocker’, is an artist of benevolent magic

In 1945, when Yoko Ono was 12, her home city of Tokyo was firebombed. With her mother and siblings, she fled to the safety of a farming village in Nagano Prefecture. Food was scarce. During this time, Ono, as the eldest child, often had to help find provisions for her…

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Valerie Bertinelli doesn't want Van Halen biopic until she's dead

The late Eddie Van Halen's ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli, doesn't want there to be a Van Halen biopic until after her death.

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"People started to leave. I was terrified": The story of Elton John's favourite Elton John album and the calamitous stadium show that followed

Gold even before its release, Captain Fantastic And The BrownDirt Cowboy was worth the hard work. But the album markedthe end of Elton John’s imperial period – and his band

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"It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people. After a while, I had to get out": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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