Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from John Lennon

John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr’s sons team up to release new song

The trio have collaborated on a new song for Zak Starkey’s band

The Independent UK

“There were all these killer players. I was shy and kind of sat there, but Etta said, ‘I like that little white kid’”: Brian Ray wowed Etta James at 18, lost-out on Shakira and landed his gig with Paul McCartney –after auditioning at the Super Bowl

Brian Ray's career is like no other. As Paul McCartney's guitarist for over 20 years, he gives us a unique perspective on what it's like to play with a Beatle – and how it all started with the Monster Mash

Guitar World

My unexpected Pride icon: indie breakup songs said all the things I couldn’t say to other boys

From John Lennon’s takedown of Paul McCartney to the Libertines’ Can’t Stand Me Now, songs by straight men about falling out with their friends were strangely romantic to me

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Georgian garden features a charming technique that is still the best way to upgrade boring stone walls

Tittenhurst Park, the mansion bought by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in '60s, has a stunning garden with lessons that are still applicable now

Homes & Gardens

Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan audiobook review – love and conflict in Sri Lanka

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor’s life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year’s Women’s prizewinning novel

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney unwittingly met the girl who’d later inspire the Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home years before writing the song

She’d later crop up in a newspaper story and trigger Paul to pen the Sgt. Pepper classic - but did he remember that he’d already met the girl in question?

MusicRadar

John Lennon’s ‘smutty and funny’ letter to future first wife to be sold at auction

Beatle wrote in 1962 letter to Cynthia Powell that he wished he was on his way to her flat with ‘chocies and a throbber’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

46 Old And Rarely Seen Images Of Famous People, As Shared On This Twitter Page

Welcome to the historical walk of fame where photographs are just as real and vivid as the emotions of these famous people captured on camera.

Bored Panda

"I went upstairs to show the person how to play the riff... and it was John McEnroe!" David Bowie on the art and process of songwriting

David Bowie explains his creative process and reveals why time and place matter

Louder

Bono: U2 is a democracy

U2 frontman Bono has revealed that the band work as a "democracy", although The Edge's creative ideas are most likely to be taken on board.

BANG Premier

Paul Mescal 'whines' about career and 'alpha male' replacement as Lennon’s sister slams him for overexposure

As the star complains about critiques of his work, Julia Baird points out the privileged actor is already everywhere

Evening Standard

John Lennon's sister criticises casting for Beatles biopics as she takes aim at Paul Mescal

‘There are more actors out there waiting for a go, and for a chance,’ Julia Baird said

Evening Standard

Harris Dickinson is one of the most in-demand actors, but he had to direct a film first

Harris Dickinson is sitting on a rooftop terrace in Cannes, trying to find all the movie tattoos on his body

The Independent UK

Scotland's ultras aren't working class heroes - too many are 'still f****** peasants'

Scotland's ultras aren't the working class heroes they believe they are - they need to stop breaking the law and behave for their voices to be heard.

The National (Scotland)

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

MusicRadar

“Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him”: When the Beatles stole the Rolling Stones’ thunder and dropped Hey Jude at the Beggars Banquet launch party

It was supposed to be Jagger’s night - but a stealthy Paul McCartney had other ideas…

Louder

"For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road

What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra

Louder

"John made himself out to be the big working-class hero: he was the least working-class in the group." In 1984, revisiting his work with The Beatles, Paul McCartney shed new light on his relationship with John Lennon in his most revealing interviews ever

"If you ever got a speck of praise from John, a crumb of it, you were quite grateful." Paul McCartney on John Lennon

MusicRadar

“John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

BANG Premier

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.

Guitar World

“John Lennon hated doubling his vocals. The chief engineer at Abbey Road came up with a way to add a delay and put it onto another track. That’s what that pedal does”: The Cars’ Elliot Easton on the secrets of his pedalboard –and the wizard who made it

Easton has a Dumble-in-a-box, 12-string jangle on demand and a whole bunch of wildcards on a pedalboard that's got a little bit of everything

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Barry Keoghan visited Ringo Starr to ‘study’ him for upcoming Beatles biopics

Saltburn actor Keoghan has been cast to play the drummer in a collection of new biopics.

The Guardian - UK

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

MusicRadar

“It’s one of the most affecting responses to death ever put on record”: 9 fresh long reads on tracks with astounding musical moments

Our recently published deep-dives into rock and pop classics featuring arrangement quirks, left-field riffs or abrupt rhythmic changes are collected here

MusicRadar

“He was a great hero to all of us, and because he wore glasses this even allowed John Lennon to wear his in public and not have to whip them off if there was a girl passing by!”: Paul McCartney salutes a rock ’n’ roll legend

Buddy Holly influenced The Beatles, the Stones and many more

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.