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Aimee Lou Wood says playing Pattie Boyd in Beatles biopics is ‘intimidating’

Wood will portray George Harrison’s former wife, model and photographer Pattie Boyd, in Sam Mendes’ biopic films about the lives of the Fab Four.

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney announces 18th solo album - ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’

Paul McCartney’s new album draws from the musician’s early childhood memories of growing up in Liverpool and his relationship with George Harrison and John Lennon prior to Beatlemania.

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“While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise”: How an unfamiliar guitar chord proved to be the catalyst for Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

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Sir Paul McCartney releases new single and announces first album for five years

The introspective 14-track record, titled The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, recounts a collection of memories from the singer’s formative years in Liverpool.

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney returns with poignant new single and major announcement

Beatles legend shared the track at the same time as announcing plans to release his first solo album in six years

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney announces new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Paul McCartney will release The Boys of Dungeon Lane, a deeply personal album inspired by his early life in Liverpool.

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“I might not be good at making streaming numbers but I can make music that is emotionally engaging. That’s more important than just getting a hit on a digital platform”: We speak to Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor

The bespectacled frontman of one of the 2000’s most influential synth-pop acts continues to pursue fresh sonic frontiers on new solo record, Paris in the Spring

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"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

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Sir Paul McCartney mended John Lennon rift by bonding over baking

Sir Paul McCartney mended his friendship with John Lennon after the Beatles split by bonding over their shared love of baking.

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Gee, thanks, UN. You’re the life coach we (don’t) need

“Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try…”

Newslaundry

“The Gretsch was given by John Lennon to his cousin. He kept it for almost 50 years”: The magical mystery of the $1.3m Gretsch that might have recorded a Beatles classic

Amelia Walker of Christie's takes us behind the scenes at the Jim Irsay auction to look at the 1963 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins that was rumored to have been used on Paperback Writer

Guitar World

“It was kept in Lennon’s attic studio… You can see the guitar in photographs right by his Farfisa and Brenell tape machines”: John Lennon’s ’64 Rickenbacker is officially a $1.3m guitar – but it was originally a replacement for a Beatles live show

This stunning stand-in Ricky was owned by both John Lennon and Ringo Starr in its time, and was one of the big sales in the Jim Irsay auction at Christie’s

Guitar World

"Lot after lot, we felt like we were making history”: John Lennon’s Broadway piano goes for a record-breaking $3.3 million

He used it to write A Day In The Life

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“Lot after lot we felt like we were making history”: World record for most expensive guitar shattered three times in one night as Jim Irsay auction sees David Gilmour's Black Strat fetch $14.5m

On any other night, $6,907,000 for Kurt Cobain's Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang and $11,560,000 for Jerry Garcia's “Tiger” would have been world records. But this wasn’t any other night...

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Evening Standard

Piano John Lennon used to write Beatles songs fetches record amount at auction

It was sold as part of The Jim Irsay Collection: Hall of Fame on Thursday at Christie’s in New York.

The Independent UK

John Lennon’s Sgt Pepper piano sells for record amount at auction

It was sold as part of The Jim Irsay Collection: Hall of Fame on Thursday at Christie’s in New York.

The Independent UK

A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really?

MCCRUM ON BOOKS: Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John Lennon, but Robert McCrum argues that her role as the musician’s muse unleashed one…

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Sir Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono questioned if John Lennon was gay

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed Yoko Ono told him she thought John Lennon "might have been gay" in a phone call after the death of her husband.

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“Such A Creep”: Paul McCartney Makes Bombshell Revelation About Bandmate John Lennon In Resurfaced Interview

“Paul McCartney is such a creep. Only a nasty, evil man would sell out his past band-mate who is not around to defend himself.”

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"Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the Age of Fake News." Alice Cooper announces Devil On My Shoulder autobiography and book tour

Alice Cooper's memoir includes appearances from Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods and many more

The Guardian - UK

Love Magic Power Danger Bliss by Paul Morley review – Yoko Ono before the Beatles

A vivid celebration of the artist covers her childhood and breakthrough in New York – while sidelining ‘that other business’

MusicRadar

“We should all be proud that British musicians are responsible for this force in music called heavy metal. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest invented true heavy metal music”: How Priest singer Rob Halford remembers the band’s breakthrough moment

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival

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I Watched The New Paul McCartney Documentary, And It Reminded Me Of My Favorite Pop Culture Conspiracy Theory

The Walrus was Paul.

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Paul McCartney recalls frustration over delayed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed he was promised induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame four years before he eventually was.

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Amazon Prime Video’s Man On The Run Review: Well, Now I Appreciate Paul McCartney’s Meandering And Obscure Post-Beatles Era

Maybe I’m amazed.

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