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The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing

Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?

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“George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

“George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

“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

“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

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"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

Two wonderful and highly recommended treatments of the early history of rock-and-roll.

"The worst track we ever had to record" – why 3/4 of the Beatles hated Maxwell's Silver Hammer

No Paul McCartney song ever incurred the joint wrath of Lennon, Harrison and Starr quite like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Here’s why…

It was 60 years ago today… schoolboy’s tape of the Beatles transports us to an era of optimism

Private-school pupils unselfconsciously screamed for their working-class heroes

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One of the earliest live recordings of the Beatles emerges 60 years later, but will we ever get to hear it?

One of the earliest live recordings of the Beatles emerges 60 years later, but will we ever get to hear it?

John Bloomfield was a teenager at the all-boys Stowe boarding school in 1963 when the Fab Four came to play, and after all these years, he reveals to the BBC that he recorded the set

The Beatles' first single Love Me Do was released 60 years ago — but it nearly didn't happen

The Beatles' first single Love Me Do was released 60 years ago — but it nearly didn't happen

The Beatles had a major problem and it wasn't going to be easily resolved. They didn't like the song they'd been asked to record by their producer George Martin.

The Beatles: Photos of the band playing at the Cavern Club found

The Beatles: Photos of the band playing at the Cavern Club found

The photos show the original line-up of the band without Ringo Starr, when they were aged between 18 and 20

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Rare images of The Beatles playing at Liverpool’s Cavern Club discovered

Rare images of The Beatles playing at Liverpool’s Cavern Club discovered

They were captured in July 1961, over a year before the band released their debut single

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

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 single

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