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“There was an amazing synergy. The longest single session was 72 hours. We fed the engineer speed pills… we’d scramble to write lyrics then pluck vocal harmonies out of the air”: How Nektar’s ambition and effort gave the world Remember The Future

The Bluebird character was invented at the same time by different creatives, a technical issue nearly killed off the recorded musical energy – and drugs fuelled almost every aspect of the production. But the resulting environment-themed epic was worth all the hard graft

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Stella Mccartney's Eco-Friendly Fashion Show At Paris Fashion Week

Stella McCartney's fall-winter 2024 collection at Paris Fashion Week highlights sustainable luxury designs and eco-consciousness in fashion.

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"Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that will continue to guide this band": Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dies, aged 57

Atlanta stalwart's death following cancer battle confirmed by band

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Come together! Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are Paris Fashion Week stars on Stella McCartney’s front row

Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr join the fashionistas front row at Stella McCartney’s show in Paris

Evening Standard

A new start after 60: I’m a 90-year-old drummer with a leather jacket – I’ve unleashed my inner wild woman!

Barbara McInnis was looking for thrills as she headed into her 90s. Quilting wasn’t quite cutting it, nor was the ukulele. Then she realised she could be the next Ringo Starr

The Guardian - UK

“I think Sgt Pepper was a ‘prize period’ when I was playing my best bass”: Paul McCartney’s 10 best basslines with The Beatles

Paul McCartney is, to state the obvious, a bass guitar legend – and these are his 10 best basslines

Guitar World

Celebs mourn the death of Richard Lewis

Lewis died on Tuesday from a heart attack, according to a statement from his publicist

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Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies

Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineup

The Guardian - UK

Fab Four: Sam Mendes To Direct Four Beatles Biopic Films

The fab four are back, with each member of the iconic Beatles to be immortalized in their own big screen biopic, all directed by Sam Mendes, Sony Pictures said on Tuesday.

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Casting The Beatles for Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-film project on the beloved band

We've got some ideas for casting the upcoming four-film Beatles biopics.

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Four-part Beatles biopic announced

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes of movies like "American Beauty," "1917" and "Skyfall" will be directing

Salon

Sam Mendes To Direct Four Separate Beatles Member Biopics

Four films focusing on individual Beatles members, directed by Sam Mendes and financed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, promise an innovative cinematic expe...

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‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member

Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison

The Guardian - UK

James Bond director to helm four Beatles biopics – and they're all releasing in the same year

Sam Mendes is directing four new movies about The Beatles

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"There are no words in any language to express how badly I feel about that night": The strange and terrible story of Great White, and the Station nightclub fire

Great White toured with Guns N' Roses, hit the charts, and dissolved in a blur of betrayal and substance abuse. And, just when it couldn’t get worse, they played Rhode Island

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"I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches, really" – Mark Knopfler announces all-star charity band with over 60 members with Gilmour, Ringo, Jeff Beck, Sting, Clapton and Brian May all onboard

They've recorded a new version of Knopfler's Going Home: Theme From Local Hero

Guitar World

“Eric came in, played great, just one tasty lick after another. Jeff Beck’s contribution was spellbinding”: Mark Knopfler enlists Clapton, Townshend, Iommi, Slash and dozens more for all-star charity single

Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes raise funds for teenage cancer charities with an epic version of his Local Hero theme, featuring Jeff Beck’s final recording, and over 50 guitar legends – including David Gilmour, Joan Armatrading and Brian May

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Rare Unseen Beatles Film From ‘Help!’ Set To Be Auctioned

Candid 8mm footage captures Fab Four behind the scenes during iconic movie production in 1965.

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"Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles

After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

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"What was really exciting for me was watching Paul's total respect for his band members": Giles Martin tells the inside story of the final Beatles song, Now And Then

You probably didn’t have a new (and final) song from The Beatles on your 2023 bingo card, but that’s what we got, surprising everybody

Louder

"We did seven encores. We ran out of material and were forced to play Jimi Hendrix tunes. Imagine that, opening for Cream and finishing with Hendrix tunes?": The story of the legendary James Gang

With a classic funk-rock sound, the rise of rock'n'roll cowboys the James Gang looked unstoppable, inspired by a real kick-ass guitarist who would both make and break the band

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Abbey Road engineer Ken Scott on recording The Beatles: “I was there when Eric Clapton played the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but it was just another day at the office so it didn't mean anything at the time”

Best of 2023: On working with Lennon and McCartney: “Paul was exceedingly patient, and would keep on going until it was the way he wanted it, whereas John would prefer to get it over with as quickly as possible”

Metal Hammer

The riff is a belter, the lyrics arrived out of thin air at Ringo Starr's house, and the promo video for it is pure pantomime – the story behind Beavis and Butthead’s favourite Judas Priest song

"Everyone's had a confrontation with a copper and likes to scream about breaking the law, don't they?" - Rob Halford

Evening Standard

Why the Beatles’ song Now and Then is the most important record of the past year

It was last year’s most significant release, both a time capsule of our greatest ever band, and something genuinely new.

Louder

“All I could do to accommodate requests for new sounds for them was just to abuse the equipment": How The Beatles' Revolver revolutionised music

Revolver is a feat of The Beatles' sonic experimentation and songwriting genius, and this is the story behind how the album was made

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