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National Record Store Day on April 22 celebrates independent record stores around the world and usually gives fans the chance to buy special one-off collectable releases from hundreds of artists

If The Beatles wrote the soundtrack for the legend of Swinging Sixties London, then Mary Quant created the look, said Jess Cartner-Morley in The Guardian. One of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century, Quant, who has died aged 93, is most closely associated with the miniskirt.

Formed from the ashes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Rutles were a razorsharp pastiche of The Beatles with links to Monty Python and the Fab Four themselves

National Record Store Day is set to take place this weekend on Saturday, April 22. And if you have a collection lying around not being used, you may want to start looking through them.

Macca had a new sense of freedom after the infamous break up

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

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”

The Beatles were asked to sign the only piece of paper to hand - a police charge sheet for motoring offences

Richard Hutter charged up to £35 for counterfeit albums by bands like the Beatles and Nirvana over six-year period

The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney was stood next to his daughter Stella McCartney as he was filmed being passed a rolled cigarette to puff on while out and about in Jamaica

John Bloomfield, then 15, had no idea what to expect when the Fab Four turned up to play at his boarding school for £100 on April 4, 1963