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“I was broke. I only had $200 and we booked a gig. There was this guitar at a pawn shop that had been there for years...” How George Thorogood stumbled across the Gibson that became his go-to guitar – a week before his first gig with the Destroyers

Thorogood recounts how he originally opted for a now-discontinued hollowbody – with a little inspiration from the Beatles and Keith Richards

Guitar World

Beatles biopic star admits to surprising lack of knowledge about iconic band

Mia McKenna-Bruce says she couldn't even name the band members and that their music ’wasn't my jam’

The Independent UK

Mia McKenna-Bruce: I couldn’t name The Beatles before joining biopic movie

The 28-year-old said the 1960s rock-and-roll band ‘wasn’t my jam’.

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"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what it's like to be in a stadium filled with people singing War Pigs

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“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

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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”

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Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...

Folk-rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

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Sean Ono Lennon is worried that younger generations will forget about The Beatles

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon is fearful that younger generations could forget about The Beatles and his father's musical legacy.

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The Divisive Beatles Movie Musical Is Finding New Appreciation on Social Media

Come to the Beatles, stay for Bono.

The Mary Sue

“I bought my first Höfner bass in the ’60s. I have loved it ever since”: Paul McCartney pays tribute to Höfner as the legendary German brand’s future hangs in the balance

Having played a Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass since 1961, the Beatles icon is saddened to learn of the German brand's plight

Guitar World

‘Beatlemania wasn’t like Taylor Swift — it came out of nowhere, like a meteorite’

Sean Ono Lennon has a timely festive message in his Oscar-winning film inspired by his parents’ song, Happy Xmas (War is Over) — and a thumbs-up to the actor who’s about to play his dad

Evening Standard

"We were just tired, so we were like, 'Let's go live together in a cabin and take psychedelics', because that'll help, I guess." How The Beatles inspired one of emo's breakout bands to completely reinvent themselves

After taking the world by storm with their debut, Panic! At The Disco looked to the greats for inspiration for their next move

Louder

Höfner, the famed instrument maker behind Paul McCartney’s iconic Violin Bass, reportedly files for bankruptcy

The firm was founded in 1887, and designed the legendary Violin Bass that became Macca’s go-to in the Beatles and beyond

Guitar World

How Taylor Swift's 95 Weeks Atop Charts Built $1.6B Fortune Only The Beatles Can Match

Taylor Swift's 95 weeks atop the Billboard 200 made her the first musician billionaire from music alone. Only The Beatles' 132-week record stands between her and chart immortality.

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“They had no monitors, but when you listen to the recordings it’s so damn good. It was stunning how good The Beatles were live”: Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on The Beatles and the Stones – and why rock stars were not supposed to last beyond 30

"They turned the world upside down!”

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How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass

At one point Harrison considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra

International Business Times UK

Taylor Swift Humbly Rejects The Beatles Comparison By Stephen Colbert

Taylor Swift politely rejected Stephen Colbert's comparison to The Beatles on The Late Show, stating they 'had a whole thing going,' and discussed her fans' 'post-concert amnesia.'

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David Morrissey and James Norton join cast of Beatles biopics

David Morrissey and James Norton are among the stars joining the ensemble cast of Sir Sam Mendes' The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.

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This $99 plugin recreates a classic studio technique invented at Abbey Road for The Beatles – and it's free for the next three days

AIR Music Tech has made Tape Double Track available as a free download until December 8

The Independent UK

The Beatles’ early days to be focus of new BBC series

The Fab Four’s time in Hamburg in the early 1960s was highly influential on their career

Evening Standard

BBC to air series about early days of The Beatles

Hamburg Days is based on the book of the same name and follows the transformation of a group of teenagers into one of the world’s biggest bands.

The Conversation

The Beatles’ movie Help! featured crude racial stereotypes – but it shouldn’t be hidden away

I sometimes think that my teenage fascination with the Beatles is what drew me to becoming a professional historian. Piecing together what I could find out about them in the years before the internet was a sort of gateway to the history of Britain and the world in the decade…

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The Beatles Anthology's New Episode Is A Fantastic Addition, But It Reveals Something The Series Was Missing

The Beatles Anthology is better than ever, but it could have better still.

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I Finally Understand Yoko Ono After Watching HBO Max's One To One Documentary

I’ve never blamed her for “breaking up The Beatles,” but I never understood her, either.

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: the evolving history of the Beatles, Buddhist extremism, and anatomy of a WhatsApp group scandal

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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