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Mary Quant obituary: pioneering designer who created the 1960s look

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.

The Week

The Rutles: the strange and surreal story of the original Spinal Tap

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

Louder

Glasgow vinyl collectors told to look out for 'Beatles and Bowie' records that could be worth over £5,000

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.

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Paul McCartney's 'relief' after Beatles split

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

Liverpool Echo

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

The Guardian - UK

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”

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”

MusicRadar

The Beatles autographs obtained in Newcastle on police charge sheet sold at auction for £3,400

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

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Man who made £1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fan

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

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney, 80, delights fans as he smokes in Jamaica next to daughter Stella

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

Daily Mirror

Recording of The Beatles playing in school hall in 1963 emerges 60 years on

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

Daily Mirror

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

MusicRadar

New exhibition features The Beatles in comics

Former Spider-Man editor has curated the new collection on Mathew Street

Liverpool Echo

An hour-long recording of The Beatles playing at a Buckinghamshire boarding school in 1963 has just been unearthed

It was 60 years ago today

Louder

BBC shares one of the earliest live concert recordings of The Beatles

The recording was taken at Stowe boarding school in Buckinghamshire on April 4 1963 and revealed by the BBC almost exactly 60 years later

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Liverpool Echo

John Lennon's two word response to potential Beatles reunion

The band split in 1970 with emotions running high

France 24

Looking back on 60 years of Beatlemania

On March 22, 1963, the Beatles released their first album "Please Please Me", rocketing the foursome to international fame. Six decades on, we look at how Beatlemania transformed Liverpool, the northern English town where it all began. We also head to Deauville, Normandy for a diverse collection of work from…

MusicRadar

Was Paul McCartney the "best drummer in The Beatles"?* Listen to the fab 4 tracks he played on, and the isolated drum parts, and decide for yourself

*Obviously not, don't be silly

Evening Standard

‘It was hysteria on steroids’: Donny Osmond recalls Osmondmania and why he considers London his ‘second home’

EXCLUSIVE: Banned from Heathrow and Gatwick due to concerns over safety, The Osmonds’ arrival sparked scenes not seen since The Beatles the previous decade, with everyone wanting to catch a glimpse of the youngest member

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Liverpool Echo

I thought I was bored of The Beatles but this was better than the original

Sarah Jane Morris and the Solis String Quartet brought their re-imagining of The Beatles to Liverpool

The Guardian - UK

‘I could probably tolerate one Abba track’: Kerry Godliman’s honest playlist

The actor grew up listening to Toni Basil and the Beatles, but what would she play at a party, and who did she see on an early date with her future husband?

Salon

The Beatles hit with an asteroid's force

Our upcoming season of "Everything Fab Four" features conversations about the Beatles with Kenny Loggins and more

Tribune News Service

Drum legend Zakir Hussain a borders-leaping marvel: 'He has blazed a trail' says Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart

George Harrison of The Beatles was a fan and collaborator of Indian tabla drum marvel Zakir Hussain. So are guitar legend John McLaughlin, Grateful Dead mainstay Mickey Hart and banjo innovator Béla Fleck.

Liverpool Echo

George Harrison never wanted a Beatles reunion 'because of fans'

There were various demands for the Beatles to reform after their 1970 split

Liverpool Echo

Cavern Club named among top 20 landmarks in England

The Mathew Street venue is known as the birthplace of The Beatles

The Independent UK

6 books compete for nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

Books that explore subjects from William Shakespeare and The Beatles to the lure of Mount Everest and life inside one of the world’s most secretive states are competing to be named the best-ever winner of Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize

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