In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have 21 number-one singles to their name, you wouldn’t be far wrong if you said a tenth of their work was chart-topping. Needless to say, that’s […]
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Night did not arrive with spectacle. It came quietly, settling into the room like a held breath. Five names long carried by history stepped into the same space and allowed silence to lead. Julian Lennon. Sean Lennon. Dhani Harrison. Zak Starkey. James McCartney. Each arrived not as a symbol, not as a headline, but as […]
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Every artist has their muse; whether it’s Andy Warhol’s obsession with Edie Sedgwick or David Hockney’s lifelong love of smoking. Few people can claim to have been quite such an inspiring muse as Pattie Boyd, though, whose beauty spawned a litany of legendary love songs from a multitude of songwriters, spanning the spectrum from Ron […]
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Eric Clapton didn’t sign up for rock and roll simply to have hits. He was a brilliant guitarist and songwriter when the time called for it, but when he got the first itch to play guitar, it was more about trying to find the best blues licks that he could to put on record whenever […]
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In the shadow of their enormous, unprecedented success story, it is easy to forget that The Beatles were, at their core, four young lads in their mid-20s, largely figuring things out as they went along. Once that fact is realised, the mounting internal tensions within the group certainly make a lot more sense, particularly as […]
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For anyone who considers themselves to be a fan of the band, choosing a favourite album by The Beatles is a near-impossible task, given how virtually all of their albums reach a similar standard of excellence and are almost inseparable from one another in this regard. Admittedly, very few people are going to look at […]
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When talking about the rise of The Beatles, it’s easy to forget about the kind of impact Ringo Starr has had. No, he might not have been gifted with the greatest songwriting chops in the world, but his internal sense of rhythm when playing all of their songs always put him one notch above every […]
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If we presume that the average age of the most devoted, swooning, semi-crazed Beatlemaniac was about 13 in 1964, then they would be walking our streets today as 75-year-olds; stable-seeming pensioners, kindly grannies. Some of them will surely be shaking their heads at the foul language in modern music, or wondering why there have to […]
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Paul McCartney has announced details of the soundtrack album to coincide with the upcoming Man on the Run documentary. The film, directed by Morgan Neville, will be shown in select cinemas across the globe on February 19th before arriving on Prime Video on February 25th. Man on the Run explores McCartney’s life and career as […]
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The world was a darker place before The Beatles announced themselves in the tender years of the 1960s. As the late, great Ozzy Osbourne once said, when The Beatles arrived, they turned a black and white world into booming Technicolour. The band exploded into the decade and soundtracked what is perhaps the most potent cultural […]
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