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Sting is thankful to The Beatles for inspiring songwriters to try

Sting's touring guitarist Dominic Miller has revealed the singer and he have discussed the importance of The Beatles in inspiring generations of songwriters to try and craft tracks.

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90-year-old central London restaurant where diners included the Beatles faces losing licence

Police want 90-year-old Elysée, which Prince Philip is also said to have visited, to have its licence revoked due to ‘multiple breaches’ of public safety rules

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“Like Bach, I think the Beatles are some of the only composers that you can play badly and it still sounds good”: Sting guitarist Dominic Miller on why the Beatles' harmonies are “indestructible”

Miller has recently released a songbook that sees some of the most beloved Beatles tunes come to life with solo guitar arrangements

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’I inexplicably detest Mr Brightside’: John Simm’s honest playlist

The actor first realised what music was when he heard Yellow Submarine and knows a lot of Paul Simon lyrics, but what would he put on at a party?

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Sigourney Weaver wrote lengthy fan letter for John Lennon

Sigourney Weaver once wrote a lengthy fan letter to the late John Lennon - but hopes he never received it.

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No more secret Beatles tracks

Producer Giles Martin says no more secret Beatles tracks will ever be released as he doesn’t believe there is anything new left to uncover.

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Six great reads – best of 2025: Netflix’s algorithm; bonding over the Beatles and the ascent of MrBeast

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here is part two of our favourites from 2025

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Paul Mescal Gets Real About Why He’s Ready For A Break From The Spotlight: ‘I Hope Nobody Gets To See Me Until 2028’

Paul Mescal is ready to take a break.

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Paul Mescal wants to 'ration' work

Paul Mescal is considering taking a break and "rationing" his work.

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Songs about new beginnings – ranked!

From CMAT and the Carpenters’ fresh starts to the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun and Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, starting again is a rich theme in pop. Here are some of the best examples

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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’

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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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How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison

Nirvana's first love song offered the world the first real glimpse of Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius

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'We wouldn't have been able to do most of what we did...' Eric Idle says political correctness would stop Monty Python movies

Monty Python member Eric Idle says that modern political correctness would mean that their films like The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life would not be made now.

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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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Sir Paul McCartney in tree row with neighbour over plan to chop down sycamores at London home

Beatles legend wants to fell two protected trees at £10m North London home but wealthy investor raises objections

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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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“Each of them impacted the instrument in their own way, as luthiers, hitmakers, session players, or air guitar-inspiring soloists”: Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2025

2025 has been a big year for the guitar, but we've also had to sadly say goodbye to dozens of guitar greats, from many eras, and every imaginable genre. Here, we recognize those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument

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"There is no getting around the fact that he repeats the phrase 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' 17 times": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime

Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic

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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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“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before

Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity

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

Come to the Beatles, stay for Bono.

Evening Standard

‘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

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