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“I was just too frightened – it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn’t do it”: Paul McCartney was meant to be the Beatles’ lead guitarist – then stage fright led him to George Harrison

McCartney explains how Harrison became the band’s primary soloist in this exclusive extract from The Beatles Anthology

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Paul McCartney records silent track for AI protest album

Sir Paul McCartney has recorded a "silent" song in protest of the UK government's approach to AI copyright law.

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“We were afraid the record company was going to chuck us, so I started playing these chords. It all came about pretty quickly – like magic”: Dave Davies on the Kinks’ argumentative energy, mixed feelings on Van Halen, and Jeff Beck, the “loose cannon”

One of the O.G. progenitors of rock 'n' roll sits in with us to discuss the vital spark that lit the fire for a new generation – the sound, the fury, the friction, and the legacy

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Lô Borges obituary

Singer-songwriter revered in Brazil for founding the Clube da Esquina collective and releasing two landmark albums of the 1970s

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"The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums": The story of the wild tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge

The Beatles queued up to give Joe Cocker their songs, but drink, drugs and wild times on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring circus almost finished him off

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“After the show, they handed me what is to this day one of my most prized possessions”: Jim Carrey remembers Chris Cornell and Soundgarden’s generous guitar gift as he inducts them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Soundgarden played on the night with Mike McCready and Jerry Cantrell, while Olivia Rodrigo honored The White Stripes, the Tedeschi Trucks Band covered The Beatles, and Flea performed with Stevie Wonder

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“Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix

Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beatles –Roger McGuinn has crossed paths with the them all

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“It's more than an effect. It's an instrument in itself”: Made famous by David Gilmour, and employed by Rory Gallagher and the Beatles, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone

If you have even the most passing familiarity with Pink Floyd, you've heard an ethereal soundscape generated by the Binson Echorec. This is what it is, the unit's fascinating inner workings, and why it still matters

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The top Beatles landmarks in London

From Abbey Road to the Palladium , we go through the top landmarks in the capital related to the Fab Four

Evening Standard

Heather Mills: I only dated carnivores to 'convert' them to veganism and then dump them

Heather Mills reveals she would only date ‘carnivores’ so she could ‘wean’ them off meat, fish and dairy

Evening Standard

Wings by Paul McCartney review – a brilliant story of post-Beatles revival

A compelling oral history traces the rise one of the most successful bands of the 70s from the ashes of a creative breakup

The Guardian - UK

Sir Paul McCartney was inspired to start Wings by Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter

Sir Paul McCartney proposed the idea of forming Wings to his late wife Linda McCartney after watching country icon Johnny Cash perform together with his spouse June Carter on television.

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Paul McCartney admits he ‘didn’t really know how to be in a band’ after The Beatles split

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Paul McCartney reveals new details of life after The Beatles split

The legendary musician went on to form new band Wings with wife Linda McCartney

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John Lennon's Killer Mark David Chapman Denied Parole Again After Admitting He 'Wanted Fame'

Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered Beatles legend John Lennon, has been denied parole for the 14th time after admitting he killed Lennon to 'be famous'.

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“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it”: Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?

Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?

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Sir Paul McCartney felt ‘dead’ after The Beatles broke up

In a candid extract from his new memoir, Sir Paul McCartney has admitted he felt “dead” after The Beatles broke up.

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How The Beatles Finally Opened the Vault: Exclusive Life-Story and Music Rights for the First Time

The biopic marked the first-time all the Beatles' living members and their families approved to use the band's complete music catalog for a scripted film.

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Saoirse Ronan, Aimee Lou Wood and more cast in Beatles biopics

Saoirse Ronan, Mia McKenna Bruce, Anna Sawai, and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sir Sam Mendes' Beatles biopics as the wives of the Fab Four.

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The Beatles: actors playing the spouses of the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ films confirmed

Mia McKenna-Bruce, Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sam Mendes’ forthcoming four-part film series

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Aimee Lou Wood and Saoirse Ronan confirmed to star in Beatles biopic films

The four films will follow the lives of the Fab Four and are due to be released in April 2028.

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“It made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, might just help them a little bit”: The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

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“An unspecified buyer dipped into their pocket for $2,857,500 – so fara record for any guitar previously owned by a Beatle”: The story of the Framus Hootenanny, the resurrected John Lennon favorite that was a key component of Beatles tone

Loved by the Animals, the Stones, and most famously John Lennon, what was it about this Framus 12-string that made it a staple of ’60s rock tone?

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Bruce Springsteen has enough 'chapters' for a Deliver Me From Nowhere sequel, says director

Director Scott Cooper believes Bruce Springsteen is keen to do another film about his life.

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Classic Interview: Soft Cell’s Dave Ball – “To my mind, Kraftwerk are as influential as The Beatles”

The late synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple

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