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HISTORICAL FACTS: 13 - The Untold Story

Ringo Starr sends ‘peace and love’ after Beatles’ Grammy win

The award came more than 60 years after the foursome, who formed in Liverpool in 1960, won the Grammy for best new artist.

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“He turned out to be the nicest, funniest guy I'd ever hung out with": Steve Lukather on meeting his hero, George Harrison

Toto man shared stage with both Harrison and Eddie Van Halen

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“I gave him my Les Paul to use, which, just by him holding it, increased its value by like a million dollars”: In 1992, Steve Lukather was still getting over meeting his Beatles icon – then there was a knock on the stage door

For one night, the Toto icon wound up onstage with Eddie Van Halen –and his guitar hero

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“Adrian and I connected on everything – we even went to the Whisky and paid $5 to see Van Halen play in a one-third full room”: Cult guitar hero Rob Fetters on his friendship with Adrian Belew – and the time they raced home to try tapping after seeing EVH

The Raisins co-founder has returned to making his own music after years of commercial work. He looks back on his fruitful friendship with Zappa sideman Belew – but can’t predict if they’ll reboot their former band

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"I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed, up and out tomorrow": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened

"It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

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Elton John warns AI plans would ‘threaten’ artist earnings as he backs McCartney

The use of copyrighted material to help train artificial intelligence models is the subject of a newly launched Government consultation.

Evening Standard

Ringo Starr has late Beatles bandmate George Harrison to thank for new country album

Sir Ringo Starr and T Bone Burnett's new album 'Look Up' happened because the two musicians met up unexpectedly at the launch party for Olivia Harrison's book 'Came the Lightening - Twenty Poems for George' - which she released to mark the 20th anniversary of her husband George Harrison's death…

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Sir Paul McCartney: Ringo Starr for President!

Sir Paul McCartney thinks Sir Ringo Starr would make a "great" president and has given his backing to a long-running campaign.

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“A less idiosyncratic, more intuitive but still distinctly handsome machine. It plays and feels like a much more modern proposition”: Gretsch Professional Series Hollow Body Tennessean review

The working musician’s hollowbody designed to handle most popular styles but retaining that unmistakably cool Gretsch vibe

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“George is certainly not a rock player, and neither is Ringo. They’re both swing musicians”: Producer T Bone Burnett on the country roots of the Beatles

"Almost everything he did with the Beatles was country," Burnett says of Starr

MusicRadar

Six covers of Bob Dylan songs that were better than the originals

He may never have strayed far from the minds of many music fans, but with his biopic A Complete Unknown hitting UK cinemas on January 17 and heartthrob Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, Bob Dylan may be about to gain an entirely new audience.

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“I get a call, ‘Hello, Andy, it’s Roger Waters.’ Who? I hadn’t paid attention to their names”: Andy Fairweather Low was personally recruited by the Pink Floyd legend – but didn’t know who he was when he came calling

In the 1980s, the rhythm guitar hero was sounded out by Waters for a new band, but there was a clumsy first introduction…

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"John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits

Best of 2024: "I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"

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“The interviewer asked Joe Satriani, ‘Why Andy Fairweather Low?’ And that’s exactly the question I would’ve asked, too”: He's played with Eric Clapton, George Harrison and David Gilmour, but now, this rhythm guitar hero is ready to take center stage

‘The Invisible Bluesman’ on why he probably won’t write any more songs, the ignored art of rhythm guitar, why he always thinks, ‘Why me?’ – and trying to persuade an amp expert to build a deliberately inefficient model

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The Independent UK

Richard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’, dies at 82

Perry, who also produced records for Rod Stewart and Ringo Starr, died at a Los Angeles hospital

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney review – a dizzying, bittersweet, life-encompassing journey through time

An eras tour of a different kind finds the 82-year-old former Beatle on tremendous form, packing a three-hour show with hits, flashbacks and real emotion

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney reunites with Ringo Starr at London concert

Former Beatles bandmates perform together at O2 Arena in final show of McCartney’s Got Back tour

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“Proof you can fit guitar solos into perfect two-minute pop songs”: Towa Bird stars in the top five guitar albums of 2025

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“Because the guy’s got a knife, he’s fairly persuasive!”: How Paul McCartney survived a mugging - and a mutiny - to create his solo masterpiece

The full, amazing story of Band On The Run

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Zakir Hussain obituary

Virtuoso tabla player whose work with a variety of musicians included composing for films

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Zakir Hussain: Life and music that transcended boundaries

“A fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor,” The New York Times’ description of Zakir Hussain after one of his iconic Carnegie Hall performances in 2009 encapsulated the essence of his life and over 60 years of music.

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Grammy-winning musician Zakir Hussain dead at 73

Zakir Hussain was one of the greatest Tabla players of all time and worked with huge names, including George Harrison and Van Morrison.

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Indian music legend Zakir Hussain dies aged 73

Tabla player brought Indian classical music to the world, collaborating with greats like former Beatle George Harrison.

The Times of India

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passes away at 73: All you need to know about his family, career and legacy

Zakir Hussain, one of the most celebrated tabla virtuosos of all time, passed away at the age of 73 in San Francisco due to complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The news of his death, confirmed by his family on Monday, has sent waves of grief across the global music…

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Sir Paul McCartney says ‘it’s good to be back’ as UK leg of tour begins

The Beatles star played the Co-op Live arena in Manchester.

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