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‘Hundreds contact appeal in 24 hours’ to help find missing McCartney guitar

The bass was purchased for £30 in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961 by Sir Paul and been used during his time with The Beatles.

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney: Worldwide search launched for missing Beatles 1961 Höfner guitar

Instrument, used on some of The Beatles’ most loved hits, disappeared in the Sixties

The Independent UK

Help! Beatles icon Paul McCartney’s missing bass guitar could be ‘worth £10m’

Hundreds contact appeal in 24 hours after hashtag #tracingthebass was set up to help track it down

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“My mum said, ‘What about the drink and drugs and wild women?’ I said, ‘That‘s what I want to do this for!’”: the life and times of Bernie Marsden, British blues-rock‘s secret weapon

In 2020, Classic Rock sat down with late ex-Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden to talk fistfights with UFO, patching things up with David Coverdale and meeting James Bond

Louder

Former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden has died, aged 72

Marsden was a giant of blues and rock guitar, with a formidable guitar collection and an even more formidable style

MusicRadar

Keir Starmer’s days as a heartthrob barrister before politics revealed

Sir Keir’s ‘brawny bod’ drew comment on the Your Barrister Boyfriend blog a decade ago

Evening Standard

John Lennon wanted to produce them, Pat Metheny said he wouldn’t have played jazz fusion without them, and Rick Wakeman claimed he played the greatest organ solo ever: Rod Argent looks back on his time with the Zombies and Argent

Rod Argent was the founding member of The Zombies and Argent and collaborated with some of the best-known names in music, including Phil Collins and The Who. And now the Zombies are reanimated and ready for another bite of success…

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The 20 most underrated Beatles songs

Even The Beatles’ most overlooked songs are better than many other bands’ best numbers

Louder

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr team up with Dolly Parton on Let It Be

Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton also joined country star on her cover of the Beatles’ 1970 hit

The Guardian - UK

Listen: Dolly & Beatles cover Let It Be

The country star releases her new rock album in November, with this single as one of the tracks

Salon

Top marks for Sgt Pepper

Letter: Reader John Major should have known better when he ripped off the Beatles’ lyrics for a homework assignment

The Guardian - UK

"I mean, seriously, how much better does it get?" Dolly Parton on her version of The Beatles' iconic Let It Be, featuring Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood

Listen to Let It Be, the new single from Dolly Parton's eagerly awaited rock album Rockstar

Louder

‘I’d rather rewatch a bad film than a classic’: The science behind our comfort movies

Chris Harvey has watched Richard Curtis’s mushy Beatles movie ‘Yesterday’ four times – but could only sit through Todd Field’s Oscar nominee ‘Tár’ once. He investigates what it is about certain films that keeps us coming back for more

The Independent UK

"Nobody with any sense would pay and queue for a ticket just to stand on a seat and scream and not hear one sound from the stage": it turns out George Harrison's mum had her doubts about The Beatles

Mrs Harrison's thought's about her son's career are revealed in letters to be auctioned later this month

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"The worst track we ever had to record" – why 3/4 of the Beatles hated Maxwell's Silver Hammer

No Paul McCartney song ever incurred the joint wrath of Lennon, Harrison and Starr quite like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Here’s why…

Zenger

Myth-busting Outtake From The Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ Shoot On Sale

Beatles fans from around the world - and there are a few of them - will be queuing up to bid on this.

Metal Hammer

The 10 best cover songs by Ghost

Metallica, Tina Turner, Abba – here are 10 times Ghost completely owned someone else’s song

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Unseen photo from The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album cover shoot to go to auction

The unseen photo from the album cover shoot is said to address a long-standing rumour.

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Photo that solves Sgt Pepper McCartney mystery up for auction

Rumours that musician was not present for album photoshoot are proved false, say UK auctioneers

Evening Standard

BBC confirms sale of its legendary Maida Vale Studios as it plans move to Stratford

The Oscar-winning composer recalls the “awe” of working for the legendary London studios 45 years ago

The Independent UK

Myth-busting outtake photo from The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper shoot up for auction

Photo is part of a press release for the unreleased Beatles album ‘Sessions’ and could fetch up to £10,000

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: woman at centre of mushroom poisoning speaks; and Mark Latham dumped as NSW One Nation head

Victorian woman told police she also went to hospital after eating the meal, which killed three and left another hospitalised

The Week

Screaming Beatles fans embarrassed George Harrison’s mother

George Harrison’s mother once wrote that screaming Beatles fans made her “really ashamed” she was female, The Times reported. In a letter in 1963, Louise Harrison told a teenager about hysterical scenes she witnessed at a gig in Manchester. “I was really disgusted at the way the so-called fans just screamed…

The Independent UK

George Harrison’s mother ‘ashamed I was female’ after watching Beatles fans

Letters from Louise Harrison to teenager Janet Gray in the 1960s are being put up for sale.

The Guardian - UK

Letters from George Harrison’s mum reveal her horror at Beatles fans

Louise Harrison wrote of her disgust at screaming fans in letters to be sold at annual Liverpool Beatles Auction

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