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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - Caught on Camera

International Beatleweek: How The Beatles continue to influence fashion trends

From military jackets to mod suits.

The Independent UK

"We were getting more talented and George began to write lots of songs… he was lucky to get a track on an album." The lost 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on the Beatles' split when they insisted Michael Parkinson wore a black sack over his head

"It's total communication if you're in the bag"

MusicRadar

Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues

The Guardian - UK

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All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckraker

In this ‘director’s cut’ of their 1983 book, which Paul McCartney burned, a former Beatles employee and a music writer appear preoccupied with stirring up scandal around the band’s split

The Guardian - UK

“We didn’t realize we were breaking up as it was happening”: The Beatles intended to go back to their roots on Let It Be – instead, they documented the collapse of their magical creative partnership

A mix of rootsy, spirited rockers, stunning ballads, and unfocused jams, Let It Be captured the Fab Four looking to find their footing as a group again

Guitar World

Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

MusicRadar

Hotel Owner Reveals How She Gave Up Her Bed For The Beatles As A Teen

Guests love to think they are sleeping in the same beds as John and Ringo

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The bizarre story behind The Beatles logo

The design's road to fame was long (and winding).

Creative Bloq

Beatles manager Brian Epstein's first London home on sale for £8.75m

Mayfair home was later sold to Thatcher era Cabinet minister Norman St John-Stevas

Evening Standard

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage

How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

MusicRadar

Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

MusicRadar

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 review – watching the world change, almost overnight

Eyes of the Storm, which collects McCartney’s pictures taken as the Beatles’ fame went stratospheric, record a pivotal moment in pop culture

The Guardian - UK

‘John Lennon was violent. He’d fight about anything’: the inside story of Merseybeat, the UK’s early pop explosion

Early 1960s Liverpudlian pop may have been dominated by the Beatles, but it was a thriving scene whose acts filled the charts. Its artists explain why wild success gave way to heartbreaking failure

The Guardian - UK

'Sad irony' at closing theatre that is a 'little home from home'

"Liverpool needs The Epstein"

Liverpool Echo

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Louder

"I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy

How John Lennon took an amazing x-rated story – told to him at an orgy – and turned it into part of a psychedelic masterpiece

MusicRadar

One of the earliest live recordings of the Beatles emerges 60 years later, but will we ever get to hear it?

John Bloomfield was a teenager at the all-boys Stowe boarding school in 1963 when the Fab Four came to play, and after all these years, he reveals to the BBC that he recorded the set

Louder

An hour-long recording of The Beatles playing at a Buckinghamshire boarding school in 1963 has just been unearthed

It was 60 years ago today

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #78: Why just getting Beyoncé tickets felt like a massive cultural event

In this week’s newsletter: I fell to my knees when my confirmation email hit, knowing I will get my chance to witness the Renaissance tour – that’s the power of the stadium gig

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Nottingham Post

Memories of the 'little-known' Beatles' first appearance in Nottingham

We speak to the man who bought the first ticket

Liverpool Echo

Tragedy made John Lennon realise the Beatles were doomed

By the late 1960s cracks were beginning to show in the fabric of the Fab Four

Salon

George's impact on the Beatles sound

Lennon/McCartney in studio "left little space for George, and it became a bit frustrating," says Pattie Boyd

Liverpool Echo

Forrest Gump chocolate box sells for £20,500 in time for Valentine's Day

The prop was signed by Tom Hanks

Liverpool Echo

Who was Derek Taylor - former ECHO man who gave the final word on Beatles' split

Derek Taylor was first invited into the fab four's inner circle by Brian Epstein

Liverpool Echo

Moment John Lennon 'knew the Beatles were over'

The band would split in 1970, but John Lennon traced the breakup back to years earlier

The Independent UK

Star news producer vanishes after FBI raids his Arlington home

‘He contacted me in the spring, and was really distraught, and told me that he had some serious personal issues going on,’ co-author says

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