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“John, Paul and George looked like they had gone back in time, like they were kids again, playing together for the sheer enjoyment of it”: The joyful making of The Beatles’ life-affirming finale

The three-track cycle that concluded Abbey Road was structured to be a wrap-up of all they had achieved as a band

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“I have to think, ‘Wait a minute, everyone misses them.’ It’s not just me. So that makes me feel a bit better”: Paul McCartney on loss, early memories, cookies and his favourite emoji...

And the radio play that inspired Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

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‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’ll get through’

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“The Beatles might have made more music over a shorter period of time, but Kraftwerk has an ace up their sleeve”: Who has really been the most influential on the future of music, the Beatles or Kraftwerk?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who will be the fabbest of these four?

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The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band

This update of the 1995 documentary series is utterly authoritative. And its tweak of the Fab Four’s songs is a thing of wonder – their music absolutely thumps!

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“There's a tendency to misremember as ‘John Lennon was a rock ‘n’ roll badass and Paul was kind of like happy poppy guy,’ but Paul made the weirdest music”: Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney was just as experimental as any of the Beatles, and still is

“I went to his studio one time and he was literally like step sequencing a Moog keyboard to make the weirdest sounds I've ever heard," he recalls

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"It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people. After a while, I had to get out": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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"George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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"George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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10 classic albums that would be better if they were shorter, and how they should be shortened

Making great records greater, one edit at a time

Louder

The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"

Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”

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"Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles

After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

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Ranking the greatest Beatles songs, from No. 1 to No. 189 (updated with Now and Then)

We ranked every song the Beatles wrote, including their last one.

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"I didn't think it would be the last one. And nothing was said to indicate that, at least not to me": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

RECORDING WEEK 2023: A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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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…

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It’s back to school for the Tories

Brief letters: Improving the school system | Daily Mail use | Waxing lyrical | Dennis Waterman’s roles

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The Beatles song the band 'hated' recording

Almost every member of the band spoke of their frustrations with the song

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