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The Beatles Quiz: How much do you know about Help!?

A chance to test your knowledge of one of the most pivotal chapters in The Beatles' story

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'I feel that it's a competition between them...' Brian May questions Sam Mendes' plan for four Beatles' films

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is worried, as a Beatles fan, that the Sam Mendes' four films about the band members will feel "that it's a competition between them".

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Paul Mescal credits Beatles films with giving him 'stability'

Actor Paul Mescal has admitted he's "so thrilled" to be working on Sir Sam Mendes' series of films about the Beatles because working in London on the long-term project has given him "stability" after a "mad six, seven years".

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Alec Baldwin Claims the Beatles Members John Lennon, Paul McCartney 'Were in Love'

Alec Baldwin just fueled speculations about the real relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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The Guide #225: Everyone loves an origin story: Guardian debuts, from the Beatles to Donkey Kong

In the first of a new series, we’re digging into the archives to find the first fleeting mentions of pop-culture’s great and good. But who’s this little lady?

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Paul Mescal reveals he will sing as Paul McCartney in Beatles films

The Hamnet actor will appear as the Beatles star in four films directed by Sir Sam Mendes.

Evening Standard

Sting is thankful to The Beatles for inspiring songwriters to try

Sting's touring guitarist Dominic Miller has revealed the singer and he have discussed the importance of The Beatles in inspiring generations of songwriters to try and craft tracks.

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“Like Bach, I think the Beatles are some of the only composers that you can play badly and it still sounds good”: Sting guitarist Dominic Miller on why the Beatles' harmonies are “indestructible”

Miller has recently released a songbook that sees some of the most beloved Beatles tunes come to life with solo guitar arrangements

Guitar World

’I inexplicably detest Mr Brightside’: John Simm’s honest playlist

The actor first realised what music was when he heard Yellow Submarine and knows a lot of Paul Simon lyrics, but what would he put on at a party?

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Six great reads – best of 2025: Netflix’s algorithm; bonding over the Beatles and the ascent of MrBeast

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here is part two of our favourites from 2025

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Songs about new beginnings – ranked!

From CMAT and the Carpenters’ fresh starts to the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun and Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, starting again is a rich theme in pop. Here are some of the best examples

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“I was broke. I only had $200 and we booked a gig. There was this guitar at a pawn shop that had been there for years...” How George Thorogood stumbled across the Gibson that became his go-to guitar – a week before his first gig with the Destroyers

Thorogood recounts how he originally opted for a now-discontinued hollowbody – with a little inspiration from the Beatles and Keith Richards

Guitar World

Beatles biopic star admits to surprising lack of knowledge about iconic band

Mia McKenna-Bruce says she couldn't even name the band members and that their music ’wasn't my jam’

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Mia McKenna-Bruce: I couldn’t name The Beatles before joining biopic movie

The 28-year-old said the 1960s rock-and-roll band ‘wasn’t my jam’.

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"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what it's like to be in a stadium filled with people singing War Pigs

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“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

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"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

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Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...

Folk-rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

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Sean Ono Lennon is worried that younger generations will forget about The Beatles

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon is fearful that younger generations could forget about The Beatles and his father's musical legacy.

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The Divisive Beatles Movie Musical Is Finding New Appreciation on Social Media

Come to the Beatles, stay for Bono.

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“I bought my first Höfner bass in the ’60s. I have loved it ever since”: Paul McCartney pays tribute to Höfner as the legendary German brand’s future hangs in the balance

Having played a Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass since 1961, the Beatles icon is saddened to learn of the German brand's plight

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‘Beatlemania wasn’t like Taylor Swift — it came out of nowhere, like a meteorite’

Sean Ono Lennon has a timely festive message in his Oscar-winning film inspired by his parents’ song, Happy Xmas (War is Over) — and a thumbs-up to the actor who’s about to play his dad

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"We were just tired, so we were like, 'Let's go live together in a cabin and take psychedelics', because that'll help, I guess." How The Beatles inspired one of emo's breakout bands to completely reinvent themselves

After taking the world by storm with their debut, Panic! At The Disco looked to the greats for inspiration for their next move

Guitar World

Höfner, the famed instrument maker behind Paul McCartney’s iconic Violin Bass, reportedly files for bankruptcy

The firm was founded in 1887, and designed the legendary Violin Bass that became Macca’s go-to in the Beatles and beyond

International Business Times UK

How Taylor Swift's 95 Weeks Atop Charts Built $1.6B Fortune Only The Beatles Can Match

Taylor Swift's 95 weeks atop the Billboard 200 made her the first musician billionaire from music alone. Only The Beatles' 132-week record stands between her and chart immortality.

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