Category : Beatles

Museum of Liverpool to host Lennon and Ono exhibition Double Fantasy

The Museum of Liverpool is to host an exhibition on John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Double Fantasy – John & Yoko will be free to enter, and will run from 18 May 2018 to 22 April 2019. It will contain art, music, and a range of artefacts and documents,...

Ken Dodd's other life – as a mega-selling singer of romantic ballads

The late comedian’s biggest hits weren’t novelty songs, but earnest romantic ballads that challenged psychedelic pop in a mid-60s generation-gap war From a distance, Ken Dodd’s musical career seems utterly bizarre. You could understand him having a c...

The Beatles – a teenage photographer's shots

Shots of The Beatles’ first US concerts are expected to sell for £250,000 ($347,000) at auction. Mike Mitchell, 18 at the time, snapped hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of the band’s performances at the Washington Coliseum and the Baltimore...

Got some old band T-shirts at home? You might be quids in …

A rare Led Zeppelin shirt fetched $10,000 – and others go for hundreds as nostalgic memorabilia market boomsThey may be tatty, beer-stained and full of holes, but band T-shirts from gigs enjoyed decades ago could be a nice little earner.A Led Zeppeli...

Debate over NME’s heyday | Letters

Readers respond to the closing of Britain’s most iconic music weeklyIn this age of instant access to information, it is difficult to appreciate how important the NME in its heyday was in introducing “generations of suburban teenagers” to the cultural...

Mega Producer Says Paul McCartney & Elton John Have Made “Too Many Albums”

With talk that Paul McCartney is gearing up to release a new album, revered UK mega producer Steve Lillywhite says that iconic artists such as McCartney and Elton John have made “too many albums”. Appearing on The Music’s latest Pr...

John Lennon’s Monkey Bike is auctioned for £56,000

John Lennon's Honda Monkey Bike motorcycle has sold for £56,250. The 1969 Honda Z50A Monkey Bike was auctioned at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull, England, by H&H Classics. It was the highest price paid at auction for this type of mot...

Mercedes formerly owned by ex-Beatle George Harrison heads to auction

A cherished Mercedes-AMG luxury limo is set to make as much as £40,000 when it heads to auction next month. Presented in very good condition with stacks of history, the rare ‘bahnstormer also benefits from a very special former owner – ex-Beatl...

Beatles parody band The Rutles announce 2018 tour

Veteran Beatles parodists The Rutles have announced a rare UK tour for May and June. Original members Neil Innes (AKA Ron Nasty) and John Halsey (AKA Barrington Womble) will be joined by ‘Rutling’ Ken Thornton, Phil Jackson and Jay Goodrich....

Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'

Record producer takes swipes at the Beatles, the ‘machiavellian’ Michael Jackson, U2 and moreLegendary record producer Quincy Jones has described the Beatles as “the worst musicians in the world” as he recalled meeting the band for the first time dur...

Hidden tracks: the unreleased music from major stars we may never hear

News of ‘mind-blowing’ Prince music on the way isn’t the first time rumors of posthumous unheard songs have been teased from beyond the graveWhen a beloved artist passes away, after the deluge of superlatives and retrospectives subsides, bereaved fan...

Sixties model Pattie Boyd says George Harrison was true love, despite affair with Eric Clapton

from London’s Daily Mirror……….. The woman who epitomized the swinging sixities has spoken of what it was like to be at the heart of music’s most toxic love triangle. Rock chick Pattie Boyd , the sixties model who was married t...

Sixties model Pattie Boyd says George Harrison was true love

from London’s Daily Mirror Rock chick Pattie Boyd, the sixties model who was married to George Harrison and had an affair with Eric Clapton, has spoken of what it was like to be at the heart of music’s most toxic love triangle. The woman who op...

Revealed: lucky break that led lovelorn traveller to a fling in India with the Beatles

A broken heart took a young Canadian to the river Ganges’ banks – and the shots of a lifetimeTrees and vines grow through the crumbling terraces of Rishikesh. Yet 50 years ago the former ashram above the Ganges was the fulcrum of a major shift in pop...

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