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Winged Beatle: Paul and Linda McCartney interviewed – archive, 15 July 1972

15 July 1972: The McCartneys talk about their plans to take new band Wings on the road, and their long-drawn affray with the other Beatles“Did you know,” whispered a pop cognoscente, “that the Beatles invented Scotch and Coke? No one drank it before...

The Beatles and Paul McCartney receive eight Emmy Awards nominations

The Beatles-related 2021 documentary series Get Back and McCartney 3,2,1 have been nominated for eight Emmy awards. The 2021 three-part series Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson from January 1969 footage, is nominated in five categories: Outstanding...

Paul McCartney live: Glastonbury Festival

Paul McCartney headlined the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 25 June 2022. Coming just days after McCartney celebrated his 80th birthday, the 2022 appearance made him the festival’s oldest ever headliner. The show took place 18 years since the...

Paul McCartney live: Cheese & Grain, Frome

Paul McCartney played a Glastonbury warm-up show at the Cheese & Grain in Frome, Somerset, on Friday 24 June 2022. It took place the evening before McCartney’s headlining show at Glastonbury Festival’s Pyramid Stage. ? @paulmccartney...

Sir Paul McCartney plays surprise pre-Glastonbury gig in Frome

Set at Cheese and Grain sold out in under an hour after being announced on Thursday nightSir Paul McCartney delivered a surprise performance the night before his Glastonbury festival headline set, which had caused traffic congestion as fans tried to...

Tributes paid to Paul McCartney on his 80th birthday

Celebrities, fans, and friends of Paul McCartney have been paying tribute to the musician on his 80th birthday. Thanks for all the lovely greetings and warm wishes for my birthday – Paul ? by Mary McCartney pic.twitter.com/FCLb162pJX — Pa...

Sir Ringo Starr among those wishing Sir Paul McCartney a happy 80th birthday

Ex-Beatle turned 80 on Saturday, days after a brief US tour which saw him joined on stage by Bruce SpringsteenSir Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen and Ronnie Wood were among stars who have been wishing Sir Paul McCartney a happy 80th birthday.The ex-Be...

All three McCartney albums to be reissued in box sets

Paul McCartney’s self-titled solo albums McCartney (1970), McCartney II (1980), and McCartney III (2020), are to be reissued in three limited edition box sets on 5 August 2022. There will be standard black vinyl and compact disc editions, plus...

Paul McCartney live: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

The sixteenth and final date of Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour took place at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. Two famous sons of New Jersey appeared as special guests. Bruce Springsteen led the band through a version of his 19...

‘The Beatles? I was more a fan of the Beach Boys’: Peter Blake at 90 on pop art and clubbing with the Fab Four

The groundbreaking artist documented the birth of youth culture and created the most famous album cover in history. Now with a new exhibition, he talks about what inspires him – from corn dollies to music hallsPeter Blake’s wife, Chrissy, is lovingly...

A picture in time: the Beatles arrive in Adelaide on their 1964 Australian tour

Hundreds of thousands of excited fans greeted the band in the staid South Australian capital at the peak of global BeatlemaniaWhen the Beatles arrived in Australia in 1964 for their first and only tour of the country, huge crowds greeted them everywh...

Paul McCartney live: Oriole Park, Baltimore, Maryland

The fifteenth and penultimate date of Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour took place at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. McCartney’s band was Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica),...

Ringo Starr live: Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, New Jersey

The tenth date of Ringo Starr’s 2022 tour of North America was a show at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. Starr’s band was Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart, and Edgar Winter...

Ringo Starr postpones US tour dates

Ringo Starr has postponed 12 dates of his All Starr Band tour of North America, after band members Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather tested positive for Covid-19. The remaining dates have been rescheduled for September 2022, when Starr is due to go bac...

The best films of 2022 so far

Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s filmsMore of 2022’s best culture so far70s-set romance from Paul Thomas Ander...