Category : Beatles

You say you want a sexual revolution: why 1967 is the year pop came out

Fifty years ago, homosexuality was decriminalised – and pop was never the same again. From Dusty and Motown to Mick Jagger and the Kinks, here are the songs, scenes, clubs and clothes that liberated BritainIn one of his very last acts as Beatles mana...

Sgt Pepper’s Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall review – what I knew didn’t even scratch the surface

Think you know about the Beatles’ defining album? This brilliant documentary will give you a whole new perpective. Plus: Nordic noir, Canadian-style, in CardinalIt was 50 years ago today … actually, it was 50 years ago last Thursday. You would think...

From Sgt Pepper to the sublime: in praise of Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral at 50

Its opening coincided with the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album and the publication of the poetry anthology The Mersey Sound. Half a century on, the famous wigwam continues to inspireI see it every day, straight ahead, as I drive down Hope St...

This week’s best radio: the woman who ran away to Mexico

The remarkable life of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Radio 4’s book of the week. Plus: the faces of the Sgt Pepper artwork discuss the albumThe Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington (Weekdays, 9.45am, Radio 4) is Joanna Moorhead’s acco...

The new Beatles’ dazzler: Sgt Pepper reviewed - archive, June 1967

The Beatles are forgetting their ability to write tunes is Guardian critic Edward Greenfield’s verdict on Sgt Pepper, while the Observer’s George Melly feels there is a ‘tendency to overdo the curry powder’Alan Johnson’s Sgt Pepper pilgrimage: “It wa...

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper at 50: A track by track analysis

It was the first rock album with printed lyrics, the first with a fold-out cover, the first to win a “Best Album” Grammy. It may be the most influential record in pop history, and the best-loved. It changed the d...

One Hundred Years of Solitude, 50 years on

Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal saga was published two days before Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, heralding the ‘summer of love’A rural Colombian epic written in Mexico City and published in Buenos Aires, One Hundred Years of So...

Pepperland review – Mark Morris's Lonely Hearts Club dancers are a dream

Royal Court, LiverpoolUsing a bold new score from Ethan Iverson, the choreographer has created a gorgeously entertaining and witty tribute to the classic Beatles albumWith Mark Morris it always starts with the music. His new work Pepperland has been...

The Beatles: Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary Edition review – peace, love and rock star ennui

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band gets a muscular remix in this heritage outing for an album that seems as much about panic as hippy-era optimismIn 1987, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on CD for the first time. It was, by some c...

Judy Chicago on the Beatles: 'They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom'

For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doingWhen American artist Judy Chicago accepted...

This is why Brian Epstein Billboards are appearing Around the City

Posters and signs dedicated to the late Beatles manager are being spotted across Liverpool by Ellen Kirwin The Liverpool Echo dpc_watchdog_violation windows 10 & If you have been out and about in the city today you may have noticed to posters an...

The 10 best things to do this week: Annie, Hay festival and Killology

Miranda Hart plays a spiteful orphanage owner, literature’s finest minds meet in Wales and the Royal Court parses out an apocalyptic futureAnnie the MusicalIn a break from her usual bumbling, oops-I-fell-over type, comedy actor Miranda Hart will play...

Rare Behind-The-Scenes Footage Of The Beatles’ ‘Help!’ Surfaces, And You Have To See It To Believe It!

If you ever wondered what The Beatles were like when the camera wasn’t rolling, now is your chance. Being the biggest band in the world seems to be a tall task to live up to, but it turns out that behind-the-scenes, these four British rockstars were...

Paul McCartney is Seriously in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and his Pirate Transformation is Epic!

Paul McCartney is seriously in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and his pirate transformation is epic More Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for a Beatle! Prepare yourselves for some major news: Paul McCartney is actually in Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes,...

Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth – review

Hepworth’s lively study of rock’s greatest stars, from Little Richard to Kurt Cobain, underlines how much the music industry has changedIn Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars, music writer, presenter and author of 1971: Never a Dull...