Category : John Lennon

Beatles memorabilia worth an estimated £6m goes for auction

Items include an archive from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 peace protest and a curious birthday card sent by George HarrisonAn archive of material from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 peace protest is among the items to be sold this month at one o...

From sorting fan mail to seeing Abbey Road being made: my life as a teenage Beatles employee

Merle Frimark was already a huge fan of the Fab Four when she started working for them. Here she recalls being in the room as they put the finishing touches on Come Together – and reveals her unseen snaps of her encounterOn the afternoon of 23 July 1...

Alice Cooper: The Beatles Would 'absolutely' Have Reunited If John Lennon Hadn't Been Murdered

Norman ‘Nobby’ Pilcher obituary

Drugs squad detective who arrested many famous rock stars in the 1960s, including John Lennon, Dusty Springfield and Brian JonesNorman “Nobby” Pilcher, whose death from cancer two years ago at the age of 85 has just been reported, was the drugs squad...

Liam Gallagher’s Satanic Alias! Singer Called Himself ‘Lou Cypher’ While On Tour With Oasis

‘It’s Beautiful And Moving!’ Ringo Starr Gushes About Upcoming ‘final’ Beatles Song Finished Using AI

Queen Legend Brian May Reveals Career 'regret'

Sir Ringo Starr Fan Of 'biggest Star In The World' Taylor Swift

Paul McCartney says there’s nothing artificial in new Beatles song made using AI

Musician clarifies how artificial intelligence was applied to vocals by John Lennon, amid anxiety over how the technology will affect musicPaul McCartney has clarified how artificial intelligence has been used to create a new Beatles song, saying tha...

Happy Birthday, Paul!

AI used to create new and final Beatles song, says Paul McCartney

Musician says he used technology to ‘extricate’ John Lennon’s voice from an old demo and complete a decades-old songA new and final Beatles recording using artificial intelligence will be released later this year, Sir Paul McCartney has announced.The...

‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play

The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National TheatreIn the mid-1960s, Beatlemania swept through the New York home of playwrigh...

‘Suddenly, we were in Wonderland’: Paul McCartney on his lost photos of Beatlemania

The pictures the singer took of his friends and bandmates give a Beatle’s-eye view of the mania around the band in 1964. Seen here for the first time, these extraordinary behind-the-scenes moments capture four young men on the brink of immortalitySom...

‘People will find out’: May Pang on her time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

In a new documentary, the woman who went from assistant to lover of the ex-Beatle talks about her side of a misunderstood storySmack in the middle of the 1970s, John Lennon experienced what he famously called a “lost weekend”, echoing the title of a...

Carol Sloman obituary

My friend Carol Sloman, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was a musician, actor, singer-songwriter and theatre director who took her array of talents to London’s West End, as well as a series of regional theatres.Perhaps her best known role was as Cynt...