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George Harrison Was Almost Sacked By The Beatles And Replaced By Eric Clapton

Unreleased John Lennon recording sells for £43,000 in Denmark

Song and interview were recorded by Danish schoolboys during Lennon and Yoko Ono’s stay in Thy in 1970A cassette tape recording of an interview by Danish schoolboys with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in which the Beatles star sings a previously unreleased...

Beatles on the brink: the truth about the Fab Four’s final days

The director’s new documentary weaves together hours of unseen footage to dispel many myths about the band’s final months. John Harris, who was involved in the project, tells the inside storyOn paper, the idea looked brilliant. In the opening weeks o...

Elvis the spy: was the King really spying on John Lennon for Richard Nixon?

According to Whispering Bob Harris, he was – and after all, he clearly had the skills to fake his own death Name: Elvis the spy.Age: Born 1935. Continue reading...

‘I was a hypocrite on the make’: unheard John Lennon interviews up for auction

Newly discovered tapes feature 91 minutes of fascinating discussion about Lennon’s favourite Beatles songs, his ardent love for Yoko Ono and being ‘possessed’ by fameA fascinating cache of mostly unheard interview tapes with John Lennon is up for auc...

Charlie Watts, Miles Davis, John and Yoko … and other David Bailey wonders – in pictures

The celebrated photographer will open up his archive for the first time at Photo London – with portraits of the Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Jerry Hall on display Continue reading...

John Lennon's Imagine To Celebrate 50th Anniversary With Special Party

Harmony, melancholy and the Everly Brothers’ indelible influence

From Neil Young to Keith Richards, a generation of musicians revered Phil and Don’s haunting music• US music star Don Everly dies aged 84Among the hundreds of hours of outtakes from the recording sessions that eventually became the Beatles’ Let It Be...

Two Rare Handwritten Beatles Setlists Set To Go Under The Hammer

Petula Clark: I Sang On Give Peace A Chance By Accident

Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art

When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response“What do you suppose is the effect intended to be of equip...

Rare Beatles Demo Goes To Auction

Rock sideman Earl Slick: ‘Bowie had gone levels into insanity’

He played through extreme drug-taking on Bowie’s Station to Station, and with Yoko Ono weeks after Lennon’s death. The guitarist explains why he’s great at backing legends – and terrible at selling timesharesIt’s not surprising that Earl Slick was in...