Category : Info générales

Julian Lennon: ‘I’m not part of the Beatles inner circle – I never have been’

The musician and photographer on escaping the shadow of his father, writing a memoir with a difference, and why his days of wallowing are overBorn in Liverpool, Julian Lennon, 61, was raised almost solely by his mother Cynthia, but has spent his adul...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson: ‘I couldn’t understand why Tom Ford wanted me to play a serial-killer rapist’

The actor answers your questions on his exercise regime, what he thinks of the AI John Lennon and which roles have changed himHow do you keep yourself so springy? I’d love to know more about whatever it is that has made you so physically capable. Ber...

‘It’s like having an affair’: Blackadder, the Beatles, Gavin & Stacey … the chemistry of successful writing duos

The long-awaited return of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s hit BBC sitcom represents the latest in a long line of successful creative duos. An author who writes with her husband examines why partnerships work so wellOn Christmas Day, fans will be treat...

John Lennon letter inviting Eric Clapton to join supergroup to be auctioned

1971 letter proposes group including Klaus Voormann and Phil Spector to ‘bring back the balls in rock’n’roll’John Lennon wanted Eric Clapton to join a supergroup alongside Phil Spector in the early 1970s in order to “bring back the balls in rock’n’ro...

We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me by Elliot Mintz review – life as a confidant, fixer… and flunky

Mintz’s account of his friendship with the endlessly compelling celebrity couple offers a fascinating insight into their psychodramas but is blunted by his obvious adoration of the pairIt is a truth almost universally acknowledged that what the avera...

The Beatles Recording Console Used For Abbey Road Is Going On Sale

Disney+ Confirm Details Of New Beatles Documentary

‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono

The director speaks about his documentary exploring the couple’s life after moving to New York in 1971From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem...

Joseph Quinn Cast As George Harrison In Beatles Biopics

New Beatles Doc 1964 To Mark 60 Years Since Beatlemania Hit The US

Simon Albury obituary

Producer and director who became a champion of the TV industry, founding the Campaign for Broadcasting EqualityThe television producer and director Simon Albury, who has died aged 80, went from making current affairs and music programmes to becoming...

Two of Us review – Lennon and McCartney come together for humdrum reunion

Watford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than dramaWhat went down during the penultimate face-to-face meeting between John Lennon, then a stay-at-home dad in gr...

One to One: John & Yoko review – fun, fierce, full-blooded portrait of Lennon and Ono

Venice film festival Kevin Macdonald’s surprising documentary catches a radioactively charismatic Lennon enjoying his rambunctious post-Beatles heyday in New YorkA fire alert disrupts the Venice screening of One to One: John & Yoko, Kevin Macdona...

Liverpool venue that hosted some of the Beatles’ earliest gigs turned into Airbnb

Fans can stay at the Casbah Coffee Club where the Quarrymen, who became the Beatles, had a residencyThey became the biggest band in the world, but without a dilapidated building in Liverpool, a lucky bet on a race horse and one woman’s ambitious drea...