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Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyricsA guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison in sessions for the al...

Pop is awash with nepo babies – Lennon and McCartney are just the latest. But why aren’t they better at it? | Simon Price

Other fields are plagued with famous people’s offspring too, yet musical genius seems particularly difficult to pass down the generationsTalent, sang Russell Mael of the band Sparks, is an asset. And that asset can be handed down from generation to g...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single

James McCartney’s acoustic ballad Primrose Hill, co-written with Sean Ono Lennon, was drawn from childhood vision in ScotlandThe most famous songwriting credit in history, Lennon-McCartney, has been resurrected – though for a song written by the Beat...

The 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary

While Wes Anderson’s nomination has caused mild controversy there is an enticing and eclectic mix of strong contenders worthy of the winOscars 2024 – live updatesThe portmanteau genre remains stubbornly alive, if only because awards season keeps on b...

Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies

Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineupJust when we were getting sick of the Marvel Cinematic Universe … Sam Mendes comes along with the Beatles Cinematic Universe. It’s a quar...

‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member

Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George HarrisonSam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of two of the most successful ever James Bond films, is to t...

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Tate Modern, LondonInviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this painstaking retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instruc...

In 1999, I said Yoko Ono’s art would never make it big. I was so wrong | Vanessa Thorpe

This week Tate Modern is presenting the largest ever exhibition of work by the woman I wrote off after interviewing herTwenty-five years ago, I predicted a low-key future for the world-famous person I had just excitedly interviewed; a woman once at t...

John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial review – Paul McCartney’s ambush by reporters is wildly odd

This look at the Beatle’s shooting and the legal investigation does justice to a profoundly strange moment – thanks to incredible archive footageIf the fundamental measure of a documentary series is how many first-hand witnesses it can recruit, John...

‘What drives a man to do this?’: re-examining the murder of John Lennon

In a new Apple docuseries covering the shocking murder of one of music’s most beloved figures, the life and motivations of his killer are placed under the spotlightThe production company 72 Films specializes in what the executive producer Rob Coldstr...

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story review – vivid snapshot of Lennon’s dysfunctional liaison

Documentary about May Pang, the woman with whom John Lennon had an affair during his marriage to Yoko Ono, reveals that Ono was pulling the stringsAs Yoko Ono enters her 90s, it is perhaps a tactless time to release a documentary about the woman with...

Yoko Ono: her 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As her album Feeling the Space turns 50, we appraise the best of a bold and often underestimated artist“I felt like soldiers were dying next to me,” said bassist Klaus Vormann of the scourging Ono-led improvisation that ended the Plastic Ono Band’s s...

More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then, Peter Jackson says

Get Back director who helped with AI technology that isolated John Lennon’s vocals in new single says there are more song fragments in archiveThe film-maker Peter Jackson has hinted at the possibility of more Beatles music to come after the release o...

The Beatles: Now and Then review – ‘final’ song is a poignant act of closure

(Apple)Lennon’s demo was abandoned in the 90s due to technical difficulties. With a little help from AI – and subtle new vocals from Paul McCartney – it becomes an affecting tribute to the band’s bondLast night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broad...