Tag : The Beatles

Tag: The Beatles

John Lennon guitar sells for $2.9m, breaking Beatles auction record

Lennon’s 12-string Hootenanny, heard on Help! album and film, had not been seen or played for half a centuryA guitar used by John Lennon has sold for $2.9m (£2.3m), setting what organisers have called a new world record for the highest-selling guitar...

Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody BluesThe last surviving original member of the Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, who has died aged 82, became an influential force in progressive rock as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...