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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ “A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko” ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ksAtqM97RKNtBYgKqGJThV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I was never a huge Beatles fan. But I learned recently that John Lennon said that it’s the one song he wished he would have written”: The disco classic that sold 11 million copies and influenced famous songs by Lennon and ABBA ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ How the leader of KC And The Sunshine Band created a perfect floor-filler ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Elliott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JrwemfjEwLytqyeHqavKaV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Beth Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/symhfwPx8sG2gma7kxQUvg-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "Lot after lot, we felt like we were making history”: John Lennon’s Broadwood piano goes for a record-breaking $3.3 million ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ He used it to write A Day In The Life ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hfxBPyZcgmD2DMVY7p7sbM-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, TX - DECEMBER 09:  Displayed in public for the first time is John Lennon&#039;s piano, used to write numerous Beatles songs and part of Indianapolis Colts CEO and Owner Jim Irsay&#039;s &quot;Jim Irsay Collection&quot; during a reception at the Four Seasons Hotel on December 9, 2021 in Austin, Texas.  (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[AUSTIN, TX - DECEMBER 09:  Displayed in public for the first time is John Lennon&#039;s piano, used to write numerous Beatles songs and part of Indianapolis Colts CEO and Owner Jim Irsay&#039;s &quot;Jim Irsay Collection&quot; during a reception at the Four Seasons Hotel on December 9, 2021 in Austin, Texas.  (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music” ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dcqPUG7PPUBvHhY4MXx8i4-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Lennon was clutching the tape of the final mix from this session as he and Yoko left for the Dakota: The story of John Lennon’s final creative act ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The lyrics to this left-field song would prove tragically prophetic ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:02:31 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CyMpRX9gmZcu5KkGXrcuHh-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “Yoko would call us down into her office in Studio One. And John and I would be standing there like two school children": What did producer Jack Douglas do to provoke the ire of Yoko Ono? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ She threatened to hire Spector for Double Fantasy ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Singles And Albums]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nY92imzhg7SdLWaPkK2ckQ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “John called us and said he thought that we were the best stuff that he had heard since the Beatles… To hear that from John Lennon was like, ‘What?’ It was a wonderful compliment”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s smash-hit Beatles collab with John Lennon ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jonathan Horsley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mkhw4wiFVzug3L6VdPMuM7-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I hadn’t stopped from ’62 till ’73 – on demand continuously. And walking away was hard… because I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: The cosmic inspiration and bitter irony in one of John Lennon’s last and most poignant songs ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:29:39 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XGQXFmw3LzH83KfybDS2JZ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "OK, let’s put it out”: John Lennon originally wanted to “just throw away” Walls and Bridges and had to be persuaded to release it ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Long lost interview also reveals his battles with the Nixon administration ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:10:17 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:10:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wTHCqbotR62JSx6ncVYYPH-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Lennon&#039;s last live performance on the ABC tv special Salute to Sir Lew - part of a legal settlement with Lew Grade - at the Grand Hilton Hotel, April 1975]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[John Lennon performing live in his last public performance on the ABC tv special &#039;Salute to Sir Lew - The Master Showman&#039; at the Grand Hilton Hotel]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “We decided that our audiences would come along with us, rather than it being down to us to feed them a conventional diet”: Paul McCartney on how the '60s avant-garde influenced the Beatles ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ I Am The Walrus drew from John Cage ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:18:35 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Recording]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KC5KGTk8JQ5GWdx6QArwTj-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “People may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him”: Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon announce new Lennon box set ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Power To The People covers early New York years ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Recording]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3TRWjXc882DXNKJ93Hij4Y-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded  ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.musicradar.com/artists/george-martin-came-up-to-me-that-morning-and-said-oh-ive-got-a-poser-for-you-i-know-its-never-been-done-before-can-you-do-it-the-story-of-the-greatest-thing-the-beatles-ever-recorded</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/h54AtCQsi4pH9cUn6mCEx8-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “When I asked him what he thought of what I was doing, glam rock, he said, ‘Yeah, it’s great, but it’s just rock ’n’ roll with lipstick on!’”: How David Bowie and John Lennon bonded to create a funky No.1 hit that slammed celebrity culture ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ “We spent hours and hours discussing fame," Bowie said ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8v7BYgsjiPDBKgR3NP7DtS-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded  ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.musicradar.com/artists/john-said-i-dont-know-where-to-go-from-here-so-paul-said-well-ive-got-this-other-song-ive-been-working-on-they-joined-the-two-bits-together-to-make-one-song-the-story-of-the-greatest-thing-the-beatles-ever-recorded</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 14:03:06 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 12 May 2025 17:23:02 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u98LBSKmafrbwBoJ32KqoJ-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people. After a while, I had to get out": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:02:54 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:43:10 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Joe Bosso ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7UvKxSHFY4FC6XXmiJ3t3b-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music” ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:49:16 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:00:05 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dcqPUG7PPUBvHhY4MXx8i4-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “A fitting tribute to an artist who would have celebrated his 85th birthday”: John Lennon to be honoured with a commemorative coin ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ All you need is... £18.50 ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dPMHT2uiKP4rxE5uACMYpV-1280-80.jpg">
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                            <![CDATA[ Film covers couple’s early years in New York ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Artists]]></category>
                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XnhdHbNqAzUxwNCpiaYFEC-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “We are convinced that we will inspire many Beatles fans all over the world with this beautiful acoustic guitar”: Framus reissues John Lennon’s record-breaking $2.86m “Help!” Hootenanny 12-string ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Framus unveils a period-correct replica of the most expensive Beatles instrument sold at auction, the 12-string that Lennon played on Help! and Rubber Soul – and there’s a six-string too ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:20:24 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitars]]></category>
                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jonathan Horsley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nL53QrukYLcWS9sS3GnBFH-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed, up and out tomorrow": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:10:49 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ will.groves@futurenet.com (Will Groves) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Groves ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ckz3RvHbyNNsuLrTwgeYXc-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I remember it to this day, you know, exactly where I was when he said it": Paul McCartney's favourite song he's ever written is possibly the only one John Lennon ever complimented him on directly  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Best of 2024: "It really gave me a lot of confidence in that song, and in my writing" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitarists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LRNfoDxADrzvtLDB5pm2WA-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I know I can bring out something great in you... I hope to bring out the same kind of greatness in all of us”: Newly unearthed Lennon letter to Clapton reveals plans for supergroup ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Ex-Beatle hoped group would “bring the balls back in rock 'n’ roll” ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XwLcnT5xTnEgX8VZpa5qc4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Bands]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Joe Bosso ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aTksBk3NXoqPYwXu46LDjW-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “He felt the Rolling Stones got the adulation and respect that ‘The Mop Tops’ didn’t... he would get really angry about it, and call them ‘the Rolling Pebbles’”: Lennon’s '70s confidant tells fascinating story of the ex-Beatle's competitive streak ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Elliot Mintz was one of the few people who knew Lennon during the late 70s ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:18:44 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:39:30 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8a3Tgh5TAAZKzozLZhAVpV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “John Lennon’s death had a huge effect on me. He was the one who invited me to drink with The Beatles”: How Foreigner’s Mick Jones connected with a hero ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The guitarist experienced Beatlemania first-hand ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:52:57 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitarists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Elliott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PZ67ZYUwXFqRB4gw3Yi6nh-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Mick Jones of Foreigner, 1981]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Mick Jones of Foreigner, 1981]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "The idea of gamifying the Mind Games album has manifested as an incredible limited edition speaker and radio": Sean Ono Lennon and Teenage Engineering launch tribute OB-4 for $999 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Sean Lennon and Teenage Engineering launch new Mind Games OB-4 ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:12:45 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mfnfAP9neapu9diFixjd4g-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I was considered an ugly woman who took your monument away... some of his closest friends told me that probably I should stay in the background, I should shut up”: New Lennon doc throws light on the prejudice Yoko Ono faced ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.musicradar.com/artists/singers-songwriters/john-lennon-yoko-ono-one-to-one</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ New documentary throws light on early years of Lennon's time in New York ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:52:14 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:09:54 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NFEfyCM88QzawATTkWkp9k-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “It was like going back 60 years... You can imagine what it would have sounded like in the Cavern”: Could this be Lennon’s first Vox? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Could this rediscovered AC15 be Lennon's first Vox amp? ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:48:19 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitar Amps]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Y9BFb9TQ2UXR4Hs9BWARyh-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Beatles original amp?]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Beatles original amp?]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:26:32 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AB7EAmsHoPB3MKGoqvXYST-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[George Harrison of The Beatles pop group pictured at the Apple Headquarters in London, 2nd January 1969]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[George Harrison of The Beatles pop group pictured at the Apple Headquarters in London, 2nd January 1969]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Getting better: 5 key ways the Beatles can help improve your guitar playing  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The school of George, John and Paul is in session ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitarists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leigh Fuge ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QcyYdfQcEFgEdTetsgTfb3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[English Rock Band The Beatles, from left Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr performing on the Television Variety Series, &quot;The Ed Sullivan Show&quot;, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, February 1964]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[English Rock Band The Beatles, from left Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr performing on the Television Variety Series, &quot;The Ed Sullivan Show&quot;, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, February 1964]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "The Beatles were never afraid to experiment with their chord choices inside songs": here are 4 to inspire your guitar playing  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ While my Am7/G gently weeps ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:03:55 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitarists]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leigh Fuge ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dJ8FhvWvvaTZnkzirs3eVd-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[From left, George Harrison (playing a Gretsch 6119 Tennessean guitar with Bigsby vibrato) and John Lennon (playing a Rickenbacker 325 guitar) of English rock and pop group The Beatles perform together on stage for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) music television show &#039;Shindig!&#039; at Granville Studios in Fulham, London on 3rd October 1964. The band would go on to play three songs on the show, Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey!, I&#039;m a Loser and Boys.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[From left, George Harrison (playing a Gretsch 6119 Tennessean guitar with Bigsby vibrato) and John Lennon (playing a Rickenbacker 325 guitar) of English rock and pop group The Beatles perform together on stage for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) music television show &#039;Shindig!&#039; at Granville Studios in Fulham, London on 3rd October 1964. The band would go on to play three songs on the show, Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey!, I&#039;m a Loser and Boys.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "It's very hard for people to understand how monolithic it was, looking at it today. But it was absolutely earthshaking": Was 9 February 1964 the most important day in rock 'n' roll history?  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "It was kind of like an alien invasion" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:38:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:51:50 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2ExKk9c5zaYvkJvKbBA4be-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[American television host Ed Sullivan (center) talks, with the members of British rock group the Beatles, on the set of his television variety series, &#039;The Ed Sullivan Show&#039; at CBS&#039;s Studio 50, New York, New York, February 9, 1964. Pictured are, from left, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Sullivan, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. The photo was taken during prior to the group&#039;s debut performance on the show later that day]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[American television host Ed Sullivan (center) talks, with the members of British rock group the Beatles, on the set of his television variety series, &#039;The Ed Sullivan Show&#039; at CBS&#039;s Studio 50, New York, New York, February 9, 1964. Pictured are, from left, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Sullivan, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. The photo was taken during prior to the group&#039;s debut performance on the show later that day]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "We were getting more talented and George began to write lots of songs… he was lucky to get a track on an album." The lost 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on the Beatles' split when they insisted Michael Parkinson wore a black sack over his head  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "It's total communication if you're in the bag" ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vDca2bpYArGjN4rM9VMavg-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “Like finding a lost Rembrandt or Picasso... It still looks and plays like a dream”: Lennon’s Framus acoustic is sold for $2.9 million ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Lennnon's Framus is sold for $2.9 million ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 14:17:53 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 May 2024 16:26:16 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Simpson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rPQRLYtAfwXNYBJT8Nqcee-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain": The Beatles' greatest b-side was ahead of its time, but it also exposed a difference of perspective between Lennon and McCartney  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LkeVKCvzfjiosiQgAmLGtC-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding. I just thought 'Christ, what have I done? Now we’re in for it'": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970 ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:31:07 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:13:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ will.groves@futurenet.com (Will Groves) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Groves ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bysrnQ3SmZwn8ezL2BsuPb-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'At his musical core, John Lennon had a wonderful way with chords': Here are 4 of his Beatles voicings and guitar rhythm ideas to inspire you  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ All my strumming, I will send to you ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitar Chords]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leigh Fuge ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DrRs8WUqeZiSchnv885ucN-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[John Lennon (1940-1980) of English rock and pop group The Beatles plays his second Rickenbacker 325 guitar on stage during rehearsals for the ABC Television music television show &#039;Thank Your Lucky Stars&#039; Summer Spin at Teddington Studios in London on 11th July 1964. The band would go on to play four songs on the show, A Hard Day&#039;s Night, Long Tall Sally, Things We Said Today and You Can&#039;t Do Tha]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[John Lennon (1940-1980) of English rock and pop group The Beatles plays his second Rickenbacker 325 guitar on stage during rehearsals for the ABC Television music television show &#039;Thank Your Lucky Stars&#039; Summer Spin at Teddington Studios in London on 11th July 1964. The band would go on to play four songs on the show, A Hard Day&#039;s Night, Long Tall Sally, Things We Said Today and You Can&#039;t Do Tha]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "Songwriting for me, at the time of Rubber Soul, was a bit frightening because John and Paul had been writing since they were three years old": How The Beatles raised their game in 1965 to create a masterpiece that "broke everything open"  ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-beatles-rubber-soul-album</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Beatles' sixth album Rubber Soul was a colossal creative leap and marked the point at which albums began to be viewed as works of real artistic merit ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:34:36 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:24:25 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ neil.crossley@futurenet.com (Neil Crossley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sFnw37fnWCJd2gxegGNdE5-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Four fab Beatles biopics are on the way: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr will each get a full Sam Mendes movie ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Oscar-nominated Bond and American Beauty director aiming to "challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:32:59 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:41:57 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ will.groves@futurenet.com (Will Groves) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Groves ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ETq4X2fGn2iKfvGMKJDzrW-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been" ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.” ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:51:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ will.groves@futurenet.com (Will Groves) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Groves ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zK3S5o22YDLbxAEsrhV9LB-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How to play like John Lennon: 4 key guitar lessons from the early Beatles era ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.musicradar.com/how-to/john-lennon-beatles-guitar-lesson</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Remembering an often underrated guitarist ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:14:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Guitar Lessons &amp; Tutorials]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Total Guitar ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/g56r6btj2NvMYv7LbpqD2k-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:17:47 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ will.groves@futurenet.com (Will Groves) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Will Groves ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ckz3RvHbyNNsuLrTwgeYXc-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ John Lennon's 10 greatest songs with the Beatles and beyond, ranked by you ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ On the anniversary of his death we're revisiting your ranking of on John's finest songs ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:55:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:56:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ MusicRadar ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VqvESzHbhM5FJUFdAWBg3g-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What if John Lennon had written Now And Then with The Beatles in 1964? A musician using AI has the answer  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ And it's good! ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X7N4Wmy3mkKokpU3veiDNP-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist… ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:02:35 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:16:54 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Andy Jones ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kCGaWFwekFNnvAyk862pvA-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live… ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:40:21 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:17:54 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Neil Crossley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Htd3z6ED2v4wDHnnYNyeA3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "They stole our ideas" – John Lennon on the Yellow Submarine film and the unexpected Beatles recording of its soundtrack song, Hey Bulldog ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "We had nothing to do with that movie" ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:48:26 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:04:23 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rob Laing ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hRqCGhMxDcU8mRS6RvKGW-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Ringo Starr confirms George Harrison features on new Beatles song, adds that they would “never” recreate John Lennon’s voice using AI ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Fab Four drummer weighs in on the AI confusion surrounding The Beatles’ un-named, forthcoming new song ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stuart Williams ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MeX4isDXmymbNjMeEuv83K-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The extraordinary story of John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ piano ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ John Lennon, George Michael and why it might well not be the piano you think it is. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Andy Jones ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/akef7PGLdKEx3GGSz5MbtG-1280-80.jpg">
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