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"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

By Rob Laing published 27 April 24

Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future

"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

By Will Groves published 10 April 24

McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970

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 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' 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's Night, Long Tall Sally, Things We Said Today and You Can't Do Tha

'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

By Leigh Fuge published 8 April 24

All my strumming, I will send to you

"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"

By Neil Crossley published 8 April 24

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

Four fab Beatles biopics are on the way: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr will each get a full Sam Mendes movie

By Will Groves published 20 February 24

Oscar-nominated Bond and American Beauty director aiming to "challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies"

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"

By Will Groves published 19 February 24

Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”

How to play like John Lennon: 4 key guitar lessons from the early Beatles era

By Total Guitar published 8 December 23

Remembering an often underrated guitarist

"Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened

By Will Groves published 8 December 23

Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

John Lennon's 10 greatest songs with the Beatles and beyond, ranked by you

By MusicRadar published 8 December 23

On the anniversary of his death we're revisiting your ranking of on John's finest songs

What if John Lennon had written Now And Then with The Beatles in 1964? A musician using AI has the answer

By Rob Laing published 8 November 23

And it's good!

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