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The Beatles split
"I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over

By Will Groves Published

McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970

Bands
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

All my strumming, I will send to you

Guitar Chords
The Beatles Rubber Soul cover shot
"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

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

Singles And Albums
The Beatles
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

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

Bands
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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

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

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

By Total Guitar Published

Remembering an often underrated guitarist

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

By Will Groves Published

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

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

By MusicRadar Published

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

Singles And Albums
The Beatles performing onstage in 1964
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

And it's good!

Artists
George Martin and John Lennon
"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

By Andy Jones Published

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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