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Beatles Abbey Road Billboard on Sunset Strip

"Because I don't read music, I didn't know what the melody that went with it was": Paul McCartney explains why his musical limitations and "stealing" benefitted the Abbey Road medley that gave us The Beatles' true swansong

By Rob Laing published 24 April 24

"It's turned out to be quite soulful," the legendary songwriter reflects

"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.”

aul McCartney from The Beatles performs at Alpha TV studios in Birmingham, England during filming of ABC TV show 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' on 15th December 1963

"Incredibly grateful": Paul McCartney has been reunited with his Beatles Höfner bass guitar after over half a century

By Rob Laing last updated 15 February 24

Update: The Beatle says he is "incredibly grateful" for the return of the 500/1 bass that he used in the band's early years

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!

"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 7 November 23

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

Everything we know about the final Beatles song Now And Then, and the questions that remain

By Rob Laing published 27 October 23

George Harrison reportedly said that he thought the song's original audio quality was "f*****g rubbish"

“He doesn’t do Zoom”: Mick Jagger reflects on how his songwriting partnership with Keith Richards has changed and discusses Paul McCartney’s bass playing on new Rolling Stones album Hackney Diamonds

By Ben Rogerson published 19 September 23

“I wouldn’t even play guitar half the time,” Jagger says of his early collaborations with Richards. “I’d just be writing the toplines for Keith’s chord sequences”

Watch a young Amy Winehouse covering The Beatles backstage at Glastonbury 2004

By Ben Rogerson published 14 September 23

Rare footage shows the 20-year-old star performing a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney