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The Beatles

July 2024

  • Four Tops And The Temptations Perform At First Direct Arena In Leeds<br>LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 01: Abdul Duke Fakir of The Four Tops performs on stage at First Direct Arena on April 1, 2014 in Leeds, United Kingdom. (Photo by Andrew Benge/Redferns via Getty Images)

    Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir obituary

  • The Beatles give a news conference in New York, in August 1966

    Brief letters
    John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus

  • George Harrison plays a toy trumpet, John Lennon holds a toy harp, Ringo Starr holds drum sticks and has a drum tied round his neck, and Paul McCartney plays the tambourine

    Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

    Colin Fleming
  • The Beatles leaving the aircraft at Liverpool airport for the northern premiere of A Hard Day's Night, 10 July 1964.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Beatles’ triumphant return to Liverpool – archive, 1964

June 2024

  • John Lennon and Yoko Ono on stage in Revival69

    The other 1969 concert that changed music: ‘one of the most important stories in rock history’

    Revival69 glimpses into starry Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which gave Beatles fans a new look at John Lennon
  • Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, launches manifesto on 17 June

    Brief letters
    Imagine there’s no Farage, it’s easy if you try

    Brief letters: Life under Reform UK | Hey Jude | Fashion faux pas | Cabbage butterflies | Failed experiment
  • A Beatles fan screams with excitement

    When the Beatles came to Australia: ‘Letters to the editor were apoplectic about their hair’

    Sixty years since the Fab Four arrived to mass hysteria, a new book captures the thousands who lined up for a glimpse, the moral panic and resulting generation gap

May 2024

  • A guitar in a case beside photos and under a large sign reading 'John Lennon's Framus "Help!" Hootenanny

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

  • A child pulls aside a net curtain as they look out the window of the red-brick terrace house, which has one upstairs and one downstairs window at the front and a black front door

    George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool gets blue plaque

  • ‘Fly-on-the-wall approach’: Let It Be.

    Let It Be review - restored Beatles doc is fascinating but flawed

  • The Doctor and Ruby Sunday outside the Tardis

    Doctor Who: episode-by-episode
    Doctor Who: Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord – season one opening recap

  • Let It Be review – reissued Beatles film takes long and winding road to eventual acclaim

  • Bernard Hill obituary

April 2024

  • Moody Blues<br>Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues performs on stage in March 1972 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

    Mike Pinder obituary

    Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues
  • George Harrison and John Lennon. Harrison is playing Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar.

    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 lyrics

    • John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single

    • Peter Jackson to release restored version of Beatles’ 1970 documentary Let It Be on Disney+

    • Observer book of the week
      All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review – from best man to muckraker

March 2024

  • Resonating across the years … Paul McCartney and Beyoncé.

    A new moment to arise: Beyoncé’s cover of the Beatles’ Blackbird is a timely masterstroke

  • Tom Kerridge

    Honest playlist
    ‘I’m done with Baby Shark, thank you’: Tom Kerridge’s honest playlist

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