3+ week, 4+ day ago   (300+ words) Audiences might not be getting to see Sam Mendes’ upcoming The Beatles biopics until 2028, but there is now an indication of at least one iconic scene that will be involved. The classic crosswalk cover to Abbey Road is an image…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (325+ words) McCartney barely had time to breathe on his journey from Liverpool’s Cavern Club to New York City’s Shea Stadium, relentlessly playing shows to ever-increasing screaming crowds who were becoming obsessed with each new record from the Fabs. Within those six…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (283+ words) Foo Fighters have dropped an entire live EP featuring six tracks recorded earlier this year. In October last year, the Dave Grohl-fronted group dropped the live EP, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1, exclusively via Bandcamp. Now, the Seattle outfit have released…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (331+ words) Beatles fans taking the Magical Mystery Tour in Liverpool got the shock of their lives yesterday (July 20th) when they bumped into Paul McCartney. To make things even more perfect, not only did they see McCartney at the traffic lights, but…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (455+ words) Among the UK prog explosion that dominated the charts in the early 1970s, one Birmingham band managed to break through the stuffy trappings of the scene’s bloated and self-satisfied excesses. Coating their ambitious, classically inspired arrangements with a colourful and radiant…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (468+ words) “Every day, she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair/ Wraps a towel around her as she’s heading for the bedroom chair”. Does that not sound oddly like the woman who “picks up the rice where a wedding has…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (230+ words) If you view The Kinks exclusively by their commercial successes, Ray Davies’ group appeared to deal solely in short, sharp, rock and roll singles – ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘All Day and All of the Night’ leading the charge. That…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (795+ words) You’d think this was the 1970s. Of the current top ten albums in the UK, four are by Michael Jackson, one is the greatest hits of Fleetwood Mac, and the top spot is taken up by Paul McCartney. But the essential…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (393+ words) For decades now, from the likes of Leonard Cohen all the way to Alex Turner, when songwriters pen lyrics, they’re doing a lot more than just finding words to go over a catchy tune; they’re trying to reflect their surroundings....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (282+ words) Paul McCartney has announced a new special conversation event set to take place at the Roundhouse in London on June 10th. The event will see McCartney explaining the process of his latest album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, in a more…...