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If The Beatles had never discovered drugs, says Killing Joke bassist Youth, then their music would have sounded very different – and so would everyone else's
By Youth published
"It's not hard to imagine how grey all our lives would be today if The Beatles had not paved the way for turning music into a kaleidoscope of colour explosions after the bland, sugar-sweet pop of the early sixties"

"Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved": Amateur sleuths have located Paul McCartney's long-lost Höfner bass 50 years after it was stolen
By Fraser Lewry published
Paul McCartney's 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar has been dubbed "the most important bass in history"

"When the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, life went from black and white to colour": The Beatles and the five songs that changed American music forever
By Fraser Lewry published
February 9, 1964: 73 million households tune in as The Beatles make their debut on the Ed Sullivan show. Amongst them are a generation of future musicians

“An exceptional collectors opportunity": An unfinished novel about John Lennon written by original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe is being put up for sale, alongside his artwork, poems and early photos of the band
By Paul Brannigan published
The estate of Stuart Sutcliffe is seeking a buyer for a collection of artwork, photos, poems and essays by the 'fifth Beatle'

"Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles
By Ian Fortnam published
After the fractious Let It Be sessions, Paul McCartney urged his bandmates back into the studio to make an album “like the old days, like we used to"

"What was really exciting for me was watching Paul's total respect for his band members": Giles Martin tells the inside story of the final Beatles song, Now And Then
By Ken Sharp published
You probably didn’t have a new (and final) song from The Beatles on your 2023 bingo card, but that’s what we got, surprising everybody

The 10 worst Beatles songs
By Henry Yates published
Even The Beatles had their off days, as these 10 stinkers prove

"It's nice to know that England has finally risen to our cultural level": a month before Ed Sullivan, American TV began to take The Beatles seriously
By Fraser Lewry published
In which American TV audiences get an early glimpse of the Beatlemania that's already gripped the UK

"Wouldn’t it be funny if we went down?": the night The Beatles almost reunited on Saturday Night Live
By Niall Doherty published
John Lennon and Paul McCartney nearly took up SNL producer Lorne Michaels on his offer

“All I could do to accommodate requests for new sounds for them was just to abuse the equipment": How The Beatles' Revolver revolutionised music
By Johnny Black published
Revolver is a feat of The Beatles' sonic experimentation and songwriting genius, and this is the story behind how the album was made
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