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George Harrison's My Sweet Lord: the love song to a higher power that spurred a $1.6m lawsuit
By Bill DeMain published
"I anticipated that a lot of people might get weird about it" - George Harrison on My Sweet Lord, his love song to The Creator

20 banned album sleeves: when rock falls foul of the censors
By Nick Hasted, Fraser Lewry last updated
Rock’s often deliberately provocative cover art can lead to outrage. Here are 20 main offenders in our gallery of banned record sleeves

"I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy
By Tom Poak published
How John Lennon took an amazing x-rated story – told to him at an orgy – and turned it into part of a psychedelic masterpiece

Listen to this haunting AI Freddie Mercury cover of The Beatles' Yesterday
By Liz Scarlett published
Someone has crafted an AI-generated cover of The Beatles' Yesterday as if it were sung by Freddie Mercury, and we're not sure how we feel about it

10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath
By Joe Daly published
Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album

Queen, The Beatles, The Who, ELO, David Bowie and Kate Bush appear on UK government-curated Coronation playlist
By Paul Brannigan published
Fancy some tunes with your Charlie next weekend? The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has got you sorted

Watch Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman and Justin Long as The Beatles in this ridiculous movie clip from 2007
By Liz Scarlett published
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story may have flopped at the box office, but it featured an hilarious scene with Jack Black, Paul Rudd and others portraying The Beatles

An hour-long recording of The Beatles playing at a Buckinghamshire boarding school in 1963 has just been unearthed
By Fraser Lewry published
It was 60 years ago today
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