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Paul McCartney ‘to play for Apple staff at 50th anniversary concert’ – decades after dispute with company

Musician, 83, was once involved in a decades-long legal dispute with the tech giant

The Independent UK

“The phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. That’s when I knew we’d found it”: We meet the man who reunited Paul McCartney with his long-lost Beatles bass

Stolen in 1972, Paul McCartney’s missing Höfner resurfaced in a family’s attic 51 years after it disappeared. But it took some tracking down…

Guitar World

"We exchanged no words. He eyed me up and down, dipped the silver tube he wore on a chain into a bag of white powder, shoved it up my snout, then walked out. I was up for three days." The day The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde met Motorhead's Lemmy

"Without Lemmy, The Pretenders wouldn’t have happened"

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Slash sale: Guns ‘n’ Roses star’s guitar to fetch up to £300,000 in music auction

Exclusive auction will see rare Slash, Queen, and Beatles memorabilia go up for sale in April

The Independent UK

Australian supermarket Easter eggs taste test: ‘The quality of Easter chocolate is simply worse’

Nicholas Jordan goes on the hunt for good Easter eggs. After nibbling through 29 products, he is glad the ovum ordeal is over

The Guardian - AU

“I was never a huge Beatles fan. But I learned recently that John Lennon said that it’s the one song he wished he would have written”: The disco classic that sold 11 million copies and influenced famous songs by Lennon and ABBA

How the leader of KC And The Sunshine Band created a perfect floor-filler

MusicRadar

Guitar used by Slash of Guns N’ Roses during iconic tour set to fetch up to £300,000 at auction

The instrument is due to go under the hammer at Propstore auction house in London next month

The Independent UK

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Swift, Rodrigo and Mayer's Unexpected Reunion Has Fans Reading Between the Lines

Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo shared a high-profile moment at Paul McCartney's intimate Los Angeles concert on March 28. John Mayer was spotted at the venue but avoided his former partner as she celebrated her recent engagement to Travis Kelce. McCartney also used the star-studded show to announce his 18th…

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“All the guys in the audience were looking at the chords you were playing, and they’d study it… and we kind of liked that. And all the girls weren’t”: Paul McCartney recalls one of things he noticed on the Beatles' first trip to the US in 1964

He played two intimate LA gigs over the weekend

MusicRadar

“There is not another guitarist in the world who plays like him. As raw as John Lee Hooker and sophisticated as Andrés Segovia from one phrase to another”: The life and times of Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir

We salute the Grateful Dead original, who – in the last 30 years of his life – stepped out from Jerry Garcia’s considerable shadow to emerge as a guitar hero in his own right

Guitar World

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass review – amiable tale of how Macca’s Höfner was finally found

Dogged detective work tracked down the instrument that had vanished more than 50 years ago, but the true story behind its theft injects a note of sadness

The Guardian - UK

Sir Paul McCartney reveals what The Beatles 'liked' about their male fans in the US

The Beatles really appreciated the way their male fans behaved at their early gigs in America.

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Aimee Lou Wood admits Beatles biopic role is ‘quite intimidating’

White Lotus star will play George Harrison’s former wife in the ambitious series of films about The Beatles

The Independent UK

Stars turn out for Paul McCartney’s intimate Hollywood show

Rock legend played two gigs at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood after announcing his new album, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’

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Aimee Lou Wood says playing Pattie Boyd in Beatles biopics is ‘intimidating’

Wood will portray George Harrison’s former wife, model and photographer Pattie Boyd, in Sam Mendes’ biopic films about the lives of the Fab Four.

Evening Standard

Aimee Lou Wood on The White Lotus, the Beatles biopic and stepping out of her comfort zone: 'The moment you play it safe, you’re done'

The White Lotus made her a global breakout. Now, as she steps into the world of the Beatles and Jane Eyre, Aimee Lou Wood is embracing risk — and learning when not to trust fate

MusicRadar

“You start putting expectations on yourself. ‘OK, I’ve got to compete with Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and The Beatles!”: An in-depth conversation with rock guitar’s most maverick virtuoso, Paul Gilbert

Featuring: his “mouse” heartbeat, the jazz pianist so good he's “inhuman” and the most courageous thing a shredder can do

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“While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise”: How an unfamiliar guitar chord proved to be the catalyst for Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

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The Independent UK

Paul McCartney returns with poignant new single and major announcement

Beatles legend shared the track at the same time as announcing plans to release his first solo album in six years

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"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

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Sir Paul McCartney mended John Lennon rift by bonding over baking

Sir Paul McCartney mended his friendship with John Lennon after the Beatles split by bonding over their shared love of baking.

Guitar World

“A prototype given to George Harrison was prominently featured in the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, inspiring insatiable lust for the electric 12”: How the Rickenbacker 360/12 revolutionized the sound of ’60s guitar

Introduced in 1964, the jangle of the 12-string Ricky inspired generations of players, with the likes of TomPetty, Mike Campbell and Johnny Marr all making it their own

The Guardian - UK

University of Liverpool acquires entire archive of poet Roger McGough

Archivist Jo Klett says the 40 boxes of material will provide ‘a full picture of Roger’s entire working career’

Guitar World

“It puts the Black Strat in the neighborhood of the most expensive Stradivarius violins ever sold”: I was there when records were broken at the biggest guitar auction in history – and witnessed a new dawn in the value of the instrument

The monumental bidding wars that took place on the first night of the Jim Irsay Collection auction at Christie’s New York were a testament to the power of the instrument and the aura of the classic rock gods, and left attendees spellbound

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'I was in my 20s ... girls absolutely loved me,' Sir Ringo Starr revealed all about life in The Beatles to Inbetweeners star James Buckley

Sir Ringo Starr candidly told The Inbetweeners actor James Buckley all the things he loved about being in The Beatles during a chat on the set of the film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

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