2 w. ago Zak Starkey teams up with Paul McCartney and John Lennon's sons as they work on 'The Beatles kids' after he was sacked from The Who again

The son of Ringo Starr , 59, was fired from the band last month, just one month after he was sacked then quickly reinstated.

Economics

2 w. ago Future of Notting Hill Carnival 'up in the air', leaked letter reveals

It comes after a review of the festival, which takes place on August Bank Holiday weekend, identified 'critical public safety concerns'.

Politics

2 w. ago John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr’s sons team up to release new song

The trio have collaborated on a new song for Zak Starkey’s band

Politics

3 w. ago My unexpected Pride icon: indie breakup songs said all the things I couldn’t say to other boys

From John Lennon’s takedown of Paul McCartney to the Libertines’ Can’t Stand Me Now, songs by straight men about falling out with their friends were strangely romantic to meWhen I was a teenager, in the late 00s in central Scotland, being gay was something I experienced as painful made me feel overwrought. This didn’t match the depiction of gayness I encountered in mainstream culture at the time, which was mostly very cheerful. Almost all of the gay men on my radar were comedians – figures such as Graham Norton and Alan Carr, both of whom I found funny and still admire today, but who were too easy-going and unpretentious to satisfy my desire to see myself as a tortured poet.When I got to university, I found the representation I was looking for – solemn and beautiful – in writers such as Edmund White and James Baldwin, but earlier in my teenage years I had to make do with what was available: romanticising being gay through songs about straight men falling out with their platonic frie...

Events

3 w. ago Two musical revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, leave life's stage nearly simultaneously

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries

Politics

3 w. ago John Cusack, Ronnie Wood, Nancy Sinatra and more react to the death of Brian Wilson

John Cusack, Sean Ono Lennon, Ronnie Wood Nancy Sinatra and more celebrities are sharing their sorrow on the death of Brian Wilson

Events

3 w. ago John Lennon’s ‘smutty and funny’ letter to future first wife to be sold at auction

Beatle wrote in 1962 letter to Cynthia Powell that he wished he was on his way to her flat with ‘chocies and a throbber’John Lennon is considered by many to be a poet. But the Beatle revealed his more prosaic side in a letter penned in 1962 to his future wife Cynthia Powell, in which he declared: “I wish I was on the way to your flat with the Sunday papers and chocies and a throbber.”The intimate missive, which includes a complaint about his bandmate Paul McCartney’s snoring, is now being sold at auction by Christie’s with a £30,000 to £40,000 estimate. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago 'Reform is urgent and critical' An open letter from medics on the future of healthcare in Scotland

Leading Scottish health professionals call for ‘reimagining’ of healthcare

Science