23 h. ago Rob Reiner reveals hilarious Spinal Tap line that Paul McCartney came up with

Beatles singers appears in film alongside fellow guest stars Elton John, Lars Ulrich, Questlove and Chad Smith

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32 h. ago Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: the rocks gods of mockumentary turn it up to, er, 10½

Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest and co and back for one last blow-out with Elton John and Paul McCartney adding the superstar sparks

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62 h. ago Sir Paul McCartney and late wife Linda toast the launch of his second band Wings in newly released photo

Raising their glasses to the cameraman in front of a ramshackle wooden shack, this is the moment Sir Paul McCartney launched his new band Wings.

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67 h. ago Moment Paul McCartney branded Liam Gallagher 'stupid' after awkward mix

The Beatles legend Paul McCartney attended an Oasis gig in the United States this week, with fans now recalling a brutal dig made by Liam Gallagher at the frontman

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4 d. ago Paul McCartney is spotted filming Oasis in the crowd as he joins A

The Beatles singer, 83, was among the celebrities who attended the star-studded gig at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena on Saturday, as the Gallagher brothers continue their reunion tour.

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5 d. ago Paul McCartney sweetly films Noel Gallagher singing as he joins A

The Beatles singer, 83, was among the celebrities who attended the star-studded gig at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena on Saturday, as the Gallagher brothers continue their reunion tour.

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5 d. ago From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

Essays from Zadie Smith; Wiki founder Jimmy Wales on how to save the internet; a future-set novel by Ian McEwan; a new case for the Slow Horses - plus memoirs from Kamala Harris and Paul McCartney all among this season’s highlightsHelm by Sarah HallFaber, out now Hall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she’s been working on for two decades. Set in Cumbria’s Eden valley, it tells the story of the Helm – the only wind in the UK to be given a name – from its creation at the dawn of time up to the current degradation of the climate. It’s a huge, millennia-spanning achievement, spotlighting characters from neolithic shamans to Victorian meteorologists to present-day pilots. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Billionaire Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe 'splits' from Paul McCartney's grandson... and is already dating someone new

In the latest episode of her and Sophia Kianni's The Burnouts podcast, Phoebe, 22, raved about her new guy, saying he does not have Instagram.

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7 d. ago Documentary on Sir Paul McCartney’s lost bass guitar among new Arena films

The new films will celebrate 50 years of Arena, which began life as a magazine show in 1975.

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1 week ago Rare photos of Beatles taken by Paul McCartney on display in London

Rare photos of Beatles taken by Paul McCartney on display in London  CBS News

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2 w. ago Rearview Mirror at the Gagosian review: This glimpse of the Fab Four is really something

This collection of Paul McCartney’s photographs, taken over a two-month span before their fame took off, is simply fascinating

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2 w. ago Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directionsOne of many things I did not expect to learn in this book is that the BBC benefited from Nazi technology. Its standard tape recorder, in use till the 1970s, was called the BTR-2: EMI’s original model, the BTR-1, had been copied from a captured example of the German “magnetophon”, as used by Hitler to record a radio broadcast.Musicians who liked fiddling with machines, too, benefited from this legacy. Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneer who produced the original Doctor Who theme tune and otherwise particularly enjoyed playing an enamel green lampshade, influenced Paul McCartney’s experiments with tape loops, while Steve Reich hit upon his compositional technique of “phasing” phrases in and out of sync with one another on tape recorders, before training live musicians to do the same. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Paul McCartney uses AI to 'extricate' John Lennon's voice from two more old demos

New AI mixes of two songs originally demoed on piano by John Lennon are set to be released on a new Beatles compilation.

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2 w. ago Paul McCartney bedroom selfie in backstage Beatles photo exhibit

Paul McCartney bedroom selfie in backstage Beatles photo exhibit  BBC

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3 w. ago Paul McCartney Takes Us Backstage of Beatlemania at Gagosian London

Paul McCartney Takes Us Backstage of Beatlemania at Gagosian London  hypebeast.com

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3 w. ago Previously unreleased Beatles tracks to feature on new Anthology 4

The 13 tracks will be on a new compilation to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the first edition of the series in 1995.

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3 w. ago ‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant

In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughsIt is a sunny October afternoon and I am sitting in a long wood-panelled hallway in an old converted townhouse in London waiting to be called into the office of Paul McCartney. I am dressed in my best clothes and trying not to let nerves get the better of me. I am here to ask him about an aspect of his career that is rarely discussed but which, I believe, helped cement his reputation as a world-conquering compositional force and which made the Beatles the most interesting and influential band of all time.In the mid-1960s, as well as topping the charts, turning a generation of teenage girls hysterical and finding themselves the focus of obsessive media attention, the Beatles were also engaged with, and educating themselves about, the work of classical music’s most audacious and imp...

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