Suzy Eddie Izzard, Ed Speelers Join Cast as Joe Stephenson Wraps Beatles...
Suzy Eddie Izzard (“Stay Close”) and Ed Speelers (“Outlander”) are the new additions to the cast of “Midas Man,” the delayed film on The Beatles manager Brian Epstein that has now wrapped filming. The...
View ArticleRingo Starr Talks New Beatles Track and Turning 83 at Peace-Loving Birthday...
Ringo Starr, as always, is all about the P&L statements, and that doesn’t mean profit-and-loss. Friday, as is his custom, he took the occasion of his birthday — this year, his 83rd — to lead local...
View ArticleTaylor Swift First Artist Since Beatles to Have Singles From Three Different...
Taylor Swift commands the Hot 100 with all 22 songs from her latest “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” occupying spots on the singles chart. Impressively, this means three singles from three different...
View ArticleThe Beatles’‘Last Song,’‘Now and Then,’ Is Set for Release, Along With...
What has been described as the Beatles’ “last song,” a recently completed version of “Now and Then” that includes contributions from all four members, is about to enter the realm of the now. The...
View ArticleBrendan Hunt Talks Honoring His Late Mother and Love for The Beatles With New...
When he first began imagining his one-man show “The Movement You Need,” Brendan Hunt had a few challenges. He wanted to tell the story of his complicated relationship with his late mother and how they...
View ArticleThe Best Beatles Books and Merch to Gift the Fab Four Fan in Your Life
The Beatles’ iconic journey — from their humble Liverpool beginnings to their incredible rise to Beatlemania fame to their acrimonious breakup in 1970 — has been meticulously tracked from avid fans...
View ArticleRecord Store Day’s 2024 List, Genre by Genre: Vinyl Exclusives From Noah...
If you’ve gotten a good look at the just-released list of Record Store Day 2024 exclusives due to hit indie stores on April 20, you may rightly feel overwhelmed: It includes no less than 387 titles....
View ArticleWho Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?
Who should play the Fab Four? After director Sam Mendes announced Tuesday that he plans to make four separate movies about the Beatles, one from the perspective of every member of the most famous band...
View ArticleWhen Did Sam Mendes Earn the Right to Direct Four Beatles Biopics?
If you told me there was a plan in place to make four Beatles biopics — one each about John, Paul, George, and Ringo — and that they were going to be directed by Richard Linklater, I’d be suffused with...
View ArticleSean Ono Lennon Talks Sam Mendes’ Beatles Movies and Who He Wants to Play...
Sean Ono Lennon gave his thoughts on Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles movies while chatting with Variety’s Marc Malkin at the Oscars during Variety On the Carpet presented by DIRECTV. Mendes plans to make...
View ArticleMcCartney and Lennon Sons, James and Sean Ono, Team Up for New Song ‘Primrose...
Last year saw the release of the Beatles’ new song: “Now And Then,” which was promoted as the band’s final single — but there’s a new McCartney/Lennon pairing. Paul and the late Linda McCartney’s son...
View ArticleBeatles’ 1970 ‘Let It Be’ Documentary, Out of Circulation for Four Decades,...
For decades, the attitude toward the documentary “Let It Be” in the Beatles’ camp seemed to be: Let it rest in peace. But the film is finally going to be seen again. A restored version of the 1970...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2024’s Most Wanted: Olivia Rodrigo & Noah Kahan, Talking...
There’s a certain type of vinyl geek that has all 387 exclusives coming out for Record Store Day 2024 committed to memory — color variants, pressing quantities and prices included. The rest of us may...
View ArticleRestored and Rereleased, the Beatles’‘Let It Be’ Is Revealed to Be the Joyful...
The revelation of seeing "Let It Be" today, when everything about the Beatles is now ancient history, is that as you experience the movie anew (or for the very first time), it’s not the myth of the...
View Article‘Let It Be’ Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on His Beatles Documentary Finally...
Filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg is having a bit of a “hail the conquering hero” moment that very few people would have expected him to be having this far into the 21st century, least of all himself....
View ArticleRingo Starr on Working With Linda Perry for His Rocking New EP, Enlisting T...
Ringo’s rotogravure is back, as it were, with a new EP, “Crooked Boy,” that will delight fans who’ve wanted a real rock record that was as steady as his backbeat. Linda Perry wrote and produced all...
View ArticleThe Best Beatles Books and Merch to Gift the Fab Four Fan in Your Life
The Beatles’ iconic journey — from their humble Liverpool beginnings to their incredible rise to Beatlemania fame to their acrimonious breakup in 1970 — has been meticulously tracked from avid fans...
View Article‘Midas Man,’ Drama About Beatles Manager Brian Epstein, Sells to Briarcliff...
“Midas Man,” an upcoming drama about Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who helped turn the Beatles into the biggest thing in pop culture, has sold North American distribution rights to Briarcliff...
View ArticleBeatlemania Is Back in ‘TWST – Things We Said Today,’ but Don’t Expect...
John! Paul! George! Ringo! In the summer of 1965, it was all about the Beatles, readying for their gig at New York’s Shea Stadium. But “TWST – Things We Said Today,” premiering at the Venice Film...
View ArticleSeven Beatles LPs Issued in the U.S. in 1964 and Early ’65 Are Coming Back to...
The 60th anniversary of the peak year for Beatlemania in the United States, 1964, is being celebrated with the release of “The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono,” a forthcoming boxed set that compiles...
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