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The museum will feature seven floors of never-seen-before material, rotating exhibitions, a fan store and the recreation of the studio where Let it Be was recorded.
From a history of hip hop through one rapper’s words to the official Beatles biography,
Many artists and scientists have had breakthrough while in this drowsy state between sleep and waking.
Help! might sit uncomfortably for a lot of viewers today but it should not be allowed to fall into obscurity
The Anthologies told the story of The Beatles, tracking their development from amateur cover-artists to bona fide musical pioneers.
The bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – and even played an indirect role in its dissolution.
Yoko Ono has long been abused as a homewrecker – and worse. A new biography celebrates her joyful positivity in adverse circumstances – and celebrates her as an artist.
The same artists who defined the rock genre decades ago continue to dominate its highest honours. Is there space for contemporary acts to break through?
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd takes on the role of legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein in this new Amazon Prime biopic.
Lennon’s round glasses are a key part of how we remember him. And the story behind why he wore them in public is part history, part vision science.
The Beatle’s first film, A Hard Day’s Night, debuted on July 6 1964. Sixty years on it still explodes with revolutionary pop-cultural energy.
Charming and irreverent as they were, The Beatles themselves were only part of the reason the tour was so memorable.
Let It Be lets us see how the narrative of The Beatles as a band has been woven into popular music, and wider history since it was made.
Vinyl’s unlikely comeback story is linked to a combination of slick marketing, claims of superior sound, its polysensorial character and how it evokes nostalgia to construct and reconstitute memory.
To truly appreciate the track, it’s important to go beyond the long shadow of the Beatles’ version.
Artificial intelligence helped produce the Beatles’ 2023 hit “Now and Then.” But despite the sophisticated technology, the song reveals our obsession with the past and our anxieties about the future.
Innovations in AI seem to be spurring interest in what is or isn’t real, accurate and human.
For their “last single” Now and Then, the remaining 2023 Beatles kept John Lennon’s chorus, but changed where it fell. This necessary “repair” meant losing some of Lennon’s most touching passages.
Both bands have remained commercially and culturally significant since the 1960s.
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