News

In 1995, 15 years after John Lennon's death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison reunited with their iconic producer, George Martin, to create the ultimate Beatlesdocumentary and release what, at the time, were meant to be the last songs featuring the Fab Four. When Yoko Ono handed them cassette tapes with previously unheard tracks that Lennon had been working on at home, they decided to record them together and release them. That turned into three volumes of The Beatles: Anthology, featuring early takes of classics, early Beatles songs from the late '50s, and the finished Lennon songs, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love." However, after the astounding success of Peter Jackson's 2021 documentary,...

In honor of its 30th anniversary this year, a remastered version of “The Beatles Anthology,” the landmark docuseries about the seminal band’s career, is set to premiere on Disney+ in November with an entire episode’s worth of new, previously unreleased footage.

Featuring retrospective, in-person interviews with band members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, “The Beatles Anthology” was originally broadcast in November 1995. Expanded versions of the docuseries were subsequently released in home video formats like VHS and LaserDisc in the following years.

Now, the documentary is set to arrive on Disney+ on Nov. 26.

The restored and remastered version of the docuseries will include its original eight episodes,...

The Replacements have announced a new deluxe edition of their landmark 1984 album, Let It Be. The reissue will be released on October 24th in remastered form and expanded with unreleased studio and live recordings via Rhino.

Available on vinyl and CD formats (pre-order here), the collection includes a wide range of unreleased material from the Let It Be recording sessions, including alternate versions of “Gary’s Got A Boner” and “Favorite Thing,” as well as previously unreleased outtakes including “Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive” and “Street Girl.” An alternate version of “Androgynous,” featuring a different vocal take and the full piano intro, has been restored for the very first time (listen to it below). All five bonus tracks from 2008’s Let It Be (Expanded Edition) are also included, newly remastered for this set.

The release also comes with an unreleased 28-song live show recorded in August 1984 at the Cubby Bear in Chicago,...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission.

Paul McCartney played three historic shows at the Bowery Ballroom in February, his first time playing near New York in years. “I can’t believe we’re here doing this,” he told the crowd at the time. “But we are. We are here. Doing this.” Months later, fans are going to get another chance to see Sir Paul on the road for McCartney’s 2025 Got Back Tour this fall.

Paul McCartney announced the dates for his first North American tour since 2022.

The Got Back 2025 tour is slated to kick off in Palm Desert, California, on September 29 at the Acrisure Arena. With 18 following dates, McCartney will perform in cities such as New Orleans, Nashville, Buffalo and Ontario, before concluding on November 24-25 with two nights at the United Center in Chicago.

McCartney’s Got Back run of tours started in 2022 with 16 sold-out shows across the U.S.

>Get Paul McCartney Concert Tickets Deal Here!

The tour will see McCartney’s longtime band join him on stage, including Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums). Also accompanying the famous Beatle will be the Hot City Horns, who first joined McCartney for a performance at Grand Central Station in 2018. The Hot City Horns features Mike Davis (trumpet), Kenji Fenton (saxes) and Paul Burton...

An event like Live Aid exists in the cultural memory less as a historical fact and more as a piece of modern mythology. To revisit it 40 years on, as the BBC’s documentary series does, is to risk puncturing a legend. Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World thankfully avoids simple nostalgia.

Instead, it positions the phenomenon as a cultural artifact born of a specific, peculiar moment in time. The series begins not with a triumphant guitar riff, but with the broadcast that started it all: Michael Buerk’s stark report on the Ethiopian famine.

The footage feels like an alien transmission, cutting through the neon-drenched, synthesizer-heavy fug of 1980s pop culture. This documentary frames the subsequent musical uprising not as a simple charity drive, but as a frantic, ambitious, and deeply flawed experiment.

It investigates what happens when pop-star idealism, armed with astonishing cultural power,...

The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. has announced its new CEO, British executive Tom Greene. The Beatles originally founded Apple in 1968 to handle their creative and business interests, with their longtime friend and lieutenant Neil Aspinall as the first CEO. But Apple has kept busy in recent years, as the band’s music keeps getting bigger all the time.

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, and Sean Ono Lennon said in a joint statement, “We are thrilled to welcome Tom Greene as CEO. We have a lot of exciting plans and...

Apple Corps Ltd., the operating company that oversees creative and business interests of The Beatles, has tapped British executive Tom Greene as CEO, effective September 25.

He will be only the third CEO in the history of the storied company launched in 1968 to manage The Beatles’ intellectual property canon, administering the legendary band’s recorded music catalog along with film, theatrical and book publishing rights and piloting award-winning projects over the years. The firm is currently collaborating on one of the most ambitious Beatles venture yet with Sony Pictures Entertainment and filmmaker Sam Mendes — four separate theatrical films, one on each of the member of the band. It’s the first time Apple Corps and The Beatles – Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.

Greene previously ran Pottermore Publishing and Wizarding World Digital,...

More than a decade after The Beatles in Mono box set got a limited-edition release on vinyl, the collection is back in print. The Beatles website has listed the 14-lp anthology, to be re-released July 18 (the CD version is still in stock here).

The box set contains the group’s first nine LPs as they came out in the U.K. — from Please Please Me to the White Album — as well as the U.S. compilation, Magical Mystery Tour, and non-album singles collected on Mono Masters. The albums, pressed on heavyweight,...

The 33 ⅓ audiobook series is coming to Spotify. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that the streaming platform will add more than 50 music books to the platform from the series, with some featuring additional commentary and introductions from Spotify editors. The titles arrive tomorrow, May 13.

Among the books to be added to the platform are ones on the Beatles’ Let It Be, AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Nirvana’s In Utero, and Radiohead’s Ok Computer, as well as titles about Janet Jackson,...

Hollywood is filled with major surprises – but none of them would be as big as this. Interestingly, before Anne Hathaway made fashion history as Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada, another actress almost took the role from her. The actress in question was Rachel McAdams.

While it’s hard to imagine anyone else nervously fetching lattes for Miranda Priestly, it turns out she was offered the role not once but three times before Hathaway. But to everyone’s surprise, McAdams repeatedly turned the role down.

Rachel McAdams turned down Andy Sachs before Anne Hathaway took over

When we think about The Devil Wears Prada, actress Anne Hathaway‘s brilliant acting quickly comes to mind. She played the ambitious Andy Sachs and delivered a performance that helped make the movie a beloved classic. But what many fans may not know is that she wasn’t the studio’s first choice – and not even the second.

Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’s spry study of the couple in early 70s New York is as much as jittery collage of the era’s culture as it is a revealing portrait

John and Yoko. Greenwich Village. Television. Activism. Vietnam. Richard Nixon. Insects. Peace. This skittish, channel-surfing archival documentary, co-directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, touches on all of this and more. But it lingers on nothing. It’s a spry, fleet-footed film that makes an intriguingly angular and jittery companion piece to Peter Jackson’s weighty series The Beatles: Get Back, which explored, over nearly eight exhaustive hours, the making of the Beatles’ 1970 final album, Let It Be.

One to One, in contrast, covers an 18-month period shortly afterwards. It’s 1971. Unshackled from the Beatles and burned by the hostility of the British press, Lennon and Ono have upped sticks and moved to a bohemian two-room apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

A presidential candidate who plays to white grievance is almost assassinated. A Black woman runs for president. A major deportation threat hangs in the air. People take to the streets to protest bombings and genocide. Sounds very much like modern times. Instead, it’s the post-Woodstock world of the early Seventies seen in Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko, a documentary that dares to take you into one of the most polarizing periods of one of pop culture’s most controversial couples. It’s the movie you...

Get ready for lots of moptop in a short period of time. Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies — and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, also confirmed the much-speculated casting: Paul Mescal is playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put his spin on John Lennon. The four stars came out on stage at the Las Vegas-based trade show for cinema operators and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Here’s the official logline: “Each man has his own story, but together they are legendary.” Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled “The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event,” will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience.” It’s unclear whether that means the movies will be released all at once or...

As a Brit, I may be a little biased when I say this: The opening ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympics was the best ever. Directed by Danny Boyle, the usual hour of dancers and acrobats twirling around was spectacular and silly, complete with skits celebrating the Industrial Revolution, the NHS, and the nation's rich cultural scene. Movie buffs also got two special treats: Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean daydreaming about beating the boys from "Chariots of Fire" in their famous beach race, and Queen Elizabeth II making her screen debut opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond before her stunt double sky-dived into the stadium. It was surely the best trailer "Skyfall," which hit theaters a few months later, could have hoped for.

The music of the Fab Four featured heavily during the ceremony, complete with Sir Paul McCartney wrapping things up by leading a sing-a-long to "Hey Jude." As such,...

“We had a blast — and you were the blasters!” Paul McCartney told the crowd at the end of his surprise Tuesday show in New York City. McCartney played a spontaneous gig at the Bowery Ballroom, a beloved rock bar on the Lower East Side that holds only 575 people. He was presumably warming up to play the Saturday Night Live anniversary this weekend. But he blew the minds of a few hundred shocked but lucky fans, none of whom woke up that day imagining they might be in store for a McCartney show.

The Beatles are Grammy winners. That goes without saying, but the fact that the legendary band is still collecting trophies in 2025 is quite a feat considering it was 60 years ago that they won Best New Artist from the Recording Academy. This year they received two nominations: Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance for “Now and Then.” They won in the latter category during pre-televised portion of the awards, bringing their all-time total to eight.

“Play the Beatles’ music to your kids,” said John Lennon‘s son Sean Ono Lennon, who accepted the award. “I feel like the world can’t afford to forget about people like the Beatles. We need this music in the world; we need peace and love.”

It’s surprising that the Beatles haven’t won more given their world renown and influence on rock ‘n’ roll. Before Sunday, the band had only collected seven previous trophies,...

The Beatles‘ unearthed 2023 single “Now And Then” marked their first new song since 1996, and now, it’s led to the Fab Four’s first Grammy win in 28 years.

At the Premiere Ceremony for the 2025 Grammy Awards, The Beatles won the award for Best Rock Performance for “Now And Then,” beating out songs from Pearl Jam, Idles, The Black Keys, St. Vincent, and Green Day.

Neither surviving members of The Beatles (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) were present at the ceremony, so John Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon — who won earlier in the evening for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for the expanded reissue of his father’s 1973 LP Mind Games — accepted the award on The Beatles’ behalf.

“It’s really incredible… The Beatles have done so much incredible work and they’re still in the culture and people still listen to the music,” Ono Lennon said. “As far as I’m concerned,...

The Los Angeles wildfires may have muted the music business’ usual weeklong celebration leading to the 67th annual Grammy Awards, but maybe that’s served to shine a brighter spotlight on music’s biggest night and its nominated artists? In any case, this year’s competition is (Sasha) fierce! When Beyoncé struts into the Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 2, she does so with the most nominations, 11, including three in the top general categories — album, record and song of the year — a feat shared by Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter (the last two are also up for best new artist). Will Beyoncé finally win album and/or record, two trophies she doesn’t yet have in her case, despite being the winningest artist in Grammy history? Will Swift add a back-to-back Aoty to her collection (this would be her fifth!)? Or will Charli Xcx have everyone seeing lime green?...

Plot: A year in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, as they settle into a new life in New York City while associating with the anti-war movement and being targeted by the U.S. government.

Review: If you’re a Beatle-maniac like me, the last couple of years have delivered a virtual treasure trove of new footage centered around the Fab Four. First, there was Peter Jackson’s mammoth effort, Get Back, then the re-release of the long-buried Let It Be documentary, Hulu’s recent Beatles ’64 (which happened to feature one of the late David Lynch’s last on-camera interviews – as he remembered seeing The Beatles in his youth), Paul McCartney’s One Hand Clapping and now One to One: John & Yoko.

While plenty of excellent documentaries have been made about Lennon (such as Imagine: John Lennon), directors Kevin McDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards take a particularly bold approach,...

Paul McCartney has been enjoying rave reviews for his latest concerts – pleasing thousands of fans with an energetic set that encompasses songs from his entire career, including his time with The Beatles, Wings and his own solo material.

McCartney, now 82, showed no sign of flagging during a set-list that kept him on stage for three hours, but Thursday evening brought an even more special moment for the audience at London’s O2 arena.

The singer-songwriter, behind some of the world’s most famous tunes including Let It Be, Bond theme Live and Let Die and his own Maybe I’m Amazed, was a couple of hours into his concert when he told the audience, “I have another surprise for you.”

He continued: “Bringing to the stage the mighty, the one and only, the almighty, Mr Ringo Starr.”

Starr, now aged 84, appeared as a drum kit was wheeled onto stage, and without further ado,...

With a little help from casting directors and the rumor mill, the stars of the forthcoming separate Beatle biopics are coming into view — and could now include two actors from Gladiator II. According to Deadline, Joseph Quinn, who plays Emperor Geta in that film and is also known for Stranger Things, has signed on to play George Harrison in one of director Sam Mendes’ non-doc films on the lives of each Beatle.

Although nothing has been officially confirmed, it appears likely that Paul Mescal (Lucius in Gladiator II) will portray...

Mayim Bialik has achieved immense fame and is now a household name across the world thanks to her roles in hit television series like Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. An actor, an author, neuroscientist, and a vocal advocate for attachment parenting, Bialik is mother to two sons whom she shares with her ex-husband, Michael Stone.

Mayim Bialik on The Big Bang Theory | Credit: CBS

Given her celebrity status and often controversial views regarding a range of different topics, the actress’ multi-faceted life often piques public curiosity. Yet, despite her fame, she has managed to keep her kids out of the public eye as much as she can, and has been balancing her public persona with her role as a mother with finesse to price her kids a sense of normalcy.

As she continues to grow and thrive in the film industry, here is a look into her personal life...

From Oasis and Aerosmith to Elvis Presley and William Shatner, artists of all stripes just love to cover the rock & roll ur-text of the Beatles. But only a select few succeed in honoring the source material, making it uniquely their own, and creating something worth hearing. Add Lucinda Williams to that short list. On her new album Lucinda Williams Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road, the Americana royal known for her hard-edged, poetic songwriting interprets a dozen Beatles songs, wrapping her idiosyncratic voice around well-known standards like “Let It Be” and “Something,...

Beatles ‘64 is a great new Beatles documentary on Disney+, but Peter Jackson made an even better Beatles doc for the platform, The Beatles: Get Back, three years ago. Produced by Martin Scorsese, Beatles ‘64 examines the impact that the Fab Four had on American pop culture when they first arrived in the United States in the titular year. It uses newly restored footage of landmark moments from the band’s history, like their historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, to capture what it felt like when the Beatlemania craze went global.

While Beatles ‘64 is the newest Beatles doc to hit the streaming library of Disney+, it’s far from the first. Earlier this year, Disney dropped a new 4K restoration of Let It Be, the 1970 doc that had struggled to secure a DVD and Blu-ray release for decades. Disney released a doc about the Abbey Road studio,...

The Beatles transformed pop culture during the 1960s and had so many incredible songs that even some of their most obscure compositions could be classified as masterpieces. While there are very few people on planet Earth who wouldn’t recognize hits like “Yesterday,” “Here Comes the Sun,” or “Let It Be,” there are just as many incredible underrated Beatles tracks that deserve way more love. For every “A Hard Day's Night” or “Eleanor Rigby,” there’s another hidden gem that long-time lovers of the Fab Four will point to as a forgotten classic in need of more attention.

What started with two teenagers named John Lennon and Paul McCartney bonding over their love of R&b and skiffle music eventually led to these Liverpudlians becoming some of the most recognizable names on the planet. After they were joined by George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the world was fully introduced to...

Produced by Martin Scorsese, the new documentary Beatles '64 has debuted on Disney+ with an impressive critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by David Tedeschi, Beatles '64 traces the cultural impact of The Beatles on the United States in the aftermath of their inagural three-week visit to the country in February 1964, following their historic first performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. The film is the latest in a long line of musical documentaries for Scorsese, who directed Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, as well as another doc about a Beatle – George Harrison: Living in the Material World.

Beatles '64 debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a near-perfect score of 97% based on 30 reviews. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw rated it 5/5 and called it "An amazing split-second of cultural history." The Wrap's Matt Goldberg said, "Perhaps 'Beatles ’64' will only appeal to Beatlemaniacs like me, but...

“Beatles ‘64” wants to hold your hand.

The latest Beatles documentary specifically focuses on the 1964 arrival of the lovely lads from Liverpool in America. This includes their zeitgeist-capturing performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and their first live concert in the United States, held at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.

But how can you watch the latest documentary on the Fab Four? Read on to find out.

When does “Beatles ‘64” come out?

“Beatles ‘64” premieres exclusively on Disney+ on Nov. 29.

Is “Beatles ‘64” streaming or in theaters?

The new documentary is only available on Disney+. Sure, it would be pretty fun to watch “Beatles ‘64” in a crowded movie theater, with people reacting to the band today like they had back then. But alas, it is impossible.

Who is in “Beatles ’64?”

There are new interviews with surviving Beatles members Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney; there are...

Oscar-winning writer/director Adam Mckay has called out movies like Beatles '64. Known for his collaborations with Will Ferrell in comedies like Anchorman, McKay has transitioned his career into films that tackle major societal issues, like The Big Short, Vice, and Don't Look Up. He has also been involved with recent NBA projects, including being an executive producer on Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty and hosting the limited series podcast Death at the Wing.

Now, McKay has taken to social media to question if a documentary like Beatles '64 is necessary. Releasing on Disney+, the documentary is directed by David Tedeschi and produced by Martin Scorsese. It follows The Beatles' first three weeks in America, including their legendary performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. McKay says "nothing is lamer/funnier than white liberals' never ending fascination for the Beatles." He believes that people should move on from...

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of The Beatles’ the’ first visit to the USA in February 1964, Martin Scorsese has put the band back together, so to speak. Scorsese produces along with others including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, and Sean Ono Lennon this wildly entertaining and smartly conceived new documentary that liberally mixes footage from the iconic 1964 documentary chronicling the Fab Four’s visit, which was the result of unprecedented access given to directors Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter), plus new interviews including Paul and Ringo, remixed musical tracks and the Ed Sullivan Show appearance and much more.

Beatles ’64 will begin streaming on Friday November 29 on Disney +, which no doubt is trying to replicate its success with Peter Jackson’s landmark 2021 miniseries The Beatles: Get Back, which won five Emmys.

That film chronicled the recording of their legendary 1969 album Let It Be with rare...

Right from the start, Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It, the first-ever documentary on the late pop-r&b singer, songwriter, and organ maestro, makes it clear that few communicated as much unabashed, unapologetic joy onstage as Preston. In its opening scene, from George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, Preston starts singing the warmly exhorting gospel song that gives the film its name. Overcome by the music, he leaves his seat behind the keys and commands the stage with dance moves he learned in church — elevating the song,...

Like a lot of people, I first saw Billy Preston in “Let It Be,” where his luscious electric-keyboard noodlings provided the sweet center to songs like “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Get Back.” But it wasn’t until “The Concert for Bangla Desh,” George Harrison’s trend-setting rock-concert movie from 1972, that I registered who Billy Preston really was. For most of that Madison Square Garden benefit concert, Preston was in the background, tickling those plugged-in ivories. But then, introduced by Harrison, he performed the single he’d recorded in 1969 for Apple Records, “That’s the Way God Planned It.” It stood out from the rest of the show as dramatically — and magnificently — as Sly Stone’s performance of “I Want to Take You Higher” did from Woodstock.

The sound of a holy organ rang out, and the camera zoomed in on a stylish-looking man in a big wool cap...

Every James Bond movie has separate iconic songs to get listed, but the James Bond Theme has become synonymous with the franchise name. It has been the signature music since Dr. No in 1962. Before Daniel Craig took the legacy baton forward in 2006, every Eon-produced James Bond movie featured Monty Norman’s created theme song. Although Monty Norman wrote several songs for other musical stage plays, including Pinocchio, Stand, and Deliver, he will forever be remembered for composing the iconic James Bond music.

A snippet from Dr. No | Credits: United Artists

Despite his illustrious career, Norman’s association with the “Dum di-di dum dum” guitar que arranged by the John Barry Orchestra will always be iconic. Vic Flick, who used to work with John Barry as a guitarist is popularly known for playing that particular guitar riff, has died. To honor his legacy, let’s look at a few unknown facts about the theme music.

While not a format seen in the mainstream now, the rarest VHS tapes fetch an impressive price. In the modern age of streaming, there is a community of collectors who keep the VHS video format alive years after the tapes left common circulation in the 2000s. Collectors of physical media do so for many reasons, from the joy of permanently owning a film to celebrating technological relics from a bygone era and the form of media that kicked off the physical media collecting boom was the VHS tape.

While obsolete by today's standards, there is a large community who enjoy hunting for rare VHS videos, from those that are obscure due to a low circulation to copies that exist with misprints and typos on the sleeve. Many VHS tapes can be bought fairly easily, oftentimes for no more than a dollar. There are others, however, that for one reason or another,...

In 1973, the world saw George Harrison as the Beatle who was winning the break-up. He became a solo superstar with All Things Must Pass, his big triple-vinyl extravaganza, then his noble and star-studded Concert For Bangla Desh. He’d finally broken free of the Fabs and gotten everything he’d ever wanted. Right? Well, not exactly. George turned his spiritual crisis into Living in the Material World, his slept-on masterpiece — the most profoundly weird album of his life.

It might seem strange they didn’t think of doing this new...

In 1965, The Beatles earned their first Grammy nomination for Record of the Year with their hit “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Now, 60 years later, the Fab Four have once again secured a nomination in the same category, this time for their historic comeback-and-farewell single from last year, “Now and Then.”

That’s right — alongside releases by the likes of Beyoncé, Charli Xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, and more, The Beatles and their “last song” have been nominated for Record of the Year at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which will take place on February 2nd, 2025. It was also nominated for Best Rock Performance.

With these nods, the band now has a career total of 25 competitive Grammy nominations. If they take home the award for Record of the Year, it’ll not only bump up their total number of competitive Grammy wins to eight, but it will (amazingly) mark the very...

Lucinda Williams has announced the latest installation of her Lu’s Jukebox cover album series: a tribute to The Beatles titled Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road. Along with the announcement, her rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” has arrived as the album’s lead single.

Due on December 6th, Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road was recorded at The Beatles’ legendary Abbey Road studio in London, and features Williams’ take on 12 of the band’s classic tunes, including “Don’t Let Me Down,” “Let It Be,” “The Long and Winding Road,” and more. According to its press release, the album will actually mark the first time a major artist recorded Beatles songs there since the band themselves. Pre-order the album here.

Get Lucinda Williams Tickets Here

The single, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” alludes to Williams’ respect for the Fab Four while also demonstrating...

How is it possible, after 60 years and a dozen-plus documentaries, that there's still footage of The Beatles that qualifies as "never before seen"? John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr surely must be four of the most documented men on the planet and perhaps never more so than...

As part of Prime Big Deal Day 2024, Amazon is offering major discounts on vinyl box sets from Nirvana, The Beatles, Rush, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Wilco, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, and more.

— Abba’s Vinyl Album Box Set is on sale for $114.92 (54% off)

— The Beatles’ Let It Be (Super Deluxe) vinyl box set is on sale for $119.97 (40% 0ff)

— Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary) vinyl is on sale for $43.99 (12% off)

— Depeche Mode’s Sounds Of The Universe – The Singles box set is on sale for $132.83 (34% off)

— Eagles’ To the Limit: The Essential Collection vinyl box set is on sale for $107.86 (28% off)

— Eminem’s 8 Mile (Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture) (Deluxe Edition) is on sale for $43.95 (56% off)

— Jason Isbell’s Southeastern (10th Anniversary Edition) vinyl box set is on sale for $67.72 (25% off)

— The Last of Us 10th Anniversary Vinyl...

Paul McCartney launched his 2024 South American tour on Tuesday night (October 1st) at the Estadio Centenario in Uruguay. In addition to a host of Beatles and Wings classics, the iconic songwriter performed “Now and Then,” the final Beatles song that was released last year, for the first time. See videos of the show, as well as the full setlist, below.

McCartney (who is 82 years old) ripped through a whopping 37 songs, including hits like “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Blackbird,” “Jet,” Get Back,” “Let It Be,” “Live and Let Die,” and “Hey Jude” before closing out with an encore that boasted the latter half of the famous Abbey Road medley.

Get Paul McCartney Tickets Here

He also debuted “Now and Then,” the 2023 Beatles song that was created using a restored John Lennon demo from 1979. Notably, he didn’t pull out any cuts from his most recent album, McCartney III. In fact, he...

Thousands of Oasis fans were left disappointed when they were unable to get tickets to the band’s much-feted reunion gigs scheduled for next summer across the UK, but they could have the next best thing – hearing the band perform on a live album of the event.

The Sun newspaper reports that Noel and Liam Gallagher will be offered the chance to record a live album of the Oasis Live ’25 concerts. They cite a source close to the band sharing:

“The Oasis reunion is an historic moment and these concerts will be talked about for decades to come. Many people around the brothers think they have to capture the shows.

“A live album of the Oasis reunion could be as iconic as The Who’s Live At Leeds in 1970 or Queen’s Live At Wembley ’86.”

Oasis haven’t performed since 2009, when Noel Gallagher left the band after a final altercation with his brother,...

Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher could reportedly see their much trumpeted musical reunion brought to screen via documentary.

The UK’s Sun newspaper reports that Apple TV+ bosses are keen to film the previously warring brothers who have put their 15-year animosity to bed for a string of record-breaking gigs in the UK next summer.

A documentary about Oasis would follow in the footsteps of Apple’s award-winning documentary Get Back, about the making of the Beatles’ 1970 Let It Be.

The Sun quotes one insider revealing that Apple faces competition from both Amazon Prime and Netflix, but remains determined to bag the brothers’ behind-the-scenes antics in the lead up to the concerts: “This is set to be the film of the decade, with AppleTV+ proposing huge money.”

Oasis has returned to the top of the UK music charts since announcing the concerts. The band has not performed together since...

Midas Man and One Hand Clapping are just the latest in a stream of movies telling a story we seemingly can’t get enough of

The Beatles broke up in 1970 but – as far as the film industry is concerned – they are more current than ever, with a flood of Beatles-related films in cinemas and on streaming platforms. The band’s final film Let It Be was restored and released on Disney+ in May; Midas Man, a biopic of their manager Brian Epstein is to be released in October; and One Hand Clapping, long-lost footage of Paul McCartney in the studio in the early 70s with Wings will get an airing in cinemas across the world starting next week. Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville is readying another McCartney documentary, Man on the Run, about his post-Beatles career. And on the horizon is Sam Mendes’ mammoth Beatles tetralogy – one film each for John Lennon,...

A documentary chronicling the making of Paul McCartney and Wings’ album One Hand Clapping is coming to cinemas, here are the details.

It’s a good time to be a Beatles fan. Its final song Now And Then was released to critical acclaim last year, rare documentary Let It Be landed on Disney+ in May and Sam Mendes’ is currently producing four separate biopics, which could land in cinemas on the same day.

Paul McCartney has now announced too that One Hand Clapping, a documentary about the making of Wings’ album of the same name, will be screened in cinemas worldwide in September. The footage was recorded in 1974, capturing McCartney and the band, who included Linda McCartney on piano, Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch on guitars and Geoff Britton on drums, playing live in the studio for an album that was not released until June this year.

The synopsis reads...

Rhonj star Teresa Giudice slams cast mate, Margaret Josephs as both “jealous” and “obsessed.” The two have butted heads for some time but this season, it has reached an all-time high. So, what is Teresa’s reasoning behind the name-calling? Keep reading for more details.

Rhonj Teresa Giudice Slams ‘Jealous’ & ‘Obsessed’ Margaret Josephs

Teresa Giudice and Margaret Josephs love to say they are obsessed with one another but it is not in a flattering loving and friendly way. Throughout all of Season 14 of Rhonj, Teresa has maintained Margaret is “obsessed” with her and her husband, Luis Ruelas. She even went so far as to befriend former enemy, Jackie Goldschneider. Though Jackie claimed she wanted to be surrounded by good people, viewers thought both women were using one another. They believed Jackie wanted promotion for her book and more screen time whereas Teresa’s intentions are never genuine. Teresa then revealed...

This article contains spoilers for Homicide: Los Angeles episode 1.

Phil Spector was a music legend and Los Angeles celebrity royalty. He revolutionized rock and roll with his “Wall of Sound” production, and went on to finalize The Beatles’ Let It Be. This means nothing to investigators on Homicide: Los Angeles. On Feb. 3, 2003, the body of Lana Clarkson, a 40-year-old actress and VIP Hostess of The House of Blues, was found dead in a chair in Spector’s foyer.

Netflix’s five-episode true crime docuseries fully covers the prosecutorial pursuit in one installment. Here’s what was condensed in discovery.

Lana Clarkson Was a Successful Actress

In the June 2003 article “Inside the Undoing of Phil Spector,” Spector told Esquire Clarkson “kissed the gun” before shooting herself. At trial, Spector’s attorneys claimed a depressed Clarkson used the 38-caliber pistol in his foyer. In spite of the Spector PR team’s smear campaign,...

The title One Hand Clapping, taken from a Japanese kōan, tells you nearly everything you need to know about Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1974 Abbey Road sessions: These performances are an event rarely seen and heard even less often. For years, you’ve had to imagine what didn’t leak out from the studio as bootlegs for yourself. Those who do know these session know them as greasy VHS transfers to YouTube and bonus tracks to Band on the Run and Venus and Mars reissues. In the past, McCartney fans would...

As a child of the 1980s, I thought I knew pretty much everything I needed to know about Wham!, just as I thought I had a pretty good handle on the behind the scenes of the late-night all-star recording of “We Are the World.” But maybe that’s why I enjoyed the docs “Wham!” and “The Greatest Night in Pop” so much — a mix of the familiar with those moments of surprise.

In the case of “Wham!,” it’s how Andrew Ridgeley managed to be so gracious as his buddy George Michael went on to a massively successful solo career. In “The Greatest Night in Pop,” I learned just how instrumental Lionel Richie was in serving as traffic cop for producer Quincy Jones in creating “We Are The World” with dozens of A-list musicians over just one late night. The doc is filled with legend-help-legend moments, like when Stevie Wonder...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.

“The Beach Boys,” a documentary about the iconic band, is now streaming Disney+.

The doc is described as “a celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations to come.”

Stream 'The Beach Boys' On Disney+ $9.99/Month

“The Beach Boys” includes never-before-seen footage and new interviews with band members Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston, as well as music stars like Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe, Ryan Tedder and Don Was. Former members Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar are also participating, and the late Carl and Dennis Wilson will be heard from in archival interviews.

Directed by Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, “The Beach Boys” was...

The Beatles: Get Back doc shows the band's final days recording Let It Be and culminates in their iconic rooftop concert. The series dispels rumors of infighting but doesn't shy away from tensions among the band members. John Lennon's shift towards activism and McCartney's struggles to keep the band together are highlighted in the documentary.

Peter Jackson's ambitious The Beatles: Get Back documentary series premiered on HBO in 2021. It had a total of three episodes, with eight hours of footage showing how The Beatles' final album Let It Be was made. Much of Get Back's archival footage has been pulled (and restored) directly from Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 documentary about the album's making. Originally conceived as a feature film, The Beatles: Get Back is now dedicated to Hogg's original work, which forms the backbone of Jackson's poignant documentary.

The documentary's final cut covers 21 days in the studio with...