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News: MEYBA Announce Exciting New Shirt Collab With The Beatles

Spanish sportswear brand Meyba has teamed up with The Beatles to create a limited-edition collection of shirts inspired by the epic back catalogue of music, film & images by The…

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News: George Harrison’s classic solo set ‘All Things Must Pass’ gets a suite of 50th anniversary editions; hear the previously unreleased ‘Run Of The Mill (Take 36)’

UNIVERSALLY regarded, without too much contention from the Lennon and McCartney camps, as the best Beatles’ solo album, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, home to such classics as “My…

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Classic Album: The Beatles – Abbey Road

Chronologically the final album that The Beatles recorded together, the general public’s appreciation for Abbey Road seems to increase each year, despite it being very much an album of two halves. Side one…

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Classic Album: The Beatles – The Beatles (a.k.a The White Album)

Oh dear, the double album. A place for acts to stretch their legs and indulge their every creative whim, part diverse buffet of styles, part bloody mess. Dylan and Frank…

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New Music: The Raft, Orion (EP)

Liverpudlian Phil Wilson, the genius behind The Raft, is scarily prolific, having released a series of three rather epic EPs over the last six months (see previous reviews here). And…

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Classic Compilation: The Beatles – Love

How many words have been written about The Beatles in the last five and a half decades? Too damn many that’s for certain, but it’s also probably one of the…

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Classic Album: Considering the status of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50 years later.

50 years ago popular music reached its absolute apex when Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the most perfect musical statement in the history of the eardrum was released. It…

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Not Forgotten: The Beatles – The Magical Mystery Tour

A Not Forgotten article on The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour? I must have flipped my lid right? How can any album release by the biggest act in popular music be…

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A beginners’ guide to The Beatles

For me there is one genuine great body of creative work from the 20th Century which is beyond criticism. It towers above the collected work of artists like Salvador Dali…

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DVD Review: A Hard Day’s Night

The Beatles are possibly the most well known pop group in history, but when A Hard Day’s Night was released they were only on the cusp of world domination. The…

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