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Paul McCartney Announces First Album in Six Years, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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Paul McCartney Announces First Album in Six Years, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'

Paul McCartney has announced his new 14-track solo album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane,' his first in six years, set for release on May 29. The melancholic album is inspired by his childhood in Liverpool and early days with John Lennon and George Harrison.

John Lennon piano sets Beatles auction record
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John Lennon piano sets Beatles auction record

A piano used by John Lennon to write songs for Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has sold for $3.247 million (€2.81 million) at auction in New York, leading a record-breaking Beatles haul at auction in New York.

Love Magic Power Danger Bliss by Paul Morley review – reappraising Yoko Ono
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Love Magic Power Danger Bliss by Paul Morley review – reappraising Yoko Ono

An vivid celebration of the once-maligned, now revered artist’s life and work John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the world’s most famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Others were more vicious, portraying her as a family wrecker (the family being the Beatles), a cultural vandal, an Asian virus, a shrieking harridan. As ventriloquised by Paul Morley in his appallingly titled Love Magic Power Danger Bliss, they saw her as someone whose “sole reas...

Anna Sawai On Playing Yoko Ono In Sam Mendes’ Beatles Films: “It’s Very Meaningful For Me To Be Able To Tell Her Story”
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Anna Sawai On Playing Yoko Ono In Sam Mendes’ Beatles Films: “It’s Very Meaningful For Me To Be Able To Tell Her Story”

Anna Sawai is previewing her role as Yoko Ono in filmmaker Sam Mendes’ quartet of Beatles films. Speaking to People in a new interview, the Emmy-winning Shōgun actress said it was “exciting” to portray the Japanese artist, whose marriage to co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist John Lennon catapulted her into another stratosphere of fame. “It’s […]