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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.
This new last Beatles song, enabled in part by AI, demonstrates the importance of the profound and lasting connections between the four musicians.
The Beatles have released a new track - using new technology to strip Lennon’s vocals out of an old demo casette tape. Will this be part of Beatles canon?
AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.
Teenage chef Debbie commenced her decade-long tenure at the Australian Women’s Weekly in July 1954 – and her recipes could help with your ‘matrimony prospects’.
Paul McCartney appears to compose the smash hit ‘Get Back’ from thin air in a clip from the Beatles documentary of the same name — but experts propose at least eight other factors behind it.
Toe jam was mentioned in a song by The Beatles. Maybe they knew a thing or two about foot hygiene.
In their press rounds, director Peter Jackson and Paul McCartney have been eager to recast the legacy of the band’s final years.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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