After years of negotiating the songs of The Beatles are finally available for purchase on iTunes. To celebrate, The Guardian indulges in some word play, rewriting Beatle’s song titles for the iTunes age. Think: ‘While My Guitar Gently Tweets.”
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The relationship between pop culture and the atomic bomb
The Beatle’s hit single Love Me Do was released four days before the Cuban missile crisis began. The band’s subsequent success can be linked to the atomic bomb - along with plenty of other “living for the moment” pop culture, writes Jon Savage.
Film Review: Nowhere Boy: Lennon biopic loud, heavy and highly strung
The new biopic Nowhere Boy, about a young John Lennon, was adapted from a memoir by John Lennon’s half sister, so there must be at least of crumb of truth in the dramatic tale, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Video of the Day: Beatles 3000
1000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie remains…
The Beatles: Bigger than Jesus. Again.
The Fab Four split up over 40 years years ago and half of the members are dead, but Beatlemania is back, with new remastered CDs and Rock Band video game sending them soaring back up the charts.
Will the music video game survive The Beatles: Rock Band?
The Beatles: Rock Band is make or break time for the music video game. With a budget of close to $US100 million to make, can the investment pay off? asks Harold Goldberg
“Who’s Jude?” Kids review The Beatles
The Beatles: you know they’re the most important band in the history of modern pop music — but most kids today have never heard of them. So what do the High School Music generation reckon when hearing the Fab Four for the first time?
The Beatles: Rock Band: flawed but fun
Kotaku reviews the most highly-anticipated (by both hardcore geeks and non-gamers alike) video game releases of the year: The Beatles: Rock Band. Can it possibly live up to all the hype?
An illustrated history of the Beatles’ breakup
Rolling Stone put together the story of the Beatles’ breakup, told through snippets of old photos and interviews with Paul McCartney and John Lennonand. It wasn’t all Yoko’s fault…
The musical history of the mp3
This decade will go down in music history, not for the tunes created but for the technological changes. Mp3s have reaffirmed that the music industry is about more than just capitalism, writes Eric Harvey.
All you need is a video game
Paul McCartney used to mimic Elvis. Now, with The Beatles: Rock Band video game, McCartney hopes people will mimic The Beatles and experience music above the standard superficial level, learning the different nuances of the famous songs.
Vale Les Paul, symbol maker of rock
Les Paul, one of the seminal figures of rock n roll history, has died at age 94.
After Michael Jackson Part 2: Beatles become Jackson’s security blanket
Popular culture commentator Ross Stapleton examines life after Michael Jackson in a five-part series. Today, the second instalment.
Michael Jackson’s Estate: saved by the Beatles
It was the best business deal he ever did — Michael Jackson’s 50% stake in Sony/ATV, which comes with about 250 Beatles songs, should save his estate from bankruptcy.
How I bluffed my way into John and Yoko’s hotel room: a schoolboy tells
Yoko had a black sweater on with white pants and white stockings. John was barefoot and had a big bushy beard, exactly like the Abbey Road cover. Right then and there I knew my life would be changed for ever.
Video of the Day: 13,500 people sing Hey Jude in Trafalgar Square
Yes, it’s all a marketing stunt for a mobile phone company, but not one we have here, so we’re happy to share it. Everybody: naa-naa-naa-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Unemployment … the National Broadband Network … Australia’s rivers … Dymocks … The Beatles …
Unemployment … the National Broadband Network … Australia’s rivers … Dymocks … The Beatles …
The Beatles: remastered
From September the fortunes of The Beatles will make another mighty leap. And everyone will benefit.
