If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Beatlemania isn’t showing any signs of slowing down just yet. The Beatles first made their debut in the United States over 60 years ago this year on The …
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Aspiring producers and mixing engineers — especially those with sizable budgets or deep pockets— will have an opportunity to buy the one-of-a-kind EMI recording console used by the Beatles when it goes on sale next week, Oct. 29, on Reverb. The board going on sale is the original EMI TG12345 …
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A new documentary produced by Martin Scorsese will celebrateBeatlemania’s diamond jubilee. Beatles ’64, which will debut on Disney+ on Nov. 29, will feature new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the Beatlemaniacs who followed them, paired with footage of the band’s first U.S. concert and Ed Sullivan Show appearance. …
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Paul McCartney played his first concert of 2024 on Tuesday night at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. He kept largely to the script from last year until the midway point when he performed “Now and Then” for the first time. John Lennon captured the wistful piano ballad “Now and Then” …
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The haunting intro on the Rolling Stones‘ “Monkey Man,” the galloping keyboard solo on the Beatles‘ “Revolution,” the piano that anchors the Who‘s “The Song Is Over,” and countless other indelible classic-rock moments were all the work of one man: session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. A classically trained player from Middlesex, …
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Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band have canceled the last two shows on his North American summer tour after the former Beatle came down with a cold. The two shows were scheduled to take place tonight, Sept. 24, in Philadelphia and tomorrow, Sept. 25, in New York City. Ticket …
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In her office at the Friar Park estate where she and George Harrison lived, Olivia Harrison grabs a piece of correspondence she only recently saw: a handwritten letter from her late husband to his mother when the Beatles were hanging with the Maharishi in India in 1968. “I became famous …
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The Killers kicked off a two-night stand at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York, on Saturday night by honoring another band that played the same venue 60 years earlier. “Some of you might know the history of the place,” Killers frontman Brandon Flowers told the crowd. “Obviously there were …
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Jimin of BTS is turning heads worldwide with Muse, his ambitious and experimental new solo album. One of the tracks getting the most attention is the great single, “Smeraldo Garden Marching Band,” featuring South Korean rapper Loco. Jimin takes explicit inspiration from the Beatles 1967 psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely …
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A guitar used by John Lennon has sold for $2,857,500, setting a new record for the highest-selling guitar at auction in the Beatles‘ history. The Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar, used in the recording of the Beatles’ 1965 Help! album and film, was bought through a telephone bid as part …
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