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The emotional climax of Paul McCartney’s tour opener in Palm Springs: right at the start, when he sang “Help!” It was his full show, after a short warm-up dress rehearsal last week in a small Santa Barbara venue. But he set the stakes high with “Help!,” John Lennon’s personal cry …

Paul McCartney launched his 2025 North American tour Friday night with a last-minute warmup gig at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California. He kicked off the night by playing the Beatles classic “Help!” in its entirety for the first time since 1965. The Santa Barbara Bowl seats a …

Leonardo DiCaprio was happy to witness a special moment at Oasis‘ show in Los Angeles earlier this month. In an interview with NME, the actor expressed his excitement about seeing the Gallagher brothers perform a cover of a Beatles‘ song in front of Paul McCartney himself. “It was incredible. It …

I have a sneaking suspicion that everybody wants to be in a musical,” says Paul Mescal without a hint of irony, reaching into an off-license refrigerator and pulling out a pink G&T in a can. “Should we get a cold one of these?” He grabs two then saunters up to …

Last year, Paul McCartney was reunited with his long-lost bass guitar 51 years after it disappeared. The saga has been turned into a new documentary titled The Beatle and the Bass Guitar. The new film is produced by Passion Pictures, which won a BAFTA this year with Sundance hit Super/Man: …

Paul Mescal called Paul McCartney “an extraordinary man,” and revealed that he’s spent some time with the musician he’s playing in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic. Speaking with IndieWire, Mescal said of McCartney, “To spend any time — it’s a crazy sentence to say that I’ve spent time with that …

As we learned from the original Spinal Tap, all things must pass — or choke on someone else’s vomit, or die in a bizarre gardening accident, or explode onstage. So it’s appropriate that the film’s long-delayed sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (in theaters Sept. 12), functions as a …

Indie-rock heroes Spoon are back with two new songs. The Austin, Texas, band just surprise-released “Chateau Blues” and “Guess I’m Fallin’ In Love,” quintessential examples of the kind of sharp guitar bangers the band has been doing well for decades. It’s the first new music they’ve put out since their …

All together now: the Beatles’ classic Anthology documentary is finally getting a long-awaited new edition. The new Anthology is restored, remastered, and expanded—the full story of the Beatles, in the words of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr themselves. The original eight-episode series was a worldwide sensation …

It turns out that the real problem with Spinal Tap‘s “Stonehenge” wasn’t just that tiny onstage prop — the song was also missing some assistance from a living rock monument. A just-released new version of the track, featuring Elton John on vocals, is the first single from the fictional metal …