Beatlemania didn’t go out with the Sixties. Keira Knightley has revealed her daughter, Delilah, has become ‘obsessed’ with The Beatles at the tender age of five — and is besotted with 78-year-old Sir Paul McCartney. ‘It is really obsessive,’ says the Atonement star, who is married to rocker James Righton. ‘She knows all of the four … Read more
For sale, the Cartier watch that helped keep The Beatles punctual: Brian Epstein’s timepiece is among lots at Fab Four auction that also features John Lennon’s school detention sheet and a pair of his glasses By Kumail Jaffer For The Daily Mail Published: 01:50 BST, 23 September 2020 | Updated: 01:50 BST, 23 September 2020 … Read more
From the joyous Beatles City to The Walkers Switch, the contemplative The Bomb and Queen Mary History Of Emotions, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 01:21 BST, 6 September 2020 Beatles City Fan podcasts can be a bit embarrassing but this show about The Beatles made … Read more
Hamburg has long been a thriving port. And ports need a lot of ropes. So, ropemaking was an important trade in the 17th century, when those who made them chose a long stretch of ground in the St Pauli district to produce their wares. Now, here I am in 2020, on a pilgrimage to Ropemakers’ … Read more
Michael Jackson BLASTS The Beatles along with Elvis Presley and MTV in scathing letters written in 1987 about his anger over racial inequality The King of Pop took shots at iconic musicians like The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen in letters written in 1987 The singer, who passed away in 2009, also blasted MTV … Read more
He is one-quarter of the most successful group of all time, and has written iconic songs including Yesterday, Hey Jude! and Let It Be. And Sir Paul McCartney has given an insight into his musical success, revealing he still uses an amplifier he bought when he was aged 14. The Beatles legend, 78, revealed his … Read more
Dawson’s Creek alum Katie Holmes scraped her hair into a top bun and dressed down in wide-leg blue jeans and Birkenstock sandals to go grocery shopping in Manhattan on Sunday. The Ohio-born 41-year-old wore a T-shirt featuring the obscure cover of The Beatles’ 1988 unofficial release in South Korea, Back-Track. Katie made sure to protect … Read more
Sir Paul McCartney revealed he found it ‘pretty hurtful’ when he was blamed for breaking up The Beatles when the group parted ways in 1970. Reflecting on the misconceptions he faced during his time with the band, the singer, 78, spoke candidly with British GQ on Tuesday about how he felt at the time. Saying people … Read more
America is willing to drop the threat of the death penalty in order to put the British ‘ISIS Beatles’ on trial, it was reported last night. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to a four-man execution cell in Syria named after the band by their captives. Elsheikh and Kotey also have admitted their … Read more
An ISIS ‘Beatle’ has for the first time admitted to abusing US hostage James Foley in an ISIS prison alongside ‘scared’ Kayla Mueller. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are both in U.S. military custody in Iraq, have given new details about the captivity of Western hostages in Syria, in interview tapes obtained by NBC … Read more