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Watch the new official music video for The Beatles’ “Let It Be”, filmed on the day after the January 30th rooftop concert. The footage has been meticulously restored from the 16mm negative. Now streaming on Disney+. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

George Harrison's ex-wife Pattie Boyd is celebrating her 81st birthday today. As a number of online tributes attest, she is one of the most acclaimed models of her generation. Popular model-photographer-author Pattie Boyd has always liked to keep a bit of herself hidden from view. At 81st birthday, she remains a woman of many facets. Boyd, a cultural icon Born Patricia Anne Boyd in Taunton on March 17, 1944, her career spans an arc over many different eras and tastes in English history. Boyd's not just a great model, she's an inspiration, an icon and a successful business woman. At...

Rock music has been the heartbeat of rebellion, innovation, and raw emotion for decades. From electrifying guitar solos to anthems that defined generations, the greatest rock bands have shaped not only music but culture itself. Whether it’s the thunderous energy of Led Zeppelin, the poetic genius of The Beatles, or the arena-shaking power of Queen, these bands left an undeniable mark on the world. But what truly makes a rock band one of the greatest of all time? Is it record sales, legendary performances, or their influence on future artists? In this article, we’ll dive into the best rock bands...

On Feb. 9/1964, the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullvan show

AI is getting scary. Some YouTuber used AI to create a Motown versions of the Beatle's Rubber Soul and Revolver, and it's much, much better than you might expect. You could listen to it over and over. They use the same words, but they really revamp the music. I would say some of it sounds more like Sam Cooke, or other soul music, than specifically Motown, but it stands on it's own. How is this possible?

(I set the time index to skip RJ Talks pointless commentary; shows that most of what she said was her usual crap)WITNESS The Brutal ROASTING of CNN by Whitney Cummings! | 16:18RJ Talks | 401K subscribers | 188,129 views | January 1, 2025

On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on TV screens across America and instantly captured the hearts and ears of a generation. Bolstering the animated special, based on Charles M. Schulz's immensely popular PEANUTS comic strip, was an engaging score from Bay Area jazz artist Vince Guaraldi, who brought characters like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Snoopy to life through his evocative cues... Guaraldi's soundtrack, meanwhile, has since become one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, and regularly ranks among America's top-selling holiday albums every December.Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas...

The Beatles are rightly considered one of the most progressive rock bands of all time. So it is easy to look back at their salad days and point out John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as the early 1960s version of a boy band. After all, the group were well-marketed and hit the top of the charts with startling consistency. But, within a few years, they were already changing the game. After their album Rubber Sul, the group confirmed themselves as the rock icons they are now revered as. Not only did they begin expanding their counterculture...

Switzerland's Supreme Court has ruled that Yoko Ono is the rightful owner of a watch she gifted John Lennon in 1980, two months before he was assassinated outside his home in New York City. For his birthday that year, Ono had given her husband a very rare Patek Philippe 2499 watch. At the time, Ono paid around $25,000 at Tiffany — roughly $100,000 today. On the back of it was an inscription: "(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER, LOVE YOKO. 10 • 9 • 1980. N. Y. C." Following Lennon's death, Ono locked the watch away in the couple's apartment, where it...

Fixing A Hole (Remastered 2009) · The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The story of how Richard and Karen covered Klaatu, the group rumored to the secret reunion of the Fab Four. Have you heard the one about the futuristic track by a group that were rumored to be The Beatles in disguise, and which was turned into a hit by America’s favorite musical brother and sister? This is the story of how the Carpenters get involved with an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, and turned the affair into a hit record. Devotees of quality pop of the 1970s will, by now, know that we’re talking about “Calling Occupants Of...

On Tuesday, June 18, Julian, 61, — the son of Beatles legend John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia — marked Paul McCartney’s 82nd birthday with a special message on X (formerly known as Twitter). “Hoppy Birdy, Uncle Paul! Only love… Jude x,” Julian’s caption read as he shared a video montage of himself as a child with McCartney. Played alongside The Beatles’ classic “Hey Jude,” the first photo featured a younger McCartney sitting beside Julian on the grass. The pair were then pictured walking together before the video switched to a snap of them playing on the shoreline by...

">width="30%"/> The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you on a day you'll never forget! Discover Beatles Liverpool with Cavern City Tours. The two hour tour takes place on-board the colourful Magical Mystery Tour Bus and takes passengers on a two hour tour of all the places associated with the Fab Four! Passengers will see where John, Paul, George and Ringo grew up, met and formed the band that took the world by storm.

A new Lennon and McCartney collaboration is the last thing anybody expected. Yet fans of the Beatles have been taken by surprise by a new single released by the sons of two of the Fab Four - James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon, who are both musicians themselves. The new single, entitled “Primrose Hill” after a park in north London that offers a panoramic view of the city, was announced by McCartney, son of Paul and his late wife Linda, on Instagram four days ago.

When the Beatles arrived on the scene in the United States in 1964, many have said it was like a Wizard of Oz moment; before them, popular music was black and white but after, it was technicolor. Yes, the former Mop Tops changed everything when it came to pop and rock and roll—and the band continued to flip the script, evolving from simple tunes to very intricate, sweeping offerings on later albums. But given their enormous musical impact, it was inevitable some bands along the way were going to imitate The Beatles’ sound. Imitation, after all, is the highest form...

Tomorrow is Tax Day in America - April 15th, the day before Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia (April 16th). So Monday represents America's formal Emancipation Day from what H & R Block & Co like to dignify as "Tax Season". As I used to say on Rush every year round this time, the acceptance of that term is not a good sign: Baseball should have a season, but not tax. Nevertheless, in the brokey brokiest nation in the history of brokeness, on this day the season of 1040s and 1099s draws to a close, and so, as we...

Paul McCartney is singing his praises for Beyoncé’s version of “Blackbird.” The music legend on Thursday wrote on his Instagram page that he’s “so happy” with the Grammy-winner’s cover of the 1968 Beatles track that is included on her newly released “Act II: Cowboy Carter” album, under the slightly revised title “Blackbiird.” “I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place,” he wrote. He went on to “urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out.”

Paul McCartney, during the tense recordings of the White Album and the early days of the Get Back project, his mother Mary appeared before him in a dream, calming him and saying "Let it be." Paul took the song to Twickenham Studios, where he presented it to John, George and Ringo, and together they polished it as McCartney finished the lyrics. After the band's last concert on the roof of the EMI studios in Abbey Road on January 30, 1969, The Beatles returned the next day to finish recording and film promotional videos for most of the album's songs. After...

The doctored photo shared by Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales—in the wake of her alleged abdominal surgery—has ignited significant controversy across various online platforms. However, the conspiracies swirling around the Princess and her health were brewing long before the emergence of this infamous photograph. What is it that prompts such intense scrutiny and fuels the spread of conspiracy theories surrounding the Princess? Moreover, why are royalists, the apathetic and anti-imperialists all equally captivated by the media frenzy surrounding Kate?

A bullet, which was used in the same gun that killed John Lennon, is set to head to auction in Newcastle on February 28th. The item belonged to the late Brian Taylor, who worked as a police officer for Northumbria Police. During a visit to New York, he took a group of young individuals who fostered ambitions to become police officers to see the New York Police Department and unexpectedly got caught up in a shooting while riding in a police patrol car. As an apology, they allowed him to visit a museum where they store weapons from high-profile cases...