Ringo Starr

Beatles on the brink: the truth about the Fab Four’s final days

The director’s new documentary weaves together hours of unseen footage to dispel many myths about the band’s final weeks

John Harris

26, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM

‘I’m a one in a billion’ – how Diane Warren penned windswept power ballads for Cher, Gaga and Dion

She’s the queen of the power ballad mega hit – and has even written songs for Biden, Harris and Ringo Starr. Now the world’s most successful female songwriter is finally releasing her own album

Dorian Lynskey

26, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM

'We were lucky people didn't throw tomatoes': Klaus Voormann on his Beatles and Plastic Ono days

He played with the Fab Four in Hamburg, inspired their moptops, drew the famed Revolver cover, and gigged with Yoko Ono. As his illustrations are published, the great musician relives his fabulous escapades

Alexis Petridis

04, Nov, 2020 @6:00 AM

The Beatles announce Get Back, first official book in 20 years

Hanif Kureishi writes introduction to book edited from 120 hours of conversations from the Let It Be sessions, in tandem with Peter Jackson documentary

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

16, Sep, 2020 @1:00 PM

The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 3, The Beatles – She Loves You

The Fab Four’s 1963 hit is an explosion of exuberance that made “yeah yeah yeah” the fanfare for a culture on the brink of irreversible change

Richard Williams

03, Jun, 2020 @7:58 AM

The day the Beatles broke up: fly away Paul - archive, April 1970

Fifty years ago, Paul McCartney announced that he was no longer working with Beatles. See how the Guardian reported the split

Richard Nelsson

09, Apr, 2020 @12:08 PM

'I was shattered' – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the day the Beatles split

Fifty years ago today, the counter-cultural whirlwind that was the Beatles ended. Musicians, fans and insiders relive the devastating day their era-defining story came to an abrupt close

Interviews by Jude Rogers

09, Apr, 2020 @5:00 AM

Abbey Road zebra crossing repainted in coronavirus lockdown

Council workers take advantage of the empty streets to spruce up the crossing featured on the cover of the Beatles’ 1969 album

Laura Snapes

27, Mar, 2020 @9:58 AM

Liam Gallagher's son and Ringo Starr's grandson in court over Tesco affray charge

Gene Gallagher and Sonny Starkey have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges over an alleged altercation in Hampstead

Laura Snapes

07, Feb, 2020 @11:54 AM

The Beatles' singles – ranked!

As Abbey Road turns 50, we rate the Fab Four’s 22 UK singles, which dominated the charts in the 1960s – and changed pop for ever

Alexis Petridis

26, Sep, 2019 @12:00 PM

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite to record John Lennon song

Grow Old With Me is latest collaboration between the surviving Beatles members

Mattha Busby

14, Sep, 2019 @6:00 AM

'This tape rewrites everything we knew about the Beatles'

Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves. The expert’s tapes of their tense final meetings shed new light on Abbey Road – and inspired a new stage show