The Beatles

Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott appears to confirm

Longstanding rumour on casting as Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’s big four-part project seems settled after comments by Gladiator II director

Andrew Pulver

11, Dec, 2024 @11:10 AM

That Christmas to Beatles ’64: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Richard Curtis gets the festive season off to a cracking start with a bubbly animation, plus Martin Scorsese’s fly-on-the-wall epic about the Fab Four on tour

Simon Wardell

29, Nov, 2024 @9:00 AM

Barry Keoghan set to star in Beatles biopic, claims Ringo Starr

Saltburn actor will reportedly play famed drummer in Sam Mendes’s ambitious films from each member’s perspective

Benjamin Lee

27, Nov, 2024 @6:25 PM

John Lennon letter inviting Eric Clapton to join supergroup to be auctioned

1971 letter proposes group including Klaus Voormann and Phil Spector to ‘bring back the balls in rock’n’roll’

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

27, Nov, 2024 @2:40 PM

Beatles ’64 review – Fab Four radiate an inexhaustible, almost supernatural energy

Contemporary interviews and amazing archive footage combine in a sublime snapshot of the band’s whirlwind first US visit

Peter Bradshaw

25, Nov, 2024 @5:00 PM

Vic Flick, guitarist on the James Bond theme, dies aged 87

Famed session musician, who also performed with the Beatles, Tom Jones, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, died after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Sian Cain

20, Nov, 2024 @12:49 AM

‘Played on over 250 albums’: was Nicky Hopkins the greatest unsung pianist ever?

He helped shape classic songs by the Rolling Stones, The Who and the Beatles but his influence on music has been largely ignored. A new documentary aims to correct that

Jim Farber

06, Nov, 2024 @9:06 AM