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Greeks reflect on democracy’s new dawn 50 years after its return

The 1974 collapse of the far-right junta brought relief – but for some it took years to feel safe

The Guardian - UK

Laugh-In creator: I’m crazy about Ringo

On a super '70s bonus episode of "Everything Fab Four," George Schlatter, Doug Momary and Emily Peden reminisce

Salon

The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' Reenters U.K. Songs Chart After 14 Years

The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' re-enters U.K. charts after 14 years, showcasing enduring popularity and lasting influence on music lovers worldwide.

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“Hendrix came in at two o’clock in the morning. I can still remember the audience – Rod Stewart, The Beatles, the Small Faces – all of them were silent when Jimi was done”: Junior Marvin on joining Bob Marley – and the night Hendrix shook his hand

Marvin had been offered a 10 year contract from Stevie Wonder on the day he joined Bob Marley and the Wailers. But he never looked back. Here he looks back on making musical history with reggae's global icon

Guitar World

“Josh Homme’s guitar playing is very learned and proper. I’m self-taught, and my style is more unorthodox. My guitar is untamed.” Brant Bjork made his name as Kyuss’ drummer – but he found his voice on guitar

The drummer turned guitarist says starting in cover bands can improve your writing skills – and explains why he learned more from the Byrds and the Beatles than playing with Josh Homme in Kyuss

Guitar World

“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space

Louder

“To me, it's kind of milking a dead cow”: Beatles engineer Ken Scott on the release of Now and Then, the band’s final single, in 2023

“It's more to do with the fact that I know that George was not particularly fond of finishing it off back in the day,” he says

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"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope

With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble

Louder

John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus

The Guardian - UK

Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

From its revolutionary first chord to its last bars, the Beatles’ overlooked third album transcends mere ‘pop’, says author Colin Fleming

The Guardian - UK

"The show was vilified by the record companies because artists were insulted on a regular basis": In 1974 Captain Beefheart appeared on Dutch TV show Van Oekel's Discohoek: Even by his standards, it was weird

In which Captain Beefheart interrupts another singer, lip-syncs badly, is awarded a trophy, and pays tribute to The Beatles

Louder

"The impact and influence of music artists like The Beatles, Oasis and others from the north of England have had on the music industry in decades past is redoubtable" – so why are young northern musicians less supported than the rest of the UK?

A new report highlights a north / south divide emerging

MusicRadar

“Prog? There was a university pretentiousness about it. People asked what we did and I’d say, ‘10cc music’”: However you describe it, The Original Soundtrack is a progressive landmark

Their third album, complete with I’m Not In Love, moved away from three-minute singles and embraced opera and concept pop. Did it also inspire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody?

Louder

Revival 69: John & Yoko save a festival

Ron Chapman's film examines the Toronto concert where Lennon performed before announcing the Beatles' disbandment

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Away from the crowds, rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury 2004

The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney

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What connects, Apple, The Beatles, and one of the BBC’s most viral bloopers of all time?

Apple’s infamous legal battle against Apple Records led to one of the greatest blunders in the BBC’s history. Here’s why.

MusicRadar

“The Beatles are my biggest inspiration and the main thing that was in my ears when I was a child, and this song is just incredible”: Billie Eilish names the Beatles song she wishes she’d written

Billie Eilish also praises brother Finneas as she discusses the making of Lunch

Guitar World

“This guy was just up on stage playing guitar behind his neck and now he’s barely even talking to me”: Junior Marvin saw Jimi Hendrix blow away the Beatles at a London club show – but says the guitar hero was too shy to speak to him

The Bob Marley and The Wailers guitarist says Hendrix was “like two different people” on and offstage

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The Conversation

What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in…

Salon

Mike Campbell: A good song will age well

The Dirty Knobs guitarist teams up with Chris Stapleton, Lucinda Williams & Graham Nash: "It was like Christmas"

MusicRadar

7 reasons every creative needs an audio interface

From recording band demos, to streaming and session work, if you want to capture quality audio, an interface is absolutely essential

The Guardian - UK

Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records

As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back

Salon

Wings' pristine "One Hand Clapping"

Enjoy 21st century production on the 1974 project where the real story exists in the tracks themselves

Salon

Jamie & Leonard Bernstein's Beatlemania

On "Everything Fab Four," the author discusses being John and Yoko's neighbor and learning Beatles music theory

MusicRadar

"It's very hard for people to understand how monolithic it was, looking at it today. But it was absolutely earthshaking": Was 9 February 1964 the most important day in rock 'n' roll history?

"It was kind of like an alien invasion"

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