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“Ritchie Blackmore was playing licks to sound check. Andy started answering him. Their conversation with guitars was enough to impress Ritchie”: Ted Turner on eating biscuits with John Lennon and how Deep Purple gave Wishbone Ash their big break

The Les Paul slinger shares the secret behind his twin-guitar sound with Andy Powell, why he quit the band not once but twice, and working as a session player on John Lennon’s Imagine

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Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bundle of rags with nothing to say’

As he tours the UK, the musician answers your questions on making Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, squabbles with XTC and the Band, and wiring his studio while high

The Guardian - UK

“Lennon says, ‘Tell him we’ll put the guitar on our next album cover.’ The guy says, ‘Nope, sorry.’ The album was Sgt. Pepper’s”: The day the Beatles visited New York’s most legendary guitar store

The salesmen at Manny's Music were happy to give the Fab Four a free guitar, but needed permission from its manufacturer. No freebies, they were told – not even for the biggest band in history

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“He our admiration for his music and our respect for his talent for recognizing guitar genius”: The life and times of Ozzy Osbourne – metal’s godfather and Prince of Darkness

Remembering John “Ozzy” Osbourne, the frontman who breathed life into heavy metal and found some of its greatest guitar players

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"Some Time In New York City is an album that suffers from being terrible": John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band compiled on Power To The People

A collection of live, studio and demo tracks and an almost-album from John Lennon’s political New York City years

Louder

Beatles Paul McCartney biopic casts Oscar nominee as Linda McCartney

Saoirse Ronan will reportedly reunite with fellow Irish star Paul Mescal for role

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Sean Ono Lennon: ‘People say I grew up in the shadow of my dad – but Yoko really did’

INTERVIEW: The musician, producer and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono speaks to Louis Chilton about a landmark new boxset of his parents’ remastered live recordings, protecting the legacy of The Beatles, and why it took 50 years for his mother to be properly appreciated

The Independent UK

"OK, let’s put it out”: John Lennon originally wanted to “just throw away” Walls and Bridges and had to be persuaded to release it

Long lost interview also reveals his battles with the Nixon administration

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Long-lost John Lennon interview reveals US phone-tapping fears

Ex-Beatle spoke of performing ‘for another 60 years’ in interview to be aired for 85th anniversary of his birth

The Guardian - UK

Patsy Kensit says she hasn’t seen ex-husband Liam Gallagher in 26 years despite sharing son Lennon together

The actress shares son Lennon with the Oasis frontman but says she’s happy he’s been able to enjoy the band’s reunion

Evening Standard

‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s

Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters like Alice Cooper, recall a major moral panic

The Guardian - UK

“John Lennon’s 12-string has a similar trebly edge to it… this guitar passes the ‘Fab Four’ test”: Framus Hootenanny 12-string and 6-string review

John Lennon famously used a Framus 12-string acoustic with the Beatles, and 60 years later the company has reissued the model in all its fab finery – and it comes with a little help from a friend!

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“I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboration

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"I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked

When The Beatles cranked up the guitars, they really cranked up the guitars

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Sir Paul McCartney performs solo Help! in full for the first time

Sir Paul McCartney kicked off his US tour by performing The Beatles' Help! in full for the first time in his solo career.

Louder

Paul McCartney hadn’t played this Beatles classic in full since 1965. That changed last night

The opening night of McCartney‘s US tour saw him perform a Beatles classic for the first time in full since 1965

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“It’s one of George's best songs. His mind is clear and his music is clear”: The genius of the profound 1967 Beatles song that John Lennon held up as George’s greatest

The opening to Sgt Pepper’s second side underlined just how boundless the Beatles’ musical scope had become

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“I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”: Noel's "#1 favourite guitar" that Liam smashed the night Oasis split is up one of over 100 Gallagher-related items up for auction

It could fetch up to £500,000

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John Lennon 'resented having to be a Beatle' in the end, says son Sean Ono Lennon

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon says his father hated playing the fame game.

Evening Standard

John Lennon ‘resented having to be a Beatle’, says son Sean Ono Lennon

The 49-year-old said his father ‘wanted to move on and be a radical artist and activist’.

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The guitar Liam Gallagher destroyed on the night Oasis split is expected to fetch up to £500k at auction

Noel Gallagher's guitar which was smashed to smithereens by his brother Liam on the night the guitarist departed Oasis is set to go under the hammer.

The Independent UK

Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on the night Oasis split goes to auction

Noel Gallagher said the Gibson ES-355 was damaged on the night of the band’s backstage fight at Rock en Seine festival in Paris

The Guardian - UK

Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on night Oasis split up goes to auction

Red Gibson ES-355, damaged on night of 2009 Rock en Seine fight, being sold alongside acoustic used in Wonderwall

The Independent UK

The famous piece of Oasis memorabilia that could fetch £500,000 at auction

Liam Gallagher broken Noel’s 1960s red Gibson ES-355 on the night the band split

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