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John Lennon

June 2026

  • Head and shoulders image of McCartney and Lennon singing into a microphone

    Hello, goodbye: the Beatles’ chaotic, controversial final tour – as never seen before

    Tired, emotional and besieged by fans and enemies alike, by 1966 the Fab Four were ready to quit touring for good. A new collection of images by rock photographer Jim Marshall captures their last gigs

May 2026

  • A man wearing a dark blazer, a white shirt, beaded bangles, with his hands together

    ‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

    At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’ll get through’
  • John Lennon with long dark hair plays an acoustic guitar while sitting cross-legged on a bed

    John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow

    Cannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder

    • Tony Wilson obituary

    • Letters and photos from Beatles’ early days to go on show in Hamburg

    • Yoko Ono trademark challenge leaves sour taste for John Lemon beer maker

April 2026

  • John Lennon performing at the One to One Concert in New York, 1972

    Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film

  • Headshots of Gillian Anderson, John Travolta, Rami Malek, and Cara Delevingne

    Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup

February 2026

  • Paul McCartney in Man on the Run.

    Man on the Run review – archival delve into Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles era is a welcome revisit

    After the Fab Four fell and Wings took flight, McCartney embodied a strange, stylised sense of uncool, which would become bestselling success. A new documentary of old material memorialises his second coming

January 2026

  • Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham

    What’s in a surname? Just ask Brooklyn Peltz Beckham

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Polly Hudson on Beckham and other men double barrelling their surnames after marriage

December 2025

  • Steve Cropper & Dave Mason In Concert - Pasadena, CAPASADENA, CA - SEPTEMBER 28: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Cropper, founding member of Booker T. & the MG's and the Blues Brothers Band, performs onstage at The Rose on September 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

    Steve Cropper obituary

    Guitarist with the American band Booker T and the MGs who was also a successful songwriter and producer

November 2025

  • The Beatles receive their MBEs in 1965. A black and white still from The Beatles Anthology

    The Beatles Anthology: the flammed together ‘new episode’ feels totally pointless

    The TV equivalent of raiding a bare cupboard, the supposed extra hour here is cobbled together from previous DVD extras – but you can’t miss the tension between Harrison and McCartney
  • The Beatles Anthology

    The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing

    Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
  • Peter Watkins in Sweden in 1988 after the launch of his film Resan, which he described as a ‘global odyssey for peace’

    Peter Watkins obituary

    Pioneer of the docudrama whose 1965 film The War Game was considered ‘too horrifying’ for broadcast by the BBC

October 2025

  • John Lennon being interviewed by assembled reporters with microphones, as he stands next to Yoko Ono outside an airport exit labelled "US customs. Restricted area"

    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

September 2025

  • John Lennon in 1963: in this black and white portrait he sits in what may be a backstage dressing room wearing a dark suit and tie, smoking a cigarette. His hair is quite short with a fringe over his forehead and small, neat sideburns.

    John Lennon’s school desk goes on display at Beatles Museum in Liverpool

  • a man wearing round glasses sits next to microphones

    John Lennon’s killer denied parole for 14th time

August 2025

  • Ringo, Paul, George and John … the Beatles in 1969.

    The Beatles Anthology to be remastered by Peter Jackson’s company

    A remastered version of the classic 90s docuseries will launch in November, 30 years after the original series was broadcast, with an episode of new material on Disney+ – alongside an album of rare and unreleased recordings

July 2025

  • Photos of Mick Jagger and Michael Caine from the proof copy of Bailey’s landmark collection of portraits, which was conceived with designer David Hillman and found in his private collection

    Rare original proof of David Bailey’s 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered

    Exclusive: Near-mint condition preprint copy features 36 portraits of stars including John Lennon and Mick Jagger

June 2025

  • A handwritten letter by John Lennon

    John Lennon’s ‘smutty and funny’ letter to future first wife to be sold at auction

    Beatle wrote in 1962 letter to Cynthia Powell that he wished he was on his way to her flat with ‘chocies and a throbber’
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