The last time The Beatles ever played together, on the roof of the Apple Records building in London in January 1969.
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Let It Be lets us see how the narrative of The Beatles as a band has been woven into popular music, and wider history since it was made.
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This new last Beatles song, enabled in part by AI, demonstrates the importance of the profound and lasting connections between the four musicians.
Actor Colin Farrell with director Martin McDonagh on the set of The Banshees of Inisherin in the west of Ireland.
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The west of Ireland, like many scenic locations, provides the perfect backdrop for films.
Did Paul McCartney, right, and Ringo Starr hire Peter Jackson for a rescue operation?
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In their press rounds, director Peter Jackson and Paul McCartney have been eager to recast the legacy of the band’s final years.
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Women were always important to the Beatles, yet Yoko Ono, in particular, faced extreme criticism for partnering with John Lennon. How does Peter Jackson’s Get Back present Ono and Linda Eastman?
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An extraordinary technological feat, Get Back looks and sounds astonishingly good.
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It’s beautiful, clever and moving. But Peter Jackson’s use of colour and added sound essentially fictionalises this account of life in the trenches.
Freedom.
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The Hobbit trilogy can be seen as one of the lowest points of the blockbuster culture.
Creativity ‘does not somehow float free of economic gravity, miraculously aloft’.
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The view that art is essentially unworldly and creativity is play has a long history, dating back to the Romantics in the 18th century. According to this view, art must be kept separate from money, lest…