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15/07/2025

Shortly after returning from their second stint in Hamburg, Liverpool’s 1961 summer heat - combined with the Cavern’s - led to a schizoid Beatles dress code not seen in any other photos.

Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne has cancelled what had been billed as his final ever performance, owing to ...
13/07/2025

Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne has cancelled what had been billed as his final ever performance, owing to ill health.
Lynne was due to appear at the BST Hyde Park festival series on Sunday night, closing what had been the band’s farewell Over and Out tour, 55 years since the band formed.
A spokesperson for the concerts said he had a “systemic infection”. They added Lynne would not be able to reschedule.
BST said the whole concert, which was to have performances by Steve Winwood and the Doobie Brothers as well as Lynne, would be cancelled. It said ticket holders would be refunded.
The decision comes days after the 77-year-old axed an ELO concert in Manchester shortly before he was scheduled to come out onstage.

Electric Light Orchestra frontman withdraws from BST Hyde Park festival owing to a ‘systemic infection’

George’s career-spanning compilation album, ‘Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison’, is available today on vinyl  for th...
11/07/2025

George’s career-spanning compilation album, ‘Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison’, is available today on vinyl for the first time ever. The 2-LP 19-track album includes a number of George’s biggest singles including: “My Sweet Lord”, “Isn’t It A Pity”, “What Is Life”, “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”, “All Those Years Ago”, “Got My Mind Set On You” and more, as well as live solo recordings of three Beatles songs – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun” from the Grammy-winning album, ‘The Concert for Bangladesh’. Check out this specially curated playlist of tracks from ‘Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison’ featuring official videos and visualizers on George’s Official YouTube Channel.

George’s career-spanning compilation album, ‘Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison’, is available now on 2LP vinyl for the first-ever via Dark Horse Records....

Illness forces Jeff Lynne to cancel ELO performance.
11/07/2025

Illness forces Jeff Lynne to cancel ELO performance.

The official statement indicated that it was "due to illness," adding, "Jeff is devastated he cannot perform this evening."

11/07/2025

🕊 “Both uninhibited, a feeling of trust and safety compels me to take this photo…”
— Mary McCartney, Sussex, 1999

It’s a quiet summer day. Paul McCartney has just come back from a horse ride—still in his riding boots. His daughter Mary is visiting with her newborn baby. In the home where she grew up, three generations come together.

Paul lies down with his grandchild and they both drift off to sleep. Mary, moved by the stillness and love in the room, gently snaps the photo.

📸 Photo and words courtesy of Mary McCartney.

👇 What’s your favorite photo of Paul not on stage?

A book of Beatles -era photographs taken by George Harrison, many of them never published, will be released next year.Ra...
10/07/2025

A book of Beatles -era photographs taken by George Harrison, many of them never published, will be released next year.

Random House announced Thursday that “The Third Eye,” which includes more than 250 black and white and color images, is scheduled for Fall 2026. Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, compiled and curated the book, which covers the years 1963-69 and includes photos of the Beatles everywhere from their native Liverpool to India to Shea Stadium.

“I want to show people, from George’s unique photographic perspective during the Beatles’ early years, the moments when the whole of your life is ahead of you with unknowable possibilities,” Olivia Harrison said of her late husband, who died in 2001, in a statement released by Random House.

“His images in ‘The Third Eye’ capture that spirit.”

A new book of Beatles-era photographs by George Harrison will be released in Fall 2026. Random House announced Thursday that "The Third Eye" features over 250 images, many unpublished, taken between 1963 and 1969.

It's official. PAUL McCARTNEY GOT BACK 2025 – THE TOUR CONTINUESFirst North American Tour Since 2022paulmccartneygotback...
10/07/2025

It's official. PAUL McCARTNEY GOT BACK 2025 – THE TOUR CONTINUES

First North American Tour Since 2022

paulmccartneygotback.com

Following his historic three-night stand at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom earlier this year — hailed by BILLBOARD as “a religious experience” and moving NPR to rave “Paul McCartney has so much swag it’s ridiculous” — Paul McCartney and his acclaimed Got Back Tour will make their wildly anticipated return to North America this fall.

Got Back’s 2025 run of 19 newly announced dates marks Paul’s first extensive series of shows across the US and Canada since 2022. The tour kicks off September 29th with Paul’s Greater Palm Springs area live debut at Acrisure Arena and runs through to a November 24-25th finale at the United Center in Chicago. Got Back 2025 will feature Paul’s long-awaited return to Las Vegas, Denver, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Tulsa, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Montreal, and Hamilton – plus a few cities that will be hosting their first-ever Paul McCartney concerts, Albuquerque and the aforementioned Greater Palm Springs area.

General on sale for these Got Back tour dates will begin July 18th at 10am local time. For further information, pre-sales etc., check paulmccartneygotback.com.

Irrefutably one of the most successful and influential singer-songwriters and performers of all time, McCartney’s concerts bring to life the most beloved catalogue in music. With songs like “Hey Jude,” “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Let It Be” and so many more, the Paul McCartney live experience is everything any music lover could ever want from a rock show and more: hours of the greatest moments from the last 60 years of music – dozens of songs from Paul’s solo, Wings and of course Beatles songbooks that have formed the soundtracks of our lives.

Paul McCartney launched his Got Back tour in 2022 with16 sold out shows across the US that led up to his history-making set at Glastonbury in June 2022. In 2023 Paul performed 18 shows as Got Back rocked through Australia, Mexico and Brazil. In 2024, Paul amazed capacity crowds at more than 20 dates spanning from South America and Mexico to the UK and Europe.

Paul McCartney’s live shows have continued to wow fans and inspire new levels of acclaim from critics the world over, with recent raves from the U.S. media including:

“Seeing Paul McCartney live remains a bit of a religious experience” — BILLBOARD

“Remarkable… This is the magic trick I was talking about, something The Beatles mastered before anyone else: to be pure showbiz and shockingly new at the same time, to know your biz completely and still, somehow, not be bored… To make genius look effortless, funny and fun… he played piano, bass, guitar and ukulele; he spun out indelible riffs without fuss or fanfare, and when he rolled up his sleeves and leaned into the innuendo of ‘Let Me Roll It,’ the years fell away and his hyper-competence turned into that swag, an unfaded allure.” — NPR

“These songs appear to have a restorative effect on McCartney, as if he draws from the same well of youthful energy and happy memories that all Beatle fans do upon hearing their music… No wonder he never stops. Neither have his fans, who seem to grow younger every year.” — PEOPLE

“It was among the most touchingly normal miracles I’ve ever experienced… ‘Some of us have to get some sleep, you know,’ McCartney said, after ‘Let It Be.’ But he didn’t look like an old man in need of sleep. He looked like Paul McCartney. Forever returning for another curtain call, another formal bow before the crowd, a man soaking in the energy emitted by fans like a cat in the sun.” — PITCHFORK

“Everybody in the room was having the night of our lives — but nobody was having more fun than Paul… all boyish energy and vigor… it was devastatingly powerful to hear Paul sing ‘Now and Then’ in the city where John wrote it, bringing it all back home. It was a moment that felt intensely private — as if we were eavesdropping on the two of them — yet massive... the whole show was a joyful explosion” — ROLLING STONE

“An icon among icons... a vision of graceful nonchalance” — USA TODAY

“As always, McCartney switched between bass, guitar and piano, and he was in strong voice, hitting essential high notes with ease… a once-in-a-lifetime moment” — VARIETY

Paul and his band have performed in an unparalleled range of venues and locations worldwide: From outside the Colosseum in Rome, Moscow’s Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The White House and a free show in Mexico for over 400,000 people to the last ever show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park where The Beatles played their final concert in 1966, a 2016 week in the California desert that included two headline sets at the historic Desert Trip festival and a jam-packed club gig for a few hundred lucky fans at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, two Glastonbury Festival headline slots, rocking the Bowery in New York City for a week of spontaneous club shows, and even one performance broadcast live into Space!

Featuring Paul’s longtime band – Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums) – and constantly upgraded state of the art audio and video technology that ensures an unforgettable experience from every seat in the house, a Paul McCartney concert is never anything short of life-changing. The Got Back Tour also features the Hot City Horns — Mike Davis (trumpet), Kenji Fenton (saxes) and Paul Burton (trombone) — who first joined Paul in 2018 to perform at Grand Central Station ahead of embarking on the Freshen Up World Tour in the same year.

PAUL McCARTNEY – GOT BACK 2025

September 29 — Palm Desert, CA — Acrisure Arena
October 4 – Las Vegas, NV — Allegiant Stadium
October 7 – Albuquerque, NM — Isleta Amphitheater
October 11 – Denver, CO — Coors Field
October 14 – Des Moines, IA — Casey’s Center
October 17 – Minneapolis, MN — U.S. Bank Stadium
October 22 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
October 29 – New Orleans, LA — Smoothie King Center
November 2 – Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena
November 3 – Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena
November 6 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
November 8 – Columbus, OH — Nationwide Arena
November 11 – Pittsburgh, PA — PPG Paints Arena
November 14 – Buffalo, NY — KeyBank Center
November 17 – Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
November 18 – Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
November 21 – Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum
November 24 – Chicago, IL — United Center
November 25 – Chicago, IL — United Center

More speculation ...
09/07/2025

More speculation ...

Paul McCartney, photo by Bill Kelly There are few artists who can stir fervent anticipation with ease like Paul McCartney. After decades at the apex of

This appeared in the official McCartney fan group on Facebook and subsequently was sent out to recipients of Macca's tex...
09/07/2025

This appeared in the official McCartney fan group on Facebook and subsequently was sent out to recipients of Macca's text feed and was posted by his Instagram account as a story, but no details of the itinerary or ticket sales have been announced yet by MPL.

Macca pays tribute to to artist Brian Clarke, who collaborated extensively with him. Clarke designed stage sets for McCa...
08/07/2025

Macca pays tribute to to artist Brian Clarke, who collaborated extensively with him. Clarke designed stage sets for McCartney's world tours, including the 1989-1990 and the 1993 New World Tour, and created the album cover for McCartney's "Tug of War" album.

Brian Clarke was a dear friend of our family whom we had known for years. Sadly, he passed away recently but we all have lovely memories of the times we had together. We always laughed.

Brian often had some great artistic endeavours to show or talk to us about. He made some stained glass windows for us and did a great collaboration with Linda using her photographs to make stained glass pictures out of.

He was commissioned to make stained glass for Bahrain Airport (Concordia), Stansted Airport (a collaboration with Sir Norman Foster), and Queen Victoria Street Arcade in Leeds, and these are just some of the works he was famous for.

Ever since I met him in the 70s with Robert Fraser the art dealer, we always had the best times together. We will all miss him but have fond memories of him to cherish and his incredible artwork to remind us of Brian himself.

Love,
Paul

📸 Mary McCartney

Jeff Lynne's ELO & Dhani Harrison doing the Wilburys' "Handle With Care" and "End Of The Line" in Birmingham UK - 5 July...
08/07/2025

Jeff Lynne's ELO & Dhani Harrison doing the Wilburys' "Handle With Care" and "End Of The Line" in Birmingham UK - 5 July 2025

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