Music books round-up: from George Harrison’s blues to Kate Bush’s songbirds
501 Essential Albums of the ’90s is US-centric; while Further Adventures in Record Collecting: Dust & Grooves Vol 2 is wonderful if eye-wateringly expensive
George Harrison
Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as stars of four Beatles biopics? I’ve heard better ideas
Donald Clarke: The musical biopic is among the most benighted of cinematic genres, but there is perhaps more chance of innovation with Sam Mendes’s planned set
From the Beatles to U2, sleep on an operatic scale with Irish hotels steeped in music history
There are plenty of spots where you can revel in a rocking atmosphere, whatever the era you’re after
The Beatles: Now and Then review - A near miraculous, sad, fab farewell
There is plenty of spirit on Now and Then. John Lennon has never sounded more emotionally present
The Fab Four’s finest: 20 Beatles tracks for George Harrison’s birthday
The Beatles guitarist and songwriter would have turned 80 tomorrow. Which is reason enough to nominate the band’s best songs, both together and solo
John Lennon was shot dead on this day in 1980. Here’s how The Irish Times paid tribute
We published six stories about the former Beatle, including the appreciation reproduced here
‘A festering wound’: The true story of the Beatles break-up
Peter Jackson’s unflinching film shows the tensions weighing on the band by the late 1960s
Donovan: ‘I waited to see if Greta Thunberg’s generation would have their own songwriters’
The 1960s folk troubadour on fame, money, success, drugs and Greta Thunberg
Donald Clarke: Stairway to Heaven set to go on and on
Those of us disappointed at the lack of a total ban must admit there is some good news
Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than ever
Tollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glory
Peter Sissons obituary: Veteran newsreader and former host of BBC’s Question Time
The broadcaster is probably best known for his bulletin on the Queen Mother’s death
Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’
Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam: ‘We didn’t ad-lib because Cleese doesn’t like it’
Peter Tork of The Monkees dead at 77
The wise-cracking guitarist of the 1960s pop sensations had rare tongue cancer
Sad ‘stripper robots’, the other ‘Fire and Fury’ and a history of musical similarities
Planet Business: Meanwhile, the blockchain bandwagon rolls on
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars review – A fascinating chronicle
This portrait explains the roots of a pain that Clapton’s successful career did little to extinguish
US singer Tom Petty dies aged 66 after heart attack
Musician dies ‘surrounded by family and bandmates’ in hospital after cardiac arrest
Fans mark 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dublin’s Wolfe Tone Square the site for recreation of Beatles’ famous album cover
First listen: ‘Sgt Pepper’ is the comfort and escape we need today
I now know Ringo is my favourite Beatle, and who’s to blame for The Flaming Lips
How ‘Sgt Pepper’ made the world slip on its axis
Released 50 years ago, The Beatles’ opus changed the way people listened to music
Kris Kristofferson and me: Rita Coolidge’s tales of pain and hedonism from rock’s inner circle
The ‘Delta Lady’ talks about her volatile marriage to Kris Kristofferson, her partying past, not being credited for her work on Clapton’s Layla and violence against women
Recreated bedsit where Jimi Hendrix jammed along to Handel
Brook Street home affords priceless insight into talismanic musician as a young man
Gerry Moriarty: Robinson gambles that Adams and McGuinness can finally make the IRA go away
First minister risks being outflanked by UUP
On Athletics: US scholarship an historic route for Ireland’s elite
American universities didn’t so much open a path of opportunity as bulldoze it
War grave of George Harrison’s grandfather identified
Pte Henry Harrison killed during Battle of Loos in France on September 25th, 1915
Television: Feeling a lorra love for UTV’s engrossing Cilla Black biopic
Review: The Liverpool luvvy gets the Jeff Pope treatment; ‘The Leftovers’ is a beautiful-people redo of ‘The Returned’
In defence of Tubridy, host of the 26th-ranked radio show
RTÉ’s highest-paid presenter should be freed from 2fm duties and returned to Radio 1
Video: How I taught The Beatles to play guitar
Folk singer Donovan recalls how he helped to influence White Album
Video: Donovan tells TCD of Beatles’ White Album influence
Guitar techniques folk singer taught band in India used to telling effect
Beatlemania: the Fab Four’s Irish concerts, 50 years on
Dublin had already hosted JFK in 1963, but nothing prepared the city for the arrival of four mop-top lads from Liverpool – and the riots and hysteria that followed
Beatles' guitar auctioned to the tune of $408,000
Custom-made instrument played by Lennon and Harrison purchased by anonymous buyer
Singer best known for spectacular performance at Woodstock festival
Richie Havens – born: January 21st, 1941; died: April 22nd, 2013
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