Mike McCartney might have one of the most distinctive and well known surnames in popular music, yet his forename and photography work might not be as familiar to some as his brothers work, yet there’s little doubt many would know…
The Beatles Revolver. Opening with George Harrison’s Batman theme groove Taxman; middle section dives deep into the jolly psychedelic Jugnauth world of Yellow Submarine; earth shattering supersonic drum pattern finale Tomorrow Never Knows completes the long player that sounded like…
The Beatles Abbey Road is no doubt one of the all-time great artistically revered masterpieces since it was first released back in the late 60’s. There’s pop, rock, opera, rockabilly, jazz, blues and so much more that the fabs lovingly…
This book, Going For A Song by Garth Cartwright, is a comprehensive dérive through the rapidly vanishing terrain that is the British record shop. Once a staple of communities that acted as hubs, beacons, locales and sanctuaries for keen ears,…
Rating: Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes is the first complete retrospective of his earliest experiments in 1965 through the bankruptcy of his company, EMS Synthesizers, in 1979. Stifled by academia, Peter Zinovieff began creating music from splices of tape and after…
An old Paul McCartney track has been unearthed. ‘Love My Baby’ was originally recorded with his band Wings for a documentary entitled One Hand Clapping in 1974 – which included some of the band’s best-known tracks and some new ones…
Paul McCartney surprised listeners of BBC Radio 2 this morning by debuting a new single on Zoë Ball’s show. Appropriately titled ‘New’, it is the title track to the former Beatle and Wings superstar’s forthcoming album, his first of original…