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Paul McCartney’s engineer Steve Orchard explains how vintage tape machines at Hog Hill Mill shaped a track on The Boys of Dungeon Lane, including a splice used to fix a tempo drift.
On Good Hang, McCartney spends an hour as a fan of his own catalogue while sounding unconvinced by how songs get written now.
A key to 20 Forthlin Road, the Liverpool house where Paul McCartney lived as a teenager, has gone under the hammer for £5,000, roughly double its pre-sale estimate.
Reba McEntire, Kacey Musgraves, Paul McCartney, and others remember a songwriter and cultural figure whose presence extended well past Nashville.
The United States Postal Service will issue 20 stamps featuring five of McCartney’s nature and still life images, with a first-day ceremony set for MoMA in September.
The former Beatle’s ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’ lands him among a field dominated by major-label releases.
This year’s nominations lean heavily on major-label, chart-topping artists—closing a door that once privileged outsider voices in British music.
The home recording, titled “Little Girl,” was found on a tape reel from the Lennon estate and will appear on the Rubber Soul Special Edition in October.
Before the screaming crowds at JFK, a split-second studio exchange between Lennon and McCartney snapped a song into focus—and gave the Beatles their first US number one.
For the first time since 1964, the Beatles classic was performed live — at a private ceremony in Madison Square Garden, with Stevie Nicks also taking the stage.
