Music The return of the Beatles vs Stones wars As news of a Rolling Stones album featuring Paul McCartney appears, the press reignites a culture war it confected. By David Hepworth
How the Beatles changed the world in seven years Craig Brown’s One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time explores how, in less than a decade, the band… By David Hepworth
Why we should mourn the loss of Q magazine One of the founders of the music title on why it was “a thrill-ride at the front and a good… By David Hepworth
Why the Beatles’ Abbey Road reigns supreme 50 years on The interesting thing about the 1969 record is that it is bigger now than it was then. By David Hepworth
1969: One month to change the world Over four weeks in 1969 a succession of cultural shocks – the moon landings, Manson murders, Woodstock and the… By David Hepworth
David Hepworth on Sail Away by Randy Newman: “You wouldn’t be allowed to make it today” From the Long Players series: writers on their most cherished albums. By David Hepworth
Billy Bragg writes an uptempo history of skiffle’s golden age Roots, Radicals and Rockers is full of great characters and vignettes of bracingly different times. By David Hepworth
David Hepworth’s diary: Chatting with Danny Baker, pontificating about Bob Dylan Why does he only open at weekends? He looks both ways in the manner of Arthur Daley. “Trading Standards… By David Hepworth
Why I want to tell the Beach Boys to get over themselves Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys have both published new memoirs. The problem? They take themselves preposterously… By David Hepworth