Paul McCartney telling the story behind “Come Together” — 2021. 🎸
The legendary Beatle reveals how one of The Beatles’ most iconic songs was created.
Pure rock history from the man who lived it.
Thom Yorke used his speech at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards to deliver a blunt warning to the music industry: stop treating new artists like disposable content.
"To use music and song to tell the story of what it truly means to grow up in their mode and go stylistically wherever the fuck they want, because they can. This is the pumping heart of music. This is how music stays relevant.
"For this to happen, the industry itself has to have faith in these people. They're fragile, usually kind of fucked up like me, and they need support. And the industry needs the wisdom to allow them to develop, and be able to take risks with them and make mistakes with them. That is literally their job, in my opinion.
"I'm very aware, and so are my band, [of] how lucky we were in our formative years, thanks to our managers Brian, Chris, Bryce and Jules. They fought really hard for us guys. And weirdly, our old record company, the old school EMI, cut us a lot of slack back in the old days. It all paid off.
"We watched a lot of other artists not be so lucky, get chewed up and spat out. It takes time for artists to find their voice, to learn their craft and where it will take them. That is when the good shit occurs.
"I worry that our business is becoming risk-averse and unable to help. It makes zero sense to me. The same is true in a lot of the creative industries: art, film, theatre – they’re all going through this weird, myopic self-destruction.
"Instead, I picked up the FT [Financial Times] and read about the exciting share price of streaming services and the insane value placed on the catalogues of a few artists of the previous generation, and the financial frenzy around them.
"That's nice for them. But it is not, as they would like to call it, investment in the music sector. Quite the opposite.
"I wonder if those people appreciate what went into the making of those records. Maybe you should read some biographies of the music you're buying and hoarding, and some of the history about that subject.
"I wonder why no one questions this insane flow of money upwards that leaves nothing but dust for new artists.
"Those heads of our industry are not asking what happens for the future generation, when the musical well dries up – which it will, guys.
"Instead, a lot of lip service is paid to new music with self-serving playlists, and to the idea of a vital music scene. But there is a refusal to offer even a semblance of a sustainable revenue source for the majority of musicians.
"And they continue the nasty fucking opaque accounting tricks that major labels were doing in the '90s.
"So I guess I'd like to provide a quick reminder to the top of the industry and streaming services: pull your finger out. Where are you gonna get your next juicy back catalogues from, eh?
"This industry will die and arseholes with it, if all you do is devalue the next generation of artists and their fans. Just remember: without us, you ain't shit!"
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We’re delighted that our brand new album ‘388’ is OUT NOW, recorded live in the studio to a Tascam 388 tape machine.
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"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" is one of The Smiths' most iconic tracks from The Queen Is Dead (1986). Interestingly, the song was never released as a single while the band was active, Johnny Marr even advocated that it be kept as the one that everyone wanted as a single, but it wasn't. It only gained an official release in the United Kingdom in 1992 (5 years after the end of the group), to promote the collection ... Best II.
Even so, it became an absolute classic, often cited among the best songs of all time (12th in the NME ranking in 2014).
Paul McCartney reveals 10 songs that soundtracked his life:
10. John Lennon - “Imagine”
09. The Beach Boys - “God Only Knows”
08. Bob Dylan - “Tambourine Man"
07. Prince - “Kiss”
06. The Human League - “Don’t You Want Me”
05. The Kinks - “You Really Got Me”
04. Elvis - “All Shook Up”
03. Buddy Holly - “That’ll Be The Day"
02. Chuck Berry - “Maybelline”
01. Gene Vincent - “Be-bop-a-Lula”
(via @BBCRadio2)
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Theodora et Oklou reprennent "Get Back" des Beatles sous les yeux de Peter Jackson ! 🔥
Une reprise produite par l'artiste electro SebastiAn.
#cannes2026
6 mai 1969, les Beatles entament l'enregistrement de ce qui deviendra le fameux medley d'Abbey Road.
Ce medley est déjà dans les têtes de Paul McCartney et George Martin. John a accepté d'y travailler avec Paul et George y participera même avec plaisir, comme il l'avouera un peu plus tard.
Des chansons inachevées ou volontairement écourtées deviendront alors un opéra rock d'un niveau presque irréel.
Lors de sa réédition en 2019, Abbey Road est redevenu #1 des ventes d'album, cinquante ans après sa publication. Un chef-d'œuvre intemporel, de son contenu musical à sa pochette.
"You Never Give Me Your Money", The Beatles, 1969.
“Cocteau Twins may have proved hugely influential – the entire subgenre of dream-pop exists in their shadow – but 40 years on, no one else has ever really sounded like this”
Read The Guardian’s ranking of the 20 greatest Cocteau Twins songs below
https://t.co/gk3Hh2v3ud