A historic archive made of unseen photos, notes and sketches of The Beatles will be made available for the world to see. The treasure trove was created in 1968 by
Whisper the words “cantankerous rock icon” into the wind, and chances are the words that eventually come back to your ears will be “Mark E. Smith“. A purveyor of all
The British Library has acquired an archive of “notebooks, ephemera and photographs” that were pulled together by writer and journalist Hunter Davies when he wrote the only official biography of
Humans love a mystery. It’s in our DNA. In an evolutionary sense, it is advantageous to figure them out for the sake of survival before we fall victim to them.
Love and Let Die. By John Higgs. Pegasus Books; 400 pages; $28.95. W&N; £22 “Love me do”, the Beatles’ debut single, was released in Britain on October 5th 1962—on the