‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics
Key points
- If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past few weeks have provided a glut.
- Firstly, there’s the small matter of The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney’s 20th solo album, billed as “an adventurous and limber take on guitar music” by the Guardian.
- When England announced their World Cup squad, the soundtrack was Come Together, played alongside a film of fashionable young people in New York and a clip of a young, puckish John Lennon.
- The same week Stephen Colbert was played off from his final episode of the Late Show by a Paul McCartney rendition of Hello Goodbye.
- View image in fullscreen Paul McCartney plays out the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past few weeks have provided a glut. Firstly, there’s the small
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Key Takeaways
- If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past few weeks have provided a glut.
- Firstly, there’s the small matter of The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney’s 20th solo album, billed as “an adventurous and limber take on guitar music” by the Guardian.
- When England announced their World Cup squad, the soundtrack was Come Together, played alongside a film of fashionable young people in New York and a clip of a young, puckish John Lennon.
- The same week Stephen Colbert was played off from his final episode of the Late Show by a Paul McCartney rendition of Hello Goodbye.
- View image in fullscreen Paul McCartney plays out the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
📌 Source: The Guardian
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