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RARE BEATLES VINYL WITH SPELLING ERROR ATTRACTS WORLDWIDE BIDDERS Kelly Scanlon/FarOutMagazine A rare 1962 Beatles single has generated interest from bidders from across the world and could be sold for up to £9,000. The seven-inch vinyl single, one of only 250 worldwide, contains ‘Love Me Do’ alongside ‘P.S. I Love You’. According to vinyl specialist Rob Smee, its rare status is also connected to the fact that Paul McCartney’s name is misspelt on the pressing and instead reads ‘McArtney’. READ MORE SIXTY YEARS ON, HOW THE BEATLES CHANGED NEW ZEALAND'S CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOREVER Adam Hollingworth/Newshub Sixty years ago the Beatles toured New Zealand and Australia and upended our cultural landscape.  Kiwi Andy Neill and Aussie Greg Armstrong have spent 20 years analysing just about every moment of that tour to write a book called When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964, which the pair launched in Masterton on Friday night. READ MORE THE NEIL YOUNG LYRIC THAT JOHN

PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS : ONE HAND CLAPPING  John-Paul ShiverTreblezine Paul McCartney, that post-Beatles dude who looked like Guy Lafleur? Never made it into the house I grew up in. We had The Beatles in the collection for sure—alongside Al Green, Aretha, Elton, CSNY, Miles, Janis, Jimi, Chaka, and those Stones. But the rents did not have a version of Paul on wax that resembled an ice hockey defenseman. READ MORE “I WAS NEVER REALLY A FAN”: IAN ANDERSON’S FAVOURITE BEATLES ALBUM Lucy Harbron/FarOutMagazine Asking a person for their favourite Beatles album often feels like a deeply personal, deeply intimate question. Taste is so subjective and so tied into individual memories that a favourite album can be a favourite album for a whole host of reasons – not just its musical content or artist value.  READ MORE EXCERPT: INSIDE THE BEATLES’ HISTORIC 1964 AUSTRALASIAN TOUR Conor Lochrie/Rolling Stone This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Beatles‘ historical visit to Australia, which

RINGO STARR LETTER ON JOINING THE BEATLES AND OSCAR WILDE'S SCHOOLBOY POETRY BOOK TO AUCTION Finebooks Magazine An autograph signed letter from Ringo Starr on joining the Beatles and the release of their first single Love Me Do which features the sentence "I got a phone call asking me would I join the Beatles and I said yes" is among the highlights of the July 10 Books and Manuscripts auction at Christie’s London. READ MORE ORIGINAL “BIRTHDAY” LYRICS PART OF NEW BEATLES AUCTION KSHE95 A new collection of memorabilia from The Beatles is now up for auction through ANALOGr.  Coinciding with Paul McCartney’s 82nd birthday on June 18, the new auction includes handwritten original lyrics to The Beatles’ “Birthday,” written on the back of an Apple Studio recording sheet. It even includes chord diagrams helping John Lennon and George Harrison with the guitar parts.  The unique piece of Beatles history has an estimated sale price of between $125,000 and $200,000. READ MORE JOHN LE

PAUL MCCARTNEY ANNOUNCES UK SHOWS INCLUDING TWO NIGHTS IN MANCHESTER Dianne Bourne / Manchester Evening News Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has announced he is to perform four huge UK tour dates in 2024 in Manchester and London. It will fulfil his promise to perform in the UK again, made at his last show here in 2022.  The music legend announced he is to take his acclaimed Got Back tour out on a world tour last week, and today the first UK dates have been added to his 2024 schedule. READ MORE BEHIND THE ALBUM: THE BEATLES TAKE ANOTHER GIANT LEAP FORWARD WITH ‘RUBBER SOUL’ Jim Beviglia/American Songwriter Some albums have cool stories surrounding their making that garner attention for them. The 1966 Beatles’ album Rubber Soul doesn’t really fall into that category. By all counts, it was the same-old, same-old for the Fab Four when they made the record, squeezing it into their busy schedule and churning out the latest material they’d written. READ MORE WHY PAUL MCCARTNEY WROTE HEY JUD