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Paul McCartney through the years: 1964, 1968, 1976, 1984, 2000 and 2019

Paul McCartney's greatest lyrics

The crowds at Isle of Wight Festival 2025

Isle of Wight 2026: Get the weather forecast for the festival

Isle of Wight Festival 2027

Chris O'Neill, Stephen Dorff & Ian Hart in Backbeat; John Altman, Rod Culbertson, Ray Ashcroft & Stephen MacKenna in Birth Of The Beatles; Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Nowhere Boy; Mark McGann & Kim Miyori in John & Yoko: A Love Story.

The best Beatles biopics of all time

Liam Gallagher in the video for Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out and the single artwork

How Stop Crying Your Heart Out became a late-period Oasis classic

Pulp's Jarvis Cocker

Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore? film and accompanying soundtrack album Live! announced

Pulp

Placebo and their 1996 debut album cover

Who is the boy on the front cover of Placebo's debut album?

Placebo

Johnny Marr press 2206

Johnny Marr announces new album The Age Of Everything and shares new single Spin

Johnny Marr

Richard Ashcroft in The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony video

Which song did The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony sample?

The Verve

Radiohead's Thom Yorke on the OK Computer tour in Cardiff in November 1997

What does the title of Radiohead’s OK Computer actually mean?

The Smiths circa December 1985, as pictured on the gatefold sleeve of The Queen Is Dead: Andy Rourke, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Mike Joyce

40 things you didn't know about The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

Tom Ogden and Maya Jama in Blossoms' latest video

Watch Love Island host Maya Jama star in Blossoms' Meet Me In Love video

The Rolling Stones Concert at Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris

Mick Jagger talks The Rolling Stones touring in 2027: "I’m ready to go"

The Rolling Stones

Snow Patrol in July 2004: Mark McClelland, Nathan Connolly, Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn and Tom Simpson

How Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars was inspired by a boozy night out

The cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures vinyl album

What does the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album mean?

Joy Division

Brandon Flowers of The Killers in September 2004 and May 2025

How Brandon Flowers made peace with his younger self in The Man

The Killers

Arctic Monkeys in the early days

What did Arctic Monkeys play at their first gig?

Arctic Monkeys

Alanis Morissette on the set of a video shoot for her song 'Hand In My Pocket' in New York City in 1995.

The story of Alanis Morissette's classic album Jagged Little Pill

Razorlight's Johnny Borrell performs Golden Touch in our Radio X session

Razorlight playing Golden Touch will take you right back to the '00s