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Hear the AC15 Twin said to be John Lennon’s first Vox paired with Noel Gallagher's Les Paul
By Janelle Borg published
The storied 1962 Vox AC15 is expected to fetch between $127,132 and $254,265 at tomorrow's auction

Steve Cradock on that time he recorded Come Together with Paul McCartney – using Paul Weller's Epiphone Casino
By Matt Owen published
Cradock and McCartney formed a supergroup with Weller, Noel Gallagher, Steve White and Carleen Anderson during the recording of 1995's The Help Album

Ernie Isley on the time he met Paul McCartney – and jammed on Twist and Shout
By Janelle Borg published
The Isley Brothers and The Beatles both found career-making hits in Twist and Shout – and the two groups would prove pivotal for each other's musical trajectories

Paul McCartney was in bass peak form on this lesser-known Beatles gem
By Brian Fox published
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in February 1968, Hey Bulldog was one of the last Beatles sessions tracked as a band

John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used at the Cavern and to record Please Please Me – is headed to auction
By Matt Parker published
The Vox AC15 Twin, believed to be the unit purchased by Lennon at Liverpool’s Hessy’s Music, is going under the hammer with an auction estimate of $130,000-$260,000

“He said very politely, ‘Can I get up on stage with you and use your guitar?’ It was very overwhelming to play with a Beatle”: That time Ritchie Blackmore and George Harrison jammed Little Richard at a Deep Purple concert
By Matt Owen published
Harrison had decided to check out Deep Purple while in Australia in 1984, and ended up sharing the stage with Blackmore for an eight-minute jam of Lucille

George Harrison’s Futurama – which starred in the Fab Four’s historic Hamburg tour – is heading to auction
By Matt Owen published
The oddball electric – which originally went up for auction back in 2019 – was also used on the Fab Four's first official Polydor recordings, having featured heavily during their early Cavern Club gigs

Did Paul McCartney fumble a note on this classic Beatles bassline?
By Nick Wells published
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios on October 16th, 1965, see if you can hear the bass glitch where McCartney “breaks” the main riff
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