“ ‘Yesterday’ feels like a shift in the balance of power,” says Leslie. “From the beginning they were equals, and ‘Yesterday’ ...

INTERVIEW: Fascinated by psychology, Ian Leslie found much to sink his teeth into in the relationship between the two ...

A new book traces the creative and personal relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, highlighting their ...

The songwriting partnership at the heart of the Beatles was also a unique creative union, in which deep personal attachment ...

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie opens by recounting the above scene in painstaking detail. The author has done this, he explains to me today, not “to suggest that Paul was a ...

I meet Leslie at his publisher’s office one early February afternoon. He brings with him a heavy cold and a takeaway lunch from Pret, which he works his way through while we speak, removing ...

If Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new ...

The combination of songs and story means the Beatles remain fascinating; the fact that they are still fascinating means there ...