‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics, Fab Four are still making waves 60 years on – and upcoming Sam Mendes films are expected to turn the hype up to 11 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 . Continue reading…

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