The Latest Breaking News from Paul McCartney

Delving into some of the best low-end tones of all time

Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,…

Dirty Honey's Justin Smolian opens up on touring with Guns N' Roses, and why Paul McCartney is still a bass playing genius

The birth and recording of a British classic

Yanovsky brought the weird, wonderful and the none-too-serious to Good Time Music, and was a genius player, but did he get the credit he deserved?

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

77-year-old Dolly Parton has opened up about her latest album Rockstar and working with musical legends including Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Sheryl Crow and Debbie Harry

The award-winning creator of Black Mirror on the most over-the-top film he’s ever seen, a podcast that doesn’t send him to sleep and the bit of the Observer he always reads

Let's Come Together and celebrate Macca

The legends of a genre made by and for the young are getting old. Some embrace it – and it elevates their art, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

It came as the former Inbetweeners actress was seen in her own episode of Who Do You Think You Are? on the BBC