Spoof documentaries once skewered subjects by dialling comic ingenuity up to 11, but the genre has stagnated – replaced by showbiz puff pieces and right-wing provocations. Has their time passed?
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Beatlemania hits London as fans recreate New York hysteria 62 years later for upcoming biopic ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
It was almost 62 years ago today that the Fab Four brought New York to a standstill on their first trip to the States.
70 days ago
Beatlemania hits London as Fab Four Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson recreate manic New York street scenes from their first visit to America in 1964 ⊕⊕
Beatlemania was well and truly back on Sunday, more than 60 years after the pioneering pop group sparked pandemonium during their groundbreaking first trip to New York.
6 months ago
John Lennon was a 'nuisance' and a 'bully' at school, teacher claims ○
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Tom Barry, who is a design and technology teacher at The Calderstone School, formerly Quarry Bank, said Lennon's fame was 'never acknowledged' even during Beatlemania.
‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change ○
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‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’
Being a West German band made p…
9 months ago
Edinburgh fringe 2025: the best theatre and comedy we’ve already reviewed ○
The festival has plenty of returning heroes, from Nina Conti to Nick Mohammed. Here are 10 shows our critics praised
In cult clown duo Xhloe and Natasha’s two-hander, we are swiftly in the US of LBJ, …
11 months ago
‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie ○
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The next entry in our ongoing series of mood-lifting films is a love letter to Robert Zemeckis’s 1978 comedy about Beatlemania fangirls
When it comes to feelgood movies, it might not surprise some tha…
‘Filling in these gaps’: Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs ○
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Gagosian showcases previously unseen pictures taken by the musician during the rise of Beatlemania
He is not drowning but waving. John Lennon’s arms stretch at angl…
12 months ago
As the stars cast to play The Beatles in a series of new big-screen biopics are revealed, what are the Fab Four's RACIEST stories which could feature? ○
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In the first flush of Beatlemania, the Fab Four were hailed as family-friendly moptops you could welcome home to your parents
Can 'the internet's boyfriends' spark cinema Beatlemania? ○
Sir Sam Mendes' forthcoming Beatles biopics have cast four modern-day heartthrobs - here's why.