Maureen Cleave, Swinging Sixties journalist who chronicled the rise of the Beatles as John Lennon’s confidante and was the source of the ‘bigger than Jesus’ scandal – obituary

As reported by Deadline, Jonah Lees, 26, of UK series “The Letter For The King,” is John Lennon; musician Blake Richardson, 22, from British pop trio New Hope Club, is Paul McCartney; Leo Harvey-Elledge, 19, who played rocker Liam Gallagher in “Creation Stories,” is George Harrison; and newcomer Campbell Wallace is Ringo Starr.“Peaky Blinders” actor Adam Lawrence, 30, also joins as former Beatles drummer Pete Best, and “The Queen’s Gambit” actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, 33, has been chosen to

Let’s get this out of the way quickly: no matter how boring, predictable, rote and maybe Dad-rock-y it may sound to some, The Beatles remain one of the greatest bands of all time. The group was a towering collection of musicians who wrote the blueprint for almost all of the modern rock and pop genre, bold experimentalists and one of the first bands to use the studio as an artistic instrument.

K.J. Yossman Despite recently losing its director just three weeks into shooting, “Midas Man,” the music biopic about The Beatles’ wunderkind manager Brian Epstein, has now cast its fab four.John Lennon will be played by Jonah Lees (“The Letter for the King”), Paul McCartney by Blake Richardson (“Eleven Days”), George Harrison by Leo Harvey Elledge (“Creation Stories”) and Ringo Starr by newcomer Campbell Wallace.

The Beatles in the forthcoming Midas Man film have been announced.As revealed earlier this week, the biopic of the Fab Four’s manager Brian Epstein will see Jay Leno take on the role of late TV host Ed Sullivan (The Ed Sullivan Show).Now, as Deadline reports, Jonah Lees (The Letter For The King) is set to portray John Lennon while musician Blake Richardson (from the band New Hope Club) will appear as Paul McCartney.Leo Harvey-Elledge – who played Liam Gallagher in this year’s Alan McGee biopic,

“The Beatles: Get Back,” a three-part docuseries premiering Thursday on Disney+, which traces the making of “Let It Be.”With tensions already running high on a tight, two-week deadline to write and record an entire album before Starr begins filming the movie “The Magic Christian,” George Harrison was having creative differences with McCartney while John Lennon was increasingly tied to an ever-present Yoko Ono.

The actors portraying the Fab Four have been revealed for Beatles manager movie Midas Man.

Julian Lennon says that watching the new Beatles documentary Get Back was a “life-changing” experience that “made me love my father again”.Peter Jackson’s three-part film, which is coming to Disney+ tomorrow (November 25), focuses on the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’ and showcases their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.Last Friday (November 18), Julian and brother Sean – sons of the late John Lennon – attended a special

The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+. The six-hour three-parter features tons of unseen footage and audio of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr during their 1969 recording sessions of their last album Let It Be.

Sir Paul's daughter, 50, posed between the late John Lennon's sons, 58 and 46 respectively. The trio appeared on the red carpet in Los Angeles for movie The Beatles: Get Back.

John Lennon was killed, but his incredible music legacy lives on to this day. During his short life, The Beatles legend had a couple of sons with his two wives.

Arguably the most famous band in history, the Beatles are back in the spotlight with a new three-part docu-series called The Beatles: Get Back. Fans will be treated to never-before-seen footage of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison as they worked on their final album before breaking up in 1970.

Maureen Cleave was a music journalist who was a confidante of the Beatles, having written about them since their early days of fame.Cleave worked for the London Evening Standard, where she began writing the column “Disc Date” in 1961. She was among the first journalists to write seriously about rock and pop music, as well as one of the first to cover the Beatles.

bandmate beef caused The Beatles to break up was apparently nothing but a bunch of bunk.And freshly exhumed, unused footage from the British rock royals’ 1970s film and album, “Let It Be” — released the same year the group disbanded — punctures prevailing rumors that the “She Loves You” luminaries were at each other’s throats in the days leading up to their earth-shattering split.“These are not guys that dislike each other,” director Peter Jackson told “60 Minutes” of Paul McCartney, 79, Ringo

Paul McCartney is looking back on his incredible career.

the historic house was used as the iconic band’s main practice spot in the late 1950s.Harrison and his family had initially moved into the home in 1949, when he was just 6 years old.

Paul McCartney has spoken of how he’s “only just got over” dealing with the “misconception” that he was the one who split up The Beatles.Speaking at an event on Friday night (November 5) to launch his new book The Lyrics at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Sir Paul was posed an audience question by host and journalist Samira Ahmed about what biggest misconception was about “being Paul McCartney”.“I think the biggest misconception at the end of The Beatles was that I broke The Beatles up,

Maureen Cleave, born October 20 1934, died November 6 2021Sign up to the Front Page newsletter for free: Your essential guide to the day's agenda from The Telegraph - direct to your inbox seven days a week.