I Read the News This Week: Beatles Headlines Roundup

Digital Spy: Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn recreate iconic Beatles moment in new set photo

A new image from the upcoming biopic, shot in Liverpool, shows Mescal and Quinn in character as the production recreates the moment Barry Chang collected the band from Gambier Terrace, where John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe once lived.

The scene shows the Beatles leaving for Hamburg, where they would develop their live act. Morfydd Clark was also spotted on set playing Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon’s first wife.

Explore Liverpool: John Lennon’s art school days recreated as Beatles filming continues in Liverpool

New images show a large-scale period scene being filmed around the former Liverpool College of Art, now part of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

The street was filled with vintage vehicles and scores of supporting artists dressed in period clothing, recreating Liverpool at the time when John Lennon was studying at the art school.

Actors portraying a young John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also seen walking together outside the building carrying guitar cases, offering another glimpse at how the new films will explore the band’s formative years in the city.

The Irish News: House where Sir Paul McCartney learned to play guitar as a child up for auction 

The address is the former home of Sir Paul’s childhood friend Ian James, where the musician has recalled first holding a guitar, learning his first chords and is known to have listened to the rock and roll records that fuelled his love for music.

In a letter concerning the guitar used at the house, he wrote: “The above guitar, belonging to my old school pal Ian James, was the first guitar I ever held, it was also the guitar on which I learned my first chords in his house at 43 Elswick Street, Liverpool 8.”

NPR: How The Beatles made ‘Rubber Soul’ and broke up with their past

A lot of people cite the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band as the most significant turning point for The Beatles, when the band took its biggest creative leap. But, really, that turning point began with Rubber Soul in 1965.

At that point, The Beatles were still playing a lot of cover songs; they were touring and focused on music that they could play live. Beatlemania was in full swing and the Fab Four were working at a breathless pace. The band had recorded and released about a half dozen albums in its two short years; they were making films and touring the world, including their infamous performance at Shea Stadium. And by the time they paused to make Rubber Soul, The Beatles were spent.

BBC: Paul McCartney's item sells for double the estimate

A key to Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home has sold for thousands of pounds at auction.

During the 1950s and 60s, Sir Paul lived with his family at 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, Liverpool, and composed some of the earliest Beatles' tracks with John Lennon in the council house.

Two years after Sir Paul, his father, and brother moved out in 1963, American superfan Kathy Salt wrote to then-occupant Ashley Jones, who enclosed a photograph of the house and a key, with a tag attached, in his letter back.

The three items were up for sale at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in the Cotswolds on Wednesday and fetched a hammer price of £5,000, double the estimate.

BBC: Cavern Club sold to new owners after 35 years

Liverpool's Cavern Club and Magical Mystery Tour have new owners after 35 years.

A group called 14 Collective have bought Cavern City Tours, which also includes the Cavern Pub and Restaurant.

...But the underground club was filled in after it closed in 1973.

A replica was built on the site in 1984 and now attracts a million Beatles fans every year.