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How to have a number one album: An Irish expert shares his music industry experience

Michael Mary Murphy’s new book hails the managers who have steered U2, Hozier and The Beatles to the top of the charts

Tue Mar 18 2025 - 05:13

John Lennon was shot dead on this day in 1980. Here’s how The Irish Times paid tribute

We published six stories about the former Beatle, including the appreciation reproduced here

Wed Dec 08 2021 - 12:46

Olympic countdown, Euro 2020 TV ratings and 100 years of HMV

Planet Business: What’s next for Sheryl Sandberg?

Sat Jul 17 2021 - 05:27

Darryl W Bullock: ‘1960s showbiz let gay people hide in plain sight’

Velvet Mafia author on overlooked figures and roles they played in pop culture

Wed Mar 17 2021 - 05:00

Gerry Marsden obituary: cheeky prime mover of Merseybeat sound who vied with the Beatles

The leader of chart-topping 1960s band Gerry and the Pacemakers whose hits included Ferry Across The Mersey

Sun Jan 03 2021 - 19:50

Neil Armstrong’s passport and rare pink sapphires for auction this week

Sales results and forthcoming auctions

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 00:00

The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine resurfaces after 50 years

Review: The film’s freaky visuals are peak psychedelia. The songs aren’t bad either

Thu Jul 05 2018 - 17:40

Woman and two children found dead in John Lennon’s former home

Man arrested on suspicion of murder after three bodies found in Liverpool house

Wed May 31 2017 - 09:36

How ‘Sgt Pepper’ made the world slip on its axis

Released 50 years ago, The Beatles’ opus changed the way people listened to music

Sat May 27 2017 - 05:00

Singer and presenter whose unaffected Liverpudlian charm inspired affection

Cilla Black: May 27th, 1943 - August 2nd, 2015

Sat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00

Jim Carroll: Every band wants a manager with the Midas touch, but good ones are few and far between

If you were to canvass new bands about who they need to help them out, a majority would indicate they’re after a manager

Thu May 21 2015 - 15:00

Jimi: All is By My Side review - lost in period haze

André Benjamin shines in a strangely muted boipic that seems to struggle against its own limitations

Fri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30

Television: Feeling a lorra love for UTV’s engrossing Cilla Black biopic

Review: The Liverpool luvvy gets the Jeff Pope treatment; ‘The Leftovers’ is a beautiful-people redo of ‘The Returned’

Sat Sept 20 2014 - 01:00

Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’

Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD

Mon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00

Beatlemania: the Fab Four’s Irish concerts, 50 years on

Dublin had already hosted JFK in 1963, but nothing prepared the city for the arrival of four mop-top lads from Liverpool – and the riots and hysteria that followed

Thu Sept 19 2013 - 18:00