Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Cynthia Nixon's hunger strike to try and end Israel-Palestine conflict will only last two or three DAYS, source claims In an age when no one buys records any more — apart from the not inconsiderable business of vinyl nostalgia — it is hard to imagine a time when the arrival of a new LP by The Beatles or Dylan or the Rolling Stones in the shops was a moment for huge excitement. The business of the studio wasn’t just to replicate the sound of the artist; it was to create something greater than the sum of its parts, a spark, a piece of magic that people would want to listen to again and again — and again 50 years later. OK. So, nominate a record that was made there. The one where he’d give anything to have been a fly on the wall. Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer walls. Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates. But what draws in these thousands of fans here, year after year? What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world? Lauren Pope's daughter, 3, is rushed to hospital due to medical emergency - after TOWIE star split from millionaire boyfriend Tony Keterman

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This was no longer a group trying to sound like anyone else. This was a group who wanted to sound like themselves. That was what shone right through “Twist And Shout.” What really made her name was her recording of Elgar’s haunting Cello Concerto at Abbey Road. After the recording for EMI, the London Symphony Orchestra burst into applause, not an honour musicians have ever extended to most soloists. The career of The Beatles took off in the winter of 1962, along with the fortunes of Parlophone, EMI and Abbey Road. Pictured: Pink Floyd

Girls' night out! Queen Máxima of the Netherlands stuns in a sensational shimmering gown as she steps out solo in Paris with Brigitte Macron Tommy Fury fails to mention fiancée Molly-Mae Hague as he pays tribute to their daughter Bambi on return to the UK after partying in Abu Dhabi Everybody who had even the most glancing acquaintance with them and their deeds during this time has their anecdotes, small chapters in the greater creation myth with which they understandably do not wish to tamper. Memoirs have been written, often many decades after the events, which do not always square with other memoirs. In each case there is a tendency to place the author at the centre of the most momentous events, a tendency which is entirely understandable. In other cases entire episodes have been recalled which others who were there do not remember at all. Everyone has their anecdote, the culmination of which is the blob of solder they applied, the edit they made, the suggestion they put forward which played some part in nudging in this direction or that a piece of music with which we are all familiar, deep in our bones. Charli XCX is engaged! Pop superstar announces she is to wed The 1975 drummer George Daniel after one year of dating I don’t know if I put this in the book, but Pink Floyd were at Abbey Road when Yehudi Menuhin [violinist] was recording. Somebody brought him in, and they said, ‘Would you mind playing a bit on our record?’

Travis Kelce appears to wear a Vegas STRIP CLUB t-shirt as he greets fans after Chiefs' win over Raiders - before returning to Kansas CityAnd looking at the history of Abbey Road – the history of recorded performance – it wasn’t just the public who started out confused. Early attempts at this new-found technique provoked bafflement, sometimes downright hostility, from performers, too. Emma Calvé, the great French soprano, was horrified on arrival at her first recording studio in 1902, refusing to alight from her carriage and four because the place looked more like a thieves’ den than a venue for an artiste of her standing. Only 100 guineas could change her mind. Once inside, she had to be ‘discouraged from breaking into dancing while singing as she did on stage’. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's 'total system reboot': Couple are revamping direction after being surprised at Spotify 'turning down so many of their ideas'

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