Ann Skelly knew from a young age that formal education wasn’t for her. 

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

The estate of George Harrison has complained about the use of his music at the Republican National Convention.

FEW stories are as fascinating as that of Anoushka Shankar’s. The London-born sitar player was age seven when she found out that she was the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the world-famous Indian classical musician.

As she gets ready to play in Ireland, Rita Coolidge tells Ed Power about her marriage to Kris Kristofferson, and how the idealism of the 1960s soon gave way to something more sinister

Enya has not had a number one single in the UK in more than two decades, but that has not stopped the Irish star from landing a spot in The Sunday Times Rich List of music millionaires.

DAVID COULTHARD, the Formula One star, and German racing driver, SABINE SCHMITZ, may be joining Top Gear’s presenting line-up.

A New York auction house has sold the first recording contract ever signed by the Beatles for more than $90,000.

Here’s the scenario that you didn’t want to see if you were a Galway camogie fan yesterday in Croke Park.

Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison and the Clancys were among the Irish musicians influenced by Lead Belly, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

It’s the little things about Ashford Castle that makes a stay there so enjoyable, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.    

The most unique connection between the modern ships of the Cunard line’s history and the ill-fated Lusitania is Queen Victoria’s second engineer, George Harrison.

The sinking of the Lusitania is a story that has gripped the imagination of the world over the intervening decades and filled the pages of many books and articles, President Michael D Higgins said in his speech marking the centenary commemorations.

Ringo Starr will join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney doing the honours of introducing him at the ceremony in the US.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr says he still misses his “brothers” in the band and said it must be harder being in a boyband today than in the era-defining Liverpool group.

IT WAS commonly said that the statue of Daniel O’Connell guarded Dublin’s O’Connell St, but that photographer Arthur Fields guarded the bridge. 

Paul McCartney is relieved he and John Lennon were able to reconcile their differences.

Bobby Keys, a saxophonist who played one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones’ hit Brown Sugar, has died in the US.

California woman gets stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home

Most people can reel off the top tourist spots in their home place, but never visit them. So the Clarion Hotel’s writer-in-residence, Louise O’Neill, went on a day-long trip around Cork City

And fans marked the occasion today.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been invited to perform at 'Alien Woodstock' in a bid to make extra-terrestrials reveal themselves to the planet.

USA: A tree planted in Los Angeles to honour former Beatle George Harrison has been killed — by beetles.

Paging Alanis Morrisette - now THAT's what you call irony.

Paul McCartney has taken a huge step into the world of digital music by re-releasing five of his classic records in App format.

Ron Howard is making an official documentary about The Beatles.

Let It Be, an international touring show that celebrates the music of the Beatles, is very much an occasion of nostalgia for the Swinging Sixties.

SAMBA SADNESS

Cork artist Fin Dac is building quite a reputation with his impressive murals, writes Marc O’Sullivan.

An insider’s account of the Beatles’ American invasion

The Beatles have been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles.

All things must pass, as George Harrison once said. All good things, too, and no All-Ireland-winning team has been an exception in that regard.

Not so different from travelling with The Beatles. That was how Swedish midfielder Alex Kacaniklic described coexisting in a football team with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

AFTER a recent gig in Japan Harry Styles of boy band One Direction is reported to have said that the band “could be as big as The Beatles”.

Prisoners held by the regime of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet were played a “torture soundtrack” of songs by Julio Iglesias and George Harrison, according to a study.

The Beatles have made an annual turnover of £43.5m (€51m).

A guitar played by Beatles pair John Lennon and George Harrison sold for $408,000 at a New York auction.

As music legend awaits the final appeal of his murder conviction and Al Pacino plays him in a new film, Vikram Jayanti remembers Phil Spector’s tortured struggle between genius and monster

Paul McCartney says Oasis shouldn't have boasted they were the "next Beatles".

Henry McCullough is one of Ireland’s great musicians. He was the only Irishman to play Woodstock, as a member of Joe Cocker’s Grease Band.

The Classic Beatles perform their tribute to the world’s greatest group at the Everyman, writes Colette Sheridan

Rare and unpublished early colour photos of The Beatles on tour are to be sold at auction.