The Beatles
50th anniversary of Beatles' Abbey Road crossing celebrated
Hundreds of people gathered at the world's most famous zebra crossing to mark the 50th anniversary of the day the Beatles created one of the best-known album covers in music history. Matthew Larotonda… Video, Audio
APO joins Beatles music revolution
The music of The Beatles is getting an orchestral make-over this weekend thanks to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Audio
Friday Night Live: A Strange Days Night
Enjoy a celebration of The Beatles, in A Strange Days Night, Fab Four songs performed by an array of local artists live at The Auckland Town Hall.
A charity concert honouring Paul McCartney's cousin
If you're a Beatles fan, Dunedin is the place to be this weekend. Some of the country's best musicians are covering songs from The Beatles and Paul McCartney in a concert, raising money for the Blind… Audio
The Sampler: The White Album Turns 50
The Beatles 'White Album' is 50 years old and there's a new 6-disc edition to mark the occasion. Nick Bollinger takes a deep dive. Audio
Box sets: getting bigger but who wants them?
As the compact disc goes the way of the wax cylinder, box sets of music on CD are - curiously - getting bigger. Nick Bollinger looks under the lid.
Nashville Babylon 18 June, 2018
On tonight's show Mark celebrates Paul McCartney's birthday with a suitable selection of covers from some of his favourite artists including Harry Nilsson, Howe Gelb, Ike & Tina Turner and Aretha… Audio
Fifty years on from The Beatles ashram get-away
50 years since The Beatles made their journey to India to study Hindu mysticism under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Audio, Gallery
Sgt Pepper - The Cover Versions
William Dart joins in with the revisiting of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and gives his own tribute to the revolutionary Beatles album that came out 50 years ago. Audio
The genius of the Beatles
A few weeks ago, we featured the band Moon Lander on New Zealand Live, and in between songs, the leadsinger and songwriter Anthony Lander got talking about his love for the Beatles and how they have… Audio
Music with Graeme Downes
The Beatles Sgt Pepper album - part 3 and the tensions between Lennon and McCartney in their song writing. Graeme Downes is a founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior… Audio
Sergeant Pepper's Kiwi rivals
It's been 50 years since the release of one of the most famous albums ever - the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. So what was its effect in New Zealand? Audio Culture's Chris Bourke… Audio
Sgt Pepper turns 50
Young musician Nic Montgomery talks about what The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album means to him. Audio
The Beatles: 50 years on
Songwriter and musicologist, Graeme Downes, plays The Beatles, more than five decades since their first single Love Me Do was released. Audio
The Sampler Summit: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is not just one of the biggest-selling albums in history; it might also be the most culturally significant. To mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ classic… Audio
David Lawrence: the Week in Shakespeare
Kim Hill talks to David Lawrence, director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, and research and development consultant for the Popup Globe, which returns to Auckland in a new and improved… Audio
When New Zealand bands met the Beatles
New Audioculture director Chris Bourke looks back on the Beatlemania years from a Kiwi perspective. Many local musicians were deeply suspicious of the Fab Four - it had to be a flash in the pan, they… Video, Audio
The Sampler for 4 October
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a coming-of-age album from Blue Mountains-born singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin; talks magic and romance with Texan troubadour Hayes Carll; and, half a… Audio
Live At The Hollywood Bowl by The Beatles
Half a century after they stood at the centre of a cultural revolution, Nick Bollinger asks if there is anything left to be learned from The Beatles? Audio