Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musical

Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre

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Vast Luggala estate in Wicklow sold at discount to overseas buyer

Home of late Guinness heir Garech Browne fetches less than €28m price tag

Stella McCartney: ‘I’m incredibly hygienic, but I’m not a fan of dry cleaning. Or any cleaning’

The fashion designer speaks about her new Beatles inspired range, Kate Moss and her ‘rock passion’

Terence Trent D’Arby’s identity change: ‘It was that or death’

In 1987 he was hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson, then his star crashed and burned

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Fans mark 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Dublin’s Wolfe Tone Square the site for recreation of Beatles’ famous album cover

First listen: ‘Sgt Pepper’ is the comfort and escape we need today

I now know Ringo is my favourite Beatle, and who’s to blame for The Flaming Lips

One image pays tribute to celebrity deaths of 2016

David Bowie, George Michael, Terry Wogan and Frank Kelly feature among those in the montage tribute

In a word . . . bodyguard

Rejected 1964 snaps of Beatles in Belfast finally released

Shots taken in King’s Hall in November 1964 by photographer who didn’t even like band

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1.5m price drop at Lennon’s former Surrey pad

Paul McCartney: New

Life is a Picnic

On its 10th anniversary, Electric Picnic turned on, tuned in, and sold out. ‘The Irish Times’ went down to the woods to get a big surprise. Here are the best bits …