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If you are a devout Beatles fan, then you know the history behind their iconic No. 1 hit song, “Come Together”. If you don’t, then long story short is that Chuck Berry’s song “You Can’t Catch Me” heavily influenced John Lennon during the writing process. As a matter of fact, the opening lines in both songs are nearly identical. Consequently, after the song’s release, Berry’s publishing company, Big Seven Music, accused Lennon of plagiarism.

Instead of settling the case in court, Lennon agreed to record three songs for Big Seven Music. Though it seems this concern was a concern from the start, as Paul McCartney voiced his perspective on the matter when John Lennon first showed him the song back in the late 1960s. Paul McCartney Loved the Song, but He Knew John Lennon Needed To Change It Up.

In an interview with Dana Carvey and David Spade on Fly On The Wall, Paul McCartney recalled the moment John Lennon showed him “Come Together”. Paul McCartney seemingly dug the song, but he knew that if they didn’t alter some things, Berry’s parties would meet the band with legal action.

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On December 8, 1980, John Lennon passed away in front of The Dakota Hotel in New York City. 21 years later, George Harrison passed away on November 29, 2001, after a battle with lung cancer. A battle he’d fought for roughly four years after he received a cancer diagnosis in 1998. 17 days before his passing, Harrison met with his good friends Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney for the last time, which was on this day, November 12, 2001, at a hotel in New York City.

Harrison’s battle with cancer was both lengthy as well as diverse, as the man didn’t just have one type of cancer. Originally, in 1998, Harrison had a throat tumor. Subsequently, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and in 2001, the thing that ultimately took his life was a brain tumor brought on by the cancer. The day he passed away, the news was reported across the globe, and other than leaving behind one of the greatest legacies in pop culture history, his death also became a warning against smoking.

Nevertheless, on this day, November 12, 2001, Harrison scored a little bit of peace before his death when his friends and former bandmates met with him at a hotel in Manhattan.

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By the time George Harrison and Bob Dylan were in the Traveling Wilburys with Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne in 1988, the two already had established a long friendship, and collaborations, from the early 1960s, first co-writing, Harrison’s All Things Must Pass opening track “I’d Have You Anytime,” during sessions in November 1968 at Dylan’s home in Woodstock, New York.

Both remained friends through Harrison’s death in 2001 and collaborated on several more songs including co-writing several songs for the Traveling Wilburys, including “End of the Line” and “Handle With Care,” along with “Nowhere to Go” (“When Everybody Comes to Town”), a song they co-wrote in the late ’60s and later recorded at Dylan’s home in Greenwich Village in New York in 1970.

“Bob Dylan is the most consistent artist there is,” said Harrison. “Even his stuff, which people loathe, I like. Every single thing he does represents something that’s him. He may write better songs tomorrow, sing high on this album and low on another, go electric or acoustic, go weird or whatever, but the basic thing that causes all this chang details

True love can and often does manifest in strange, mysterious ways—like the time John Lennon wrote a particularly pining Beatles song that he would later come to realize was about Yoko Ono. At the time he wrote the song, he had yet to meet Ono at her avant-garde art exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London. That wouldn’t happen until early November 1966, almost one year to the date that Lennon and the rest of the band recorded the song that they would feature on Rubber Soul.

As Lennon explained in Anthology, he wrote the Rubber Soul track, “Girl”, with no particular girl in mind. “There is no such thing as the girl,” he clarified. “She was a dream. But the words are all right. It wasn’t just a song. And it was about that girl. That turned out to be Yoko, in the end. The one that a lot of us were looking for.”

From the intimate performance that captured every breath Lennon took before a vocal phrase to the dreamy instrumental arrangement, he certainly captured what it was like to wistfully imagine the partner of your dreams who has planted themselves firmly in your mind’s eye. “Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who ca details

For the most part, who took the lead on each Beatles song made sense. No one else could’ve sung “Yellow Submarine” but Ringo Starr, and no one could’ve sung “Yesterday” but Paul McCartney. They had four vocalists with very different strengths, and they used them to their utmost advantage. There was one song, however, that John Lennon wished he had taken the lead on instead of his songwriting partner, McCartney. Find out which song Lennon thought his bandmate “didn’t sing too well” below.

McCartney’s voice works twofold. He can deliver intimate vocals that shine on his ballads. He can also roughen up his vocals a bit and better align them with his blues influences. Most fans don’t have any issues with McCartney’s lead vocals, but Lennon took issue with his performance on “Oh! Darling” from Abbey Road.

According to McCartney, he found the vocal part in that song difficult to get right. His voice needed to equal the passion in the lyrics, which is not an easy feat. According to the former Beatle, he tried to record the vocal several different ways before finding a take he was happy with.

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The documentary One to One: John & Yoko turns its lens to John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the period when they first moved to New York in the early 1970s, following the breakup of the Beatles. It was a time when the couple left London behind for a small apartment in Greenwich Village, where they began mixing with political radicals, free thinkers, and activists. It was a transformational period in their lives that led to the creation of some of Lennon’s most politically charged music.

At the time, Ono was receiving intense backlash from Beatles fans who blamed her for the band’s demise. In the doc, she details the abuse she endured at their hands, and why she believes the Fab Four themselves might have fanned the flames of public resentment—whether knowingly or not. Through archival footage, candid phone calls, and Lennon’s own reflections, One to One reframes the era as a deeply turbulent time where love, art, and politics collided.

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Without a phone in sight, the legendary rock artist performed a collection of his greatest hits during the Nashville show of his world tour “Got Back.”

Paul McCartney made a Nov. 6 stop in Nashville, Tennessee, for an unforgettable evening of live music and heartfelt audience interactions at The Pinnacle. Throughout his performance, McCartney spent over two-and-a-half hours singing songs encapsulating a career spanning over 60 years, from speaking about personal anecdotes to playing fan-favorite songs by The Beatles, Wings and McCartney himself.

Even though McCartney needs no introduction, which his performance surely proved, he spent the entire evening bringing fans through every corner of his musical discography — even the parts lesser known by longtime fans. McCartney is most widely known for being a leading vocalist and songwriter for The Beatles, alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Following the band’s disbandment in 1970, McCartney continued his work in the 1970s with Wings before eventually beginning his solo career.

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Defining the greatest rock band of all time is an impossible task, as everyone’s criteria differ. However, if the whole world were to base its opinion on achievements, then the greatest of all time title would go to The Beatles. Need we remind you just how many accolades the Fab Four acquired during their career and after? No, because if we did, this whole article would just be a laundry list of No. 1 hits and awards. Though what we will remind you about is a major achievement they scored on this day, November 10, 2023, 53 years after their dissolution in 1970.

In May of 1963, The Beatles scored their first of many No. 1 hits on the United Kingdom singles chart. That No. 1 hit was their single, “From Me To You”, and the last single they scored on the chart while they were still together was “The Ballad Of John And Yoko”. That was not their last ever single on the UK singles chart, as today, November 10, 2023, The Beatles scored yet another No. 1 hit on the chart with their single, “Now And Then”.  The Lengthy Gap Between The Beatles’ First No. 1 Hit and “Now And Then”

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When the Beatles’ eight-part Anthology series was first released in the 1990s, it was a mind-blowing experience for young Beatles fans like me. For years, my dad had regaled us kids with his tale of sneaking into a Beatles concert in Memphis in 1966. And every year on my birthday, my mom recounted the story of my early-morning birth, and how my dad sang “Here Comes The Sun” in the delivery room as the sun came up. She gave me her original Abbey Road LP when I turned 11. Suffice it to say, I was obsessed with the Beatles from a young age. But I hadn’t been around when the Beatles were together — John was killed before I was even born. So all of the band’s performances and music releases were relegated to the past, and I was never a part of it. When the Anthology series was announced, I couldn’t believe that I would be hearing new Beatles songs on the day they were released. The documentary series, which aired on ABC, was in some ways just as groundbreaking as the Beatles’ music had been. While most music documentaries of the day featured an outside narrator and talking heads offering retrospective soundbites, the Anthology series featured the Beatles themselves at various points in details

Unseen original photos of The Beatles taken by a member of the film crew shooting at two of the Fab Four's movies have been sold after coming to light right here in Coventry.

The snaps feature in an archive compiled by Edward Tucker during his decades working in the movie industry, including Beatles film's A Hard Day's Night and Help! Known as Ted or Teddy, Mr Tucker had a ringside seat to some iconic cinematic moments thanks to his role as grip – a technician responsible for building and maintaining equipment supporting cameras and other production gear on a film set.

His collection ended up at auction it was taken to a ‘Dealer Day’ at the Coventry Building Society Arena last month for a new series of hit ITV antiques programme Dickinson’s Real Deal.

After going under the hammer with Richard Winterton Auctioneers at The Lichfield Auction Centre on Monday (November 3) were purchased for £660.  Ted’s archive includes eight never-before-seen behind the scenes Beatles photos, six from A Hard Day’s Night and two from Help!, scripts including one for the 1976 blockbuster The Eagle Has Landed – which writer Tom Mankiewicz reportedly thought to be his be details

Paul McCartney performed a virtual duet with John Lennon in Nashville using restored footage.  McCartney played multiple instruments, honored his wife, and reflected on Beatles’ history. He described Lennon’s death as “just too crazy,” but found comfort in their reconciliation.

Paul McCartney gave Nashville a night to remember — and brought a little Beatles magic back to life in the process.

During his Thursday, November 6 show at The Pinnacle, the 83-year-old music icon surprised fans with a virtual duet alongside his late bandmate, John Lennon.  Using restored video footage and modern concert technology, McCartney performed The Beatles’ “I’ve Got a Feeling,” harmonizing live with Lennon’s vocals on screen. As the song ended, the legend smiled and told the crowd, “I love that one, because I get to sing with John again,” per The Tennessean.

According to the outlet, McCartney kicked off the night by greeting the sold-out crowd with, “Well, hello Nashville. We’ve got some stuff for you tonight and I think we’re going to have a little fun.” He moved between multiple instruments throughout details

By 1968, The Beatles had revolutionized music, but were also already a band in flux. They had already stopped touring for 2 years, after their last gig at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, in August 1966. It was a complete game-changer for the band as they found sanctuary in the studio following the controversial move. The Beatles were simply tired of not being able to hear themselves, so they let their musical imaginations run wild in the safety of a tranquil studio. Their creativity was liberated, and on November 22, 1968, The Beatles released the album that captured them at perhaps their most fearless and fluid. The Beatles, or The White Album, is a self-assured expression of a band that ruled the music industry through its many styles and genres. But nearly sixty years later, could it be considered to be The Beatles’ best work? The Studio Had Become The Beatles’ Stage

When The Beatles decided to stop touring, it became the catalyst for the next stage of their evolution. Part of the reason the band called it quits on concerts is that the arrangements in their music were too intricate and complex to recreate on stage. On their last tour, they had played nothing from their latest release, Revolver, beca details

Creative collaboration isn’t easy, especially on a professional level. There’s a lot more to it than compatibility or friendship. There are deadlines and conflicting opinions. It’s rarely as simple as a mutual agreement to make a great album. One of the most iconic collaborations in music history is that of George Martin and the Beatles. While the band members credited Martin with complementing their wild ideas with his vast knowledge of music theory, their relationship wasn’t smooth sailing all the time.

There was one song in particular that hurt Martin in the process. Though it was ultimately due to a time constraint, this snub from the Beatles broke Martin’s heart.

The Beatles have been more than complimentary of Martin over the years. They have repeatedly acknowledged his influence on their careers and have mourned him in the years since his passing.

“He had a very great musical knowledge and background,” John Lennon once said of Martin. “He taught us a lot, and I’m sure we taught him a lot through our sort of primitive musical ability.”  “She’s Leaving Home”

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Yoko Ono will stage her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California at the Broad museum this spring. The legendary 92-year-old artist, activist and wife of John Lennon is set to open her show, “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” on May 23. The interactive exhibition, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern in London, will run through Oct. 11, 2026, the Broad announced Thursday.

One of the first things guests will see when they approach the museum during Ono’s show will be an outdoor installation created using the Broad’s olive trees from its outdoor plaza. These will be transformed into “wish trees” for the city — a nod to an installation that Ono first created in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica. Viewers will be invited to write wishes on tags and attach them to the branches.

“Yoko’s work has never been bound by place or time, but this really feels like the right moment for a show like this in Los Angeles,” Ono’s studio director, Connor Monahan, wrote in an email. “Her work transforms audiences from observers into participants, helping to shape the works and the exhibition itself. That sense of agency and connection fee details

A compilation album of unreleased materials by The Beatles faced strong objections from the surviving band members.

Paul McCartney suggested the project should not be released while George Harrison and John Lennon‘s estate called on the compilation to be scrapped entirely. Sessions, the proposed 1985 compilation album, was ultimately cancelled after the Fab Four intervened, though all was not lost and the project would be revived a decade later. Sessions served as the foundation for the Anthology project from The Beatles, a career-spanning look back at the band’s achievements and work together. Sessions had been the original plan for the group, though it was ultimately scrapped. The album would have featured thirteen at-the-time unreleased songs by The Beatles, including Leave My Kitten Alone and an alternative version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. But life goes on, and the band would object to releasing the work entirely.

Compilations had been released in the past, including The Beatles Ballads and Love Songs, as well as a live album of their performance at the Hollywood Bowl. But it seemed a step too far to have the group’s archival tapes and unreleased materials picked through. Fans seem glad the S details

John Lennon and Paul McCartney built their songwriting partnership on a mutual understanding that whoever wrote the song would have the final say-so in how that track turns out, but that doesn’t mean they always agreed with one another. One such example came from their penultimate album, Abbey Road. Years after its release, Lennon would lament over the fact that McCartney insisted on singing the lead vocal.

Speaking to David Geff during one of his final interviews before his death in 1980, Lennon discussed “Oh! Darling” and what he liked (and didn’t like) about the blues rocker. He described the song as “a great one of Paul’s that he didn’t sing too well. I always thought that I could’ve done it better. It was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it. If he’d had any sense, he should have let me sing it.”

To some degree, I’d be inclined to agree with Lennon. Of the two musicians, he was certainly the grittier of the two. “Oh! Darling” sounds more akin to Lennon’s composition, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, than, say, McCartney’s “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer details

Paul McCartney reflects on Lennon’s 1980 death in his new book. McCartney recalls their last conversation as positive and without conflict.
He describes working in shock after learning about Lennon’s murder.

Beatles icon Paul McCartney is reflecting on the 1980 death of lifelong friend and former bandmate John Lennon in his new book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run.

“It was just too crazy,” McCartney, 83, recalled. “We just said what everyone said; it was all blurred. It was the same as the Kennedy [assassination]. The same horrific moment, you know. You couldn’t take it in. I still haven’t taken it in. I don’t want to.”

Although the Beatles split in 1970, a decade before Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City home, McCartney revealed he and Lennon were on good terms at the time. “That is a nice thing, a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out,” he continued. “But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn’t have any kind of blowup.”

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As many people ask Sir Paul McCartney about his second band Wings as they do The Beatles, the veteran musician has said.

"Suddenly Wings has found its moment," said 83-year-old McCartney. "There's a generational shift at play and it's like being transported back on a magic carpet."  Speaking ahead of the launch of the book Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run, which McCartney has written alongside American historian Edward "Ted" Widmer, he said he found many people tell him Band On The Run is their favourite album.

Wings had 12 UK top 10 singles, including the Christmas number one Mull Of Kintyre, as well as eight UK top 10 albums, including two number ones.  The band is best known for songs such as Jet, Silly Love Songs and Live And Let Die, the theme to the 1973 James Bond film.

McCartney said he "didn't really know how to be in a band" after The Beatles split up in 1970.  "It was a complete blank canvas," he said.

"We would go on the road with no plans, no hotels booked, no gigs lined up and we thought the only place we might find a captive audience was at a university - a completely off-the-wall idea but I'm glad we did it."

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These are some of the behind-the-scenes Beatles photos from A Hard Day's Night and Help!  Unseen photos of The Beatles, taken by a crew member shooting their films, have been sold at auction.

The archive was listed as three lots by auctioneers Richard Winerton in Lichfield, Staffordshire, on Monday and went under the hammer for a total of £1,720. The Beatles photos had a guide price of £500 to £700 and sold for £660, film scripts and movie photos estimated at £750 went for £600, while pop music and 1980s autographs expected to fetch £250 to £350 went for £460.

The collection came to light during a day of filming in Coventry for ITV antiques programme Dickinson's Real Deal.

The collection belonged to Edward Tucker, from Cambridgeshire, who worked for decades in the movie industry, before he died eight years ago aged 83.  Items also included behind-the-scenes images from Help! and A Hard Day's Night, and were brought to auction by Mr Tucker's family.

Photos from the set of A Hard Day's Night feature Ringo Starr filming in April 1964 in Edgehill Road, West Ealing.

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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band begins darkly, with tolling bells that Lennon had slowed down in the studio to mimic a horror film he’d recently watched. The bells open “Mother”, a despairing song revealing Lennon’s feelings of abandonment.

But the anguish in “Mother” quickly gives way to “Hold On”, a comforting hymn aimed inward. He was reeling from the chaos of The Beatles’ break-up, global events, and fame. And he needed to be sure he’d survive.

Midway through the album, Lennon sings “Love”, a song one might view as both a declaration and a plea. With The Beatles, he once sang how love is all you need. But the Summer of Love had come and gone. The 1970s arrived, war continued, and so he soothed himself with “Hold On”.
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Lennon directs the comforting message of “Hold On” mostly at himself, but also at Yoko Ono and the rest of the world. Written against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Lennon’s optimistic lyric reads like a lonesome and desperate appeal.

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And there’s no one else,
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Behind every great man there’s a great woman, the saying goes – and now the fabulous four women behind The Beatles are to be portrayed by four great Hollywood actresses.

Skyfall director Sam Mendes, who is producing four linked films, each focusing on a different member of The Beatles, has now cast the Fab Four’s wives for the ambitious project.

White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood, 31, will play George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd, while Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, 31, has been cast as Linda McCartney, the muse to many of Paul McCartney’s songs.

Anna Sawai, 33, who has made a name for herself in the US drama series Shogun, will appear as John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, and British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce, 28, will play Maureen Cox, the wife of Ringo Starr.

In Mendes’s four films, Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, 33, plays Starr, Fantastic Four actor Joseph Quinn, 31, will be Harrison, leading Triangle Of Sadness cast member Harris Dickinson, 29, takes on the Lennon role and Gladiator II hunk Paul Mescal, 29, will be McCartney.

Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan , 31, has been cast as Linda McCartney, the muse to many of Paul McCartney’s songs

The strangest rumour started floating around just as the Beatles were breaking up – that I was dead. We had heard it long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969, stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on a force all its own, so that millions of fans around the world believed I was actually gone.

At one point, I turned to my new wife and asked, “Linda, how can I possibly be dead?” She smiled as she held our new baby, Mary, as aware of the power of gossip and the absurdity of these ridiculous newspaper headlines as I was. But she did point out that we had beaten a hasty retreat from London to our remote farm up in Scotland, precisely to get away from the kind of malevolent talk that was bringing the Beatles down.

But now that over a half century has passed since those truly crazy times, I’m beginning to think that the rumours were more accurate than one might have thought at the time. In so many ways, I was dead … A 27-year-old about-to-become-ex-Beatle, drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows that were sapping my energy, in need of a complete life makeover. Would I ever be able to move on from what had been an amazing decade, I thought. Would I be able to surmount the cri details

On January 30, 1969, for just shy of 45 minutes, The Beatles delivered what would be the final public performance of their decade-long career. A bittersweet but ultimately very cool moment, the Fab Four took to the roof of Apple Corps headquarters in London, with session musician (and often-labeled Fifth Beatle) Billy Preston in tow. The group performed nine songs. However, they only performed different takes of five new songs that would be found on their final record, Let It Be. The Beatles’ rooftop concert also featured a rendition of “God Save The Queen”.

 This is one of The Beatles’ best songs of all time, and one of John Lennon’s most impassioned performances. Interestingly enough, “Don’t Let Me Down” would go through quite a few changes before this first public performance of the song. In the weeks leading up to the concert, “Don’t Let Me Down” went through a number of changes before it was completed. Lennon also admittedly struggled with the high notes found in the chorus of the song. Lennon also hoped that the recording of that first take during The Beatles’ rooftop concert would be good enough for the album. Sadly, Lennon forgot the ly details

On a November day in 1970, at a momentous time in the most consequential year of his life, one of the most famous people in the world was sitting alone on a blanket by the ocean south of the pier in Deerfield Beach, as far away from the pressure of being George Harrison as he could get.

The Beatles guitarist and songwriter had just days before put the finishing touches on his solo album, “All Things Must Pass,” a deeply personal statement that would forever change critical perceptions of Harrison as an artist. As he sat on the beach, the album was mere weeks away from being revealed to the public on Nov. 27.

At the same time, the album’s release would be tangible evidence, if the world still needed it, that the long and winding road of the Beatles’ fractious breakup was coming to an end. Paul McCartney would file a lawsuit to dissolve the partnership the following month.

The rumor of Harrison’s presence over the course of some 10 days in Deerfield Beach — closely guarded by locals, some who admit to never having actually seen him — sounds so unlikely, so fantastical, that it’s fair to wonder if it actually happened. George Harrison in Deerfield Beach? Serio details

Director Sam Mendes' "The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event" has cast some power women actors for pivotal roles.

Sony Pictures announced Friday, Oct. 31, that "Shogun" star Anna Sawai will play John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, and "White Lotus" star Aimee Lou Wood will star as George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd, who later married Eric Clapton.

Mia McKenna-Bruce will star as Ringo Starr's first wife, Maureen Starkey (née Cox), and Saoirse Ronan will play Paul McCartney's wife, Linda McCartney (née Eastman).  "Maureen, Linda, Yoko and Pattie are four fascinating and unique figures in their own right - and I’m thrilled that we’ve managed to persuade four of the most talented women working in film today to join this amazing adventure," Mendes said in a statement.

At CinemaCom in April, Mendes announced the stars of these intersecting music biopics: Paul Mescal is playing McCartney, Joseph Quinn will play Harrison, Barry Keoghan will be drumming as Starr, and Harris Dickinson has been cast as Lennon.

"The Beatles changed my understanding of music. Pretty much, they made up my first memories," Mendes said in April. He revealed that all four films – which will be in p details