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The address may not sound familiar, and the street name is best known as the heart of British tailoring. But 3 Savile Row is one of the most famous buildings in British pop and rock: the former home of the Beatles’ Apple Corps, and where the group last performed when they took to its roof in 1969.
Apple Corps has now taken over the building in Mayfair, in the middle Londonand plans to open to the public as a tourist attraction in 2027.
On seven floors, The Beatles at 3 Savile Row will display Apple Corps archives and host temporary exhibitions and a store. The most exciting, however, will be the studio where the band recorded their last album, Let It Be, and the access to the roof where the final concert was held.
Paul McCartney, who recently visited the Georgian mansion, said: “There are so many special memories in the walls, not to mention the roof. Bandmate Ringo Starr described it as ‘like coming home’.”
The Beatles founded Apple Corps at the end of the 60s to manage their financial affairs and with the aim of supporting other technology and commercial activities, from music and movies to sales and electronics. When the group split up in 1970, it found a new purpose as the guardian of their legacy, overseen by former road manager, Neil Aspinalluntil his death in 2008.
Apple Corps left Savile Row in 1976 and today the company’s CEO is Tom Greene, who is overseeing their return. “Every day, fans are taking pictures of the outside of 3 Savile Row – but next year they can go inside,” he said. Regarding the roof of the building, he revealed: “Even the rails are the same since that famous day in 1969.”
The opening set featured five new Beatles songs, performed over nine: Come Back, Don’t Leave Me, I Can Hear, One After 909 and Dig a Pony, as well as a rendition of God Save the Queen. A non-promotional gig was recorded Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 documentary Let it Beand attracted a surprised crowd of passers-by – including the police. Two police officers entered the building, climbed onto the roof and turned off the band’s amps, although the band still managed to perform the final act of Get Back.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, called The Beatles’ plans for 3 Savile Row “extremely exciting” and said the attraction would “attract Londoners and visitors from all over the world”.
Anyone who thinks the project will come too late, at this point, may be confused by the group’s work in the 2020s so far.
In 2021, Disney released Get Back – the acclaimed remake of Lindsay-Hogg’s 80-minute film Let It Be. Produced by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, the three parts delivered lasted about eight hours and produced a stand-alone film of 3 Savile Row performances.
Then, in 2023, the group released a “new” song – Now and Then – what was used AI technology to improve photography of the late John Lennon and George Harrison and new parts recorded by McCartney and Starr. It reached No 1 in the UK, marking the longest gap of 54 years between the band’s top singles.
Another movie series followed in 2024, and The Beatles produced by Martin Scorsese ’64 it focuses on the moment the band broke the US and features new interviews with McCartney and Starr.
And last year, a Beatles Anthology project in the workswhich originally told the band’s story over three albums of shows and releases, a TV documentary and a book in 1995 and 1996, was re-released and updated with a fourth album and a new episode.
McCartney and Starr, meanwhile, have continued to release new music, with McCartney’s next album, Dungeon Lane Boysis due to be released on May 29. Featuring a soundtrack that reflects on his parents, his marriage, his childhood in Liverpool and his memories of his Beatles friends, it also includes his first single with Starr.
Starr has released two albums in the past 15 months, focusing on the country sound of Look Up and Long Long Road with producer T Bone Burnett and guest stars such as Sheryl Crow and St Vincent.
And the biographies go on and on. Sam Mendes is currently recording one for each band memberto be released simultaneously in April 2028. “A four-film event” will star Paul Mescal as McCartney, Harris Dickinson as Lennon, Joseph Quinn as Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Starr.
It looks like it will come before Hamburg Days, a TV drama that chronicles the band’s early years playing concerts in the German city’s red light district. Now filming, with UK broadcast rights acquired by the BBC, the series is written by Jamie Carragher, part of the Succession writing team.
If you can’t wait for those projects, rare photos and letters from the band’s years are available shown in Hamburg as part of the city’s Hafengeburtstag celebration, where Please Please Me, a play by Tom Wright about the leader of the Beatles, Brian Epsteinand his closeness to John Lennon is playing this month at the London Kiln theatre.
Finally, Beatles aficionados are waiting for the second book in All These Years, a trilogy of biographies by Mark Lewisohn, undoubtedly the most famous Beatles historian. The first volume, Tune In, was published in 2013 after ten years of work. Lewisohn said in February that he could not say when the second phase would arrive. “I have never left anything behind, and in doing so I have found amazing things,” he said. But the problem is that I have a lot of things.
