The Beatles and the Rolling Stones both won at the 2025 Grammy Awards, the fiercest rivalry in rock being stirred up over iconic statuettes of an old gramophone… Wait, wait, wait, that can’t be right. The Beatles and the Stones?

Like a last, fading echo from an era when Britain was a pop superpower, these two enduring British brands received warm and fuzzily nostalgic acclamation from an American music business that has become so utterly globally dominant it can afford to be generous to a tattered transatlantic pop alliance.

The Telegraph London