A company in a court fight with the Beatles has agreed not to release recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first performance with the group until the case is...
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Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend of the Beatles who managed their business enterprises and helped make the group a moneymaking phenomenon decades after they split up, has...
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Neil Aspinall, a close friend and former road manager of The Beatles who was sometimes referred to as the fifth member of the band, died in New York of lung cancer, former...
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The Beatles have come together to block distribution of an early bootleg. Lawyers for the Fab Four's London-based company, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit last week...
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Apple Inc has dismissed claims in the U.K. press that the Beatles catalog is about to be made available online through the computer giant's iTunes Music Store as...
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It's been a hard day's night for American Idol, but the show finally has a ticket to ride. The music publisher that controls the Beatles' John Lennon-Paul...
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The Grammys just can't let the
Beatles let it be.
The Fab Four were honored yet again at the 50th annual
Grammy Awards on Sunday, just two years after the...
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From the incredibly obvious department: The Grammys paid tribute to the Beatles on Sunday night.
One could wonder sarcastically: "Really? The Beatles? Now are they THAT...
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian
mystic who taught meditation to the West, inspired the
anti-materialism of the late sixties and the music of the
Beatles, gaining a hold...
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What could be better after a hard day's sightseeing?
Visitors to Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, can rest their heads in the Lennon or McCartney suites at the Fab...
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The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way.
NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" across the galaxy to Polaris, the...
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More than 40 years after it barred the iconic British band from playing there, Israel said it wants the surviving members of the Beatles to participate in a concert...
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Imagine that. A lock of John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000 Wednesday in an auction of Beatles' memorabilia collected by the band's hairdresser.
The hair — inside an...
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Ed Sullivan introduced Americans to the Beatles, but "Help!" was the first time they saw the Fab Four in color. It may not sound like a big deal in an age of HDTV, but in...
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Once relegated to the backs of roadies and the bottoms of closets, the rock and roll T-shirt is hanging around some nicer venues these days — like Christie's auction...
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They worked it out. Months after the owner of an Elvis Shop in London took the owner of a Beatles shop to court, the two parties settled their troubles without a trial...
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It was an evening straight
out of Lincoln Center, with bravos for the harpist and a
standing ovation for the trumpet solo. But this was no
black-tie event.
This was a rock...
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Nine albums from the late George
Harrison have been made available online through retailers such
as Apple's iTunes, record label Parlophone said on Wednesday,
as the...
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Wu-Tang Clan have become the first group to get permission from the Beatles to sample one of their tracks, they have revealed.
The hip-hop collective return with a new...
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What's the best Beatles song?
The revolutionary tunes of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are back on the big-screen with "Across the Universe,"...
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For the guys in the Fab Faux, the songs of the Beatles are as much classical music as classic rock.
"The way an orchestra would do Mozart or Beethoven?" explains guitarist...
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Beamed around the world in a broadcasting landmark, a Beatles performance for the first live trans-Atlantic satellite transmission in 1967 was regarded as a defining...
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Help! Some Beatles fans are feeling down about the latest use of a Fab Four song in a commercial — the 1967 peace anthem "All You Need Is Love" highlights a new...
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Mae West said: "No. I won't be in it.
What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?"
So The Beatles personally wrote to the Hollywood vamp who
then agreed to join...
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Forget love. Money's just fine by the Beatles.
Apple Corps, the company representing Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of the late George Harrison and John...
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The Beatles' Apple Corps company has settled a royalties dispute with record label EMI, the two companies said Thursday, raising hopes that Beatles recordings may soon be...
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Boxes of photographic material — including the only remaining original transparencies from a 1963 Beatles photo session — were thrown out by a cleaner despite a...
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Apple Corps., guardian of the Beatles' commercial interests, said Tuesday its chief executive, a longtime friend of the Fab Four, has quit.
Neil Aspinall, a school friend...
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Breaking from the rest of the recording industry, EMI Group said Monday it will begin selling songs online that are free of copy-protection technology through Apple Inc.'s...
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For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic...
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The stuffy cave-like club where the Beatles staged some of their earliest performances celebrated its 50th birthday Tuesday.
The Cavern Club — a former fruit...
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The original handwritten lyrics of the Beatles' melancholy rock song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" will be auctioned off Monday.
Written by George Harrison on a single...
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The original handwritten lyrics to
Beatles classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" will go on sale
in the United States on Monday and are expected to fetch up to
400,000...
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An album cover signed by all four Beatles as a gift for George Harrison's sister has sold at auction for more than $115,000.
The sale, to an unidentified buyer, was...
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It's the Beatles as they never even imagined themselves.
The Beatles' "Love" album being released on Tuesday is a thorough reinterpretation of their work, with familiar...
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A spectacular Beatles tribute is set to be the highlight of next week's U.K. Music Hall Of Fame, it has been announced.
Razorlight's Johnny Borrell, queen's Roger Taylor,...
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All you need for Love is a good computer and some classic
tunes.
Coming together in ways impossible to envision four
decades ago, the Beatles are back with a new album,...
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A "new" album of Beatles music mixed by
their legendary producer George Martin and described as a new
"way of reliving the whole Beatles musical lifespan," will be
released...
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In a story Sept. 12 about the Royal Mail's plan to issue six stamps honoring The Beatles, The Associated Press erroneously said "Meet The Beatles" was the group's first...
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A suburban basement where The Beatles played some of their earliest gigs was given protected heritage status by the British government Friday. The Casbah Coffee Club,...
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The Royal Mail is saluting the Beatles in January by releasing six commemorative stamps illustrated with memorable album covers.
The set includes ran image of "With the...
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As the live beat of Beatles classics begins bouncing off the walls of the Elks Lodge, a man with a gray mustache stands before his drum set and speaks up in a Liverpool...
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All you need is luck--and a psych evaluation--to avoid jail
time.
A schizophrenic man who allegedly tried to sell
boxes of stolen tapes of rare Beatles recordings is...
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A London judge ruled Friday that a schizophrenic who was found in possession of 504 Beatles tapes should be placed under mental health supervision for two years.
Nigel...
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Penny Lane will keep its name. Liverpool officials said Saturday they would modify a proposal to rename streets linked to the slave trade when they realized the road made...
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The Beatles are back, not in the USSR, not on "The Ed Sullivan Show" or even at Shea Stadium — but on the Las Vegas Strip as the focus of international theater troupe...
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More than 40 years after the Beatles and
the Rolling Stones featured on the first edition, the BBC is to
scrap Britain's longest-running music television show, "Top of
the...
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Ten hours, 28 minutes. That was the sum of the music recorded and released by the Beatles before breaking up, a volume of work that changed lives, careers and the course of...
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Ringo Starr is reportedly mad at his Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney over last weekend's Live 8 performance in London. According to contactmusic.com, Starr wanted to play...
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They combine the classic melodies of
the Beatles with the heavy-metal thunder of Metallica , but the
rock band Beatallica certainly isn't music to Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE -...
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Producer Danger Mouse has taken all of the vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album and recorded them over music from the Beatles' 1968 set The White Album, to create The Grey Album,...
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The legal scuffle between the Beatles' record label Apple Corps Ltd. and Apple Computers Inc over the use of the name is heating up again. After years of legal wrangling,...
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The world premiere of the George Harrison documentary concert film, Concert For George, was held Wednesday night (September 24) in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio....
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The Beatles have filed suit against Apple Computer over its iTunes online music service. A statement released by the Beatles-owned Apple Corps LTD says that the company is...
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The sister of original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe denies ever saying that John Lennon was responsible for her brother's death. A prior report in England's Independent...
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The sister of one-time Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe is claiming that John Lennon was responsible for her brother's death. Sutcliffe joined the Beatles in January 1960 at...
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A former Beatle is invading America again, only this time it's the band's original drummer, Pete Best. Now 61 years old, Best is promoting a new coffee table book, the...
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The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool, England will honor the King in a new exhibit--but that's the King of Rock n' Roll, not any past Kings of England. The show, set to...
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Paul McCartney will hold a rock master-class seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 22 as part of the city's 300th anniversary celebration. On May 24, the former Beatle...
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The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's...
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Singers from Cheap Trick and the B-52s are taking part in a new covers album titled From A Window: Lost Songs Of Lennon & McCartney. The 17-track album includes songs that...
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Ringo Starr appeared Tuesday (March 25) on MTV's TRL show for the release of his latest album Ringo Rama. The program is geared towards young contemporary pop fans, and...
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Paul McCartney had so much fun on the road last year that he's decided to do it again. McCartney will take his band out starting in March for an extension of his 2002...
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Beatles recordings believed to be stolen from the band's London studios more than 30 years ago were recovered by police on Friday (February 14) in Sydney, Australia.
A...
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones will find themselves competing again next month, this time in the home-video racks. The bands are the subjects of new, unauthorized VHS...
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Ringo Rama, the upcoming solo album from Ringo Starr, is due March 25 from Koch Records. The project features guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd guitarist David...
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The Beatles' 1969 Abbey Road album cover has been airbrushed by politically correct poster companies in the United States to remove a cigarette held in Paul McCartney's...
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Some 500 Beatles recording session tapes stolen in the 1970s were recovered on Friday (January 10) by police in England and the Netherlands, many including never-released...
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Paul McCartney will not be sued by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono over a songwriting credit dispute, despite media reports to the contrary.
According to a report in the Los...
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An original copy of the Beach Boys' seminal Pet Sounds album autographed by Paul McCartney and a copy of the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band signed by Brian...
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Five hundred unpublished photos of the Beatles were discovered in the archives at a university in Scotland on Saturday (October 5).
The photos were part of an archive of...
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George Harrison's final studio album will be released in the fall. Due November 19 from Dark Horse/Capitol Records, Brainwashed was the project the late Beatle was working...
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The Beatles' first feature film, 1964's A Hard Day's Night, will be released in a two-disc DVD set from Miramax Films on September 24. Six hours of bonus features will be...
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The second annual Beatles tribute tour, dubbed A Walk Down Abbey Road - A Tribute To The Beatles, kicks off again next month. The incredible success of the inaugural tour...
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Sony Music is denying reports that say Michael Jackson has plans to surrender his share of the Beatles song catalog to the label's publishing division.
An unnamed Sony...
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Could The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring have been the Beatles' first magical mystery tour? Denis O'Dell, the producer of the Oscar-nominated first film in...
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Michael Jackson could be forced to give up his share of the Beatles' song catalog to Sony Music Publishing. Jackson famously bought the catalog for $47.5 million in 1985,...
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The handwritten lyrics to the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" are expected to fetch upwards of $114,000 at a Christie's auction in London on April 30. Two of the handwritten lines...
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Don McLean's "American Pie," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," and Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" are among the new tunes named for induction into the Grammy Hall Of Fame this...
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The Beatles' 1968 psychedelic cartoon film Yellow Submarine might be on its way to the London stage. Representatives of surviving Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison,...
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An audio tape of the Beatles' December 1963 appearance on the BBC program Juke Box Jury has been given to Britain's national TV-and-radio network, but don't expect a...
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Will there be a follow-up to 1, the collection of Beatles chart-toppers that hit Number One in 34 countries? According to Ringo Starr, he and his fellow "Fab Four" cohorts...
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The Beatles, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Springsteen are among the brightest stars in the music world, and now they're "stars" in the sky as well. Last week, the International...
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Contrary to reports published in the U.K., former Beatle George Harrison is not selling the British countryside home in which he was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder...
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The Girls Of The Beatles, a play based on several characters from Beatles songs, is continuing to wow Moscow audiences, according to the BBC. The play features the...
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Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Ann Wilson of Heart, and John Entwistle of the Who have one thing in common--they're Beatles fans, and they'll be taking their admiration of the...
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Memorabilia once belonging to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jim Morrison, Freddy Mercury, and others, are going up for auction today (March 27) at London's Hard Rock...
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Sid Bernstein, the man responsible for bringing the Beatles to New York's Shea Stadium in 1965, is anxious to present another artist to the famed ballpark. Bernstein told...
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With Beatlemania raging again thanks to the phenomenal success of the hits collection 1, Paul McCartney's post-Beatles project, Wings, is about to get its due. Wingspan, a...
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The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name Of Love," the Beatles' "Hey Jude," and the Byrds' "Turn Turn Turn" have been selected for induction into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. The...
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The Beatles' reign atop the Billboard 200 continues for an eighth (non-consecutive) week, with their greatest-hits collection, 1, selling another 215,000 copies, according...
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The Beatles' 1 holds on to the Number One position on the album sales chart for the sixth straight week on sales of more than 260,000 copies. This week also represents the...
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The Beatles 1 held off reggae singer Shaggy's Hot Shot to remain at the top of the album sales chart. The collection of "Fab Four" Number One hits sold more than 268,000...
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The Beatles retain their dominance over the album sales chart this week, with their collection of chart toppers, 1, again outselling all comers. According to industry...
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The holiday season was remarkably good for the Fab Four as the Beatles' 1 collection sold more than 1.25 million copies, according to industry sources, allowing it to spend...
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The Beatles' album 1 remains atop the album sales chart for a second week in a row. The collection of "Fab Four" chart toppers sold more than 823,000 copies this week,...
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The Beatles album 1 has reclaimed the top of the sales chart just two weeks after the Backstreet Boys' Black & Blue dethroned it. The collection of "Fab Four" chart toppers...
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It appears as though the three surviving members of the Beatles have agreed to reunite and perform together again, but not until four years from now.
According to...
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The Backstreet Boys' new album Black & Blue debuts in the top spot on this week's albums chart on sales of more than 1,590,000 copies. According to industry sources, the...
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The Beatles collection of 27 chart-topping hits lived up to its title, 1, by debuting at Number One on the album sales chart this week. The original Fab Four sold nearly...
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Though hardly a surprise, the Beatles' 1, a new collection of 27 "Fab Four" Number One hits in the U.S. and the U.K., topped the British album chart in its first week of...
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Out now is 1, the highly anticipated collection of the Beatles' Number One hits in the U.S. and the U.K. The 27-song set has been blowing out of stores on both sides of the...
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Eight days before it goes on sale in the U.S., the Beatles' 1 -- a "Fab Four" collection of 27 chart-topping hits from both sides of the Atlantic -- was released today in...
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In a deliberate attempt to fan the flames of the file-sharing debate, British alt-pop group Chumbawamba has illegally--and proudly-- sampled the music of Eminem, the...
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A proposed record-label merger that would have put the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, D'Angelo, and the Spice Girls in the same corporate home as Madonna, R.E.M.,...
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(10/4/00, 3 p.m. ET - The big news in music Thursday (October 5) will be on bookshelves, not record racks. After years of delays, the 368-page autobiographical tome The...
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The Beatles were the big winners when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the gold and platinum certifications for the month of July. The...
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The Seattle-based nostalgia label Jerden Records has just released more rare and exclusive Beatles interviews on compact disc. Beatles Tapes V - The 1965 Help Tour features...
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The Liverpool gates made famous in the Beatles hit "Strawberry Fields Forever" have been returned to their rightful owner after going missing last week.
Liverpool police...
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The long-promised literary companion to the
Beatles's Anthology project is finally becoming a reality. Britain's Sunday Telegraph reports that Paul McCartney, George...
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When it comes to presidential candidates and the music they like, classic rock seems to be the preference. The Beatles,
Bob Dylan,
Van Morrison, and John Fogerty are big...
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Ringo Starr will record a song penned by his old bandmate
John Lennon for the soundtrack to Steal This Movie, a biopic about '60s civil-rights activist Abbie Hoffman due...
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Two Of Us, the movie about a fictional relationship between Beatles
John Lennon
and Paul McCartney
premieres tonight (Feb. 1). Actor Aidan Quinn portrays McCartney...
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Former
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr can be seen in a new commercial for the Charles Schwab brokerage company. Starr is the first non-sports personality to appear as part...
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Amusement park patrons in Berlin on Thursday (Jan. 20) were able to take a ride through skies of blue and seas of green on the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine Adventure," which...
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The Beatles' classic single "All You Need is Love" has been chosen as the theme that will open the U.K.'s grand Millennium Dome on New Year's Eve.
After weeks of...
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"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" has topped performing-rights organization BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century. The list reflects the most-played songs on American radio...
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The Beatles will never reunite, but their jackets are together again--three of the four, anyway. The trio of coats worn by the mop-tops on the cover of their 1967 classic...
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Organizers of one of the world's biggest New Year's Eve parties at the U.K.'s Millennium Dome have narrowed a list of possible anthems down to eight songs, ranging from the...
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The hand-scrawled lyrics to "I Am The Walrus," the John Lennon-penned Beatles song which has drawn comparisons to the work of such lauded literary figures as Lewis Carroll...
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With First Lady Of Ruff Ryders, Eve is also the first lady of the charts, as the rapper's solo bow debuts at the top of the chart with sales of approximately 213,400...
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Back in 1987, the release of the Beatles' album catalog on CD was credited with spurring sales of CD players. Now, with this week's release of the restored and renovated...
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You can see the video, buy the "songtrack" album, even ride the ride. Just in time for its 30th anniversary--and its new home video release--the Beatles' Yellow Submarine...
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Beatles
fans in the U.S. who were looking forward to sending their mail using the new Yellow Submarine stamp as transit this Sept. 17 can also look forward to paying a...
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Add the name of Elvis Presley to a growing list of music makers whose personal effects are going public in auctions this year.
About 2,000 items from the late legend's...
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As part of a promotional campaign blitz that rivals the fabled attack of the Blue Meanies, a newly renovated version of the Beatles' animated classic Yellow Submarine will...
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Los Angeles pop/ rock group the Bangles are set to take the stage for the first time in a decade to pay homage to their childhood idols the Beatles in a special tribute...
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A previously unreleased and apparently long-forgotten song recorded by the Beatles during sessions for their 1969 album Yellow Submarine has resurfaced and will be released...
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(9/11/98)John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has reportedly inked deal with Columbia Pictures for an autobiographical movie that will depict her side of the Beatles' saga--and will...
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Ringo Starr told listeners of the nationally syndicated Howard Stern Show on Wednesday morning that there is no truth to rumors that the three surviving Beatles would...
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Way back in the 1960s, someone at the British Broadcasting Corporation had a brilliant idea.
The government-controlled radio system could save money on recording tape and...
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The three surviving Beatles came together in a London church Monday night, part of an emotional tribute to Linda McCartney, who died of breast cancer in April.
Tears...
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A Beatles reunion of sorts is expected to happen Monday night in London. Surviving members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are expected at a memorial...
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Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan are among the 20 artists and entertainers who most influenced life in the 20th century, according...
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Ex-Beatles George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney began legal action May 5th to recover an amateur recording of the Beatles playing in Hamburg at the beginning of...
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Rumors are heating up once again that EMI Music, the home of the Spice Girls, Rolling Stones and Beatles, may be sold.
Reports indicate Canada's Seagram Co. Ltd., which...
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones top the list of VH1's 100 greatest rock 'n' roll artists, as selected bymusicians who have had videos appear on the channel.
More than...
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Turmoil in Asia has caused the stock price of EMI Music to plummet, leading to renewed speculation that the home of the Spice Girls, the Beatles, the Foo Fighters and the...
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Ewart G. Abner, who served as president of Motown and several influential R&B labels, died December 27th at age 74.
Abner's long career included stints at Vee Jay Records,...
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Pete Bennett, a record promoter who worked albums by the Beatles, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones, is shopping a book proposal that promises to tell all about some...
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The
Beatles had a phenomenal effect on the generation growing up in the turbulent '60s, and through the magic of television, they're about to help shape today's kids as...
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Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney told the British press on September 25th that he supports the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana. He was quoted in New Statesman...
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While young Brit-pop fans still scamper to take sides on the Oasis-vs.-Blur debate, many forget that the Stones-vs.-Beatles issue was never quite settled...until now,...
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John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has reportedly inked a deal with Columbia Pictures for an autobiographical movie that will depict her side of the Beatles' saga--and will...
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It's finally been confirmed that Ewan MacGregor, the dashing young star of Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary, will play John
Lennon in the film Yoko Ono is...
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Forget the supposed Oasis-vs.-Blur feud...the real battle is being waged between Oasis and their role models, the Beatles themselves. Last week Oasis frontman Liam...
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Two local actors, Amana Fisher and Kioko Lawx, reenacted John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 anti-war publicity stunt, the "Bed-In," at the pricey Alexis Hotel in Seattle...
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John Lennon's nagging suspicions that he was being followed by government agents in the '70s were confirmed September 25th, when the FBI publicly released censored files...
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Derek Taylor, the Beatles' official press officer off and on for over 30 years, died at his home in Suffolk, England on Wednesday, September 10th. Taylor's close...
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George Martin, the legendary 71-year-old Beatles producer who was the helm for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is organizing a star-studded charity concert to...
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Blur frontman Damon Albarn will reportedly play a role in the upcoming British radio play Up Against It, originally penned by playwright Joe Orton for the Beatles before he...
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The Rutles--the Beatles parody act forever famous for their '70s mockumentary All You Need Is Cash--performed two special shows this past weekend at the Chicago Beatlefest...
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