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Purple Rain on A Hard Days Night

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

According to this report on the BBC website, a recent poll conducted for Vanity Fairs’ “Movies Rock” special placed Prince’s Purple Rain ahead of A Hard Days Night as the “best soundtrack.” I don’t think so…


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HELP! At the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

I was in Cleveland last week on business and managed to spend some time at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. The 5th Floor, which was advertised as holding an exhibit on The Clash (that I was looking forward to seeing), was closed down and inaccesible as the Hall Of Fame was getting ready [...]


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George Goes Digital

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Allthough the Beatles catalog is still not available for download, as of last week the Fab Four’s solo work was. On October 9th iTunes started to offer tracks from nine of George Harrison’s albums with others to follow later this year. iTunes already offers downloads of solo work by Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr.


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Paul Honored at Q-Awards

Monday, October 8th, 2007

The Associated Press reports that Paul McCartney was among the honorees Monday at the Q Music Awards in London. (photo below) According to the report Paul paid tribute to his late wife, Linda, as he was awarded the title of “Q Icon” at the annual ceremony. He also thanked his children and his former bandmates [...]


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Learn to Play Bass with Paul

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Paul McCartney has signed on to supply a series of video tutorials on Bass, Drums and Guitar for the music site Now Play It. The site, which recently won the award for Best Digital Service at the 2007 BT Digital Music Awards, is currently posting a “Sign Up Now” banner ad for the tutorials that are [...]


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John & Yoko – Top Rock Couple

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Beatles legend John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono have topped a poll of rock couples conducted by Rolling Stone magazine. Lennon and his avant-garde artist wife were followed by country music couple Johnny Cash and June Carter, at the second spot. Sir Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda McCartney rounded-off the top five, at [...]


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Beatles Hotel to open in January

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Liverpool’s long-mooted Beatles hotel will open next January to coincide with the city becoming European Capital of Culture, it was announced today. The £20m Hard Day’s Night Hotel is being built in a Grade II-listed building in the city, which dates back to 1884. It will have 110 bedrooms, including two penthouse suites with panoramic [...]


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The 5th Beatle.

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

So who was the “Fifth Beatle?” Over at the Guardian, novelist Jonathan Lethem ponders his own obsession with that very question as part of an extended essay on various aspects of pop culture. On the side of conspiracy theories stood Sutcliffe, Best, Epstein, Voorman, Preston – this sequence of suspects who were also victims, seeming [...]


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Elvis Sues The Beatles

Friday, August 24th, 2007

According to the UK’s Daily Express the owner of an Elvis memorabilia shop lost his bid to get a court to evict a man running a Beatles museum in his basement. Sid Shaw, 61, who runs  Elvisly Yours on London’s Baker Street, wanted Howard Cohen out so he could throw a party on the 30th anniversary of [...]


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John Goes Digital

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

EMI and iTunes have announced that they started offering didgital downloads of John Lennon’s solo albums earlier this week. The digital retailer is offering the eight albums Lennon recorded between 1969 and his murder in 1980 in addition to collections such as “Anthology,” “Milk and Honey” and “Working Class Hero.” For the first 30 days, [...]


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