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…

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 […]

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.

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 in […]

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 scheduled […]

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 the fifth […]

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 views across […]

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 to […]

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 […]

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, exclusive […]