AP - Nov 6, 2009
A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the...
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Seven black-and-white photographs of the Beatles sitting on a grassy field, taken by a teenage girl on the last day of filming for their movie Help!, will be sold next week, the auctioneer said. Gwyn...
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London-based record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission. A federal court in Los Angeles has issued a temporary...
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The Beatles remasters are coming out on a limited-edition apple-shaped USB drive in time for Christmas, marking the first time the Fab Four's catalog has officially been sold as digital files separate...
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Paul McCartney will return to Hamburg, where The Beatles honed their craft, to launch his first European tour in five years. McCartney announced Thursday he will play the German city on Dec. 2 to kick...
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The music game genre experienced a much-needed lift in September on the backs of new releases The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5. MTV's Beatles videogame, released September 9, won the battle...
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Paul McCartney's recent three-night concert stand in New York City -- during which the rock legend delved into his Beatles, Wings and solo catalogs and brought Billy Joel to the stage -- is coming...
More »Reuters - Sep 28, 2009
The woman who inspired the iconic Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has died, a charity said Monday. Lucy O'Donnell was a childhood friend of John Lennon's son Julian, and the song title...
More »AP - Sep 28, 2009
Lucy Vodden, who provided the inspiration for the Beatles classic song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, has died after a long battle with lupus. She was 46. Her death was announced by St. Thomas Hospital...
More »AP - Sep 27, 2009
A discovery in a Liverpool library has revealed that Paul McCartney s talent for writing was winning him prizes when he was just 10 though for an essay about the queen, rather than a hit song....
More »AP - Sep 22, 2009
Nearly 40 years after breaking up, The Beatles are still breaking records for album sales. EMI Group PLC says consumers in North America, Japan and the U.K. bought more than 2.25 million copies of the...
More »Reuters - Sep 11, 2009
Walt Disney Co is to remake the zany 1960s Beatles movie Yellow Submarine in 3-D in a deal with the band's company Apple Corps. Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook said on Friday the new Yellow Submarine...
More »AP - Sep 11, 2009
The Beatles once got in trouble over a flip comment about Jesus. Now Simon Cowell has ruffled feathers with a quip about the Beatles. Cowell says that he really was joking when he claimed the legendary...
More »AP - Sep 9, 2009
The Beatles are back, sounding better than ever, and Britain is embracing them one more time. It s not exactly 1964 no fainting teens or visible signs of feverish Beatlemania but the long...
More »Reuters - Sep 8, 2009
Any appointment at Abbey Road still involves walking over the most famous pedestrian crossing in popular music. And the history of the north London studio hangs heavy in the air when the meeting is with...
More »Reuters - Sep 8, 2009
The Beatles are back -- but this time the world's most famous rock band may be stirring more excitement in executive suites than in campuses and schoolyards. When The Beatles: Rock Band video game...
More »Reuters - Sep 8, 2009
Could a band that broke up in 1970 really become the best-selling act of the decade? The Beatles might just pull it off, thanks to EMI Music's September 9 release of their remastered catalog. Eminem...
More »AP - Sep 8, 2009
Hard to believe that it s been 40 years since the Beatles sang You Never Give Me Your Money. You had to expect at least one cheap shot, didn t you? The Beatles remastered catalog and a dazzling coffee...
More »Reuters - Sep 4, 2009
Paul DeGooyer is tired -- for good reason. It's about two weeks before the September 9 release of MTV's The Beatles: Rock Band, and DeGooyer, senior vice president of electronic games and music...
More »Yahoo! Music - Aug 19, 2009
Courtesy of NME.com Plus replica instruments revealed for game A host of songs set to feature on The Beatles forthcoming Rock Band game have been announced. The game s official website Thebeatlesrockband...
More »Yahoo! Music - Aug 13, 2009
Courtesy of NME.com She sends designers scurrying to improve the game months before its release Yoko Ono gave the designers of The Beatles: Rock Band hell , according to a representative of the game...
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