AP - Dec 3, 2009
Paul McCartney took his Meat-Free Mondays campaign to the European Parliament on Thursday, saying the power to halt global warming lies as much with individuals as with their governments. McCartney met...
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There are only so many songwriting suggestions an outsider is allowed to offer Paul McCartney. Kirk Jones, director of the new Robert DeNiro movie, Everybody s Fine, found the limit. McCartney, who has...
More »Reuters - Nov 19, 2009
Ringo Starr is joined by his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney for a duet on Y Not, the drummer's forthcoming solo album due out Jan 12, 2010. The Universal Music release also includes vocal...
More »AP - Nov 18, 2009
Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter issued a preliminary injunction...
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The U.S. Library of Congress is awarding Paul McCartney its third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Librarian of Congress James Billington announced the prize Monday. An all-star tribute concert is planned...
More »Reuters - Nov 11, 2009
Good news for fans of Michael Jackson, the Beatles and other veteran artists. The compilers of the Billboard 200, the benchmark pop albums chart in the United States, said on Wednesday they would dramatically...
More »Reuters - Nov 6, 2009
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...
More »Reuters - Nov 6, 2009
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...
More »Reuters - Nov 5, 2009
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...
More »Reuters - Oct 19, 2009
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...
More »Reuters - Sep 30, 2009
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...
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