Reuters - Sep 21, 2011
Lady Antebellum is definitely experiencing pride of ownership, as the country-pop trio's third album, Own the Night, sold 347,000 copies to debut atop the Billboard/SoundScan album rankings. That...
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A Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert that reveals that the Fab Four refused to play before a segregated audience has sold for $23,033 -- more than four times its estimated price . The...
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Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago. Officials said Friday that the former Beatle and fiancee Nancy Shevell have posted a notice of intention...
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Decca has teamed up with Paul McCartney to release his upcoming ballet nearly 50 years after the record label famously rejected taking on the Beatles in what has been called one of the music industry&#...
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They have been gathering dust in a basement for more than 40 years, but now U.S. photographer Mike Mitchell has decided to auction a group of pictures which capture the moment the Beatles became a worldwide...
More »AP - May 20, 2011
It was 1964. Beatlemania ruled. Two days after their momentous debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Fab Four boarded a train from New York for Washington, D.C., for their first U.S. concert. An enterprising...
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A website that sold Beatles songs online for 25 cents apiece before they became legally available has agreed to pay record companies nearly $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit. U.S. District Judge...
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Abbey Road Studios in London, where the Beatles recorded most of their hits, has launched a global anthem competition to mark its 80th anniversary this year. The studios, opened in 1931 by composer Edward...
More »AP - Feb 3, 2011
Steve Landes is shocked at the mere suggestion that listening to the Beatles too much may get tedious. Fair enough. But that s coming from a guy who taught himself guitar at age 10 by listening to the...
More »AP - Jan 16, 2011
A New York City landlord has a message for the collector who recently sold the suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album: You never give me your money. The seller s former landlord...
More »AP - Jan 16, 2011
A brick from The Cavern Club, a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr, an authentic Beatles wig. These and thousands of other objects related to the Fab Four are luring Beatles fans to a new museum...
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It seems that the EMI/Beatles deal that finally brought the Fab Four's catalog to iTunes may be more groundbreaking than originally thought. According to industry sources, iTunes is paying the Beatles...
More »AP - Jan 4, 2011
Outspoken vegetarian Paul McCartney is urging India to declare a national Vegetarian Day to celebrate meat-free living and compassion toward animals. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says...
More »AP - Jan 3, 2011
The white two-piece suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album has been sold at auction in Connecticut for $46,000. The suit and other Beatles memorabilia were sold Saturday at...
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The most famous pedestrian crossing in popular music, outside Abbey Road Studios in north London, was designated a site of national importance by the British government on Wednesday. Beatles fans from...
More »AP - Dec 14, 2010
At age 68, Paul McCartney has the richest catalogue in pop music to wander around in. Only Bob Dylan could argue the point. On a snowy night at Harlem s historic Apollo Theater, with a frisky band and...
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A federal judge has ruled on summary judgment that BlueBeat.com is liable for violating copyrights in thousands of songs. In making the decision, the judge had swatted away one of the stranger defenses...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2010
John Lennon s fans celebrated his life Wednesday by visiting Strawberry Fields, the Central Park garden dedicated in his honor, while a newly released interview he gave shortly before his death showed...
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John Lennon s fans are celebrating his life by visiting New York City s Strawberry Fields, an urban oasis that s endorsed by 121 countries as a Garden of Peace. Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of Lennon...
More »AP - Nov 24, 2010
Julian Lennon, son of late Beatles legend John Lennon, is showing off what he can do with a camera. An exhibit called Timeless features about 30 of Lennon s hand-signed portrait and landscape photographs...
More »AP - Nov 24, 2010
Apple says people snapped up more than 450,000 copies of Beatles albums plus two million individual songs during the Fab Four s first week on sale through iTunes. Apple Inc. says the best-selling Beatles...
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