Beatles News
Paul Mc Cartney serenaded unsuspecting street car passengers in New Orleans during his Carnivale visit. Paul, accompanied by wife Nancy and a security guard, hopped aboard a street car—where most passengers mistook him for a street performer. Some even threw money to him.
A DVD titled Ringo at the Ryman--recorded in Nashville on Ringo's 72nd birthday last July 7th--is due March 19th.
The video features Ringo’s current All Starr Band lineup, which includes Todd Rundgren, ex-Santana/Journey singer/keyboardist Gregg Rolie, Toto guitarist Steve Lukather and Mr. Mister frontman Richard Page.
A complete set of the originally not-for-sale (hors commerce) edition of John Lennon’s Bag One lithographs from 1970 will now be sold. No complete copy of this iteration of the first edition has previously been offered for public sale.
Paul McCartney’s official website is giving fans a chance to ask him questions on a regular basis. The new feature, “You Gave Me the Answer”, is named for a Wings song, from the Venus & Mars album.
Paul McCartney and wife Nancy Shevell headed to New Orleans to be part of Carnivale and Super Bowl festivities. The couple were spotted at Rolling Stone magazine’s party.
Stella McCartney has once again put red noses on a classic Beatles photo for the anti-poverty charity, Comic Relief.
The Beatles’ former Apple Corps offices on London’s Savile Row—the site of the famous rooftop concert—nay become an Abercrombie and Fitch store.
The plan to open a new store has prompted protests among retailers, including the Saville Row Bespoke Association, which seeks to preserve the area’s character as a center for upscale men’s tailoring.
A newly-found excerpt from a song written by Stu Sutcliffe in 1959 may be incorporated into a new song by a Liverpool musician. Dean Johnson says of the lyric to “Sheila”: “The prose is very poetic, with the influence of Keats or Byron, the great English Romantics. It’s interesting that the level of sophistication is way ahead of early Lennon and McCartney.”
Proud dad Paul McCartney dropped in to help his son James in the recording studio, where James is working on a new album.
George Harrison’s son, Dhani, says it was very emotional for him to record the Beautiful Creatures movie soundtrack at Abbey Road Studios with thenewno2. He tells Rolling Stone, "I spent my whole life in and out of Abbey Road. Recording at Abbey Road was emotional: my first time recording there, my first time hearing something we composed for an orchestra of that size and my first major Hollywood film soundtrack."
