Paul McCartney donates signed 'Wings Over America' box to Hurricane Sandy raffle

Mitch Axelrod of Fab 4 Free 4 All told Beatles Examiner Friday that the grand prize at a raffle to be held in conjunction with their May 30 charity screening of Paul McCartney's "Rockshow" will be a deluxe box set of the remastered “Wings Over America” signed by Paul McCartney, which anyone, even those who don't go to the screening, will be able to win. Read More - Examiner.com



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Beatles' guitar auctioned to the tune of $505,500

The semi-hollow-body guitar, manufactured by the VOX company, was sold to an unidentified US buyer at the "Music Icons" event organized by Beverly Hills, California-based Julien's Auctions and held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Manhattan. Read More - TVNZ



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Sister makes plans to honor George Harrison's first U.S. visit 50 years ago

“We're thinking about making a DVD telling the story about 1963, when I first came to the United States and started trying to move heaven and earth trying to get (the Beatles) records played in this country,” she said. “We'll put some pictures and talking about my mum sending me 'From Me To You' and then George bringing 'She Loves You.' And I can have my band (Liverpool Legends) sing on it. Read More - Examiner.com



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HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution

Leslie Woodhead made the first-ever film with the Beatles in 1962 at the Cavern Club in London. The award-winning documentarian was a Cold-war era spy who became fascinated with the Beatles influence on Soviet kids during his time in Russia.

HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution (Bloomsbury; April 30) is the well-researched, irresistible story about how the Beatles and their music swept through the Soviet Union and played a part in helping to destroy Communism, guided by Russia’s ultimate rock guru Artemy Troitsky, along with a gallery of characters from Moscow to Vladivostok. The book includes 8 never before seen photos of the Beatles, taken by the author.

“So I found myself in that Liverpool pub with the fledgling Beatles.

They were funny and approachable…We chatted for a while, and Paul told me,

‘We've written all these songs but nobody really wants to hear them.’”

–Leslie Woodhead, How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin

Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the jazz age, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired in the USSR prepared millions of fans for a new world. By stealth, by way of whispers, through secret bootleg tapes or illicit late night broadcasts, the kids tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.”

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Yoko Ono, David Bowie & Neil Young get MTV O Award nominations

Four veteran artists join a raft of younger singers and bands (and cats) as nominees for the 6th Annual MTV O Music Awards. Yoko Ono is up for the Digital Genius Award, arguably the most important in this show that relies heavily on digital and social media. Read More - Music-News.com



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Beatles' ‘Help’ Coming to Blu-ray Disc

The 1965 film from director Richard Lester features band mates John Lennon, Paul McCarthy, George Harrison and Ringo Star, and assorted British character actors, in a farcical story involving religious cults, a mad scientist and London police. The movie also includes classic Beatles songs, “Help!,” “You're Going to Lose That Girl,” “You've Got to Hide Your Love Away,” “Ticket to Ride,” “I Need You,” “The Night Before” and “Another Girl.” Read More - Home Media Magazine



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Yoko Ono Gives Peace With Paul McCartney a Chance

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, John Lennon's widow said, "He was very sweet to say that, and he probably needed closure to say that. That's why he couldn't say that until now. He knew me--we knew each other for 30, 40 years or something--but there was no way to say anything like that because people just liked the idea that we were fighting like crazy in a boxing ring." Read More - Yahoo! Music



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45 Years Ago: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Appear on ‘The Tonight Show’

After their February 1968 trip to Rishikesh, India failed to provide the spiritual enlightenment they sought, the Beatles turned in the opposite direction, towards business matters. A few months later, the company they decided to form in the wake of manager Brian Epstein’s death was ready to launch. In mid-May, John Lennon and Paul McCartney flew to New York to promote Apple Corps. ...Read More...



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Ex-Lennon, McCartney band members join in special tribute to Wings

The “Birds of Paradox” album features Gary Van Scyoc (bass, vocals) and Adam Ippolito (keyboards, vocals), who played with John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band, on Yoko Ono recordings and with artists including Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Paul Simon, Keith Moon and Mick Jagger. Read More | Examiner.com



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Yoko Ono: Being a Beatle wife is harder than being married to a politician

However, even though she will always be known as Lennon’s widow, she has refused to be defined by what could be seen as a somewhat morbid status and is arguably performing more now, with her son, Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono band, and putting on a greater number of art shows, than ever before. Read More - Telegraph



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Talking To Vivek Tiwary About Beatles

I wanted to actually start off a little bit by asking you, because, you have such actually have quite a bit of history with rock music with American Idiot and everything like that. Is there something about rock music that draws you to this, or what was it about the Beatles story that made you want to do this? Read More - Bleeding Cool



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Nowhere Man John Lennon’s not-another-love-song was meant for the studio

By the time the album was recorded in 1965, The Beatles were using multi-track recording to create music that was impossible to re-create on stage. It’s no wonder The Beatles began to dislike touring. They couldn’t get their music across the way it was recorded. Read More - Oye Times



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John Lennon was planning to return to UK

John Lennon's childhood pal Joe Flannery has revealed that the late singer was looking forward to returning to Britain before he was murdered in December 1980. Flannery, now 81 used to handle the Beatles bookings and also made his house a base-camp for Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best after gigs when it was too late for them to return to their respective homes. Read More - The Times of India



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Ringo Starr Fast Facts

"Free as a Bird" wins two Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal and Best Music Video-Short Form and "The Beatles Anthology" wins one for Best Music Video. Read More - CNN.com



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Paul McCartney Posts Footage of Onstage Grasshopper Invasion in Brazil

McCartney has posted a high-definition video of his encounter with the insects. The 70-second clip shows the rock legend singing the Beatles classic “The Long and Winding Road” as the flying critters land on his piano, his microphone and all over Sir Paul himself. ...Read More...



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