Seven Reasons Ringo Starr Is the Most Badass Beatle in A Hard Day's Night - County Grind

Well, there won't be any Ringo-bashing here, no sir. The 71-year-old former Beatle is still touring, and he's coming to Hard Rock Live tonight at 8. As a primer -- and a lesson for anyone who might think of Ringo as the Meg Griffin of Liverpool -- here are seven pieces of evidence from A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles' 1964 feature film, that show why Richard Starkey is definitely the most badass Beatle. Read More - County Grind

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Tom Sutcliffe: Why unworldly Yoko Ono's pleas for peace should still be given a chance - The Independent

If you visit the Serpentine Gallery right now, you'll see a group of three small trees standing by the entrance, densely covered in luggage labels. This is a version of Wish Tree, a Yoko Ono work that invites passers-by to write their desires onto a tag and tie it to a branch. At the end of the exhibition, Ono collects the tags and she plans eventually to incorporate them in another artwork, as a concentrated accumulation of human yearning. Read More - The Independent

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Paul McCartney: 'Music has healing powers' - Monsters and Critics

Speaking on 'The Ronnie Wood Show', he said: 'All it is, its little vibrations reaching your heart. Music, you know, it's only little vibrations, little words and little things, but it has this powerful effect. Read More - Monsters and Critics

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Ringo Starr sons 'won't be part of Beatles kids' band' - Digital Spy

Ringo Starr has revealed that his sons have no plans to join the sons of fellow Beatles members in a proposed super group. Paul McCartney's son James McCartney brought up the idea of a musical collaboration with fellow Beatles offspring earlier in the year. Read More - Digital Spy

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Beatles memorabilia on display at museum - lancastereaglegazette.com

"The Beatles have an appeal that has reached across many generations," Baker said. "And it's difficult to explain why. Their music was so cutting edge at that time, the different sounds and laying down of tracks, which took so much time back then. Kids nowadays can replicate those sounds on their iPads in minutes." Read More - lancastereaglegazette.com

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Ringo Starr and the Beach Boys take the stage at Bethel Woods

Two Iconic Bands, Ringo and his All-Star Band, and The Beach Boys opened the kickoff weekend on Saturday June 16th, and Sunday, June 17th, at the historic Bethel Woods Concert Venue site, home of the original Woodstock Festival. ...Read More...

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Ringo Starr Is Selling His Pictures and Donating the Proceeds to Charities - The Daily Beast

The former Beatles drummer may not be a great artist, but by funneling the profits from his pictures into charities, he’s joined the cutting edge of the art world, where artists blending their art with social action is called “relational aesthetics,’ Blake Gopnik writes. Read More - The Daily Beast

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Anniversary of The Beatles All You Need Is Love Broadcast - ::antiMusic.com

On this day in 1967, 40 million people saw The Beatles perform "All You Need is Love," live via satellite as part of the TV global link up, Our World. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon and Gary Leeds provided backing vocals. Gibson takes a look back: Read More - ::antiMusic.com

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Tim & Rosemary Leary, John Lennon & Yoko Ono in conversation in 1969 - released for 1st time today - Boing Boing

Michael Horowitz*, Timothy Leary's longtime archivist, has permitted the Timothy Leary Archives website to publish a transcription of a tape recorded conversation between Dr. Leary and his wife Rosemary, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, made during John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, May 1969. Tim had given it to Michael, in 1984, as a present for finishing Tim's bibliography. Read More - Boing Boing

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Peter Blake: 'The Beatles were almost middle class’ - Telegraph

Of all the artists who broke through in the early Sixties – David Hockney, R B Kitaj, the late Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones and many others – Blake is the one who has remained truest to the original Pop spirit: not so much by creating work that is Sixties in feel, but by keeping faith with the tastes that first inspired him. Read More - Telegraph

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The Passing of Victor Spinetti, Beatles Actor and Friend - seattlepi.com

Spinetti was internationally immortalized and will be forever remembered by Beatles fans for his roles in three of the five movies the group were connected with. After working with The Beatles during the making of A Hard Day's Night, Spinetti became close friends of the group and worked with them collectively and independently. Read More - seattlepi.com

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Yoko Ono thanks Bermuda for tribute to John Lennon - Bermuda News

John Lennon “loved and was immensely inspired by Bermuda”, and the Island paid tribute to the musician by unveiling a six-foot tall sculpture in the Botanical Gardens yesterday evening. Read More - Bermuda News

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Beatles tour leader meets a Beatle's son and guides a celebrity tourist - Examiner.com

“Curtis Armstrong did in fact come on the tour last Sunday and we had a blast,” she told us. “He was really impressed and said he learned a lot of interesting things. He said he and his daughter were huge fans of mine when I did the news on 'Breakfast with the Beatles' for six years and that they listened to me religiously.” Read More - National Beatles Examiner.com

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Paul McCartney supports campaign to save Arctic region - Yahoo! OMG! India

Sir Paul McCartney, actor Robert Redford and boy band One Direction are among celebrities who are backing the Greenpeace campaign which plans to have the Arctic region declared a sanctuary by the United Nations. Read More - Yahoo! OMG! India

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Ringo drums up interest in his latest All Starr Band - MercedSun-Star.com

For the 13th edition of Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, he's added Steve Lukather of Toto and Greg Rolie, who has worked with Santana and Journey, to a band that already includes the great Todd Rundgren ("Who doesn't want to bang the drum all day?" asks Starr); Mr. Mister singer Richard Page; Gregg Bissonette, best known for his work with Santana; and musical director Mark Rivera from Billy Joel's band. Read More - MercedSun-Star.com

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REVIEW: The Lennon and McCartney Songbook at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall - Liverpool Echo

THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Beatles’ classic line-up of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, and the start of their stupendous recording career. So it was entirely fitting that the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual Summer Pops season should kick off with a concert celebrating pop’s greatest song-writing duo. Read More - Liverpool Echo

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Lost pics of Beatles taken by a student found - Hindustan Times

Armed with a camera, which had just one reel of film that could take only 12 photographs, 15-year-old photography student Andy Wright knew every picture had to count. Wright’s assignment was to get some shots of Britain’s up and coming pop group, The Beatles, as they played a concert at the brand new Fairfield Halls in Croydon, South London in on April 25th, 1963 Read More - Hindustan Times

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Beatles worship runs in the family for Lennon lookalike

Clark Gilmour has an unusual job: putting on a suit, strapping on a guitar and becoming someone else. The 25-year-old John Lennon impersonator, who is - no joke - the son of a Paul McCartney impersonator, was in good spirits on the phone from Kelowna earlier this week. "England won in soccer and I found a good John Lennon-style hat in a pawn shop," he said. "Things are looking up." ...Read More...

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Back in the USSR: the Beatles' Abbey Road photograph bought by Kazakhs - Telegraph

While the photograph chosen for the front cover of their album Abbey Road showed the Beatles, lead by John Lennon in a white suit, walking from left to right, this photograph depicts them walking in the opposite direction. Read More - Telegraph

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Yoko Ono forced herself to smile after husband John Lennon's death

She revealed: "When John, my husband, passed away, I was feeling down, so down, that it showed on my face when I looked at myself in the mirror. 'This is bad,' I thought. I could make myself ill, or if not, make myself a very irritable person, which would be not nice, especially for Sean, my son. I have to get out of this. Read More

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Mind over mattress: Yoko Ono remembers the bed-in - guardian.co.uk

In 1969, Ono and John Lennon took to their bed to campaign in support of world peace. Here, she recalls the experience Read More/Video - guardian.co.uk

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Sir Paul McCartney to auction autographed Hofner 'violin' bass guitar for music therapy charity - The Independent

The former Beatle has donated the instrument, an autographed Hofner bass violin guitar, to be sold at the 02 Silver Clef Awards which raise money for music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins. Read More - The Independent

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Audio: New George Harrison interview reveals Beatle was happy with his life - National Beatles Examiner.com

In clip of an interview with George Harrison just made public today, Harrison tells Smith he was happy about his work in the Beatles and his life. You can hear the clip on Soundcloud. Read More - Examiner.com

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Beatles film actor Victor Spinetti dies - Reuters

British actor Victor Spinetti, who befriended the Beatles while working on three of their biggest films in the 1960s, has died of cancer at the age of 82, his agent said on Tuesday. The Welsh-born entertainer was caught up in the frenzy of Beatlemania after appearing with the Fab Four in "Help!", "A Hard Day's Night" and "Magical Mystery Tour". Read More - Reuters

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John Lennon documentary tonight inspires quiz on his song lyrics - Sentinel.com

If you receive the BBC America cable channel, you will enjoy the John Lennon documentary, “Discovering Lennon,” at 9 p.m. today. Commentators Mark Ronson, Damien Hirst and John Simm discuss Lennon's ideas and his impact on society. Read More - News-Sentinel.com

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Lost in the Yoko Ono labyrinth - The Guardian

Thwunk! I walk straight into one of the clear walls of Amaze, an exhibit in Yoko Ono's new show at the Serpentine gallery in London. Turning and turning inside this little labyrinth of Perspex and aluminium, backtracking and feeling my way towards the centre, I do it again, the noise reverberating through the gallery and in my head. When I do reach the centre, I find a square column, waist high, grey, and half-full of water. I look down at my own dazed reflection. Read More - The Guardian

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Be a part of Yoko Ono's #smilesfilm artwork - guardian.co.uk

Smiles are collated by the #smilesfilm website and app, which are watchable globally and locally – both on a world map and as a film. As Ono puts it: "People from cities and countries around the world can freely upload their smiles by mobile phone and computer to the world and its people. Each time we add our smiles to #smilesfilm, we are creating our future, together. Give us your smile! I love you!" Read More - guardian.co.uk

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Ringo Starr paints on tour - Monsters and Critics

Ringo Starr paints to keep himself busy when he's touring. The former Beatles drummer began creating artwork in 2005, drawing on his computer before graduating to brushes, and creates most of his pieces while on the road with his group, the All-Starr Band. Read More - Monsters and Critics

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Paul McCartney Turns 70 - ABC News

It seems like only yesterday that “When I’m 64″ became a reality for Sir Paul McCartney, but today, he hits an even bigger milestone: turning 70. Read More - ABC News

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Exclusive: Unearthed Photos of the Beatles in the Mid-'60s - Los Angeles Music

In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he says. "But when I really heard [the music] in person...I knew I was on the right story." Read More - West Coast Sound

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Why are the Beatles so popular 50 years on?

Over there this summer you are celebrating, as all of us over here know, a decades-old anniversary of uncanny auspiciousness: the Jubilee of an institution that has lasted far longer than many thought possible, transcending its native place in Britain to become a source of constant, almost unbroken reassurance to the entire world. Read More - BBC News

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For Paul McCartney's Birthday: The Top 40 McMoments - 'Twenty Flight Rock' (single, 1957, by Eddie Cochran) - CSMonitor.com

Beatle Paul is 70 this week. Will we still feed him? Not sure about that, but we sure as heck still need him. And what better time to celebrate "the cute one" with our own Magical McCartney Tour: His Top 40 career highlights. Tag along with us on this guided tour (in no particular order) through the McCartney treasure trove. Read More - CSMonitor.com

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YouTube plea to Paul McCartney to save Beatles museum in Hamburg - Mail Online

When Paul McCartney staged a sold-out show in Hamburg a few months after the Beatlemania opening, he told a German newspaper that Hamburg was the city where the band learned its craft playing night after night for more than two years. “The city opened our eyes,” he told the Frankfurter Rundschau. Read More - Mail Online

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Yoko Ono Is Releasing smilesfilm App - Rolling Stone

Yoko Ono is releasing a new app and online project called #smilesfilm that will allow users from around the world to freely upload images of their smiles to Instagram and Twitter. Photos from the app can be viewed on global and local maps, and in a film. Read More - Rolling Stone

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Seven of Paul McCartney’s Most Underrated Songs - PopMatters

Since Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday is this week, most of the major media will be focusing on his most popular moments. His iconic Beatles anthems, beloved Wings singles, and No.1 solo hits will be on everybody’s radar. But instead of praising “Let It Be”, “Band on the Run”, or “Hey Jude”, let’s put the spotlight on the lesser-known songs in McCartney’s catalogue. Despite the fact that the following songs were either never released as a single or just aren’t played on the radio enough, they reveal the talent and personality behind one of the most successful and influential musicians of all time. Read More - PopMatters

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Paul Weller to release Beatles cover to celebrate Paul McCartney's 70th birthday - NME.COM

The Modfather has recorded a cover of the Fab Four's 1968 track, which served as the opening track on the second disc of 'The White Album' and will release it on Monday as a download single with all the proceeds going to War Child. The track will only be available for purchase on Monday. Read More - NME.COM

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Rare Beatles poster from the Cavern Club fetches £27,500 at auction - NME.COM

The Christies listing read: "This is the only known copy of this poster. Posters from this period in the Beatles' history are exceptionally rare and only a handful of posters documenting their appearances at the Cavern Club are known to be in existence." Read More - NME.COM

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Ringo’s ready to rock

The 72-year-old Beatles’ drummer held a musical news conference Wednesday in the Avalon Ballroom of the Fallsview Casino Resort to launch a five-week North American tour with the 13th edition of his All-Starr Band. Read More - TheSpec

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Ringo Starr, the back beat of the Beatles

Fifty years ago this summer a drummer named Richard Starkey became part of The Beatles. June 1st also marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, would be the integral cog to The Beatles creative machine, flexible enough a player to flow with George, John and Paul’s individual songwriting styles. Read More - Mixtape

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Sir Paul McCartney interview: 'The Queen is fabulous, I've got a lot of time for her' - Telegraph

Sir Paul McCartney was last seen in front of Buckingham Palace, performing for the Queen. His next scheduled appearance will be at the opening of the Olympics. “A couple of extremely patriotic moments,” says McCartney. “But that’s all right. I’m a patriot.” Read More- Telegraph

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Savoring A Gentle Genius

George Harrison had a lot to say about love, music and God, and little to report on politics, bitterness and negativity. Yet in his songs are layers and layers of the man revealing himself as he dove into the deeper meaning of his life. Some of his messages were hidden as riddles as he took you along on a universal journey of peace and compassion. Read More - Peggy Lipton

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Paul Simon, Paul McCartney Box Sets Are Beyond the Norm - Showbiz411

“Ram” got poor reviews in 1971, but went on to become a classic. Of course, there was tremendous backlash against McCartney after the Beatles broke up. But the box set is gorgeous. First of all, you get interview material that was either lost or never published. There’s mono version of the album and an orchestral version that are just super. There’s a bonus CD with the first solo McCartney hit, “Another Day,” one of his very best compositions. There’s also handwritten lyric sheets. A lot of time was put into this package. For McCartney fans, it’s Nirvana– not to mention internet codes for downloading all this stuff for “free.” Read More - Showbiz411

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Yoko Ono Recreates Highlights From Her Book Grapefruit - ArtLyst

Yoko Ono, By the late 1950s, had already begun creating poetic works in which text, music, performance and experimental painting merge. The exhibition has its starting point in Grapefruit, which Yoko Ono (b. 1933) published in 1964. This book contains ideas and sketches for painting, events, films, dance, music, painting, objects and architecture that the viewer can choose to carry out in reality, or simply in their own minds, if they like. Read More - ArtLyst

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Roger Waters rocks the rafters of the YUM! Center - Louisville.com

Beginning at 7:50 pm, the pre-show music bellowed through the YUM! Center with offerings from Neil Young, Billie Holiday, John Lennon, Sam Cooke, and The Impressions while a black mannequin stood alone on the stage wearing a black leather coat and aviator shades. As the pre-show music drew to an end, two Nazi guards dragged a limp “Pink” to the stage, the center of the rock opera’s story of oppression, abandonment, and revival. Read More - Louisville.com

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50 years later, we're still mad for The Beatles - Wausau Daily Herald

No other entertainers in history have been as popular, as influential, as important or as groundbreaking. The best-selling act ever sold 600 million albums worldwide and racked up 20 No. 1 U.S. singles, a Billboard record that still stands. The band hijacked the entertainment media and transcended music to become a chapter in world history. Its members had political clout, spiritual authority, cultural sway and the ears of the planet. Read More - wausaudailyherald.com

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The Beach Boys: A rear-view look from a little deuce coupe - The Globe and Mail

Speaking of golden anniversaries, the Rolling Stones were supposed to celebrate their own 50th this year. It didn’t happen, but Keith Richards has hinted that something may happen in 2013, which is really more appropriate anyhow, the gnarled guitarist recently rationalized, because 1963 is when Charlie Watts began keeping time for the band. A timeline is fudged – “close enough” counts when it comes to hand grenades and rock ’n’ roll marketing. Read More - The Globe and Mail

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Retro Reminiscing: John Lennon – “Watching the Wheels”

I think because of my age, I stumbled across the music of the Beatles in a backward sort of way. I got to know Paul McCartney through his work with Wings and John Lennon through his solo music. Recently, I heard this song on the radio on the radio and remembered the mixed emotions that surrounded it. Read More

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George Harrison's Son, Dhani Harrison, Marries—and the Bride Wore Stella McCartney! - E! Online

Something in the way she moves...led them to the altar. Dhani Harrison, the 33-year-old son of late Beatle George Harrison and George's second wife, Olivia, secretly tied the knot with Icelandic former model Sólveig Káradóttir over the weekend in his native Southern England. Read More - E! Online

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Yoko Ono Stands Up After 30 Years In The Cultural Desert - ArtLyst

Ono emegrated to the US at age 2 and brought to California. She returned to Japan before WWII and was caught up in the bombing. Ono went to school with Emperor Hirohito's two sons. and was visited by the Emperor's son Yoshi, visiting the boy's school in defiance of the rules. In the early 50s she and her parents moved to New York. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she was particularly good at music, with her untamed creativity. She married a fellow Julliard student, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and moved to New York City. Her admiration of Franz Kafka, Vincent van Gogh, and Arnold Schönberg fertilized her intergration with the New York avant-garde scene. Read More - ArtLyst

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Report: Lost John Lennon phone recording surfaces - Examiner.com

"I first heard it in prison when one of my lawyers came and played it for me," Sinclair told the Huffington Post in an interview last year. "I couldn't believe he would come and play it for my concert." Read More - Examiner.com

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The Beatles and The Royals: Bill Harry on the Fab Four’s links with royalty - Liverpool Echo

The Beatles’ associations with royalty first began when they appeared on the Royal Variety Show at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London on November 4 1963 in the presence of the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. This was the occasion when John Lennon made his famous remark to the audience – "On this next number, I want you all to join in. Would those in the cheap seats clap their hands? The rest of you can rattle your jewellery". Read More - Liverpool Echo

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Beatles Museum in Hamburg is Kaput - NYTimes.com

And in the end, the profits you take are a function of the sales you make. But without enough paying visitors, a German museum dedicated to the memorabilia of the Beatles and situated on the Hamburg street where the band played some of its earliest shows is planning to close at the end of the month, The Guardian reported. Read More - NYTimes.com

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BEATLES DRUMMER, RINGO STARR, PRESENTS COLLECTION OF JOYFUL POP ART AT LISS GALLERY

Starr’s computer generated collection of over 25 prints were created by the 6 times diamond recording artist during his time on tour with the Beatles. Self described as “always changing art – like “pop” artists”, Starr’s assortment of digital prints pay homage to his experiences as one of the most famous figures in music history. read more

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Deconstructing the Beatles at the Avalon

On June 10, 1966, the Beatles released the single "Paperback Writer"/"Rain,"initiating a string of increasingly experimental recordings that would culminate with the iconic game-changer "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" the following summer. Read More - Chevy Chase, MD Patch

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British Invasion Symposium on Catalina Island

The Catalina Island Museum is dedicating its summer to the British Invasion and is hosting a symposium that brings together a slate of rock n’ roll personalities, all of whom are familiar to Beatles fans.

Catalina Island resident and rock icon Spencer Davis worked with the museum to organize the symposium, “The British Invasion Rocks America.” With Steve Winwood singing such hits as “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m a Man,” the Spencer Davis Group was one of the most respected of all the bands that invaded America during the 1960s. Davis was a personal friend of all the Beatles and participated in the making of the film Magical Mystery Tour.

Peter Asher achieved early fame as part of the duo Peter and Gordon. He met Paul McCartney while the Beatle was dating his younger sister, the acclaimed actress Jane Asher. During the height of Beatlemania, McCartney often took up lodgings at the Asher home, where he was joined by John Lennon to write a number of hits, including “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Paul McCartney provided Peter and Gordon with their first international hit,“World Without Love.”

With Micky Dolenz singing the vocals on such hits as “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I’m a Believer,” the Monkees enjoyed a string of hits during 1966 and 1967. Inspired by the success of The Beatles’ first film A Hard Day’s Night, the Monkees enjoyed overwhelming success in television, recordings, concerts and radio. Visiting London in 1967, Dolenz was present at a number of the recording sessions for the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennon once said of the Monkees: “I think you’re the greatest comic talents since the Marx Brothers. I’ve never missed one of your programs.”
Broadcasting from the safety of a decrepit tub of a boat anchored just off British territorial waters, Radio Caroline was known as “the ship that launched a thousand hits.” No DJ was more popular than Emperor Rosko, the self-proclaimed “God of the Airwaves.” A brash American whose lightening-fast “jive talk” was matched only by his on-air antics, Emperor Rosko introduced British youth to a countless number of Beatles hits heard nowhere else.
Martin Lewis was a protégé of Beatles publicist Derek Taylor and will act as moderator of the symposium. Lewis produced Sam Peckinpah’s last work in film—a series of music videos featuring Julian Lennon and produced the DVD edition of A Hard Day’s Night. Lewis is a leading historian of the Beatles and wrote, hosted and produced “Re-meet The Beatles,” the only TV documentary made about the Beatles’ Anthology project.
A question and answer period with the audience will occur after the symposium. The Catalina Island Museum presents “The British Invasion Rocks America” will take place on Saturday, June 30 at 4:00 p.m. in the theater of the Avalon Casino. Immediately following the symposium at 6:30 p.m., symposium participants will be available for a signing in the museum’s Harbor Room. The signing is free to the public. The opening reception for the exhibition Gimme Some Lovin’: The Spencer Davis Group will take place on the same day at 6:00 p.m in the museum. Spencer Davis and the Catalina Island All-Stars will perform during a Fourth of July Concert and Fireworks at The Point at the Avalon Casino. The concert begins at 6:00 p.m.

For more information or to purchase tickets to the symposium, exhibition or concert, the museum may be reached by phone at 310-510-2414 or at its website: CatalinaMuseum.org.

The Catalina Island Museum is Avalon’s sole institution devoted to art, culture and history. The museum, its digital theater and store are located on the ground floor of Avalon’s historic Casino and are open 7 days a week, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.



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Beatles changed e-v-e-r-y-thing

Editor's note: In this 10-part series, we pay tribute to the rock 'n' roll-era visionaries who came up with the musical vocabulary we're still hearing today - the ones without whom the language of rock 'n' roll would not sound the same. Read More


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The Beatles named the UK's biggest selling singles act of all time - NME.COM

The Beatles have been named the biggest selling singles act in the UK, since charts began 60 years ago in 1952. The Fab Four pushed Elvis Presley into second place and Cliff Richard into third, in a new list compiled by the Official Charts Company, which is being broadcast this afternoon (June 4) on BBC Radio 2. Read More - NME.COM

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Different side of Beatles drummer highlighted during art gallery exhibit - Examiner.com

Meet Ringo Starr the painter. The artistic side of the Beatles drummer will be on display during a special exhibit and sale of his paintings from June 15 to 25 at Pop International Galleries in New York City. Read More - Examiner.com

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Beatles top all time singles chart

The Beatles have held off artist such as Elvis Presley and Madonna to be declared the biggest selling singles act since charts began 60 years ago. The Fab Four notched up 17 number ones during their relatively brief eight year chart domination, but split more than 40 years ago. But performers whose careers have decades longer in some cases - such as Sir Cliff Richard - have failed to outsell them, a new Radio 2 chart reveals. Read More - The Press Association

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Sir Tom Jones reveals the Beatles hit that was written for him - WalesOnline

It's one of The Beatles most famous songs but if the course of rock ‘n’ roll history had been altered, it’s Sir Tom Jones who would be famous for singing The Long And Winding Road – not The Fab Four. The Welsh icon has revealed how his fellow knight of the realm, Sir Paul McCartney offered him the opportunity to record The Beatles’ classic. Read More - WalesOnline

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Paul McCartney returns to John Lennon’s old art college after it was bought by LIPA - Liverpool Echo

FORMER Beatle Sir Paul McCartney stepped back in time to visit bandmate John Lennon’s old art college after it was bought by his fame school. The Grade II-listed Liverpool College of Art building, on Hope Street, is steeped in Beatles history – it was where Lennon, his future wife Cynthia and The Beatles’ original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe all studied in the 1950s. Read More - Liverpool Echo

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Signed Beatles concert programme bought in 1963 for two shillings up for sale.. for £6000 - The Daily Record

According to Mark Lewisohn, who wrote The Complete Beatles Chronicle: “The band had been due to play at the tiny Raith Ballroom in Kirkcaldy. Read More- The Daily Record

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Ringo Starr, the back beat of the Beatles

Fifty years ago this summer a drummer named Richard Starkey became part of The Beatles. June 1st also marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Read More - Mixtape

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Unheard Harrison songs found - The West Australian

A second batch of unheard George Harrison tracks could be set for release, according to his widow. Olivia Harrison teamed up with Beatles producer Sir George Martin's son Giles to trawl through an archive of the late star's demos to release Early Takes Volume 1 earlier this year Read More - The West Australian

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