The Beatles and Sir Mick Jagger are among 150 famous Brits who are under consideration to become the new face of the 10 pound note. ...
10:58 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Encinitas, California: Ravi Shankar's daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, along with the wife of late Beatle George Harrison said their final goodbyes to the sitar virtuoso on Thursday at a public memorial service in Encinitas, California. The legendary musician and composer, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaboration with The Beatles, died on December 11 in Southern California. He was 92. About 700 people...
10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Just a few days ago, people doffed their proverbial caps and pagdis to mark 50 years since the Beatles' had cut their first record, the ...
04:37 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The heyday of Beatlemania may have been nearly 50 years ago, but the Beatles and their music remain loved, scrutinized and relevant to an adoring public forever clamoring for more details of the Fab Four. Here is a playlist of the best of The Beatles. ...
03:35 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: It is said that the rocker quartet from the British dockside town of Liverpool, The Beatles, started their big-league journey exactly fifty years back when on September 4, 1962, they recorded their first single 'Love Me Do' at the iconic Abbey Road Studios of EMI in London. Accordingly, tributes have been pouring in from all and sundry. People on social networking sites have had their profile pictures replaced...
01:41 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Albany, N.Y.: John Lennon's killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, said New York corrections officials. Mark David Chapman, 57, was denied parole by a three-member board after a hearing, the state Department of Corrections said. The transcript of his latest hearing wasn't immediately released. Chapman can try again for parole in two years. Chapman shot John Lennon in December 1980 outside the...
11:49 AM, Aug 24, 2012
London: Mark Chapman, who was jailed in 1981 for the murder of John Lennon, is up for parole for the seventh time and may be released, a media report said. The 57-year-old inmate at the Wende Correctional Facility will be interviewed by members of the parole board soon, and the board would make a decision on whether to release the murderer, the Daily Mail reported. Chapman shot Lennon in December...
12:02 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: Beatles legend George Harrison's sister Louise says she is writing a book about the guitarist and his famous bandmates. Louise Harrison is the older sister of the late guitarist - who died of lung cancer ten years ago on November 29 - at the age of 58. She said that she wants to tell the real story of her brother and his famous bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and...
06:40 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Today is the 71st birth anniversary of renowned English musician and singer-songwriter John Winston Lennon. He is also known as the one of the founding members of The Beatles. He was murdered at the age of 40, in 1980. Born in Liverpool, England Lennon grew up with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. He was hardly in contact with his father, but was very close to his mother...
01:14 PM, Oct 09, 2011
London: 'The Rolling Stones' envied 'The Beatles' as all four band members could sing whereas they were solely reliant on Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney has claimed. In an interview published in the 'Radio Times', the 68-year-old Beatle musician said the Stones, formed in 1962, were jealous of his band, formed in 1960, and used to call it a "Four-headed Monster". Sir Paul said, "The four of us were unusual....
12:56 PM, May 24, 2011
New York: Fifty lots of unpublished photographs of The Beatles' first US concerts taken by a teenager in 1964 are expected to fetch about $100,000 when they are sold at auction, Christie's said on Friday. The pristine, black-and-white photographs, which had been stored in a box for 45 years, chronicle The Beatles appearances in Washington, DC and Baltimore. They will be sold in individual lots when they go under the...
10:39 AM, May 21, 2011
Los Angeles: Paul McCartney is set to wed for the third time after proposing to his New York businesswoman girlfriend of four years, Nancy Shevell. The London-based spokesman for the former Beatle confirmed on Friday that McCartney and Shevell were engaged, but declined to give further details. "It's true!", said spokesman Stuart Bell, after People magazine broke news of the engagement. Shevell, 51, who is divorced, and the notoriously private...
05:18 PM, May 07, 2011
Los Angeles: The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed on Monday. A federal judge ruled last December that Santa Cruz-based Media Rights Technologies violated EMI's copyrights by illegally selling the music of the Beatles and...
12:31 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New York: A legal letter, which reportedly led to the break-up of Fab Four is all set to go under the hammer with an initial price tag of USD 175,000. The letter, signed by John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, is addressed to Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer and father-in-law Lee Eastman and fires him as the band's legal counsel. Dated 18 April, 1969, the letter reads, "you are not...
11:13 AM, Dec 10, 2010
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08:16 PM, Apr 29, 2010
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02:33 AM, Nov 04, 2009
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09:04 PM, Nov 02, 2009
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02:45 AM, Sep 11, 2009
New music collection costs $298 for 16 Beatles albums in stereo. ...
04:32 PM, Sep 09, 2009
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03:21 AM, Jun 03, 2009
