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
London: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have launched a new stamp range featuring the likes of the 20 most famous vegetarians of all-time, including veteran singer Sir Paul McCartney. McCartney along with Natalie Portman, Pamela Anderson and Morrissey have agreed to feature on the stamp which will be released in the US Tuesday. "These are very influential people, and not everyone knows that these folks are vegetarian,"...
12:19 PM, Nov 29, 2011
London: Paul McCartney married for the third time on Sunday, exchanging vows with American heiress Nancy Shevell at the same London register office where the former Beatle wed his first wife Linda in 1969. The beaming couple emerged from the grey-stone Old Marylebone Town Hall to confetti and cheers from dozens of fans who had waited hours to catch a glimpse of the music legend and his new wife. Brunette...
11:57 AM, Oct 10, 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: A rare copy of the Beatles hit single 'Please Please Me' signed on both sides by all four members of the band has fetched 9,000 pounds at auction in the United Kingdom. The 1963 record was sold by a Liverpool woman who asked the group to sign it after listening to them at the city's Cavern venue as a youngster. The "very, very rare" item was among 322 lots...
06:22 PM, Aug 28, 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
London: A Canadian woman has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in Beatles studies. Former Miss Canada finalist, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy was one of the first 12 students to sign up for the Liverpool Hope University course on the Fab Four when it began in 2009 and was the first to graduate, the university said on Wednesday. "I am so proud of my achievement,"...
10:40 AM, Jan 28, 2011
London: Legendary Beatle John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has handed over his letters to a British book company, reportedly for over $500,000. Publishers at Orion Books in London now own the intellectual property rights to the letters and they plan to release the letters in 2012, reports contactmusic.com. "For the most part they have never been seen before... They're full of wonderful drawings. They are funny, sad and very human...
10:38 AM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Beatles legend Paul McCartney, who is a PETA activist, has written to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to chose a date to annually celebrate vegetarianism. The singer has suggested that the meat-free day could be Jan 12, the foundation day of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, said a press statement from the organisation. "Would you please think about declaring one day every year...
06:04 PM, Jan 05, 2011
London: A London zebra-crossing made famous by a Beatles album cover has been listed as a heritage site. Heritage minister John Penrose says Wednesday the crossing at Abbey Road in north London was listed as a testimony to the international fame of the band. Every year the crossing draws thousands of visitors, many of whom mimic the Beatles cover photograph in which the band members were shown crossing the road....
06:29 PM, Dec 22, 2010
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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