Beatles News
Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame says that as a member of Ringo's 2001 All-Starr Band, he learned that there was a lot more to the man than he expected.
“I saw then the effect he must have had in the Beatles was very similar. He was quite a perfectionist. That was something I didn't realize about him. He's got this wonderful feel. He's an amazing person.”
The Los Angeles house where George Harrison wrote “Blue Jay Way” has sold for $3.8 Million.
The single-family home is spread across an area of 4116 square feet sitting on a 0.4 acre lot. The residence has three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Paul McCartney says that while his perspective has changed since, he and the other Beatles were "cheesed off" by Yoko Ono's presence at Beatles recording sessions.
"But looking back on it - [Yoko and I] have talked about this - I think she realises it must have been a shock for us."
An original stereo copy of “Please Please Me” sold for 7,552 pounds, or $11,500 US—50 years to the day the record was released.
Presented in a frame with a set of autographs on a magazine page featuring the Fab Four, it was one of 280 lots of Beatles memorabilia being offered in an anniversary sale at Omega Auctions in Stockport, Lancashire, about 40 miles east of Liverpool. According to the company, the buyer was based in the UK.
Musician John Power is set to play John Lennon in a new musical. Power – guitarist in the La's and singer in the group Cast – will make his theatrical debut in Rob Eaton's musical Lennon at the Royal Court Liverpool. The show follows Lennon's life from his childhood in Liverpool through to his later years in New York.
In the April issue of Q magazine, Paul McCartney says he had wanted to make “Yesterday” an early piece of electronica. Paul says he approached electronica pioneer Delia Derbyshire from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, wanting to collaborate with her.
Derbyshire was behind the experimental Doctor Who theme tune.
Celebrated producer Mark Ronson confirms that he is working with Paul McCartney on Paul's new album.
After DJing McCartney's wedding to Nancy Shevell in 2011, Ronson has now joined Paul in the studio to produce three new songs, according to an interview with the Associated Press. "It's really good. He writes really good songs," Ronson said.
The Twitter account @BarackObama has retweeted Yoko Ono’s picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses from the day he was murdered.
The arresting photo, which includes text that more than a million people have been killed by guns since Lennon was shot in 1980, has been ret
weeted more than 11,000 times since it was posted Wednesday.
A retweet by the account associated with President Obama forwarded it to his more than 28 million followers. Retweets aren’t always endorsements in Twitter etiquette, but Ono’s activism comes at a time when President Obama and U.S. Democrats’ push for more gun control after the Sandy Hook tragedy seems to be struggling.
A proposed assault weapons ban was stripped from a bill headed to the Senate floor. And that bill, which would universalize background checks, doesn’t have the bipartisan support many backers would like.
Paul has announced his first live date of 2013, which will be part of an all new tour called ‘Out There!’. Paul will play at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland on the 22nd of June, and a June 27 show in Vienna, Austria. Runors are circulating that Paul will play over Memorial Day weekend in Las Cruses, New Mexico, with a possible gig on May 26.
Earlier, Paul was confirmed as one of the headliners for this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which will be June 13-16 in Manchester, Tenn. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bjork, and Mumford and Sons also are among that festival's performers.
Imagine: 1Million (1.057.000) Americans killed by guns since we lost John Lennon. Stop it now.
