Beatles News
Music memorabilia including signed photographs of Beatle members John, Paul, Ringo and George were taken during a Neston burglary.
Detectives are appealing for witnesses after raiders targeted a house in Chester High Road between 7.30pm and 8.30pm on Tuesday, May 22.
Jewellery and a range of music memorabilia of great sentimental value to the homeowners was stolen from inside the property and a car taken from a garage.
Among the pop items were framed vinyl albums of Led Zeppelin One, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, The Who’s Quadrophenia and The Rolling Stones ’ Sticky Fingers.
Source: David Holmes/chesterchronicle.co.uk
On Saturday 7th July Ringo Starr celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Peace and Love Birthday. Ringo will share the day with fans, friends and family at the Hard Rock Café in Nice, France and will be joined by followers in over 23 countries worldwide creating a global wave of peace with a simple call to action: to think "peace and love" at noon.
"It's about changing one second so that people think 'peace and love' - it's something I learned from the Maharishi." - Ringo Starr
To coincide with this landmark anniversary, Genesis and Ringo Starr are excited to announce the publication of the signed, limited edition.
Source: genesis-publications.com
A new Beatles museum packed with memorabilia is opening in a former Victorian warehouse in Liverpool this summer.
Created by Roag Best, brother of 'fifth Beatle' Pete, it will tell the story of band's history through 300 items from his personal collection.
Magical History Museum will take up five floors of the building - at number 23 Mathew Street, next to the Grapes pub - which has been completely gutted and refurbished.
Roag said: "It's going to blow people's minds.
"We will be taking people on a journey though the Beatles' career but unlike any other museum before it, every part of the journey will be accompanied with memorabilia.
"Many things they will never have seen before, others they will have seen back in the day but not for many years."
Objects include George Harrison's Futurama guitar, John Lennon's Sergeant Pepper medals, the cello from I Am The Walrus and Pete Best's Premier drum kit.
Source: Laura Davis/liverpoolecho.co.uk
Recently, the comedian James Corden featured the legendary musician Paul McCartney on his popular Late Late Show segment, "Carpool Karaoke."
The recurring segment features famous musicians joining Corden in a car while they sing along to the musician’s hits. To the delight of viewers around the globe, McCartney sang songs from The Beatles, including “Drive My Car."
Now, it’s doubtful they had Saudi Arabia on their minds when they wheeled out that Beatles classic. But a couple of months ago, both that country and that song were on the minds of many around the world.
That's because Saudi Arabia was on the verge of allowing women to drive for the first time ever. It was going to a big moment of freedom for women — the kind of moment that deserves a song. And maybe that song could be some version of The Beatles' "Drive My Car."
Source: pri.org
John Lennon’s sister will be the first person ever to be honoured as the Day President for Llanfest, the finale day of the International Eisteddfod.
There has been a long tradition of Day Presidents being honoured at the week-long Eisteddfod. Day Presidents are invited to the event to recognise the ongoing work they do in spreading the message of peace and goodwill, which is at the heart of the event.
Llanfest is the final Sunday of the festival and has evolved into a modern mix of rock, pop and indie music, including bands such as the Manic Street Preachers and this year’s headliners, indie-pop legends the Kaiser Chiefs.
Julia Baird will be joining Liverpool’s iconic The Cavern Club at Llanfest on July 8, which is hosting a special pop up stage for the first time; bringing their resident musicians to Llangollen.
Source: shropshirestar.com
They have been happily loved-up for more than a decade.
And Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell looked closer than ever as they enjoyed a cosy stroll in Mykonos, Greece on Friday. The Beatles icon, 76, and his businesswoman wife, 58, were the picture of marital bliss as they walked down the street looking effortlessly as they revelled in some downtime from their hectic schedules. Blending in with his fellow holidaymakers, Here Comes The Sun hitmaker Paul looked effortlessly cool in a blush pink fitted shirt and black chinos, paired with tan sandals for his walk.His glamorous wife showed off her toned figure in a lacy white floral dress with ruffled sleeves.
Giving a glimpse of her honed legs, the dress flowed into a semi-sheer floor-length skirt.
Her brunette tresses were styled into a sleek half updo while her pretty features were enhanced with a radiant dusting of make-up.
Source: Eve Buckland For Mailonline
BED-IN FOR PEACE John and Yoko on their honeymoon in Amsterdam where they held a ‘bed-in’.
It’s 50 years since Beatle John Lennon made front page headlines in The Mayo News
IT is no wonder the arrival on Dorinish Island of Beatle John Lennon and his new girlfriend, Yoko Ono, in June 1968, ruffled a few feathers. Like the majority of Clew Bay’s tiny inner islands, it was uninhabited by humans and happened to be the nesting season for its resident gulls and gannets: a rather stressful time from an avian perspective. The fact that Ms Ono was coiffed with a beehive bun didn’t help the sense of confusion and, naturally, some of the feathered friends swooped on her assuming she was bearing new soft material for their nests.
Source: The Mayo News
It’s the single most iconic image of the Beatles’ early days, or maybe of the band’s entire existence. Four young men — grinning and bemused, slightly nervous but mostly pleased with their own ability to whip up this kind of reaction — go careening down a city sidewalk. A tidal wave of hormones follows. Most, but not all, of the fans who go chasing them are girls. They scream and cry, and they’re just as happy and bemused as the actual Beatles. The point doesn’t seem to be catching the Beatles. Because what would they do if they caught them? Instead, it’s to take part in that same moment, that same generational feeling of excitement. The Beatles are there to summon that feeling, to channel it. They’re almost incidental to it.
Source: Tom Breihan/stereogum.com
arly in his career, Richard Starkey was the drummer in another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, with whom he played numerous gigs at Butlins — a chain of insistently cheerful holiday camps designed to provide affordable vacations for working-class Brits desperate for a break, any break. Almost 60 years later, the career of the man who became Ringo Starr has come full circle: He now drums in a band purveying insistently cheerful music for audiences desperate for a Beatle, any Beatle.
Sir Ringo, as we may now call him, was always the dispensable Beatle. When he first joined the group, as he admitted on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, he “wrote a lot of songs” but they were never recorded. (That was the only self-deprecating moment he allowed himself in the show, and even that was probably unwitting.) He certainly couldn’t sing. It is frequently, nastily, but quite possibly accurately asserted that he wasn’t even the group’s best drummer. (Take a bow, Paul.)
Source: David Horovitz/timesofisrael.com
Legendary drummer and Beatle band member Ringo Starr played his first ever show in Israel Saturday night, bringing joyful fans to their feet, singing along at the top of their lungs.
Accompanied by his All-Starr band, Ringo made his Israel debut at the at the Menorah Mivtahim Arena in Tel Aviv in front of thousands of fans of all ages, the first of a two-night gig in the Holy Land.
The current line up of Ringo’s All-Starr band, which has changed over the years, included Steve Lukather, guitarist of “Toto”, “Santana” singer and keyboardist Gregg Rolie, guitarist Colin Hay of “Men at Work”, “10CC” bass guitarist and vocalist Graham Gouldman, saxophonist and flautist Warren Ham and drummer Gregg Bissonette.
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