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Director Pulls Out of Yellow Submarine Update 25 November, 2012 - 0 Comments

Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis has dropped plans to remake Yellow Submarine in 3D--an idea reportedly in the works since 2009. 

Apple Seeking Memories of the Beatles Live 25 November, 2012 - 0 Comments

If you were lucky enough to see the Beatles in concert, Apple wants to hear from you about your experience.  The Beatles' company is collecting stories and personal video footage from fans around the world, looking to put together a feature-length documentary film about the band's travels during the Beatlemania period--officially October 1963 (when the phrase was first coined) until the Beatles' final concert in August 1966. 

Paul Plays Private Vegas Party 25 November, 2012 - 0 Comments

A 70-year-old private equity big shot invited his contemporary, Paul McCartney, to play for his birthday party in Las Vegas.

Counterculture reporter Howard Smith's 1972 interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono can be heard in its entirety now on Amazon and iTunes.

The conversations--with John and Yoko, and many other prominent figures of the 60's and 70's--have been sourced, dated, indexed, and digitally re-mastered.

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell were just 2ft away from a helicopter crash when their pilot narrowly avoided hitting trees, it has emerged today.

Sir Paul will feature alongside the likes of Robbie Williams, Melanie C, Holly Johnson and Gerry Marsden on the single which is due to be released on December 17.

The acts, who are going under the name The Justice Collective, will raise money to cover the legal costs of the families of the Liverpool supporters killed in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

Rejected Beatles audition tape discovered 23 November, 2012 - 0 Comments

The Beatles' audition tape famously rejected by a record executive in 1962 has finally been uncovered after 50 years.

The small but vocal group of fans who have long demanded that more attention should be paid to the achievements of Beatles manager Brian Epstein are finally being heard.

Forty-five years after Epstein's death from what was ruled an accidental drug overdose, not one but TWO film biographies are in the works, one of them based on a graphic novel and the other to be produced by Tom Hanks, who lately has been faring better as a producer than an actor.

Olivia Drops Bid for Wire Fence at Friar Park 19 November, 2012 - 0 Comments
Olivia Harrison has dropped her request for a barbed wire fence around the Harrison family estate, Friar Park, where she and George were attacked back in 1999.
Paul in PETA Ad for the Holidays 19 November, 2012 - 0 Comments

Wearing an "Eat No Turkey" t-shirt, Paul McCartney is telling people to go vegetarian for the holidays in a new ad for PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.