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"The Beatles Show!" is an exhibit that contains 30 original Beatle-themed pieces created by local Michigan artists. Beatle memorabilia was also on display and included rare photos of John Lennon, rare concert posters and album cover art. The Beatles Show! will run until March 20 and is free to the public.
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| New Book: Definitive Illustrated Chronicle of The Beatles |
Coming up with fresh material and merchandise on the Beatles is something rather difficult at this point. However, John, Paul, George & Ringo: The Definitive Illustrated Chronicle of The Beatles is 448 hardbound pages of pictorial wonder for any Beatlemaniac, compiled from London's Daily Mail photo archives.
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| Paul McCartney turns up at son's club gig |
Rock icon Paul McCartney came out to support his son Monday night when James McCartney performed for a crowd of approximately 60 at the Audio Bar in Brighton, England. According to the Sun, Macca danced in the corner and sang along as his 32-year-old son played his set.
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| Local band to support James McCartney in Birmingham |
One of Shropshire, England's top bands is to support Paul McCartney' son in a major gig in Birmingham this month. The Kayas hope the concert with James McCartney will help them break out onto the national stage. Kayas manager Phil Beaumont said, "The Kayas really deserve this break and we hope it will give them the recognition they deserve."
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| Larry Kane's ride with the Beatles |
"Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride" is an entertaining and eye-opening program about his decades-long relationship with the Beatles, Fridays and Saturdays this month at the Franklin Institute. It is a multimedia program that offers the ultimate insider's account of life in the whirlwinds that were the Fab Four's 1964 and '65 North American tours.
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| Interview: Yoko Ono opens up the Ono family album |
She may not look it, but Yoko Ono is now 77 years old. For many of those years, she has been blamed, perhaps unfairly, for the break-up of the Beatles. Now, Yoko is back in Japan for a three-week trip and, for the first time, has agreed to a journalist accompanying her to write about this side of her multi-faceted life.
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| Memories of life on Liverpool docks |
A new publication, the Dockers bookazine, celebrates the Liverpool Docker as a very real, yet legendary figure, an insight into the lives of men who were the backbone of Liverpool. The docker remains a personification of Liverpool. The Beatles were inspired by the docks, it's where they picked up their famous thumbs-up salute.
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| Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
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| Nowhere Boy kicking off Nashville Film Festival in April |
The Nashville Film Festival has always had an eye, and ear, for music-related flicks, and they'll be starting this year's festivities with a doozy, a film about one of the greatest popular musicians of all time. Nowhere Boy, the buzzed-about biopic depicting John Lennon's teenage years, will kick off the 41st annual fest on April 15.
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| U.S. release date Nowhere Boy still uncertain |
Beatle fans anticipating the release of "Nowhere Boy" in the U.S. will have to sit tight. It's coming, a spokeswoman for Weinstein Co., who will distribute the film in America, told us today, but right now they can't say when it will happen. "We actually don't have a date at this point," she said in a phone interview.
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| Ringo returns to Fallsview in June |
Ringo Starr returns to Fallsview Casino with his All-Starr Band for two shows in June. Returning as All-Starr Band members are Edgar Winter, keyboardist Gary Wright, and drummer Gregg Bissonette, while newcomers include Rick Derringer, former bassist of Mr. Mister, Richard Page and former Romantics guitarist Wally Palmar.
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| Annie Leibovitz agrees to loan deal to save her photos |
Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm to sort out her debts, and allow Leibovitz to hold onto the rights of more than 100,000 photographs. Leibovitz is perhaps best known for a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken on the same day the former Beatle.
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| Pink Floyd battles EMI over royalties |
Pink Floyd has launched legal action against EMI over royalty payments and how music is sold in the digital age. The group, which signed with EMI over 40 years ago and whose back catalog has been outsold only by the Beatles, is disputing how online royalty payments and the marketing of their music are calculated.
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 |
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| Kids recreate the Abbey Road cover |
Fans of the Disney TV show I'm In The Band, which debuted in the U.S. last year, have recreated some famous rock and roll album covers in celebrate the coming of the show to TV in the U.K. Among the album covers recreated by the kids aged between 10 and 12, is the iconic Beatles album Abbey Road.
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| Paul McCartney shows support at Stella's show in Paris |
Sir Paul McCartney, the proud father, with his girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, by his side, beamed, as his daughter's collection came down the catwalk at Stella McCartney's autumn/winter 2010/2011 show, at the Paris prêt-à-porter season on Monday morning. Also attending was Maria Shriver, the First Lady of California.
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| Nowhere Boy coming out on DVD, but only in the UK |
John Lennon early years biopic Nowhere Boy will be released on DVD and Blu-ray DVD in the UK May 10, it was announced today. No release, either in theaters or on DVD, has been announced for the U.S. Bonus features on the DVD and Blu-ray releases will include director's audio commentary and deleted scenes.
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| Friday, March 5, 2010 |
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| Macca date ticket mania |
A mad scramble for tickets to see former Beatle Paul McCartney play his first Scottish gig for 20 years this summer is under way. Pre-sale tickets via Sir Paul's website have almost sold out, with the best spots for the Hamden Park gig already snapped up. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday.
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| Ozzy Osbourne to visit Liverpool for John Lennon's 70th birthday |
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are planning to go to Liverpool to mark former Beatle John Lennon's 70th birthday. The Black Sabbath frontman is a massive Beatles fan and received an invitation from Liverpool's Lord Mayor. Sharon said, "He will want to see all the sights and maybe stay in the John Lennon suite at the Hard Days Night Hotel."
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| Anniversary of Please Please Me in America |
Forty seven years ago this month, Please Please Me became the first Beatles single released in the U.S. and also became the title track to the Beatles first LP in the UK. Written solely by John Lennon, John recalled in the 1980 Playboy interview that "it was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it?"
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| Thursday, March 4, 2010 |
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| Meet the Beatles fan: Pat Matthews of Beatles-A-Rama |
As with many people of a certain generation, it all started with I Want To Hold Your Hand. Despite a poster of John Lennon in New York right above his desk, Pat Matthews, host of Beatles-A-Rama, says Paul, who wrote the lyrics to Hey Jude, remains his favorite Beatle. Matthews even likes Wings, but don't ask me why.
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| Interview: May Pang setting the record straight |
May Pang, about her first book Loving John, says, "The reason I agreed to write the book was simply to set the record straight. I understood the need for John to diplomatically refer to our time together as a 'lost weekend' and to imply it wasn't a good time for him. People who were not even around us would say things that were so out there. That was hurtful."
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| Beatles Story's campaign to bring Indian tourists to Liverpool |
Beatles Story managers have just returned from India where they are working with VisitBritain to develop the next stage of a campaign to promote Liverpool as a top destination for Indian tourists. They visited the south Indian city of Bangalore, and are looking at ways their staff can lend their support and help India's poor.
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| Sean Lennon defends Yoko on Twitter |
Sean Lennon said his mom Yoko Ono did not allow the images of Lennon to appear in the car ad in the U.K. for money reasons. He tweeted, "She did not do it for money. Has to do w hoping to keep dad in public consciousness. It's just hard to find new ways to keep dad in the new world. Not many things as effective as TV."
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| John Lennon U.K. car commercial reignites rock in ads debate |
Whenever rock & roll appears in ads, some fans protest. The debate rages every time Dr. Dre teases Detox for Dr. Pepper, or Bob Dylan promotes Pepsi. But in truth, rock stars have appeared in dozens of Super Bowl commercials. Now new car commercial featuring archival footage of John Lennon is currently causing a bit of an uproar in the U.K.
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| John's Nutopian Embassy for sale |
1 White Street in New York City is for sale. In 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono claimed this was the address of their Nutopian Embassy in their bid with the U.N. to avoid deportation from the U.S. Its current owner still receive letters of sympathy intended for Yoko Ono, and the house is occasionally photographed by John Lennon fans.
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| Wednesday, March 3, 2010 |
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| Liverpool's International Beatle Week programme announced |
To mark the 25th anniversary of the first Beatle Week, Billy J. Kramer will be playing his first UK concert in seven years and Denny Laine will performing Wings and Moody Blues classics. The event will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pete Best joining the Beatles with a garden party at the legendary Casbah Club.
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| Paul McCartney tribute performer forms his own Macca Band |
Over the last five years, Neil Tudor has made a name for himself as one of Europe's top Paul McCartney tribute acts. Now he's taken his performance a step further by forming a band to recreate the sound of Sir Paul's recent gigs. Tudor said, "It's something I've been thinking about for a long time."
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| Review: Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion |
Ever hear an idea that sounds so moronic that you feel like you've no choice but to check it out? That is the response when one hears the book title Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, which postulates that the Beatles were, well, zombies. "This was not about the music, it's about the men" said author Andrew Goldsher.
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| Tuesday, March 2, 2010 |
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| Seattle's Hard Rock Cafe has a piece of John Lennon history |
The Pacific Northwest, birthplace of legends like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Heart, Queensryche and Pearl Jam, finally has its own Hard Rock Cafe. Besides their focus on Seattle heroes, there is a Beatles section upstairs which includes a fascinating piece of John Lennon history from his "lost weekend" in L.A with May Pang in 1974.
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