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Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills are scheduled to return to London's High Court on Monday for their divorce to be formally finalised. At the hearing before Justice Hugh Bennett, the couple are likely to be granted a divorce on the uncontested basis that they have lived apart for two years. [more...]
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| Paul McCartney tops Most Irritating List by UK music website |
Beatles star Paul McCartney is the most irritating music star of all time, according to an online poll by a UK music website. Musicmagpie.com's viewers find the 65-year-old music icon to be the most annoying pop celebrity. He beats James Blunt and Lily Allen in the top. [more...]
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| Thursday, May 8, 2008 |
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| Paul McCartney picks up department store bargain |
He has a £500m fortune and a world-famous fashion designer daughter. But when Paul McCartney needed a new tie for his classical concert he shunned the family connection and the luxury silks. Instead he plumped for three £11.99 numbers from Lewis's department store. [more...]
Source: Liverpool Echo |
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| Stella eager to do wedding dress for Scarlett Johansson |
Paul McCartney's famous designer daughter Stella McCartney wants to design a black latex wedding dress for Scarlett Johansson. Stella, who designed Madonna's dress when she married director Guy Ritchie in 2000, joked, "I'm definitely doing her wedding dress, but she doesn't know it yet!" [more...]
Source: All Headline News |
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| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 |
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| Famous Beatles engineer's Cheap Trick with Sgt. Peppers |
Last year, when singer Robin Zander of Cheap Trick decided to re-create the entirety of 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band live, they knew they'd need a little help from a certain friend. They called on the one man who'd know how to handle such an undertaking, Geoff Emerick, the original engineer for Sgt. Pepper's. [more...]
Source: St. Petersburg Times, FL |
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| Mick Jagger and the Beatles wanted A Clockwork Orange? |
Someone found a letter to legendary director John Schlesinger, urging him to consider directing an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. Part of the pitch was that Mick Jagger wanted the role of the psychopathic Alex, and that the Beatles "loved the project" and wanted to provide the musical score. [more...]
Source: Cinematical |
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| DVD Review: All Together Now |
All Together Now is a behind-the-scenes look at the staging of the ambitious Cirque du Soleil tribute to the Beatles, Love. Much of the film takes place in Las Vegas. It's the closest you'll get to seeing Love without flying to Sin City. All Together Now will be available on DVD on June 24. [more...]
Source: Exclaim |
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| Dhani Harrison promises to tour with new band |
Dhani Harrison is apparently set to follow in his father George Harrison's footsteps with his band thenewno2, and is hoping to wow industry bosses when he tours the States this year. The 29-year has already released new tracks on the internet and apparently wants to perform a series of live shows in the US. [more...]
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| Ringo Starr vows to return to incensed Liverpool |
Ringo Starr has pledged that he will return to his home city of Liverpool, in spite of incurring the wrath of its residents. Ringo has been severely panned by fellow Liverpudlians after he recently admitted on Jonathan Ross's chat show that he missed "nothing" about his birthplace. [more...]
Source: Daily India |
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| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
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| Paul McCartney album to be given away with UK newspaper |
Paul McCartney is to give away his latest album, Memory Almost Full, with editions of the Mail on Sunday, it's been announced. The former Beatle's album, which was originally released on Starbucks' Hear Music label last year, will come free with the May 18th edition of the newspaper. [more...]
Source: Gigwise |
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| New book goes on tour with The Beatles in 1963 |
A new book, Legends on Tour, features interviews with 21 pop stars, including Helen Shapiro who topped the bill on The Beatles' first tour of Britain in 1963. "They introduced us to all that Motown stuff, but I remember them doing Beach Boys songs on the bus. They used to love the Beach Boys back then." [more...]
Source: Doncaster Free Press, UK |
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| Paul asks Mick Jagger for tour advice |
Paul McCartney, who is set to embark on a world tour later this year, has reportedly approached Mick Jagger for tips on surviving life on the road, now he is in his sixties. A source revealed, "Paul is really good friends with Mick. Despite rumours of rivalry, they've been mates since they started out in the sixties." [more...]
Source: Monsters and Critics |
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| Monday, May 5, 2008 |
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| McCartney and Starr to reunite? |
Beatles fans have been sent into a frenzy over rumours Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are set to reunite on stage. After Liverpool City Council granted McCartney's production company $3.4m to stage the Sound City music festival, fans are now speculating Paul is secretly planning a special gig with his former bandmate. [more...]
Source: Ireland Online |
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| Standing ovation greets Paul's comeback in his home cathedral |
It was a triumphant return to the place where, more than 50 years earlier, his dreams of being a choirboy had been destroyed. This time, Liverpool cathedral held no disappointment as Sir Paul McCartney's choral piece Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart) had its northern premiere in his home city. [more...]
Source: Hello Magazine |
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| Mystery surrounds intruder to Ringo's flat |
An investigation has been launched after a burglar breaking into Beatles legend Ringo Starr's apartment block. The intruder was caught by security guards after he got into the luxury block in Chelsea, London. It is unknown whether he was after Ringo or his possessions. [more...]
Source: Sunday Mirror, UK |
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| Beatles exist because mandatory national service ended |
Ringo thinks the end of mandatory national service in Britain made it possible for the Beatles to exist. "We were the first generation that didn't go into the army. I missed the call up by, like, 10 months, and so we were allowed not to be regimented and turn into these musicians," he explained. [more...]
Source: India Info |
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| Friday, May 2, 2008 |
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| Paul McCartney: I owe Liverpool so much |
Paul McCartney acknowledged the standing ovation for the Liverpool Cathedral concert of his classical music with a quip, "This is the moment I have to pinch myself," he told the 1,500-strong capacity audience. "That's because I used to arrive here on the 86 bus from Speke." [more...]
Source: Liverpool Echo |
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| Ringo recalls Octopus, Abbey Road cover on new interview show |
Ringo Starr's pleasant 55-minute conversation with rocker Dave Stewart will delight old Beatles fans and perhaps even viewers who hold rock music in less esteem. Ringo never confused himself, or his musical peers, with Mozart. In the beginning, he tells Stewart, some bands had members who could barely play an instrument. [more...]
Source: Bloomberg News |
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| Hey, Bulldog! Beatles fans show animals love |
Saturday, lovers of The Beatles and lovers of animals come together for the second Sgt. Pepper's Pet Sounds concert. The Nashville-based Beatles Fans Meetup Group sponsors the fundraiser, with donations and money from a silent auction of donated Beatles memorabilia. [more...]
Source: The Leaf Chronicle |
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| Beatles' bootlegged products soar following loss of Aspinall |
The Beatles' company Apple Corps is reportedly suffering following the loss of the band's business manager Neil Aspinall. Industry insiders claim that Apple Corps has failed to crack down on a string of illegal sales of the Fab Four's work, amid rumours the company is failing to cope without Aspinall's expertise. [more...]
Source: Daily India |
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| Classical Mystery Tour recreates rock song's classical backgrounds |
Conductor Martin Herman thinks of the Beatles as a larger collection of musicians, namely the violinists, cellists and instrumentalists who played the background music on such classic songs as "Eleanor Rigby" and "Penny Lane." Herman wrote down those recorded background melodies so orchestras could play them. [more...]
Source: The Witchita Eagle |
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| Thursday, May 1, 2008 |
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| New DVD is inside exclusive on the Fab Four |
Is there any such thing as rare and unseen Beatle footage? Surely we seen everyhting there is to see about the most photographed band in the world? But a new DVD, Rare And Unseen: The Beatles, an unofficial compilation, unearths footage undiscovered for four decades. [more...]
Source: Liverpool Echo |
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| Newly popular British artist had secret past with John Lennon |
Art experts have launched a hunt for more information about the life of enigmatic artist Margaret Chapman. It has been revealed that she is mentioned in Ray Coleman's biography John Winston Lennon, but little is known of Margaret, a modestly successful painter from Darwen, England who passed away in 2000. [more...]
Source: Blackburn Citizen, UK |
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| Security guard from Montreal 'bed-in' shares memories |
Retired security guard George Urquhart remembers when he was the one on duty when John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their "bed-in for peace" at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969. Urquhart took some photos of the "bed-in," provided clapping for the song recording and had Lennon autograph his Beatles record, which he still has to this day. [more...]
Source: Canadian Press |
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