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Jacko shoes, hat auctioned
See who's been nominated for next year's prestigious awards.
Playboy is a potent portfolio of celebrity nudes.
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London - The hat and shoes worn by Michael Jackson in a landmark 2001 performance in New York were sold Wednesday at auction in
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Son finally forgives John Lennon for abandoning him
The Beatles star, who was murdered in New York City in 1980, left his first wife Cynthia Powell for Yoko Ono and had little contact with his young son after the divorce in 1968.
Julian, whos also a musician, began to mend his relationship with Lennon
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The Cute One: Paul McCartney
I was one of those little girls who loved the Beatles in the 1960s. Yes, Paul was my favorite Beatle back then, with Ringo in close second place. As I got older I appreciated John’s wit and George’s spirituality, but it all started with Paul and his
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Film: Newswire:Internet: 1, Simon Cowell: 0
Since 1952, having the chart-topping single in the week leading up to Christmas has been a very big deal in the U.K. The Beatles did it four times. The Spice Girls did it three years straight. Queen won twice with the same song (“Bohemian Rhapsody”),
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Net campaign downs X Factor UK number one
Rage Against The Machine has taken the coveted Christmas number one in
British pop charts
AN internet campaign to stop the winner of Britain's top television show from once again claiming the coveted Christmas number one single triumphed against
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Xbox Live Launching Individualized Music Game Stores [Xbox 360]
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Cuba's "Rolling Stones of Salsa" Set for U.S. Tour
HAVANA (Reuters) - Grammy-winning Cuban band Los Van Van are celebrating 40 years of salsa revolution with a long-awaited return to the United States. Often called the 'Rolling Stones of salsa', the group will perform in Key West, Florida on January 28,
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On Stage
John Farmanesh-BoccaÕs one-man stage version of Frank CapraÕs ÒItÕs a Wonderful Life,Ó continues with two shows on Christmas Day and one Saturday night in Carmel.
SpectorDance holiday dance performance. 6:30p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Marina Branch
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With holiday tour, Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder hopes to spread 'Moments of Joy'
Paul O’Neill knows that times are tough.
The leader and founder of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra does not take for granted that his enormously successful rock ’n’ roll franchise will make the short list of fans’ expenditures in these difficult economic
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Toxic Web :: It happened this weekâ¦
This is the week that was in matters musical …
1906, the first radio broadcast of a music program is carried out by Reginald Fessenden…
1918, German composer Franz Gruber pens the music for “Silent Night”… the words have been written by Josef Mohr…it
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CTV's 'A Conversation with the Prime Minister'
After a difficult year with a sliding economy and rising deficits, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is optimistic that 2010 will be a year of recovery for his country.
"I feel pretty good about the way the country has pulled together. I feel
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Mary Hart's Best Interviews of 2009
ET's own Mary Hart had a stellar lineup of star interviews in 2009, but she admits that one really stood out.
"It was my time spent with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono," she says. "I was thrilled."
This year marked the 45th
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Sir Paul McCartney gets animated for Rock Band videogame
Sir Paul McCartney will enter the screens one more time as an animated Lego brick after signing a new deal with chiefs behind the game based on The Beatles.
The 67-year-old singer will have solo material released via The Beatles: Rock Band game when
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In death more than life Jackson dominated showbiz
It was a Hollywood parable of excess and eccentricity, of genius and weakness. But most of all it` was the sad tale of a strange but brilliant man-child trapped in the glare of a celebrity-obsessed world.
Jackson started 2009 a shadow of his former
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Will Young and James Blunt win biggest selling single and album of the noughties
Will Young and James Blunt have scored the biggest selling UK single and album sales of the decade.
'Anything Is Possible/Evergreen', Young's 2002 debut single sold 1.8m copies to become the biggest selling single of the noughties, pipping fellow Pop
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Will Young and James Blunt take decade's Official Charts top spots
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2009: The Best (and Worst) of a B/R Columnist
On the outcome of Super Bowl XLIII:
"This is the Super Bowl, folks. Aside from Warner (and I know that's like asking Mary Lincoln how she liked the play otherwise, but work with me here), the Cardinals have a bunch of first-timers on their team. Super
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Eminem is best-selling artist of decade
DETROIT, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Rapper Eminem was the best-selling artist of the last decade, beating out The Beatles and country music star Tim McGraw, U.S. album sales show.
The Detroit Free Press said Sunday that Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce
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'Video Game Bible' Returns - Guinness World Records(R) 2010 Gamer's Edition
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The globally-recognized authority on record breaking achievements Guinness World Records, today announced the availability of the best resource for video game records, facts, trivia and new developments, with the .
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Yoko Ono set to pen tell-all book on John Lennon
The late Beatles' first wife Cynthia has penned two autobiographies about her life with Lennon but Japanese-born artist and musician Yoko, 76, has kept silent.
Now, Yoko, the woman blamed by some fans for breaking up The Beatles, says she is all set
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Yoko Ono Eyeing Tell All Autobiography
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is set to end her silence on her time with The Beatles star - she's preparing to write her autobiography.
The couple wed in 1969 and lived together as man and wife before Lennon was murdered in New York City in 1980.
Lennon'
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Draft Magazine Feed: We’re buying a beer for… Yoko Ono
You’re never very far from the spotlight, are you Ms. Ono? That’s your prerogative and all, but are you really stooping so low that you’re publicizing a memoir that won’t be published until 2015? Sure, you’ll reveal why The Beatles broke up (um, wouldn’
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Listen up: New releases
To slice through the pop-culture clutter these days, it helps to have an angle. Lady Gaga wears coats made of Kermit the Frogs and headdresses made of hay. Ke$ha has her distinctive delivery --; as if she's channeling some in-your-face valley girl, as
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Susan Boyle's 'Dream' awoke the music industry in 2009
Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream didn't have enough fuel to become 2009's top-selling album, but being runner-up hasn't undercut the underdog's rocket rise to stardom.
Dream was narrowly eclipsed by Taylor Swift's Fearless. Both sold more than 3 million
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Book Review: With Strings Attached, or the Big Pink Job by D. Aviva Rothschild
Although fan fiction has existed since at least the 70s, the Internet facilitated its growth beginning in the 90s. Like never before, previously unknown writers could self-publish their work, potentially reaching a global audience. While authors have
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Chris Evans pledges smooth ride as he kicks off new Radio 2 breakfast show
Chris Evans kicked off his first show in the Radio 2 breakfast slot today by playing The Beatles' classic All You Need Is Love and telling listeners: "Thanks for tuning in."
There had been much anticipation about how Evans would mark his transition
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Casting update for Yellow Submarine remake.
Robert Zemeckis finds Beatles for 'Yellow Submarine'
It's "all together now" for the cast of Robert Zemeckis' upcoming Beatles feature.
Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in negotiations to portray the members of
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How Gaming Helped Create Roxxxy's Skin-Deep Personality
If you can get past the skin-soft silicon, the over-sexualized mouth, the transparent nightie and uncomfortably-separated thighs, Douglas Hines latest invention could offer some interesting insight into the way games interact with people.
But there's
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Ringo Starr struggles with Beatles video game
The 69-year-old revealed he gave computer game The Beatles: Rock Band a shot before its launch but was not very good at it.
I am absolutely crap at it, the Daily Star quoted him as telling Late Night chat show host Jimmy Fallon on US TV.
Its too
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Here's the first look of Doctor Who in The Beatles
Who knew that The Beatles came from Gallifrey? OK. They didn't, but at least one of men behind The Doctor's various incarnations is portraying one of the music giants in a new BBC movie.
Christopher Eccleston is portraying the late John Lennon in the
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Utada In The Flesh 2010
She kicked off her tour in Honolulu, Hawaii last night.
How are you different from pop stars who don't write and produce their own songs?
I spend more time writing songs than singing them. It never crossed my mind to have other people write songs for
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Devoted dad Paul McCartney
Sir will always put his young daughter before his career.
The Beatles legend wants to make the most of his time with Beatrice - his six-year-old girl from his marriage to Heather Mills - and will fit his work around her.
He said: "I look a lot busier
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Macca joins stars at LA tea party
The Beatles star brought along Nancy Shevell to the very British party, where celebs were treated to the finest selection of finger sandwiches, cakes and tea - and champagne for those who fancied something a little stronger.
Self-confessed anglophile
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Paul McCartney Is Turned Down to Be Them Crooked Vultures' Bassist
Paul McCartney wanted a place in Dave Grohl's supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, but was turned down in favor of Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones. The Beatles star teamed up with the Foo Fighters frontman onstage for a performance at the 2009 Grammy
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Celine Dion: Artist of the decade
Celine Dion has been named the highest earning musician of the Noughties.
The My Heart Will Go On star topped Calendar's Ultimate Top 10 list of the decade, the Los Angeles Times revealed, earning 747.9 million dollars in the last 10 years from both
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CBS Announces The 11 Teams Racing In The 16th Edition Of “The Amazing Race”
Eleven Teams Hit the Road for a 40,000-Mile Sprint around the Globe and Find Themselves in the Midst of a World War I Re-enactment, Retracing the Early Days of The Beatles and Come Face-to-Face with One of the World’s Most Infamous Villains
CBS today
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Jackson estate administrators want cut of profits
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two men administering Michael Jackson's estate are seeking 10 percent of profits they're able to generate from the late pop superstars work, court documents filed Friday show.
Attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain
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Stars perform, plead for help at telethon for Haiti
Celebrities work on the phone bank during the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon in New York January 22, 2010. REUTERS/Marc Davis/MTV Hope for Haiti Now/Handout
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of the biggest names in film
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Hottest Articles on BWW 1/17/2010 - 1/24/2010
Newly emerging country singer and Legally Blonde alum, Laura Bell Bundy, today released her first full length music video for her first single, "Giddy On Up," off of her upcoming album Achin' and Shakin' (Mercury Records, a division of Universal). Her
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PSA: Get the Beatles: Rock Bandle bundle on the cheap
Price is an issue when it comes to music game bundles, but Amazon is easing to the financial burn on one particular set -- The Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition. As part of its special Deal of the Day promotion, both console versions of the bundle are
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Heavy metal fans urged to lobby for their love of rock to be recognised as a religion
They are being asked to officially register their faith as “heavy metal” while filling in the next Census questionnaire.
In the last census, a similar campaign led to 390,000 UK residents listing their religion as Jedi - the fictional creed created for
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Harmonix partnering with other devs on Green Day: Rock Band
Game development is a collaborative process, so it's no surprise that Harmonix isn't going into the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band alone.
The developer confirmed with us today that it has partnered with developer Demiurge Studios, design firm MK12, and
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Backstage Pass: Our Favorite Things
I’m working on a story about “anti-love” songs for Valentine’s Day, and it has gotten me thinking about music in a more philosophical manner than I usually do. Given that I think about music for a living, oftentimes quite philosophically, this is
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Earth Risks Annoying Aliens with Spam
(NewsCore) – Few protested in 2008 when NASA beamed The Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space as a cosmic message of peace, but experts now warn that competing radio transmissions could be confusing to aliens and little more than space
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Weekend Coupons: Spread the Savings [Dealtaku]
No real theme to this week's deals, but that means there's a wide array of cheap stuff being offered out there - some of it meh, most of it good.
Hardware
? 360 console update: Best Buy has the Elite with free Madden NFL and an extra controller ($76
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Popstar To Operastar’s Bernie Nolan ’singing opera is the hardest thing I’ve ever done!’
She may be one of the world famous Nolan Sisters and have legions of fans all around the world, but Bernie Nolan admits that taking part in ITV’s Popstar To Operastar is the scariest thing that she has ever done.
In an interview with The People, Bernie
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Beyonce's six Grammys a new record
The diva won Song of the Year and R&B Song for Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It), Female Pop Vocal for Halo, and Female R&B Vocal, Traditional R&B Vocal and Contemporary R&B Album at the 52nd annual awards.
The singer, who lost out in the Album of the
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HEATHER MILLS TO OPEN UP ABOUT SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY MARRIAGE FOR TV SPECIAL
The Beatles legend wed the former glamour model in 2002, but the couple separated in 2006, leading to an ugly public divorce battle.
The union was officially dissolved in 2008 and the veteran musician was ordered to hand over $38.9 million (?24.3
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The Beatles: I have found god - Ringo Starr
John Lennon dismissively sang "God is a concept by which we can measure our pain" - but now his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr has revealed after decades of searching, he has become a believer.
Starr told how he had been looking for enlightenment
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Music: McCartney's son takes Beatles-inspired tracks on the road
Sir Paul McCartney’s son James is keeping the family trade alive by going on his first ever tour – with songs partly inspired by The Beatles, it was announced today.
The 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist played a handful of concerts in October last
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Review: Beatles tribute band a great show
With a welcomed return trip to Wichita Falls, 1964: The Tribute brought a little bit of Beatlemania back to town Thursday night. And the nearly sold-out crowd couldn’t have been happier.
Recreating one of the most popular groups in music history is no
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Protests accompany Pacifica Forum talk
As about a dozen Pacifica Forum supporters, more than 50 protesters, 31 University of Oregon public safety officers and other meeting attendees assembled into an Agate Hall lecture room on the UO campus, they were greeted with The Beatles hit “Back in
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The Next Page: Turn! Turn! Turn (table)!
Multimedia converged in full rage as a digital projector screened a silent version of "The NeverEnding Story" on the wall behind the bar. Musicians preparing to take the stage for open mic trilled saxes and trumpets. Cell phones and BlackBerries
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Ringo Starr honored with Walk of Fame star
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking on the sidewalk attraction.
Starr's name was
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Ringo Starr honored with Walk of Fame star
LOS ANGELES — A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of the sidewalk attraction's groundbreaking.
Starr's name was the
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World's Largest Beatles Tribute Festival Says 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' to Washington, D.C.'s Gaylord National Resort
On the 46th anniversary of The Beatles conquering America, the world's largest Beatles tribute festival, Abbey Road on the River, announced it would expand to National Harbor, Maryland, September 2-6, 2010. The new Labor Day Weekend music festival will
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Beatles: RB 'All You Need Is Love' DLC dated for Wii, PS3
Xbox 360 wanna-Beatles (see what I did there?) have been enjoying it since launch, but Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that The Beatles: Rock Band DLC "All You Need is Love" will soon be available for Wii and PlayStation 3.
The track will hit The
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Viacom Seeking Refund on Bonuses Paid to Rock Band Devs
MTV Games' parent company Viacom has a nearly unfathomable amount of money invested in the Rock Band franchise, and now that the once-burgeoning rhythm genre isn't doing so hot, they're looking to get some of that money back.
Gamasutra reports that
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David Lister: Politics and pop culture rarely mix
Why is it that when MPs say anything about culture, they tend to make fools of themselves? It can even apply to arts ministers. I witnessed one of the worst (or best, depending on how in need of a laugh one is) examples of this when the then
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Heather Mills Says Paul McCartney Gag Order Has Ruined Her Career
Heather Mills is constantly guarded when questioned about her divorce from Paul McCartney - because the former model fears she will end up in jail if she reveals too much.
The couple separated in 2006 after four years of marriage, leading to an ugly
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Top Of The Pope's: The Pontiff's Fave Albums
The article in the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, recommends Oasis, the Beatles and U2 as bands the public should tune into.
The authors of the piece describe Oasis as the "enfants terribles of the working class" but say they were
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Hard-up EMI seeks buyer for Abbey Road studios
LONDON The long and winding road of Beatles history has taken a new twist.
Cash-strapped music company EMI Group Ltd. is seeking a buyer for Abbey Road, the London studio where the Fab Four recorded some of their most famous songs, a person
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McCartney backs bid to save Abbey Road Studios
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney told of his hopes that the
famous Abbey Road Studios could be saved after reportedly being put
up for sale by owner EMI.
The record company's private equity parent Terra Firma is said to
be hoping the north London site -
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National Trust may save Abbey Road studios
LONDON - The National Trust could buy and preserve the Abbey Road studios where the Beatles recorded many of their classics after an outpouring of public concern over its possible demolition, the British heritage-protection charity said Thursday.
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Beatles history set for super-small screen
The Beatles, from left to right Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), and George Harrison (1943 - 2001), performing in front of a camera-shaped drum kit on the Ken Dodd show. (Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
The Beatles are now
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The Beatles’ original manager to celebrate his 80th birthday
Allan Williams is generally acknowledged as being instrumental in the development of the whole Merseybeat scene.
Apart from developing The Beatles and taking them to Hamburg, he also ran the Blue Angel nightclub, which played host to The Rolling Stones,
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EMI denies selling Abbey Road studios
Beatles named album after location
Huge outcry over possible sale
STRUGGLING music group EMI said today it would not sell off its Abbey Road recording studios, made famous by artists like the Beatles, after a public outcry over
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EMI says Abbey Road studios not for sale
LONDON -- Cash-strapped music company EMI Group Ltd. has shelved plans to sell Abbey Road and is now looking for an investor to help save the London recording studio made famous by The Beatles.
News last week that EMI had been speaking to potential
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UK makes Abbey Road Studios historic building
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Cash-strapped music company EMI Group Ltd. has shelved plans to sell Abbey Road and is now looking for an investor to help save the London recording studio made famous by The Beatles.
News last week that EMI had been speaking to
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Ladies Night on 'American Idol'
(CBS/AP) "American Idol" semifinalist Lilly Scott is right where she belongs.
The 20-year-old singer from Denver was among a handful of unique crooners who impressed the Fox singing contest's judges Tuesday. The platinum-haired street musician
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Our View: Why Liverpool needs to do more to make the most of The Beatles
THERE are still those who insist that Liverpool somehow overplays the fact that it gave birth to the four lads who shook the world.
The Beatles, they say, moved on from the city – and it’s time the city moved on from them.
Some even suggest there is
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'Idol' eliminates 2 female, 2 male semifinalists
LOS ANGELES The first four "American Idol" semifinalists have been sent packing. "Idol" contestants Janell Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe Munoz and Alex Lambert were revealed Thursday to be the two female and male semifinalists with the fewest viewer
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MUSIC INTERVIEW: James Mercer, Broken Bells
The 39-year-old indie hero is the voice – and one half of the songwriting partnership – behind Broken Bells, the new group he's formed with Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton, the studio whiz responsible for The Grey Album (which melded The Beatles with Jay-Z
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Catch up on the week
MONDAY
Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels, below, became the latest banking boss to waive his bonus. Daniels told the board he would not take a £2.3 million payout, the second year in a row he has turned down a bonus. He will receive his £1.035
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McCartney announces Glasgow concert
« Previous « Previous Next » Next » View Gallery ADVERTISEMENT Published Date: 01 March 2010 Sir Paul McCartney said he was looking forward to playing in Scotland again as he announced his first gig north of the border for 20 years. The former Beatle
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Showbiz: Paul McCartney announces tour date at stadium
SIR Paul McCartney is to return to Wales for the first time in 31 years to play Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium this summer.
The Beatles legend has today named the 85,000-capacity stadium as one of five venues for his Up and Coming tour in June.
Sir Paul
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Sir Paul McCartney Announces New Solo Tour!!
This is going to be FANTASTIC!
The Beatles legend, who is effing 67, will also be headlining Hard Rock Calling, and then the Isle of Wight music festival with Jay-Z and The Strokes!!!
"It is really amazing for a man of his age to embark on such a
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John Lennon Citroen car advert defended by ex-Beatle's son Sean Ono Lennon
JOHN Lennon’s son Sean has defended the controversial decision to feature footage of the former Beatle in a TV advert.
He hit back at accusations that Yoko Ono allowed images of the music legend to be used in a car advert for financial reasons.
Video
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Children recreate famous album covers inlcuding The Beatles and Queen
Meet the new kids on the rock... a series of famous album covers have been recreated swapping the original stars for children.
The tween-sleeves - which include The Beatles' Abbey Road and Queen's second album Queen II - were photographed to mark the
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'I'm Keith's mother. He's there on the moors. I want him back'
Yesterday, since all hope of his recovery has faded, he received a special memorial service in lieu of the funeral his mother so dearly wished.
Standing in front of a large painting of her son, based on the famous black-and-white photograph of the
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Sex scandals: a bad week for India's 'godmen'
With two sex scandals and a fatal stampede, it's been a bad week for India's "godmen", the self-styled Hindu ascetics whose followers range from farmers and housewives to politicians and rock stars.
On Thursday, 63 people -- all of them women and
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Fawcett left out of Oscars tribute
Farrah, who died in June at the age of 62, was notably left out of the tribute, which was accompanied by James Taylor singing The Beatles' In My Life and included Michael Jackson.
Film critic Roger Ebert was among those who questioned her absence,
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Where was Farrah?
LOS ANGELES — The absence of Farrah Fawcett from the traditional "in memoriam" segment of the Academy Awards broadcast Sunday left some people scratching their heads.
Fawcett, who died in June at 62, was notably left out of the tribute, which was
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Prepare for a deluge of Jimi Hendrix merchandise as the music industry marks the 40th anniversary of his death
• Hendrix started on the 'chitlin circuit' before an incendiary few years with the Experience. Picture: Complimentary
He will be a hard figure to avoid, as Super Bowl viewers who heard his song Fire on a commercial promoting Survivor: Heroes vs.
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Pink Floyd Wins Battle With EMI Over Online Sales
LONDON (AP) ―
In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.
The prog-rock
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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales
LONDON — Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.
The High Court ruled Thursday that record label EMI Group Ltd. can't sell Pink Floyd tracks
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Liverpool News: Beatles Day 2010 goes global
LIVERPOOL will celebrate the greatest ever pop band yet again on Beatles Day 2010.
But this year, rather than just a city date, the event will draw in Fab Four fans from around the globe.
Events will simultaneously be held in Hamburg, New York,
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'Glee': Lionel Richie, The Beatles and The Doors' songs score April's premiere... which, p.s., rocks
Holy hook-ups, Batman. There is a lot going down on "Glee" this spring.
Korbi TV hit the show's PaleyFest event on Saturday (Mar. 13) where the crowd of almost 2000 -- Paley's largest audience ever -- was treated to a screening of April's premiere
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Singer-Songwriter Dan Black Looks for U.S. Breakthrough
PARIS (Reuters) - Dan Black is keeping his fingers crossed. The British born but Paris-based musician has been touring North America all winter and from the response, it looks like this could finally be his big break. Originally a member of British
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Michael Jackson estate, Sony Music Entertainment strike distribution deal
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