Category : Beatles

Klaus Voorman: Yet Another 5th Beatle

by Pat Matthews Most Beatle fans know the story. Klaus Voorman, a young artist/musician from Germany, “discovers” a brash group of rock and rollers from Liverpool in a seedy Hamburg night club. He brought along his roommate, Astri...

Four Paul McCartney albums to get CD/vinyl reissues

Four of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles albums are to be reissued on CD and vinyl on 18 May. The albums are Thrillington (1977), Wings Greatest (1978), Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005), and New (2013). The standard versions will be single digi...

From the archive: it’s 1965 and Beatlemania and comprehensive schooling are making headlines

The biggest band in the world takes the US by storm, and state education aims highIn 1965 Beatlemania was hitting its peak in America, with the band about to embark on their second US tour. But despite their success, speculation was already rife abou...

Unseen photographs of Beatles in US fetch £253,200 at auction

Teenager Mike Mitchell took photos of band in Baltimore and Washington DC in 1964A teenage portfolio of more than 350 previously unseen photos of The Beatles’ early invasion of America has fetched £253,200 at auction on Merseyside.The photographer Mi...

RINGO STARR ANNOUNCES U.S. LEG FOR 2018 ALL STARR BAND TOUR

March 23, 2018 — Today Ringo Starr announced he has added U.S. tour dates to the 2018 All Starr Band’s itinerary. The band will be touring Europe this June and July and now confirm an additional 20 dates throughout North America in September....

Readers recommend playlist: songs that start with the chorus

Getting straight down to business this week with songs from Abba, Tears for Fears, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald and the FallHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions. Thanks for taking part. Read more a...

The Who Singer Roger Daltrey Earns $1 MILLION For Private Performance

By JASON CHESTER FOR MAILONLINE He’s headlined some of the world’s biggest stages as the lead singer of sixties mod pioneers The Who. But while Roger Daltrey commanded a comparatively modest audience on Saturday evening, his fee was equal to the enor...

Hard Day’s Knight: Beatle Receives His Knighthood

By JASON CHESTER FOR MAILONLINE The Beatles legend Ringo Starr followed in the footsteps of former bandmate Sir Paul McCartney by receiving a Knighthood at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning. Accompanied by wife Barbara Bach, the iconic drummer, 77...

A hard day’s knight! Ringo Starr receives his knighthood at Buckingham Palace

Ringo Starr has received his knighthood for services to the music industry. The former Beatles drummer, 77, was accompanied to Buckingham Palace by his wife Barbara Bach. Congratulations SIR RINGO on your incredible Knighthood! @ringostarrmusic was h...

Museum of Liverpool to host Lennon and Ono exhibition Double Fantasy

The Museum of Liverpool is to host an exhibition on John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Double Fantasy – John & Yoko will be free to enter, and will run from 18 May 2018 to 22 April 2019. It will contain art, music, and a range of artefacts and documents,...

Ken Dodd's other life – as a mega-selling singer of romantic ballads

The late comedian’s biggest hits weren’t novelty songs, but earnest romantic ballads that challenged psychedelic pop in a mid-60s generation-gap war From a distance, Ken Dodd’s musical career seems utterly bizarre. You could understand him having a c...

The Beatles – a teenage photographer's shots

Shots of The Beatles’ first US concerts are expected to sell for £250,000 ($347,000) at auction. Mike Mitchell, 18 at the time, snapped hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of the band’s performances at the Washington Coliseum and the Baltimore...

Got some old band T-shirts at home? You might be quids in …

A rare Led Zeppelin shirt fetched $10,000 – and others go for hundreds as nostalgic memorabilia market boomsThey may be tatty, beer-stained and full of holes, but band T-shirts from gigs enjoyed decades ago could be a nice little earner.A Led Zeppeli...

Debate over NME’s heyday | Letters

Readers respond to the closing of Britain’s most iconic music weeklyIn this age of instant access to information, it is difficult to appreciate how important the NME in its heyday was in introducing “generations of suburban teenagers” to the cultural...

Mega Producer Says Paul McCartney & Elton John Have Made “Too Many Albums”

With talk that Paul McCartney is gearing up to release a new album, revered UK mega producer Steve Lillywhite says that iconic artists such as McCartney and Elton John have made “too many albums”. Appearing on The Music’s latest Pr...