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Beatles, Bowie, Pink Floyd Sales Surge As Music Buyers Get Physical, EBay Says

from Forbes Magazine by Mark Beech The Beatles, David Bowie and Pink Floyd are leading artists getting a boost as music buyers get physical in preference to digital streaming and downloads. A survey done for EBayEBAY -0.14% may make the world think a...

Paul McCartney: ‘Wings were terrible’

from The Telegraph….by Alice Vincent Paul McCartney has admitted that Wings was not “a good group”. The band, which the former Beatle set up with his late wife Linda, had a string of hits including Mull of Kintyre and Live and Let D...

The Beatles announce Christmas fan club box set and Sgt Pepper picture disc

The Beatles' festive fan club recordings are to be reissued on coloured vinyl in a forthcoming box set, to be released on 15 December 2017. The band recorded messages for their fan club each year from 1963 to 1969. They were sent to members as flexi...

Inspiration for the Beatles' Lady Madonna? National Geographic

Sir Paul McCartney says photo of woman breastfeeding inspired him to write songSir Paul McCartney has spoken of his inspiration for the Beatles song Lady Madonna: a photograph of a woman breastfeeding her child in National Geographic.McCartney said h...

Paul McCartney reveals photo inspiration for Lady Madonna

Paul McCartney has revealed a source of inspiration behind The Beatles' song Lady Madonna. McCartney told National Geographic's editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg that the 1968 hit was partly inspired by a photograph of a Malayo-Polynesian woman surround...

From me to you – the pop stars who’ve broken the Beatles’ chart records

Niall Horan is the third former One Direction member to notch up a US solo No 1, matching Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. But Ringo and Paul can at least console themselves with the dozens of others they still hold …When the Guardian tailed One Direc...

Brown Acid: the sound that rock forgot

Via his cult compilations, Lance Barresi has dug up rare and oddball hard rock and heavy psych cuts that provided the soundtrack to the hippy comedownIn the age of “music overload”, when it’s possible to access millions of songs via YouTube, Spotify...

JK Rowling doesn't exist: conspiracy theories the internet can't resist

Nor does Finland. Or the Beatles. And Nasa never sent robots to Mars. Just some of the intrigues other than JFK the internet lovesThe much anticipated release of new files about the assassination of John F Kennedy have again thrown a spotlight on the...

Ringo Starr Remembers His ‘Good Friend’ Tom Petty, Talks New Album

from Billboard Magazine 10/14/2017 by Gary Graff Last week’s music world tragedies were a double whammy for Ringo Starr. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-6925396787885240", enable_page_level_...

Ringo Starr live at Planet Hollywood Resort, Las Vegas

Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band kicked off their 2017 tour of North America with the first of eight concerts at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is the longest-running incarnation of the All-Starrs, and feature...

New book! Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs

'Dear sir or madam, will you read my book?' This is a personal post from this site's creator, Joe. I'm very proud to present my first book. It's a full-length biography called Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs, and is available as a paperback (3...

Eight Paul McCartney albums to be reissued on CD and vinyl

Eight of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles albums are to be reissued on CD and vinyl on 17 November 2017. They include four McCartney solo albums: McCartney (1970), McCartney II (1980), Tug Of War (1982), and Pipes Of Peace (1983). There is also the Paul...

Tom Petty obituary

American singer, songwriter and guitarist who found fame with the Heartbreakers in the 1970sHeartbreakers frontman Tom Petty – a life in picturesLast week the rock star Tom Petty, who has died after suffering a cardiac arrest aged 66, and his band, t...

Tom Petty: the rock star who was a music fan as much as a musician

He was the master of mainstream rock songwriting with heart and brains, with a back catalogue that rang through the ages When Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers first emerged, they cut anomalous, even anachronistic figures in US rock. It was 1976, the y...

In defence of Ringo Starr – a masterful drummer and the Beatles' unsung genius

He may have lacked precision and showmanship, and he did write Octopus’s Garden. But those who dismiss Ringo as a journeyman who got lucky wildly underestimate a rhythmic powerhouseIn 1983, the British comedian Jasper Carrott made an unhelpful contri...