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We asked you to tell us which cultural pick-me-ups are best at beating the blues. Here are 10 of your top joy-giving films, books and more• Read the Observer writers’ happy list Related: The happy list – 30 cultural gems to brighten dark times Conti...
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Yes, Macca isn’t short of a bob or two. But doesn’t he deserve the rights to the Beatles classics he wrote?There’s gold in them thar hills, though precisely how much varies wildly. I’m talking about old music, by which I am currently surrounded. Here...
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Paul McCartney has filed a lawsuit against Sony/ATV over the rights to songs by The Beatles. The complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York. The musician hopes to regain ownership of songs co-written with John Lennon. In 1969, Lennon an...
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Paul McCartney has filed suit in New York against Sony/ATV and is looking to get a declaratory judgment that states he will soon regain his copyright ownership share to a treasured catalog of songs created as a member of The Beatles.
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The singer/songwriter is filing a suit to regain copyright ownership after Duran Duran tried and failed to do the same with their catalogue in 2016Paul McCartney has filed a lawsuit against Sony/ATV to regain the rights to classic Beatles songs.The s...
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Universal Music have announced the release of The Vinyl Collection, a box set of George Harrison's 13 solo albums. The collection will be released on 24 February 2017. In addition to the albums, which are spread across 16 LPs, it will also contain tw...
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Magic Alex, one of the most colourful and mysteryious characters in the Beatles' story, has died at the age of 74. Born Yanni ('John') Alexis Mardas, he became a close friend of The Beatles in the mid 1960s, eventually becoming head of Apple Electron...
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Tony Booth, who painted many posters advertising shows by The Beatles and other Merseybeat bands, has died at the age of 83. < --more--> He was born Anthony Booth in June 1933, and after leaving school trained as a commercial artist. His first job wa...
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No, there are no Beatles songs. But Billy Joel is there.
You want uplift? You want downlift? Billy is always there for you.
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Allan Williams, a fixture on the Liverpool music scene who gave the Beatles a place to practice and helped them get early gigs, has died. He was 86.
Graham Stanley, manager of the Jacaranda club that Williams used to own, said Saturday that Williams ...
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Liverpool entrepreneur known as ‘the man who gave the Beatles away’In 1960, the Liverpool entrepreneur Allan Williams arranged for a fledgling group, the Beatles, to undertake a residency at a club in the red light district of Hamburg. It transformed...
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The Liverpool club owner drove the band to Hamburg on their formative trip in 1960 and also handled early bookingsAllan Williams, best known as the first manager of the Beatles, has died aged 86, it has been announced. It was Williams who took the ba...
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Allan Williams, The Beatles' first manager, has died at the age of 86. Williams was the owner of the Jacaranda coffee bar and music venue, where The Beatles played and socialised in their early days. Williams became their booking agent, getting them...
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Sam Leach, who has died aged 81, promoted beat dances around Liverpool in the early 1960s, including several with the Beatles. He was a firm believer in local talent and without him the Merseybeat scene would not have developed as it did.Sam was born...
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John Beecham on appearing with the Fab Four at Hammersmith Odeon, London, December 1964This wasn’t the first time we’d shared a bill with the Beatles. A few years earlier, they were our warm-up band, when we headlined the Cavern in Liverpool. We real...