Category : Tout sur les Beatles

Family life: A visit to Oban, She Loves You by the Beatles, chocolate splosh

Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis photo shows me, aged seven, my mother on the right and my new aunt behind me. The year is 1948, we are in Oban, Scotland, and we have come from Germany. My aunt, my mother’s sister, had married a...

Never before seen footage of the Beatles backstage in 1965 – video

The footage, shot by an Australian woman, shows the Beatles getting their make-up done for the special The Music of Lennon & McCartney in November 1965. Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane was working at Granada TV in Manchester at t...

Paul McCartney announces new show in Cleveland now on sale…by Steve Marinucci

Fab Social LinksPaul McCartney announced Monday his One On One Tour will add a second show in Cleveland. The new show in Cleveland, Aug. 18 at Quicken Loans Arena, follows a sold-out show on Aug. 17 that was first announced a week ago. Ticket...

2016: Too Many Musicians Have Died (it’s only April!)

Fab Social LinksROCK, POP & COUNTRY STAR PASSINGS IN 2016 The first four months of this year have seen a terribly large number of singers and musicians die. Included are three that I loved and respected above few others (they’re the top 3...

Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s

“This spring, as never before in modern times, London is switched on,” declared Time magazine in April 1966. “Ancient elegance and new opulence are all tangled up in a dazzling blur of op and pop. The city is alive with birds (girls) and Beatles, bu...

Rihanna overtakes the Beatles for number of weeks spent at US No 1

Rihanna has beaten the Beatles’ tally for the total number of weeks spent at No 1 in the US. Combined sales of Work, the singer’s first single from her most recent album Anti, have scored the singer her ninth week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100...

McCartney One On One Tour Adds Shows

Fab Social LinksMcCartney Tour Adds More Shows The Paul McCartney Tour, “One On One,” expanding with new shows almost daily, announced this week it has added two more U.S. dates. The most recent addition of the tour by the former Beatle, whic...

McCartney Starts Tour With Energetic Three-hour Live Set!

Fab Social LinksMcCartney Starts Tour With 3-hour Show He’s a living musical icon, who once questioned if the age of 64 would mark him as an irrelevant old man. But now nearly 10 years past that age at 73, Sir Paul McCartney has put those yo...

IT’S BEATLES TIME!!! FEST WEEKEND HAS ARRIVED!!!

Fab Social LinksWaking up Friday morning of a Fest weekend is such an adrenaline rush! Add Taxman Day on top of that… the first time these two ‘holidays’ have ever collided… the year of Revolver for that matter, and we’re not even sure what t...

Paul McCartney live at Save Mart Center, Fresno, California

Paul McCartney kicked off his One On One tour with a concert at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. It was McCartney's first concert of 2016, and his first ever performance in Fresno. His previous tour, Out There, grossed $196 million from 60...

Ringo Starr cancels North Carolina concert over anti-LGBT law

Fab Social LinksFormer Beatle Ringo Starr called off a June 18 concert at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina in protest over passage of House Bill 2. The bill, which restricts protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transg...

Ringo Starr cancels North Carolina show over anti-LGBT law

Ringo Starr has cancelled a concert in North Carolina in protest over the state's recently-passed anti-LGBT law. The former Beatle joins Bruce Springsteen in refusing to perform in the state. Springsteen cancelled a Greensboro concert in protest "aga...

The week in radio: The Women Who Wrote Rock; Backlisted; Radio Dead

The Women Who Wrote Rock (Radio 4) | iPlayer Backlisted podcast| iTunes Radio Dead | tunein.com Writers and writing, this week. On Tuesday rock journalist Kate Mossman brought us The Women Who Wrote Rock, a revealing and beguiling programme about th...

The long and winding road: how Paul McCartney is clawing back his catalogue

To misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one attempt to control your publishing may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose a second looks like carelessness. This, however, is the prism through which to understand the move by Paul McCartney – which started in...

Paul McCartney strikes out to gain control of his share of the Beatles catalogue

Paul McCartney has begun the process of regaining control of his share of the US publishing rights in the Beatles’ catalogue. The publishing is currently owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, but US law allows living artists to apply to take back the...