The extended Beatles family responded to the 9/11 tragedy in the best way they could — music in the form of two big concerts.
On Oct. 2, 2011, John Lennon’s music was the centerpiece of “Come Together: A Night for John Lennon’s Words and Music.” Performers included Yolana Adams and Billy Preston, Dave Matthews, Cyndi Lauper, […]

IT was 1968 when the Beatles sang ‘you don’t know how lucky you are boy, back in the USSR’. But being discovered listening to those lyrics would leave you very unlucky indeed if you lived in the old Soviet Union at the time.
The Fab Four were deemed unsuitable for Soviet ears by the Kremlin (they […]

A Canadian student has become the first person in the world to land a degree in “Beatlesology” from a Liverpool university.Former Miss Canada contestant Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy was one of the first students to sign up for MA course in in Beatles Studies at Liverpool Hope University.Twelve students joined the Master of Arts course two years […]

THE church where George Harrison was baptised is to close.
Three others also face closure as the Catholic Archdiocese struggles with soaring costs, dwindling congregations and a lack of clergy.
Our Lady of Good Help church in Wavertree was the venue for the Beatle’s baptism in 1943, where he was named Georgius Harrison.
But it is due to […]

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Sunnyside Resident Seeks To Inform Public Of The Truth

A two-year battle to obtain John Lennon surveillance records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has led a Sunnyside author to take legal action against the agency in the effort of informing the public of what took place on the day of the famed musician’s […]

A top politician is demanding SIR PAUL McCARTNEY publicly apologize for a joke he made at former President GEORGE W. BUSH’s expense during an appearance at the White House on Wednesday (02Jun10).
Republican John Boehner was not amused when the former Beatle poked fun at the ex-leader’s intellect as he became the first non-American to collect […]

It’s sure to be a pop culture reference point for years to come: Sir Paul McCartney performed for the Obamas at the White House on Wednesday in light of the Beatle being presented with the third annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. He followed in the formidable footsteps of Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon.
 

On the 9th of this month, the late John Lennon would have celebrated his 69th birthday. A deranged assassin’s bullet in 1980, of course, forever sealed him into a certain age, place and time. The John Lennon of 1980 was a husband and a father and a quite touchable New Yorker who’d just released […]

It’s not a cover story, but the new issue of Time magazine (with Jay Leno on the cover, at right) has a three-page article by Richard Corliss on "The Beatles: Rock Band."
The headline reads "I am the Walrus. With "The Beatles: Rock Band" plus a little help from your friends, you can be too."
The article […]