It’s been a long and winding road for the North America’s largest Beatles-inspired festival — a road that might end too soon if Abbey Road on the River doesn’t find a major sponsor.

In a glass case on the desk in Sir Paul McCartney’s office sits a pair of spectacles that used to belong to the surrealist painter Rene Magritte.
Sir Paul was given them by his late wife, Linda, who’d bought them at a sale staged by Magritte’s widow, Georgette. And they’re under glass because, he tells me: […]

Welcome back to our regular feature on Gibson.com, “The Daily Throwdown,” where we give you two videos and you battle it out in the comments section to determine the winner.
Today we pit Beatle against Beatle. Following the break-up of the Fab Four, Lennon and McCartney got into some musical warfare. Lennon, sensing that some lyrics […]

NEW YORK (CBS) Music mavens everywhere will have to put up their dukes as Rolling Stone magazine unveils its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in a special collector’s issue.[The list, an update of an earlier list first compiled in 2004., is sure to have people arguing over which artist or song is better.But one […]

ONCE A REPORTER ALWAYS A REPORTER: Interesting item in the Huffington Post about the reporter who broke the story that Rep. Joe Sestak may have been offered a job in exchange for not running against Sen. Arlen Spector. It was none other than Larry Kane, author of the excellent book “Ticket to Ride: Inside the […]

Boom! Magazine, a monthly publication, and DPAC are offering area residents
an opportunity to win tickets through a Beatlemania contest.
Win Tickets to See Ringo Starr
Boom! Magazine and DPAC Team up for Beatlemania Contest
CARY, N.C. (May 26, 2010) – Barbara Petty, publisher of Boom! Magazine,
a monthly publication dedicated to the active lifestyle of those […]

Ringo Starr has been a member of the most successful band in the history of music.A band which put the UK on the world’s music map.He is still very much an inspiration to an entirely new generation of musicians and will always be remembered to those days “All Those Years Ago” when he burst onto […]

Thirty years ago this month, John Lennon left Newport on a small boat headed for Bermuda. He hoped the five-day voyage would unlock his musical writer’s block. It turned out to be the ride of his life.
By Brian R. San Souci ..
The Megan Jaye sailed into St. George’s Harbour in Hamilton, Bermuda, one of […]

1. I’ve Just Seen A Face
2. Baby’s In Black
3. I Feel Fine
4. Yellow Submarine
5. Ticket To Ride
6. And Your Bird Can Sing
7. What Goes On
8. Norwegian Wood
9. Paperback Writer
10. She’s A Woman
11. I Saw Her Standing There
12. Help!
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