The set, called “The Beatles With Tony Sheridan: First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition” and being released by Time-Life Records, is a two-CD set of all the available recordings made by the Beatles for the Polydor label. The tracks were first included on “Beatles Bop,” a reissue issued by the comprehensive and obsessively meticulous […]

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Dhani Harrison is trying to live in the moment.
“I’m all about trying to reduce my level of ADD,” Harrison said to Wired.com by phone recently.
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In his memoir ‘Luck and Circumstance,’ pioneering director recalls tension among the Beatles while making their last film

‘Luck and Circumstance,’ the memoir by acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, is being published by Alfred A. Knopf on September 27th. In it are behind-the-scenes glimpses of Old Hollywood and Swinging Sixties London, stories from the golden age of […]

Lid Magazine, a high-end photo art publication, has teamed up with Olivia Harrison, George Harrison’s widow, and published an issue featuring 36 pages of rare and unpublished photos of the former Beatle from the Harrison family personal archives.
The magazine will also include additional photos by Harry Goodwin and outtakes from the “All Things Must Pass” […]

TWO Liverpool landmarks were chosen as the world’s favourite and most inspirational sights.
The River Mersey Ferry and the Cavern Club have been named in the list of the world’s 1,000 ultimate sights, published in the Lonely Planet’s World’s.
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“A Hard Day’s Night” premiere, London. 1964.
Scattered around the internet, there are places where you can see trailers for the Beatles’ great first movie “A Hard Day’s Night.” For a few days, you can see their wonderful 1964 movie in its entirety for free.
That’s from the streaming site Hulu.com, […]

This is Brian Epstein’s own account of his extraordinary life and, inevitably, it is the story of the Beatles, the greatest pop group of the twentieth-century. What was the secret of Brian Epstein’s management of the Beatles, how did he guide a group from Liverpool to shake the world of popular music?

Within two years of […]

HollywoodNews.com: Roberta Flack’s Beatles album is ready. I think I first reported this project in the 1870s. But it turns out, it was worth waiting for. The first “single,” an ingenious cover of “We Can Work It Out,” is ready tomorrow. You can hear it at this website address for now:
http://www.429records.com/sites/429records/pressclips/newreleases/robertaflack/newreleases.html.
Beatles project came about as an idea with Sony/ATV Music to […]

George Harrison was liberated by rock and roll. Turns out Martin Scorsese was too.

The three-hour film (to be aired in two parts by HBO on Oct. 5 and 6) is one of Scorsese’s most personal documentaries—which, from the maker of the intimate, self-probing Italianamerican, is saying a great deal.
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