by Super Admin - 6 years ago
McManus gallery owns Caird Hall images for city where term Beatlemania was coinedThe Beatles are returning to Dundee, the city where the term Beatlemania was coined after the Fab Four had to leave a concert by crawling out through a coal cellar to es...
by Super Admin - 6 years ago
by Bill Wyman (not the one you’re thinking of), of VULTURE.com There shouldn’t be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The idea of a bunch of self-satisfied music-industry fat cats in tuxedos having rock stars assemble for a command performance in the...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
Stockholm (AFP) – “Mamma Mia! Here we go again”: Sweden’s legendary disco group ABBA announced on Friday that they have reunited to record two new songs, 35 years after their last single, sparking joy and surprise among fans....
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
The George Harrison estate has launched a new music label, HariSongs, to promote Indian classical music. The first two releases feature Harrison's friend, teacher and collaborator Ravi Shankar. The label is launched in partnership with Craft Recordin...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
The Beatles, Father John Misty, Prince and 10,000 Maniacs among the artists exploring the writing process with musicHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
Lindsey Buckingham is out of Fleetwood Mac, a decision that we now know was made by the band as a whole. As we reported just a few short weeks ago, Fleetwood Mac made headlines when they parted ways with longtime guitarist and lyricist Lindsey Buckin...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
By Sheryl DeVore News-Sun Tom Gable, who plays the part of Ringo in American English, admits when he first got the gig he thought since he loved the Beatles, he already knew all about the style of the Fab Four’s drummer. “At first, I didn’t really di...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
A new video for Ringo Starr's song Give More Love has been released. The promo clip shows Starr and his band performing the song, as well as fan-submitted photos. Give More Love is the title track of Starr's 19th studio album, released on 15 Septembe...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
By RAY CONNOLLY FOR THE DAILY MAIL One morning in 1968, I was sitting at my desk at the London Evening Standard when we got a tip-off that John Lennon had been arrested on a drugs charge. My job at the time was — among much else — to cover everything...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
The Fab 4 Music Festival will “come together” at the Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT on Saturday, June 9 from 1 pm-10pm. The bands playing under the Dome at this year’s festival include Connecticut’s Penny Lane, Numb...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
by Keith J. Kelly New York Post Sir Ringo Starr has inked a worldwide music catalog deal with Bertelsmann that will feature songs from his solo catalog as well as popular Beatles songs where he controlled the rights. The deal for Starr — who finally...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
Yoko Ono Lennon, Southern California-based Beatles tribute band the Fab Four and the California Department of Motor Vehicles have joined forces to combat hunger in the state with the sale of specialty license plates featuring the iconic self-portrait...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
A piece of Beatles memorabilia is going up for sale for $375,000 — lyrics handwritten by Paul McCartney for the 1968 classic “Hey Jude” at a recording session. The same lyrics are seen being used by John Lennon in a videotaped recording, hung from a...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
This week brings new all-star love-ins dedicated to Elton John and Johnny Cash – marginal releases in the context of their careers, yet tributes to lesser-known acts can prove transformativeThere are, when you boil it down, two kinds of tribute album...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
A new edition of the memoir by the band’s amiable press officer who witnessed Beatlemania and took notes as the breakup happened“Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and George and John and Paul are alive and well and full of hope...