A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An upcoming concert by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the nation's youth
Some 43 years after a Beatles concert was -- according to popular belief -- banned by Israel, Paul McCartney has announced he'll perform there in September.
Brian Epstein's copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.
A tape recording of The Beatles chatting and breaking into giggles during an early recording session is to be sold next week in England
The Beatles first appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 44 years ago. It's also been 44 years since the Beatles held the five top positions of the Billboard pop chart, a feat never achieved before -- or since.
When Honey magazine commissioned photojournalist Michael Ward to follow and photograph an up-and-coming music group called The Beatles in February 1963, he had never heard of the Liverpool-based rock band.
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
Psychedelic album covers. Break-dancing music videos. Rockers with mullet haircuts.
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An upcoming concert by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the nation's youth
Some 43 years after a Beatles concert was -- according to popular belief -- banned by Israel, Paul McCartney has announced he'll perform there in September.
Brian Epstein's copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.
A tape recording of The Beatles chatting and breaking into giggles during an early recording session is to be sold next week in England
The Beatles first appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 44 years ago. It's also been 44 years since the Beatles held the five top positions of the Billboard pop chart, a feat never achieved before -- or since.
When Honey magazine commissioned photojournalist Michael Ward to follow and photograph an up-and-coming music group called The Beatles in February 1963, he had never heard of the Liverpool-based rock band.
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
Psychedelic album covers. Break-dancing music videos. Rockers with mullet haircuts.
For Renée Zellweger, peace and quiet are golden.
The '60s Fab Five lend their music to two quirky new movies. Richard Corliss is both bored and enthralled
Apple Inc. said on Tuesday it would offer the entire solo catalog of John Lennon on iTunes in its second such deal with one of the Beatles, who have been among the highest-profile holdouts to put tunes online.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr clowned around and marveled at their band's amazing impact in an interview Tuesday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
EMI Group has agreed to make its music catalogue available through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store without copy protection.
EMI Group PLC. announced a deal Monday with Apple Inc.'s iTunes to sell its music catalog without the anti-piracy protection known as DRM restrictions.
Beyond the Beatles, there are a handful of artists who have resisted mammon's call to distribute their songs online. A bellwether of how well they would sell on iTunes is how much traffic they gene...
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real dea...
The invitation to your annual work party has fluttered into your e-mail inbox -- and your stomach contracts as you read it's an evening of karaoke. But don't spend the night "washing your hair" -- our guide will help turn you from nul points nobody to karaoke king or queen!
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real deal. Fans wishing to download the actual Fab Four in MP3 format have to search peer-to-peer sites like Limewire for unlicensed songs they can listen to free.
The release on Monday of a new Beatles album provided fresh evidence, as if any were needed, of the enduring popularity of the most successful pop band of all time.
Tens of millions of baby boomers are approaching retirement, and if you're among them, you're likely wondering how you're going to tap your portfolio for the income you'll need over decades of life after work.
75: The age of Abbey Road Studios in London where The Beatles and Pink Floyd recorded some of their seminal albums, breaking with the traditional recording techniques of the time. It was originally called EMI studios before changing its name in the 1970s.
Question: As aggressive savers and investors, my wife and I, who are 50 and 48 respectively, have accumulated a significant diversified portfolio of stocks. What we lack are bonds, and I have zero experience in this area. I put some money in a bond fund a few years ago, and it went down immediately. My wife and I are positioned to retire in five to 10 years, so I know we need some bonds to protect us in the event of a market meltdown. But I'm feeling intellectually paralyzed. Help! - Anthony S., Honolulu, Hawaii
Kick off with vertigo-inducing vistas -- choose between the mighty Anglican Cathedral, the largest in Britain, with 100m high panoramic views over the city, or the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, affectionately nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" by the locals, with its kaleidoscopic stained glass windows and Lutyens crypt.
So you wanna be a guitar god? Here's everything you need, bar the leather trousers.
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?" sang Paul McCartney in one of his best-loved songs.
I recently went through a divorce that ate up all of my 401(k) and left me in debt up to my eyeballs. I still own a home, although I have no equity in it, but I recently made the mistake of leasing a truck with insurance and lease payments that are the size of my house mortgage.
The Dow Jones industrial average inched closer to a record high Monday, while the broader market struggled, as jitters about Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy meeting overshadowed falling oil prices and merger news.
Rosemary Clooney hated "Come On-a My House," one of her biggest hits. John Lennon loathed the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da." Parisians rioted at the first performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring."
John Lennon had a new song. It was a droning, trippy affair with lyrics adapted from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he knew exactly what he wanted.
One of my colleagues dropped by recently and asked me if I'd heard the news about "Friends."
Yoko Ono paid a rare public homage to her late husband on Thursday as scores of others lit candles, played songs and shared their memories of John Lennon.
New York and Liverpool -- two cities forever associated with John Lennon -- are the focal points for bittersweet celebrations of the life and death of the former Beatle.
In 1964, a 21-year-old radio reporter bluffed his way into the official entourage of the first U.S. concert tour by the Beatles. Forty years later, he's still talking about it.
In the notes to his biography "The Beatles," author Bob Spitz quotes Napoleon: "History is a set of lies agreed upon."
There were 230,591,913 books published in the United States in 2005, and 49,489,101 albums issued -- increases of 4 percent and 3 percent over 2004, respectively.
Trunk Ltd. is already a secret weapon for celebs who want "vintage" band T-shirts with a modern fit. Why let them steal the show? The shirts are handmade replicas of classic concert T's--from an ic...
Wax busts of three Beatles used on the "Sgt. Pepper's" album cover have sold at auction for £81,500 ($145,380).
Long before anyone was called "the fifth Beatle," Cynthia Powell could rightfully have claimed the title for her own.
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney says he will stand by his brother after he was accused of groping a waitress.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Rolling Stones have fully embraced the digital music bandwagon. Is it time for the Beatles to do the same?
Sixty-five years after John Lennon's birth, items from the late Beatle's childhood will go on display at his former Liverpool home.
Michael Jackson's future turned a lot brighter Monday when a California jury found him not guilty of child molestation. But the embattled entertainer has a long way to go to reclaim his financial freedom.
Michael Jackson may have earned more than half a billion dollars over his career, but now he's having trouble paying the bills -- and his lenders say the pop star's entire fortune is at risk.
Guilty or not guilty, Michael Jackson appears to be sinking deeper and deeper into a financial hole that may cost him his lucrative stake in the Beatles music catalog as well as the rights to his own platinum-selling songs.
Michael Jackson, the legendary pop star facing child molestation charges, could lose his stake in the lucrative Beatles music catalog as well as the rights to his own platinum-selling songs.
In the predawn darkness of a Saturday in 2003, neurosurgeon Henry Perowne looks out the upper-story windows of his enviably grand London home and sees a burning plane streak across the sky: ''Above the usual deep and airy roar is a straining, choking banshee sound growing in volume -- both a scream and a sustained shout, an impure, dirty noise.''
It's March 1964 and Beatlemania is inescapable.
The children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song "Strawberry Fields Forever" is to close.
If you're looking for a gift with soul, no problem.
Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
When Paul McCartney heard the Beach Boys' 1966 album "Pet Sounds," so the story goes, his reaction was, "This is the album of all time. What can we do to top it?"
I turned 40 the other day. You may have missed the news, since no one bothered to write about it.
In 1957, as the gritty sounds of rock 'n' roll started filling the airwaves, two teens named John and Paul met for the first time just outside the industrial English town of Liverpool, trading riffs and setting the stage for a musical revolution.
Paul McCartney returned to Madrid for the first time in 15 years and wowed fans with 33 songs, all but 10 of them Beatles' tunes.
Peter Smith tried everything. He played catch. He read books. He tried music.
It was 40 years ago today.
Their work finds the Beatles at the beginning and the end.
The Beatles arrived in America with wits blazing. Here are some excerpts from the group's press conference at New York's Kennedy Airport, February 7, 1964:
It was all in the future then.
I don't know, maybe it's Yoko Ono's fault again. How else can you explain the ludicrous two-decade legal tiff between the Beatles' record label and the little maverick computer operation Steve Jobs...
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