In early 1964, the British Invasion dominated American airwaves.
Vera Lynn, who made her name entertaining troops in World War II after recording her first song 70 years ago, has become the oldest living artist to have a number one album.
The fourth quarter of 2009 for the music and video game industries is shaping up to be all about the Beatles. And both could use some "Help!"
John, Paul, George and Ringo are getting the band back together, in a manner of speaking, with a new Beatles-themed video game and digital upgrade of the group's entire catalog both released Wednesday.
"Number nine. Number nine. Number nine."
The newly remastered Beatles box sets are a treat for a casual fan and a dream come true for die-hards.
Remastered versions of the Beatles catalogue will be released on Wednesday, giving listeners what the remaining members of "The Fab Four" say is the closest reproduction ever of how their music sounded in the studio.
The video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" is set to be released by Harmonix on Wednesday. Modeled on the already popular "Rock Band" game, and closely supervised by The Beatles and their estates, the game lets players sing and strum along to a huge list of Beatles classics over scenes ranging from Liverpool's Cavern Club to their final performance on a London rooftop.
Do you find yourself occasionally slipping into a Liverpudlian accent? Hankering after a pair of granny glasses? Arguing with your friends about the best Beatles songs of all time?
There I was, trying to wedge a microphone under my arm while simultaneously pressing colored buttons on a plastic guitar with my left hand, strumming it with my right hand and crooning, "I want to hold your hand ..."
In early 1964, the British Invasion dominated American airwaves.
Vera Lynn, who made her name entertaining troops in World War II after recording her first song 70 years ago, has become the oldest living artist to have a number one album.
The fourth quarter of 2009 for the music and video game industries is shaping up to be all about the Beatles. And both could use some "Help!"
John, Paul, George and Ringo are getting the band back together, in a manner of speaking, with a new Beatles-themed video game and digital upgrade of the group's entire catalog both released Wednesday.
"Number nine. Number nine. Number nine."
The newly remastered Beatles box sets are a treat for a casual fan and a dream come true for die-hards.
Remastered versions of the Beatles catalogue will be released on Wednesday, giving listeners what the remaining members of "The Fab Four" say is the closest reproduction ever of how their music sounded in the studio.
The video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" is set to be released by Harmonix on Wednesday. Modeled on the already popular "Rock Band" game, and closely supervised by The Beatles and their estates, the game lets players sing and strum along to a huge list of Beatles classics over scenes ranging from Liverpool's Cavern Club to their final performance on a London rooftop.
Do you find yourself occasionally slipping into a Liverpudlian accent? Hankering after a pair of granny glasses? Arguing with your friends about the best Beatles songs of all time?
There I was, trying to wedge a microphone under my arm while simultaneously pressing colored buttons on a plastic guitar with my left hand, strumming it with my right hand and crooning, "I want to hold your hand ..."
First the rumor went around that Michael Jackson was leaving the Beatles catalog to Paul McCartney in his will. Then the rumor was that McCartney was upset that Jackson didn't leave the Beatles catalog to the Beatle in his will.
Music manager Allen Klein, whose clients included the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, died Saturday after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease, his publicist said. Klein was 77.
They've revolutionized music for nearly five decades. Now, some of the Beatles songs are about to hit video-game consoles.
The souvenir booth at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival said it all.
George Harrison's closest friends and family gathered in Hollywood on Tuesday to dedicate the late Beatle's star on the Walk of Fame.
For fans of The Beatles, 09/09/09 will mark a new invasion.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite on stage next month to raise money to teach transcendental meditation to children around the world to "help provide them a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world," McCartney said.
They helped introduce the world to mop top haircuts, collarless jackets and yellow submarines -- now a British university is launching what it says is the world's first ever masters degree in the Beatles.
When John Lennon remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then "more popular than Jesus" his comments prompted outrage in the United States. But this weekend the Vatican's newspaper paid tribute to the band on the 40th anniversary of the release of the "White Album" in an article interpreted by some as a papal pardon for Lennon.
A "lost" Beatles track recorded in 1967 and performed just once in public could finally be released, according to Paul McCartney.
Sir Paul McCartney's concert offers Israeli boomers a costly consolation for the Beatles gig banned by the Jewish State in 1965
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale
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
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.
The '60s Fab Five lend their music to two quirky new movies. Richard Corliss is both bored and enthralled
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."
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...
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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."
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).
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.
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?"
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...
--RASH MOVE A study in Nature finds that one- and two-euro coins emit 250 times more nickel than E.U. standards allow--causing eczema in some people.
"Shake Some Action," by The Flamin Groovies, on Groovies' Greatest Grooves (Sire)
Chaplin, Lindbergh, and Sigmund Freud
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Christmas hurtles toward us at its usual menacing pace, and in self-defense I reach for the catalogues that pile up beneath my mailbox. As I leaf through them I have begun to notice a strange pheno...
As millions of compact-disk owners toss their old 45s and LP vinyl records, other consumers are snapping up those platters for a song. "Right now is the best time investors will ever have to search...
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! It wasn't cool to care about money in the '60s, but that shouldn't stop enterprising ex-hippies from making some bread off the relics of their peace- and-love past. You already know how lucrative...
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