It will never cease to be truly amazing how, more than 50 years after the band broke up, The Beatles are still as relevant as ever. Finding new generations of fans, garnering global headlines, dominating pop culture, and so much more. Surviving bassist Paul McCartney, for example, turns 80 this year and is about to …
As a lifelong Beatles fan, as someone who’s seen Paul McCartney in concert three times and (literally) bumped elbows with Ringo in Los Angeles right before the pandemic, director Peter Jackson’s new three-part The Beatles: Get Back docuseries on Disney+ is a treat of the highest order for fans. One that’s so good, it’s almost …
It’s gone down in Beatles lore as one of the great what-ifs of all time. After the band turned down one promoter after another offering millions of dollars, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels came so close to finally convincing the Beatles to reunite — well, two of them anyway: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. …
Later this year, director Peter Jackson is going to re-write the ending to one of the greatest breakup stories in music history, charting the end of one of (if not the) biggest rock band of all time. Fans of The Beatles have been waiting for years, wondering whether the long-gestating effort to finally give a …
To coincide with the release of his new album Egypt Station tomorrow, former Beatle Paul McCartney has been teasing details on social media of a “secret” gig he’s planning in New York City that’s set for tomorrow night. In keeping with a kind of freewheeling experimentation with technology that’s characterized his later years and recent …
The music world today is mourning legendary producer George Martin, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 90. Martin was often referred to as the “fifth Beatle” for his contributions to the arrangements of the group’s songs. Although Martin was always very modest about his contributions to the Beatles’ success, there is no doubt …
The Beatles used a webpage that looks like it was designed in the late 1990s to announce their arrival in the twenty-first century. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. local time on December 24th in every time zone around the world, a huge portion of The Beatles’ catalog will be available to stream on nine different services. In …
Last Tuesday, years of negotiations between Apple, Inc., Apple Corp and EMI finally culminated in the widely publicized arrival of The Beatles’ catalog in Apple’s iTunes music store. For those involved, the wait was worth it. Apple announced Tuesday that The Beatles sold over 2 million individual songs and over 450,000 albums during the band’s …
I don’t want to grow up, but even if I did, I still would be a…can you hear it in your head now? Good. Toys R Us has released a few of their steals and deals for the fast approaching Black Friday, and some of them aren’t half bad. TRU will be offering a BOGOHO …
Taking a step in the right direction, sorta, MySpace is going to be offering loads of free music starting September 25. Technically, it isn’t really going to be free since it will likely be plastered with ads from the likes of McDonald’s, Sony, Toyota and so on. Still, it’s a pretty cool idea: You get …
