The beatles News
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A customized Vox guitar played by Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, each now deceased, was sold at auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square on Saturday, May 18. Billboard reports that the guitar sold for $408,000, double the price expected.
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Freda Kelly, who was the secretary to The Beatles, is the centerpiece of a new documentary film. In the movie she reveals life in the inner sanctum of the band.
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Plans to erect a statue of George Harrison in the town of Henley-on-Thames have been abandoned because it might attract 'the wrong type of fan'.
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Adele's album '21' has moved into fourth place on the UK's list of best selling albums, pushing Oasis down by one. Queen remain at the top of the chart.
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A new, comic-book style book offers a new, creative take on the history of The Beatles. Combining history with comics, creator Herve Bourhis has fashioned a fascinatingly visual take on the story of the Fab Four.
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Toronto -
Long before The Beatles were famous, they cut their creative teeth in the gritty clubs of Hamburg, Germany. A new musical based on the 1994 movie explores this time, and the complex relationship between John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe.
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Sydney -
Swedish Spotify.com is a site which allows you to stream music ad-free. It pays a small amount of royalties to the record companies, and artists are the last thing on anyone’s minds. The launch of Spotify has Australian musicians very annoyed.
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Reports suggest that thanks to Facebook, U2's frontman Bono has overtaken former Beatles Paul McCartney in accumulated wealth to make him the richest musician in the world.
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New York -
A new documentary film details the events that gave birth to Beatlemania and changed the North American music landscape.
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London -
A discarded piece of music - a guitar solo by George Harrison - recorded when The Beatles' 1969 hit, "Here Comes The Sun" was being rehearsed, has been discovered in Abbey Road studios.
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Backbeat portrays The Beatles struggles as they rose to fame, playing the clubs along Hamburg's Reeperbahn. Paul McCartney (Daniel Healy), George Harrison (Dan Westwick), Stuart Sutcliffe (Nick Blood), and John Lennon (Andrew Knott) played six hour sets and would repeat many popular rock tunes of the day.
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The beatles Blogs
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Layton was equally important as a politician and a humanitarian as Lennon was a musician and spokesman for an entire...
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