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Double Fantasy: John Lennon meets Niagara Falls

By John Law, Niagara Falls Review

31 May, 2009

Noted Beatles nut GT O’Rourke no longer had to imagine what John

Lennon’s visit to Niagara Falls was like.

Also: Falls festival honours John, Yoko

Hamburg rebrands itself as Beatles City

By Roger Boyes, The Times

29 May, 2009

Hamburg, hit by declining tourism figures, is calling on the Beatles

to ease it through the crisis.

Also: Beatlemania on the Reeperbahn: The Beatles Return to Hamburg;

New Beatles museum opens in Hamburg; Hamburg — the city that

shaped the Beatles between 1960 and 1962; Hamburg, the City Where

the Beatles 'Grew Up'; 'Beatlemania' museum opens in Hamburg; Beatles

museum opens in Hamburg; New Beatles museum opens in Hamburg

(video)

Fans line up early for McCartney concert tickets

By Harry Sullivan, The Truro Daily News

29 May, 2009

They endured a long, cool night, slept in their cars (cat style, with

one-eye open) and waited impatiently with bated breath for the ticket

sales to begin.

Also: Paul McCartney tickets on sale today (thanks Yardena); Fans

snap up McCartney tickets for Halifax show; McCartney crazy; A date

with Paul

10 best early Beatles singles that weren't No. 1

By Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic

29 May, 2009

By May of 1964, the Beatles could have topped the Billboard charts with

almost anything.

Paul McCartney to be first artist to play New York's Citi Field

By Bob Grossweiner & Jane Cohen, Ticketnews (thanks Yardena)

29 May, 2009

TicketNews has learned through various reliable touring industry

executives that Paul McCartney will be the first artist to perform at Citi

Field in Flushing, NY.

John Lennon's personal life on display in new Beatles story

exhibition

By Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo

29 May, 2009

The story of how fame and family came together in John Lennon’s

personal life during the 1960s will be told in a new exhibition in

Liverpool.

The sadness in Yoko Ono’s latest work

By Rachel Spence, Financial Times

29 May, 2009

Before he died, John Lennon described his wife as the “world’s most

famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name but no one knows

what she actually does.”

Also: Yoko Ono's message of peace; Yoko Ono lines up star-studded

cast for new album; Ono's "I'm Not Getting Enough" Moves To #3 On

The Billboard Club Play Charts

Lecturer’s place in history thanks to passion for The Beatles

By Joanna Desira, Evening Gazette

28 May, 2009

A passion for The Beatles has led a lecturer to contribute to an

encyclopedia about the world’s best known band.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Montreal bed-in for peace was

40 years ago

By Nelson Wyatt, The Canadian Press

27 May, 2009

The hotel room where John Lennon and Yoko Ono created a watershed

moment for the peace movement at the height of the Vietnam War is a

little smaller now.

Also: John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibition gives peace a second

chance

Q&A: Peter McNamee

NOW Toronto

27 May, 2009

Peter McNamee’s low-budget indie pic Let Him Be follows two fictional

documentary filmmakers who discover a video clip that could show a

very alive-and-well John Lennon.

Also: Let Him Be; Imagine all the possibilities

Dhani Harrison on his new album, his father and The

Beatles: Rock Band (inc. audio)

By Joe Bosso, MusicRadar.com

26 May, 2009

Dhani Harrison is well aware of the effect he has on people, and he's

cool with it.

Also: The Beatles: Rock Band vs Guitar Hero 5 - who will win?

John, Paul, Kirk and Spock: The New Fab Four

Comic Book Movie

26 May, 2009

You may never have thought that there was a connection between

Star Trek and the Beatles, but Bob Orci, co-writer of the new Star

Trek film, explains that Lennon and McCartney inspired the

Kirk/Spock dynamic of the film.

McCartney & Dylan for summer duet?

Contactmusic

26 May, 2009

Music legends Bob Dylan and Sir Paul McCartney are set to delight

fans - the pair is reportedly making plans for a summer (09)

collaboration.

Also: Concert trucks to skirt Halifax Common: HRM spokeswoman

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Celebrates the 40th

Anniversary of John and Yoko's Bed-in

Art Daily

24 May, 2009

Forty years ago, on May 26, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono,

surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters, kicked off their

famous Bed-in for peace.

Also: Antony, Mark Ronson, Cornelius to Play in Yoko Ono's Plastic

Ono Band; Ballad of John and Jerry; John Lennon’s iron gift to his

beloved aunt is set to go under the hammer

Novice director just won't let it be

By Greg Quill, Toronto Star

24 May, 2009

Quest for Lennon turns into absorbing thriller

Pete Best, il "quinto" Beatles cacciato: «Ma ero meglio io di

Ringo»

Il Messaggero

24 May, 2009

Italian. Click HERE or THEREto translate it to English.

Paul McCartney, come to Yekaterinburg already!

Russia!

23 May, 2009

Now Yekaterinburg, an industrial city in the Ural mountains, has another

landmark besides the church which marks the place where the last

Russian tsar Nickolas the Second and his family were murdered, burned,

cut into pieces and dropped in a mine.

Also: The Beatles hit the Urals; Ekaterinburg opened Russia's first

monument to «Beatles» (translated by Google); The Beatles immortalized

in Russia (Google); In the center of Yekaterinburg opened monument

"Beatle" (Google); In Yekaterinburg, a sculpture of The Beatles (Google);

In Russia there monument group «The Beatles» (Google); A monument to

the Beatles in Yekaterinburg open! (Google, inc. pics)

Louisville hopes for economic 'HELP' from Beatles fans (video)

WHAS TV11 Louisville

22 May, 2009

Also: Abbey Road on the River kicks off today (video)

Dhani Harrison talks The Beatles: Rock Band

By Joe Bosso, MusicRadar.com

22 May, 2009

Game launch planned for E3 Expo

Sir Paul McCartney's house 'removed from Google Street View

after complaints'

Telegraph

22 May, 2009

Images of Sir Paul McCartney's London home have been removed from

Google's controversial Street View service after he made a complaint, it

has been disclosed.

Also: Hey! You’ve got to hide my house away.. (thanks Yardena); Artist's

helping hand from Beatle (thanks Yardena)

Lennon was nearly beaten up by magician Tommy Cooper,

says book

ANI

22 May, 2009

A new book has revealed that late Beatles member John Lennon was

nearly beaten up by 6ft 4in magician Tommy Cooper, after he made an

insulting remark about the latter’s wife Gwen.

Also: Exclusive Lennon-Ono honeymoon footage to be screened at

museum event; I Met The Walrus - Online; The Lennon-Ono bed-in: 40th

anniversary; Bed-in: 40th anniversary events

Five Fab flicks

By Joel Welin, Louisville Courier-Journal

22 May, 2009

Most everyone of a certain age knows "A Hard Day's Night," "Help!"

"Magical Mystery Tour," "Yellow Submarine" and "Let It Be," but let's

not overlook fave movies about the Fab Four that also are gear:

Renewed Beatlemania inspires theme for youth cabaret show

By Ashley Goodfellow, Walkertown Herald Times

22 May, 2009

Teen girls of today are fawning over ex-mop top Paul McCartney- it's true.

Man on the run — to Halifax

By Stephen Cooke, TheChronicleHerald.ca

21 May, 2009

Paul McCartney to play Commons July 11

Also: McCartney to play Halifax Commons

John Lennon Exhibition To Open In London

Music-News.com

21 May, 2009

An exhibition of John Lennon's artwork opens free to the public next week.

Also: Exhibition and concert in Liverpool will pay tribute to George

Harrison; Biggest collection of Beatle George Harrison memorabilia in

St George’s Hall

Beatles Rock Band Teases Ed Sullivan Set

By Kat Bailey, 1UP.com

20 May, 2009

Painstakingly modeled venue available for all to see along with release

date.

Book Review: Let It Be/Abbey Road: The Beatles (Classic Rock

Album Series) by Peter Doggett

By James A. Gardner, Blogcritics.org

20 May, 2009

At long last, the Beatles’ catalog is being upgraded for reissue later this

year.

Science helps unravel mystery of 'A Hard Day's Night'

By Neal Augenstein, wtop.com

20 May, 2009

Some songs can be identified by a single note -- even if you can't figure

out what that note is.

Julian Lennon admits to film concerns

By Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy

19 May, 2009

Julian Lennon has said that he has concerns about how his father John

will be portrayed in a new biopic.

Ringo Starr among celebrities for preview of Chelsea Flower

Show

By Alan Weston, Liverpool Echo

19 May, 2009

Former Beatle Ringo Starr was among a star-studded line-up who

attended a preview of the Chelsea Flower Show ahead of today?s

opening.

Quartet of titans: The Beatles and Slams

By Joel Drucker, ESPN.com

18 May, 2009

They were four icons that stood out from all the others and commanded

unparalleled attention, to the point where followers joyfully memorized

their grand moments to lengths far greater than all others.

John Lennon's Imagine rings out on Liverpool Cathedral bells

By Samantha Parker, Liverpool Daily Post

17 May, 2009

The song, which asks its listeners to "imagine there’s no heaven", was

played on Liverpool Cathedral’s bells as part of the North West’s

Futuresonic festival on Saturday.

Also: Toronto lawyer outlines day with Lennon in book, 'I Met the Walrus'

Paul McCartney's Cold Cuts and Hot Hits to be published ?

MaccaBlog

17 May, 2009

Paul McCartney has forever been teasing his fans with tales of an album

called "Cold Cuts and Hot Hits", which was going to be an album of songs

from throughout his solo recording career intersped with outtakes and

unused songs that fell by the wayside along the line.

His Kind of Shell-Shocked Town

By Anthony DeCurtis, The New York Times

16 May, 2009

As cutbacks loom in every sector of New York City’s economic life, the

specter of the 1970s, with all of its deprivations and depredations, seems

increasingly near as well.

Also: This dream is not over

The week in books

By Hunter Davies, The Guardian

16 May, 2009

It was 40 years ago today, more or less, that my book about the Beatles

first came out.

Ex-Beatle Asks Obama To Back Mideast Peace

Sky News

15 May, 2009

Sir Paul McCartney has written to the American President to ask him

to support an organisation which is working to restore peace in the

Middle East.

Also: Press release

Sheer audacity, for a cause: John and Yoko's Montreal bed-in

By Ian McGillis, The Gazette

15 May, 2009

It’s so tempting to dismiss it all with a superior retrospective shrug.

Forgotten Favorites: The Rutles

By Bill Melville, WNEW

15 May, 2009

For all their peculiar greatness, Spinal Tap were not the first "fictional"

rock band to effectively mock the genre.

Deconstructing Pop Culture: The Beatles’ Contract History

with Capitol Records

By David Kronemyer, Music Industry Newswire

15 May, 2009

First a little bit about Capitol Records, which released (most of) the

Beatles’ recorded musical work.

Roger McGough reads his poem about Beatles star Sir Paul

McCartney's trousers (video)

Liverpool Echo

15 May, 2009

Poet Roger McGough reads his poem about Sir Paul McCartney's

trousers, To Macca's Trousers, at National Museums Liverpool.

Also: Roger McGough writes poem about Beatles star Sir Paul

McCartney's pants

George Harrison in 1963 plea: stop throwing jelly babies at

the Beatles

By Simon de Bruxelles, The Times

14 May, 2009

Tom Jones is pelted with ladies' underwear.

Also: Full text of George Harrison's 1963 letter to fan Lynn Smith;

MINI to donate Beatles' inspired car to charity

David Lynch Foundation Television

By Alison Ostman, PopMatters

13 May, 2009

Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive. And now… DLF.TV.

Also: Change begins within coverage (videos); Change Begins Within

Benefit Concert Highlights (video)

John Lennon's NYC Life Memorialized In New Exhibit

(inc. video)

New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

12 May, 2009

He had a passion for music, art, film and politics. Now a new exhibit

showcases John Lennon's years in New York City.

Also: Yoko Ono Helps Rock Hall Explore John Lennon’s New York Years;

Yoko Ono unveils John Lennon exhibit in NYC; Tearful Yoko Ono talks

about John Lennon exhibit; Lennon's NYC Years on Exhibit; Ono

Continues To Ignite Dancefloors & The Billboard Club Play Charts; Music

legend Bob Dylan visits home of John Lennon; Yoko Ono's new John

Lennon exhibition features the bloody clothes worn on the night he was shot;

John Lennon's New York life reborn in SoHo expo; Ono unveils Lennon

exhibition in NY (video); Tearful Yoko Ono still haunted by Lennon's

death (video); pics

Paul McCartney may announce Halifax concert date: sources

By Philip Croucher, Metro Canada

12 May, 2009

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney may rock it out in Halifax this summer.

Also: Paul McCartney's Rock Band Bass Replica Looks Like This (thanks

Yardena); Paul McCartney's Rock Band Höfner bass gets pictured, lacks

genuineness (thanks Yardena); Waiting For ... Paul McCartney

Beatles Day officially launched

BBC

12 May, 2009

The second Beatles Day has been officially launched by John Lennon's

sister Julia Baird with Merseyside actor and comedian Ricky Tomlinson.

Also: John Lennon's sister launches Beatles day

Beatles poster captures woman's passion

By Jeff Korbelik, Lincoln Journal Star

11 May, 2009

When Susan Martin was 13, she came across a Beatles poster she sorely

wanted at Kresge’s in downtown Lincoln.

McCartney: I wanna be your man!

By Lynne Greaves, Sunday Express

10 May, 2009

Sir Paul McCartney and his new love Nancy Shevell have sealed their love

by getting engaged – but they don’t want to make an official announcement

in case the happy moment is hijacked by his former wife Heather Mills.

Too old to rock?

By Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune

10 May, 2009

Let's first acknowledge that we've moved well beyond the irony of "I hope

I die before I get old" and the fact that the Who's Pete Townshend, who

wrote the lyric, did get old, though his band's drummer didn't.

Denny Laine's Musical Journey (inc. audio)

WKSU Kent State University

9 May, 2009

Former Wings and Moody Blues member discusses his career

When John and Yoko gave peace a chance

The Times

9 May, 2009

It’s 40 years since the global antiwar anthem Give Peace a Chance was

created during John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s celebrated bed-in.

Also: Author Twitters As She Writes Second Novel About John Lennon;

The mixed-up boy who would join Sgt. Pepper's band; Cathedral plays

Lennon's Imagine

Days Like Those

By Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

8 May, 2009

Walking up Mercer Street toward the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex

NYC the other day, Yoko Ono and her assistant, Amanda Keeley, shared

a quick giggle after passing a group of men unloading a van and then hearing,

from about five feet behind them (and for the third time in a short stroll),

“Hey, that was Yoko Ono.”

A1 Team Great Britain Links With The Beatles Day Foundation

PaddockTalk

8 May, 2009

The annual Beatles Day, which takes place on 10th July is an opportunity for

people to show their love for the Beatles and raise money for local worthy

causes in and around the Liverpool area.

George Harrison's clarion call

By Dorothy Graham, Globe and Mail

8 May, 2009

Bob Geldof did indeed contribute to celebrity altruism, but the true originator

of the superstar concert was George Harrison, 14 years earlier (The Songs,

They Are A-Changing - Review, May 6).

Legendary Guitar: ‘Lucy’, George Harrison’s Well-Traveled

Crimson Les Paul

By Jerry McCulley, Gibson.com

7 May, 2009

During the height of mid-’60s Beatlemania, the guitars most frequently

associated with George Harrison on tour and TV/film appearances were the

Gretsch Country Gentleman, Rickenbacker 360/12 and the Epiphone Casino

that both he and John Lennon wielded on their final 1966 world tour and

sessions for the epochal Sgt. Pepper’s album.

Unseen pics of ex-Beatle John and Yoko to be shown

By Jamie Bowman, Click Liverpool

7 May, 2009

An exhibition of photographs - many of them previously unseen are to go on

show in Liverpool to mark the 40th anniversary of the famous Montreal

Bed-In for Peace on 26th May 1969.

Also: Lennon Art on Display in Georgetown (inc. video); Beatles museum

commemorates famous ‘Bed-In’

My year in the life of The Beatles - Hunter Davies

News & Star

7 May, 2009

To millions of people in the 1960s it sounded like the best job on earth:

spend a year with The Beatles at the height of their powers.

Also: Such a lovely audience for The Beatles; George Harrison unpublished

lyrics on show at British Library; Commentary: George Harrison lyric seems

to reflect adolescent self-pity; Previously unseen George Harrison lyrics go

on show alongside Beatles memorabilia

McCartney is a good samaritan

Contactmusic

6 May, 2009

Sir Paul McCartney came to the rescue of a woman outside his daughter's

school after her car was blocked in a parking lot.

Also: Norwegian fishing boss urges McCartney boycott over seal trade ban;

Pandora: We can work it out, says Dylan of Macca tie-up (thanks Yardena);

1st Night Photos: Sting & McCartney Get to Godot; Celebrate World Fair

Trade Day with Sir Paul McCartney & Annie Lennox

Beatles and Stones: Like You Never Saw Them Before

Aidin Vaziri, Gibson.com

6 May, 2009

The Not Fade Away Gallery in New York is showing previously unpublished

photos of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as part of an exhibit called

“The British Are Coming.”

Press release

PR Newswire

5 May, 2009

Capitol/EMI confirms the tracklist for George Harrison's first-ever career-

spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison.

Rock Band: New Rickenbacker and Gretsch guitars unveiled

By Dale North, Destructoid

5 May, 2009

Harmonix sends word that replica Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet

guitars will be made available for the release of The Beatles: Rock Band,

set to release on September 9th, 2009.

Yoko Ono To Perform With The Plastic Ono Band

By Paul Cashmere, Undercover Music News

5 May, 2009

In the early 70s. John Lennon classics such as `Instant Karma`, `Power

To The People` and `Give Peace A Chance` were credited as the Plastic

Ono Band.

Also: Yoko Ono offered key to the city; Why Lennon and Ono weren't

deported for anti-war activities

Russian city to unveil Beatles monument

The Hindu

5 May, 2009

The city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals, situated on the border of Europe and

Asia, is all set to witness the unveiling function of the first monument of the

legendary Beatles ahead of BRIC and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

(SCO) summits next month.

Dylan wants to team up with McCartney

By Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic

4 May, 2009

Bob Dylan says he'd like to write with Paul McCartney, which we're pretty

sure would constitute the most historic team-up in the history of rock and roll.

Also: Islam cuts McCartney detention song from album

Exhibit celebrates Lennon-Ono date in Montreal

By Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times

3 May, 2009

John Lennon had no spare change.

The Scoop on Tiny Tim and The Beatles, According to Mister

Bucks Burnett!

By John G. Kays, The Student Operated Press

3 May, 2009

Wind up your gramophones, folks, and put a delightful Tiny Tim 78 RPM

record on or play this above ditty, first done by Maurice Chevalier for the

movie The Pond in 1930.

Why George Harrison faked the other Beatles' autographs

The Lowestoft Journal

1 May, 2009

Beatle George Harrison turned master forger to fake the autographs of John,

Paul and Ringo - in order to give a dying girl the biggest thrill of her short life,

experts believe.

Also: George Harrison Let It Roll Tracklisting Revealed; Dylan Covers

Harrison in Liverpool (inc. video); George signed Beatles photo sold

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