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Pinched-Nez
By Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post
31 March, 2001
Who keeps swiping John Lennon's glasses?
 
Madonna And McCartney For Farm-Aid?
Music365
30 March, 2001
Madonna and farm owner Paul McCartney are being lined up to play a farm-aid festival
organised by Glastonbury lynchpin Michael Eavis.
 
Save A Piece Of Beatles History
Liverpool Echo (thanks to Bob Gilmartin)
29 March, 2001
The Beatles Story Museum says it will consider saving a piece of Fab Four history from the
scrapheap.
 
Coming home
This Is West Essex
29 March, 2001
Neil Innes readily admits he has "a certain visibility problem" these days.
 
Dr Ono
Dotmusic
29 March, 2001
Yoko Ono, the widow of murdered Beatle John Lennon, is being given a honorary degree by
Liverpool university.
 
Royle Family's Anthony to play Beatle George
Ananova
29 March, 2001
Ralf Little is taking a lead role in a play about The Beatles.
 
Dotmusic Gets Brand New Boots & Panties
Dotmusic
28 March, 2001
Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Sinead O'Connor and a host of stars are featured in a new
dotmusic feature site launched today
 
Lennon's Luxury Limo Fails To Reach Auction Asking Price
Sky News
28 March, 2001
John Lennon's made-to-order luxury limo has failed to reach its asking price of £200,000 at an
auction in London.
Also: Baby you can buy my car!
 
Queen's head stamps its mark on charity sale
Ananova
28 March, 2001
The original version of the world's most replicated image - the Queen's head used on postage
stamps - has been sold at a charity auction.
 
Curtain Call For Beatles Stage
By Joe Riley, Liverpool Echo
27 March, 2001
It's the place where the greatest musical partnership of the 20th Century was forged.
 
Lennon's stretch limo goes on sale
Ananova
27 March, 2001
John Lennon's pride and joy, his made-to-order limousine, is being auctioned off after a
£200,000 facelift.
 
Madonna turned into a computer icon
Ananova
26 March, 2001
Fans of Madonna can have a computer icon of the singer in the nude.
 
Harrison Knifeman Free To Roam Around
Sunday Mirror
25 March, 2001
EXCLUSIVE: Deranged attacker's outings from secure unit
 
How the Beatles nearly split up before they began
By Nick Fielding, The Sunday Times
25 March, 2001
One of the greatest partnerships in musical history nearly split up within weeks of John Lennon
and Paul McCartney first meeting each other, according to an original member of Lennon's first
band.
Also: A Beatle's boyhood
 
Heather Road
Daily Record
24 March, 2001
So guess what has attracted Paul to pounds 2.5m home?
 
Ravi's girl
By Peter Huck, Electronic Telegraph
24 March, 2001
It was not until he was in his 60s that Ravi Shankar had his daughter, Anoushka. Now he's
teaching her everything he knows.
 
Beladies prohibited from making money on Falkland tour
Mercopress News Agency
23 March, 2001
It has transpired that this week's visit to the Falklands by the Argentine all-female group Beladies,
who sing only Beatles songs, was nearly called off at the last moment as the fear of commercialism
was being expressed within the Falklands Government.
 
Paul McCartney
By Lew Baxter, The Guardian
23 March, 2001
Billed as an evening with playwright Willy Russell and friends, this event deteriorated into a
media circus for the launch of Paul McCartney's new career as a poet.
 
Beatles 'brought down communists'
BBC
23 March, 2001
Acclaimed Czech director Milos Forman has said the Beatles brought down the communism
that caused him to spend most of his life in the US.
 
Rare cartoon sketches up for auction
Ananova
23 March, 2001
Sketches by some of the world's most famous animators are to be auctioned off for charity.
 
Poetic McCartney takes a bow
BBC
21 March, 2001
Sir Paul McCartney has made his debut as a performance poet in his home city of Liverpool.
Also: McCartney draws crowds on book-signing visit home, Sir Paul's poems 'rock',
Former Beatle turns poet
 
Popstars group get ex-Beatle's backing
Ananova
21 March, 2001
Sir Paul McCartney has given his backing to Hear'Say of TV's Popstars - saying he wished them
the best luck in the world.
 
Fab Four musical opens in West End in May
Ananova
21 March, 2001
The new Beatles musical, All You Need Is Love, will open at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury
Avenue, at the end of May.
 
Macca and the muse
By John Burnside, The Scotsman
19 March, 2001
Blackbird Singing by Paul McCartney (Faber, £14.99)
 
McCartney reads in Liverpool, for better or verse
Ananova
19 March, 2001
Sir Paul McCartney will give the first rendition of his poems this week as a guest at an event in
his home city, Liverpool.
Also: McCartney to give first poetry reading
 
Beatles Top of the Pops in Memorabilia
By Paul Majendie, Reuters
19 March, 2001
The Beatles are top of the pops in the rock memorabilia market but watch out for Eminem's
chainsaw -- it could be the most valuable lot one day.
 
Fans to play at the Cavern
The Citizen
19 March, 2001
The Beatles may be long gone but few can deny their music lives on.
 
At last, Paul McCartney gets to meet his suffragette
By Stewart Dalby, The Guardian
17 March, 2001
Avid collectors will haggle over the price of classic cigarette cards and old postcards this week
 
Roll over, Andrew Motion
By Michael Horovitz, The Guardian
17 March, 2001
Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965 - 1999
Paul McCartney, ed Adrian Mitchell
190pp, Faber, £14.99
Also: The long and winding ode
 
Elton heads star line-up for music awards
Ananova
17 March, 2001
Elton John is heading a list of top-flight entertainers at an eve of St Patrick's Day music awards
event in Dublin aimed at raising IR£170,000 for an Aids charity.
 
Jacko and Yoko want to bring Yellow Submarine to stage
Ananova
16 March, 2001
Yoko Ono and Michael Jackson are joining forces to help bring the Beatles' 1968 cartoon
feature Yellow Submarine to the stage.
 
Sir Elton's first band reunite at Cavern Club
Ananova
16 March, 2001
Surviving members of Sir Elton John's first band are reforming after 33 years to play the Cavern
Club.
 
Beatles Win Japan's Gold Disc Award
By Steve McClure, Billboard
15 March, 2001
The Beatles (Toshiba/EMI) won the international artist of the year on the strength of the top-selling
"1" greatest hits album at the Recording Industry Association Of Japan's 15th annual Gold Disc
Awards ceremony in Tokyo this week.
 
miss truth
Allstar news
15 March, 2001
Who knew that Paul McCartney was a Cult fan?
 
Howard Jones, Sheila E., Greg Lake Join Ringo's All-Starr Band
By Rob Kemp, VH1
15 March, 2001
Ringo Starr, the hardest-working ex-Beatle in show business, will hit the road this summer with
a brand-new lineup of his All-Starr Band.
 
Argentina's Beatles prepare to conqueror the Falklands.
Mercopress News Agency
15 March, 2001
The young and not-so-young world of the Falklands music and dance scene is preparing itself
for an historic first ever visit to the Islands by an Argentine music group.
 
Stella McCartney's Chloe label grows up
By Jess Cartner-Morle, The Guardian
15 March, 2001
Other British designers in Paris have been busy falling out with their employers so badly as to get
their own shows cancelled (McQueen), or creating catwalk drama with boxing gloves, skipping
ropes and giant Peruvian hats (Galliano). Stella McCartney has been applying herself to what we
might like to wear.
Also: Stella keeps Hollywood hot for Chloe, McCartney Comes Good For Girly Girls,
Fall 2001: Chlo? feels Stella's heat
 
Dead rich
By David Paul, MegaStar
14 March, 2001
When you're as famous as Elvis Presley and John Lennon even death doesn't stop you making
money.
 
Mccartney Back To Basics
Reuters
14 March, 2001
Stella McCartney went back to basics with a ready-to-wear collection for Chloe that shunned
gimmicks to focus on the impeccable tailoring she learned on London's Savile Row.
 
Wall of fame marks city's catalogue of hits
Ananova
14 March, 2001
A city steeped in pop history is paying tribute to its very own chart-toppers with a wall of fame.
 
Idle plans Rutles sequel
Ananova
12 March, 2001
Former Python Eric Idle is working on a sequel to his spoof documentary The Rutles.
Also: Meet 'The Rutles': Eric Idle's Sendup Is Honored
 
Sir Paul and EMI in right royalties row
By Graeme Beaton, Mail on Sunday
11 March, 2001
Multi-millionaire Sir Paul McCartney is in dispute with music giant EMI - over a few thousand
pounds.
 
Yoko Ono Talks Art at Exhibit
Associated Press
10 March, 2001
Peering over her trademark dark glasses, Yoko Ono waxed enigmatic about her art and her
future as she opened an exhibit of her work at the Walker Art Center.
 
McCartney Spreads His Wings With New Releases
Billboard
9 March, 2001
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed exclusively to Billboard details of several upcoming projects.
 
Rutles Tribute!
Mojo
9 March, 2001
Eric Idle's affectionate Beatles spoof, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, is to be honoured
tonight by LA's Museum of TV and Radio.
Also: Rutles Invasion Comes to Paley
 
Movie theater offering a 'Night' to remember
By Brad Barnes, Ledger-Enquirer.com
9 March, 2001
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been searching all over town for a copy of a seminal
Beatles movie.
 
Looking for some celebrity support
This is Swindon
9 March, 2001
Prince Charles and celebrities Sting, Sir Paul McCartney and Jonathan Dimbleby are about to
become involved in the protest against Swindon Borough Council's controversial Front Garden
development.
 
Stars to record tribute to Sun Records
JAM Showbiz
8 March, 2001
An impressive lineup of rock legends and stars has signed on to record a tribute album to Sun
Records -- the label that launched the career of Elvis Presley.
 
Beatles, OLP top Cdn. certifications
By Paul Cantin, JAM! Showbiz
8 March, 2001
Diamonds are The Beatles, and Our Lady Peace's, best friend.
Both The Beatles' "Beatles 1" and OLP's "Clumsy" have been certified as diamond
albums, representing one million records shipped to retailers in Canada, the Canadian
Recording Industry Association announced.
 
Beatles Exam Cards Auctioned
Mojo
8 March, 2001
London-based auction house Phillips are to sell exam cards belonging to Paul McCartney
and George Harrison, from their entrance exam to the Liverpool Institute secondary school.
 
Paul, the paperback poet
By Erica Wagner, The Times (Thanks to Bob Gilmartin)
7 March, 2001
Try reciting the words to Yellow Submarine with a straight face. You just can't do it, says Erica
Wagner
 
Tabloid Hell - March 7
NME
7 March, 2001
"Is Sir Paul auditioning for Oasis?" asks a flabbergasted Daily Mail this morning (March 7).
 
McCartney Cyclers Accused of Fraud
Associated Press
6 March, 2001
The disbanded Linda McCartney cycling team has been accused of giving false financial
documents to the sport's governing body.
 
Lot It Be...
Sunday Mirror
4 March, 2001
The oak table from the register office in which Beatle George Harrison and ex-wife Patti Boyd
were married in Surrey is expected to fetch pounds 1,000 at auction next month.
 
Bowie Puts Himself Forward For Festival
dotmusic
3 March, 2001
David Bowie has taken the unprecedented step of inviting himself to take part in this year's
Hays Festival in Wales.
 
Anti-fab four T-shirts
fuk fashion news
2 March, 2001
Fashionistas have fallen in love with Burro's new 'I Hate The Beatles' digitised print T-shirts.
 
Tom Cruise Is Most Powerful Celeb, Says Forbes Mag
Reuters
2 March, 2001
Movie actor Tom Cruise, the star of ''Jerry Maguire'' and ``Mission: Impossible,'' was named the
most powerful celebrity in the world on Thursday by the business magazine Forbes.
 
Attention: Toronto Beatle Fans
ChartAttack
1 March, 2001
Beatlemania's back?
And it's not just the overwhelming popularity of the Beatles 1album. The release of the
highly successful book, The Beatles Anthology, will be celebrated by a special, private
screening of A Hard Day's Night in Toronto.
 
 
 
 
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