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Here are links to the latest Beatles-related articles available online:

Beatles Concert Tape on eBay

By Robert Gordon, Rolling Stone

31 January, 2003

1966 performance catches band on final tour

The Beatles go on

By Alison Gray, The Scotsman

31 January, 2003

The Beatles never reformed after their split in 1970, despite intense pressure from both

management and their fans, but the same may not be true of the original fanzine dedicated

to the Fab Four.

Turbonegro use 5th Beatle

Kerrang!

31 January, 2003

Turbonegro, the recently reformed Norwegian rockers, have commissioned artist Klaus

Voormann to design their next album sleeve.

Beatles tribute band overcomes skeptics with vintage equipment, suits and

left-handed bass playing

By Kim Shipman, The Oklahoma Daily

31 January, 2003

When Carl Rath and Eldon Matlick bought tickets for a 1964. . .The Tribute concert at the

Civic Center over ten years ago, these OU School of Music professors had no idea they were

about to see what George Harrison's sister, Louise, later called "the No. 1 Beatles show

anywhere on the planet."

On These Sad And Serious Notes – Candidly Speaking

By Irene Sandiford-Garner, Barbados Daily Nation

31 January, 2003

I am on a sad and serious note this week.

Back in the USA - Paul McCartney

By Chris Mirams, Stuff

31 January, 2003

Blatant marketing has always been a turn-off as it invariably means an over-sell and

disappointment.

KOCH Entertainment Proudly Announces the March 25 Release Of Ringo

Starr's Ringo Rama

PRNewswire

30 January, 2003

Ultimately what's most impressive about Ringo Starr isn't what he's been, but rather who

he is.

Yeah... Yeah... Yeah! I Backed The Beatles

By Ben Bentley, This is Staffordshire

30 January, 2003

Of all things, it was the jelly babies that told '60s singer Gerry Levene that The Beatles

would soon be the biggest group in the world.

Give city a memorial to George

By Clare Usher, Liverpool Echo

30 January, 2003

Liverpool faces a race with Henley-upon-Thames to build the first permanent memorial

to Beatle George Harrison.

At the Apple's Core: The Beatles from the Inside - Denis O'Dell

By Karl du Fresne, Stuff

30 January, 2003

As the title indicates, this book is touted as an intimate insider's view of the Beatles.

The real Lady McCartney

By Sinead Desmond, The Sun

30 January, 2003

Stella McCartney seemed to be addicted to suits – but now she has shown a glitzy and

glamorous new side.

Also: Stella Gets Tied Up; Stella's studio

Bus lets students imagine

By Kirsten Singleton, Winona Daily News

29 January, 2003

Winona Senior High School students no longer have to imagine a perfect world.

New Beatles "Let It Be" Due

By John Harris, Rolling Stone

29 January, 2003

Apple Records to release a stripped-down version of the 1970 LP

Also: The Beatles' Buried Treasure; New Beatles 'Let It Be' coming

Sir Paul gets back

By Emma Gunby, Liverpool Echo

29 January, 2003

When Sir Paul McCartney made an impromptu visit to the Cavern in 1968 he made the owner

promise not to tell the press.

Yoko Motion

By Carla Spartos, The Village Voice

29 January, 2003

Yoko Ono is now as old as your grandmother. So why is she still so controversial within the

famously tolerant dance community?

Limit on Lennon house visitors

Liverpool Echo

29 January, 2003

A limit of 90 people a day will be set for visitors to the childhood home of Beatle John Lennon.

George Harrison – Brainwashed

By Julian Agius, Malta Star

28 January, 2003

Posthumous albums are never a thing to look forward to in the music business.

Live Beatles gig re-released

By Scott Faulkner, Liverpool Echo

28 January, 2003

A Controversial live Beatles album is being re-released, after more than 40 years.

Clapton, Willie Join Ringo

By Andrew Dansby, Rolling Stone

27 January, 2003

Ringo Starr will release a new solo album, Ringo Rama, in March. The record features

guest spots by Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Willie Nelson, Van Dyke Parks, Shawn

Colvin, the Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit and legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden.

Also: Ringo Album To Feature Guests & Harrison Tribute

Now the PC brigade have their digits on the past

By Cass Avery, The New Zealand Herald

27 January, 2003

The cover of the Beatles 1969 Abbey Road album is pretty dull really: four guys strolling

across the pedestrian crossing on Abbey Rd in North London.

Forgotten Beatles photographs to go on display

Ananova

27 January, 2003

An exhibition of forgotten Beatles photographs worth around £1.4 million is due to open

this spring in Liverpool.

The RC-Files

By Bill Brioux, Toronto Sun (last paragraph)

27 January, 2003

ALSO TONIGHT: Beginning at 9 p.m., Star! has a treat for Beatle fans.

The ballad of Paul and Yoko

By Gilbert Garcia, Salon

27 January, 2003

Think they buried the hatchet? Think again.

Band member gets Paul's method down pat

By Darrell Laurant, The News Advance

26 January, 2003

"What Tommy has done, in this short time, is just amazing," Ed Embry said recently.

Beatlemania was born in Dundee

By Kathryn Mainds, Sunday Post

26 January, 2003

Forty years ago this month, a relatively-unknown pop group called The Beatles played their

first tour of Scotland for a mere £40 a night.

Rockin' the museum

By David Mannweiler, Indianapolis Star

26 January, 2003

'Amazing Music Studio' exhibit at The Children's Museum is for music-lovers of all ages.

Field Dreams Of Record Books

By Philip Key, Daily Post

Inventor Roger Field had a bright idea for a folding guitar.

Fashion guru Stella McCartney to buy Cong home?

By Denise Horan, Western People (Ireland)

22 January, 2003

Cong, which has played host to many famous guests in the past, may soon have a celebrity

resident.

Also: Jerry Hall Among A-List Guests At London's South Bank Awards

Engelbert Humperdinck's DEFINITION OF LOVE Pays Homage to The

Beatles Amid New Recordings of Classics and Contemporary Love Songs

by the King Of Romance

PRNewswire

22 January, 2003

In 1967, Engelbert Humperdinck's rendition of "Release Me" kept The Beatles' "Penny

Lane" from reaching the coveted #1 slot in the U.K.

Beatles no longer fag four

Sky News

21 January, 2003

Abbey Road, the classic Beatles album, has seen its cover fall victim to the latest digital

photo techniques.

Also: Beatles Abbey Road cigarette airbrushed (thanks, Diane)

Jane Asher: Domestic goddess

By Deborah Ross, Independent

20 January, 2003

Jane Asher has moved seamlessly from Sixties poppet on the arm of Paul McCartney to

21st-century 'superbitch' in the newly relaunched Crossroads.

Stone accuses Beatle of bowing to terror

By Paul Stewart, Daily Telegraph (Australia)

19 January, 2003

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has criticised former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney

for calling off an Australian tour because of the Bali bombings.

Beatles tribute benefits scholarship fund

By Maria Kardos, Hernando Today

19 January, 2003

Members of the Hernando Performing Arts Center Guild recently added to the gaiety of

the evening when they donned Beatle wigs to greet the audience at the first show of the

season, "Revolution, a Tribute to the Beatles."

A verey Beatlesque concert

Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal

18 January, 2003

Remember this? — ‘It’s two! Two! Two mints in one!’ No?

Rock Fans to Bid for Rare Lennon/Jagger Recording

Reuters

18 January, 2003

If rock and roll fans could conjure up their dream recording date, it might be a jam

session between Beatle John Lennon and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.

Also: Mick And John Cook Up Hit; Lennon Jagger recording found

Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison by Marc Shapiro

Book Reporter

When a celebrity passes away, that passing seems to serve as permission for some

biographers to write about the dark side of the dearly departed.

Starstruck taxmen caught selling celebrity secrets

By Melissa Kite, The Times

16 January, 2003

The image of the tax collector took another dive yesterday when it emerged that bean

counters at the Inland Revenue spend their spare time snooping through champagne and

caviar receipts of the rich and famous.

Yoko Ono Interview

By Laura Waskin, The Desert Sun

15 January, 2003

With or without The Beatles, John Lennon was a powerful and creative force to be reckoned

with.

Getting better all the time, McCartney has staying power

The East Carolinian

14 January, 2003

As the Beatles go, Paul McCartney was always known as the cute one. But maybe we've

been selling him short all these years. Maybe he's also the wise one.

Also: Rocking For Your Rights; Paul McCartney: Back in the US

Fandom of the pop era

By Bob Stanley, The Times

14 January, 2003

Fanzines come and go - farewell then, Beatles Monthly - but they have always been vital

to the music

Beatles fans exhale

By Terry Ott, The Toronto Star

14 January, 2003

Seized tapes not what was hoped, author says He's convinced they're the Get Back sessions

Also: Beatle Tapes (NPR - audio)

The best of farewells

By Lew Baxter, Daily Post

13 January, 2003

The mood could easily have turned mawkish as the Mersey Beat clans gathered at the

Philharmonic to deliver a musical farewell to Bob Wooler, the sharp-tongued former Cavern

disc jockey whom they all so obviously loved.

Live-in job at Lennon's home

Liverpool Echo

13 January, 2003

The National Trust has extended its search for a custodian for John Lennon's childhood home.

A Lorra Lorra Lolly

By Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman

12 January, 2003

Almost four decades ago, Brian Epstein dubbed a former Liverpool cloakroom attendant

the woman who ‘is going to be one of the biggest stars in this country for 30 or 40 years’.

Also: Paul & Ringo to help Cilla celebrate her Fab Forty

Helpful Perry imagines he's John Lennon

This is Hampshire

11 January, 2003

A music-loving councillor and taxi driver has added another string to his bow - as a John

Lennon impersonator.

Raids Recover Original Beatles Tapes

Associated Press (thanks to Douglas E Selky)

10 January, 2003

Police raids in England and the Netherlands on Friday recovered what could be about 500

original Beatles tapes that were stolen in the 1970s, including some never-released tracks.

Also: Beatles' bootleg haul found (thanks to Douglas E Selky); Lost Beatles Tapes Found?;

Did police come through bathroom window?; 5 Held In Beatles Tape Theft; Tapes of Beatles

are recovered; Tapes a Fab find; Beatlemania returns with ‘priceless’ haul; Seized Beatles

Tapes Are a Trove, if Familiar

A bash for Bob

By Lew Baxter, Daily Post (thanks to Joe Robinson)

10 January, 2003

Well over a decade after the Beatles had decamped from Liverpool, Pete Wylie and a new

breed of musicians, among their ranks Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch, were stomping around

Mathew Street forging an electrifying musical clique whose members would once again rule the

roost nationally.

Oversubscribed: Stella McCartney accessories

By Simon Chilvers, The Guardian

10 January, 2003

In recent months fur has experienced a revival, hitting its vile peak with the much publicised

news that Stella McCartney had seriously scolded Madge for wearing a coat made from

aborted lamb foetuses.

Heather Mills Wants A Fresh New Face

The National Enquirer

9 January, 2003

Heather Mills is 26 years younger than her husband Paul McCartney, but she's trying to make

herself look even younger, The ENQUIRER has learned.

Celebs Kick Off New Year By Healing Rifts

Hello! (thanks, Diane)

9 January, 2003

Heather Mills has made a fresh bid to end the feud between herself and her stepdaughter,

Stella McCartney, by modelling one of the designer's dresses.

Also: McCartneys call truce (thanks, again, Diane); McCartney spin provides Red letter day

Charity concert

Liverpool Echo (thanks to Joe Robinson)

8 January, 2003

A charity concert is being held in memory of DJ Bob Wooler. Bob, famed for introducing the

Beatles, died last February at the age of 76.

'Down Under' applicant bids to run Lennon museum

Ananova (thanks, Diane)

8 January, 2003

A heritage charity seeking a custodian for the childhood home of John Lennon has received

an application from as far afield as Australia.

Also: Lennon fans want a place in history

At the Grammys, Springsteen Vs. Spring Chickens

By David Segal, Washington Post

8 January, 2003

It'll be the Boss vs. the Brat.

After a 40-year run, the Beatles' first fanzine folds

By David Charters, Daily Post (thanks to Joe Robinson)

7 January, 2003

For almost 40 years, it has been a bible to followers of the most famous group in the history

of popular music.

An Exhibition That Borrows Brazenly

By Chris Nelson, New York Times

7 January, 2003

It sounds like a plan for drawing hordes of screaming lawyers to your door: create

compilation CD's with sampled music from the likes of the Beatles, James Brown and

Johnny Cash, not to mention the voice of Dan Rather;

Beatles photos, memorabilia on display

By Melissa Mansfield, Associated Press

6 January, 2003

Harry Benson was in the room when the Beatles found out they would be playing on "The

Ed Sullivan Show."

Also: photos - 1, 2, 3

Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance tops TV poll

Ananova

6 January, 2003

The Beatles' live debut appearance on American television in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan Show

has topped a list of the 100 greatest rock and roll moments in TV.

A Clear-Headed Look At Harrison’s Brainwashed

By Mac Randall, The New York Observer

6 January, 2003

The early commercial success of George Harrison’s latest and, I’ll presume, last album,

Brainwashed (Capitol)—it debuted in the Billboard Top 20—may prove that even in the midst

of widespread Eminemania and Avrilidolatry, an audience still exists for guitar-based pop in

the hallowed 1960’s-70’s tradition.

Cilla in the spotlight

BBC

6 January, 2003

Cilla Black has announced she is to quit as presenter of Blind Date after nearly two decades.

Stella Friendship

Vogue

6 January, 2003

Perhaps Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo may be planning to bury the hatchet.

Speculations abound Stella's marriage plans

By Karl Treacy, Hindustan Times Infotainment

5 January, 2003

A lot of people in New York seem to think that designer Stella McCartney is going to marry

fiancé Alasdhair Willis this weekend in Ireland. But is she really?

Kiwi's last days with George Harrison

By Robyn McLean, Sunday Star Times

5 January, 2003

The New Zealander who comforted Beatle George Harrison as he died has broken his silence,

revealing the special bond he and the famous musician shared.

McCartney attacks wildlife group for backing animal tests

By Paul Brown, The Guardian

4 January, 2003

Sir Paul McCartney has protested to WWF, the wildlife organisation, about its active support

for chemical tests that cause the death of thousands of animals.

Heather's message of support

By Owen Mcateer, ICNewcastle

3 January, 2003

A brave meningitis victim who lost both legs to the disease has been given a message of hope

from Heather McCartney-Mills.

Also: Hail the forgotten heroes

McCartney CD is quiet milestone

By Jason Johnson, Plainview Daily Herald

2 January, 2003

I have no clue how this album came into being without me knowing about it, but it did.

The magical mystery cyber tour

By Gina Perry, The Age

2 January, 2003

Imagine. John Lennon may be dead but that doesn't mean you can't talk to him.

Nall will not return to TSU as artist-in-residence

By Jaine Treadwell, The Troy Messenger

2 January, 2003

Internationally recognized artist Nall Hollis (Nall) of Vence, France, will not return to Troy

State University as artist-in-residence for the spring semester.

Shiva Shiva, Y'All

By Phil Dellio, The Village Voice

1 January, 2003

I didn't find out about George Harrison's death until the morning after, just as I set out on

my drive into work.

Beatles richer than British Queen

Associated Press

1 January, 2003

In the early years of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II's private fortune was considerably smaller

than the combined assets of The Beatles, according to classified government documents

released on Saturday.

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