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August 21st, 2008

New Coldplay Album To Be Released Next Year? | ‘Viva La Vida’ Follow-Up Rushed Out

The new Coldplay album, Viva La Vida, has only been out for around two months, but already there is talk of the next Coldplay album. The band reportedly have most of the album already in the bag and could release it next year as a surprise rush-release.
The Sun are reporting that most of the songs […]

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July 26th, 2008

Rolling Stones Leave EMI For Universal - Follow Radiohead, McCartney Out The Door

The members of the Rolling Stones may all be in their sixties, but they are still one of the most commercially-viable bands around at the moment. Which makes their defection from EMI to Universal a big blow to the former, and a massive boost to the latter.
The Rolling Stones have become the third big British […]

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July 18th, 2008

John Lennon Movie Biopic On Way | Writer Behind Ian Curtis’ ‘Control’ Penning Script

John Lennon is as big an icon in death as he was in life. Despite being dead for 28 years, The Beatles front man, who also had a massively successful solo career, is still influencing generation after generation of musicians and songwriters.
I myself, admit to holding the man in the utmost esteem, thinking he […]

By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment

July 1st, 2008

Long-Lost Beatles Interview With Paul McCartney & John Lennon Uncovered

An interview with The Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney has been discovered and broadcast for the first time since it was recorded in 1964. The interview was on a canister of film found by a film enthusiast in a damp garage in South London.
According to Reuters, film enthusiast Richard Jeffs found the interview […]

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May 26th, 2008

Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell | The Start Of A Good Thing Or Another Mistake?

Paul McCartney’s relationship problems have been rather well publicised over the last few years, with Heather Mills nabbing the multi-millionaire and managing to wheedle her way to a proportion of his hard-earned fortune in a long-running and acrimonious divorce battle.
You’d imagine that little experience would have put McCartney off women for a while but […]

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May 17th, 2008

Paul McCartney New Album Free With ‘The Mail On Sunday’ Tomorrow May 18th

Paul McCartney has had a mixed last few years, having been married to Heather Mills, and then going through a very messy, very public divorce.
While all of this was going on, he was still writing and recording music, and released Memory Almost Full in 2007.
The album has already sold 100,000 copies in the […]

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April 11th, 2008

Paul McCartney Planning Huge World Tour To Pay For Heather Mills Divorce Payout

Paul McCartney finally managed to get rid of the “one-legged bitch”, (his words not mine allegedly) Heather Mills last month, when she was awarded almost $50 million to shut up and go away.
Although she seems to be determined to keep herself in the press by bitching about McCartney at every opportunity, he seems to be […]

By Dave Parrack -- 3 comments

April 2nd, 2008

Long Lost Beatles Song Written By John Lennon May Be Released As Aspinall Tribute

There are rumours that a long lost song written by John Lennon for The Beatles could now be completed and released as a tribute to Neil Aspinall.
Aspinall was band’s manager, and long-time friend who was regarded as “the fifth Beatle” until his death on March 24th.

The track, titled Now and Then, was discovered along with […]

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March 25th, 2008

Neil Aspinall - The Beatles Manager and Confidant Takes Secrets To The Grave

Neil Aspinall, The Beatles manager and confidant died on Sunday night at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in Manhattan. He was there receiving treatment for lung cancer, and was only 66 when he passed away.
Aspinall was often referred to as “The Fifth Beatle”, a title which George Harrison himself gave to the man with probably […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Apple Brings Lawsuit Over Bootleg Beatles Recording From Early Days In Hamburg

You might think that after 45 years of making money from being in The Beatles, the surviving members, namely Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, would have enough wealth not to worry about the odd release of a few unlicensed tracks here and there.
But it seems not, as Apple Corps, the Beatles company rather than […]

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