LONDON — Paul McCartney says negotiations on a long-awaited deal to make the Beatles' catalog available on the online music service iTunes have ...
Daily Telegraph | Nick Squires | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment
Saturday's edition of the Vatican's official newspaper absolves John Lennon of his notorious remark, saying that "after so many years it sounds merely...
Sal Nunziato | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
Next week, we all finally get to hear Chinese Democracy. You know the new Guns N' Roses CD. But I want to know why anyone cares.
AP | Posted 12.17.2008 | Entertainment
LONDON — Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day. McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Ligh...
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment
We're in a golden age for documentaries. More of them are shown in theaters and on TV than ever before and more people now have access to video cameras so they can make their own.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media
Barack Obama spent roughly $4 million dollars on 30 minutes of primetime ad space last night. The commercial, which aired on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox an...
AP | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The Beatles are coming to a game console near you. For the first time, the legendary group's music will be featured in the lucrative...
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment
LONDON — Ringo Starr doesn't want to hear from you. If you do write, your letter will end up in the trash. After 45 years of stardom, he doesn't...
NY Post | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
John Lennon didn't give peace a chance at home - where he callously abused and routinely tormented the women closest to him. The music legend was pro...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.02.2008 | Entertainment
Decades before Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt and The Jayhawks re-introduced and expanded the parameters of roots-rock, there was a scrappy little group, originally hailing from El Cerrito, California.
John Farr | Posted 10.09.2008 | Entertainment
With on-demand in full flower, consumers will confront a vastly larger universe of choice, representing the entire breadth of this century-old medium, not just the most recent theatrical releases.
AP | Posted 09.24.2008 | Entertainment
JERUSALEM — Sir Paul McCartney is set to perform in Israel, 40 years after his legendary band, the Beatles, were banned from playing in the Holy...
Marissa Moss | Posted 09.21.2008 | Entertainment
Ono: I really wanted to [re-release the track, Give Peace a Chance], it was my statement because right now the world is in turmoil and we really need to talk about world peace.
Donald Liebenson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
Neil Innes, who has been hailed as a "partially discovered genius," is the first to admit that he is an unlikely subject for a documentary. But Innes, 63, looms large in music and comedy circles for his scant degree of separation from both the Beatles and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
AP | CARRIE ANTLFINGER | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
WAUKESHA, Wis. — John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his admirers are so protective of his legacy they don't want any of his original drawings phot...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
When it was announced that 600 Starbucks outlets were closing, the music business shared the hit: less stores, less counter and display space, less product, less revenue.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
With the exception of Motown and Atlantic, there is no other catalog with as high a profile or cultural and historical significance as The Beatles' label, Apple Corps.
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment
LONDON — A Beatles interview from the 1960s in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed the way they composed songs together was broadcast...
AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 04.01.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend of the Beatles who managed their business enterprises and helped make the group a moneymaking phenom...
AFP | Juan Castro Olivera | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
At the height of their career, the Beatles were not above cashing in on Christmas tunes at the end of the year, a formula that 40 years later still se...
Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Martin Scorsese has committed to direct an untitled documentary about the life of George Harrison. Scorsese will produce with Harrison's widow Olivia...
AP | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment