George Harrison Gets Hollywood Star
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of fans and friends including Paul McCartney have turned out to see a posthumous star for George Harrison unveiled on the...
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LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of fans and friends including Paul McCartney have turned out to see a posthumous star for George Harrison unveiled on the...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.13.2009 | Entertainment
Blues harmonica player and singer Little Walter died over forty years ago, but his influences still can be heard in many blues-rock recordings that employ the instrument.
Martin Lewis | Posted 05.09.2009 | Entertainment
The New York Times is finally seeking a Beatles expert who is actually knowledgeable about the band and/or someone who can do basic math.
Tony Sachs | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment
How much of the remaining CD buying audience is going to pony up the cash for music they likely already own?
AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.07.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — Beatles fans will have a chance to add substantially to their collections when a digitally remastered version of the band's catalog bec...
AP | JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — An all-star concert on meditation brought Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr together for their first performance together in seven years...
John Farr | Posted 05.05.2009 | Entertainment
To relive Beatlemania in all its madcap glory, I suggest you sit yourselves down to the following double-feature.
Steve Posner | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
Four decades after their Himalayan sojourn, the surviving Beatles' public return to Maharishi was easy because his teachings had never left them.
Tony Sachs | Posted 04.18.2009 | Entertainment
You may not know Alan Livingston, who died on Friday at age 91, by name. But if you know anything about 20th century popular culture, you know his work.
AP | Posted 04.05.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Rock Band is getting the perhaps greatest rock group of all time: The Beatles. The Beatles' management said Thursday that a Beatles ...
AP | Posted 04.05.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are teaming up to headline a benefit concert in New York City. The former Beatles will headline the R...
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling o...
NY Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Entertainment
The name of the band that's playing the Mercury Lounge tonight is thenewno2 and it's pronounced the-new-number-2, a reference to the classic TV serie...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment
This concert will be about the music, but its statement of solidarity and support for upliftment in education could be the beginning of yet another American wave of consciousness raising.
Jason Pollock | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
You have forever changed what it means to be the President of the United States and I'm so grateful and happy for your existence.
Michael Hastings-Black | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
When brands aim to reach minority markets, most opt to play it safe with the tropes that Blacks value 'soul', Latinos love 'family', Asians are 'sedulous', etc...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.
Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.
Tony Sachs | Posted 02.03.2009 | Entertainment
In a business where, for the last decade or so, every move made by a major record label or established artist is almost guaranteed to be a dumb one, it's hard to pick a mere five as the créme de la créme of stupidity.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment
When did children's music get so awful? It wasn't always as painful to listen to. Some historic recordings, though not exactly classified as "children's," have been cherished forever.
AP | Posted 01.14.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — Paul McCartney claims that he was the real politicized figure in The Beatles, not John Lennon, according to an interview published Sund...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Anger, outrage and confusion spread through the progressive political community as sources close to Karl Rove began leaking a list of things that Rove...
Tony Sachs | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
Would the Sixties be the sixties without the Beatles? Would teen culture as we know it exist without Elvis? And can any record, no matter how brilliant, have a similar impact today? Somehow, I don't think so.
AP | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
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...
AP | SOLVEJ SCHOU | Posted 05.15.2009 | Entertainment