Sir Paul McCartney has lent his support to reducing the carbon footprint of this year’s Isle of Wight Festival, where he is the headline act.
The ninth festival to take place on the island since its return from its 1970 heyday gets under way on Thursday.
The annual event was restarted at Seaclose Park in Newport in […]

What the Beatles reveal about the cost of fame.

I’ve never really been much of a Beatles fan. To me, the music of the ’60s means Motown or Woodstock, not the British invasion. My ignorance of the Fab Four is usually seen as a bad thing. But this time, my lack of knowledge has paid off. […]

He helped forge the shape and trajectory of popular music and was greeted
Tuesday night by a strange and sonorous thunder.
Some of it was applause. Much of it was the drumpity-drumpity-drumpity of
old seat-backs in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium flipping into
their upright position.

Details regarding this years International Beatle Week have just been released. This annual event is staged in Liverpool and this year takes place during the last week of August. Typically attracting 300,000 fans from over 40 different countries, highlights of this years festival will include BILLY J KRAMER’S first UK performance for over 7 years, […]

Backbeat, the film about Stuart Sutcliffe, the fifth Beatle, and the band’s Hamburg years, has been retooled for stage
The practice room in Kensington doesn’t look much like a crucible of musical history, but that’s what it’s about to become. We’re a fortnight into rehearsals for Backbeat, Iain Softley’s stage version of his 1994 film about […]

You say you want theRevolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the music world… Tapping the reach of the Internet and a power-shifting business model, musicianJulian Lennon and digital pioneers Michael Birch andTodd Meagher today officially announced the launch oftheRevolution LLC, a full-service, artist-focused, music services company.
“in the vanguard of theRevolution”>

Beatlemania … are you a fan of the Fab Four?
WHEN it comes to music, MY Sun users know a thing or two. Be it pop or punk, rap or reggae, there is nothing ‘Helter Skelter’ about their opinions on their favourite artists.

We all live on a bouncing lotus leaf, a bouncing lotus leaf, etc Photo: PHYSICSWORLD.COM
The face of the Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr, has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf.

Thespec.com asked you for your favourite Beatles story. From those submitted by the deadline of Sept. 18, we randomly drew a name of a winner who will receive the box set of Beatles CDs. Denise Ducharme is our winner. Congratulations Denise. We have printed her story below, as well as a selection of the many […]