The poster from the Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert.

Photo: Sid Bernstein Presents
The man who brought the Beatles to America, music promoter Sid Bernstein, is now the center of a social media campaign to help bring his story to the screen. The makers of Bernstein’s biopic, “Sid Bernstein Presents…”, have teamed with social media fundraising […]

Compilation of classic singles showcases the legendary music company

The headline in Variety was a showbiz shocker: “Beatle Bites Apple, Finds Worm.”
John Lennon had spoken out about the chaos and imminent insolvency of Apple Corp., the company created to be an extension of the Beatles’ creative will, and the news was reverberating around the world.
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Pete Best will make his only 2010 concert appearance at Bestfest, to be held Aug. 28 at theCasbah Club in Liverpool.
(Below: a video of the Pete Best Band playing “What I’d Say” in Pawling, N.Y.)
Bill Harry, founder of Mersey Beat, says Pete was “creator of the Beatles ‘atom beat’ which made such an impact on […]

The Yardbirds were doing a show with theBeatles in the mid-’60s when Paul McCartneyarrived in their dressing room with a backstage surprise.”Paul came in with an acoustic guitar and said, ‘Hey, lads — what do you think of this?’” saysChris Dreja, the Yardbirds’s bass player at the time. “And he started to play a song called ‘Scrambled Eggs.’”

Best with the John Lennon Wall on Kampa island behind. (ČTK)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Prague, June 29 (CTK) - Pete Best, former drummer of The Beatles, signed the John Lennon Wall on Kampa island in Prague’s historical centre Tuesday.
Later on Tuesday, Best had a concert with his current band in the Czech Music Museum in Prague that was held […]

John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for ‘A Day in the Life’ sold in June 2010 at Sotheby’s for $1.2 million. The pricey scribbles had once been in the possession of former Beatles road manager Mal Evans, one of the more legitimate claimants to the title “the fifth Beatle.”If producer George Martin helped the Beatles achieve their expansive sound, if managerBrian […]

There’s a lot of attention this year focused on the 70th birthday of John Lennon. A big schedule of events is planned in his hometown of Liverpool.
But that isn’t the case with the 70th birthday of Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe, who was born 70 years ago on June 23, 1940.
Sutcliffe was the Beatles’ original bass […]

Premieres nationwide on public television beginning July 5, 2010 (check local listings)

 
Season Two performers include Ben Harper and Relentless7, Tori Amos, David Gray, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Black Crowes, Dierks Bentley, and Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The acclaimed, innovative music series Live from the Artists Den launches its second season with a once-in-a-lifetime performance […]

It’s been a long and winding road for the North America’s largest Beatles-inspired festival — a road that might end too soon if Abbey Road on the River doesn’t find a major sponsor.

Sir Elton Hercules John, is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on June 17, 2010; humanitarians are hoping Rocket Man can appreciate the irony.

“All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.”-John […]