During the early days of the Beatles, Ringo Starr often traveled with a camera and took photos of of the group behind the scenes, from rehearsing for their history-making appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show to goofing around on the set of their 1965 movie, Help! In countless Beatles photographs, Starr is seen taking his own pictures, the vast majority of which have never been released. Sadly, Starr tells Rolling Stone that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

“I don’t know where they are,” he says with a sigh. “I wish I did. There’s been several moves and things happen.”

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There’s some sad news out of the hair world today. Vidal Sassoon, the hair stylist and fashion icon was found dead at his Mulholland Drive residency today, according to authorities. He was 84.

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A unique piece of Beatles memorabilia will go on sale with the original printing plates for John Lennon’s first book set to go under the hammer.

The metal plates were used to print words and illustrations by the Beatle in the 1964 book John Lennon, In His Own Write.

The lot to go on sale includes 35 of the 40 printing plates used to produce the book, which was the first solo project by any of The Beatles.

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British photographer Paul Berriff

With hindsight, Paul Berriff was one of the luckiest teenagers alive.
Aged just 16, the copy boy people barely acknowledged at the Yorkshire Evening Post, happily snapped as John, Paul, Ringo and George played, sang and joked “one day we’ll be famous”.
While press photography diversified into the world of moving pictures — Berriff became the youngest ever cameraman for the BBC at the age of 21 — the negatives of what was only ever a “photography essay” were put in a box while Berriff’s career went in another direction.
Some 47 years later, and the Yorkshireman stumbled across some of the most candid photo shoots of the biggest selling band in the world.

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City Creek Center may be the new mall downtown, but The Gateway will regain some cultural karma this weekend by hosting The Art of John Lennon, the largest touring exhibition of Lennon’s artwork in North America.

The three-day exhibition has the full co-operation of Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and the John Lennon Estate. It will display more than 120 serigraphs, lithographs and song lyrics (in serigraph form) by Lennon, as well as a rare portfolio of the 14 “Bag One” lithographs hand-signed by the late musician.

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The past year has been a boon for seeing The Beatles with new eyes—from their tour manager’s never-before-published tour photos to Linda McCartney’s tender portraits to rediscovered vintage children’s books—but count on Taschen to up the ante on any cultural trope. The newly released The Beatles: On the Road 1964-1966 is a lavish collection of hundreds of Harry Benson’s luminous black-and-white photographs of the Fab Four at close quarters—from ecstatic encounters with fans to quiet moments in the recording studio to playful boyish frolicking.

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Tune Up: The license for the single song cost $250,000

Viewers turning in to watch yesterday night’s installment of Mad Men were shocked - not at what they saw, but at what they heard.

AMC’s Sunday showstopper finally scored their first Beatles tune - a much sought after missing piece to the period drama - for a whopping $250,000 price tag, according to the
Wall Street Journal.

In the final scene of Lady Lazarus, Don Draper unwraps a freshly minted Revolver album from 1966, takes a sip of whiskey, and turns on Tomorrow Never Knows for his first listen and The Beatles television debut.

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Matthew Weiner, the series’ creator, about the details of the deal.

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Are you in the market for a painting of Jesus Christ cheering up Paul McCartney and have a spare $180,000? Of course you are! So here’s this $177,000 (plus framing) painting entitled ”Jesus Tries to Cheer Paul McCartney w/ Lambchop Puppet & Create Oasis at Home.”

The painting depicts Jesus Christ attempting to cheer up a “clinically depressed” Paul McCartney with a Lamb Chop puppet, and hopefully, in doing so, he will create an “oasis at home.” This is how the artist, Kata Billups of Colorado, who has 100% positive feedback on eBay, describes it:

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We had absolutely no idea thatRingo Starr (aka Richard Starkey) is a fan of rhinoceros — or is rhinoceri? And we were serious Beatle fans, having camped outside his home in Weybridge, an upscale neighborhood back in 1966, just to get a glimpse the turtlenecked mop-top drummer hiding behind his Tudor estate’s high hedges.

But apparently, he’s long had a fondess for the horned critters. “I’ve always loved rhinos,” Starr explains. “They were close to my and Keith Moon’s heart. In fact I had two huge ones made and gave one to Keith. Mine is still out on the grass here in England.”

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Ringo Starr, and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, are working on a musical film for Paramount Pictures, Deadline Hollywood reports. The film, “Hole in the Fence,” is reported to be a coming-of-age drama about a group of youths in an impoverished mining town who form a band.

David Harris, a screenwriter, has been hired to write the script based on the musicians’ original idea.  Mr. Harris already has another project going with Mr. Stewart: he is turning the Zombie Broadway graphic novel that he and Mr. Stewart created into a feature film.

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