Bee Gees ‘on a par with The Beatles’, songwriters say

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UK music group EMI – home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay – is to sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn to Universal Music.

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EMI sells music unit for £1.2bn

UK music group EMI – home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay – is to sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn to Universal Music.

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Bettye LaVette Veteran soul singer Bettye LaVette is not known as a songwriter, yet it doesn’t seem quite right to call her a cover artist. On Saturday night at a sold-out Atlas Theater, LaVette staked personal claims on songs by the Beatles, Fiona Apple and even George Jones. She did so partially by bypassing their original melodies, but also by putting these tunes in the context of having had what she called “a successful career six times . . . for four weeks or so.” Read full article > >

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At Atlas Theater show, Bettye LaVette puts her own spin on rock classics

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group’s concerts shows.

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Beatles refused segregated gigs

A signed copy of the Beatles’ hit single Please Please Me is sold at auction in Liverpool.

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Signed Beatles record sells for £9,000 at auction

You’ve heard of eager kids putting on a show in a barn? Try the Uline Arena on for size. The old concrete cavern, known for a time as the Washington Coliseum and venerated as the spot where the Beatles played just days after their “Ed Sullivan” debut, is now a humongous hollowed-out shell; it could seat around 9,000, if only there were seats. This arena is the set and the story of “Swampoodle,” the one-week-only piece by the District’s edgy Irish troupe Solas Nua in cahoots with the Performance Corporation, a site-specific troupe from County Kildare, Ireland. Read full article > >

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Theater review: ‘Swampoodle’ at Uline Arena

As a volunteer who identifies herself as Dancin’ Dee will tell you when you walk into the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, Calif., this is no ordinary museum. “In other museums, they’ll tell you to keep quiet,” says Dee Vinton, who has greeted museum visitors for nearly a decade and who, the day I visited, was wearing earrings shaped like tiny electric guitars. “Not here. You’re allowed to dance. You’re allowed to sing. You’re allowed play music yourself.” With its antique and rare instruments, its artifacts from musicians ranging from John Philip Sousa to the Beatles, and its sound bites of influential music spanning several decades, the Museum of Making Music is a haven for former band geeks, garage-band heroes, guitar- lesson dropouts and anyone who has ever gazed in awe at the shiny potential of a new musical instrument. Read full article > >

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The ornate iron gates of a children’s home which inspired John Lennon’s psychedelic Beatles anthem Strawberry Fields Forever are removed.

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Strawberry Fields not forever: Lennon gates go

Were John Lennon’s letters better before Yoko Ono, too? For the first time, the Beatles’ star’s widow has agreed to publish his letters. Ono will help with the compilation, contributing several of his notes, postcards, and doodles. An email address has…

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Lennon’s Letters to Be Published

Disney Studios has scrapped plans for a 3D remake of The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine, according to industry paper Hollywood Reporter.

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Disney ‘scuttle’ 3D Yellow Submarine remake

Disney Studios has scrapped plans for a 3D remake of The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine, according to industry paper Hollywood Reporter.

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At a tour stop in the Beatles’ hometown, Justin Bieber is channeling the Fab Four. A pack of fans has the teenage Canadian pop star and infatuation object trapped in a hotel room in Liverpool, England. There are two dozen guards surrounding the hotel,…

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Bieber Trapped in Hotel Room

Mark Vaccacio plans to keep portraying George Harrison in a Beatles tribute band, as long as his cancer allows.

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Playing a Beatle, and Dying of Cancer

The Beatles’ first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool was 50 years ago to the day.

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VIDEO: Re-living The Beatles’ Cavern debut