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Ringo Starr Asks ‘Every Radio Station In The World’ To Honor Late Bandmate John Lennon In This Special Way

Ringo Starr Asks ‘Every Radio Station In The World’ To Honor Late Bandmate John Lennon In This Special Way

Ringo Starr has made a request of every radio station in the world to honor his late Beatles bandmate John Lennon in a very special way. Alongside a lighthearted image of the friends taken as they sat on the bumper of a Rolls-Royce, the legendary rock ‘n’ roll drummer asked for broadcasters to play the […]

3y ago

George Harrison’s 77th Birthday Marked By Announcement Of Memorial Garden In Liverpool

George Harrison’s 77th Birthday Marked By Announcement Of Memorial Garden In Liverpool

George Harrison‘s 77th birthday is being marked by the announcement of a memorial garden dedicated to the legendary musician in his hometown of Liverpool, England. The Liverpool City Council and the George Harrison estate jointly released a statement regarding the project which is aiming for a 2021 debut. A new memorial woodland will open in […]

4y ago

Listen To Five Great George Harrison Songs You May Never Have Heard, In Honor Of Ex-Beatle’s 76th Birthday

Listen To Five Great George Harrison Songs You May Never Have Heard, In Honor Of Ex-Beatle’s 76th Birthday

George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England, on February 25, 1943. A little less than 15 years later — on February 6, 1958 — the young Harrison took the suggestion of his friend and schoolmate, a boy named Paul McCartney, and went to see a local rock and roll group called The Quarrymen at a […]

5y ago

Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Is U.K.’s No. 1 Album Of All-Time

Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Is U.K.’s No. 1 Album Of All-Time

With a little help from their friends, the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was just named the United Kingdom’s top studio album of all-time by the Official Charts Company, which ranks records from 1956 onward based on physical sales, downloads, and streams. The British company released its list of the nation’s 40 bestsellers […]

5y ago

Peter Frampton On A Favorite Career Moment That Still Gives Him ‘Chills’

Peter Frampton On A Favorite Career Moment That Still Gives Him ‘Chills’

Peter Frampton’s musical career began as a teenager, playing with The Trubeats, who were managed by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones. His next band, The Herd, had several hits while Frampton was named “The Face of 1968” by U.K. teen magazine Rave. Shortly after that, Frampton joined the band Humble Pie alongside The Small […]

6y ago

Dhani Harrison On His New ‘IN/PARALLEL’ Album, The Traveling Wilburys, Formula 1, And Scoring Movies

Dhani Harrison On His New ‘IN/PARALLEL’ Album, The Traveling Wilburys, Formula 1, And Scoring Movies

IN/PARALLEL is the debut solo effort from British-born, Los Angeles-based musician, composer, and singer/songwriter Dhani Harrison. However, over a decade ago, Harrison began to turn heads as the lead guitarist and singer of Thenewno2, who received rave reviews from Spin Magazine, NPR, and Rolling Stone alike. Just as Thenewno2 started to take off among critics […]

6y ago

The Sitar George Harrison Played on Beatles Song ‘Norwegian Wood’ Has Been Sold At Auction for $62,500

The Sitar George Harrison Played on Beatles Song ‘Norwegian Wood’ Has Been Sold At Auction for $62,500

The famous sitar that George Harrison dearly loved that he used on the Beatles song, “Norwegian Wood,” has been sold at auction in the United States for the tidy sum of $62,500. The Beatles were the first Western rock band to employ a sitar for a commercial song, and Harrison first discovered this instrument when […]

6y ago

Paul McCartney Regrets That The Beatles Split Up

Paul McCartney Regrets That The Beatles Split Up

Paul McCartney has admitted he still harbors regrets about how The Beatles split up, confessing that the added complications of the business side of the music industry ultimately led to an “ugly” and “untidy” parting. The Liverpudlian was recently asked about any regrets that he has regarding his long and storied musical career, which provoked […]

6y ago

Eric Clapton Is Struggling To Play Guitar Due To Serious Back Pain, Which Morphed Into Incurable Nerve Damage

Eric Clapton Is Struggling To Play Guitar Due To Serious Back Pain, Which Morphed Into Incurable Nerve Damage

Eric Clapton has lived quite a dramatic life. He infamously survived heroin, cocaine, pill, and alcohol addiction, with each one taking away large chunks of his life. He has outlived girlfriends and close friends like Jimi Hendrix. He lost his 4-year-old son in a tragic accident. He was the inspiration for the Sheryl Crow song […]

7y ago

‘I Still Do’ Artist Eric Clapton On His Mysterious Collaborator And On Saying Goodbye

‘I Still Do’ Artist Eric Clapton On His Mysterious Collaborator And On Saying Goodbye

Eric Clapton is back again with a new studio album. Much like his two previous releases –Old Sock (2013) and The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale(2014)- Clapton’s latest album, I Still Do, is a nostalgic celebration of his life, his musical influences, and a memorializing of his family. The I Still Do title for […]

8y ago

Eric Clapton Retiring? Says He ‘Kind Of Might Be Saying Goodbye’ With Release of ‘I Still Do’

Eric Clapton Retiring? Says He ‘Kind Of Might Be Saying Goodbye’ With Release of ‘I Still Do’

Eric Clapton is hinting once again that he might be on the verge of retiring. Clapton has threatened retirement in the past, but the Chicago Tribune reports that the 71-year-old guitar legend might be serious about calling it quits this time. The newspaper noted that, with the loss of big name musicians like David Bowie […]

8y ago

Rare Record That ‘Sparked The Beatles’ Success’ To Be Auctioned Next Month

Rare Record That ‘Sparked The Beatles’ Success’ To Be Auctioned Next Month

A rare doubled-sided record described as “a Holy Grail item” for collectors of Beatles vinyl memorabilia is set to be auctioned March 22 at Omega Auctions in Warrington, and expected to fetch £10,000 ($14,000+). BBC News reports that the 1962 10-inch record of “Till There Was You” and “Hello Little Girl” lay forgotten in the […]

8y ago

Enlightening History Behind The Beatles’ First Recording Contract

Enlightening History Behind The Beatles’ First Recording Contract

Although the Beatles are known for their wildly popular songs, which played a large part in transforming an entire era of music, the beginning was not exactly easy for them. Like any garage band starting out, the Beatles had their ups and downs, and they may not have made it but for a series of […]

8y ago

The Beatles’ Indian Mountain Retreat Being Reclaimed By Nature, But Still Popular To Fans

The Beatles’ Indian Mountain Retreat Being Reclaimed By Nature, But Still Popular To Fans

The Beatles’ Indian mountain retreat that they visited back in 1968 is covered in moss and growing forest vegetation, but still attracts many Beatles fans every year. NME is reporting that the Beatles had scheduled a three-month stay at the retreat located near Rishikesh, India. The Beatles were invited by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to […]

9y ago

Pattie Boyd Marries, And This Time She Didn’t Wed Another Rock Star

Pattie Boyd Marries, And This Time She Didn’t Wed Another Rock Star

Pattie Boyd, the beauty famous for capturing the hearts of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, married her partner of 25 years – property developer Rod Weston – ending her impressive streak of rock star husbands. “It’s almost our silver anniversary so we thought we had better get on with it,” Weston, 61, told the Daily […]

9y ago

‘Paul McCartney Dead’ And Other Great Beatles Conspiracy Theories

‘Paul McCartney Dead’ And Other Great Beatles Conspiracy Theories

Earlier this week Inquisitr debunked a story that had been widely circulating that claimed Paul McCartney had died decades ago and been replaced by a lookalike. The latest conspiracy theory quoted an “interview” with Ringo Starr in the fictitious Hollywood Enquirer which said “when Paul died, we all panicked, we didn’t know what to do, […]

9y ago

Hundreds Refuse To Be Honored By Queen Elizabeth II [Video]

Hundreds Refuse To Be Honored By Queen Elizabeth II [Video]

Being selected and honored by Queen Elizabeth II is not always welcome news for some famous people. This may come as something of a surprise, but hundreds of people have declined honors by the reigning Queen. This week, the British government released the New Year Honors list for 2015. Actor John Hurt and actress Joan […]

9y ago

Lennon Or McCartney? New Documentary Asks 550 Celebrities Their Preference — See Their Answers

Lennon Or McCartney? New Documentary Asks 550 Celebrities Their Preference — See Their Answers

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were probably the two most influential songwriters in the 20th Century, and quite possibly two of the best songwriters of all time. If anyone is involved in any way, shape, or form in modern music, there’s a very good chance that their music has been influenced in some way by […]

9y ago

George Harrison(Tree) Killed By ‘Beetles’

George Harrison(Tree) Killed By ‘Beetles’

George Harrison is DEAD. Well, you knew that, but now so is his tree. Los Angeles, Tuesday morning, was the location of the tragedy. The George Harrison Memorial tree stood long and proud for 14 years, until its life was cut short by jealous beetles. It was not John nor Ringo. It was not even […]

9y ago

George Harrison Guitar Fetches Big Bucks In Beatles Auction

George Harrison Guitar Fetches Big Bucks In Beatles Auction

A George Harrison guitar fetched an astonishing $657,000 at a Beatles auction on Saturday, and for one Illinois man, the news is surreal. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, 81-year-old Gabe McCarty was with the Beatles legend when he purchased the electric guitar at an Illinois music store in 1963. Upon hearing of […]

10y ago

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