Sir Paul: Robbie beat me to swing album
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Sir Paul McCartney has revealed Robbie Williams stole his thunder with his collection of swing classics. The former Beatle says he was planning to record a selection of Rat Pack tunes, but had to abandon the idea when Robbie did the same with chart-topper Swing When ...
| Etta James honored with a star on the walk of fame
LOS ANGELES (Walk Stars website) - R&B singer Etta James had no reason to sing the blues Friday as Hollywood honored her with a star on the Walk of Fame. James, 65, is perhaps best known for her 1960 version of "At last" and is considered an influence on such singers as Diana Ross, Janis Joplin and ...
|
Loco-Motion singer dies
NEW YORK (Oldies Music Website) - The singer Little Eva, best known for recording The Loco-Motion as a teenager in the 1960s, has died of cancer aged 59. She was working as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin in 1962 when they asked her to record a song they had written called ...
| John Lennon's childhood home opened
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, opened his childhood home in Liverpool to the public Thursday, and said the famously peace-loving former Beatle would have opposed the current war with Iraq. "I'm sure John would have been terribly upset. And he would have expressed ...
|
'Let's Roll' by Shooting Star
LOS ANGELES (Shooting Star Official Website) - Neil Young's "Let's Roll" is enjoying a second life thanks to the Midwestern rock band Shooting Star. The group - which had success in the '80s with songs including "Last Chance," "You've Got What I Need," and "Hang On For Your Life" - has added a cover ...
| Elvis musical looking Broadway bound
NEW YORK (Elvis Fans Website) - An Elvis Presley musical, called Can't Help Falling In Love, looks to be Broadway bound. The show is set up like the successful ABBA musical Mama Mia, with a story built around more than 20 Elvis hits, including the title song. Other tunes to be featured are "Heartbreak ...
|
Iggy Pop & The Stooges to reunite!
NEW YORK (Coachella Festival Website) - The already impressive line-up for the fourth annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival just got hotter. History will be made at the festival--which takes place the weekend of April 26-27 in Indio, CA--when Iggy Pop reunites with his seminal band the Stooges. ...
| 'Hendrix tribute' includes covers by Santana, Chaka Khan & George Clinton
LOS ANGELES (Jimmi Hendrix Fans Website) - A new Jimi Hendrix R&B tribute, Power Of Soul, will be released later this year on MCA Records and feature contributions from Carlos Santana , Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Seal, among others. Proceeds from the album will ...
|
Bay City Rollers boss sex inquiry dropped
LONDON, UK (Nostalgia & Oldies Website) - Police have dropped their investigation into an allegation of child sex abuse against former Bay City Rollers manager Tam Paton. Surrey Police has told the 64-year-old that no further enquiries will be carried out into an allegation that he abused an underage ...
| George Harrison's guitar on show
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Late Beatle George Harrison's first guitar is to go on display on what would have been his 60th birthday. Harrison bought the acoustic guitar in the mid-1950s for three pound and 10 shillings. His mother Louise had given him the money to buy the guitar from a classmate ...
|
At last 'The Beatles Anthology' on DVD
NEW YORK (EMI/Beatles Official Website) - On March 31st, eight years after The Beatles themselves told the story of the world's greatest rock and roll band in The Beatles Anthology, EMI will release the complete work on DVD - but now featuring the final chapter; never-released footage of the last jam ...
| Spice Girls reunion talk is 'nonsense'
LONDON, UK (Spice Girls Fans Website) - Talk of a Spice Girls reunion has been branded as "nonsense". The revelation came after the five gathered at Victoria Beckham's house in Hertfordshire last night. But claims they were meeting to discuss a greatest hits album or a reunion tour have been dismissed ...
|
Police found missing Beatles tapes
SYDNEY, Australia (Beatles Fans Website) - Police on Friday recovered reel-to-reel tapes apparently recorded by The Beatles and believed stolen from the band's studios in London more than three decades ago. Detectives raided a home in western Sydney early Friday and seized tape recordings of the Abbey ...
| Grateful Dead now 'Dead'
LOS ANGELES (Grateful Dead Official Website) - The surviving members of cult sixties band The Grateful Dead, after a short spell as The Other Ones, are to revert to the name The Dead. The band, who epitomised the 1960s California hippy scene, had renamed themselves The Other Ones following the death ...
|
Al Jardine banned from using 'Beach Boys' name
LOS ANGELES (Beach Boys Fans Website) - Original Beach Boy Al Jardine is no longer able to tour with the Beach Boys name after a US court ruling. Jardine's former bandmate Mike Love, who also tours with the Beach Boys name, complained his use of the name was confusing fans. US appeal court judges upheld ...
| Beatles Abbey Road cigarette removed!
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - United States poster companies have airbrushed the classic Beatles Abbey Road album cover to remove a cigarette from Paul McCartney's hand. The move was made without the permission of either McCartney or Apple Records, which owns the rights to the image. The original ...
|
Lennon & Jagger recording is going to be auctioned
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - An unreleased musical collaboration between John Lennon and Mick Jagger has been discovered more than a quarter of a century after it was recorded. The cover version of the blues song Too Many, featuring Jagger on vocals and Lennon on guitar will be auctioned off ...
| 500 Beatles lost tapes were recovered by police
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Some 500 Beatles recording session tapes stolen in the 1970s were recovered on Friday (January 10) by police in England and the Netherlands, many including never-released tracks. The tapes were recorded in 1969 and have been known as the "Get Back Sessions," and several ...
|
A piano is owned by Elvis is sold
MEMPHIS (Elvis.com Website) - A white Knabe grand piano once owned by Elvis Presley sold this week for $685,000. Memphis guitarist-music producer Robert A. Johnson and partner Larry Moss sold the piano Monday to Michael Muzio, chairman of Blue Moon Group Inc. Muzio said he hopes to put the piano on ...
| Beatles Photos, Memorabilia on Display
NEW YORK (Albanyinstitute.org) - Harry Benson was in the room when the Beatles found out they would be playing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He was with them when "I Want to Hold Your Hand" landed in the Top 10. He photographed the Fab Four joking around, composing classics and flying to America. Along ...
|
