the beatles

According to a Russian health official, the youth of his country have a major drug problem — and it all goes back to those darn Beatles.

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Actor Victor Spinetti, who appeared in three different films starring the Beatles, died this morning (June 19) at age 82 in Monmouth, Wales after a long battle with cancer. Paul McCartney once described the actor as a man “who makes clouds disappear.”

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Paul McCartney will continue to be an active presence on the scene in 2013, according to his manager, Scott Rodger of Quest Management. In a new interview with TWiMusic, Rodger outlined the plans for both McCartney’s ongoing reissue project and his current work.

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A poster advertising a performance by the Beatles at Liverpool’s Cavern Club yesterday (June 12) sold at Christie’s auction house in London for the staggering price of $42,515, according to whatsellsbest.com.

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Long before music videos were en vogue, the worlds of music and film collided together in the 1968 animated feature, ‘Yellow Submarine,’ loosely based on the music from the Beatles album of the same name.

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A large part of the story of the early days of the Beatles is the time they spent playing seedy clubs in Hamburg, Germany. Unfortunately, the interest in the “Fab Four” is not as prominent in the city as it once was. NME is reporting that the Beatles’ museum located in Hamburg is set to shutter its doors at the end of the month.

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A three-year battle to preserve Ringo Starr‘s childhood home has resulted in a victory. The small house in the Dingle section of Liverpool had been on a list of houses to be demolished as part of an urban renewal project, but a campaign started by local Beatles fans has saved No. 9 Madryn Street from the bulldozer.

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In celebration of Oldiez 96.1’s Beatles Weekend, I have decided to dust off my Beatles collection and have a listen. When it comes to the Beatles, how can you pick your favorite song, let alone album, right? I mean, they’re all great. But, I will declare to

Broadway is musical theater’s biggest stage, and even someone as major as the the Beatles could use a little seasoning before playing there. Organizers have revealed that the stage production of the Beatles-themed ‘Backbeat’ will premiere stateside in Los Angeles early next year before making it to New York.

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How many times have we heard people clamoring for a Beatles reunion? Too many to count! But with the advent of the hologram technology, it would seem that the door is open for it to potentially happen.

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It’s Thanksgiving of 1968. This year what you are thankful for more than anything is a new album from The Beatles. You’ve been waiting so patiently in the cold and you finally grabbed it. You thought you grabbed the wrong one because the whole album cover is white. You just got your dirty hands on The White Album.

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A framed original poster for the Beatles’ last-ever concert at San Francisco’s Candelstick Park recently sold for an astonishing $6,999 on eBay.

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