The U.S. Library of Congress is awarding Paul McCartney its third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Librarian of Congress James Billington announced the prize Monday. An...
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TV network ABC says Paul McCartney and Beyonce will star in back-to-back one-hour specials Thanksgiving night. The evening starts at 9 p.m. EST with a Beyonce concert that...
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Paul McCartney will return to Hamburg, where The Beatles honed their craft, to launch his first European tour in five years. McCartney announced Thursday he will play the...
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Paul McCartney's recent three-night concert stand in New York City -- during which the rock legend delved into his Beatles, Wings and solo catalogs and brought Billy...
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A discovery in a Liverpool library has revealed that Paul McCartney's talent for writing was winning him prizes when he was just 10 — though for an essay about the...
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Sir Paul McCartney knighted another New York Mets ballpark Friday night, playing the first concert ever at Citi Field. "Long time since I've been here," the former Beatle...
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Paul McCartney is going back to the Ed Sullivan Theater. The former Beatle will appear on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Wednesday. He'll be...
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It has been years since Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney have been considered the best of friends (or even on speaking terms), but the King of Pop's death leaves the...
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Paul McCartney is coming to Atlanta for a summer concert to benefit the city's historic Piedmont Park. The Piedmont Conservancy that cares for the city park said Wednesday...
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Yusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, doesn't bear any grudges about being denied entry into the U.S. five years ago. He's responded to the widely publicized...
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LONDON (Reuters) – British singers Paul McCartney, Elton John and Mick Jagger have lost large chunks of their personal fortunes during the economic crisis over the last...
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Crowds appeared as big as ever at the seemingly recession-proof Coachella music festival, where Paul McCartney delivered an epic set of Beatles classics, M.I.A. ended her...
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Energized by the desert air and memory of his late wife, a playful and passionate Paul McCartney riffed on "Foxy Lady," led an after-midnight "Hey Jude" singalong and...
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Hundreds of George Harrison's biggest fans and best friends, including Paul McCartney and Tom Petty, turned out Tuesday to see a posthumous star for the quiet Beatle...
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Hundreds of fans and friends including Paul McCartney have turned out to see a posthumous star for George Harrison unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The late Beatle's...
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Nancy Shevell beamed for hundreds of cameras in London's Leicester Square, a green silk jacket on one arm and Paul McCartney on the other. The 49-year-old trucking heiress...
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In terms of teasing musical foreplay, this was downright frustrating. During Paul McCartney's show-closing set for David Lynch's "Change Begins Within" concert at...
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An all-star concert on meditation brought Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr together for their first performance together in seven years. The reunion of McCartney and Starr,...
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still meditative about their trip to India. The two remaining Beatles are sharing the stage Saturday night when McCartney headlines Radio...
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are teaming up to headline a benefit concert in New York City. The former Beatles will headline the Radio City Music Hall concert on April 4...
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Paul McCartney will headline the 10th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, festival promoters announced Friday. The ex-Beatle will be the featured act on the...
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Beatlemania's about to hit Coachella. Paul McCartney leads an impressive lineup, that also includes Amy Winehouse in her first U.S. gigs in three years, The Killers,...
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The Comedy Central TV channel says Paul McCartney is going to drop in on Stephen Colbert. McCartney will be a guest on Wednesday's "The Colbert Report,"...
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A rep for the former Beatle is smacking down a pair of newspaper stories that he is looking to get hitched with lady love Nancy Shevell now that her divorce has become...
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Paul McCartney and girlfriend Nancy Shevell are reportedly planning to marry. The couple, who have been seen in public together regularly for the past year, are now legally...
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Eleanor Rigby: fact or fiction? That question, which has bedeviled Beatles' fans for decades, may be answered in part by a 1911 hospital payroll sheet to be auctioned in...
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Talks to put The Beatles' catalog on Apple's iTunes online music store have stalled, former Fab Four member Paul McCartney told the BBC. The Beatles is one of the...
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The Beatles' "Carnival of Light" just got one up on Bigfoot and unicorns. The existence of the 41-year-old, 14-minute experimental track, long believed to be...
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Homeless man Anthony Silva has claimed a $4,000 reward after finding the waxwork head of Sir Paul McCartney in a bin at Reading, England train station. The rendition of the...
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A waxwork version of Sir Paul McCartney's head has been left on a train--and now $4,000 is being offered for its safe return. The owner of the head, Joby Carter, left it on...
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Paul McCartney said Wednesday he's carrying a message of peace for Israel and the Palestinians, rejecting criticism of his planned concert in Tel Aviv. McCartney toured the...
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Paul McCartney's ex-wife is donating $1 million worth of soy hamburgers, soy hot dogs and soy chicken cutlets to one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bronx. Heather...
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Legendary Beatles star Paul McCartney said he was pressed to cancel his upcoming performance in Israel, but reassured Israeli fans in comments published on Thursday he...
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A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at auction on Thursday for $497,500 to a U.S. collector. The scorched Fender Stratocaster...
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Paul McCartney will perform for the first time ever in Israel next month -- more than 40 years after the Beatles were blocked from giving a concert in the country, the...
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An upcoming concert by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the...
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More than 40 years after the Beatles were banned from playing in Israel, Sir Paul McCartney will reportedly take the long and winding road back to Tel Aviv next month. ...
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Sir Paul McCartney is set to perform in Israel, 40 years after his legendary band, the Beatles, were banned from playing in the Holy Land. Israeli media were abuzz with...
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A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday. Cameo...
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Paul McCartney churned out a Beatles-laden song list to a pumped-up crowd gathered Sunday for a free concert as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration. ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles...
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As party favors go, a brand-new song from Paul McCartney might be tough to beat. At least that's what the former Beatle is hoping for, promising the ditty to anyone and...
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Paul McCartney can now add one more honor to the numerous awards, accolades and the knighthood he has already received. The ex-Beatle on Monday was awarded an honorary...
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Sometimes it seems Paul McCartney can't win for losing. The former Beatle has long been an outspoken advocate of environmental causes and animal rights. He is a vegetarian...
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Sometimes love isn't all you need. A judge in London granted a preliminary divorce Monday to former Beatle Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. If no one objects, the divorce...
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Maybe now that he's single again, Paul McCartney is hoping those Ukraine girls will really knock him out. Whatever the reason, the former Fab has signed on to headline...
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A computer game based on the court case involving the divorce settlement between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills has been released online. The game, named "Mucca...
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A judge's ruling in the bitter Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case shed new light Tuesday on a miserable marriage, saying Mills twisted the truth when convenient and...
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At $48.6 million, Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills was pricey, but others in entertainment have paid more. Here's a look at some of the most expensive celebrity...
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Text of statement released by the Family Court on the financial settlement for Heather Mills in her divorce from Paul McCartney: This is a summary of the judgment handed...
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Paul McCartney's millions can't buy him love, but they can finance his way out of a bad marriage. The ex-Beatle was ordered Monday to shell out $48.7 million to his...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney is expected to find out on Monday how much of his fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills when a judge rules on their...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney is due to learn on March 17 how many of his millions he must hand over to Heather Mills as part of their divorce settlement. Mr Justice Hugh...
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They couldn't work it out and now judgment day looms for Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. After the former couple was once again unable to hammer out a divorce...
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Landing a Lifetime Achievement Award and
performing at the BRIT Awards gave a 500 percent boost to sales
of Paul McCartney's latest album "Memory Almost Full" in...
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills' weeklong divorce hearing ended Monday without a deal, and a judge will now impose a settlement on the warring couple.
As legal teams left...
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The divorce hearing between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills looks set to stretch into a second week, after a judge allotted extra time for the couple's court case.
The...
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It looks like a few more hard days' nights are in Paul McCartney's future.
Although his long-pending divorce trial was expected to wrap up following a week of...
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The long and winding divorce of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills McCartney may finally be coming to an end.
The high-profile duo began the first day of what's expected...
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Paul McCartney has a message for the media: Let me be.
The former Beatle posted a letter on his Website saying widespread press accounts that he had undergone a heart...
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Are the Stones rolling away from their longtime label?
Despite a 16-year relationship with Virgin/EMI, the Rolling Stones signed a one-album deal with Universal to release...
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The Brits, an annual showcase of the UK
recording industry, announced on Tuesday that the 2008 lifetime
achievement award is being given to Paul McCartney.
The former...
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Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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Paul McCartney is to record with his son, James, on his debut album.
The drummer and guitarist, the son of McCartney and his first wife Linda, has appeared on a handful of...
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Another day, another photographic flame for Paul McCartney?
Rosanna Arquette is the latest woman to be photographed with the 65-year-old ex-Beatle. The News of the World...
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Heather Mills McCartney, who is reportedly seeking millions of dollars in her breakup with Paul McCartney, denounced the world's rich as misers and snobs Wednesday.
Mills...
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Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he asked Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke to record a duet with him--but Yorke turned him down.
McCartney explained that Yorke, who...
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They're here, there and everywhere: Paul McCartney and his latest rumored love interest.
The 65-year-old ex-Beatle and a New Jersey trucking heiress (no, she's not a...
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As Heather Mills continues her reign of bad publicity, her estranged husband has been finding comfort in the arms of another woman.
Paul McCartney was photographed in the...
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Sarah Ferguson, no stranger to unflattering coverage in the British press, can empathize with Heather Mills McCartney, but doesn't have much sympathy for Paul McCartney's...
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They worked it out. Months after the owner of an Elvis Shop in London took the owner of a Beatles shop to court, the two parties settled their troubles without a trial...
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Prince freed himself from record labels years ago. Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have followed. Now the Material Girl appears to be kissing her big-name...
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills came together in court Thursday to continue the business of splitting up.
The former couple arrived at a London courthouse separately for...
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Paul McCartney and Kylie Minogue were among the honorees Monday at the Q music awards.
McCartney paid tribute to his late wife, Linda, as he was awarded the title of "Q...
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Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo
Starr are coming home to celebrate Liverpool's year as European
Capital of Culture in 2008.
McCartney is headlining a concert...
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Ex-Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney is said to be in talks to pen the soundtrack for Shrek 4.
McCartney has been named as being lined up to write the music for the next...
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Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's...
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Hollywood music emporium Amoeba Records has long been considered one of America's coolest record stores, but it got even cooler when it was paid a visit on Wednesday, June...
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Paul McCartney stormed the stage of a
small ballroom on Wednesday and delivered a 20-song set
featuring Beatles favorites and select cuts from his newly
released album...
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Caffeine junkies who go to Starbucks for their daily fix will get a nonstop dose of Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full" on Tuesday as the coffee company's new record label...
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Paul McCartney has admitted that no artist he's ever worked with has matched John Lennon.
The pair formed a legendary songwriting partnership in the Beatles during their 10...
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German prosecutors have decided to let Paul McCartney be.
Authorities said Friday that they were dropping an investigation into a 46-year-old Berlin woman's claim that...
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As Paul McCartney took to the pages of one British newspaper to claim he doesn't read news accounts of his private life, rival publications were running with the...
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Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory
Almost Full," ends his near-45-year association with
Capitol/EMI and begins a new dawn for the former Beatle.
Due June 5, the set...
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Better clear some space on your hard-drive for Memory Almost Full.
Paul McCartney's upcoming solo album is going to be available for downloading and streaming via PCs...
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"American Idol" creator Simon Fuller was determined to stretch the boundaries of the hit TV show this season, staging an ambitious charity special and a songwriting...
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Paul McCartney is going on the record about his new record—and nothing else.
The former Beatle released a lengthy statement on his Website Monday, waxing nostalgic...
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Despite what she achieved with her bottom half, Heather Mills' top half never quite caught up.
A week after judges recommended ballet lessons to boost her form,...
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Thousands of returned tickets for the
Glastonbury Festival sold out in hours after going on sale at 9
a.m. on Sunday.
Michael Eavis, the farmer who runs the festival, had...
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Wannabe pop star Sanjaya Malakar,
the "American Idol" contestant best known for his wacky
hairdos, was booted from the hit show on Wednesday,
disappointing a hard core of...
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Fergie's cover of Heart's classic
"Barracuda" and a duet between Eddie Murphy (as Donkey) and
Antonio Banderas (as Puss in Boots) on Sly & the Family...
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Julian Lennon sold a share of his financial stake in Beatles songs co-written by his late father to a New York music publishing firm in a deal announced Friday.
Financial...
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Paul McCartney will make nearly $400 million when the Beatles' music is made available on the Internet, according to reports.
Sir Macca was at the center of lawsuit between...
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Hey, Jude, take your dad's songs and make you richer.
Julian Lennon, John Lennon's eldest son, has decided to sell an economic stake in the compositions cowritten...
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The company representing The Beatles has
settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with
EMI Group, in a deal that could finally pave the way for...
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Paul McCartney was introduced as the first artist signed to Starbucks Corp.'s new record label, lending an iconic nameplate to the coffeehouse giant's latest entertainment...
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Paul McCartney's upcoming new album is already generating caffeine buzz.
The erstwhile Beatle has become the first artist to sign with Starbucks' fledgling Hear...
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Starbucks Corp. said on Wednesday
former Beatle Paul McCartney would be the first musician to
release an album on the coffee shop chain's new Hear Music
record...
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Maybe Paul McCartney's money can't buy him love, but it can apparently buy his way out of an unhappy marriage.
According to published reports, the former Beatle...
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A group of New York musicians is
planning to do what the Beatles never did -- perform the songs
the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they
stayed...
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are ready to get back to the business of breaking up.
The estranged duo came face-to-face Thursday for the second day in a row in London's...
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Heather Mills McCartney has some issues. Just don't ask us what exactly they are.
The estranged wife of Paul McCartney dropped in Wednesday at a police station by...
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Apparently, they can work it out.
Ending more than two decades of legal wrangling—and potentially opening up iTunes to the crown jewel of music catalogs—the...
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Apple Inc. has settled its long-running
trademark dispute with The Beatles' company, Apple Corps Ltd,
in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Fab Four's
songs to...
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So much for taking it to court-the Mills sisters apparently prefer to take it to the Internet.
Fiona Mills, the younger sister of Heather Mills McCartney, has lashed out...
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Heather Mills McCartney may have just become the $63 million woman. Or not.
After months of waging an increasingly acrimonious and public divorce battle, Paul...
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We know that the Rolling Stones,
Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band
will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007.
But there is always a dark horse...
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After a year of turmoil, it's not surprising that Paul McCartney's ready to turn back time.
The former Beatle, 64, is working on developing a musical based on his early...
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The Beatles are set to feature on
British postage stamps for the first time, the Royal Mail said
on Thursday.
Some 37 years after the world's most famous pop group...
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Stella McCartney has given birth to her second child, a girl, the fashion designer's spokesman said Tuesday.
Stephane Jaspar said Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis was born Dec. 8...
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Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall are the parents of twin boys.
The new arrivals — named Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James — were born on Wednesday,...
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Scorned by country music radio, the Dixie Chicks are all right by the Grammys.
The finger-pickin' trio, just about nixed from Nashville for lead singer Natalie Maines'...
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Paul McCartney, U2 and Eric Clapton joined thousands of other musicians Thursday in an appeal to the government to extend the British copyright protection on their...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams
joined thousands of other performers on Thursday in an appeal
for an extension to British copyright on their recordings.
They called for...
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A Texas bookstore owner bought a rare
page of working lyrics for Beatle Paul McCartney's song
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for $192,000 at an auction of rock
and pop...
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Apparently, Sir Paul McCartney can get by with a little help from his shrink.
The former Beatle revealed in an interview with Britain's Radio Times that he is seeing a...
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Original handwritten lyrics by former
Beatle Paul McCartney and a guitar owned by legendary rock
musician Jimi Hendrix are among the featured items in a major
New York...
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Heather Mills McCartney says rumors that she has a romantic relationship with her personal trainer are false, and that she'll never remarry after her four-year union with...
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New releases by two popular music
legends offer another twist to the classical crossover tale.
Paul McCartney and Sting have literally "crossed over" from
their...
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British crooner Engelbert Humperdinck says he was inspired by Elvis, lucky to have a wife
who did not mind women throwing panties at him, and once fired
a manager who made...
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"You can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings go for a ride." It was an idyllic picture of marriage in the golden years that Paul McCartney sang of in the 1967...
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Fifty years after his first appearance on the show that became known as "American Bandstand," Dick Clark is ready to let go of the microphone.
The famed host is auctioning...
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A major pop recording label is opening an online portal for aspiring singers and groups, EMI announced Tuesday.
The group's Parlophone label, whose artists include Paul...
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Can a voice from the grave earn a
Grammy?
That question is swirling around music circles this week as
nomination ballots for the upcoming Grammy Awards -- the
industry's...
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Paul McCartney vowed on Wednesday to
defend himself in court against accusations published in
British newspapers that he physically attacked his estranged
wife Heather...
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Flamboyant New York band the Scissor
Sisters dominated music sales in Britain for a second week as
they stayed at the top of both the singles and album charts.
Their...
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Ray Charles and Count Basie never
recorded together, but a new CD pairs the two music luminaries
posthumously.
The CD, "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," featuring Charles'
vocals...
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Ray Charles and Count Basie never
recorded together, but a new CD pairs the two music luminaries
posthumously.
The CD, "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," featuring Charles'
vocals...
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In the midst of tabloid rumors, lock-changing snafus and a
potentially costly divorce battle, Paul McCartney has remained
relatively mum about his split from Heather Mills...
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For the disco-influenced New York
band the Scissor Sisters, who have enjoyed major success in the
United Kingdom, the U.S. market remains a challenge.
"American music fans...
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Paul McCartney, "Ecce Cor Meum" (EMI Classics)
The influence and ubiquity of Paul McCartney in pop circles is undeniable. Perhaps lesser-known, however, is the former...
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Paul McCartney's "Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)," a new classical work for chorus and orchestra, will premiere at Royal Albert Hall on Nov. 3.
The concert will feature...
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When his "Modern Times"
debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old
Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart.
Dylan benefited from...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney has pulled
out of a Los Angeles fundraiser for land mine victims because
of his impending divorce from wife Heather Mills, the charity
said on...
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Karl Wallinger's World
Party was more like an exclusive club Monday at the Roxy.
Thirteen years ago, when Wallinger and company shared a bill
with Lenny Kravitz on a massive...
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His lawyer once represented Prince Charles. Her lawyer squared off for Princess Diana.
Small wonder Britain's newspapers are comparing the divorce case of Paul McCartney...
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Love isn't all you need. Sometimes keys help, too.
Police were called to the London home of Paul McCartney
Monday evening after staffers mistook the rocker's estranged...
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A security guard at Paul McCartney's London home called police when one of his estranged wife's guards climbed a wall to let her in, a spokesman for Heather Mills McCartney...
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Inside a disheveled Long
Island beach cottage on a muggy summer day, Jamie Kristine
Seerman sings into a microphone, strumming a battered guitar,
recording on a computer a...
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Two decades after releasing her first
album, French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is issuing a
follow-up.
That 1986 debut, "Charlotte Forever" (Philips), was written
by...
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Paul McCartney is (still) not dead. He's just writing music in a
dead language.
The former Beatle will release Ecce Cor
Meum (Behold My Heart in Latin), his fourth...
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The era of the "amicable" Paul McCartney-Heather Mills McCartney
split appears to be over.
McCartney has filed for
divorce, alleging "unreasonable behavior" on the...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney is hoping
classical music fans will sing along to his latest album -- in
Latin.
A new full-length work of classical music by McCartney,
"Ecce...
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Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell
will sing the main title song for the upcoming James Bond film
"Casino Royale."
Cornell, perhaps best known as the frontman for...
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Paul McCartney's first guitar is to be auctioned this month at the Abbey Road studios in London. The instrument is expected to fetch around $100,000 in the sale, which takes...
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EMI Group PLC and Warner Music Group Corp., locked in a tug of war after each rejected a takeover bid from the other, are still discussing a merger, EMI said...
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Musician Jeff Buckley is
getting the biopic treatment.
Writer-director Brian Jun, whose "Steel City" was nominated
for the grand jury prize at January's Sundance Film...
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About 14,000 yesterdays have passed since Paul McCartney first mused about turning 64.
Sunday, he can stop musing.
The Beatles' groundbreaking 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's...
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Ringo Starr has spoken about the "ugly" split between his friend and fellow former Beatle, Paul McCartney, and McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills.
Starr accused the...
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Tony Bennett has recruited more than a dozen music heavyweights, including Bono, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand, to sing on his new album, "Tony Bennett: Duets/An...
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Heather Mills McCartney, the estranged wife of Paul McCartney, said Tuesday the couple will divorce, and that she plans to sue newspapers that have been digging into her...
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills McCartney may be uncoupling, but they're still of one mind--or at least, their publicists are.
The Mrs.' rep shot down a report Wednesday...
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It's 40 years since the Beatles'
landmark album "Revolver" hit the charts and, while Liverpool
bands may no longer be top of the world, the music scene in the
Fab Four's...
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Pornographic photos of Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills, have surfaced in the British tabloid The Sun and on newspaper's website, www.thesun.co.uk. The photos...
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Apparently, Heather Mills won't be needing or feeding Paul McCartney when he's 64.
The 63-year-old ex-Beatle and the
38-year-old model-turned-activist have announced...
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Paul Simon, "Surprise" (Warner Bros.)
As the second song on Paul Simon's new album begins, he's walking along a riverbank, "locked in a struggle for the right combination...
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If the snippets Neil Young is posting on his Web site are any indication, his upcoming album, "Living With War," will be a serious musical broadside against the Bush...
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The Beatles, "The Beatles: The Capitol Albums Vol. 2" (Capitol)
In 1965, a year after Beatlemania blasted through America, Capitol Records made sure to saturate the market...
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Two legendary companies in the music industry are to meet Wednesday in a London courtroom to fight it out over what might be the world's most recognizable logo: A simple...
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It looks like there won't be another day in paradise for Phil Collins and his wife of six years, Orianne.
The
couple announced they were splitting in a joint statement...
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Opponents of Canada's seal hunt have a powerful ally in their bid to end the annual slaughter: Paul McCartney, who has pledged to take to the ice floes and frolic with the...
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Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, want Canadian seal
hunters to get back.
The couple, longtime animal-rights
activists, are heading to the icy Canadian...
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Paul McCartney and his wife will travel to the ice floes off the Canadian Maritimes this week to observe seal pups before the country's annual hunt opens, the Humane Society...
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John Lennon sat down at his piano on Jan. 17, 1967 and used a black felt-tip marker to start writing the lyrics to a song called "A Day In the Life."
He revised the song...
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Kelly Clarkson beat out singers
including Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow and Paul McCartney to
become the first contestant from "American Idol" to win a
Grammy on Wednesday but...
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Reclusive funk music pioneer Sly
Stone stole the show in bizarre fashion at the Grammy Awards on
Wednesday, surprising everyone by making his first major public
appearance...
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Sometimes, the members of U2 can't make it on their own--they
need help hauling all those heavy Grammys around.
The
veteran Irish rockers were the big winners Wednesday...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members U2 captured the Grammy Award for album of the year for the disc "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
It was the band's second major award...
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When Jay-Z walked onto the stage wearing a John Lennon T-shirt underneath his gleaming white suit, it was a hint of the Grammy Awards' oddest mashup of the night.
The rap...
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Who would have figured Paul McCartney, at age 63, would make the most noise at the Grammys?
"It's the first time I've ever played the Grammys," he said, "and I've finally...
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The biggest mystery at Wednesday
night's Grammy Awards has nothing to do with how many of
music's top prizes leading nominees Mariah Carey, Kanye West
and John Legend will...
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A British music studio said Wednesday it had bought Air Studios, the recording facility founded by Beatles producer George Martin.
Richard Boote, owner of Strongroom...
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Scott Storch has some words for the Grammys.
We can't print them here, but given that Storch is not nominated for Producer of the Year after creating the music for some of...
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Tony Bennett breaks with tradition on his Grammy-nominated CD, "The Art of Romance," by doing something he had shied away from throughout a recording career dating back more...
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The Grammy Awards will open with a meeting of the Material Girl and the virtual world.
Madonna and the Gorillaz will perform together for the first time at the 48th Annual...
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Looking for the Temptations on Super Bowl Sunday? They'll be in Charlottesville, Va. Smokey Robinson? He's playing down the block from Ford Field the night before. Diana...
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Conceding
that 1990s MTV probably wouldn't have much use for a paunchy,
middle-aged tunesmith, Billy Joel wisely capped a sturdy
20-year chart run by announcing more than a...
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Mick and the boys will surely get some satisfaction out of this.
The Rolling Stones raked in $162 million in concert ticket
sales in 2005, becoming the top-grossing tour...
more >
Powerhouse tours by the Rolling Stones, U2 and Paul McCartney helped drive concert ticket revenues in North America to a record $3.1 billion in 2005, even as the number of...
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It might not mean another
British pop invasion, but England is swinging these days more
than it has in years with world-beating acts including
Coldplay, Gorillaz, Kaiser...
more >
The Beatles are asking the courts for a little help.
Apple Corps, the company representing Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and
the families of the late George Harrison and...
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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and relatives of their Beatles' bandmates are suing EMI to recover what they claim is more than $53 million in unpaid royalties, their company...
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Apple Records, the legendary label owned
by The Beatles, has sued record company EMI Group, claiming
that it is owed 30 million pounds ($53.1 million) in...
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The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems
complete.
The songbird soared with eight
Grammy nominations
Thursday, including an Album of the...
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Music, activism, vigils.
Things that were so much
a part of John Lennon's life are being used to mark the 25th anniversary
of his death.
In New York City, fans of...
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Time has been kind to John Lennon,
the former Beatle who was killed 25 years ago on Thursday just
as he was starting over.
Despite some erratic solo work and questionable...
more >
Motown fans miffed by the NFL's choice of the Rolling Stones for Super Bowl halftime entertainment are getting at least some satisfaction: Stevie Wonder will perform during...
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A television news producer. An emergency room doctor. Two NYPD beat cops. Before that December night 25 years ago, they shared little but this: As children of the '60s, the...
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The British have always been better at that whole propriety
thing.
Maybe that's why, for the second post-Janet year in a
row, the NFL has chosen across-the-Pond...
more >
The song was only six years old, but might just as well have been 60.
Walking out of a college dormitory after visiting a friend one December night 25 years ago, I heard...
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It was "Good Day Sunshine" for the international space station crew Sunday morning. NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to a live...
more >
Without a shaman or some supernatural help, Carlos Santana's
All That I Am didn't have enough to beat back the latest Now
That's What I Call Music! for chart supremacy this...
more >
Yoko Ono is setting the record straight.
The oft-maligned
widow of John Lennon has apologized to Paul McCartney over comments made
last month at England's Q Awards that...
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Yoko Ono has apologized to Paul McCartney for insinuating that his songs are trite.
Accepting an award on behalf of John Lennon last month, Ono said Lennon had sometimes...
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Ten hours, 28 minutes. That was the sum of the music recorded and released by the Beatles before breaking up, a volume of work that changed lives, careers and the course of...
more >
Ben Okuly thought he was ready to propose to his girlfriend, but first he needed Paul McCartney's approval.
Okuly was attending one of the former Beatle's concerts in...
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Take it from Peter Frampton. Or from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Townsend or Jimmy Page — they all owe a debt to Les Paul, father of the electric guitar.
"They all...
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So much for giving peace a chance.
In the latest
chapter of their ongoing feud, Yoko Ono dissed Paul McCartney's
songwriting prowess Monday at Britain's Q Awards.
...
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Yoko Ono picked up an award on behalf of John Lennon Monday — and appeared to take a dig at his former bandmate, Paul McCartney.
Accepting the special trophy at the Q...
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In times of war, tragedy and turmoil, many hit songs have eloquently expressed a collective angst. But even though Hurricane Katrina has already inspired several musical...
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Omaha is not a city teeming with hipsters.
But Ryan Eason still held out hope that he would experience a great local music scene during his summer-long internship in...
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The people have spoken: Paul Wall is the new chart champ.
The Houston rapper helped push Kanye West's latest to number one by
guesting on the Late Registration track...
more >
A city council committee has approved the demolition of a childhood home of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, despite protests from opponents of a redevelopment...
more >
At the rate he's going, Paul McCartney's fans will definitely still
need him when he's 64.
The former Beatle, who turned 63 in
June, is showing no signs of slowing down...
more >
Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
• Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site,...
more >
Former Beatle Paul McCartney, whose
music helped stir the rebellious counter-culture movement of
the 1960s, will soon deliver a different kind of message --
pitching...
more >
The National Football League is refusing to punt Kanye West,
despite the rapper's controversial trashing of President Bush's response
to Hurricane Katrina.
The NFL...
more >
Had Les Paul "only" invented the
solid-body electric guitar, he would be hailed as one of the
great pioneers of the music industry -- the guy who built the
engine that drove...
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Elton John played the piano and delighted hundreds of thousands of fans with old hits such as "Daniel" at a concert outside the Colosseum on Saturday night.
People of all...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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Paul McCartney founded MPL
Communications, one of the world's biggest privately owned
music publishing companies, as the home to his solo
compositions following the 1970...
more >
Acclaimed fiddle virtuoso Vassar
Clements, dubbed the "Miles Davis of bluegrass," died Tuesday
near Nashville following a battle with lung cancer. He was 77.
Clements...
more >
Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of others, died at his home Tuesday after a battle with lung...
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The ads for "Lennon," the benign new musical celebrating the life of pop superstar John Lennon, proclaim: "His words. His music. His story."
What seems to be missing,...
more >
Bass guitarist Guy Pratt has backed
some of the world's biggest rock acts, and his comedy routine
at the Edinburgh Fringe presents a cast of famous characters
whose behavior...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians,
actors...
more >
Fans of David Gray who want to hear
his biggest hit "Babylon" performed live as he tours to promote
his latest album may be disappointed because the
singer-songwriter is...
more >
Here, there and everywhere is a pretty good description of
Paul McCartney's schedule over the past months.
At
63, the former Beatle seems to be only gaining momentum in...
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Ringo Starr is reportedly mad at his Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney over last weekend's Live 8 performance in London. According to contactmusic.com, Starr wanted to play...
more >
In the hours leading up
to the TV broadcast of Live 8, AOL senior VP of programing Bill
Wilson watched from his desk in New York as the number of
visitors to his site's...
more >
After striking a sore note with viewers over their shoddy coverage
of the Live 8 concerts last weekend, MTV and VH1 are making an effort to
get back on key.
The...
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In the television equivalent of a do-over, the MTV Networks said they would air 10 commercial-free hours of performances Saturday from last weekend's Live 8...
more >
Live 8 organizers don't want your money, and apparently neither do
the musicians who participated in the historic mega-concerts either.
While last Saturday's Live 8...
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North American concert attendance declined nearly 12 percent in the first half of 2005 despite the first drop in average ticket prices in a decade.
Fans purchased 14.5...
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Not even Coldplay can mess with Texas.
The Brit band's
three-week run at number one came to a halt at the hands of Lone Star
State favorite son George Strait. His...
more >
Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Maroon 5 and other music acts have donated concert tickets and special experiences in an online auction for Music Clearing Minefields, an...
more >
Three days after the Live 8 concerts were heard around the world,
their impact continues to reverberate.
The musical
extravaganza which took place in nine venues...
more >
London Live 8's "Hey Jude" finale led by Paul McCartney was offered as a download, while the concert's opening number was topping the online charts in several countries, the...
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They came out of charity. They left with
booming record sales.
The galaxy of rock stars who took part in Live 8 concerts
on Saturday to help beat the curse of poverty have...
more >
London Live 8's "Hey Jude" finale led by Paul McCartney was offered as a download Monday, while the concert's opening number was topping the online charts in several...
more >
They came out of charity. They left with
booming record sales.
The galaxy of rock stars who took part in Live 8 concerts
on Saturday to help beat the curse of poverty have...
more >
Unbelievably, four days ago while still in our hometown of Los Angeles, we were toying with the idea of making a weekend trip to Philadelphia, City Of Brotherly Love, to...
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In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" as R.E.M. performed "Man on the Moon" in London. And R.E.M. hadn't left the stage...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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Live 8 got off to an anticlimactic start in Japan on Saturday, as Bjork and Good Charlotte joined local bands in a concert to promote awareness of poverty in Africa that...
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Thousands gathered in Rome's ancient Circus Maximus Saturday to watch Faith Hill, Duran Duran and a long list of Italian stars in one of 10 concerts across the globe to help...
more >
Icelandic singer Bjork rocked Tokyo on
Saturday, kicking off the biggest live music show in history
which aims to pressure world leaders to do more to fight
poverty.
Live...
more >
Musicians Bjork and Good Charlotte joined a handful of Japanese bands on Saturday, kicking off the Live 8 global music marathon intended to raise awareness of African...
more >
The full lineup for Live 8 in London:
Coldplay, Dido, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Keane, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Ms. Dynamite, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Razorlight, R.E.M,...
more >
Nearly everyone in the world can tune in Saturday to Live 8, the all-star concerts urging a political solution to African poverty. "We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, to...
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Organizers promise it will be the
greatest music show on Earth, as final preparations for the
Live 8 gigs are made and pop stars prepare to leave their egos
backstage to...
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Organizer Bob Geldof promises it will be
the greatest concert ever, as final preparations for the Live 8
gigs are made and hundreds of pop stars prepare to leave their
egos...
more >
Was Paul McCartney supposed to play at a concert benefiting victims of the Bluebird Canyon landslide? An event organizer claims the former Beatle promised to perform over...
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Two exhausted men have worked behind the
scenes, into the early hours, for eight weeks to pull off what
promises to be the greatest music show on earth.
Irish rocker Bob...
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Bob Geldof makes an unlikely saint. The rangy, foul-mouthed Irish rocker who fronted the Boomtown Rats in the 1970s is now far better known as a champion of Africa,...
more >
Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
more >
Wrinkly rockers never die, they just do
charity gigs.
Teenage pop fans hoping to hail their heroes at Saturday's
Live 8 concerts are in for a rude awakening when headline...
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Live 8 organizers announced Monday they will distribute 55,000 free tickets for admission into London's Hyde Park to watch the concert on giant screens.
Organizers said...
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African musicians will perform in
South Africa next week at a gig scheduled to coincide with the
Live 8 rock concerts, which aim to draw world leaders'
attention to poverty...
more >
Irish rock star Bob Geldof had to be
pushed hard before agreeing to coordinate the Live 8 concerts
next month to draw world leaders' attention to poverty in
Africa, one of...
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All you who missed out the ticket lottery or can't swing that
last-minute fare to London to see the anticipated Pink Floyd reunion,
fear not--Live 8 is going to be live in...
more >
Thanks to Scary Spice, Live 8 is in danger of a girl power
deficit.
Melanie Brown, the Scary fifth of the former
international chart-topping pop group the Spice Girls,...
more >
Bob Geldof told Italy's rock stars Tuesday
there was no excuse to miss the Rome stage of the Live 8
concert next month, as some of the country's top acts hesitated
over...
more >
Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Eight isn't nearly enough for Bob Geldof.
The charity
rocker behind the massive Live 8 shows aimed at raising awareness in
industrial countries of the problems in the...
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Internet auction site eBay has suspended
some of the accounts of users who sabotaged online sales of
free Live 8 concert tickets by making hoax bids of up to 10
million...
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Everybody knows Bob Geldof doesn't like Mondays. He apparently
can't tolerate scalpers--or their enablers--either.
The
ex-Boomtown Rat turned charity rock icon, lashed...
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African musicians will stage a concert
to coincide with major Live 8 charity events across Europe next
month, organizers said on Wednesday, after the main lineups
were...
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Organizers of the Live 8 concerts to raise awareness of poverty in Africa announced on Wednesday plans for a separate concert featuring African artists.
The event, called...
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Now that Michael Jackson has been
cleared of child molestation charges, the next big question is
whether the one-time unstoppable superstar can rebuild a
shattered career...
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The wall has come tumbling down.
After nearly a
quarter century of acrimony, the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, including
band cofounder and creative force Roger Waters,...
more >
Music fans broke a world record when
they sent more than 2 million text messages to try to get
tickets for next month's Live 8 concert in London, the Guinness
Book of...
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Organizers of the London Live 8 concert said Sunday that British rock band Pink Floyd would re-form for a performance at the July event.
Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer...
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The line-up of performers for Bob Geldof's upcoming "Live 8" concert in London for African
poverty relief was criticized by British artist Damon Albarn on
Friday as being...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
more >
The line-up of stars in Bob Geldof's
Live 8 concert for Africa in London was criticized by Brit
artist Damon Albarn on Friday for being "too damn Anglo-Saxon."
Twenty...
more >
They'll be grooving to Coldplay in London, rapping along with Will Smith in Philly, dancing mbalax with Youssou N'Dour in Paris. But in African cities and villages, they'll...
more >
Live 8 is up to six.
Annie Lennox, Dido and Travis are
among the artists signing on to headline a sixth Live 8 concert, this
one in the Scottish city of Edinburgh,...
more >
As jurors weigh Michael Jackson's
guilt in his child molestation trial, music industry executives
and bankers have been weighing a separate, but related
question: Will...
more >
Dido, Annie Lennox, Travis and Texas
will take the stage in Scotland for a sixth Live 8 rock concert
to press world leaders to fight African poverty at next month's
G8...
more >
As jurors weigh Michael Jackson's
guilt in his child molestation trial, music industry executives
and bankers have been weighing a separate, but related
question: Will...
more >
A texting lottery for tickets to
London's star-studded Live 8 charity concert opened on Monday
with hundreds of thousands expected to spend up to 20 million
pounds competing...
more >
Paul McCartney is working on attracting a new generation of fans.
The former Beatle has signed on to write a children's book
titled High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry...
more >
Will an Internet leak leave Coldplay frozen out of
record-setting first-week sales?
Just days before its
official U.S. release, the band's hotly anticipated new...
more >
Rod Stewart's taking his whole "Forever Young" thing a little too
seriously.
Proving that he's not quite ready to enjoy the AARP
life, the geriatric rocker announced...
more >
Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he
masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert ever mounted, to
fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old...
more >
Charity rocker Bob Geldof on Tuesday
announced plans for five star-studded concerts aimed at
pressuring world leaders into eradicating African poverty.
Twenty years after...
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London's Hyde Park, Circus Maximus in Rome and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia are among the venues for Live 8, a series of concerts being organized by Bob Geldof, the...
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Live Aid founders Bob Geldof and Midge Ure confirmed Thursday they are planning a star-studded concert to fight poverty in Africa — but insisted it wouldn't be Live Aid...
more >
Stevie Wonder is adding some vision to the term "music television."
After 10 years without an all-new studio album, the Grammy-winning Motown superstar returns in June...
more >
Having toured the States numerous
times in support of their debut album, "Hopes and Fears," the
members of U.K. rock trio Keane are beginning to think ahead to
their...
more >
Paul McCartney is ready to live and let tour.
The cute
Beatle and his new band are on the run this fall for his first magical
mystery tour of the U.S. in three and a...
more >
Paul McCartney) is ready to rock — again.
The former Beatle on Monday announced dates for his fall U.S. tour, set to kick off Sept. 16 at Miami's American Airlines...
more >
Coldplay, Kylie Minogue) and the White
Stripes are among the headline acts slated for this year's
sold-out edition of the Glastonbury Festival, to be held...
more >
Dave Stewart's piano, played by musicians including Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney, sold for $6,740 in an auction.
The piano belonging to Stewart, who co-founded the...
more >
Sam Andrew will soon
embark on what mildly might be called a challenging task: to
replace his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin).
This time around, his band's...
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Sam Andrew will soon
embark on what mildly might be called a challenging task: to
replace his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin.
This time around, his band's...
more >
In a March 10 story about Paul McCartney and his wife donating a painting to the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, The Associated Press, relying on...
more >
Growing sales of DVD music
videos and a sharp increase in digital downloads kept the
global music market afloat in 2004 in what the International
Federation of the...
more >
Chances are you've heard Jem's music even if you didn't know her name.
Her songs have been prominently featured on Fox's "The O.C.," and she portrayed a wedding singer...
more >
It was one of those days that's so cold, your face hurts only five minutes after going outside.
So I wrapped my scarf tightly around my neck, put on a heavy coat and got...
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A look back at the week in entertainment from The Associated Press:
Oscar Replay: Jamie Foxx 's passionate acceptance speech for his best-actor award for "Ray" was the...
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Heather Mills McCartney, wife of Paul McCartney , and Rick Wakeman of Yes campaigned for a ban on cat and dog fur in the European Union .
"It's barbaric that this is going...
more >
In a Feb. 15 story about Janis Joplin, The Associated Press erroneously reported that her estate had announced plans for a film about Joplin's life starring pop singer Pink...
more >
The Recording Academy is
hosting flashbacks to previous years' Grammy Awards ceremonies,
letting music fans relive the event in three-minute montages.
The shorts are among...
more >
Nobody, but nobody was worried when Paul McCartney stripped off his jacket midway through his halftime performance at the Super Bowl. All he revealed was a long-sleeved red...
more >
Apparently hands are about the only slow thing on Eric Clapton .
The aging guitar god, whose rock peers are busy becoming
grandfathers, is a father again at the age of...
more >
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, who have been mum on their reported marriage, will perform together for the first time at the Grammy Awards later this month.
The...
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Oh, what the NFL would have given for a marching band last year instead of Janet Jackson .
Over the 38-year history of the Super Bowl, halftime has always been the best...
more >
Let's hope Janet Jackson exerts a little more control over her next
Super Bowl cameo.
The "Nasty" singer is ready to make an
encore at the big game just a year after...
more >
Ten U.S. football stadiums have
formed a network to promote themselves and grab a piece of the
nearly $3 billion concert and live entertainment business.
The Gridiron...
more >
Elton John , Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins and Rod Stewart are piping
up for tsunami relief.
The quartet is among several music
stars who have begun recording a new...
more >
Elvis Presley notched another musical
milestone Sunday when a re-release of his 1959 hit "One Night"
became the 1,000th song to top the British pop charts.
The...
more >
The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
more >
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
more >
Madonna 's blockbuster Re-Invention
tour took all of the drama out of the top tour of the year
race, ringing up a year's best $125 million in total box office
gross by...
more >
Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
more >
Kanye West was "robbed" at the American Music Awards. On
Tuesday, he found his reward, nominated for a field-best 10 Grammy
Awards.
The rapper's The College...
more >
It was No. 1 in 1984, and it's No. 1 again in 2004. The star-studded re-recording of the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit the top of the British music...
more >
Nearly 45 years after Stevie
Wonder's live harmonica workout "Fingertips, Pt. 2" topped the
charts, the soul visionary's musical charm still enthralls.
From preteen...
more >
Do they know it's Christmas? Maybe, maybe not. The bigger question
is: Do we care?
Band Aid 20's new version of "Do They
Know It's Christmas?" is selling at a record...
more >
The new Band Aid charity single will be sold on Apple's popular iTunes online music service, with the company subsidizing the retail cost of the track.
Apple had initially...
more >
Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson will
be the honoree at music charity group MusiCares' annual
pre-Grammys bash in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, organizers said
Wednesday.
The...
more >
A new recording of the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit British record stores, many of which opened early in anticipation of large crowds.
The single...
more >
Paul McCartney will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 6 as the NFL goes mainstream after the controversy over last February's show.
"There's nothing bigger...
more >
With about 115 dates
already slotted, U2's 2005 world tour will likely surpass its
last outing in capacity and dollars.
The group's 2001 tour grossed $104 million from...
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Deck the halls with concert
tickets.
With more than a dozen Christmas tours launching this
season, organizers say concertgoers are seeking out live
holiday entertainment...
more >
Rome's mighty Colosseum risks being
damaged and diminished by a major MTV rock concert,
traditionalists and conservationists warned on Thursday.
As a prelude to the MTV...
more >
John Lennon has defeated Elvis Presley
to be voted the greatest rock 'n' roll icon of all time in a
poll conducted by Q music magazine.
Paul McCartney , Lennon's fellow...
more >
Considering that once upon a
time he would spend weeks on end lying in bed at home in
California too addled to stir, it's a surprise to find rock
legend Brian Wilson topping...
more >
Pop musicians have re-recorded the
charity mega-hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise funds
for African relief.
But critics wonder whether the question asked...
more >
Twenty years after the release of one of
the biggest singles of all time, leading British artists
gathered on Sunday to re-record the Bob Geldof -inspired charity
hit "Do...
more >
It's no coincidence that two new
John Lennon albums, "Acoustic" and "Rock 'N' Roll," were
released simultaneously earlier this week via Capitol.
As its name implies,...
more >
Tony Bennett has just released a new
studio album and a reconfigured version of his 1991 boxed set
via Columbia, but the venerable vocalist is already looking
ahead to...
more >
Paul McCartney , U2 frontman Bono,
Robbie Williams and Dido are among the performers lined up for
the new recording of the all-star Band Aid charity single "Do
They Know...
more >
When Nirvana performed "Lithium" at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards, Kurt Cobain wore a curious T-shirt with a frog logo and the question, "Hi, how are you?"
The shirt was...
more >
A string of top musicians, including
Paul McCartney , Sting and Eric Clapton will launch an album on
Tuesday dedicated to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San
Suu Kyi,...
more >
Admitting to being intimidated in
the presence of a former Beatle, Neil Young joined forces with
Paul McCartney on Thursday to perform at a $500-per-seat
fundraiser to...
more >
Only in Las Vegas: Beatles songs,
as portrayed by the acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil, will
replace animal training duo Siegfried and Roy at one of the
city's biggest...
more >
The Beatles are teaming up with Cirque du Soleil to create a theatrical production that will replace the legendary Siegfried & Roy act at The Mirage hotel-casino.
It is...
more >
Capitol Records will
issue the first four U.S. albums by the Beatles as a boxed set,
"The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," on Nov. 16.
The release marks the first time the Fab...
more >
Hip-hop group Outkast has landed five nominations in next month's MTV Europe Music Awards, organizers said Wednesday. Another artist from Atlanta — singer Usher —...
more >
Although not an announced part of
the lineup, Neil Young spent the weekend making appearances at
Vote for Change tour stops in Toledo, Ohio and Detroit.
Sources suggest...
more >
Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Andrew
W.K., Sean Lennon and Suicide's Alan Vega have joined the
lineup for an Oct. 8 New York show to benefit Cedars Sinai
Cancer Research...
more >
Paul McCartney , Eric Clapton , Sting and U2 are joining forces on a benefit album for Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
R.E.M ., Avril Lavigne , Coldplay and...
more >
To beat country music's two biggest albums it apparently takes a
double dose of the country grammarian.
St. Louis rapper
Nelly banked more bling last week as his two...
more >
Live tracks from Pearl Jam, R.E.M .,
Ben Harper , Paul McCartney , Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls
highlight the track list for "For the Lady," a benefit album
for imprisoned...
more >
Forty years later, Carrie Mae Snapp is still aglow over her brush with The Beatles. Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' improbable, clandestine arrival in...
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Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event
founder Neil...
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It sounded too good to be true. Turns out it probably was. A long-sought trove of rare Beatles material that reportedly was found last month by a lucky British tourist...
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Comedian Chris Rock is preparing to
release his first album in five years, "Never Scared,"
featuring a parody of OutKast's Grammy-winning anthem "Hey Ya!"
Due Aug. 31 via...
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With the Colosseum and a swollen golden moon rising above it as a backdrop, Simon & Garfunkel closed out the European leg of their Old Friends tour with hundreds of...
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Paul McCartney awarded honorary rock 'n' roll diplomas to members of '80s girl group The Bangles at his Liverpool arts school.
McCartney made the band honorary companions...
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The members of '80s girl group The Bangles were awarded honorary "rock'n'roll diplomas" Friday by Sir Paul McCartney at his Liverpool arts school.
McCartney made the band...
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In one of the longest goodbyes in
music history, Cher is preparing yet another North American leg
for her Farewell tour.
Cher will begin a run of 33 shows July 23 at the...
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You never know where the Foo
Fighters' Dave Grohl is going to show up.
Now he's playing drums on the new Nine Inch Nails album,
but he is already looking ahead to the next...
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The historic 1985 Live Aid concert
will finally be released on DVD in the fall.
Earlier this year, the Band Aid Trust agreed to auction the
global rights for the concerts...
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Like the song says, you've got to hide your love--or at least your
priceless Beatles stash--away. Preferaby in a battered old suitcase.
A British man on holiday Down...
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Elton John will perform Tuesday at Radio City Music Hall in a benefit concert for The Juilliard School and London's Royal Academy of Music.
The concert will feature John...
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Rain didn't damped the enthusiasm for Paul McCartney , who took the stage at the Glastonbury music festival to cheers from tens of thousands of concertgoers.
The...
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Richard Wagner joined the likes of Oasis and Paul McCartney at the Glastonbury Festival on Sunday — the first time in the event's 23-year history that opera has...
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The Olympic torch traveled through London on a rainy Saturday, with Roger Banister hoisting the flame at Wimbledon to mark the start of a relay that ended with a concert...
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Paul McCartney kicked off his concert Sunday before an estimated crowd of 50,000 in St. Petersburg's Palace Square, making only his second appearance in Russia where fans...
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Notching a key milestone in the
long and winding road of his career, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is expected to play his 3,000th live show when he
performs later this...
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The Grateful Dead were pioneers in
releasing recordings from the band's vast archive of concert
tapes, but the "vault" of side projects by founding guitarist
Jerry Garcia ...
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Fans couldn't help but be curious last fall when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel strode onstage to open their reunion concerts with the song "Old Friends."
Old friends,...
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Paul McCartney says he got no thrill from heroin, but found cocaine more to his liking for a time.
"I tried heroin just the once," McCartney said in interview published...
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Paul McCartney says he got no thrill from heroin, but found cocaine more to his liking for a time.
"I tried heroin just the once," McCartney said in interview published...
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Paul McCartney returned to Madrid for the first time in 15 years and wowed a crowd of 30,000 fans with 33 songs, all but ten of them Beatles' tunes.
McCartney and his...
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He may be one of the world's most popular musicians, but Paul McCartney failed to impress residents in a corner of east London when he began rehearsing nearby.
The former...
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John Lennon memorabilia, including a leather collar he wore during the 1960s, was auctioned by Christie's for a total of $400,500.
The auction house called it the...
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Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and conductor Elgar Howarth will award the 2004 Polar Music Prize to bluesman B.B. King and composer Gyoergy Ligeti, organizers...
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David
Bowie wants you to make some ch-ch-changes to his tunes.
The Thin White Duke is giving fans a chance to bootleg his
music by using computer software that allows...
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A number of veteran artists have
inked new label deals and have their first releases in many
years forthcoming.
Brian Wilson 's album "Gettin' in Over My Head" will be...
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Starship may have built this city on rock and roll, but Blender magazine is tearing it down, naming the band's "We Built This City" as the worst song ever.
Some tunes on...
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A reclusive record executive dubbed "the
Howard Hughes of the music business" has toppled Paul McCartney
to become Britain's wealthiest music millionaire in the...
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Can you hear me now? RepeatSeat
hopes so, as it introduces cell-phone tickets to U.S.
event-goers this year.
Teaming up with fellow ticketing firm U.K.-based...
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Heather Mills McCartney, wife of the former Beatle, said she will appear in public service ads without her prosthetic leg to provoke attention to the 1.2 million traffic...
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A High Court judge ruled Wednesday that a trademark battle between Apple Computer Inc. and The Beatles' record company Apple Corps Ltd. should be heard in London.
Judge...
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Legendary musician Paul McCartney
became a dinner show entertainer when he took the stage at a
local restaurant in a California resort town and sang a few
songs, the...
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All of the more than 1,200 tickets for Alicia Keys ' concert at Copenhagen's 18th-century Royal Theater were sold in 16 minutes, organizers said Monday.
The 23-year-old...
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Ray Davies , frontman of legendary
British rockers The Kinks, was due to be honored by Queen
Elizabeth Wednesday for his services to music.
The Kinks shot to fame in 1964...
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Prince was crowned as musical royalty
on Monday as he joined the late George Harrison among eight
inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Also honored at the 19th...
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The forecast called for purple rain at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Monday, where inductee Prince's
electrifying performance was a highlight of the ceremony that...
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The Faces, a band known as much for
its excess as for its music, will return for one more round
with the four-disc box set "Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a
Bar..."
Due May 25...
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Janet didn't show. Justin did. Beyonc won--a lot.
The
46th
Annual Grammy Awards, irrevocably shaped by last weekend's 38th
annual Super Bowl, played it safe with a...
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It's going to be a long, bad weekend for Mean Mr. Mustard.
The Beatles,
never exactly a low-profile band, are about to be everywhere again,
celebrated from the...
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It was black and white, and watched all over.
In the days before color television, on the evening of Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles appeared live in the living rooms of 78...
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The first time OutKast got a Grammy nomination for best album, in 2002, hip-hop's eclectic duo was upstaged by the old-time bluegrass of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Two...
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With a little luck Paul
McCartney's missus will be feeling better soon.
A
spokeswoman for Heather Mills McCartney announced Friday that the Beatle
bride needs major...
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Paul McCartney 's wife, Heather, must undergo major pelvic surgery nearly two months after the birth of her baby, her spokeswoman said Friday.
Metal plates inserted in her...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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It may seem like only yesterday but
the Beatles' much-heralded first visit to America was 40 years
ago, and a group of die-hard fans wants to mark the occasion
for Beatles...
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Filmmaker Ken Vrana was marking the 69th anniversary of Elvis Presley 's birth Thursday by working on his own "Tribute."
Vrana has traveled 250,000 miles over the past 3...
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Bruce Springsteen was the top
concert draw across North America in 2003 as more than 1.6
million fans paid to take in his marathon shows and musings on
the struggles of the...
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Sir Mick Jagger was delighted to become a knight. Keith Richards called it a disgrace.
As with the Rolling Stones, so with British society: Some crave titles, some...
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He's 60, still singing, and now he's Sir Mick. That pouting, posturing icon of rock rebelliousness Mick Jagger officially joined the British establishment upon accepting a...
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British pop singer Elvis Costello has
married Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall in a private ceremony
in Britain, Costello's agent said on Thursday.
"Diana Krall and...
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Organizers of the Nelson
Mandela-inspired "46664" AIDS -awareness and fundraising
campaign are claiming the biggest TV and radio audience for any
single music...
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Santa Claus will be traveling to the beat of a different drum this Christmas — Ringo Starr 's.
The former Beatle will be the honorary Santa tracker as the North...
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The quiet Beatle's voice hasn't been forgotten.
Two years after his death,
George
Harrison will become the third Beatle enshrined in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a...
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Paul McCartney has written and recorded
a song to promote Nelson Mandela's AIDS Awareness campaign.
He collaborated with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics on
"Whole Life,"...
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The Phil
Spector case is playing like a broken record.
The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame music producer will remain free on $1 million
bail for the next two months as...
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Paul McCartney is a father again at 61. Wife Heather Mills gave birth to their first child, a girl, the couple announced Thursday.
Beatrice Milly McCartney weighed 7...
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Rocker Rod Stewart feels he has been
unfairly criticized for dating a younger woman, especially when
ex-Beatle Paul McCartney escaped censure despite taking a wife
half...
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Two Beatles-oriented DVD
projects that are being released Nov. 18 pay tribute to the
departed members of the Fab Four.
George Harrison and John Lennon are remembered in...
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The world premiere of the George Harrison documentary concert film, Concert For George, was held Wednesday night (September 24) in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio....
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The legal news website, smokinggun.com, has archived what are reportedly the 1998 documents covering Paul McCartney's attempt to recover original handwritten lyrics for the...
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Paul McCartney has been turned down by Britain's largest and most famous annual music festival, Glastonbury. Organizer Michael Eavis told BBC.com that the legendary former...
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The Family Way, Paul McCartney's first try at film music, has been rereleased by the Montreal-based XXI-21 Records label. McCartney scored the British film in late 1966,...
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After playing two shows over the weekend at Rome's historic Colosseum, Paul McCartney was surprised when two fans turned up at his hotel to return a personal diary he lost...
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On Saturday (May 10) Paul McCartney performed a benefit concert inside the crumbling walls of the Colosseum in Rome. The show, which featured McCartney playing an acoustic...
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A controversy has erupted over tickets for Paul McCartney's June 1 homecoming show in Liverpool, England. The 30,000 tickets for the concert, which will be the last show on...
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Paul McCartney thinks his one-time close friend Michael Jackson is an "unusual guy" and wonders about his parenting skills. During a recent interview with the BBC, McCartney...
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John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, says she will not fight with Paul McCartney over the changes he made to the songwriting credits on some of the Beatles songs he's recently...
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Paul McCartney shared songwriting "secrets" on a special program that aired Monday (April 21) on the BBC's Radio 2 in Britain. The former Beatle talked about the inspiration...
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A new CD called Hope, benefiting needy Iraqi children, was released in Britain on Monday (April 21). The album features contemporary pop stars covering songs from the '60s...
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Paul McCartney will hold a rock master-class seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 22 as part of the city's 300th anniversary celebration. On May 24, the former Beatle...
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Paul McCartney bounced back from a severe cold and continued his current "Back In The World" tour, playing a show Wednesday (April 9), in Manchester, England.
The former...
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Paul McCartney canceled the second show of his first British tour in 10 years on Sunday (April 6) because of a cold that caused him to lose his voice.
McCartney's spokesman...
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The former Cat Stevens and Paul McCartney are among the artists who appear on an upcoming benefit album for children in Iraq. The collection, called Hope, will be released...
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Paul McCartney has been told not to disturb Pope John Paul II during an upcoming free concert in Rome on May 11. The former Beatle will perform a three-hour show outside the...
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Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Moby, and Our Lady Peace are among the artists who have...
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Singers from Cheap Trick and the B-52s are taking part in a new covers album titled From A Window: Lost Songs Of Lennon & McCartney. The 17-track album includes songs that...
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Paul McCartney plans to play the largest concert of his career in May--a show in Rome for half a million people. No date has been set for the free show, but McCartney...
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Paul McCartney's upcoming performance in Scotland is being billed as that country's biggest ever. McCartney will play May 30 at Glasgow's Celtic Park, a soccer stadium with...
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Paul McCartney has lent his name to a line of musical-instrument cases for the first time. McCartney is endorsing Robles (RO-buh-lehz) Roadcase, a company that makes...
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Paul McCartney is named the richest celebrity in the world in the new issue of People. The magazine estimates McCartney's overall wealth as slightly more than $1 billion,...
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Paul McCartney had so much fun on the road last year that he's decided to do it again. McCartney will take his band out starting in March for an extension of his 2002...
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The Beatles' 1969 Abbey Road album cover has been airbrushed by politically correct poster companies in the United States to remove a cigarette held in Paul McCartney's...
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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...
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Paul McCartney's 2002 tour in support of his Driving Rain album was the top rock-and-roll road show of the year, according to Pollstar. The January 13 issue of the trade...
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Paul McCartney is celebrating his latest sales success. After playing to packed houses this year, McCartney's Back In The U.S. collection debuts at Number Eight on the...
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Paul McCartney has canceled his Australian concert date due to the recent terrorist attack in Bali that killed a number of Australian citizens. The November 23 show at...
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Paul McCartney releases a concert DVD and two-CD set on November 26 via Capitol Records. Back In The U.S. features performances from the Driving U.S.A. North American tour...
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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Eric Clapton are among those participating in a concert in London to commemorate the first anniversary of George Harrison's death.
The...
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Paul McCartney is planning to issue some Beatles music that was reportedly only heard once before in public. "Carnival Of Light" is a mostly instrumental 14-minute piece...
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon are among the artists featured on A Tribute To The King, an Elvis Presley covers collection due out October 22.
Drawn from the EMI Records...
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Paul McCartney is among the performing-arts legends who will be recognized at the 25th annual honors at the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts. McCartney is...
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Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson will perform at Adopt-A-Minefield's second annual Open Hearts, Clear Mines benefit concert on September 18. The event, organized by...
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Paul McCartney will launch the second leg of his latest successful U.S. tour on September 21 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The tour--changed from Driving USA to the Back In The...
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Paul McCartney took time out from his honeymoon to write to shareholders of the McDonald's fast food chain, urging them to apply its U.S. animal-welfare standards to its...
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Paul McCartney has authorized the first-ever sample of his material, which will be heard later this summer. McCartney OK'd the use of a section of "Old Siam, Sir," from the...
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Paul McCartney celebrates his 60th birthday on Tuesday (June 18). McCartney will reportedly spend his big day enjoying his honeymoon with new bride Heather Mills on an...
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Under threatening Irish skies, the much-anticipated lavish wedding of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills took place at Ireland's Castle Leslie in Glaslough, County Monaghan,...
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Despite best intentions at keeping their wedding venue private, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills were greeted by a crowd of well-wishers and media ranks when they arrived...
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The upcoming wedding of Paul McCartney to Heather Mills, reportedly taking place on Tuesday (June 11), has media from all over the world descending upon a tiny Irish village...
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Paul McCartney has "fans on the run" and scrambling to figure out when and where the former Beatles upcoming wedding to model Heather Mills will take place. The nuptials are...
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Sixties singer Lulu has released Together, an album of duets made with a little help from her friends, who include Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, and Joe Cocker. Lulu...
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Paul McCartney was the star of the show at London's Party At The Palace Monday (June 3), celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 50 years on the British throne. McCartney thrilled...
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A trio of rock royalty is at war--over a castle, no less. Paul McCartney is taking on Madonna and Sting in a head-to-head battle to purchase the Amhuinnsuidhe Castle in...
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Paul McCartney is continuing his Driving USA tour this Saturday (May 4) in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. Having completed two-thirds of his tour, McCartney has noticed...
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Paul McCartney's Driving USA tour is being filmed for a forthcoming DVD/home video release, he says.
"We're just starting to think of what we might do, but a few people...
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Paul McCartney says his Driving USA tour is "very emotional," although he chose to make that observation north of the border. During a 15-minute press conference this...
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Four dates into his Driving USA tour of North America, Paul McCartney reports that he's having the time of his life. In a message posted on his official website...
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After launching Monday night (April 1) in Oakland, Paul McCartney continues his Driving USA tour Wednesday (April 3) at the Compaq Center in San Jose, California. This marks...
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Paul McCartney kicks off his Driving USA tour tonight (April 1) at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California. Although he initially planned to only play a dozen or so dates...
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Paul McCartney will make his Academy Awards performance debut on this weekend's telecast. McCartney is set to sing "Vanilla Sky," the title song from the Tom Cruise/Cameron...
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As Paul McCartney prepares for the April 1 kickoff of his North American tour, the former Beatle 's paintings will be hanging back in his hometown. The Walker Art Gallery in...
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Paul McCartney has announced the itinerary for his upcoming Driving USA tour. The trek kicks off April 1 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California, and continues for 20...
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Paul McCartney was a surprise guest at a tribute concert for his late Beatles bandmate George Harrison on Sunday (February 24) in their hometown of Liverpool, England....
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Paul McCartney could hit the jackpot by signing on to play one night in Las Vegas. The former Beatle is poised to become the highest paid British performer of all time...
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The confusion concerning the actual California location where former Beatle George Harrison died last November has been resolved. Los Angeles officials report that Harrison...
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Paul McCartney has outlined a few more details of his 2002 tour plans, after initially announcing the trek at the Super Bowl yesterday (February 3). The Drivin' USA tour,...
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Paul McCartney will receive a lifetime-achievement award from human rights organization Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) in New York on Monday (January 28). McCartney will...
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A who's who of British and American musicians have reportedly signed on to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee in June, commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's 50th year on...
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Paul McCartney has signed on to perform at this year's Super Bowl on February 3 in New Orleans. McCartney will lead a special tribute, performing his new anthem "Freedom,"...
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Paul McCartney and Rolling Stones singer-guitarist Keith Richards are among those paying tribute to Johnny Cash on an upcoming two-disc career retrospective. The Essential...
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Paul McCartney called for the English government to issue a ban on fox hunting with dogs Wednesday (December 26). McCartney, along with other British celebrities called on...
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Paul McCartney and Sting are set to do battle when the Golden Globe Awards are handed out next month. Both have been nominated in the best original song from a motion...
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There is absolutely no truth to a story making the rounds that claims George Harrison actually died in a Los Angeles home owned by Paul McCartney. The site of Harrison's...
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Paul McCartney's last visit with his late Beatles bandmate George Harrison was warm and emotional, he told Norway's NRK television network in an interview prior to his...
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As news of former Beatle George Harrison's death spread on Friday (November 30), the surviving members of the legendary British band, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr,...
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The Concert For New York City, the two-disc document of the landmark post-September 11 benefit concert produced by Paul McCartney, arrives in stores today (November 27) from...
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Paul McCartney's new album, Driving Rain is just the latest project in what's been an extremely busy year for the former Beatle. Besides recording the album, McCartney has...
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Paul McCartney was a virtual witness to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on Monday (November 12), much as he was for the September 11 terror attacks on the World...
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Out Tuesday (November 13) is Driving Rain, the latest album from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. Much attention has been paid to the fact that McCartney made the album--his first...
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The overwhelming response to Paul McCartney's live debut performance of the song "Freedom" at October 20's Concert For New York City at Madison Square Garden has prompted a...
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Among the many notable tracks on the just-released all-star collection Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records is Paul McCartney's rendition of "That's All Right,"...
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Several of the biggest names in rock history, including the Who, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and Elton John, joined headliner Paul McCartney at the...
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LAUNCH has obtained a tentative song list for the Concert For New York City, the all-star benefit show that takes place at Madison Square Garden tomorrow (October 20). The...
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Paul McCartney is donating the proceeds from his new single, "From A Lover To A Friend," to the families of the New York firefighters who died in the September 11 terror...
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Paul McCartney will headline the Concert For New York benefit event on October 20 at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In a statement, McCartney explained why he got...
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Paul McCartney is planning an all-star concert to benefit New York City's firemen on October 20 at New York's Madison Square Garden, which is said to include former Beatles...
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Paul McCartney, who was about to leave New York City on September 11 when the World Trade Center terror attack occurred, will hold a benefit concert next month to aid the...
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Paul McCartney's long-awaited new album, Driving Rain, is set for release on November 13, and the first single, "From A Lover To A Friend," is due to arrive October 29. The...
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Paul McCartney, whose artistic endeavors have taken him into film on occasion, revealed that he plans to make a full-length animated feature in the near future. During his...
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Paul McCartney is lending his backing to a British program to get children to stop drinking milk. The former Beatle, through his continued involvement with People For The...
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(8/20/01, 3 p.m. ET)- A Paul McCartney tribute album is in the works, and it will feature performances by Semisonic, SR-71, Matthew Sweet, and Steven Page and Kevin Hearn...
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Paul McCartney proved himself an old-fashioned romantic this week when he asked girlfriend Heather Mills to marry him. The former Beatle actually got down on one knee to pop...
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Wingspan: Hits And History has found a willing audience: The two-disc Paul McCartney & Wings collection was the second-highest selling album in the country last week, moving...
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5/16/01, 10 a.m. ET - Paul McCartney has revealed that because of an agreement signed more than 30 years ago, he has been losing out on royalties and appropriate songwriting...
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Tonight (May 11), after weeks of saturation TV ads and media hype, Wingspan--the two-hour documentary about Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band--airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC....
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Wingspan isn't the only thing occupying Paul McCartney's time these days. He's also been working on a new album of his own, recording in Los Angeles with producer David...
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Paul McCartney has got tongues wagging about his recent comments concerning remarriage. While attending the Cannes Film Festival in France to promote the new Wingspan...
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The flight of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band Wings lasted from 1971-80 and is currently being documented on the just-released Wingspan album and a television documentary...
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Out today (May 8) is Wingspan: Paul McCartney Hits And History, the two-disc, 40-stong retrospective of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles work, mainly with his band Wings. The...
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Astute Paul McCartney observers will note that the initial tracklist for the Wingspan retrospective, which hits stores Tuesday (May 8), included the group's controversial...
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In the upcoming television documentary Wingspan, Paul McCartney discusses what life was like for him following the breakup of the most popular rock-and-roll band in history....
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Need a loan? Look no further than Paul McCartney. Sure, the former Beatle has always been rich, but he's now been dubbed the first pop musician to reach the billion-dollar...
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(4/19/01, 1 p.m. ET) --Veggie-lover Paul McCartney can be heard crunching on a piece of celery on a new recording by Welsh pop group Super Furry Animals. McCartney chews in...
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The Girls Of The Beatles, a play based on several characters from Beatles songs, is continuing to wow Moscow audiences, according to the BBC. The play features the...
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Wingspan, the two-disc Paul McCartney & Wings retrospective that features 40 songs hand-picked by McCartney to tell the story of the post-Beatles group he formed with his...
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A host of superstar acts have been tabbed to play a U.K. Farm Aid-style event, at least according to the British press. The bigger names being bandied about are Paul...
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Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney will be paying property taxes in California soon. McCartney has paid $4 million for a 4,700-square foot, French country-style gated house on a...
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Wingspan--the story of Wings, Paul McCartney's follow-up group to the Beatles--will world-premiere on ABC-TV on May 11. The dramatic and revealing two-hour film will tell...
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With Beatlemania raging again thanks to the phenomenal success of the hits collection 1, Paul McCartney's post-Beatles project, Wings, is about to get its due. Wingspan, a...
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As the Beatles' 1 continues its reign as the Number One album in the country, Paul McCartney's name appears on this year's list of Grammy nominees. McCartney is nominated...
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Paul McCartney will see his first major art exhibit in the U.K. open in Liverpool next year. A spokesperson for the National Museums & Galleries On Merseyside (NMGM) says...
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Ray Charles has joined the all-star lineup of musicians contributing tracks to Music Of Hope, the upcoming classical album that benefits the American Cancer Society. He...
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There's not much Paul McCartney hasn't accomplished in his career, but next week he will undertake his first-ever book signing in London. McCartney will sign copies of his...
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Out now is 1, the highly anticipated collection of the Beatles' Number One hits in the U.S. and the U.K. The 27-song set has been blowing out of stores on both sides of the...
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(11/6/00, 4 p.m. ET) The book version of The Beatles Anthology has been a smashing success since its release early last month: The tome debuted at Number Two on The New York...
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Paul McCartney made a quick trip to New York City last week to celebrate the publication of his first art book, Paul McCartney Paintings, and the opening of an exhibit of...
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Paul McCartney's version of the Elvis Presley hit "That's All Right Mama" will be among the highlights of a tribute to legendary Sun Records that is slated to arrive next...
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Paul McCartney has put together a new Beatles track, 30 years after the "Fab Four" broke up. The song, called "Free Now," is actually a collaboration between McCartney and...
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Paul McCartney and producer Sam Phillips are among the creative music people to be honored at the 16th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards in September....
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Brian Wilson was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York City on Thursday (June 15). The question on everyone's mind that evening was who was...
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Sir Paul McCartney was honoured for his four decades of songwriting at the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting held today (May 25) in London. It was also a good...
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Paul McCartney recently became part of another group of legendary performers- the newly formed Blue Mountain Boys.
While in New York last month to be inducted into the...
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Don't start checking the bridal registry for
Paul McCartney and model Heather Mills yet. The former
Beatle's new love interest tells British tabloid the Sun that the...
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A television movie based on the 30-year relationship between Paul and Linda McCartney has begun production in Vancouver, British Columbia. The CBS television movie --...
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Paul McCartney, who found his name everywhere in the press last week after acknowledging his relationship with ex-swimsuit model Heather Mills, starts this week off with...
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Paul McCartney has confirmed to the press that he and model/singer Heather Mills are indeed "an item," after the couple were spotted walking together in a London park. He...
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Two-time Hall of Fame inductee Paul McCartney - whose appearance last night (March 6) at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony was a surprise to most in...
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Paul McCartney's appearance to honor former Apple Records artist James Taylor was the surprise of the night at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 15th Annual Induction Ceremony...
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It appears the
Paul McCartney tribute album reportedly in the works is not authorized by the man himself and may not even exist (LAUNCH, 3/1).
Paul Freundlich,...
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A variety of modern pop and rock acts -- including the
Foo Fighters,
Barenaked Ladies,
Squeeze
, and others -- will cover
Paul McCartney songs on an upcoming tribute...
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After releasing two albums last fall -- one rock and one classical --
Paul McCartney apparently isn't taking any time to rest. The former
Beatle is reportedly working in...
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Two Of Us, the movie about a fictional relationship between Beatles
John Lennon
and Paul McCartney
premieres tonight (Feb. 1). Actor Aidan Quinn portrays McCartney...
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Former
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr can be seen in a new commercial for the Charles Schwab brokerage company. Starr is the first non-sports personality to appear as part...
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Not since 1963 had Paul McCartney graced the stage of Liverpool's Cavern Club, where he played with the Beatles, but that changed last night (Dec. 14), when McCartney...
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Paul McCartney apparently feels you can go home again. The formerBeatle has scheduled a Dec. 14 performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club--the famed cellar where the Fab Four...
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Fashion designer Stella McCartney, daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney, has joined the fight against the cancer that claimed the life of her mother in April 1998. In...
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Hitting stores today is Working Classical, the third classical album by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, and his second release in less than a month, following the rock album Run...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
TNN:Ryman Country Homecoming II - An all-star lineup of country music stars, including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Lorrie...
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Saturday Night Live's 25th anniversary, which will be celebrated with a two-and-a-half-hour special starting at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Sunday, has some meaning for Paul...
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During the listening party for his new album, Run Devil Run, last night (Sept. 22) in New York City, Paul McCartney spoke extensively with LAUNCH about the album and his...
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Paul McCartney, Ellen Degeneres, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brian McKnight, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Anne Heche, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Nealon, and...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
MTV:
Making The Video - Takes viewers behind the music video production process, with Blink 182. (Look for a Blink 182 feature soon...
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The night before the MTV Video Music Awards, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath got to hang out at a party at New York's Roseland Ballroom for the Buddy Holly Rock 'n' Roller Dance...
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Back in 1971, Paul McCartney titled his third post-Beatles outing--his first attributed to Wings--Wild Life. Nearly three decades later, McCartney hasn't stopped singing...
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Sir Paul McCartney will be inviting listeners to join him for a musical trip down memory lane this fall when he plays disc jockey for a new, four-part BBC radio program...
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Paul McCartney has been "stung" by Web pirates who have posted unauthorized MP3 files of a new track he recorded for Run Devil Run, his upcoming covers album, due Oct....
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A surprise appearance by Sir Paul McCartney added the crowning touch to an all-star tribute to the life and works of Linda McCartney Saturday at London's prestigious Royal...
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Sir Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel took one step closer to immortality Monday night with their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Other...
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Watch out Ted Nugent. Paul McCartney is living up to his vow to continue his late wife Linda McCartney's struggle for animal rights. The former Beatle has taken aim at men...
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In what will be his first and only onscreen interview of the year, Paul McCartney is set to air a one-hour live webcast for his friends and fans on the Internet. The event...
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The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Museum has announced its 1999 inductees, and it's a pretty heavy bunch--Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney as a solo artist, Del...
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In an interview with Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde, Paul McCartney has revealed the story behind the making of Wide Prairie, the solo album by his late wife Linda, which...
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Paul McCartney will hold yet another tribute to his late wife, Linda, on June 22nd in New York City. The second memorial service, which follows one earlier this week in...
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The three surviving Beatles came together in a London church Monday night, part of an emotional tribute to Linda McCartney, who died of breast cancer in April.
Tears...
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A Beatles reunion of sorts is expected to happen Monday night in London. Surviving members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are expected at a memorial...
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McCartney family spokesman Geoff Baker says songs Paul and Linda McCartney were working on until shortly before her death will be released. Baker says Linda McCartney had...
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California authorities have dropped their probe of Linda McCartney's death, blaming a public relations man for its launch.
Spokespeople for Paul McCartney told an...
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Linda McCartney, longtime wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, lost her battle with breast cancer on Friday, April 17th. She died at the McCartneys' vacation home in Santa...
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The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of Linda McCartney because no death certificate was filed before she was cremated. The wife of pop...
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Authorities in Santa Barbara, California have launched an investigation intothe death of Paul McCartney's wife of 29 years, Linda,because neither the McCartney family nor an...
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Paul McCartney is suffering "total heartbreak" at losing wife Linda to breast cancer, he said Tuesday.
The former Beatle said his final words to his wife of 29 years, who...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney has issued a statement regarding the tragic death of Linda McCartney, his wife of nearly 30 years, who died from cancer early Friday morning...
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Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was the leading nominee for the 40th annual Grammy Awards, garnering eight bids, including Album Of The Year.
The nominations, announced...
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Taking time out from his usual gig as an international superstar, Paul McCartney will appear with Staten Island, New York's Curtis High School guitar ensemble at Lincoln...
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Paul
McCartney has signed on as the main spokesperson for the "Drive My Car" holiday public service campaign being launched next month by RADD--Recording Artists,...
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Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney told the British press on September 25th that he supports the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana. He was quoted in New Statesman...
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Last night Paul McCartney received a standing ovation, and was called back to the stage six times by a cheering audience, at the world premiere of his first solo classical...
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Forget the supposed Oasis-vs.-Blur feud...the real battle is being waged between Oasis and their role models, the Beatles themselves. Last week Oasis frontman Liam...
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George Martin, the legendary 71-year-old Beatles producer who was the helm for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is organizing a star-studded charity concert to...
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Some of pop music's biggest names are banding together for a Princesss Diana tribute album, the proceeds of which will go to the Princess Diana Memorial Fund. It promises...
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