Beatlemania erupted at London's Chelsea Flower Show on Monday as Ringo Starr rolled up in a gaudily-painted Mini to join George Harrison's widow for the opening of a garden inspired by the "quiet Beatle."
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
Psychedelic album covers. Break-dancing music videos. Rockers with mullet haircuts.
For Renée Zellweger, peace and quiet are golden.
Paul McCartney and his estranged wife, Heather Mills, met Thursday at a London courtroom for the start of what could become the most expensive divorce battle in British legal history.
She may not have beat the 38-second sold-out mark achieved by the Spice Girls, but Miley Cyrus is headlining one of the best-selling tours of the year.
The '60s Fab Five lend their music to two quirky new movies. Richard Corliss is both bored and enthralled
Apple Inc. said on Tuesday it would offer the entire solo catalog of John Lennon on iTunes in its second such deal with one of the Beatles, who have been among the highest-profile holdouts to put tunes online.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr clowned around and marveled at their band's amazing impact in an interview Tuesday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
If Paul McCartney was wondering if fans still need him now that he's 64, on Wednesday night New Yorkers answered: "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Beatlemania erupted at London's Chelsea Flower Show on Monday as Ringo Starr rolled up in a gaudily-painted Mini to join George Harrison's widow for the opening of a garden inspired by the "quiet Beatle."
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
Psychedelic album covers. Break-dancing music videos. Rockers with mullet haircuts.
For Renée Zellweger, peace and quiet are golden.
Paul McCartney and his estranged wife, Heather Mills, met Thursday at a London courtroom for the start of what could become the most expensive divorce battle in British legal history.
She may not have beat the 38-second sold-out mark achieved by the Spice Girls, but Miley Cyrus is headlining one of the best-selling tours of the year.
The '60s Fab Five lend their music to two quirky new movies. Richard Corliss is both bored and enthralled
Apple Inc. said on Tuesday it would offer the entire solo catalog of John Lennon on iTunes in its second such deal with one of the Beatles, who have been among the highest-profile holdouts to put tunes online.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr clowned around and marveled at their band's amazing impact in an interview Tuesday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
If Paul McCartney was wondering if fans still need him now that he's 64, on Wednesday night New Yorkers answered: "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
EMI Group has agreed to make its music catalogue available through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store without copy protection.
EMI Group PLC. announced a deal Monday with Apple Inc.'s iTunes to sell its music catalog without the anti-piracy protection known as DRM restrictions.
Beyond the Beatles, there are a handful of artists who have resisted mammon's call to distribute their songs online. A bellwether of how well they would sell on iTunes is how much traffic they gene...
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real dea...
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real deal. Fans wishing to download the actual Fab Four in MP3 format have to search peer-to-peer sites like Limewire for unlicensed songs they can listen to free.
Tens of millions of baby boomers are approaching retirement, and if you're among them, you're likely wondering how you're going to tap your portfolio for the income you'll need over decades of life after work.
Question: As aggressive savers and investors, my wife and I, who are 50 and 48 respectively, have accumulated a significant diversified portfolio of stocks. What we lack are bonds, and I have zero experience in this area. I put some money in a bond fund a few years ago, and it went down immediately. My wife and I are positioned to retire in five to 10 years, so I know we need some bonds to protect us in the event of a market meltdown. But I'm feeling intellectually paralyzed. Help! - Anthony S., Honolulu, Hawaii
Kick off with vertigo-inducing vistas -- choose between the mighty Anglican Cathedral, the largest in Britain, with 100m high panoramic views over the city, or the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, affectionately nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" by the locals, with its kaleidoscopic stained glass windows and Lutyens crypt.
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?" sang Paul McCartney in one of his best-loved songs.
I recently went through a divorce that ate up all of my 401(k) and left me in debt up to my eyeballs. I still own a home, although I have no equity in it, but I recently made the mistake of leasing a truck with insurance and lease payments that are the size of my house mortgage.
The Dow Jones industrial average inched closer to a record high Monday, while the broader market struggled, as jitters about Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy meeting overshadowed falling oil prices and merger news.
Rosemary Clooney hated "Come On-a My House," one of her biggest hits. John Lennon loathed the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da." Parisians rioted at the first performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring."
John Lennon had a new song. It was a droning, trippy affair with lyrics adapted from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he knew exactly what he wanted.
One of my colleagues dropped by recently and asked me if I'd heard the news about "Friends."
Yoko Ono paid a rare public homage to her late husband on Thursday as scores of others lit candles, played songs and shared their memories of John Lennon.
New York and Liverpool -- two cities forever associated with John Lennon -- are the focal points for bittersweet celebrations of the life and death of the former Beatle.
In 1964, a 21-year-old radio reporter bluffed his way into the official entourage of the first U.S. concert tour by the Beatles. Forty years later, he's still talking about it.
In the notes to his biography "The Beatles," author Bob Spitz quotes Napoleon: "History is a set of lies agreed upon."
There were 230,591,913 books published in the United States in 2005, and 49,489,101 albums issued -- increases of 4 percent and 3 percent over 2004, respectively.
Trunk Ltd. is already a secret weapon for celebs who want "vintage" band T-shirts with a modern fit. Why let them steal the show? The shirts are handmade replicas of classic concert T's--from an ic...
Peter Sarsgaard got a new roommate to prepare for his role as a Marine in the Gulf War drama "Jarhead."
[HIT] The power of positive pricing. While U.S. automakers were busy sacrificing profit margins for sales volume in June and July with their employee discount programs, Honda stuck with its sticker...
Wax busts of three Beatles used on the "Sgt. Pepper's" album cover have sold at auction for £81,500 ($145,380).
Long before anyone was called "the fifth Beatle," Cynthia Powell could rightfully have claimed the title for her own.
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney says he will stand by his brother after he was accused of groping a waitress.
Boy, incipient senior citizenhood certainly is turning out differently for Paul McCartney than he -- or we -- once thought.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Rolling Stones have fully embraced the digital music bandwagon. Is it time for the Beatles to do the same?
Paul McCartney sometimes gets a little help from a friend.
Sixty-five years after John Lennon's birth, items from the late Beatle's childhood will go on display at his former Liverpool home.
Michael Jackson's future turned a lot brighter Monday when a California jury found him not guilty of child molestation. But the embattled entertainer has a long way to go to reclaim his financial freedom.
Guilty or not guilty, Michael Jackson appears to be sinking deeper and deeper into a financial hole that may cost him his lucrative stake in the Beatles music catalog as well as the rights to his own platinum-selling songs.
Michael Jackson, the legendary pop star facing child molestation charges, could lose his stake in the lucrative Beatles music catalog as well as the rights to his own platinum-selling songs.
In the predawn darkness of a Saturday in 2003, neurosurgeon Henry Perowne looks out the upper-story windows of his enviably grand London home and sees a burning plane streak across the sky: ''Above the usual deep and airy roar is a straining, choking banshee sound growing in volume -- both a scream and a sustained shout, an impure, dirty noise.''
It's March 1964 and Beatlemania is inescapable.
The children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song "Strawberry Fields Forever" is to close.
If you're looking for a gift with soul, no problem.
Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
When Paul McCartney heard the Beach Boys' 1966 album "Pet Sounds," so the story goes, his reaction was, "This is the album of all time. What can we do to top it?"
I turned 40 the other day. You may have missed the news, since no one bothered to write about it.
In 1957, as the gritty sounds of rock 'n' roll started filling the airwaves, two teens named John and Paul met for the first time just outside the industrial English town of Liverpool, trading riffs and setting the stage for a musical revolution.
Paul McCartney returned to Madrid for the first time in 15 years and wowed fans with 33 songs, all but 10 of them Beatles' tunes.
Irwin Allen's disaster movies never had a message, unless it was "Never use cheap wiring!"
Peter Smith tried everything. He played catch. He read books. He tried music.
It was 40 years ago today.
Their work finds the Beatles at the beginning and the end.
The Beatles arrived in America with wits blazing. Here are some excerpts from the group's press conference at New York's Kennedy Airport, February 7, 1964:
It was all in the future then.
The beers are cold. The chips are out. The pizza's been ordered.
I don't know, maybe it's Yoko Ono's fault again. How else can you explain the ludicrous two-decade legal tiff between the Beatles' record label and the little maverick computer operation Steve Jobs...
--RASH MOVE A study in Nature finds that one- and two-euro coins emit 250 times more nickel than E.U. standards allow--causing eczema in some people.
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"Un Nombre de Mujer" by Los Zafiros, from Bossa Cubana (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
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For those compelled to mark the passing of the millennium with a sickening display of wealth, there are plenty of options. For $100,000 you can cruise across the International Date Line while being...
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Want an idea of how the Internet could transform the way music lovers buy recordings of their favorite tunes? Check out www.musicmaker.com on the Web.
Christmas hurtles toward us at its usual menacing pace, and in self-defense I reach for the catalogues that pile up beneath my mailbox. As I leaf through them I have begun to notice a strange pheno...
It looks like chicken: plump and plain and vaguely unpleasant. It feels like chicken and smells like chicken. And not surprisingly it tastes like chicken--which is to say, it tastes like whatever s...
Larry Aikins never had a lunch box as a kid. But, hey, it's never too late. Today the 56-year-old retired general contractor has 3,500 of them, so many that he recently bought a new home in Athens,...
THEY'RE ABOUT THE SIZE OF TODAY'S CDS BUT HOLD less than a tenth as many songs (one per side) and have a fraction of the sound clarity. Still, 45-rpm records are proving to be sweet music to nostal...
Yes, once again there are only a handful of days until that magic moment arrives when we must provide manifestations of regard for those who already have everything. I'm not talking about spouses, ...
As millions of compact-disk owners toss their old 45s and LP vinyl records, other consumers are snapping up those platters for a song. "Right now is the best time investors will ever have to search...
Beatle fans, take note. Paul, George, and Ringo are staging a comeback -- and so is their old hometown, Liverpool. Spurred by some ugly riots, fed largely by growing unemployment, the British gover...
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! It wasn't cool to care about money in the '60s, but that shouldn't stop enterprising ex-hippies from making some bread off the relics of their peace- and-love past. You already know how lucrative...
When a large Japanese builder, Shimizu Construction, agreed to purchase a minority stake in California-based Dillingham Construction Corp., it paved the way for other Japanese companies to take the...
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