'Hendrix tribute' includes covers by Santana, Chaka Khan & George Clinton
LOS ANGELES (Jimmi Hendrix Fans Website) - A new Jimi Hendrix R&B tribute, Power Of Soul, will be released later this year on MCA Records and feature contributions from Carlos Santana , Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Seal, among others. Proceeds from the album will ...
| Bay City Rollers boss sex inquiry dropped
LONDON, UK (Nostalgia & Oldies Website) - Police have dropped their investigation into an allegation of child sex abuse against former Bay City Rollers manager Tam Paton. Surrey Police has told the 64-year-old that no further enquiries will be carried out into an allegation that he abused an underage ...
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George Harrison's guitar on show
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Late Beatle George Harrison's first guitar is to go on display on what would have been his 60th birthday. Harrison bought the acoustic guitar in the mid-1950s for three pound and 10 shillings. His mother Louise had given him the money to buy the guitar from a classmate ...
| At last 'The Beatles Anthology' on DVD
NEW YORK (EMI/Beatles Official Website) - On March 31st, eight years after The Beatles themselves told the story of the world's greatest rock and roll band in The Beatles Anthology, EMI will release the complete work on DVD - but now featuring the final chapter; never-released footage of the last jam ...
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Spice Girls reunion talk is 'nonsense'
LONDON, UK (Spice Girls Fans Website) - Talk of a Spice Girls reunion has been branded as "nonsense". The revelation came after the five gathered at Victoria Beckham's house in Hertfordshire last night. But claims they were meeting to discuss a greatest hits album or a reunion tour have been dismissed ...
| Police found missing Beatles tapes
SYDNEY, Australia (Beatles Fans Website) - Police on Friday recovered reel-to-reel tapes apparently recorded by The Beatles and believed stolen from the band's studios in London more than three decades ago. Detectives raided a home in western Sydney early Friday and seized tape recordings of the Abbey ...
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Grateful Dead now 'Dead'
LOS ANGELES (Grateful Dead Official Website) - The surviving members of cult sixties band The Grateful Dead, after a short spell as The Other Ones, are to revert to the name The Dead. The band, who epitomised the 1960s California hippy scene, had renamed themselves The Other Ones following the death ...
| Al Jardine banned from using 'Beach Boys' name
LOS ANGELES (Beach Boys Fans Website) - Original Beach Boy Al Jardine is no longer able to tour with the Beach Boys name after a US court ruling. Jardine's former bandmate Mike Love, who also tours with the Beach Boys name, complained his use of the name was confusing fans. US appeal court judges upheld ...
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Beatles Abbey Road cigarette removed!
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - United States poster companies have airbrushed the classic Beatles Abbey Road album cover to remove a cigarette from Paul McCartney's hand. The move was made without the permission of either McCartney or Apple Records, which owns the rights to the image. The original ...
| Lennon & Jagger recording is going to be auctioned
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - An unreleased musical collaboration between John Lennon and Mick Jagger has been discovered more than a quarter of a century after it was recorded. The cover version of the blues song Too Many, featuring Jagger on vocals and Lennon on guitar will be auctioned off ...
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500 Beatles lost tapes were recovered by police
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Some 500 Beatles recording session tapes stolen in the 1970s were recovered on Friday (January 10) by police in England and the Netherlands, many including never-released tracks. The tapes were recorded in 1969 and have been known as the "Get Back Sessions," and several ...
| A piano is owned by Elvis is sold
MEMPHIS (Elvis.com Website) - A white Knabe grand piano once owned by Elvis Presley sold this week for $685,000. Memphis guitarist-music producer Robert A. Johnson and partner Larry Moss sold the piano Monday to Michael Muzio, chairman of Blue Moon Group Inc. Muzio said he hopes to put the piano on ...
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Beatles Photos, Memorabilia on Display
NEW YORK (Albanyinstitute.org) - Harry Benson was in the room when the Beatles found out they would be playing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He was with them when "I Want to Hold Your Hand" landed in the Top 10. He photographed the Fab Four joking around, composing classics and flying to America. Along ...
| Honor For Paul McCartney
LIVERPOOL, UK (Sunday Times) - Sir Paul McCartney has been granted his own coat of arms, which pays homage to the former Beatle's musical career and his hometown of Liverpool, a newspaper reported Sunday. According to The Sunday Times, the crest features a liver - a fanciful bird that appears on the ...
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The 'Dark Side Of The Moon' DVD version is in progress
NEW YORK (Pink Floyd Official Website/Audiorevolution.com) - It looks like Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon will soon be heard in a whole new way. Rumors have been circulating for a little while that a DVD-Audio (DVD-A) version of the album, remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, is in progress, although ...
| Ex-Lovin' Spoonful member Yanovsky dies
TORONTO, Canada (Oldies Music News Website) - Zal Yanovsky, a guitar player with the Lovin' Spoonful, a 1960s group known for hits such as "Daydream," "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Summer in the City," has died at age 57, his family said. Yanovsky died of a probable heart attack Dec. 13 in Kingston, ...
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Kansas double live CD highlighted In AOL's listening party section
NEW YORK (Kansas Official/AOL Website) - Kansas' double live CD 'Device Voice Drum' on Compendia Music Group will be featured in America Online's Listening Party section starting December 16, 2002, and ending January 16, 2003. To access music from 'Device Voice Drum' on AOL during this time period, ...
| Tribute to George 'the best show of my life'
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - One of George Harrison's closest friends has described how taking part in a sell-out tribute concert to the late Beatle was the best show of his life. Joe Brown, the best man at Harrison's wedding, said the performance with the two remaining Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney ...
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McCartney and R. Starr Pay Harrison Tribute
LONDON, UK (Beatles Fans Website) - Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney reunited Friday night for an emotional musical tribute to the memory of George Harrison on the anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death. With Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and Harrison's son Dhani, the surviving Beatles shared a night of musical ...
| Ex-Beatle 'accepted he was dying', says widow
LOS ANGELES (NBC) - George Harrison's widow has spoken for the first time about how he accepted his fate long before his death from cancer last year. Olivia Harrison said her husband of 23-years never felt in control during his lengthy battle with the disease. She told NBC that "he gave his life to ...
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