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The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September, the operator said on Thursday. "After 10 years here, John's spirit is now moving on, looking onward to the next journey," said Yoko Ono. "Thanks to your love for the museum, what we'd thought would be five years became 10."
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At 71, Ron Campbell still vividly remembers the Beatles' arrival in the US. The director and animator of the 1960s TV cartoon series "The Beatles," who worked on the psychedelic feature film "Yellow Submarine," was one of the best-known names in the animation business at the time. Now retired from TV and film, he creates paintings based on the cartoons he animated.
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Last weekend, Montreal film director Adrian Wills, 37, won a Grammy award for best long-form music video, for The Beatles LOVE - All Together Now. When he got the nomination, Wills said, "I thought it was a joke." LOVE's third Grammy, Giles and George Martin won a pair of Grammy awards two years ago for their work on the LOVE album.
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John Lennon felt "ashamed" of his native U.K., according to a newly discovered essay by the late Beatle. Lennon and Yoko Ono met in London and wed in 1969 before moving to New York City two years later, and Lennon admits he struggled to settle with his new partner in his homeland because of the racial abuse aimed at his Japanese wife.
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Paul McCartney's son James is keeping the family trade alive by going on his first ever tour, with songs partly inspired by The Beatles. The 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist played a handful of concerts in October last year under the pseudonym Light in a bid to distance himself from his world-renowned father. The tour kicks off in Liverpool on February 25.
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Ringo Starr has revealed after decades of searching, he has become a believer. Ringo told how he had been looking for enlightenment since he was riding high in the charts more than 40 years ago. And in an interview with the Los Angeles Times he said his spiritual side was "more prominent" on his new album Y Not.
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Backstage at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, soul icon Roberta Flack revealed that she is turning her attention now to the biggest-selling band of all time. "I'm doing a Beatles album for Sony, which will be out on the 21st of April," she said. Flack used to live in the same building as John Lennon and Yoko Ono and says she has a long history with these songs.
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A short story written by John Lennon has been re-discovered casting new light on his relationship with Yoko Ono. In it, John Lennon reveals his teenage longing for Brigitte Bardot. Later, The Beatles voyage to India in 1968 left a lasting impression on the singer, with Lennon revealing that he became fixated with asian women.
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Maurice Hindle's previously unpublished interview with John Lennon, which appeared in the Christmas issue of the New Statesman, attracted a good deal of media attention. Maev Kennedy concentrated on Lennon's remarks about a letter critical of him, and Tariq Ali concedes that Lennon's views did shift somewhat in the following years.
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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow called on her friend Stella McCartney's father Paul McCartney to write an article for her lifestyle newsletter, in a bid to explain the benefits of a meat-free diet. Paltrow talks about her diet and daily routine on her Goop website and newsletter, and called on vegetarian McCartney to add his views to the latest installment.
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Ringo Starr will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next Monday. Starr is scheduled to speak at the honors ceremony. His star will be located in front of the Capitol Record building not far from stars of his late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison.
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An early pressing of the first Beatles LP Please Please Me has been donated to a charity shop on Merseyside and sold to a collector in Hampshire for £1,300 ($2,069). The album was found in a bag of items donated to Oxfam in Bold Street, Liverpool. The money raised will go to the Oxfam Haiti appeal.
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In honor of the upcoming Grammys, Turner Classic Movies has made a list of the 15 most ground-breaking and influential film soundtracks. Among the rock and roll soundtracks included on the list is the 1964 Beatles film, A Hard Days Night. Others listed include The Graduate, American Graffiti and Saturday Night Fever.
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Paul McCartney should hang up his electric guitar for good, according to music mogul Alan McGee. Speaking to the Daily Record, the former Creation record label chief, who helped groups like Oasis become famous, said music was a young person's game. "Music should be like football. You don't have 66-year-old football players. There's a reason for that."
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Sir Peter Blake, who designed the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve for The Beatles, has been commissioned to create a work for St Paul's in London. "I'm doing a painting in the Knights Bachelor chapel," he said. "It's a very exciting period. I hope to finish within the year, it's a big painting, 4ft by 4ft."
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Paul McCartney has inadvertently found his new single is being released by the music giant he famously quit in 1997 after more than four decades. (I Want To) Come Home, for the soundtrack of the movie Everybody's Fine, is due to be released on March 1 on Walt Disney Records in the US, but in the UK and Europe, it will be issued by EMI.
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Throughout his final week, Conan O'Brien broadcast several comedy bits that seemed designed to spend as much of NBC's money as he could. O'Brien said on his farewell show on Friday that he had been joking about the high costs of these skits. But on that same episode, his band played the Beatles' Lovely Rita, costing NBC $500,000.
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Ringo Starr indulged the Grammy Museum in a brief Q&A before the small audience of 200 that included E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg and George Harrison's son Dhani. But what he really wanted to do was play, which he did after about 30 minutes of questions from the audience.
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