It must be nice to be Paul McCartney, I’m sure you’re thinking. All that talent, all that money, all that hair... But being Paul McCartney comes at a price, for he is constantly haunted by the ghost of John Lennon.
One of the more tantalizing and persistent myths in rock lore contends that “ Paul is dead”—that Paul McCartney died in a 1966 car accident and was secretly replaced with a lookalike. There are countless sites and rambling YouTube videos attempting to support this claim—based not just on the well-known middle-school…
Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, died Wednesday of cancer, her only son Julian confirmed on his website and Twitter. Cynthia, whose maiden name was Powell, met Lennon in art school in Liverpool in 1957, right before the Beatles formed.
It is with a mixture of joy and dread that I've watched the livestream camera at Abbey Road Studios for the past several minutes. There can't be that many people taking that picture, again and again, all the time, you think to yourself, but there are. It never stops.
Diogo Mello has been performing covers of Beatles songs with his dad since practically birth.
When a jailed member of the controversial Russian punk band Pussy Riot decided to go on hunger strike to protest her incarceration proceedings, Sir Paul McCartney stepped in. He penned a hand-written letter to Russian authorities, demanding they release the two remaining jailed members of the wronged band.
This performance of Russell Brand acting like Willy Wonka singing "I Am the Walrus" from the Olympic Closing Ceremony is a low point in pop culture. It's Snow White-at-the-Oscars bad. Shame.
The Telegraph announced Thursday that the childhood home of Ringo Starr would be spared demolition following a public campaign in the Beatle's native Liverpool to save it.
The Beatles may be the most important band of the 20th century — and feel free to debate that in the comments, even though you're wrong — but their recordings have been notably absent from the TV landscape. Aside from live performance footage, when was the last time you heard a Beatles song used on TV?
BackStage Pass VIP, a new book by Debra Sharon Davis, "depicts the human side of celebrity music icons." Among other claims, the controversial book paints Mick Jagger as a right-wing conservative and claims that John Lennon had an eating disorder.
John Lennon was shot and killed in 1980 just after the election of Ronald Reagan, and it's this pairing of events that symbolized the end of the political Left. Maybe? I just made that up, but it seems like one of those things people would say. But what if John Lennon was a secret Ronald Reagan lover in the end?…
Yoko Ono, in an interview with the Daily Mail, said for the millionth time that no, she didn't break up the Beatles. She also said John Lennon would "love" Facebook, Twitter and Lady Gaga. Oh, Yoko.
Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination. Today is also the day that Celine Dion appeared on Larry King Live, and—during a discussion about Lennon—decided to belt out a verse of "Imagine." How spontaneous! Watch inside.
[Crowds flocked to the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park today to memorialize the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. Image via Getty]
What the hell is this?! You guys, Norm from Cheers is in this. Jason Alexander, Ricki Lake, Huey Lewis, Roger Moore - they're all singing the Beatles' "Let it Be." TONYA HARDING. The list goes on! People, Watch this.
[This lady looks like she was Photoshopped into a Beatles window display while pausing for a smoke on a London street today. Image via Getty]
Life is just like an episode of Mad Men: It goes along swimmingly until—out of the blue—all your mistakes and regrets come to terrorize you into submission. Finally, everyone pays for their lies.
Yesterday, President Obama presented Paul McCartney with the third-ever Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Congrats to Paul, but we were more impressed that Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, and Jack White were there to perform as well!
Last night was Beatles night on America's favorite county fair sing-off, because the girls who squealed for them on Ed Sullivan are now grandmothers, so it's OK to karaoke their childhoods.
Today at Gawker.TV, controversy over John Lennon's appearance in a television ad, Tom Hanks unwittingly plays the role of news analyst, Stephen Colbert has ideas for Greece, Kathie Lee and Hoda's technical difficulties, and the craziest Canadian anti-drug PSA's.
