Sir Paul McCartney says he makes contact with those once dearest to him in music and in life whenever he performs.
“I’m sort of thinking about George,” he said of the late Beatle George Harrison. He went on to mention his late wife Linda and great collaborator John Lennon, when he said: “And similarly with John [...]

Carla Bruni is reported to be starring in the next Woody Allen movie.
The French First Lady and former supermodel was said to be thrilled that Allen had approached her about the movie on a visit to Paris.
She said: “I’m not an actress at all. Perhaps I’ll be completely hopeless but I can’t miss an [...]

France’s First Lady Carla Bruni and Harry Connick Jr will team up on French television for a duet of the Beatles classic, And I Love Her.
Bruni and Connick Jr recently recorded a bossa nova cover version of the love song in Paris to accompany Connick Jr’s European album release.
The US entertainer said: “She was really [...]

Former Beatles legend Ringo Starr has made a new song slating his home town of Liverpool.
The 69-year-old previously upset fellow Liverpudlians when he said he missed ‘nothing’ about his birthplace, but he has now written an autobiographical account of his childhood on new album Y Not.
He said: “People believe I was born, was a Beatle [...]

A website accused of selling music by The Beatles without permission was placed under a temporary restraining order on Friday.
BlueBeat.com were issued an order by U.S. District Judge John F. Walter that has stopped them from offering digital Beatles music.
Beatles’ record label EMI sued the Santa Cruz based company on Tuesday for alleged copyright [...]

The unstoppable Sir Paul McCartney will close 2009 on a bang, announcing the Good Evening Europe tour.
Sir Paul, 67, said: “This is my chance to bring our current show home to where it all began. Starting in Hamburg, ending in London and rocking everywhere in between. I’m very much looking forward to ending the [...]

Stella McCartney finds people in fashion heartless, she told a UK newspaper.
McCartney, the stunningly successful fashion designer and daughter of Beatle Paul, told the Guardian: “[Yes] people in fashion just don’t want to hear the messages. I find it astounding, because fashion is supposed to be about change - I mean, we’re supposed to be [...]

MTV host Alexa Chung made Beatles fan Elijah Wood’s day by giving him an early copy of the Beatles Rock Star game on her show.
Knowing that the Lord Of The Rings star is such a big fan of the iconic band, Chung managed to obtain a pre-release copy of the eagerly awaited video game – [...]

Simon Cowell has revealed The Beatles would never have made it through a gruelling X-Factor audition as a four-piece.
The pop mogul says he would have dropped drummer Ringo Starr before giving Britain’s biggest-ever boy band a pass to boot camp.
He told actress and fellow Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden, who was interviewing him, that [...]

The son of Beatles legend George Harrison showed he’s a chip off the old block as he demonstrated the new videogame based on the Fab Four’s hits.
Dhani Harrison, who bears a striking resemblance to his late dad, played the drums as part of a demo of interactive game The Beatles: Rock Band on a US [...]