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On This Day in 1968 – The Beatles ‘White Album’ Goes Gold
December 6, 2012 On this day in 1968 the album 'The Beatles', better known as "The White Album", was certified Gold.
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Beatles Decca Audition to Be Sold At Auction
It's arguably the most famous failed audition in rock history, and it can be all yours. On Tuesday (Nov. 27), London's Fame Bureau, which specializes in rock memorabilia, will auction off one of the tapes from the Beatles' 1962 tryout for Decca Records.
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‘The Beatles Live! Project’ Documentary Will Include Fan Footage
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Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Collage Sells for $87K at Auction
It's not just the Beatles' albums that can be incredibly valuable, but also some of the artwork associated with them. The original collage that was reproduced and included in copies of their 1967 classic 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' record has sold for $87,720 on Tuesday (Nov. 13).
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49 Years Ago: The Beatles Play ‘Rattle Your Jewelry’ Concert
On Nov. 4, 1963, the Beatles strode onstage to politely thunderous applause at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, as the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret gazed fondly amid the crowd. But these four charming Liverpool lads were clearly royalty themselves -- at least in pop music terms.
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Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono Wasn’t Responsible for Breaking up the Beatles
For many years, there has been much speculation that John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, influenced the Beatles breakup, but Paul McCartney says that it's not true and that the band was splitting regardless of Ono.
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Apple Computers Now Owns Beatles’ Apple Logo
The Granny Smith apple that has served as the logo for the Beatles' record label is now the property of the Apple computer company. Yesterday (Oct. 25), Patently Apple discovered that the last remaining challenge to the logo's ownership had been cleared and it now belonged to the computer giant.
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Man Selling Fake Beatles Memorabilia Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
The memorabilia business can be fun for the fan and lucrative for the seller. But there are inherent pitfalls involved, as natives of the Pacific Northwest have recently learned. An Oregon man accused of selling fake Beatles and sports merchandise was recently sentenced to more than two years in prison.
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Beatles to Release 50th Anniversary Single of ‘Love Me Do’
While the Rolling Stones have spent much of 2012 promoting their intentions to honor their 50th anniversary next year, the Beatles have allowed theirs to mostly fly under the radar. Until now, that is.
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Beatles Classic Used for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s ‘Hey St. Jude’ Campaign
Since its founding in 1962, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has helped save countless lives affected by catastrophic juvenile diseases -- and they're marking their 50th anniversary by deepening their commitment to the cause with a new donation campaign, dubbed 'Hey St. Jude.'
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47 Years Ago: ‘The Beatles’ Animated Series Premieres
47 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play . . .
Actually, that's not true, but it was 47 years ago -- on September 25, 1965 -- that ABC first broadcast 'The Beatles,' a 30 minute Saturday morning cartoon that became an instant ratings smash for the network. Several years before they all lived in a yellow submarine (or so the song claimed), the legendary British rockers were first immortalized in animated glory, lending their music -- but not their actual speaking voices -- to the show.
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43 Years Ago: The Beatles’ ‘Paul is Dead’ Rumors Hit the Papers
Paul McCartney is alive and well, but a well-placed rumor in 1969 had some thinking otherwise. On September 23, 1969, 43 years ago, the Northern Star newspaper of Northern Illinois University published a story claiming that McCartney had been killed in a car crash a few years earlier and had been replaced by a look-alike. A radio station in Detroit picked up on the story and ran with it. Within a month, the story had gone global and Beatles fans worldwide were collectively scratching their heads.