Beatles News
 | The former Beatles drummer may not be a great artist, but by funneling the profits from his pictures into charities, he’s joined the cutting edge of the art world, where artists blending their art with social action is called “relational aesthetics,’ Blake Gopnik writes. |
 | Paul McCartney has recorded a video message promoting the Meat Free Monday campaign that’s intended to convince school children to decrease how much meat they eat. The eight-plus-minute clip shows the rock legend and longtime vegetarian talking in-depth about the positive environmental and health effects of reducing the world’s meat consumption. |
 | Students of the '60s will flip over news that Timothy Leary's biographer Michael Horowitz has uncovered and published a transcript from an interview conducted with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, by LSD guru Timothy Leary. The interview took place during Lennon and Ono's famous bed-in in Montreal on May 29, 1969. |
 | The Beatles were responsible for a worldwide increase in recreational drug use which continues to harm young people, Russia's top anti-narcotics official has claimed. Beatles music was banned in the Soviet Union, however, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is a fan of the group and met Sir Paul when he performed on Red Square in 2003. |
 | Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, actress Penelope Cruz and director Robert Redford have joined a campaign for a “global sanctuary” around the North Pole, Greenpeace announced Thursday. They are among the first 100 names on a planned million-signature scroll that the green group wants to place on the seabed beneath Earth’s northernmost point. |
 | A signed Beatles ticket from a concert in Norfolk in 1963 is expected to fetch up to £2,000 at auction in London. The ticket for the Grosvenor in Norwich was bought for seven shillings and sixpence and signed at the gig by John Lennon and Ringo Starr. |
 | Victor Spinetti, Welsh-born star of stage and screen, has died at the age of 82. He appeared in more than 30 films, including three of the Beatles' movies. It is said George Harrison told Spinetti that he had to be in the film because "me mum will only go to see them if you're in them". Paul McCartney described him as "the man who makes clouds disappear". |
 | A personal plea on YouTube has been made to Paul McCartney to save a museum in Hamburg dedicated to the Beatles. To the sound of the Fab Four songs like 'With a Little help From My Friends', 'Help' and 'Don't Let Me Down', staff appear in a six-minute video. They tell of the love of the band and their fears that the five-storey Beatlemania museum in the German city's red-light district will have to close at the end of this month unless it gets financial support. |
 | Since Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday is this week, most of the major media will be focusing on his most popular moments. His iconic Beatles anthems, beloved Wings singles, and No.1 solo hits will be on everybody’s radar. But instead of praising “Let It Be”, “Band on the Run”, or “Hey Jude”, let’s put the spotlight on the lesser-known songs in McCartney’s catalogue. |
 | George Harrison once again topped the charts when the 2-DVD set of Martin Scorsese's GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD debuted at No. 1 in North America in its first week of release. The DVD has remained in the Top 5 spots on the charts for 5 consecutive weeks. Marking more milestones in an enduring legacy, the critically acclaimed DVD is Harrison's third No. 1 release, his highest charting DVD and was just certified platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and double platinum in Canada. |
