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Mary McCartney’s life in photographs started when she was just an infant. That baby on the cover of Paul McCartney’s first eponymous solo record, released in 1970, is her, peeking out at the camera from inside the sheepskin coat of her famous father and Beatles co-founder.

Tony McGovern didn't have a ticket to see The Beatles when they performed in North Staffordshire in the 1960s – but just three shillings secured him a once in a lifetime opportunity.

The retired Royal Doulton employee, now aged 66 and living in Cheviot Drive, Bradeley, managed to buy his way into the Trentham Gardens gig in October 1963.

MERCED -- For one night only, the award-winning Beatles musical "In My Life" will play Sunday at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre.

The musical retells The Beatles' story through the eyes of manager Brian Epstein and features the live music of renowned tribute band Abbey Road.


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Rockshow, a film documenting Paul McCartney and his band Wings on their 1975-76 Wings Around the World tour, will have its big-screen premiere May 15 at BAFTA in London. McCartney is scheduled to appear on the red carpet for the event. 

The Beatles' achieved their first number one single 50 years ago – the first of 17 over the next six years. Here's the chart hits, the records broken and rivals made by the band.

Although some will say Please Please Me was The Beatles' first number one single, it was their next single,

John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce on display at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Montreal. The car is part of an exhibit called The Beatles in Montreal, that revisits the group’s only Montreal appearance at the Forum in 1964. The exhibition runs from March 26, 2013 to March 30, 2014.

By an overwhelming margin of nearly three to one, the Beatles have beaten the Doors to become the second inductees into the 100% fan-voted Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame.

In their brief history together, no group single-handedly changed music — and the culture around them — as frequently or as much as the Beatles. To this day, they remain the most talked-about, written-about and influential rock band the world has ever seen.

The late Beatles star's 'Bag One' collection of lithographs will be shown Friday through Sunday at Westfield Century City mall.

The Beatles were getting very near the end when John Lennon, in league with his wife, Yoko Ono, turned his attention to climbing another creative ladder — this time as a visual artist.

Top 10 Beatles Solo Albums 01 May, 2013 - 0 Comments

Some Beatles are greater than others. And some Beatles solo albums rank right up there with the band’s best records. It should come as a surprise to no one that John Lennon and Paul McCartney made the best of them. And that George Harrison was responsible for one of the earliest solo classics.

A lot of tributes were made after the death of Jonathan Winters was announced Friday, but one person who was a huge fan of the comic was John Lennon, according to May Pang, who confirmed in an email to Beatles Examiner Saturday that Lennon was thrilled when the two of them met.