Beatles News
 | Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney will close out the Olympics Games opening ceremony with a performance of Hey Jude - and he'll ask the stadium's 60,000 spectators to sing along with him ...the pop legend will bring it to a rousing finale at midnight. |
 | Well, there won't be any Ringo-bashing here, no sir. The 71-year-old former Beatle is still touring, and he's coming to Hard Rock Live tonight at 8. As a primer -- and a lesson for anyone who might think of Ringo as the Meg Griffin of Liverpool -- here are seven pieces of evidence from A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles' 1964 feature film, that show why Richard Starkey is definitely the most badass Beatle. |
 | The Beatles legend insists song has a "powerful" effect and even claims to have cured a headache by listening to one of his favourite records. "All it is, its little vibrations reaching your heart. Music, you know, it's only little vibrations, little words and little things, but it has this powerful effect. |
 | Ringo Starr has shot down reports that the sons of The Beatles are set to form a band together. Earlier this year, Paul McCartney's son James said he and the rest of the Fab Four's offspring could pay tribute to their dads by creating a second-generation incarnation of the group. |
 | 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. |
