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'Sherlock Hype Like Beatlemania'

PA | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Entertainment

Martin Freeman has joked the hype surrounding BBC drama 'Sherlock' feels like Beatlemania. 'The Hobbit' star plays Dr John Watson in the cult hit, ...

Pictures: Yoko Ono Turns 80: From Beatle-Breaker To Peacemaker, We Look Back

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 18.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

The life of Yoko Ono, who turns 80 today, can be divided into four distinct parts, each of which regarded separately would mark her out as unusual. Co...

Yoko Ono On Why The Beatles Split

Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.12.2012 | UK Entertainment

Yoko Ono has described the break up of the Beatles as a 'divorce' between her late husband John Lennon and Paul McCartney, saying the split happened b...

George Harrison's Jacket Sold For A Fortune

PA | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK Entertainment

George Harrison's leather jacket has sold for more than £110,000 in an auction of Beatles memorabilia. The black jacket, which was bought for £11...

Which Beatle's Leather Jacket Topped Auction Sale?

PA | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK Entertainment

George Harrison's leather jacket has sold for more than £110,000 in an auction of Beatles memorabilia. The black jacket, which was bought for £11...

Sitar Player Ravi Shankar Dies, Aged 92

WENN | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

Celebrated sitar player Ravi Shankar has died in a US hospital, aged 92. The Indian musician passed away on Tuesday at Scripps Memorial Hospital ...

Sam Cam's Fiat Went for a Bomb: But Amy Winehouse Shows a Previous Celeb Owner Isn't Always a Plus

Martin Roberts | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Martin Roberts

There was a lot of interest some years ago when the childhood home of Rob Roy MacGregor, the Scottish folk hero that Mel Gibson did a darn fine job of playing in Braveheart, came up for auction. It went for something like three times the guide price (I know because I was the under bidder).

A Classical Twist: Piano, Paganini and 'Punk Rock for Sissies'

Brendan Pittaway | Posted 20.01.2013 | UK Entertainment
Brendan Pittaway

It seems like music has always had a place for rebels, those individuals who become fashionable by taking against the more established fashions of their day.

Sgt Pepper's Collage To Fetch £80,000

PA | Posted 05.12.2012 | Home

A slice of Beatles' history goes on sale next month when the original collage designed by Sir Peter Blake for the insert of the band's Sgt Pepper's Lo...

Matthew Tucker

Can A Tribute Act Match The Fab Four, Or Should They Just Let It Be? (REVIEW)

HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Tucker | Posted 23.12.2012 | Home

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr - The Beatles are back. A voiceover from Tony Blackburn introduces the band to the st...

Let It Bean

PA | Posted 20.11.2012 | Home

The Beatles have been the sweet inspiration for a huge portrait made entirely from jelly beans. The Fab Four's faces have been recreated from the t...

Scottish Rats and Romanian Dogs

Rupert Wolfe-Murray | Posted 23.10.2012 | UK Entertainment
Rupert Wolfe-Murray

I can't stop listening to the new album by the Stagger Rats, a charismatic rock band from the small Scottish town of Dunbar. They remind me of all the best music I have heard over the last 30 years.

Paul McCartney Sends Personal Support To 'Lovely Rita'

PA | Posted 29.07.2012 | UK Entertainment

Sir Paul McCartney sent a message of support to Team GB's 49er sailors earlier on Sunday, in recognition of their boat's name Lovely Rita. Stevie M...

Veteran Actor Dies Aged 82

PA | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Veteran actor Victor Spinetti, whose notable roles included appearances in three Beatles films, has died at the age of 82. The Welsh star, who appe...

Paul McCartney 70th Birthday, Former Beatle's Career In Pictures

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

SEE ALSO: Happy Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney - We Still Love You, Now You're 70! (PHOTOS)Happy Birthday, Gideon! 20 Pictures Of George Osborne Looki...

Happy 70th Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Sir Paul McCartney is rocking into old age - the Beatles legend turns 70 on today. The iconic artist has been entertaining the masses since his te...

Macca Visits Lennon's Old Art College

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.05.2012 | Home

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has stepped back in time to visit bandmate John Lennon's old art college after it was recently bought by the Liverpoo...

New Exhibition Reveals Human Side To Global Icons

The Huffington Post UK | Sam Parker | Posted 03.05.2012 | Home

This week sees the opening of a new exhibition of previously unseen work by legendary British photographer Terry O’Neill. O’Neill has spent the...

LOOK: Unseen Beatles Photos Expected To Fetch Thousands At Auction

PA | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Unseen photos of The Beatles are to go up for sale after lying in a family album for nearly 50 years. The 20 black-and-white snaps have never been ...

Who Is Crowned Queen Of The Charts?

WENN | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Entertainment

Queen's Greatest Hits album has been declared the biggest-selling album of all time in the U.K., according to new chart estimates. Chiefs behind th...

Don't Call Them The 'Next Beatles'

PA | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK Entertainment

Sir Paul McCartney has warned chart sensations One Direction about the "pressure" of being the next big thing. It comes after suggestions that the ...

'Hot Rocks' Tribute Lineup Moves Like Jagger

Larry Jaffee | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Entertainment
Larry Jaffee

The Rolling Stones' Hot Rocks 1964-1971 was the first record - a double gatefold album - I ever bought, back in 1972 when I was 14, unleashing an obsession with recorded music that remains more than 40 years later.

Fab Four's Big Bash

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

Concerts and shows are to be staged in Liverpool to celebrate the golden anniversary of the city's - and possible the country's - biggest pop group, t...

The Fab Four's Fiftieth Anniversary

PA | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

A series of events were being unveiled today to celebrate 50 years since the formation of the Beatles. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harri...

I Don't Trust the BBC and Neither Should You

Alan_McGee | Posted 21.04.2012 | UK Entertainment
Alan_McGee

Don't let them define your reality... if 80,000 people attacked the Iranian government building it would be called a revolution yet when it happens in Greece it's called a protest. I don't trust anything the BBC tell me and neither should you.