This Week’s Beatles News From Around the Web…
Michael Jackson is Not Giving Beatles Songs Back to Paul
From CNN… First the rumor went around that Michael Jackson was leaving the Beatles catalog to Paul McCartney in his will. Then the rumor was that McCartney was upset that Jackson didn’t leave the Beatles catalog to the Beatle in his will.
Neither is true, said McCartney in a posting on his Web site.
“Some time ago, the media came up with the idea that Michael Jackson was going to leave his share in the Beatles songs to me in his will which was completely made up and something I didn’t believe for a second,” McCartney said.
“Now the report is that I am devastated to find that he didn’t leave the songs to me. This is completely untrue,” he added…
http://whtq.com/blogs/rock_news/2009/07/mccartney-michael-jackson-was.html
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Paul McCartney Returned to the Ed Sullivan Theatre to Rock Letterman
The big news last night wasn’t that former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney was on the David Letterman show.
It wasn’t that it was a return for Paul to the Ed Sullivan Theater where the Beatles rocked America and where Letterman’s show is now taped. It wasn’t that he did a performance on top of the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater, for an impromptu late afternoon concert for summer tourists and New Yorkers….
http://whtq.com/blogs/rock_news/2009/07/mccartney-michael-jackson-was.html
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Michael Jackson’s Death Will Not Effect Beatles Rock Band Set List
Is there any cause for concern that the final set list for Beatles Rock Band will be compromised by Michael Jackson’s death? How did MJ get into the Rock Band title for The Beatles, in the first place? If in case you still weren’t aware, the King of Pop only happened to own the song catalog of The Beatles via ATV, at least until his untimely demise…
http://www.qj.net/Jackson-s-death-won-t-affect-The-Beatles-Rock-Band-set-list/pg/49/aid/132943
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New York Rock Station WNEW looks back on The Beatles Free As a Bird
If you like the Beatles, then you’ll love this video. Of course, if you like the Beatles, then you’ve almost certainly already seen it. See how many references to Beatles songs you can find … there are reportedly 80 to 100 for the discerning eye …
http://www.wnew.com/2009/06/video-classics-free-as-a-bird-the-beatles.html
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New York Rock Startion WNEW looks back on the Golden Slumbers Medley
The other three members of the group accepted Paul McCartney’s suggestion that they record an album ‘the way they used to’, free of all the strife. Knowing that it would likely be their last, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr committed fully to the project, wanting the band to ‘go out on a high note’. Thus it came to pass that their album, Abbey Road, was born…
http://www.wnew.com/2009/07/video-classics-golden-slumbers-medley-the-beatles.html
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- Beatle Geek Pete
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