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As we head into the Thanksgiving break, it’s time for some special treats from the recording industry, including new music from Paul McCartney, who was in some band whose name escapes me, and a juicy and provocative list of fresh Grammy nominations spotlighting bright new artists. Big corporations are also hard at…

Robert Freeman, the photographer whose iconic photos and album covers of The Beatles had a major cultural impact, has died. No cause of death was given, but he had been ill for some time. His death was confirmed by official The Beatles’ Twitter page. Freeman began his career as a photo journalist at the British…

Like Elton John, Paul Simon and Bono before him, the great Paul McCartney could be the latest rock legend to lend his talents to Broadway. The former Beatle has confirmed that he’s been working on a musical version of the classic 1946 holiday movie It’s A Wonderful Life. The musical would be produced by British…

BREAKING: Peter Jackson and The Beatles are coming together. Apple Corps Ltd. and WingNut Films Ltd. are teaming the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and The Beatles for a feature documentary. Jackson will direct a movie that is based on 55 hours of never-released footage of The Beatles in…

CBS is expanding on its hugely popular “Carpool Karaoke” segment with Paul McCartney with a primetime special. The network has greenlighted Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool to air Monday, August 20 at 8 PM. The network says the hourlong special will feature never-before-seen footage from…

European Union lawmakers on Thursday voted against a series of controversial copyright rules known as the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The vote handed a perceived, but perhaps temporary, victory to Silicon Valley while reps for content creators and owners expressed disappointment at the…

Abramorama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' 1968 classic animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, with a theatrical release in July. Helpfully, the film will have the bouncing ball-style lyrics at the bottom of the screen for the first time, allowing audiences to sing along. Is it too much to…

Late Late Show's Carpool Karaoke snagged Paul McCartney for this year’s London visit. It’s not so much karaoke and, technically, not so much “carpool” either with lots of trips down Beatles Liverpool Memory Lane, or Penny Lane to be more precise. Beginning their Liverpool "road trip" to “Drive My Car,” of course, host…

Paul McCartney will join James Corden in an all-new Carpool Karaoke during the London broadcasts of CBS’s The Late Late Show next week. Corden’s show will broadcast from Central Hall Westminster, but McCartney will give Corden’s viewers a tour of his hometown of Liverpool as they sing a medley of McCartney’s hits and…

The March For Our Lives movement got its emphatic message across Saturday, taking to the streets worldwide and dominating news media, all to demand more gun restrictions from their legislators. In New York, an estimated 100,000 people, including actor Liev Schrieber and musician Paul McCartney, traveled from Central…

Refresh for updates Paul McCartney is among those marching against gun violence in New York City today, and spoke to CNN’s Jason Caroll to note, "One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me." McCartney was referring, of course, to John Lennon, who was murdered by a…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul McCartney's long-gestating animated film High In The Clouds has moved a step closer to the big screen after finding its writer. Jon Croker, who wrote The Woman In Black: Angel of Death and worked on the production draft of Paddington, has signed up to pen the movie. The project has been in development…