Is this guy for real? Ringo Starr wants his fans to enter a competition whereby they send him their best photos from his recent tour. And the prize will be…..That’s right! An autographed drumhead. WTF? If you recall, Musictoob reported a few days back that Ringo is way “too busy” to sign his fans autographs [...]

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Ringo Starr has announced that after October 20th, he will no longer have the time to sign autographs for his fans. He’s also going to chuck away all fan mail. He still gets that? “Please do not send fan mail to any address you have,” the 68-year-old drummer said in a video message on his [...]

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While Bob Geldof’s daughter is getting secretly hitched in Las Vegas, other celebrity children are wielding guitars and storming the nearest stage. Veronica Avant A.K.A Tatia Starkey (that’s Ringo Starr’s granddaughter to you) was recently snapped thrumming a whacking great bass in her rock band, Belakiss. Mail Online reports that before performing at the Barfly [...]

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These shots of The Beatles relaxing between shows during a weeklong, stint at Weston Super-Mare in 1963 have never been seen before. Four weeks later She Loves You went to number one and Beatlemania began in Britain.

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With fifth Beatle and Apple head Neil Aspinall now dead, the remaining Fab two and a half are milking every last remaining sheckle from the bands’ bodacious back catalogue. (Macca has alimony to pay after all). Hence the release of a feature length snooze-a-thon about Cirque du Soleil’s stage production based on The Beatles [...]

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The Beatles, Kansas City, I’m a Loser and Boys, live on Shindig, 1964.
Musictoob always wondered why the Beatles chose ‘Boys’ as a cover version. It’s an old Shirelles song - a girl band shouting about how fab boys are. For a bunch of guys to sing it is not very… well, heterosexual.
Nothing wrong with that, [...]

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Amongst the most important of the early influences on The Beatles was the rockabilly sound they heard on records shipped over from America. George Harrison got into the Beatles because he could play Bill Justis’s Raunchy, an early hit on Sun records. Throughout their career they wore their rockabilly influences with pride, covering Carl Perkins’s [...]

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