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 [...]
Ringo Starr’s granddaughter rocks out in band, skintight leopardskin pants
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Celebrity
Tags:Camden Barfly·Ringo Starr·Ruari Meehan·Tatia Starkey·The Beatles·The Shadows·Veronica Avant
Ringo Starr milks the Beatles for all they are worth
May 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music news
Today George Harrison’s widow unveiled her special garden for the ex- Beatle at the Chelsea Flower Show. Olivia Harrison was joined by human cardboard cut out Ringo Starr in promoting the latest attempt by the Fab Two to rake in yet more royalites. Look, Musictoob likes The Beatles as much as the [...]
Tags:milking it·royalties·The Beatles
The 7 biggest feuds in music
April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Recommended music
With a brand new celebrity cat fight starting to emerge, now’s a good time to look back at the fiercest rivalries in music history. Here’s Musictoob’s top music feuds.
Tags:blur·Britney Spears·Cristina Aguillera·Feuds·Liam Gallagher·Madonna·Mariah Carey·Michael Jackson·Notorious B.I.G.·Oasis·Paul McCartney·rivalries·Robbie Williams·rolling stones·The Beatles·Tupac Shakur
Unseen Beatles pictures taken on the eve of Beatlemania
April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music news
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.
Tags:George Harrison·John Lennon·Paul McCartney·Ringo Starr·The Beatles·unseen pictures
The Beatles release new record
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Music news
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 [...]
Tags:Cirque du Soleil·Las Vegas·Paul McCartney·Ringo Starr·The Beatles·Yoko Ono
The Complete Guide to Country Rock Part 2: The Beatles to Buffalo Springfield
March 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Recommended music
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 [...]
Tags:buffalo springfield·country·country rock·Dillard and Clark·Ringo Starr·The Beatles·The Byrds·the Rolling Stones