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Ringo Starr’s granddaughter rocks out in band, skintight leopardskin pants

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Celebrity

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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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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