Beatles’ re-launch of albums ‘helps clear MJ’s debts’

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles have surpassed Jesus in terms of popularity on the Google search engine. An analysis of search terms showed more people searched for the band on Google than the son of God during September.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Late Beatle legend John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has revealed she barely knows the band's songs and only realised their music is "special" when she recently revisited their back catalogue. Avant-garde artist Ono met Lennon in 1966 at the height of the Fab Four's fame and was wed to the rock legend until his death in New York in 1980.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Dame Vera Lynn has piped The Beatles and Bob Dylan in becoming the oldest living artist in the world to have a number one album. The 92-year-old, whose career flourished during World War II when she was nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart", toppled artists including the Arctic Monkeys and the Kings of Leon after her album We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn topped the charts.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - If all four members of the band had been alive today, they might well have been singing 'Help!' or 'You Can't Do That' -- for the Beatles have been edged out of the British charts in what was supposed to be their big week. By a 92-year-old, distinctly unfashionable woman.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney has said that the Beatles were planning to reunite before John Lennon was shot dead in 1980. The singer admitted that though they were set to receive huge offers yet they believed it wouldn't be as big as the 60's.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney has confessed that when the Beatles started making music, he thought they would only last "at best a couple of years". With the launch of the release of new Beatles computer game, The Beatles: Rock Band, the legendary musician has expressed his pride at the enduring popularity of the band.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - It's almost 40 years since 'The Beatles' split, and yet the British band is set to earn the biggest amount ever this year, and could even net 1billion pounds by Christmas. The Beatles comeback will start with remastered versions of 13 of late John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and late George Harrison's studio albums.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles are back with a bang. The Fab Four will now be seen in a video game titled The Beatles: Rock Band.

August 31st, 2009 Apple confirms music-themed launch for Sept. 9CUPERTINO, Calif.

August 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has rubbished all criticism heaped on the Beatles Rock Band game, saying her late husband "would have loved it". Ono said the game would introduce the Beatles' music to a new generation of fans.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - Lost conversations of British rock and pop group The Beatles are to feature in a new BBC documentary. All about the band's love affair with Abbey Road studios in London, the movie has been pieced together by filmmaker Bob Smeaton, who worked on "The Beatles Anthology" series, and will be called "The Beatles on Record", reports contactmusic.com.

August 8th, 2009 LONDON - Fans of legendary band The Beatles have started walking across the Abbey Road to make the 40th anniversary of the Abbey Road album photoshoot. Organiser Richard Porter, who has been running tours for more than 20 years, said he had decided to mark the special occasion on popular demand.

July 8th, 2009 Sales of Michael Jackson albums soared last weekNEW YORK — Nielsen SoundScan says 800,000 copies of Michael Jackson albums were bought in the U.S. last week — nearly double his sales from the previous week.

July 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A lost track of legendary rock band 'The Beatles', written in 1978, is set for release. The song 'Now and Then', written by John Lennon in 1978 and later worked on by Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr when they reunited to work on the Beatles Anthology project in 1995, is set for release.

July 4th, 2009 Ex-Beatles, Rolling Stones manager Klein diesNEW YORK — Former music manager Allen Klein, a no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, has died. Bob Merlis, a publicist for Klein's company, ABKCO Music & Records, says Klein died Saturday at his New York City home of Alzheimer's disease.