EMI wins injunction against US website for selling Beatles tracks

November 6th, 2009 Songs by THE BEATLES have been pulled from the internet after record label bosses at EMI won a temporary injunction against a U.S. website for allegedly selling the tracks without permission.

November 4th, 2009 LONDON - It has emerged that the back catalogue of British band Beatles is still being sold on BlueBeat for digital download, despite it being at the centre of a copyright row with EMI. BlueBeat, an American website, continued selling MP3 files of every single Beatles track for 25 cents (15p), even though the group's record label, EMI, has launched an urgent investigation into the unauthorised sale.

November 4th, 2009 Punk icons BUD GAUGH and ERIC WILSON have suffered a setback in their efforts to revive SUBLIME after a judge granted a preliminary injunction to prevent them using the band name. The rockers reunited for a show in California last month (Oct09) but sparked controversy by playing under their original moniker.

October 11th, 2009 LONDON - Rap star Jay-Z has said that George Michael once had a strong influence on hip hop artists. He also listed Beatles among his idols, in an interview to former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown for rock magazine NME.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - Beatles' launch of their remastered albums and the video game The Beatles: Rock Band has apparently helped clear late singer Michael Jackson's debts. The King of Pop had bought the 250-song Beatles catalogue in 1985 for 47.5million dollars and now with the high selling of his own music and the relaunch of the Fab Four's sound, it is estimated that his estate will net more than 250million dollars by Christmas.

September 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Beatles' final album 'Abbey Road' has been named their best album in a new poll. The album, released in 1969, features the legends' hit tracks such as 'Come Together' and 'Here Comes The Sun'.

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 1st, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles' song 'She Loves You' was their biggest- selling song in the UK, it has been revealed. The Official Chart Company presented a list of the legendary band's greatest hits, including re-issues, which was broadcast on Radio 2.

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 4th, 2009 LONDON - Previously unseen black and white images of The Beatles taken when the band stayed at a south coast hotel in the mid-60s are up for sale. The unusual photographs, which show John Lennon playing with a Box Brownie camera and him and the other band members in a car, were taken when the Fab Four were at the Askers Road House Hotel in Bridport, Dorset.

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.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Remaining Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr came together for the world's first public viewing of a karaoke-style game based on the group's music. The icons, along with late John Lennon's partner Yoko Ono and George Harrison's widow, Olivia, shared the stage during MTV and Harmonix's unfolding of the Beatles Rock Band.

May 4th, 2009 LONDON - Brit singer Amy Winehouse has won a legal ruling banning paparazzi photographers and "persons unknown" from following her or taking her pictures while out in public. Winehouse, 25, has been battling it out in court in a bid to curb the number of snappers who trail her while she is in Britain, and now her legal team has secured a ruling, which targets London-based Big Pictures agency.

May 3rd, 2009 Amy Winehouse blocks paparazzi from London homeLONDON — Amy Winehouse has won a court order banning the paparazzi from pursuing her outside her London home, a source close to the singer's management team said Saturday. The singer sought the order to ban photographers if they follow her or approach her within 100 meters (yards) of her home, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not directly involved in the case.