Beatles to release back catalogue of music through website

August 8th, 2009 LONDON —Beatles fans mobbed London's Abbey Road on the 40th anniversary of the famous photo that turned this ordinary London street into a musical pilgrimage site. Hundreds of fans swarmed the site Saturday morning, bringing traffic to a standstill.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - A mail order company has issued an apology to a shopper who ordered a pair of slippers, and was sent an explicit catalogue for sex aids and erotic clothing along. The apology came after the Advertising Standards Agency agreed with the customer's complaint, and said that the catalogue should not have been sent out.

May 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - With the Hannah Montana movie all set for release, Miley Cyrus is being flocked by hoards of fans and paparazzi, but all she really wants in life is her chapstick and music. In a recent interview, the 16-year-old starlet has admitted that although she hates make-up but always remembers to carry a chapstick in her bag.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who introduced the world to Bob Marley and U2, has received a special honour at the Music Week magazine awards in London. He has been named the most influential figure in the last 50 years of the British music industry.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - George Harrison's elder sister Louise has for the first time shared some of the rare family pictures with 'The Beatles', and revealed the role she played in the Fab Four's big American break. The 78-year-old lady provided a peek into never-before-seen photographs in an intimate family album.

April 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - Will it be Beatle-mania 2? Apple Corps and Britain's Electric & Musical Industries (EMI) Tuesday announced to release the complete, digitally remastered version of the Beatles's earlier albums in September. All the 12 earlier albums of the fabled British band will be packaged with replicated original UK album art, rare photos and 'embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.'' Engineers of Britain's famous Abbey Road Studio, where the Beatles recorded their studio albums, have reportedly been working on the project for many years.

April 8th, 2009 LONDON - Beatles' record label is set to recreate the magic of the legendary rock band with a digitally remastered version of their albums. Engineers at Abbey Road Studios, northwest London have re-recorded the songs using a mixture of state-of-the-art recording technology and 1960s musical equipment to create "highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release".

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Teen superstar Miley Cyrus is such a huge fan of John Lennon that she has recorded a cover version of his peace anthem 'Imagine'. The recording to took place when the 16-year-old star hit the studio for a duet with Emily Osment, her 'Hannah Montana' co-star.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Former 'The Beatles' members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a concert on April 4, to raise money for a meditation charity. McCartney headlined the show at New York City's Radio City Music Hall as part of The David Lynch Foundation's 'Change Begins Within' concert in aid of Transcendental Meditation.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - Photographs showing British group 'The Beatles' at the height of their fame have been published in a new book. The pictures, taken during the time they held the top five positions in the US singles chart in 1964, show the extent of the band's popularity and the mania that enveloped them both in the US and the UK at the time.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - A new website, called Spotify, is all set to change the way we listen to music - it will offer almost eight million songs, and that too without paying a single penny. With all four major record labels backing it, the new Spotify service, allows people to listen to almost any commercial single or album for nothing.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - The late Beatle George Harrison's son Dhani has managed to convince the surviving band members of the legendary group to agree on a new project, which is 'The Beatles: Rock band' video game. Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been reluctant to allow their music to be used for commercial endeavours, but were won over by a mock-up Harrison Jr.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - George Harrison's son Dhani has revealed that he helped convinced the surviving 'The Beatles' members to give the green light to a new game inspired by the band. Sir Paul MCCartney and Ringo Starr are generally against the use of their music for commercial projects.

January 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson wants to end an almost 24-year-long feud with legend Sir Paul McCartney by leaving his share of the Beatles back catalogue to him in his will. According to mirror.co.uk, McCartney was upset with Jackson when he outbid him in 1985 to win the ownership of the 350 million-pound publishing rights for the whole Lennon-McCartney songbook.

December 26th, 2008 LONDON - Beatles legend Paul McCartney is set to work with the US rock group The Killers. According to thesun.co.uk, the 66-year-old McCartney met the band backstage when they performed at Royal Albert Hall here last month.