Year: 2009
Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are to appear at a charity concert in New York City next month, in aid of the David Lynch Foundation.
Backbeat, the biopic of Stuart Sutcliffe’s Hamburg relationship with Astrid Kirchherr, is to be turned into a musical.
A postgraduate masters course in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society is being launched by Liverpool Hope University.
A new exhibition featuring works by John Lennon is to open at The Dome in Edinburgh.
Tuesday 24 February 2009 Songs A rough mix of The Beatles’ ‘Revolution 1’, which reveals how the latter song evolved into ‘Revolution 9’, has surfaced on the internet.
Rare silent film footage of The Beatles in Scotland in 1964 has failed to sell at auction.
3 Savile Row, London, the five-storey building which was headquarters of The Beatles’ Apple Corps business from 1968 until 1975, has been put up for sale.
Stella McCartney has designed a range of t-shirts for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day 2009.