
Paul McCartney carries the weight at Bonnaroo
Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo. A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music ...
Timberlake to headline iTunes festival
Justin Timberlake will be the headliner when the iTunes festival kicks off in September in London. The superstar is among the acts slated for the ...

McCartney leaves pick on 1st visit to Graceland
Paul McCartney made his first visit to Elvis Presley's grave and left one of his guitar picks behind. According to the official Twitter account of the ...

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter ...

Beatles' lyrics headed for British Library
Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already ...

1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play?
Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans ...
N'Dour, Saariaho share Sweden's Polar Music Prize
Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the international 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most ...

Thatcher song joins list of tunes BBC censored
A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache. The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play "Ding Dong! The Witch is ...

List: Paul McCartney still UK's richest musician
Let it be — as in billionaire. Paul McCartney remains Britain's wealthiest musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. The newspaper estimated ...
Ex-tabloid editor quizzed in phone hacking probe
The former editor of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid was questioned on Friday by police investigating phone hacking, British media reported. The Press ...
UK phone hacking arrests at new media: Mirror
British police made four arrests for suspected phone hacking Thursday, the first time that top editors and journalists at the Mirror group have been ...

Bruce Springsteen to return to London festival
Bruce Springsteen is returning to headline the London Hard Rock Calling festival, a year after authorities pulled the plug on his duet with Paul ...

Slimane divides with anti-style Saint Laurent show
As the sun set on the great glass ceiling of Paris' Grand Palais Monday, the eyes of the fashion crowd turned on one man: Saint Laurent's Hedi Slimane

Stella McCartney restyles pinstripes; Paul is late
Stella McCartney did some spring cleaning for her fall-winter show in Paris, replacing her old wardrobe standbys with a ready-to-wear collection that ...
Tony Sheridan, early Beatles associate, dies at 72
Tony Sheridan, a British singer who performed with the Beatles during their early years in Hamburg, has died in Germany. He was 72. Frank Orth, the ...

London Olympic Park to host 2013 rock concerts
London's Olympic Park will partly reopen to the public this year for a series of summer rock concerts, officials announced Tuesday. The London Legacy ...
McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to ...

Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies
British composer, pianist and arranger Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, who was nominated three times for Academy Awards, has died in New York City at age ...
Hillsborough charity single tops British chart
A charity single devoted to the victims of Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster has topped the U.K. singles chart to become a Christmas No. 1.
Reports: Rolling Stones guitarist Wood ties knot
Two British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.