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The Beatles’ Festive Fan Club Holiday Recordings Presented Together on Seven Colored Vinyl Singles with Original Artwork to be released December 15th

Acclaimed ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Expanded Deluxe Anniversary Edition to be Released in HD Digital Audio

‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017 Stereo Mix to be Released on 180-Gram Vinyl LP and Limited Edition Picture Disc Vinyl LP

Explore the Editions at sgtpepper.thebeatles.com

Happy Socks x The Beatles

The psychedelic colors, vibrant artwork and madcap characters provided an abundance of inspiration for this creative collaboration! Consisting of six pairs of combed cotton socks and two collectable gift boxes, the limited edition collection is an everyday reminder that all you need is love.

Discover more at https://www.happysocks.com/thebeatles

Happy Socks are also available through the official Beatles stores.

God bless Tom Petty peace and love to his family I'm sure going to miss you Tom Ringo

Tom was a tender southern gent in life, a poet and a music master on stage. He had a rocking chair wisdom that brought everything back down to earth. We will love and miss him for the rest of our days.

Our thoughts are with his family and all the Heartbreakers. Olivia and Dhani Harrison

PBS today announced the U.S. broadcast premiere of Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s authorized and highly acclaimed Emmy® Award and GRAMMY Award®-winning documentary film about The Beatles’ phenomenal early career.

THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS premieres Saturday, November 25, 8:00-10:30 pm ET (check local listings) on PBS.

The film will be followed by an encore broadcast of SGT. PEPPER’S MUSICAL REVOLUTION, 10:30-Midnight ET on PBS.

Experience the magic backstage through this series of behind-the-scenes videos, captured by the Cirque Du Soleil team themselves.

On 22nd August, 1969, The Beatles all turned up at Tittenhurst Park - John's house in Ascot, at the time - for what turned out to be their last set of photos taken together. 
Photographers Monte Fresco and Ethan Russell took these now iconic images. 

"If you look at our faces in the film shot at the time, it was all a bit like: 'What is it? What does it mean? Our friend has gone.' It was more 'our friend' than anything else. Brian was a friend of ours, and we were all left behind." - Ringo.

This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of that iconic album with an exclusive collaboration between Pretty Green and The Beatles.

Each item has been inspired by actual outfits that The Beatles wore, along with the music and artwork from Sgt. Pepper.

The Pretty Green X Beatles collection includes a range of unique prints throughout the collection that have been hand drawn and digitally printed in house and inspired by detail worn by The Beatles.

Explore the collection here.

Dark Horse Radio, a new weekly show dedicated to the music that George Harrison wrote, sang and loved, is coming to SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel (Ch. 18).

Featuring music curated by George Harrison’s estate, the weekly 30-minute program, hosted by Nashville recording artist Laura Cantrell, will provide insight into Harrison’s musical influences, tastes and the impact he had on other artists.  It’s a musical journey into George’s mind, his legacy and his catalog.

August 15, 1965 - "The Beatles were always breaking new ground, and on August 15, 1965, they did so again..."

"On that date, the group played before a record crowd of 55,600 at the then-brand new William A Shea Municipal Stadium in Queens, NY. "

Read the Variety coverage of this historical concert here:

http://variety.com

Enjoy the full length video of the band performing Hey Bulldog at Abbey Road Studios, February 1968.

Ringo's 19th studio album is out now!

The album includes a long-awaited new collaboration from Ringo and Paul McCartney and also features Peter Frampton, Benmont Tench, Joe Walsh, Edgar Winter and others.

In addition to new songs, "Give More Love" also includes bonus track new renditions of "Back Off Boogaloo," "Don't Pass Me By," "Photograph" and "You Can't Fight Lightning."

The album is avaliable on both CD and vinyl.

ORDER YOUR COPY HERE

Some of the band’s most well-known fans are joining the channel with guest DJ sessions this summer, sharing their favorite tracks and some very memorable stories.

Director Ron Howard sits in for his guest DJ session with stories from making the documentary film, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week. A staple in Hollywood with final say on the film’s cut, he recalls receiving only one request while making the movie.

Congratulations to everyone involved in The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - 5 Emmy nominations! 

The nominations were announced Thursday July 13th by the Television Academy

Everything you need to know about the film is here: http://thebeatleseightdaysaweek.com/

Join Ringo in generating a wave of Peace & Love that moves over the planet, starting at noon in New Zealand and ending at noon in Hawaii.

SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel has your chance to win a trip for two to Ringo Starr's Peace & Love Birthday Celebration on July 7th at the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles... plus get a photo with Ringo!  He is inviting family, friends and the public to come together in a moment of "Peace & Love" at Noon. You will attend Ringo's birthday brunch and VIP reception inside Studio A at the Capitol Records Tower, where you'll get a photo opportunity with Ringo!

ENTER: https://www.siriusxm.com/RingoPeaceandLove

[Restricted to SiriusXM subscribers in the US since May 29, 2017 and are at least 18 years of age at time of entry]

Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 21-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Sir Paul McCartney is bringing his acclaimed long-running 'One On One' Tour through North and South America, New Zealand and Australia.  

For all the latest news and ticket information on Paul's tour: https://www.paulmccartney.com/live

50 years ago #OTD, The Beatles performed live to the biggest TV audience the world had ever seen - with a message of LOVE.

Matt Everitt spoke to Giles about the creation of the Anniversary Editions of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

Available in stores & on streaming services everywhere.

"A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For All."

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www.siriusxm.com/thebeatles

The Beatles Channel - exclusively on #SiriusXM

​Watch the trailer here.

We are proud to announce the first ever Beatles-backed radio channel, featuring exclusive programming, spanning the songs, stories, influences and legacy of the band.  

Launching May 18 at 9:09 am ET exclusively on SiriusXM channel 18, The Beatles Channel will showcase all-things-Beatles with regular and special programming spanning the history-making careers of the band and its members.

Paul McCartney said, “I still remember the thrill of when we first heard our music on the radio, but I don’t think any of us would have imagined that we’d have our very own Beatles radio channel more than 50 years later. The SiriusXM channel will have it all, 8 Days a Week.”

Ringo Starr added, “Great news, The Beatles will have their own channel on SiriusXM. Now you can listen to The Beatles, Any Time at All. Peace & Love.”

The BBC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with programmes across radio and television that include Sgt. Pepper's Musical Revolution - a new documentary which will present Sgt. Pepper as you have never heard it before - literally.

The film features Howard Goodall getting to grips with the album's musical nuts and bolts as well as extracts from material never before accessible outside of Abbey Road: studio chat between the band; out-takes; isolated instrumental and vocal tracks as well as passages from alternative takes of these world-famous songs.

PAUL McCARTNEY HELPS MOJO celebrate 50 years of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with an exclusive interview in the magazine that hits UK shops on Tuesday, April 25. He recalls the circumstances surrounding the group’s most groundbreaking album and gives his verdict on the new stereo mix designed to add legs to one of popular music’s key benchmarks.

“We were always being told, ‘You’re gonna lose all your fans with this one.’” McCartney tells MOJO. “And we’d say, ‘Well, we’ll lose some but we’ll gain some.’ We’ve gotta advance.”

‘Sgt. Pepper’ Presented with New Mixes in Stereo and 5.1 Surround Audio; Expanded with Previously Unreleased Session Recordings, Video Features & Special Packaging Previously Unreleased 1992 Documentary Film, ‘The Making of Sgt. Pepper,’ Restored for Anniversary Edition’s Super Deluxe Boxed Set

It was a golden summer – and now it’s a golden anniversary.  The Summer of Love of 1967 was a time to break free, to celebrate creativity, to revel in a counter-culture, to – as Timothy Leary famously suggested – ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’.

To mark this special anniversary, Liverpool has commissioned 13 never-before-seen events, influenced by each track on the album. Internationally-renowned artists are working in partnership with the city’s homegrown creative talent to bring to life this series of incredible reimagined pieces of work. 

May 25 to June 16, as the city pays tribute to its own four musical pioneers and the piece of ‘art’ they produced in the only way it knows how – by pushing artistic boundaries and celebrating creativity in all its forms.

We hope you will enjoy the show.  #SgtPepper50. https://www.sgtpepperat50.com/

Alan Aldridge sadly passed away on the 17th February. 

Alan was a very early member of the Apple family, and he enriched Apple with his creativity and visual style - his influence will always be part of the Beatles legacy. His revolutionary work continued throughout his illustrious career. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.

Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s acclaimed documentary feature film The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years won the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Film at last night's awards.
Up for the award alongside Beyoncé's Lemonade, Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble's The Music of Strangers, Steve Aoki's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years earned the Best Music Film honour among stiff competition at Music's Biggest Night. 

Said Nigel Sinclair, Brian Grazer and Scott Pascucci, “We are so thrilled to win this award; this project was quite the adventure and we were so blessed to have Ron's leadership guiding us through it all. We join with Ron in thanking The Recording Academy for this honor which will mean so much to the huge number of people that worked on the film. Thank you to Jeff Jones and the team at Apple Corps for all their support and of course The Beatles for trusting us with their amazing story." 

The Harrison family is proud to announce the release of George Harrison – The Vinyl Collection box set featuring all of George Harrison’s solo studio albums in one collection for the first time.

The vinyl box set includes all twelve of George’s studio albums with exact replicas of the original release track listing and artwork - all the discs are 180-gram heavyweight vinyl. The original analogue master tapes were used for the new re-masters and were cut at the legendary Capitol studios to ensure exceptional audio quality throughout.   An expanded edition of George's much-loved autobiography, I, Me, Mine, originally released through Genesis Publications in 1980, will also be released on February 24.

Find out more at georgeharrison.com