ContactMusic — John Scheinfeld, the man behind documentaries about John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, is to direct a new film about Elvis Presley's life based on the memoirs penned by The King's former bodyguard Sonny West. Scheinfeld will also rewrite the screenplay f... more info

Guardian Music — It's hard to imagine the former Queen frontman aged 65. But to celebrate Freddie Mercury's immortalisation as a Google doodle, we thought we'd give it a try ...Freddie Mercury would have been 65 today. But what would have happened had he not died? Fo... more info

Guardian Music — Travel remains surprisingly buoyant but there's another blow for small-scale manufacturingThere's patchy economic news to start the week in the north. The good first: Liverpool's John Lennon airport had its busiest month ever in August.The traveller ... more info

Guardian Music — Recollections by surviving Beatles and second wife Olivia cast new light on the emotional intensity that drove his music Previously unseen private letters, home movie footage and intimate personal recollections of George Harrison are set to radically... more info

The Independent — The Rock and Rock Hall of Fame is replete with the names of music's heroes: Hendrix, Lennon, Presley. The name John Otway is conspicuous by its absence. His heroism is of a different stripe. He is not just a failure; he is a heroic failure. In truth... more info

Sky News — A football fan has been cleared of assaulting Celtic Football manager, Neil Lennon, earlier this year. more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Even with a crackly phone line, 9,000 kilometres and a heavy Manchester accent between us, Liam Gallagher is making himself very clear indeed. Mind you, the 38-year-old Beady Eye frontman has always been an advocate of the direct-as-a-sla... more info

ContactMusic — More than 250 letters and cards handwritten by late Beatles legend John Lennon are to be published for the first time. Author Hunter Davies, who wrote the only official biography of The Beatles in the 1960s, has been tracing back all of the personal ... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Beck and Sean Lennon paid tribute to French star Serge Gainsbourg at a tribute show in Los Angeles on Sunday (28Aug11). The late musician's son Lulu, who was just five when Gainsbourg died of a heart attack in 1991, also took to the stage to ... more info

Stereogum — It was a beautiful evening at the Hollywood Bowl for the KCRW-sponsored tribute to Serge Gainsbourg curated by Beck. The all star line up included Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear), Victoria Legrand (Beach House), Mike Patton (Faith No More), Sean Lennon & Ch... more info