Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston is to play John Lennon in a one-off BBC drama that marks 30 years since the singer's death. more info

BBC News - UK — Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston is to play John Lennon in a one-off BBC drama that marks 30 years since the singer's death. more info

Live Daily — Julian Lennon [ tickets ] and digital pioneers Michael Birch and Todd Meagher have launched a full-service, artist-focused, music-services company that they are calling theRevolution, according to a press release.The mission of the new company is to ... more info

Live Daily — New York-based singer/songwriter Harper Simon [ tickets ] has plotted a West Coast tour to close out his 2009 tour schedule behind his recently released self-titled debut. The musician--son of iconic performer Paul Simon--continues the in-progress... more info

A few years ago, Julian Lennon pictured himself as a man who could write music again. Recently, he saw himself as someone who ... more info

USA Today Music — A few years ago, Julian Lennon pictured himself as a man who could write music again. Recently, he saw himself as someone who ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman On November 1st, Doveman opened up at Mercury Lounge for The Ghost of a Sabre Toothed Tiger, a project that features Sean Lenon, his model girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl (who, as announced from... more info

Rolling Stone — In 1980, music journalist Robert Palmer was invited to drop by the sessions for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy in New York. When Palmer arrived, Lennon was adding background vocals to “(Just Like) Starting Over.” Palmer noted that Le... more info

All About Jazz — Sony Music is pleased to announce the CD and digital download release of the soundtrack album of the year, Nowhere Boy - the critically acclaimed film biopic about John Lennon's teenage years that led to his music career from the Quarrymen, to his ea... more info

Guardian Music — From Goldfrapp to Badly Drawn Boy, from Karen O to Nick Cave, more and more big names are lining up to write music for films. What makes the process so appealing?'When you're writing a song, it's like you're the director, scriptwriter, cinematograp... more info