I Guess I'm Floating — The families are in town, there is more food than a soup kitchen on steroids, and New York is filled with floating cartoon characters. The Holiday Season is officially under way with the start of one of the best holidays ever created - Thanksgiving!... more info

CNN Showbiz — When John Lennon remarked in 1966 that the Beatles were then "bigger than Jesus" his comments prompted outrage in the U.S. But this weekend the Vatican's newspaper paid tribute to the band on the 40th anniversary of the release of their "White Album"... more info

Buffalo News, New York — Many famous Beatles tunes are based on real people and actual events. John Lennon and Paul McCartney frequently turned to their childhood, their family -- and even their pets -- for inspiration. Here are some examples: more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Earlier this month, Noel Gallagher opined that he abhors comparisons to a certain outfit from Oxford. "The biggest criticism that the music press has against us is that we're not Radiohead," the Oasis guitarist told Plavi Radio in Zagreb, Croatia. "C... more info

Guardian Music — Forty years after the Beatles' White Album first went on sale, yesterdaysomeone bought a copy - for £19,201.Sold at auction, this was no ordinary edition - just the fifth double-LP tobe pressed in the initial "limited edition" of 5 million, it's e... more info

Stereogum — In this Black Cab Session (lucky no. 67), Lambchop Kurt Wagner covering Bob Dylan's "You're A Big Girl Now." He starts by mentioning Bob Dylan's drunken cab ride with John Lennon (which you can watch here). Wagner's rainy, shadowy cab trip isn't as... more info

Mojo 4 Music — Squeeze’s McCartney (or was he Lennon?) was kept on his toes by sneers and angst in 2008. more info

Perez Hilton — A Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano , has issued a posthumous pardon to John Lennon for his 'offensive' declaration forty years ago that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The paper described the remark as "showing off, bragging by a yo... more info

Guardian Music — The Vatican's announcement that it has forgiven John Lennon for comparing the Beatles' popularity to that of Jesus Christ, communicated by its newspaper Osservatore Romano at the weekend, might appear to be the result of an enlightened, if belated, c... more info

Guardian Music — Closeted over all these years, the Vatican has finally announced that it likes the Beatles.L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official newspaper of the Holy See, this weekend set aside its papal transcripts and clerical itineraries to disclose an affection f... more info