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

Mojo 4 Music — Richie Edwards officially presumed dead, Vatican apologises to Lennon, Guy Peellaert 1934-2008... more info

The Newsroom — The Vatican's official newspaper has apparently forgiven a remark made by John Lennon - that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Press Assoc. - Vatican media is praising the Beatles' musical legacy and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the band was more popular than Jesus. more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Press Assoc. - Vatican media is praising the Beatles' musical legacy and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the band was more popular than Jesus. more info