Gigwise — By cash-strapped EMI... more info

The Independent — British music group EMI has put the Beatles' historic Abbey Road studios up for sale, as it struggles to reduce debt, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. more info

Guardian Music — Citizens, GlasgowTheatre is ill-equipped to ­represent other art forms. It can cope with ­portraying a brilliant painter, but ­struggles to show off a brilliant ­painting. It can convince us that a play's Â­characters are in a top pop ... more info

Guardian Music — Founder member of the American band the Knack and co-writer of their hit My SharonaFor a couple of months in late 1979, My Sharona, by the Knack, crowded out almost every other pop song from the airwaves of north America and western Europe. The song ... more info

Guardian Music — The pope is a man of catholic tastes, if a Vatican-issued list of top 10 albums of all time is anything to go byIt's the spiritual question we all want answered. You can take your "Why are we here?", your "Is there a God?", even your "What happens wh... more info

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Guardian Music — Lyric, LondonIt needs to be said from the outset that this celebration of Michael Jackson's music doesn't know whether it is what co-producer Adrian Grant terms a ­"jukebox show", a tribute or a superior form of karaoke. It's a mishmash, but the s... more info

Topix — The Holy See's newspaper Saturday published its picks for pop rock paradise, ranging from Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and the Beatles' "Revolver." What L'Osservatore Romano calls a semiserious guide ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The Holy See's newspaper Saturday published its picks for pop rock paradise, ranging from Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and the Beatles' "Revolver."What L'Osservatore Romano calls a semiserious guide o... more info

Guardian Music — The Killers got facial hair to connote lofty ambition, while Chris Martin grew something as amorphous on his chin as Coldplay's music. So who's next to ditch the razor?Blame it on the Maharishi. In August 1967 the Beatles, fried by pop, fame and LSD,... more info