Guardian Music — The TV personality, a childhood neighbour of the Jackson family, remembers his close friend the King of Pop, who died of an overdose on 25 June at the age of 50The first time I met Michael he was 11 and already really famous – the Jackson Five... more info

Guardian Music — Before the Beatles, John Lennon was a school friend, a bandmate, a boyfriend - and a big personality. We talk to the people who knew him best during his Liverpool youthPRIMARY SCHOOLComedian JIMMY TARBUCK went to Dovedale primary school with John Len... more info

The race to dominate the decade in music has come down to Eminem and The Beatles in the stretch. The winner? more info

Rolling Stone — By now Fab Four fans have had plenty of time to nail down Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on The Beatles: Rock Band, so Harmonix is unleashing the third full Beatles album for play on the game: Rubber Soul will arrive in f... more info

Guardian Music — So I was all set to write about the noughties this week, when some pictures landed on my desk and I thought: "You know what? If I received Sleeve Notes, I'd much rather look at paintings of a half-naked Michael Jackson surrounded by cherubic children... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — For a generation of listeners, the late Ella Fitzgerald exists perhaps as more of a concept than someone who was once a living human being. As the Beatles are to pop music, Fitzgerald is to jazz vocals, and the quality... more info

Starpulse — Paul McCartney has branded his marriage to Heather Mills one of the worst mistakes of his life. The Beatles legend wed the former "glamour" model in 2002,[...] Read more! more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Sonic Youth, Beyoncé • Best of the Decade: The New Issue • Eminem, The Beatles: 2000s’ Best Sellers • Velvet Underground Chat With Fricke in NYC • Susan Boyle Breaks Chart Records • Bob Dylan’s “Little Drummer Boy”... more info

Detroit Free Press — John, Paul, George, Ringo and Eminem. It's an unlikely group indeed until you tally up overall record sales for the decade as the end-of-the-aughts countdown continues. more info

Guardian Music — Originally published on 10 December 1963The way in which Mr W. Raeburn, QC, turned down a free ticket to see the Beatles when he presided over the Performing Right Tribunal in London yesterday would have roused bitter envy in the soul of a teenager, ... more info