Guardian Music — Withering put-downs and gorgeous tunes: the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt is himself once moreThe drawback to making the Album of Your Life is the problem of what to do with your life afterwards. Admittedly, it's a problem most rock and pop artist... more info

John Lennon's primary school has banned Beatles fans from taking pictures of its playground to prevent pupils being captured in photographs. more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - "No pictures" says head at former school more info

411 Mania — Metallica, John Lennon, Def Leppard and more returning to BTM... more info

Rolling Stone — After VH1 relaunched Behind the Music in 2009 with specials on Lil Wayne and 50 Cent, the long-running documentary series will head to VH1 Classic in 2010 with eight new half-hour specials dedicated to some of the biggest artists in rock history. Beh... more info

Live Daily — Reissues to follow Plastic Ono Band concert The celebration of music created by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and their friends after the split-up of The Beatles is expected to continue beyond the reunion performance of the Plastic Ono Band at the Brookly... more info

XFM.co.uk — The Beatle admits to being no good at his own video game. Meanwhile, John Lennon completes the game on ‘Expert' and says ‘Told you so'. more info

Guardian Music — Director Robert Zemeckis has chosen Cary Elwes, Peter Serafinowicz, Adam Campbell and, er, Kev from Shameless to play the Fab Four in a new version of the 1968 filmThe cast of the Yellow Submarine film has been chosen, and there's not a Harrison, Len... more info

Guardian Music — For years I've towed the punk party line: love Syd Barrett, hate the rest of the band. But hey! Flaming Lips proved me wrongA T-shirt almost brought down Pink Floyd. Everyone knows the Sex Pistols legend; John Lydon was spotted by Malcolm McClaren wa... more info

Live Daily — Yoko Ono will debut a "new" Plastic Ono Band [ tickets ] Feb. 16 at Gilman Opera House, which is located at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, according to a press release. The reformed Plastic Ono Band will feature original band members E... more info