Guardian Music — Lennon's song God floors you with a punch. It's a farewell – to the past, to the Beatles. In destroying our idols, it somehow sets us all freePeople are always surprised when I tell them how much I like Yoko Ono. I interviewed her a few years ago,... more info

Guardian Music — Rare six spot ground beetle born in World Museum Bug House in John, Paul, George and Ringo's home city of LiverpoolThe city which gave the world the mop-haired Beatles has come up with a very different new version, an armoured two-inch-long predator ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonComposer Simon Jeffes (1949-97) was one of the great individuals of the past century, as idiosyncratically English as Cornelius Cardew, Gustav Holst and the Beatles. Recording and touring with his evolving collective the Peng... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — NEW YORK (AP): A revised DVD about the Beatles' initial appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" is like cracking open a time capsule. more info

All About Jazz — Oprah Winfrey is giving up control over one show she'll be in this fall: the Kennedy Center Honors. The 56-year-old TV host and actress will be honored at the 33rd annual event in Washington on Dec. 5, along with musician and former Beatles member... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Beatles' nation-rocking U.S. television performances in 1964 and 1965 have resurfaced this week in a new DVD package,“The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Beatles,” providing a look not just at the group’s American breakthrough, bu... more info

Popdose — The Ed Sullivan Show ran on CBS from 1948 – 1971. The show was broadcast live in the Eastern and Central time zone. Fortunately for us, it was shown on tape to in the Pacific and Mountain time zones. Sullivan presented a potpourri of the leading sh... more info

Guardian Music — Review board refuses sixth bid for freedom by man convicted of shooting former Beatle in 1980, saying his release would be 'inappropriate'Nearly 30 years after he shot and killed John Lennon, Mark David Chapman has once again been denied parole. The ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Robert said... George Thorogood And The Destroyers - 1979-04-22 - Palomino Club. Kiss - 1992-10-09 - East Rutherford, N.J. "Unchained & Unmasked". Krokus - 1984-12-10 - Cobo Hall Detroit, MI Genesis - 1987-06-20 - Manheim, Germany. "The Invisible Cag... more info

Starpulse — John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman has been denied parole for the sixth time. The murderer, who gunned down the former Beatles star outside his home in New York in 1980, has been eligible fo... more info