All posts containing the tag: "Beatles"
Posted Sep 14th 2009 6:55AM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson's publishing catalog will not be sold to pump up the assets in the estate, according to sources familiar with the probate.
We're told several family members are questioning why the estate appears, as one put it, "in the red." Sources knowledgeable with the estate acknowledge a "huge amount of debt" as creditors claims continue to come in.
But, we're told, in the end, if all the assets were sold the estate would definitely be flush with cash. HOWEVER, sources say the publishing catalog -- notably the Beatles' songs -- will not go on the auction block. Sources say it's an asset that is worth way more to Jackson's kids in the long run than the cash it would generate now.
The honchos in the estate, we're told, are confident it will be fueled by an influx of cash over the next year or two -- the amount of time it will take to wrap probate up.
Until probate ends, family members will have to make due with their allowances.
Filed under: Music, Michael Jackson, Exclusives
Tags: allowance, beatles, beatles songs, BeatlesSongs, kids, michael jackson, MichaelJackson, probate, publishing rights, PublishingRights, songs
Posted Jun 27th 2009 8:42AM by TMZ Staff
Fans have turned the Imagine Circle at the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park into a memorial for Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett
Tags: beatles, central park, CentralPark, Farrah Fawcett, FarrahFawcett, john lennon, JohnLennon, memorial, michael jackson, MichaelJackson, strawberry fields, StrawberryFields
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 2:14PM by TMZ Staff
Tom Hanks is now officially the proud owner of a $75,000 Beatles poster, because his wife has dropped her lawsuit claiming the art was bogus.
Rita Wilson sued Melissa Pearl, claiming the poster from 1962 -- which she bought for Hanks -- never came with the proper authentication.
But Pearl anted up a doc from Sotheby's and Rita now seems satisfied. So the case is history. Long live the Beatles.
A $75,000 poster??? That's Forrest Gump money.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Tags: beatles, rita wilson, RitaWilson, the beatles, TheBeatles, tom hanks, TomHanks
Posted Apr 17th 2009 12:11PM by TMZ Staff
Beatles fans are brutal ... at least the ones who like Paul McCartney ... the ones who are older than dirt.
We've learned three people were detained at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas yesterday, after they allegedly stole boxes of hotel magazines with Sir Paul on the cover, touting the re-opening of The Joint's new venue which McCartney will christen on Sunday.
Funny part of the story -- the alleged thieves are in their 50s.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Tags: beatles, hard rock hotel, HardRockHotel, las vegas, LasVegas, paul mccartney, PaulMccartney, stolen, The Joint, theievery, TheJoint, thief
Posted Mar 11th 2008 6:43PM by TMZ Staff
Tonight the contestants have a challenge. Take a sad song and make it better. They're singing Beatles songs. Click on the gallery and find out who's singing what.
Filed under: American Idol
Tags: american idol, AmericanIdol, beatles, music
Posted Nov 6th 2007 8:30AM by TMZ Staff
TMZ cameras caught up with former Beatle Ringo Starr with wife Barbara Bach and Eagle Joe Walsh at II Sole on Sunday. Mega legends unite! Also out in L.A.: Ricky Bell and Johnny Gill from New Edition at Mr. Chow. It must have been blast from the past night in Hollywood! Look how great the old crooners are holding up!
From the sublime to the sub-human; Gummi Bear-san did an unnecessary shout-by on photogs, yelling, "Konichiwa!" as he drove around being, well, Gummi. LC from the "Hills" was seen leaving a club.
And in NYC, movie mogul Steven Spielberg posed with a fan. All this and more in today's Way-Back Machine edition of Star Catcher.
Filed under: Star Catcher
Tags: beatles, gummi bear, GummiBear, joe walsh, JoeWalsh, ringo starr, RingoStarr
Posted Mar 10th 2007 3:01AM by TMZ Staff
At the movies this weekend, it's all about 300 Spartans preparing for glory, but for the Z List, it's all about five celebrities who should be sorry.
Ann Coulter: The blonde bombshell of right wing punditry was officially inducted into the exclusive boys club of Michael Richards, Mel Gibson and Isaiah Washington, as major fallout continued to build in the wake of her derogatory description of Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards. A number of newspapers have dropped her column, she's lost a bunch of website sponsors, and all of a sudden, perhaps for the first time, even her fans are looking past the long legs and long locks. Hasn't Coulter learned anything from Hollywood's terrible trio? You don't deem it a "schoolyard taunt;" you apologize, as quickly and as contritely as you can.
Click here... it's not over yet
Filed under: The Z List
Tags: 300 spartans, 300Spartans, ann coulter, AnnCoulter, beatles, cabo wabo, CaboWabo, courtney love, CourtneyLove, david lee roth, DavidLeeRoth, john edwards, JohnEdwards, kim kardashian, KimKardashian, michael jackson, MichaelJackson, MJ, O.J., Ray-j, rehab, sex tape, SexTape, the beatles, TheBeatles, TMZ, van halen, VanHalen
Posted Oct 11th 2006 12:07PM by Celly
For any of you hard-core Beatles fans out there with a few million dollars laying around, John Lennon's former home in the U.K. is on the market.
Lennon bought the property in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania and lived there with his first wife Cynthia and son Julian. The house was also the site of the blossoming relationship between Lennon and Yoko Ono. In fact, in Cynthia Lennon's book "John" she wrote that she returned home from vacation early to find Yoko Ono in her house wearing her bathrobe. Ouch!
The house is on the market for $11.1 million and is 24 miles southwest of London and features six bedrooms, five reception rooms, a playroom, sauna, swimming pool and enough music history to keep your cocktail party conversations interesting for the rest of your life.
So while money can't buy you love, it can definitely buy the house that love broke up.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Tags: beatlemania, beatles, cynthia lennon, CynthiaLennon, for sale, ForSale, house, john lennon, JohnLennon, julian lennon, JulianLennon, london, real estate, RealEstate
Posted Sep 5th 2006 5:27PM by TMZ Staff
There's no dearth of shows for celebs (or civilians) to take in while they're in Las Vegas, but Cirque du Soleil's critically-acclaimed re-imagining of the Beatles' greatest hits -- "LOVE" -- attracted an unusual trove of stars over the long weekend to The Mirage.
On Saturday night, local boys Spencer Smith and Ryan Ross of alt-rockers Panic! at the Disco celebrated their big win last week at the MTV VMAs by taking in the show celebrating the original Fab Four, while "Ghost Whisperer" star Jennifer Love Hewitt and "Crossing Jordan's" Steve Valentine were also in attendance. Meanwhile, Sunday night, talkmeister Larry King brought his family to see "LOVE" and went backstage afterwards to meet the cast, and "Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer caught the late show.
Last Thursday, Reese Witherspoon and pal Jenny Belushi (that's Jim's wife) wanted to see the show so much that they caught it even though they had to arrive 40 minutes late. "LOVE" is the first time that legendary Beatles producer George Martin and Apple Corps has allowed any kind of musical-theater partnership.
Filed under: Music, Hot Vegas
Tags: Beatles, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque du Solil, CirqueDuSoleil, CirqueDuSolil
Posted Jan 25th 2006 12:32PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paul McCartney can't let it be.
Local officials said Wednesday they had ordered the former Beatle to tear down a log cabin on his estate in southern England.
Rother District Council said its planning committee refused to give the 63-year-old musician retrospective planning permission for the timber lodge on the grounds of Woodlands Farm in Peasemarsh, about 70 miles southeast of London.
A statement on McCartney's behalf to the council said the cabin provided "privacy, seclusion and security" away from the farm buildings and machinery and a public footpath that passed near the farmhouse.
But at its meeting in December, the planning committee ruled that the building "harms the intrinsic landscape quality and character" of the area.
The council said McCartney has six months to appeal.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Music
Tags: Beatles, Paul McCartney, PaulMccartney
