The Beatles

Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, flatly disputing the suggestion that he was responsible for the group's demise.

Speaking on an episode of BBC Radio 4′s "This Cultural Life" that is scheduled to air on Oct. 23, McCartney said it was John Lennon who wanted to disband The Beatles.

"I didn't instigate the split. That was our Johnny," McCartney said.

A cassette tape recording of an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, including a never-released song, made while they visited Denmark in 1970 sold for 370,000 Danish crowns ($58,300) at an auction in Copenhagen on Sept. 28.

McCartney recounted the day on 6 July, 1957, when he was introduced to Lennon, then aged 16, in Liverpool

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Paul McCartney is finally ready to write his memoirs, and will use music, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, to help guide him.

"The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present" will be released Nov. 2, according to a joint announcement on Feb. 24 from the British publisher Allen Lane and from Liveright in the United States.

“It proves that my main memory of the Beatles was the joy and the skill”, McCartney recently told the Sunday Times about seeing an early cut of the film

A sheet of paper bearing Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics to "Hey Jude" sold for $910,000 in an online auction held on April 10 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' historic split.    

The document penned by McCartney and used during the 1968 London recording of the classic song at Trident Studios was sold for more than five times its pre-sale estimate.    

A jihadist terrorist of Cypriot origins was reportedly taken out of Kurdish custody just as Turkey was initiating its ground offensive in Syria, with the US president saying "dangerous ISIS fighters" are in secure locations.

Yesterday, everyone knew who the Beatles were. Today only Jack remembers them and their songs. And is about to turn into a big star.

Fifty years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in an Amsterdam hotel, a Dutchman has unearthed 30 minutes of color footage of the event from his cellar.