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Suggestions for how to celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday include extending the Mathew Street festival or holding a city parade

Officers to blame for fiasco – Bradley

A rescue bid for the Mathew Street Festival failed to deliver what people wanted yesterday. David Bartlett reports Read

Suggestions for how to celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday include extending the Mathew Street festival or holding a city parade

Stripped-down festival for just 20,000 visitors

THIS year’s Mathew Street Festival will not be the event people “had come to love”, it was claimed last night. Read

US Beatles tribute band, Rain

US fab four tribute bring all their loving

PHILIP Key finds out why America’s biggest mop-top copies are in Liverpool for the first time finds out why America’s biggest mop-top copies are in Liverpool for the first time Read

Suggestions for how to celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday include extending the Mathew Street festival or holding a city parade

Festival outdoor gigs look set for the axe

DAVID Bartlett reports on developments in the Mathew Street fiasco, as emails reveal Culture board ‘knew nothing’ Read

Exhibition shows Beatles influence strong as ever

Exhibition shows Beatles influence strong as ever

THE Beatles inspired many people, from fashion designers and hair-stylists to fellow musicians. Above all, the group influenced a whole generation of artists. Read

A long and winding road

Lennon and McCartney wrote the most sung songs in the world, but they don’t own them because they were only Northern Songs. David Charters reports on an extraordinary saga Read

June Lornie, centre, and fellow artists at the exhibition at The Liverpool Academy of Arts. Picture: ANDREW TEEBAY

Beatles art show saved by funding

THE annual exhibition of Beatles art, Come Together, has been saved. Read

The day that changed music

THE QUEEN and Sir Paul McCartney were among thousands of people to join in the 50th anniversary celebrations of the day the Beatles were born. Read

The Beatles Story at the Albert Dock

Beatles story to double in size

BEATLES memorabilia, never before exhibited in Liverpool, will be on show in 2008, as the city’s popular Beatles Story attraction doubles in size. Read

The four lads who shook the world

FOR a time in the 1960s, Liverpool was the centre of the popular cultural world. Gary Bainbridge reports Read

Sir Paul McCartney at LIPA's 10th anniversary celebrations

Macca school gong for star turns

WRITER Ben Elton and actress Anita Dobson are to be honoured for their work with Lipa students. Read

George Harrison

George the new star of Hollywood

FORMER Beatle George Harrison is among stars to be enshrined in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, nearly six years after his death. Read

Beatles artwork up for auction

AFTER lying forgotten in its artist’s attic for 42 years, original artwork used by the Beatles on their 1965 Rubber Soul album is expected to fetch around £10,000 at auction this week. Read

It was 50 years ago today

It was 50 years ago today

CELEBRATIONS to mark the first meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney half a century ago are launched today with a Beatles-themed flower festival. Read

Sir Paul McCartney

Sir Paul wows fans in Big Apple

SIR Paul McCartney has played an intimate gig for 700 fans at the Highline Ballroom in New York. Read

John Lennon and Yoko Ono with their children, Julian and Sean, on holiday at Durness, in Sutherland, Scotland

Yoko: Life was John was full of turbulent times

YOKO ONO has spoken about how she fell “madly in love” with John Lennon, and of their last moments together before he was shot dead. Read

Yoko Ono talks about her last moments with John

YOKO ONO has spoken about how she fell “madly in love” with John Lennon, and of their last moments together before he was shot dead. Read

McCartneys hold truce to spend Sir Paul’s 65th together

THE bitter divorce battle between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills is “on hold”, according to reports this weekend. Read

Steve Hardstaff who helped design Led Zeppelin's famous 3rd album cover

The man who had it covered from Pepper to Zeppelin and beyond

SERGEANT Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band not only changed the world of contemporary music 40 years ago. Read

Sergeant Pepper tribute is guaranteed to raise a smile

IT WAS 40 years ago today – June 1, 1967 – that The Beatles brought the Sergeant Pepper album out to play. Read