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George Martin, the Beatles' urbane producer who quietly guided the band's swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutionaries, has died, his management said Wednesday. He was 90. Manager Adam Sharp said in a statement that Martin "passed away peacefully at home" on Tuesday evening...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The Beatles were the best thing to happen to Liverpool, even four and a half decades after their breakup. The British newspaper The Telegraph reports a study by the Liverpool City Council has found The Beatles contribute $118 million a year to the local economy and support 2,335 jobs. It'...

DALLAS (AP) — A lock of John Lennon's hair is for sale. Heritage Auctions estimates a 4-inch lock of Lennon's hair will sell for at least $10,000 at auction in Dallas on February 20. A German hairdresser trimmed Lennon's hair in preparation for his role as Gripweed in the 1967 film "How I Won The War...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write "Love Me Do," ''I Want to Hold Your Hand" and other hit songs has sold for $2.4 million at auction. Julien's Auctions said the Gibson J-160E guitar was sold Saturday to an undisclosed buyer...

BOSTON (AP) — The black wool double-breasted suit jacket that Ringo Starr wore in the 1965 Beatles movie "Help!" has sold at auction for more than $46,500. Boston-based RR Auction announced Friday that the jacket with soft gray vertical pinstripes, six black buttons, and the name "Ringo" sewn inside was part of the online Marvels of Modern Music auction that closed Thursday...

Today is the day that we celebrate Ringo Starr's Birthday and for the past few years Ringo has celebrated his birthday in many different places while he is out on tour with his All-star Band and even had that special night in New York City when Paul McCartney surprised Ringo and the crowd at Radio City Music Hall...

A couple of weeks ago, we heard the news that John Lennon's 1962 J-160E Gibson acoustic guitar, which had been lost for 50 years, has now by found and will be going to auction.

Yesterday, while we here at Newstalk KIT were awaking people up to start their day. I received a message from a friend that a part of our childhood had passed. Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon's ex and the mother of Julian Lennon passed after a brief battle with cancer...

For fans around the world of The Beatles are joining in on the 70th birthday of Sir Paul McCartney.  “They say it’s your birthday /Buh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh /It’s my birthday too, yeah,”. It wasn't that long ago, when Paul wrote and sung "When I'm 64"...

We've had a couple of great Beatles tribute acts play in Yakima over the last couple of years, but I'm talking about the real thing. On the screen anyway!