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Ringo, the “lovable” Beatle, rocks on

July 18th, 2008 by pjwa | No Comments | Filed in News


Ringo Starr and wife Barbara Bach celebrate his 68th birthday earlier this month in Chicago.

At 68, former Beatle Ringo Starr, the world’s most famous drummer, is hitting 31 cities in the United States and Canada, including Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville on Saturday.

By Kevin O’Hare

Concert preview
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band
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Amy calls her wax figure “crap”

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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse is not at all impressed with her wax work at Madame Tussauds’ in London, calling the work “crap”.

According to the ‘Rehab’ singer, being immortalised in wax is done only for the dead. “I thought you needed to be dead, almost, before they made a wax of you,” Daily Express quoted her as telling New! Magazine.
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Sir Paul to ‘Quebeckians’: Smoke ‘the pipes of peace’

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RHÉAL SÉGUIN


QUEBEC — “Quebeckians” should smoke “the pipes of peace,” Sir Paul McCartney proclaimed yesterday, after nationalists criticized the decision to invite the former Beatle to celebrate Quebec City’s 400th anniversary.
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LENNON: ‘BIGGER THAN CHRIST? I’M ONE OF HIS FANS’

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By David Jarvis

JOHN Lennon famously once said that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ.

His often-quoted remark about the Fab Four’s fame has frequently been used to question his faith…until now.
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Top 10 famous hotel rooms

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Reuters

SYDNEY – If walls could talk some hotel rooms would never be quiet, with men’s Web site Askmen.com coming up with a list of top 10 famous hotel rooms.

This list was compiled by Askmen.com and is not endorsed by Reuters:

1. Room 1738, 1740, 1742, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada

Michael Evans (L) and Yu Tian pose as John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they recreate the famous “bed-in” for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, October 24, 2005.
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