Beatle news digest: Veteran '60s singer to make rare appearance at BeatExpo 2009

November 4, 11:08 PMBeatles ExaminerSteve Marinucci

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     The Beatles star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one of the sites on "A
     Magical History Tour" in Southern California. (Photo courtesy Gillian
     Lomax.)

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As of midnight ET Thursday, you could still buy Beatles mp3s on Bluebeat.com, a full day after EMI filed a lawsuit against them for alleged copyright infringement.

The BBC will be filming portions of "A Magical History Tour," the Los Angeles Beatle sites excursion hosted by Los Angeles radio personality, Beatles expert and former Liverpudlian Gillian Lomax for an upcoming BBC broadcast. For more information about "A Magical History Tour," a 3 1/2 hour journey that begins in Santa Monica and ends at the Hollywood Bowl, go to its website.

BeatExpo 2009, which takes place Nov. 28-29 in Stamford, Conn., has added Spanky McFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang ("Sunday Will Never Be the Same") and Dinky Dawson, whose credits include working with the Byrds and Fleetwood Mac. Other guests include former Monkee Peter Tork, disc jockey Clay Cole, members of the Fifth Estate ("Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead") and Ian Lloyd of Stories. For further information, visit  www.ToursAndEvents.com/BEATexpo.htm or phone (203) 795-4737. BeatExpo 2009 promoter Charles Rosenay!!!, also the Horror Happenings Examiner, will talk about his life as a Beatle fan and convention host in a lecture titled "In My Life: A Beatles Fan's Odyssey" at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Derby Public Library (Harcourt Wood Memorial Library), 313 Elizabeth St., Derby, CT. Admission is free.

The Beatles Tribute Cruise recently added two more names to the cruise. They are Chris O'Dell, author of "Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved," and Joe Johnson, host and creator of the nationally syndicated radio show "Beatle Brunch." O'Dell will join May Pang and Nancy Andrews in a question and answer session. Johnson will emcee the Beatles Trivia Contest. Beatles artist Shannon will also unveil eight of her original Beatles paintings. For more information on the cruise, go to www.beatlestributecruise.com.

Songs from Apple Jam's "Off the Beatle Track" will be featured the next two weekends on Chris Carter's "Breakfast with the Beatles."  You can hear them 8 a.m.-11.m. PST Nov 8 on 95.5 KLOS FM (Los Angeles) or at http://www.955klos.com/article.asp?id=625820 or 6-9 a.m. and 9 p.m.-midnight PST Nov. 15 on Sirius 25/XM 59).

The trailer for "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker features a cover of "We Can Work It Out" by Stevie Wonder. 

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