Hendrix, Beatles, Elvis memorabilia up for auction - BusinessWeek
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:29:00 GMT
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Elvis Presley's fingerprints and the audio archive of ...

Beatles contract sold at auction - MSN UK News
Pub. Date - Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:51:00 GMT
The first management contract between The Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein has fetched well below its estimated selling price. The document, billed as the most important music contract of all time, fetched £240,000 - below its estimated ...

Bloomingdale's Composes Magical & Musical Fall Season - Forbes
Pub. Date - Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomingdale's rocks this fall with a comprehensive campaign that brings fashion and music together and to life in stores and online. The campaign, which began in August and lasts through the Holiday season, will be ...

Hendrix, Beatles, Elvis memorabilia sold - BusinessWeek
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:53:00 GMT
A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at auction on Thursday for $497,500 to a U.S. collector. The scorched Fender Stratocaster was the star lot at an auction of music memorabilia that also included The ...

Collecting the Fab Four - MSN UK News
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:12:00 GMT
These days it seems anything that even remotely whiffs of The Beatles will stir up a frenzy and have fans rushing to the shops or bidding thousands of pounds at auction. Now the first management contract between The Beatles and their manager Brian ...

Hendrix, Beatles, Elvis memorabilia up for auction - BusinessWeek
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:36:00 GMT
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Elvis Presley's fingerprints and the audio archive of ...

Music Takes Precedence for Singer Currie - Fairfield Citizen-News
Pub. Date - Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:26:00 GMT
Fairfielder Adam Currie will be singing at the Norwalk Seaport Association Oyster Festival tomorrow at 8 p.m. He lives in Fairfield and has roots in Norwalk, working for his father and manager, Tim, at Currie Tire on West Street and is looking ...

BBC to launch music download store - CNET News
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:09:00 GMT
BBC Worldwide is developing a music download service, offering streamed-for-free and paid download works from its archive of music that bands have recorded for TV and radio in BBC studios. The Beeb's radio and television music shows frequently ...

Hendrix guitar a "flaming bargain" - The Independent
Pub. Date - Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:41:00 GMT
A collector who paid £280,000 at auction for the first guitar set alight on stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix is preparing to take his new purchase home to America. A delighted Daniel Boucher, 51, Boylston, Massachusetts, said he thought he would ...

Was 1980s music that bad? - CNET News
Pub. Date - Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:24:00 GMT
A couple days ago, NPR's All Songs Considered asked listeners to vote on which year had the best music. (The poll is here --you have to answer it to see overall results.) Unsurprisingly given NPR's demographic, the 1960s scored high, with top year ...