Sir Paul sings two tracks on Ringo's latest effort... The Beatles' Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney have joined forces on the drummer's new album 'Y Not'. Macca sings vocals on two of the album's tracks – 'Peace Dream' and 'Walk With Me' – and Ringo reckons the songs are all the better for it. Ringo enthused: "Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on 'Peace Dream'. "I ... more

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Ringo Starr is joined by his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney for a duet on "Y Not," the drummer's forthcoming solo album due out Jan 12, 2010. The Universal Music release also includes vocal turns by Joss Stone, Ben Harper and Richard Marx as well as musical and songwriting contributions from the Eagles' Joe Walsh, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard and Van Dyke Parks, among others. ... more

Liverpudlian MEP attacks former Beatle over his views on vegetarianism Paul McCartney has been accused by a UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP of using propaganda techniques to encourage more people to go vegetarian in order to help the environment. Liverpudlian UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall laid into McCartney's views on the subject, which include proposals to try and get meat eaters to give up eating flesh for one day a week to cut greenhouse gasses emitted by cattle. "He ... more

Ex-Black Sabbath singer says he was 'shocked' by the Beatle's refusalPaul McCartney once turned down the chance to collaborate with Ozzy Osbourne, according to the former Black Sabbath frontman. The singer said he was "shocked" when the former Beatle turned down the opportunity to play bass on one of his songs. "Meeting Paul McCartney was fucking phenomenal," Osbourne told Heat. "I was in the studio at the same time as him and tried to get him to play ... more

Recording an album's worth of songs from one publishing catalog was "unique" for Del Fuegos rocker turned family music superstar Dan Zanes. That it happened to be Paul McCartney's MPL Music Publishing made Zanes' new "76 Trombones" Broadway songs collection "pretty special." "It was kind of unusual to get a call from Paul McCartney's publishing company -- right away that caught my attention," Zanes tells Billboard.com. "They said, 'We would love it if you could use a ... more

Music legend Paul McCartney, seen at right performing in Halifax with lead guitar Rusty Anderson in July, has been named the third winner of the fledgling Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press) Paul McCartney will be honoured with a fledgling but prestigious musical honour, after being named Monday as the latest recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The U.S. Library of Congress, which administers the honour, announced the 67-year-old British musician and former ... more

Rocker James McCartney played his U.S. debut last night at Fairfield's new Sondheim Center. The two shows were part of the David Lynch Foundation's fourth annual "Change Begins Within" weekend at Maharishi University. McCartney, son of Beatle Paul, opened a three-ring musical circus that included Iowan Laura Dawn and folk legend Donovan. "It's very different having a famous father," film director Lynch quipped when introducing McCartney. "My father was Elvis Presley." The audience, heavily weighted with aging '60s ... more

When the Beatles played Shea Stadium in 1965, it revolutionized the concert industry. Rock bands didn’t play baseball stadiums and though you could barely hear the band over the drone of screaming girls, it set the tone for bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. Now 44 years later, Shea Stadium is gone, but the Mets have a new stadium and who better than Paul McCartney to christen its concert stage? Captured over three ... more

James McCartney Band FAIRFIELD — The face is the same, but the voice might even be better. It can’t be easy to be a Beatles baby. How are you supposed to carve your musical niche when you look and sound so much like your dad? Shave your head, for starters. Even without hair, James McCartney is still the spitting image of his famous father. It’s those eyes. And those glorious tenor pipes. The younger McCartney, 32, made ... more

From The Pleasuredome to Beatles Rock Band - video games and music celebrate their silver wedding atop a mountain made of cash, says John Tatlock. October 20th 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Abbey Road LP. Though it was originally their penultimate release, before the following year's Let It Be, it was actually the last thing the band recorded before going their separate ways. It's thus interesting to reflect that this final ... more