After 5-Emmy Nom Haul, ‘Get Back’s Peter Jackson Plots Another Beatles Film With Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr

Idris Elba has spoken about how he “hustled” his way onto Jay-Z’s 2007 album ‘American Gangster’.The actor and musician was speaking to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about his new film Beast when he recalled securing his way onto the rapper’s 10th album. He also discussed being featured on Paul McCartney’s 2021 album ‘McCartney III: Imagined‘.“Both these albums I’m on, and both those artists don’t know I’m on those albums,” Elba told host Fallon.

A version of this story about the Beatles first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Comedy issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.They formed in the late 1950s, changed the world in 1964 and broke up in 1970. Two of them died, one in 1980 and one in 2001.

A caustic, typewritten letter from John Lennon to Paul McCartney is expected to garner up to $40,000 via an ongoing auction.

A letter written by John Lennon in response to an interview Paul McCartney did with Melody Maker back in 1971 is going up for auction. The letter sent to – and published by – the music magazine is addressed directly to McCartney and goes into detail about the Beatles’ post-break up business arrangements, among other things.Opening with “Dear Paul, Linda, et al the wee McCartneys”, the letter is topped with a handwritten annotation requesting that Melody Maker editor Richard Williams publish the document to give Lennon “equal time” so he can respond to comments made my McCartney in his interview.That interview came eighteen months after The Beatles split, and followed protracted legal wranglings over the band’s finances – launched by McCartney.

John Lennon to former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney is up for auction, and bidding is in the five-figure range.The three-page letter — which is typewritten and also includes hand-written notes scrawled in the margins — was drafted in 1971 by an incensed Lennon in response to an interview McCartney did with the magazine .The current bid for the auction lot, which has seven bidders as of Sunday, is currently at $33,000, with 11 days left before it concludes.In the interview with, McCartney shared his thoughts on Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the iconic band's world-shaking split.Lennon's sprawling and self-annotated missive is addressed to McCartney, and to as well, asking that they give him equal space in their publication. The letter came just a few days after the interview was published, and appears that the minutiae regarding the details of the band's dissolution had not truly been resolved or addressed.The letter goes into specifics regarding the payout of royalties, while also airing personal grievances that Lennon had with McCartney — including McCartney's dismissive interpretation of Lennon's hit song «Imagine,» which McCartney apparently said wasn't intended to be political.«It’s ‘Working Class [Hero]’ with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself,” Lennon wrote.

John Lennon once wrote to his estranged Beatles bandmate, Paul McCartney, has been sent to auction.The letter came as a response to McCartney’s interview in the November 20, 1971 issue of Melody Maker, which among other topics, saw him wax lyrical on the relationship between Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, and the dissolution of The Beatles’ business partnership. Typewritten and inscribed with notes scrawled in pen, the letter runs for three pages and is addressed to “Paul, Linda, et all the wee McCartneys”.In it, Lennon riffed on the minutiae of The Beatles’ royalty-sharing arrangement, implying that he disagreed with the way McCartney was compensated directly from royalties that should have belonged to their self-run label, Apple Records. Lennon also took aim at McCartney’s understanding of his songs, snapping back at McCartney’s opinion that 1971’s ‘Imagine’ wasn’t intended to be political: “It’s ‘working class here’ with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself,” he wrote.

Peter Jackson’s mesmerizing Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back was supposed to be a six-hour immersion into the recording of Let It Be and the last live concert by rock music’s most famous band before they split up and headed toward solo careers.

An angry letter that John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney in the wake of the breakup of The Beatles is going up for auction.

Gotta Have Rock and Roll, currently stands at $22,000. At the time he sent the typewritten letter, Lennon — then age 31 — was furious with McCartney over an interview he did weeks earlier with music magazine Melody Maker.

Clayton Davis Drake, Selena Gomez, Mandy Moore, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are among the Emmy-nominated producers in the series and specials categories, the TV Academy announced.Grammy-winning superstar Drake is a first-time Emmy nominee as an executive producer of HBO’s “Euphoria” alongside fellow EPs Adele “Future” Nur and the quadruple-nominated Zendaya (who’s also nominated for lead actress in a drama and two original songs). At 25, Zendaya is now (officially) the youngest woman ever nominated for producing at the Emmys, in addition to being the youngest two-time lead acting nominee ever.Gomez is also officially an Emmy nominee as an executive producer for “Only Murders in the Building,” the first time a Latina has received a nom for comedy series for a show she also starred in.

A scathing letter from John Lennon to Sir Paul McCartney is going up for auction. The late Beatles legend - who was shot dead in 1980 - wrote to his former bandmate days after the 'Live and Let Die' hitmaker gave an interview critical of him and the Beatles to now-defunct music magazine Melody Maker in November 1971, and it is now expected to fetch at least $30,000 when Gotta Have Rock and Roll auction it off, TMZ reports. The typewritten letter - a copy of which was sent to Melody Maker editor Richard Williams, who complied with John's request to publish it - sees John tell Paul he is ungrateful for the money he receives from The Beatles and even accused his the musician of threatening their former bandmate Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen.

APPOINTMENTSDowntown-owned FUGA has appointed LA-based Sarah Landy to the role of SVP Americas. She previously worked for AWAL and Sony’s old distribution business RED, and was most recently VP at indie label Lowly. Says FUGA CCO David Driessen: “We’re privileged to have Sarah Landy join FUGA at such a pivotal time of growth.

Bruce Springsteen joined Bleachers on stage in New York last night (July 26) to perform ‘Chinatown’ – check out the fan-shot footage below.The Boss teamed up with the Jack Antonoff-led band on the track in late 2020. That December, the two New Jersey acts recorded a stripped-back rendition of the song on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City.During the latest show of their 2022 North American tour, Bleachers surprised the crowd at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall by inviting Springsteen to join them once again for ‘Chinatown’, per Spin.The live collaboration marked the first time band had played the cut in its fully-electric form with The Boss.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKobalt, one of the world’s largest music publishers, has removed its entire 700,000-song catalog from Facebook and Instagram in the United States, a rep for the company confirms to Variety.The company’s U.S. licensing contract with Meta, parent of the two social-media giants, has expired and the two parties have failed to reach a new deal.

Beatles-related project.In an interview with Deadline, The Lord Of The Rings director revealed that he’s in talks with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to develop a new film. Jackson last worked with the pair on the Emmy-nominated documentary series The Beatles: Get Back, which was released in November of last year.READ MORE: The Beatles: Get Back review: Peter Jackson’s long and winding but utterly unmissable epic“I’m talking to The Beatles about another project, something very, very different than Get Back,” he said.“We’re seeing what the possibilities are, but it’s another project with them.

Muse have shared their new single ‘Kill Or Be Killed’ from their forthcoming ninth album ‘Will Of The People’ – listen to the track below.The song, which has been previewed at numerous festivals over the summer, is the fourth to be lifted from the trio’s new LP after the title track, ‘Compliance’ and ‘Won’t Stand Down’.Frontman Matt Bellamy said: “’Kill Or Be Killed’ is Muse at their heaviest! We wanted to update our hard rock sound on this album and with ‘Kill Or Be Killed’ we found a modern metal sound featuring double bass drum action and even a death growl.“Lyrically the song takes influence from my favourite Paul McCartney song ‘Live And Let Die’, a dark take on how life’s adversity can sometimes bring out the worst human instincts to survival at any costs.”‘Will Of The People’ is due out August 26 via Warner Records and can be pre-ordered here.Meanwhile, Muse’s Matt Bellamy recently told NME that he thinks society wants “a new type of revolution”.Following the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the current cost of living crisis, the frontman said he believes change is coming.“I think everyone knows we want a revolution, but we definitely don’t want a bunch of authoritarian lunatics from the right. That’s the last thing we want,” he told NME.“And also we don’t want a total communist situation on the hard left either.

Paul McCartney's life came crashing down around him in front of millions of people. His girlfriend at the time, Jane Asher, split up with him in perhaps the most ruthless way possible after five years of being together.

Beyoncé's highly anticipated seventh studio album,  is almost over! On Wednesday, the «Drunk in Love» singer shared the 16-song tracklist for the upcoming album on her Instagram Story.In the video, which featured a countdown clock until 's July 29 release date, the track titles appear one by one until they are illuminated and sparkling in silver. The album includes songs called «America Has a Problem,» «Alien Superstar,» «Thique» and more.Earlier this month, the first single released off the upcoming album, "Break My Soul," earned Beyoncé a landmark 20th top 10 hit, making her the first woman to earn at least 20 top 10s as a soloist and 10 as a member of a group.  announced the singer's feat on July 5, revealing that she's the third artist to accomplish it, joining Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. McCartney has earned 23 solo top 10s in addition to 34 with The Beatles. Jackson amassed 30 solo top 10s, along with 11 as a member of the Jackson 5/Jacksons.Following its first full week of tracking, «Break My Soul» surged from its No.

Kelly Rowland isn't giving up any info! The songstress is staying tight-lipped when it comes to whether or not she's heard Beyonce's hotly anticipated new album.Rowland walked the the carpet at the premiere of at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Monday, where she was joined by friend and actress Bresha Webb.The pair stopped to talk with ET's Kevin Frazier, and the subject of Beyonce's new album, came up.«I know you've heard Beyonce's album,» Frazier asked. «How is it?»«Ha! I don't know what you're talking about!» Rowland said, trying to stifle a smile. However, she immediately called her denial into question when she gleefully belted out the chorus to Beyonce's record-setting latest single «Break My Soul.»When asked about the possibility of dropping some sort of surprise collaboration with her longtime friend and former bandmate, Rowland emphasized, «Ain't nothing happening» while maintaining her coy smile.Beyonce's latest single — which she released on June 20, -- is the lead single from her long-awaited seventh studio album and her first solo album in six years.