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1,400 Cops Keep McCartney Safe in Colombia

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:41:05 CDT

At a concert last week in crime-ridden Bogota, Colombia, Paul McCartney was very, very safe—because he was surrounded by 1,400 police officers. Given, some 30,000 music lovers did attend the concert, the Telegraph reports, and police occupied a five-block radius around the stadium in which he performed....

Coming Soon: Beatles 2, Featuring Beatles' Kids?

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:28:14 CDT

Today in Terrible Ideas: The Beatles' offspring just might form a sort of "Beatles 2" band—at least to hear one of Paul McCartney's kids tell it. "I'd be up for it," James McCartney tells the BBC . "Sean [Lennon] seemed to be into it, Dhani [Harrison] seemed to be into...

McCartney Quitting Pot for His Daughter

Rob Quinn — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:11:00 CST

Paul McCartney says he has called time on a pot-smoking career that started when Bob Dylan passed him a joint in 1964. In a Rolling Stone interview, the former Beatle says he's giving it up because of his daughter—not one of the three now in their '40s, but 8-year-old...

Piers Morgan on Defensive at Phone Hacking Hearing

John Johnson — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:16:43 CST

Piers Morgan was in the hot seat today in Britain's phone hacking inquiry, but the CNN host refused to play along. He got grilled via video from the US on one point in particular, notes AP : If he didn't engage in phone hacking, how did he manage to hear a...

At Yard Sale: McCartney Letter Seeking New Beatle

Matt Cantor — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:32:16 CDT

Looks like the stars were aligned for Ringo. A 1960 letter written by Paul McCartney sought a drummer for the Beatles two years before Starr joined the Fab Four. The note was discovered folded into a book at a Liverpool yard sale, the AP reports. It was a response to...

Paul McCartney Marries a 3rd Time

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:36:02 CDT

For Paul McCartney, hopefully the third time is at least more charming than the last: The former Beatle wed his girlfriend of four years, American heiress Nancy Shevell, today at the Westminster Registry Office in London, reports the BBC . Unlike his disastrous marriage to Heather Mills, all signs bode well:...

Paul McCartney Getting Married This Weekend?

John Johnson — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:33:18 CDT

Paul McCartney will wed American fiance Nancy Shevell in London tomorrow, say the British tabs Daily Mirror and the Sun . It doesn't seem far-fetched: A tent and party decorations are going up at McCartney's house, notes AP , and the couple last month filed their intent to marry in the near...

McCartney Going to Cops Over Reported Phone Hack

Rob Quinn — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:22:46 CDT

Paul McCartney plans to contact police over ex-wife Heather Mills' claim that a Daily Mirror journalist hacked into his voicemail messages, reports Reuters . After finishing his US tour and returning to Britain, "I am going to talk to the police because apparently I have been hacked," McCartney said. "I don't...

Heather Mills: Mirror Hacked My Phone

Rob Quinn — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 CDT

Heather Mills and Piers Morgan are at the center of the latest twist in the British phone-hacking scandal. Mills claims that a senior journalist at the Daily Mirror admitted hacking into her voicemail while she was dating Paul McCartney in 2001, and called her up to quote from a message...