Beatles news roundup
According to the British tabloid The News Of The World, Paul McCartney will be vacationing with his estranged wife Heather Mills later this summer in the exclusive Long Island enclave of East Hampton. According to an unnamed source, the couple who have been unable to come to a final divorce settlement, will be trying to spend some quality family time together for the sake of their three-year-old daughter Beatrice, of whom they now share custody.
The source said, "It won't be a conventional family holiday, there's still tension. But if they go to 'Macca's' Hamptons mansion in New York, as they're thinking, they'll be away from prying eyes and pretty much on neutral ground."
McCartney and Mills separated in May of 2006.
McCartney said in a recent interview that the love song titled "See Your Sunshine" from his new album Memory Almost Full was written and recorded about Mills before the split. McCartney decided to keep the song on the album despite their heavily publicized breakup.
In other Beatles-related news:
George Harrison's older brother, Peter Harrison, died of cancer June 1st, at the age of 66 near his home in Britain. Peter was two years older than George, and for years worked alongside their older brother Harry at George's Friar Park estate in Henley.
Henleystandard.co.uk reported that Peter, who met his future wife Pauline in 1959 in Liverpool at Pete Best's family nightclub the Casbah, is survived by his wife, three children, and four grandchildren, as well as his brother Harry and the eldest Harrison sibling, their sister Louise.
George Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd says that she has nothing but loving memories of George's Liverpool family: "They were so warm as a family and really were most inviting and kind to me, and I was very fond of them. And I'm still in touch with Harry, George's eldest brother. And so I had spent a lot of time with him and his wife Irene, and with Pete and his wife and their children. So... we all grew up together."
Also:
A bidding war for a pair of John Lennon's sunglasses has reached over $1.5 million at the online auction house 991.com. Lennon wore the glasses during the Beatles' 1966 tour of Japan, and gave them to the band's translator as a gift. The glasses, which only include the gold wire rims and not the lenses, most recently belonged to a private American collector.
John Warner, the sales director of 991.com, told bbc.co.uk that, "The interest (in the glasses) has been phenomenal. Our phones have been in meltdown... It's almost impossible to put a value on them. They're the rarest of the rare."
Bidding for Lennon's glasses is open until July 31st.
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The source said, "It won't be a conventional family holiday, there's still tension. But if they go to 'Macca's' Hamptons mansion in New York, as they're thinking, they'll be away from prying eyes and pretty much on neutral ground."
McCartney and Mills separated in May of 2006.
McCartney said in a recent interview that the love song titled "See Your Sunshine" from his new album Memory Almost Full was written and recorded about Mills before the split. McCartney decided to keep the song on the album despite their heavily publicized breakup.
In other Beatles-related news:
George Harrison's older brother, Peter Harrison, died of cancer June 1st, at the age of 66 near his home in Britain. Peter was two years older than George, and for years worked alongside their older brother Harry at George's Friar Park estate in Henley.
Henleystandard.co.uk reported that Peter, who met his future wife Pauline in 1959 in Liverpool at Pete Best's family nightclub the Casbah, is survived by his wife, three children, and four grandchildren, as well as his brother Harry and the eldest Harrison sibling, their sister Louise.
George Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd says that she has nothing but loving memories of George's Liverpool family: "They were so warm as a family and really were most inviting and kind to me, and I was very fond of them. And I'm still in touch with Harry, George's eldest brother. And so I had spent a lot of time with him and his wife Irene, and with Pete and his wife and their children. So... we all grew up together."
Also:
A bidding war for a pair of John Lennon's sunglasses has reached over $1.5 million at the online auction house 991.com. Lennon wore the glasses during the Beatles' 1966 tour of Japan, and gave them to the band's translator as a gift. The glasses, which only include the gold wire rims and not the lenses, most recently belonged to a private American collector.
John Warner, the sales director of 991.com, told bbc.co.uk that, "The interest (in the glasses) has been phenomenal. Our phones have been in meltdown... It's almost impossible to put a value on them. They're the rarest of the rare."
Bidding for Lennon's glasses is open until July 31st.
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