Early Beatles Recordings Released

Previously unreleased recordings and studio banter from the Beatles are being released. The recordings, mad by the BBC in 1963 and 1964 include 37 performances and 23 recordings of conversations between the Fab Four. The new album is called On Air - Live at The BBC Volume 2. 

And in the UK vinyl sales have more than doubled according to Amazon. The Online retailer highlighted vinyl releases such as Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, Adele's 21, David Bowie's new album The Next Day and Back to Black from Amy Winehouse as key drivers. Independent record stores have reported a similar 44% rise in vinyl sales which now total 12 million units annually.

Beatles museum to close

Hamburg's Beatles museum, which houses more that 1,000 artefacts about the Fab Four (actually the fab five when they were in Hamburg), is set to close at the end of June after losses of E3 million.

Folkert Koopmanns, boss of German promoters and festival organisers FKP Scorpio said that the local authority has failed to support the venture, and the museum was "condemned to fail" without public money to top up income from an average 50,000 visitors each year.