Great Britain's heritage protection agency, The National Trust, says it may buy and preserve the Abbey Road studios, the Beatles' recording home. The proposal follows an outpouring of concern over its possible demolition.

And now two more potential buyers have emerged: Andrew Lloyd Webber and his longtime lyricist, Tim Rice. In apparently unrelated statements to the British news media, each expressed an interest in purchasing the Abbey Road studios.

Word that cash-strapped record company EMI is putting the studio building up for sale has been greeted by a wave of concern about over its possible demolition. EMI has not confirmed the report.

"It's not often that the public spontaneously suggests that we should acquire a famous building," Trust spokesman John Hewitt said. "However, Abbey Road recording studios appear to be very dear to the nation's heart."

The campaign to save the Abbey Road studios — which could be sold and turned into upscale housing in the St. John's Wood neighborhood in North London — was spurred by former Beatle Paul McCartney and prominent disc jockey Chris Evans.

McCartney, who owns a house near the studios, said he would be delighted if the building could be saved. He said some people long associated with the studio are considering an effort to preserve it.

McCartney did not, however, offer to put up the cash himself — the studios are thought to be worth between $16 million and $50 million.

The National Trust already owns the boyhood homes of McCartney and his songwriting partner, John Lennon, which have become major tourist attractions in Liverpool.

Abbey Road has become an important part of Beatles lore, in part because of the 1969 album named after the recording studio. The crosswalk in front of the building was immortalized on the album cover, and many fans visit the site each year.

Since The Beatles' heyday, Abbey Road has been one of the world's most famous rock music studios, used by artists like Pink Floyd, McCartney, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Radiohead and others.

But EMI has been unable to find a buyer for the studio, in part because recording technology now permits many artists to record their own sessions at home using personal computers.

More than 45 years after the Beatles sparked the legendary 'British Invasion' that forever changed the face of popular music, Reelin' In The Years Productions, in association with Voyage Digital Media, says it's releasing the first four DVDs in its new British Invasion series. The four titles are:

• Dusty Springfield: Once Upon A Time 1964-1969
• Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965-1968
• Gerry & The Pacemakers: It's Gonna Be All Right 1963-1965
• Herman's Hermits: Listen People 1964-1969

Distributed by Naxos of America Inc., all four DVDs will be available separately and as a deluxe box set featuring a bonus fifth disc with more than two hours of additional content.

Produced by Reelin' In The Years Productions, each DVD features complete 1960's television performances filmed at the time the songs were hits and while the artists were at the height of their careers. Between the performances, original band members and others who helped create their music, talk about each song and recount special moments in the history of the group.

All performances have been transferred from the original master tapes and include best possible video and remastered audio. Each DVD also includes a 24-page booklet with insights and essays by noted rock historians, as well as previously unseen photos and memorabilia. The series, originally released only in the UK in last September, has received both commercial success and critical acclaim, with four-star reviews and inclusion in many year-end “Best Of 2009" lists in the British music press.

Reelin' In the Years is a San Diego-based company that's produced some of the most highly-regarded anthology DVD series including the four-volume, GRAMMY-nominated American Folk Blues Festival series, the multi-platinum selling Definitive Motown series (Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) and the award winning Jazz Icons series. As in all of their projects, each DVD is produced with the full support and cooperation of the artists or their estates.

Reports are the 64-year-old Waller suffered a heart attack and died early this morning.

Click here for the story from RadarOnline.com

Another story on Gordon's death from the Examiner.com.

A link to Peter and Gordon's MySpace page.

The Zombies headline the 14 city tour that begins tonight in San Diego and ends in Canada in mid-July.

Live Daily talks with The Zombies' Colin Blunstone about the tour:

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Eight years after his death. George Harrison finally has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hundreds of fans and friends, including bandmate Paul McCartney, turned out for yesterday's ceremony. Also at the unveiling were Harrison's widow Olivia, his son Dhani, Eric Idle, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and actor Tom Hanks.

Here's a video clip:

Olivia Harrison praised her husband at the event.

"We all have deep feelings for George because he was such a deep-feeling person," she told the crowd. "Once you'd met him you couldn’t help but be drawn into his world. And he wanted to be in your world too."

Harrison's Beatles bandmate McCartney called the ceremony "wonderful", while Hanks also paid tribute to Harrison.

"Every record was an event, every cut was an opera, the entire story told ours," he said. "All things must pass, sure, but George is going to live forever."

Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001 at age 58.

The unveiling of the star came on the same day as an announcement that a new collection of some of Harrison's best-loved songs is to be released in June.

'Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison' will feature music from Harrison's solo recording career, including 'My Sweet Lord', 'Isn't It A Pity', 'Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)' and 'Got My Mind Set On You'.

Three Harrison-penned Beatle tracks, 'Something', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and 'Here Comes The Sun', recorded live at his 1971 Concert For Bangladesh, will also appear on the album, which will be released on June 16.

Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are releasing the original Beatles catalog, which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time, on September 9. It's the same date as the release of the widely anticipated "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game. Each of the CDs is packaged with the original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. On the same date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released.

The albums were re-mastered by a team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period combining state-of-the-art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment. Their goal was to carefully maintain the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Apple says the result is the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.

The collection includes all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track listings and artwork as originally released in the UK, and 'Magical Mystery Tour,' which became part of The Beatles' core catalogue when the CDs were first released in 1987. In addition, the collections 'Past Masters Vol. I and II' are now combined as one title. This will mark the first time that the first four Beatles albums will be available in stereo on CD. These 14 albums, along with a DVD collection of the documentaries, will also be available for purchase together in a stereo boxed set.

Chad Stuart offers a simple explanation about why he and Jeremy Clyde parted ways in the Sixties:

"We couldn't stand each other."

But that was yesterday... and now Chad and Jeremy are back on tour, 40 years later.

Click kere for the whole story from Examiner.com.

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Here's a promotional video from a couple of years ago, featuring Chad and Jeremy with Sixties' television stars Patty Duke, Dick VanDyke, Johnny Carson and Catwoman.

Here's the video:

An all-star concert to benefit meditation brought Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr together for their first on-stage performance in seven years.

Link to the story in Rolling Stone.

For decades, they were tucked away in a tour manager's duffle bag... more than 50 candid photographs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones taken during each band's first American tour.
The photos, taken by tour manager Bob Bonis, will be part of an exhibition titled "The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964–66," at New York's Not Fade Away Gallery.

Click here for a slide show of these newly discovered photographs.

Nash says it had nothing to do with the Hollies, but everything to do with David Crosby and Stephen Stills. He told Spinner.com he knew his time with the Hollies was over when:

I had heard me and David and Stephen sing together. I wanted that golden sound. I craved it. It was beautiful. And the instant that I heard that sound, I knew that I was no longer a Hollie.

Nash says he talks with his former CSN bandmates on a regular basis.

Click here to find out more about Graham Nash's new box set, titled "Reflections."

Click here for the entire interview.

Here's another Graham Nash interview from February 2009.