Their relationship has been frosty for decades but John Lennon’s son Julian and Yoko Ono are giving peace a chance to promote a collection of the late Beatle’s songs. Julian was controversially not included in the will his father drew up in 1980 and later had to resort to buying mementos of his dad at auctions.

eet Neil Brannan, who has been the announcer and emcee for Liverpool’s annual Beatles Week for over 16 years. Neil is the unassuming but cheeky, smiling face who introduces Beatles tribute bands and other performing artists every year during Liverpool’s International Beatles week, which is produced by Cavern City Tours.

Yoko Ono paid an emotional visit to John Lennon’s childhood home and school on a whistlestop tour of Liverpool. The artist surprised visitors at Mendips by turning up at the end of their tour for a chat. Earlier, she spent almost an hour at Dovedale school, and saw the young John’s entry in the school records.

According to Graham Nash, Crosby, Stills and Nash’s new album is about one-third done. Nash and Stephen Stills have revealed songs that will be part of the album include a cover of The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). Nash told Billboard.com that he’s not sure when the album will be finished and released.

Internet-only radio station UC Radio has broadcast the world wide premier of the song “Old Man” by James McCartney, a single from his upcoming EP “Available Light” which will be released on Engine Company Records on September 21. “Old Man” is a cover of the Neil Young hit. You can listen to the song streaming on their web site.

Billy J. Kramer explained before an audience at last Sunday’s Liverpool Beatles Convention why, after John Lennon broke up with Cynthia, he could no longer “chum up” with John. He said he saw John for the last time when he was still married to Cynthia. “I was a bit of a prude after he broke up with Cynthia and he took off with Yoko.”

The Liverpool Legends, in Branson, Missouri, is a recreation of one of the most legendary music groups ever. It is over two hours of wonderful music, history and nostalgia, and covers the entire career of The Beatles from their initial founding and development to the solo years when they split up and went their separate ways.

The great and legendary musician Billy Preston would have turned 64 on September 2nd. He died in June 2006, however, leaving a crazy legal entanglement. Billy was the only artist ever to have his name on a record with the Beatles. Since Preston’s death, his manager has lived with a massive set of legal issues that would cripple a normal person.

40 years ago this summer, The Beatles officially called it quits. The world was spared any number of ugly scenarios: the Beatles becoming a pathetic oldies band; The Beatles embracing country-rock, glam, prog rock, disco, punk or rock opera; The Beatles becoming a pale, sorry shadow of their former selves.

Billy Kinsley was interviewed on Sunday as part of the Liverpool Beatles Convention. Billy told about the many times he got to see and work with the Fab Four in the sixties and said he “knew the Beatles were going to be bigger than Elvis even before Brian Epstein” when he saw them perform at the Cavern Club in January 1962.