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Funny story of the week (if it wasn’t true) is Yoko Ono trying to stop a singer called Lennon Murphy from using her name to record under. Murphy has used the name Lennon for her Metal band since before 2000.

You all know I’m anti-Beatles, and that extends to the widow of the most overrated man in pop. All that hippie propaganda about making love and not war. Oh, I love the sentiment, I’m a bit of a hippy myself.

But isn’t it funny that Yoko, who was so instrumental in that movement, is so trigger happy when it comes to litigation? She doesn’t mind fighting wars in the courtroom, especially when it comes to any perceived loss of earnings from John Lennon’s estate.

It’s actions like this that rape the legacy of bands like The Beatles and artists like John Lennon. All those iconic images are laid to waste when the same people who represented those values of the 60s and 70s are now lawyer-happy millionaires. I can’t help thinking that if John Lennon was alive today, he might also have lapsed into a saggy faced litigation fiend.

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In an attempt to tempt those camera-shy aliens out in the open, boffins at NASA are planning to play the Beatles’ song, Across The Universe into deep space.

Now, y’all know I’m not a fan of the Fab Four. With that in mind, I’m thinking that extra-terrestrials might not be too fond of them either. They may think it’s an act of aggression. Did you think of that, NASA? Did you?

Anyway dear readers, NASA are making this attempt at pissing off the universe on the 4th February. We’re about to be considered noisy neighbours by aliens unknown. I wonder if they’ll slap an intergalactic ASBO on us?

To NASA: If you want to make it up to us, why not blast Paul McCartney into deep space? One more charity concert rendition of Let It Be and I might do it myself!

I won’t waste time with unnecessary introductions - this is a video of an Australian Beatles cover band doing their version of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven.

They literally pull every Beatles trick from the early days. I especially love the way they handled the “and as we wind on down the road…” section.

Yep, Scouserville is MTV’s preferred venue for 2008’s Europe Music Awards. Specifically, the brand new 10,000 seater Echo Arena.

Great news for Liverpool which is also the European City of Culture in 2008, both events tie in nicely together and should attract attention to the City.

Of course, the organisers couldn’t possibly resist the soundbyte opportunity to name check The Beatles along with various Liverpudlian musical acts of varying quality. Bizarrely, they tried to shoehorn Atomic Kitten into their list of great musical achievements.

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