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Winehouse, McCartney to headline Coachella Fest

Winehouse, McCartney to headline Coachella FestWashington, Jan 31: Amy Winehouse will reportedly join Paul McCartney to headline the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, this April.

The `Back To Black' hitmaker, who is currently vacationing in St. Lucia - will headline the 3-day festival along with McCartney, the Killers, the Cure and Morrissey.

McCartney recently revealed that he was thrilled about his Coachella appearance, since it will mark his first-ever American festival appearance.

Justin Timberlake, Paul McCartney to perform at Grammys

Justin Timberlake, Paul McCartney to perform at GrammysWashington, Jan 27 : Paul McCartney and Justin Timberlake will perform at this year's Grammys ceremony.

Radiohead, TI, Kanye West and Jay-Z are also scheduled to perform at the February 8 show.

Timberlake will perform with rapper T. I., while McCartney will team with Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl, reports People.

Also, Radiohead will be making its first live TV performance in nearly nine years.

Macca praises Beatles’ offspring

Sir Paul McCartneyLondon, January 25 : Sir Paul McCartney has nothing but praise for the children of his fellow Beatles who are pursuing their own music careers.

Sir Paul publicly lauded the efforts made by Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey, the late John Lennon's Julian and Sean and George Harrison's Dhani, who all he believed had inherited the melodic genes.

"It's like children of famous actors - they're born with the gene. You either say, `No, I can't top that' and move into another field or you just go with it," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

Paul McCartney once wrote to Dalai Lama criticising his stand on eating meat

Macca once wrote to Dalai Lama criticising his stand on eating meatLondon, Dec 15: Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he once wrote to the Dalai Lama to criticise him for eating meat.

He said that he decided to write to Dalai Lama after he found out that the religious leader, who once said that Buddhists did not believe in "causing any suffering to any sentient beings", was himself a non-vegetarian.

McCartney, 66, said that his letter was aimed at pointing out that there was some suffering involved even in eating animals.

Sir Paul McCartney ‘declines’ to cull wild boar on his estate

Sir Paul McCartneyLondon, December 10 : Sir Paul McCartney has refused to give into the pressure put by his neighbours to cull wild boar on his property, according to reports.

The 66-year-old rocker and animal-rights activist’s decision has reportedly disappointed the locals who had been hoping to control the animal number at his 1,500-acre East Sussex estate.

As per the Brit government policy, landowners and communities have the power to cull the animals that pose a threat to the environment, farming or human safety.

Sir Paul McCartney’s band denies copying Blind Willie Johnson track

Sir Paul McCartneyWashington, December 9 : ‘The Fireman’, created by co-founder Sir Paul McCartney, has dismissed allegations that the band had lifted a song by Blind Willie Johnson for their latest track ‘Light From Your Lighthouse’.

The group insisted that Johnson''s ‘Let Your Light Shine On Me’, itself based on a renowned gospel composition, had served only as ‘inspiration’ in their material for their latest album ‘Electric Arguments’.

"It''s true that The Fireman used the Blind Willie Johnson track as inspiration for our own song,” Contactmusic quoted them as telling NME. com.

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