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Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally got his Fab Four: On Tuesday, as anticipated, Apple's iTunes Music Store became the first online merchant to sell the Beatles' music.

A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park's Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from "Imagine" on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday.

Reuven Gershon of the Counterfeit Beatles gives us his impression of what John Lennon might be doing if he were alive to celebrate his 70th birthday.

The onetime Beatle's cheeky writing efforts are being re-released this month in an omnibus edition to mark what would have been his 70th birthday Oct. 9.

A set of John Lennon's fingerprints taken when he applied for US residence is confiscated by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer.

An overseas collector pays £9,500 for John Lennon's toilet at an auction in Liverpool.

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to Beatles song A Day In The Life sell for $1.2m (£810,000) at auction, well above the price expected.

Nearly 40 years after breaking up, The Beatles are still breaking records for album sales.Consumers in North America, Japan and the U.K. bought more than 2.25 million copies of the Beatles' re-mastered albums in the first five days after their Sept. 9 release.

The Beatles will be coming to Rock Band this September and their Cirque De Soleil extravaganza, Love has been a financial success. The Beatles won't be going away any time soon if they can continue to market their catalog in the correct manner to win over new fans, or at least convince some old ones to by new Beatles merchandise.So, the capitalist and the stoner in me cheered when I found out that Disney and Robert Zemeckis (Beowulf, The Polar Express) are going to re-make the Beatle's psychedelic animation, Yellow Submarine for theaters.

Mr. Klein managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles.