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.

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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.

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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.