The Zombies headline the 14 city tour that begins tonight in San Diego and ends in Canada in mid-July.

Live Daily talks with The Zombies' Colin Blunstone about the tour:

Click here for the story.

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.

Here's a video clip:

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.

Click kere for the whole story from Examiner.com.

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Here's a promotional video from a couple of years ago, featuring Chad and Jeremy with Sixties' television stars Patty Duke, Dick VanDyke, Johnny Carson and Catwoman.

Here's the video:

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.

For decades, they were tucked away in a tour manager's duffle bag... more than 50 candid photographs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones taken during each band's first American tour.
The photos, taken by tour manager Bob Bonis, will be part of an exhibition titled "The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964–66," at New York's Not Fade Away Gallery.

Click here for a slide show of these newly discovered photographs.

Nash says it had nothing to do with the Hollies, but everything to do with David Crosby and Stephen Stills. He told Spinner.com he knew his time with the Hollies was over when:

I had heard me and David and Stephen sing together. I wanted that golden sound. I craved it. It was beautiful. And the instant that I heard that sound, I knew that I was no longer a Hollie.

Nash says he talks with his former CSN bandmates on a regular basis.

Click here to find out more about Graham Nash's new box set, titled "Reflections."

Click here for the entire interview.

Here's another Graham Nash interview from February 2009.

The Kinks have finally released a box set, six-disc collection covering their 30 year history.

The first three discs contain more than 80 songs from the Kinks early years, from 1964 through 1970, beginning with "You Really Got Me" and ending with "Lola."

Click here for the whole story.

Click here for more information on the new box set from the Kinks.

Wouldn't it be nice to have something good to listen to while we toil away on our computers? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to hear the music of the Beatles, the Who and all of the British Invasion bands online without paying a penny.

Internet radio streams hundreds of different music channels. And Live365, the largest online radio network, lists almost two dozen stations playing at least some British Invasion band music. If you choose to listen for free, you'll have access to fewer channels and will have to put up with advertising -- often one commercial after every song. If you're willing to shell out $6 or $7 a month, you become a VIP, which means no advertsing and CD-quality audio. Here are a few of the British Invasion channels on Live365:

• British Invasion Radio, from the same people who bring you this website. It's Live365's most popular British Invasion radio station!.
• Beatles Cavern comes out of Detroit and specializes in deep tracks and interviews. While I was listening they were playing the Beatles' "I'll Follow The Sun."
• The British Invasion, a subscription-only station, was playing the Kinks' "Well Respected Man" and the Beatles' "Octopus's Garden."
• ALLRS Musicradio says it features early 60s music but appears to lean a bit toward American artists.
• Rock Starz features the Beatles, the Kinks and the Who, among others.
• Treacle Toffee World (also subscription-only) pretends it's a pirate radio radio and plays British Invasion and psychedelic music.

More on Internet radio in future posts.

The heavy lifting is over! I've just finished the month-long task of adding 24 pages to this website, each devoted to one band from the British Invasion of 1963-1968. It was kind of like writing two dozen different term papers, all at once. For each of the groups, I've included:

• A biography
• Photographs (now and then, in most cases)
• Videos (also now and then, if possible)
• Discography
• A 'Where Are They Now?" section

Each page gives you the opportunity to buy the band's CDs, vinyl, downloads and concert tickets.
And looking ahead, we're adding a section devoted to memorabilia from each group -- guitars, posters, autographed tickets and the like.

For now, we'll keep all of the band blogs on this page. I invite you to check out the band pages, make comments, ask questions, contribute facts and, in general, make yourself known to the community we're about to form.

My first question is... just what kind of people are interested in British Invasion Bands? Even though we're talking about music that's close to 50 years old, I've noticed plenty of comments on YouTube and in other blogs from people of all ages who love the music. I was 13 years old when it started (that makes me 57 now), but I suspect lots of you are much younger. Let us know... and also tell us about which groups you like best, and why... and what you'd like to see on the site.

Next time, I'll talk about some things that struck me during my research.