The Surrey mansion where John Lennon wrote the songs for The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is up for sale.

The six-bedroom property in Weybridge, Surrey, where Lennon lived between 1964 and 1968 is on the market for £14 million, The Times reports.

Lennon bought the property, known as Kenwood, for £20,000 on July 15, 1964 and lived there with his first wife Cynthia. He is believed to have penned a number of songs for the album while living there.

Clips of a home movie showing Lennon at Kenwood in 1967 were used in the 1988 film Imagine: John Lennon.

The house, which has been refurbished, has six reception rooms, six bathrooms, 1.5 acres of land and a swimming pool. It is close to Sunny Heights – Ringo Starr’s former home and Kinfauns, where George Harrison lived in Esher.

One of the last ever interviews with The Doors’ keyboard player Ray Manzarek will be broadcast on Friday (January 10).

The footage will be aired as part of a new three-part BBC4 series Born To Be Wild: The Golden Age Of American Rock, which charts the rise and fall of US classic rock from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The first hour-long episode, which will feature interviews with Manzarek as well as Alice Cooper, Tom Petty, and John Densmore, will be shown at 9pm.

Manzarek died aged 74 in May 2013. The Doors formed in 1965 but disbanded in 1973, two years after Jim Morrison’s death. Manzarek continued to make music, releasing a number of solo albums and then as part of the group Nite City.

Last July, the band’s guitarist Robby Krieger announced that he and fellow surviving member of the group John Densmore will reunite in tribute to Manzarek. “We’re going to do at least one show for Ray and have a big send-off. That’s either the start or the end of it, I don’t know,” he said.

The pair fell out in 2002 when Krieger and Manzarek began touring as The Doors Of The 21st Century, leading to a lawsuit over the use of band name, and a £25 million countersuit against Densmore for his refusal to sign off on multi-million-dollar licensing of band songs for commercials.

“That’s what you do – if someone sues you, you sue them twice as hard back and hope that they drop the suit,” Krieger said. “It was a very stupid idea. We had the worst lawyers.” The row has now ended, but the lawsuit is the subject of Densmore’s new book, The Doors Unhinged.

A “definitive” biography of Lou Reed is in the works, it has been confirmed.

Titled Lou: A New York Life, the biography will be written by Rolling Stone writer Will Hermes, who has promised the book will tell the “full, definitive” story of the former Velvet Underground frontman’s life. The book will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has no current release date.

Speaking to The New York Times, Hermes says his evaluation of Reed’s life will focus on New York and how the city influenced him. “Reed loved the city deeply, based his adult life here, rooted much of his work here and was a huge figure in our cultural life. I think we have yet to fully measure the loss. He was one of the greatest artists of our generation.”

Lou Reed died from liver failure in October 2013, following a transplant operation in May.

In November 2013 it was revealed that Reed left his estate to his wife and sister. The singer left his Manhattan penthouse, his home in East Hampton, New York and the majority of his estate to his wife, musician Laurie Anderson. The couple married in 2008 and had no children. Anderson paid tribute to her husband, saying “he died while looking at the trees”.

Shoe company Converse are set to release five different Black Sabbath themed trainer styles.

The Chuck Taylor All Star shoes will make up part of the brand’s 2014 spring collection, and feature artwork from a selection of the band’s albums, including ‘Black Sabbath’ and ‘Paranoid’, reports Rolling Stone. The band and shoe makers previously collaborated in 2008.

Meanwhile, Tony Iommi has confirmed that he expects to finish treatment for cancer in 2014.

The guitarist has being undergoing treatment for the lymphoma he was diagnosed with in January 2012. In a new year’s message he wrote on his official website, Iommi thanked fans for their support and expressed his hope that this year will see him finish the treatment and get the all clear.

Writing to fans, Iommi wrote: “We’ve some good things lined up for the coming year, firstly the Grammys, then some dates in the US and Canada, and in the summer a quick trip round Europe. I should also be finishing my regular treatment and I’m hoping to not get so tired, all positive.”

Wild Beasts have revealed details of their new album and a UK and Irish tour to take place in March and April.

The band will release their fourth album later Present Tense on February 24.

The band will then play six dates on a headline UK tour, including a date at London’s Brixton Academy. The band will also perform live in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Bristol and Cambridge. Scroll down for full details.

At the end of 2013, the band said the new record would be “more melodic and pop” than before. Speaking to NME, they explained that they chose not to work with regular producer Richard Formby, but instead teamed up with Lexxx (Björk) and Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins).

“I guess when I was 17 I thought I was Nick Drake. Now I’m 28, I think I’m J Dilla. Neither of those is true, you need to be reined in,” said co-frontman Tom Fleming of the role the producers played in the making of the album. Meanwhile, Hayden Thorpe said the band considered ditching the guitars all together before opting against the idea. “We were very aware that it’s easy to sound polished with electronics. Our intuition when we get a guitar is to detune it; that’s what Lexxx does with electronics. ”

Recorded between London and Bath, Wild Beasts will release the follow-up to 2011’s Smother in the coming months. Track titles include ‘Sweet Spot’, ‘Daughters’ and ‘Past Perfect’.

Wild Beasts tour dates:

Manchester Albert Hall (March 26)

London Brixton Academy (April 1)

Neil Young reportedly told off the crowd for clapping during the first date of his four-night residency at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

The incident took place on Monday [January 6].

According to one eye witness, the audience began clapping during “Ohio“, which apparently threw Young off time.

The New York Times goes on to say that Young stopped the song. Writes The New York Times:

“‘Wrong!’ he barked, waving one hand, as if to cut off a rehearsal band. Part of the audience had started clapping to the beat — but not quite on the beat, as Mr. Young complained. His tone was even, his exasperation clear.

‘It’s something that you probably don’t know,’ he said, peering into the house from the stage, ‘but there’s a hell of a distance between you and me.’

Meanwhile, Rolling Stone reports that Young also took umbrage with members of the audience for calling out for requests. Writes Rolling Stone:

“‘You guys finished?’ he asked calmly after a group of guys refused to stop demanding loudly that he play the extreme rarity ‘Don’t Be Denied‘. ‘You paid real money to get in here, so you should be able to listen to each other. I hear a little voice, ‘Be nice, be nice.’ Thank you, sweetheart.'”

Young played his second show at Carnegie Hall last night [January 7]. The set list was identical to the January 6 show. He plays the venue again on January 9 and 10.

Neil Young’s set list for Carnegie Hall on January 7 was:

Set 1

Old Man

Set 2

Long May You Run

Bob Dylan has announced his first live dates for 2014.

Dylan will play 14 shows in Japan, starting in Tokyo on March 31.

This will be Dylan’s seventh tour of Japan; he last toured Japan in 2010.

Dylan released a live album – Bob Dylan At Budokan – recorded in 1978 at his first shows in Japan.

Dylan’s most recent dates were at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Bob Dylan will play:

March 31 – Tokyo, Japan – Zepp DiverCity

Neil Young played the first of four solo shows at New York’s Carnegie Hall last night [January 6].

The show was divided into two sets, with Young playing a ‘greatest hits’ set – stretching back to his Buffalo Springfield days – as well as covers of Phil Ochs’ “Changes” and Bert Jansch’s “Needle Of Death”.

Young will also play Carnegie Hall on January 7, 9 and 10.

Young has already confirmed further live dates for 2014. Beyond the remaining Carnegie Hall engagements, he will play five more solo shows including four benefit shows in his native Canada under the banner ‘Honor The Treatise‘, which will aid the native Canadians in their battle against oil companies and the government to preserve their land.

In July, Young reconvenes with Crazy Horse for 10 European dates, including London’s Hyde Park on July 12.

Neil Young’s set list for Carnegie Hall on January 6 was:

Set 1

From Hank To Hendrix

Old Man

Set 2

Goin’ Back

Long May You Run

Neil Young is the latest subject of our Ultimate Music Guides. You can read all about it here.

St Vincent is streaming ‘Digital Witness’, the second track to be taken from her forthcoming new album, ‘St Vincent’. Listen to it below.

The release of the song follows the premiere of ‘Birth In Reverse’, the first track to be taken from the album which will be released on February 24.

‘St Vincent’ was recorded in Dallas, Texas with Dap-Kings drummer Homer Steinweiss, McKenzie Smith of Midlake and producer John Congleton.

Of the album, Clark has said: “I knew the groove needed to be paramount… I wanted to make a party record you could play at a funeral.”

St Vincent released her debut album ‘Marry Me’ in 2007. It was followed by 2009’s ‘Actor’ and 2011’s ‘Strange Mercy’. In September 2012 she released a collaborative album with David Byrne titled ‘Love This Giant’.

The ‘St Vincent’ tracklisting is:

‘Rattlesnake’

‘Birth In Reverse’

‘Prince Johnny’

‘Huey Newton’

‘Digital Witness’

‘I Prefer Your Love’

‘Regret’

‘Bring Me Your Loves’

‘Psychopath’

‘Every Tear Disappears’

‘Severed Crossed Fingers’

Clark will also tour the UK and Ireland in February, as part of a wider European tour.

St Vincent will play:

London Shepherds Bush Empire (February 20)

Manchester The Cathedral (21)

Dublin Olympia (22)

Phil Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers, has died aged 74.

Everly died in Burbank, California on Friday. The cause, his son Jason Everly told AP, was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

His wife, Patti Everly, told the LA Times: “We are absolutely heartbroken.” She said that the disease was the result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking and added: “He fought long and hard.”

Performing in uncanny harmony with his elder brother, Don, Phil Everly was a superstar in the first phase of rock’n’roll. The pair were raised in country music (their parents were Midwestern country music singers Ike and Margaret Everly, and the boys performed on the family radio show as children), but transformed skills learned from the likes of The Louvin Brothers into pop gold.

Between 1957 and 1962, The Everly Brothers had 19 Top 40 hits, among them ‘Wake Up Little Susie’, ‘Cathy’s Clown’, ‘Bye Bye Love’, and ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’. Towards the end of the ‘60s, they moved back towards country and recorded, in 1968, arguably their finest album, ‘Roots’.

A critical influence on innumerable bands who followed in their wake – not least The Beatles – The Everly Brothers were among the first 10 acts to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame when it was launched in 1986.

The Everlys’ reputation was founded on the closeness of their harmonies, but Phil and Don’s relationship was more volatile than it often appeared. The pair broke up acrimoniously in 1973 and reportedly did not speak to one another for a decade, until they reunited in 1983.

Don Everly is yet to comment on the death of his brother. According to The Washington Post, a woman at Don Everly’s home said he was too upset to talk, but that “He expected to go first.”

Phil Everly was also credited by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon with providing the title of one of his biggest hits. While Zevon was working as the pianist and bandleader for the Everly Brothers, Phil asked him to write a dance song called ‘Werewolves of London’.

Phil Everly is survived by his brother, Don, his wife, Patti, his mother, Margaret, sons Jason and Chris, and two granddaughters.

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