No Rock And Roll Fun

OPEN AND SHUT CASE: So, it turns out that the Times' excited story about a bloke who bought a suitcase in Australia which was full of Beatles recordings is up there with the Sunday Times' Hitler diaries and anything you hear on Fox News as being a big pile of rubbish. Pete Nash, a Beatles expert, has looked in the suitcase and found no Lennon-McCartney marvels - there were no tapes in the case, and everything else seemed to be clumsy copies. Mind you, if the phrase "this is just a clumsy attempt to pass something off as a genuine Beatles article" holds any water, the British Hit Singles people should be knocking off the points for Free As A Bird from the Beatles' total, too.