LONDON (AP) – Paul McCartney believes it’s someone besides Yoko Ono who should be blamed for the breakup of The Beatles. UK’s The Observer published an excerpt from an interview McCartney gave to David Frost in which he says Ono did not break up the band. McCartney says while he was uncomfortable with Ono sitting in on studio sessions, he feels John Lennon could not have written “Imagine” without her avant-garde influence. So who’s to blame? McCartney says it’s Allen Klein, the manager who took over after Brian Epstein died. He says Klein got them fighting with each other, and during the interview McCartney throws a mock punch at a photo of Klein.

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bon Jovi are planning a big tour — of Canada. They will hit the U.S. as well, but they’ve only announced the Canadian dates. Why? Because they can — which happens to be the name of the tour. “Bon Jovi Because We Can — The Tour” begins February 13 in Montreal. U.S. dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Aerosmith plan to show up on the streets of Boston on November 5 and just play. Where that will be won’t be revealed until that morning, and they will play around noon. It’s in celebration of the release of their new album, “Music From Another Dimension,” which comes out the next day. It’s also a get-out-the-vote party, because “Music From Another Dimension” comes out on Election Day. Aerosmith say you can vote for whomever you choose, just vote.

UNDATED (AP) – Matthew Morrison will sing the national anthem before tonight’s second game of the World Series. Zooey Deschanel (ZOH’-ee day-shuh-NEHL’) will do the honors before game three on Saturday night and Demi Lovato will perform before game four on Sunday. If there’s a game five, Aretha Franklin will sing the “Star Spangled Banner” on Monday night. Phillip Phillips sang the anthem last night before the opening game of the series.

 

NEW YORK (AP) – The Rolling Stones 50th anniversary book has come out as an e-book. “The Rolling Stones 50” digital edition allows readers to tap on photos to get a closer look, scroll through archival negative strips of the Stones in concert and pore over playlists of their major shows. It also comes with an interactive world tour map, rare audiovisual material, a gallery of posters and flyers and a vault of 100 rare photos. The e-book is on sale now for $20.

PARIS (AP) – The Rolling Stones announced a surprise “warm-up gig” in Paris, and within an hour the Champs Elysees was swarming with fans hoping to get satisfaction with one of the 350 tickets for the Thursday night show.

The (euro) 15 ($19.5) tickets, announced on the Rolling Stones Twitter account, came with strings attached: No more than two per person, names printed on them and IDs required at the door at the show intended as a prep for the band’s 50th anniversary arena shows in London and Newark, New Jersey.

Guitarist Ronnie Wood had said in an interview with NME this week that the Stones could play several small clubs, possibly under the name the Cockroaches, an alias they’ve used before.

The group has not played together live in five years.

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Beach Boys will release a DVD of their 50th anniversary concert tour. The DVD captures 21 songs from the band’s tour earlier this year. “The Beach Boys: Live In Concert – 50th Anniversary Tour” comes out November 20.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Who sounds like Janis Joplin, looks like Janis Joplin, but isn’t Janis Joplin? Mary Bridget Davies. She stars in the musical biography “One Night With Janis Joplin.” Joplin’s brother Michael says it’s uncanny how much Davies sings and moves like Janis. The play reminds him of the time he went with his parents to see Joplin perform at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. He was a teenager at the time. He says the other bands let Joplin go on first because her parents were in the audience and didn’t want to stay up late. He says the concert was “bizarrely cool.” “One Night With Janis Joplin” is in Washington through November 4.