Beatles enter dotcom era

London - The Beatles' first official website will be launched this month, 30 years after the group split up, a spokeswoman for…

London - The Beatles' first official website will be launched this month, 30 years after the group split up, a spokeswoman for the band said yesterday. The site, thebeatles.com, will go live on November 13th and will be the band's only official presence on the Internet.

The band's three surviving members, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, have all contributed to the site.

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