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Ringo Starr’s steady beat and underrated skills behind the drum kit made him the perfect drummer for The Beatles. It’s not a coincidence that the Fab Four shot to stardom soon after Ringo joined. Still, it wasn’t a cakewalk. Ringo said joining The Beatles was like going to school, and not just because he had to learn new songs.
Ringo was well known to The Beatles before they asked him to join.
Various childhood illnesses kept him out of school for years, but he discovered his passion for drumming during one hiatus. He never completed his childhood schooling, but that might have been a wise choice. Ringo built a reputation as Liverpool’s best drummer with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, who performed in Hamburg, Germany, during some of The Beatles’ residencies there.
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When The Beatles first exploded in popularity they set out on tours around the UK. The Fab Four squeezed into a small car and drove around Blighty to play their music to the growing fanbase that would create Beatlemania. But, considering Ringo Starr was the final member of the band to join the group, he was the last person the rest of the team wanted to sleep with in hotels around the country.
Starr was recruited into The Beatles in August 1962 after they dropped their first drummer from the band, Pete Best. While he gelled with the band musically and personally quickly, he was still an outsider joining the tight-knit threesome of pals John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
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George Harrison said the Concert for Bangladesh was a “stroke of luck” because there was no rehearsal. Thankfully, everything went to plan during the benefit concert.
In late 1971, Shankar told George about the humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan.
A devastating cyclone killed 500,000 people. After months of inaction from the West Pakistani government, people wanted a change. Eastern nationals declared themselves the independent country of Bangladesh. It started a bloody war. The Western Pakistani troops committed genocidal acts on the Bengali people.
“The more I read about it and understood what was going on, I thought, ‘Well, we’ve just got to do something,’ and it had to be very quickly,” George told Fugelsang. “And what we did, really, was only to point it out. That’s what I felt.”
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George Harrison said his only ambition was to be God-conscious, not to be a rock star. Although, his career as a guitarist led him to spirituality.
If George never became a rock star, he might not have become spiritual.
Spirituality came to George after a series of coincidental events. First, he heard Indian music on the set of The Beatles’ Help! When he started learning sitar, friends told him about Ravi Shankar.
Around this time, George took LSD for the first time and said it opened his mind up to “God-consciousness.” However, he didn’t know what that meant.
In 1965, George met Shankar, who immediately wanted to teach George everything he knew. The most important lesson Shankar taught George was that God is sound and that by playing the right notes, one can connect to God.
In 1966, George, his wife, Pattie Boyd, and Shankar took a six-week trip to India. George began learning about meditation and yoga. A year later, George learned Transcendental Meditation from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com
Some of The Beatles had different feelings on one of The Beatles’ songs from Abbey Road. An anvil was used as an instrument on the song. John felt the track was incredibly expensive.
A song from The Beatles‘ Abbey Road uses an anvil as an instrument. A sound engineer said Paul McCartney and John Lennon had conflicting opinions about the song. On the other hand, George Harrison called the song “fruity” but felt it was well-executed.
Geoff Emerick worked as a sound engineer on The Beatles’ Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road. In a 2022 interview with MusicRadar, he recalled the creation of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” “There were two struggles going on with this song: Paul and John fighting over whether it should even exist!” he said.
“John called it ‘more of Paul’s granny music,'” Emerick added. “But there was my own struggle coming up with the sounds that should go on it.”
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Paul McCartney’s destiny was to be a musician. That didn’t stop the Beatles bassist from considering other types of employment as a young man, however. He considered several options. One, however, seemed very idealistic and practical, much like McCartney himself. The musician once dreamed of becoming a “faithful” truck driver “going long distances”.
Per Britannica, McCartney’s young life in Liverpool, England was typical of the working class. His father Jim worked at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange. Mother Maria was a midwife.
The McCartney extended family were all hard workers who also knew how to have fun. Jim was the leader of Jim Mac’s Jazz Band and passed his love of music on to his two sons, Paul and Michael. However, the senior McCartney believed that while making music was a nice hobby, a full-time life as a musician was not the way to support a family. So he begged his son to find a permanent, full-time job.
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George Harrison‘s first wife, Pattie Boyd, reflected on her life as a Beatles wife in a new interview upon publication of her book, Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures. She discussed George’s impact on her life and revealed he would be the person she would love to have one last conversation with.At 19 years old, Boyd was sent by her modeling agency to Paddington Station on Mar. 2, 1964, for a small part in The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night. She met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, whom Boyd said “was the best-looking man I had ever seen,” according to Far Out Magazine.
Harrison appeared to be equally as smitten with Boyd, for as filming ended for the day, Harrison asked the young model, “will you marry me?” When she didn’t respond, he continued: “Well, if you won’t marry me, will you have dinner with me tonight?”
Boyd had a boyfriend, so she declined. However, after breaking it off with photographer Eric Swayne, she was asked to take care of her final obligations for the film, where she met the guitarist again. Harrison reiterated his dinner offer, and Boyd accepted. From that moment on, they we details
Music copyright remains one of the most complicated issues in the business, especially regarding sampling. It is also utterly hard to draw a line between where inspiration ends and straight-up plagiarism begins. All in all, being inspired by something is almost inescapable and not quite the same as copying.
Considering that good old music has formed the basis of numerous great new tracks, labeling even the slightest inspiration as plagiarism doesn’t seem reasonable. Even the best musicians have been inspired by someone else’s work while trying to create something new, yet they have managed to produce an original brand new piece of work, although they have added something from those already in existence.
However, no one can deny that it is still challenging to decide where the inspiration really ends and plagiarism starts. So not surprisingly, the majority of artists have struggled with legal battles regarding copyright issues. The late Beatle George Harrison also found himself at ends with the law due to the suspiciously familiar melody of his 1970 song ‘My Sweet Lord.’
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George Harrison may have been known as the 'Quiet Beatle', but by the end of the band's lifespan, he had proved to be a songwriting force.
While Paul McCartney and John Lennon shared songwriting duties for much of The Beatles' output, George Harrison eventually came out of his shell and showed just what he was also capable of.
Not only did he write and perform some of The Beatles' finest moments - 'Something', 'Here Comes the Sun', While My Guitar Gently Weeps' just for starters - but he went on to have his own successful solo career.
Here are just 10 of George's greatest solo songs:
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Ringo Starr didn’t enjoy playing drums on The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.” Ringo felt the song was inspired by a certain genre of music. The tune appeared on an extremely popular album.
Ringo Starr didn’t enjoy playing on The Beatles‘ “Here Comes the Sun.” Subsequently, he discussed his feelings about the song and its success. Notably, the tune did not chart highly in the United Kingdom.Geoff Emerick worked as a sound engineer on The Beatles’ Abbey Road, as well as other classic albums such as Paul McCartney & Wings’ Band on the Run and Elvis Costello’s Imperial Bedrooms. During a 2022 interview with MusicRadar, he discussed his feelings regarding “Here Comes the Sun.” “Another George winner, and again, he knew it — his confidence was growing each day,” Emerick recalled.
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While the Beatles broke up over 50 years ago, they were still making headlines in 2022, with Emmy wins, big tours and more.
Here’s a lowdown on all of 2022’s Beatles happenings:
—Paul McCartney launched his Got Back tour in Spokane, Washington, which featured a virtual duet with John Lennon on the Fab Four’s “I’ve Got a Feeling.” He wrapped the tour at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, with special appearances by Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. It was also Paul’s 80th birthday, and Bon Jovi led the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to him.
–Lennon’s son Julian Lennon covered his father’s classic track “Imagine” for the first time during Global Citizen’s televised Stand Up for Ukraine special.
—Ringo Starr received an honorary doctorate from Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
–McCartney headlined the Glastonbury Music Festival in England, and was joined by special guests Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl. It was Grohls’ first time onstage since details
Dan Richter lived with and worked for the couple. He talks about his ringside seat at the bitter end of Lennon, McCartney et al
“I do think John used Yoko to help him break up The Beatles,” says 83-year-old actor and mime artist Dan Richter, who lived and worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono as their personal assistant from 1969 to 1973. He was present at the recording of the band’s final album, Abbey Road, where Lennon insisted his second wife should be a central – and antagonising – presence.
At the time Ono was recovering from injuries sustained in a recent car crash and Richter describes her being placed “in this gigantic brass bed, all covered in white in a white night dress, right in the middle of the studio…So sitting at the [mixing] board all you’re looking at is Yoko in a bed. The rest of the band were just appalled.”
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1, 1969-73 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair is the most important book that’s been published about Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles work in years. And if this first volume is anything to by, the full series should be the definitive look at McCartney’s solo career.
“Originally, circa 2014, Adrian proposed writing a detailed sessionography for McCartney's work, along the lines of Mark Lewisohn’s The Beatles Recording Sessions,” Kozinn, formerly music critic at the New York Times, explains. “And he asked me to write wrap-around biographical chapters, to explain what was going on in Paul's life at the time he made each album. As we did the research, it evolved into a full-fledged biography — partly because during an interview with [Wings drummer] Denny Seiwell, he offered to let us use his wife's diaries and his own session log, which helped us establish an airtight timeline, and partly because Mark Lewisohn persuaded us that what was really needed was a biography.”
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The Brazilian artist who has been spreading the music of his country around the world for some 60 years was channelling The Beatles on December 28, 1968.
Pianist Sergio Mendes, a fixture in the American album charts with his group Brasil ’66 from that year onwards, was on the bestsellers again with Fool On The Hill. The record featured their version of the song from the Magical Mystery Tour EP of the year before, and on the last chart of the year, Mendes’ album climbed to the top of Billboard’s Bestselling Jazz LPs chart.
The album had entered the mainstream pop album chart at No. 102 in early December, soaring to No.58 and then No.18. As it hit the top of the jazz survey, it was at No. 11 on the pop side and would go as high as No. 3 in the new year, the group’s highest-ranking LP in the American market. Fool On The Hill was their third top ten album in two years, and their fourth gold disc.
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Ringo Starr released the song “Elizabeth Reigns” on his Ringo Rama album. Ringo Starr thought the song would lose him the knighthood. In 2018, Ringo Starr was knighted.
In 1997, Paul McCartney was knighted, and Ringo Starr received the honor over two decades later. Starr was happy to accept, but he hadn’t anticipated it. He believed that McCartney would be the only Beatle to receive the knighthood. Starr thought that one of his songs would disqualify him.
While Starr was in the studio with musician Dean Grakal, the latter asked what “ER” meant. It referenced the queen’s Golden Jubilee, and Grakal began to write a song about it.
“‘Elizabeth Reigns’ was a question from Dean Grakal,” Starr told Goldmine in 2003. “‘What does ER mean,’ because when we were recording at my place, Rocca Bella, it was Jubilee madness all over England. And the concert was corning on, one of the boys were there. And anyway on a day off they went into town and saw all these banners about the big Jubilee.”
Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com