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Wednesday night was the New York City premiere of If These Walls Could Sing, a documentary about London’s Abbey Road Studios directed by Mary McCartney that will premiere on Disney+ on December 16. For some inside information, the filmmaker, photographer and cookbook author turned to one of Abbey Road’s most well-known regulars: her dad, Paul McCartney.
Speaking to People, Mary says, “I was with him and I was like, ‘I’m going to make this documentary about the history of Abbey Road,’ and he would just sort of give me little tips. It was good! He was mulling it over and he sort of told me little anecdotes.” What Paul wanted to stress, she says, is how important the people who worked there were to the Beatles’ career.
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Many of us know Ringo Starr as the drummer from the Beatles, but did you know he is an accomplished photographer too? I think you may be pleasantly surprised to see what happened when he swapped his drumsticks for a camera.
Rock and roll stars are usually on the receiving end of a camera rather than taking pictures themselves. Ringo Starr experienced both sides of that equation, as he was just as keen to take pictures as he was being in them. The reason I know this is thanks to photographer and educator Tatiana Hopper's latest video, where she shares the story of Starr's love of photography.
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Ringo Starr said his career went downhill after one of his albums. He said he stopped caring as much about his music and more about his sex life. He felt one of his later albums was an artistic comeback.
Ringo Starr discussed the reason he had the chance to make albums. He said his career went downhill after he released one of his most famous albums. Subsequently, he said he was responsible for the decline of his recordings.
Ringo released his album Time Takes Time in 1992. That same year, Rolling Stone asked him if it felt odd that two decades had passed since he started releasing solo albums.
“Yes, it is,” he said. “Not to mention 25 years since that other album by those other guys — the one about the sergeant. And thanks be to God. I suppose I got that chance because The Beatles became such monsters.”
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When The Beatles added Ringo Starr as their drummer, the perception was he was just along for the ride. Even though he copied another song for his only Beatles drum solo, Ringo was hardly a passenger on the Fab Four’s flight to fame. However, he was along for the ride on a plane that nearly crashed, and Ringo had the most Ringo-like response to his near-death situation.The timekeeper sometimes acted as a buffer between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Ringo developed close bonds with his bandmates. He moved in with George when The Beatles first relocated to London. He only roomed with Paul on tour. Ringo became neighbors with John after the drummer moved out of his London apartment and later bought one of his houses. Those close friendships and his ingrained down-to-earth attitude helped The Beatles handle fame in a way that kept them from ending up like Elvis Presley.
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John Lennon's death left the star furious he hadn't made some preparations during his life.
John Lennon died 42-years-ago this week on December 8, 1980. The Beatles star was murdered outside his home, The Dakota, in New York City. His death affected people around the world, but his nearest and dearest friends were devastated by the tragic loss. All except George Harrison, who was reportedly very angry about the events.
Harrison's life was recounted in the Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In the feature, Harrison's wife, Olivia Harrison, revealed her husband's thoughts following Lennon's tragic murder. She said Harrison was "really angry" at Lennon for his lack of preparation.
She said he was furious that "John didn’t have a chance to leave his body in a better way".
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Klaus Voorman, Earl Slick and MOJO’s writers on how John Lennon changed the world… with what he sang, played, said and did.
1. By the way he sang Twist & Shout
Tempered in the furnaces of The Cavern and the Star-Club, The Beatles’ vocal attack was the closest any British rock’n’roll singers had come to the fire, energy and expression of American originators such as Little Richard and Larry Williams, The Isley Brothers and Barrett Strong. And it was Lennon’s raw, open-throated singing that sold these influential interpretations. In the summer of ’63, Twist And Shout, a raucous set-closer, was the lead track on their UK Number 1 EP and made their earlier singles sound, well, British, while Lennon’s vocal – the last recorded in a 12-hour February 11 session for Please Please Me – had a bug-eyed desperation that made an unlikely virtue of his understandably failing pipes. The Beatles’ Twist And Shout is slightly slower than The Top Notes’ 1961 original, and closely followed the Isleys’ cover, right down to McCartney and Harrison’s scream-inducing “whooos!”, but in 2 minutes 33 seconds it made every previous milky Bri details
Ringo Starr became known as the funny Beatle. Ringo Starr shared the way comments about his appearance impacted him.
People sent Ringo Starr death threats because of his appearance.
The Beatles became some of the most famous people in the world in the early 1960s. They had hoards of fans and constantly made public appearances. Though they received adoration, they also were the subjects of much public scrutiny. Ringo Starr became the target of many comments about his appearance. He said that he considered plastic surgery because of them.After forming in 1960, The Beatles began to see the early stages of Beatlemania in 1963. That year, stores stocked Beatles dolls, wigs, and other branded items. Fans gave each member of the band different monikers: John Lennon was the smart Beatle, Paul McCartney was the cute Beatle, George Harrison was the quiet Beatle, and Starr was the funny Beatle.
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On December 8, 1980, the world was rocked by the news that Beatles star John Lennon had been murdered. The culprit was a man named Mark Chapman who gunned Lennon down right outside his place of residence.
Given the sudden nature of the incident and the fact that The Beatles had broken up close to a decade earlier, none of Lennon's former bandmates were close to him in terms of proximity when the shooting occurred.
Despite their differences, each of them was devastated by the news and mourned the loss of their former bandmate and friend.
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Ringo Starr was more than just The Beatles’ beat master. He was also a buffer between the other members of the band and someone who never lost his warm personality as his fame grew. Ringo and his wife lived like simple people, even when they were millionaires. He had a down-to-earth reaction when John Lennon brought Yoko Ono into The Beatles’ inner circle. He made friends easily, and Ringo formed an intimate relationship with another drummer who wanted to take his job in The Beatles.
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Ringo Starr achieved worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles. Even though he copied another drummer for his famous solo on “The End,” Ringo made a huge impact on rock ‘n’ roll music and earned praise from Elvis Presley’s drummer and other professional musicians. Still, he always relied on a little help from his friends, and in one situation, George Harrison made Ringo sound like a genius on one of his biggest solo songs.
Acrimony and intraband squabbling brought The Beatles to an end at the beginning of the 1970s. That didn’t stop Ringo and George from collaborating soon after the Fab Four disbanded.
George forgot about his contributions, but Ringo played drums on two-thirds of George’s 1970 solo debut, All Things Must Pass. The former Richard Starkey later played on George’s albums Living in the Material World, Dark Horse, Somewhere in England, and Cloud Nine, per All Music.
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The Beatles' Revolver track "Here, There and Everywhere" is getting a new video.
The animated clip is set to premiere Wednesday, December 7, at 9 a.m. ET on YouTube. You can check out a preview now via The Beatles' Twitter.
"Follow the band on tour as they face an ever-changing backdrop of cities, hotels, roads and gigs, with only each other to rely on," says producer Richard Barnett of Trunk Animation, which created the video. "A magical dancer appears to each of them, representing inspiration and creative freedom."
In October, a deluxe reissue of Revolver was released, featuring various new mixes of the original 1966 record, as well as a collection of outtakes and a four-song EP that includes the non-album tracks "Paperback Writer" and "Rain." Following the reissue's arrival, Revolver re-entered the top five on the Billboard 200.
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Paul McCartney had so many hit songs with The Beatles that it becomes hard to count. However, his best-selling single in the U.K. debuted years after the band had disbanded, and it outsold anything he did with The Beatles.
The Beatles shocked the world when they split in 1970. Following the breakup, Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, wanted to get back to basics. McCartney bought a farm in High Park in Scotland in 1966, and the two spent plenty of time there with their family after The Beatles ended. The area High Park was located in was known as Mull of Kintyre, and McCartney decided to write a song about it in 1977.“Mull of Kintyre, the whole area of Kintyre and Argyllshire, is very special because of the memories it holds for me and the family,” says McCartney, speaking to Big Issue 40 years after the song’s release. “It’s really nice to think that the love we have for the area was captured in a song and brought to the attention of many people around the world.”
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Ringo Starr acted in several films over the course of his career. Ringo Starr was the first narrator of the children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. In 1990, Ringo Starr returned to the Thomas the Tank Engine universe in Shining Time Station.
After The Beatles broke up, the former members embarked on their solo careers. For all of them, this meant working with new musicians and producing solo albums. For Ringo Starr, this also meant pursuing a number of acting roles. Though he decided to move away from movies in the 1980s, he took a role in television as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Starr later appeared in a spinoff series.
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Many songs by The Beatles were banned by the BBC for various reasons, such as possible allusions to drugs and sexual references. One song by Paul McCartney in his solo career received a BBC ban. However, the ban was primarily due to a misunderstood lyric.
While The Beatles kept their music relatively tame, the BBC commonly cracked down on any piece they deemed inappropriate. This ranged from explicit sexual references to light allusions to drugs. The Beatles were often associated with drugs due to some of their more psychedelic tracks. However, the BBC often made assumptions about the band’s lyrics without fully understanding them.
Several Beatles songs that received BBC bans include “A Day in the Life,” “I Am the Walrus,” “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” and “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” A few of these tracks were not alluding to drugs, even though many believed there were. Many believed “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” referenced LSD, but John Lennon claimed it was based on a drawing by his son.
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George Harrison‘s wife, Olivia, said her husband enjoyed making a good moment better. The former Beatle’s friends would’ve agreed.
In 1974, George met his wife during a terrible time. He was grieving the loss of his first marriage to Pattie Boyd.
“Well, I wasn’t ready to join Alcoholics Anonymous or anything – I don’t think I was that far gone – but I could put back a bottle of brandy occasionally, plus all the other naughty things that fly around,” George told Rolling Stone in 1979.
“I just went on a binge, went on the road . . . all that sort of thing, until it got to the point where I had no voice and almost no body at times. Then I met Olivia and it all worked out fine. There’s a song on the new album, ‘Dark Sweet Lady’: ‘You came and helped me through/ When I’d let go/ You came from out the blue/ Never have known what I’d done without you.’ That sums it up.”
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