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Paul McCartney has had a long and successful solo career after leaving The Beatles. For a short time, McCartney was backed by the band Wings. The former Beatle came up with the name Wings following a traumatic and impactful life event. The Beatles dominated the 1960s, but the band would only have a decade of success before splitting up in 1970. Each member was going off on their own solo careers, and Paul McCartney was set to debut his first solo album only weeks before The Beatles’ final album, Let it Be. According to Billboard, McCartney was given a letter from John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, asking him to push the album until after Let it Be debuted.
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Who could hate Paul McCartney or The Beatles? Even if you’re not a fan of their music, they’re lovable guys. But, McCartney admits he wasn’t always so sure. He is now, but he shared how he got over his initial fears. McCartney was a guest on the Fly on the Wall podcast on Oct. 12. Hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade interviewed McCartney for his connection to Saturday Night Live as a frequent musical guest. Still, they couldn’t help asking about The Beatles and his current touring.When it comes to live performing, McCartney now has 60 years of experience. In the early days of The Beatles, however, he would still get nervous before every show. Despite the popularity of The Beatles songs, McCartney still got butterflies going on stage.
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Ringo Starr hit the jackpot when The Beatles asked him to join the band. Likewise, the Fab Four’s career might have looked much different without Ringo’s hall-of-fame drumming talent. Beatles fans hit the jackpot when a long-lost secret song Ringo and George Harrison worked on finally saw the light of day in 2021.
Ringo focused his efforts on The Beatles once he joined the band in August 1962. When the band started splintering at the end of the decade, he started branching out. He played on the Plastic Ono Band single “Cold Turkey” in 1969 and contributed to the 1969 album Is This What You Want by Jackie Lomax, per AllMusic.
Likewise, George started writing music at such a prolific pace that he once said he’d have to make a hundred Beatles albums to get his songs out. Still, George found a way to release his first solo record while still a member of the Fab Four.
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George Harrison didn’t care when people called him the ex-Beatle who benefited the most from the group’s dissolution. He didn’t want to be George the Beatle in any capacity. George was the first Beatle to dislike his time in the band. It happened earlier than most think. He enjoyed the essence of the group the most; their companionship and effortless performances. That essence was strongest during The Beatles’ Hamburg, Germany, residency. However, they couldn’t play dive bars forever. They wanted a recording contract, and when their manager, Brian Epstein, secured one, they climbed to the top fast. Almost too fast. They had a price to pay for fame. Soon, they couldn’t go anywhere without being chased by hoards of screaming fans. When they played the same 10 songs over and over on tour, those fans only screamed more.
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In 1963 - soon after The Beatles released their first single - the musician said it was his dream to appear in The Dandy.
The half-finished storyboard, created by cartoonist Nigel Parkinson, has gone on display at Liverpool Beatles Museum.
It shows the musician waking up and catching a bus before being chased by fans.
The strip also refers to some of his famous lyrics, from songs including A Hard Day's Night, Ticket to Ride and I Want To Hold Your Hand.
Mr Parkinson, who draws Dennis the Menace for The Beano, said: "It was nerve-wracking drawing Sir Paul.
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Producer Giles Martin — son of the late “Fifth Beatle” George Martin — unpacks the approach behind the revelatory new Special Edition reissue. “I learned this really early on with the Beatles: Your job is to push boundaries.”
The album in question is Revolver, and “they,” of course, are the Beatles, the greatest band of the rock era. The speaker is 53-year-old Giles Martin, son of the late producer George Martin, who shepherded nearly all of the Fab Four’s creative impulses toward the masterpieces that formed the foundation of their legacy.
Giles, himself a gifted producer with a knack for giving new life to decades-old music, recently revitalized the Beatles’ seventh official studio effort, originally released in early August 1966. This latest Beatles Special Edition, due out Oct. 28, features Revolver in new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes as well as the original mono mix. The project is being released in various digital and physical configurations that peak with Super Deluxe box sets with CDs or vinyl plus access to a digital collection and a hardbound book.
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Ringo Starr landed the best gig of his career in the early 1960s when he joined The Beatles. The self-deprecating Ringo once said he knew he was no good as a drummer (he was wrong), but he didn’t pull any punches after a disastrous show in Montreal. Ringo called it the worst gig of his life, and it was so bad it ruined the city for The Beatles.
The Fab Four built their reputation and fan base by playing live. The band performed several residencies in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961 and 1962, and they crisscrossed England when they weren’t playing Deutschland.
The rigorous schedule didn’t change when The Beatles added Ringo to the lineup in August 1962. The only difference was they had a hall-of-fame drummer keeping the beat. A year-and-a-half later, in early February 1964, The Beatles got their lucky break on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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George Harrison didn’t understand why The Beatles played at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. The group performed for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret, alongside some of the best acts of the time. George wondered who nominated the band to perform at such a prestigious show.
It was an honor but also a bit of a hindrance too. He wondered if The Beatles’ performance on the variety show was fair for fans who couldn’t afford to buy tickets.
By mid-1963, The Beatles were becoming one of the hottest rock ‘n’ roll groups. Both “From Me To You” and “She Loves You” had reached No. 1. In October, they starred on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. More than 15 million viewers tuned in to watch.
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Elvis Presley had a profound influence on The Beatles, who grew up listening to The King as teenagers in 1950s Liverpool. John Lennon went as far as to say that before Elvis “there was nothing” when it came to music for the young people of that era. Famously, the Fab Four ended up having their chance to meet The King for themselves only once back in 1965.
Invited to Elvis’ Los Angeles home on Perugia Way, The Beatles were starstruck to come face-to-face with their idol. Sitting in silent awe, The King broke the ice by saying he’d have to go to bed if they didn’t have a conversation. Legend has it, the five most successful men in music history ended up jamming together and playing pool.
Even though Paul McCartney preferred Elvis in his younger years, the star still looks back fondly on the fact he once had the chance to meet the star, who died in 1977 at just 42.
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George Harrison once claimed John Lennon had a lot of power as the leader in the early days of The Beatles. John might’ve started one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands, but his power dwindled over time.
John had a tough childhood. He might’ve lived in the posh part of Liverpool in his Aunt Mimi’s spotless home, but his formative years were stained with heartbreak. After his father abandoned him, so did his mother. They left John in the care of his aunt for the rest of his childhood.
Into his teenage years, John became a rebel. The Guardian wrote, “He was a bohemian and a rebel, by turns arrogant and insecure; the classic outsider who came to define the boundaries of the mainstream by reacting against them; the nowhere boy who became Britain’s most famous pop star but never quite transcended his troubled childhood.”
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney are responsible for one of the most prolific rock acts in all of musical history: the Beatles. Throughout their decades-long friendship, the pair traveled the world, sold out stadiums, and created a legacy that is still present today.
Regardless of all of the glitz and glam, one of McCartney and Lennon’s final conversations was about something seemingly mundane: baking bread.
Before they were the Beatles, Lennon and McCartney were two middle-class Liverpool boys who bonded over their passion for rock ‘n’ roll music and songwriting. The two famously met at a church social in 1957, when McCartney was just 15 and Lennon 16, per UDiscoverMusic. Lennon’s band at the time, the Quarry Men, was playing at the event, which captured the attention of the aspiring musician, McCartney.
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Many people have their own theories about why The Beatles broke up. Some blame Yoko One, some blame John Lennon, and some blame Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney has denied being the reason The Beatles broke up, but may not have been a hundred percent sure. A recent clip from The Beatles: Get Back helped him forgive himself over the band’s breakup.
In 2021, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson released his three-part eight-hour documentary The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+. The documentary featured re-cut footage from the 1970 Let it Be documentary, which featured a behind-the-scenes look at the end of The Beatles.
While Let it Be didn’t point a specific finger at who’s to blame, many moments showed the band teetering on the edge of a fallout. Paul McCartney was seen as overbearing in recording sessions, John Lennon would bring his wife Yoko Ono to the studio, to the band’s dismay, and George Harrison quit in the middle of a session. In an interview on the Fly on the Wall podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey, McCartney says he’s never watched Let it Be as he “found it a bit depressing.”
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In The Beatles' final years together as a band, the group was engaged in a number of feuds and arguments. During the recording of their final album, Let It Be, and the shooting of the documentary of the same name, tensions continued to rise, sparking disagreements that would eventually lead to the eruption of the band. George Harrison, in particular, had issues with Paul McCartney. He later explained how the Hey Jude singer was to blame for his biggest downfall.
Harrison was frequently pushed to the side by McCartney and John Lennon while they were songwriting.
As Lennon and McCartney had been writing tracks together for decades, it came as second nature to them. They even started the official Lennon-McCartney Songwriting Partnership to copyright their songs alone.
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Abbey Road, September 2022: Giles Martin, son of the Beatles producer George Martin, is holding a playback for a new mix of Revolver. It is an album that came out 56 years earlier and it is so familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in popular music that you wouldn’t think there could be anything new to hear in it.
Yet there is. The Beatles, who after all started life as road-hardened rock’n’rollers, sound more raw and alive than ever. John Lennon’s guitar, previously buried in the mix, rings out with passion.
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- Paul McCartney became a vegetarian in the 1970s.
- He doesn’t even like to hurt flies, though he has one exception.
- Paul McCartney helped publish a vegetarian cookbook of his late wife’s recipes.
Since the 1970s, Paul McCartney has been a vegetarian and has dedicated himself to the protection of animal welfare. While he wouldn’t try to convert anybody to vegetarianism, he said that he feels ashamed of some of his past behavior involving animals. These days, he says, he wouldn’t even hurt a fly. There is one exception to his rule of protecting animals, however
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