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The Beatles could finally win Record of the Year at the Grammys for "Now and Then," breaking a ... [+] historic losing streak that's continued for decades.

For the first time in almost 30 years, The Beatles are nominated for a Grammy. Two of them, actually. Throughout that time, projects attached to the rockers have been up for, and even won trophies, but the group itself wasn’t actually in the running for a prize. Now, the Fab Four may be headed for another win, and the musicians have another chance to fix a black spot on an otherwise sterling legacy.

The Beatles hold the record for the most nominations among groups in the Record of the Year category. That field is considered, perhaps only countered by Album of the Year, as the top honor at music’s biggest night. The pop and rock legends have competed for the honor five times now, including this ceremony, but so far, the band has always been beaten.

Throughout the years, The Beatles landed in the Record of the Year vertical with all of the following hits: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (lost to "The Girl from Ipanema" by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto), “Yesterday” (lost to "A Taste of Honey" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuan details

A lock of hair cut from the head of an unwitting Paul McCartney outside a BBC studio is for sale at a British collectibles company.

Paul Fraser Collectibles are listing the dark-brown hank of Beatle hair that fan Martha snipped outside a recording, probably for the BBC show Saturday Club, in 1965 or 1966.  Martha’s confession recalls a time when fans could get relatively close to the Liverpool band and other stars of an exploding British beat scene.

Paul McCartney’s hair is for sale alongside his signature. Image courtesy Paul Fraser Collectibles.

With most of the band in her autograph book, Martha and a friend went one step further to show their admiration for the Fab Four.

“At school we made plans to cut a piece of Paul’s hair (back then it was a ‘normal’ thing to do) and went prepared with scissors. When the Beatles left the studio we mobbed them with a crowd of other fans and just grabbed Paul’s hair and cut!  “Sounds a dreadful thing now,” she says.  They even wrote via the band’s fan club offering an apology but never heard back.

60 years later that girlish enthusiasm has produced a valuable artefact of the m details

Despite having starred in a Pizza Hut commercial back in 1995, Ringo Starr has admitted he's never before been able to enjoy a piece of pizza.  Famed Beatles drummer and one-time Pizza Hut spokesperson Ringo Starr has admitted he’s never eaten pizza before.

The veteran musician made the somewhat surprising confession while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote his 21st studio album, Look Up. As part of his chat, Kimmel asked Starr to set some rumors about himself straight. First on the list was the claim that Starr had never eaten pizza.  “I’ve never had a pizza,” Starr confirmed, as the audience expressed their shock at the news. “Or a curry.”

“I’m allergic to several items,” Starr continued. “With pizza, you don’t know what you’re putting in it half the time. Or the curry. So I’m strict with myself since it makes me ill immediately.”

“I used to think you had the greatest life, and now I realize mine is better,” Kimmel joked in response. Added Starr: “Yours is better because you’ve had a pizza.”

Starr’s need to abstain from pizza also goes hand-in-hand with his details

George Harrison’s legendary diary entry from the day he left The Beatles has seen the guitarist dubbed an “icon”.

Studio session tensions bubbled over for Harrison during the Get Back rehearsals, prompting him to briefly quit the band. Ringo Starr had previously departed the band towards the end of The White Album recording but rejoined a short while later. Starr had felt he “wasn’t playing great” and that he was “an outsider” but after a holiday to Sardinia, he rejoined the band. Harrison’s departure from the Get Back sessions lasted five days and has since been immortalised in a diary entry.

January 10, 1969 saw Harrison write in his diary he had “left The Beatles”. The full entry reads: “Got up, went to Twickenham. Rehearsed until lunchtime – left The Beatles – went home.” One fan dubbed Harrison an “icon” for his diary entry and departing from The Beatles while another said it was a “dark day” for fans of the Fab Four. Harrison’s rather stoic attitude to The Beatles has been celebrated by fans in a Reddit thread, who shared similar stories about the Something and All Things Must Pass songwr details

The Beatles ended their historic run as a band on Jan. 30, 1969. On that date in history, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr gathered on the rooftop of the Apple Corps. headquarters for their last-ever live performance. Billy Preston, often dubbed the “Fifth Beatle,” played electric piano during the set.

Five stories atop central London, the band played their final show for a project originally titled Get Back. The Beatles hoped that the project, as the title suggested, would help them return to their roots.

However, the resulting film and album, which were later renamed Let It Be, became the band’s final project together when they were released in May 1970.  Rolling Stone reported that the rooftop concert wasn’t always planned for that location. A cruise ship, the Sahara desert, the Giza pyramids, and a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater were first considered. Ultimately, the rooftop was chosen, though whether Lennon or Starr suggested it first is widely debated.

The Day of The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert

Knowing he was going to witness something special, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who previously worked with The Beatles on &ldqu details

An extremely rare, eight-inch acetate record with Connecticut ties featuring several iconic songs from “The Beatles” has been rediscovered after six decades, according to Nate D. Sanders, who will auction off the item on Thursday.

Issued in the 1960s by Capital Records, the acetate includes songs such as “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That.”

The record’s journey traces back 61 years, when local teenager Cherie Pinsky won it through a drawing contest hosted by WPOP radio in Hartford. Pinsky secured the priceless piece of memorabilia after her drawing of “The Beatles” won the radio station’s contest.

According to Nate D. Sanders, an industry leader in documents and autographs, the acetate is in remarkably good condition. While it bears several surface scratches and still as Pinsky’s name on each side of the label, the item is still housed in its original sleeve.

The acetate was released in limited quantity at the height of Beatlemania in 1964 and is identified on its label as Master X44914 and X44913. Only a handful of these items are known to exist, making the acetate a remarkable relic of music history.

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Out of all of The Beatles’ albums, the cover of Abbey Road from 1969 is by far the most memorable. In fact, the iconic cover photo has impacted pop culture in a number of surprising ways. So, what’s the story behind it?

The photo on the cover of Abbey Road shows John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison walking along a crosswalk outside of EMI studios in London, England, on Abbey Road. The band had recorded the majority of their career recording there, so it was only fitting to make the scene part of the album.

The photo is a fascinating piece compositionally. Paul McCartney is shoeless, everyone is wearing a designer suit except for a denim-clad George Harrison, and the vibe is just unreal.

Surprisingly, the photo wasn’t the result of a tireless photo shoot that was aiming for perfection. Rather, the shot was snapped during a few-minute break on August 8, 1969.

That very day, the band was recording the songs “Oh! Darling”, “The End”, and “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” in the nearby studio. During a break in between sessions, the Fab Four walked outside to be photographed by Iain Macmillan. He only took six photos in t details

 Paul McCartney has announced a 50th anniversary vinyl edition of his 1975 Wings album Venus and Mars.

The album was Wings’ fourth and the follow-up to their classic Band on the Run. Venus and Mars would reach number one on the album charts on both side of the Atlantic, going on to sell over four million copies worldwide.

Mostly recorded in New Orleans, this period would saw a change in the Wings lineup as McCartney would recruit guitarist Jimmy McCullough and replace short-lived drummer Geoff Britton midway through recording, with the more Macca-friendly Joe English. The album features fan favourite ‘Letting Go’ and hit single ‘Listen To What The Man Said’, which reached number one in the US singles chart.

The vinyl is half-speed mastered edition, cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and there’s no bonus material just a “meticulous reproduction” of the original UK pressing, with an OBI-strip. Venus and Mars will also be available– digitally only – in Dolby Atmos for the first time, having been newly mixed by Giles Martin details

This is FRESH AIR. Ringo Starr has released a new album of country songs called "Look Up." It's a collaboration with producer T Bone Burnett, who wrote many of the songs. And it features appearances by Alison Krauss and a new young bluegrass star, Billy Strings. Ringo recently taped a country special that will air on CBS in the spring, and in February, he'll make his debut at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. Not bad for an 84-year-old ex-Beatle. Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of "Look Up."

RINGO STARR: (Singing) It's a long way down and there's no bottom. You had the blues, but you forgot them. Look up. In the midnight hour, look up. Love is the higher power. Keep your eyes on the skies. Don't look down on the shadows town. Look up.

KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Beatle fans have known of Ringo Starr's love of country music ever since he had The Fab Four cover the Buck Owens hit "Act Naturally" in 1965, singing a rare lead vocal. "Look Up" isn't even Ringo's first country album. That was way back in 1970. It was called "Beaucoup Of Blues" and was more self-conscious and lugubrious than the new one, which radiates the confidence and ease that an aging professional can bring to his material.

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Fans of George Harrison are calling his work on an unused How Do You Sleep take “the best playing he ever did”.

Post-The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote retaliatory songs against one another. Lennon’s How Do You Sleep was a response to McCartney’s Ram track, Too Many People. Harrison joined Lennon on How Do You Sleep, a song which featured on Imagine and was dubbed a personal jab at McCartney after the fallout of the Fab Four. McCartney had joked he was planning a follow-up, titled Quite Well, Thank You, but it never came to pass.

Fans of How Do You Sleep and Harrison are now saying an earlier take of the song hides one of his best performances as a guitarist. A post to The Beatles’ subreddit saw people share their fondness for his guitar playing on How Do You Sleep. One user wrote: “George’s guitar on How Do You Sleep (Takes 5 and 6) is some of the best playing he ever did.”

Another user agreed, adding: “Even on the official album version I’d agree with that statement. He had a lot of career moments where he shined as a guitarist but this is my number one.” A third suggested “everyone” was in top form on this &ld details

The Beatles dominated charts all around the world throughout the years the four musicians were together, and even many times following the split that shocked the human race. The Fab Four became superstars and rulers of the weekly rankings in the United Kingdom shortly after its first album dropped, and the band remains one of the most successful names to ever grace the charts. Now, one of The Beatles’ most impressive records has finally been matched by another one of the most beloved musicians of all time in the country.

Robbie Williams returns to No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart this week. The singer leads the charge on the list of the most-consumed full-lengths with Better Man, the soundtrack that accompanies the film of the same name.

The Better Man soundtrack earns Williams his milestone fifteenth leader on the U.K. albums ranking. As he snags one more champion, he matches The Beatles’ all-time record for the most No. 1s on the roster.

Before Better Man arrived, Williams was matched with another one of the most beloved rock bands, the Rolling Stones. That act is steady with its 14 No. 1s on the U.K. albums chart, though now that lands the stars in third place on the ranking of the most succ details

—Donald Trump compared himself on Monday to The Beatles and Elvis Presley while bragging about his fundraising prowess.

Speaking at his golf resort, the commander-in-chief told a cheering crowd of congressional and other supporters that he’s right on par with the British pop legends and the king of rock and roll.

And just as the Beatles drew throngs of screaming and crying fans, Trump’s telethon-style town halls were just as significant, he said.

“We get on, we have 25-30,000 people on, just in a congressional area, and they win easy,” Trump said. “It works for Elvis the Beatles, and it doesn’t work for anyone else—but it works for Trump.”

“Now we raised a lot of money, a tremendous amount, and our tele-town halls are something that’s very special that nobody else is able to even contemplate using,” he said. “We’ve gotten a lot of people elected with those tele-town halls.

The president has repeatedly compared himself to the King, including at a campaign stop in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 2018, when he said, “Other than the blond hair, when I was growing up they said I looked like Elvis. Can you believe details

All you need is luck — and maybe a stroke of fate.

That was the case in 1961 when one of Brian Epstein’s customers in the record department he managed at NEMS — his family store in Liverpool, England — asked for the single “My Bonnie” by The Beatles. It was, despite all his retail intel, the first instance that the Fab Four’s future manager had heard of the band.

Curious about the group that had recorded “My Bonnie” in Germany but turned out to be locals, Epstein saw The Beatles for the first time at Liverpool’s Cavern Club — where they played lunchtime concerts — on Nov. 9, 1961. The mind-blowing moment that would change his life — and pop music — is depicted in the new biopic “Midas Man,” which is streaming on Olyn.

“That day is the big bang,” Beatles historian Martin Lewis told The Post about Epstein’s culture-shifting discovery. “He had some kind of X-ray vision and X-ray hearing. He’s hearing it, and he’s looking at it, and he sees magic. These guys had something. It wasn’t just the music … it was the charisma, the presence, the energy. The Beatles had that details

Sam Mendes is reportedly under a lot of pressure to do justice to The Beatles movie.

According to the latest findings of Life & Style, “The cast is coming together and the world is watching.”

The musical band of 1960 comprised Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison. The band released more than 200 songs between 1960 to 1970.

It is pertinent to mention here that Paul Mescal plays the role of Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson plays John Lennon, Barry Keoghan plays Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn plays George Harrison in the movie, which is slated to be released in 2027.

More importantly, the source mentioned, “But more importantly, the surviving controllers of the Beatles’ legacy are watching – Paul [McCartney], Yoko [Ono], Ringo [Starr] and Olivia Harrison.”

The insider also addressed, “Sony and Sam Mendes have one chance to get this right.”

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While many factors contributed to the mega-group's demise, including creative differences, business disputes, and the inevitable erosion of camaraderie that often occurs among friends after years of intense, close contact, one of the most cited reasons for the break-up has been John Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono.

The perception that Ono was controlling Lennon and manipulating him into making creative and practical decisions that served her own interests rather than his or the band's has persisted. Part of that also came from Lennon's decision to withdraw from public life almost entirely, taking a five-year hiatus, but Lennon's own assessment of that time reveals the truth of their relationship.
John Lennon "Retired" In 1975.  Between the birth of his son, Sean, on 9 October 1975, and October 1980, when he released "(Just Like) Starting Over" as a single, John Lennon essentially disappeared. History says he he "baked bread" and "looked after the baby", and his only musical activity was collaborating on "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)" for Rino Starr's Ringo's Rotogravure (1976) as a writer and performer on the track. Looking back, it's been hard for some to accept that this hiatus didn't rob us of more details