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Emily Atack has opened up in a new podcast about growing up as well as her incredible family tie to Sir Paul McCartney. In an episode of "Brydon&", she talks about being around Paul, who is her cousin, and then-wife Linda when she was little.
Talking with Rob Brydon, she said: "Paul is my grandmother's first cousin. At school I went around saying he was my uncle, as it sounds a bit cooler. But I grew up with him in our lives. He's a lovely man, a family man. He was very close to our grandmother, Betty, and our grandad, Mike. They were very helpful to him growing up.
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It seemed like just yesterday when tickets for Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour opener, which is slated for Thursday at Spokane Arena, went on sale. Time has moved as quickly as tickets for the sold-out show, which will be McCartney’s local debut.
There is only one tour opener, and Spokane will be the first to experience what the former Fab Four member delivers on his spring tour.
McCartney, 79, typically kicks off his shows with a Beatles classic. “A Hard Day’s Night” has been the leadoff song since 2015. Prior to that, it was another Beatles hit, “Eight Days a Week. “Hello Goodbye” was also a concert opener.
Source: /spokesman.com
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It was evident to Cathy Johnston who she was catching when her police detective uncle invited her to a show in Seattle in August 1966.
“He said do you want to go to a concert?” Johnston recalled. “I asked who it was that we would be seeing, and he said he didn’t know. ‘It’s some guys with long hair, and the band is some kind of bug.’ That made it easy to figure out. It was the Beatles.”
During the summer of 1966, there was nothing as big as the Beatles. Three weeks prior to the show Johnston caught with her sisters, the Beatles released their groundbreaking album, “Revolver.”
Source: Ed Condran/spokesman.com
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George Harrison loved chanting just as much as singing. However, he didn’t realize it until he began his spiritual journey in the 1960s. George had reached the top of a wall. He saw so much more when he looked over it and never turned back. George put all of his energy into spirituality, and he claimed it helped him live in the material world.
He also claimed his spirituality helped save him from a plane crash.
Source: cheatsheet.com
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon both had a soft spot for The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” John explained why he enjoyed the song so much. John compared “I Am the Walrus” to the work of a 1970s band.
Paul McCartney felt The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus” was partly inspired by a famous children’s book. Interestingly, John Lennon revealed why “I Am the Walrus” was one of his favorite Beatles songs. Subsequently, he compared it to the work of a famous 1970s band.
Source: cheatsheet.com
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A Christmas card sent from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Harold Wilson, which the then-Prime Minister marked “no”, has gone on display in a museum.
The card, which reads “War is Over! If you want it” and is signed “with love to the Wilsons from the Lennons”, was sent in December 1969 when the Beatle and his wife launched a poster campaign as part of their peace campaign.
It was rescued from the “nutty filing” cabinet in Downing Street by secretary and Beatles fan Ruth Ferenczy, who kept the card at home until her daughter Alex Rowe decided to loan it to The Liverpool Beatles Museum.
Source: Eleanor Barlow, PA/uk.sports.yahoo.com
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Turning 80 on June 18 2022, Paul McCartney has enjoyed an immense level of fame for 60 years. It’s to his credit that he continues relatively humble, sensible and creative. He may be the greatest popular song-writer of the 20th century. His melodic and harmonic gifts, demonstrated over decades, seem unmatched by his near-competitors and he still writes songs that invite people to sing along.
McCartney’s continuous productivity and popularity have a solid basis in attitudes — a loving celebration of people and places, together with optimism and a desire to add beauty to life — that are worth honouring and emulating because they are no longer common among artists.
Source: Gary Furnell furnell888@mercatornet.com
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Over 20 years after the death of George Harrison, his widow Olivia Harrison will publish a book of poems dedicated to the late Beatles legend.
Came the Lightening, a collection of 20 poems Olivia penned for George following his 2001 death, is set for release on June 21 via Genesis Publications.
“Here on the shore, 20 years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land,” Olivia said of Came the Lightening in a statement. “Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.”
My book of 20 poems for George
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Fifty-two years after the release of their final studio album, The Beatles remain among the most well-documented and extensively researched subjects of the 20th century, having transcended mere pop stardom into the realm of historical significance before any of the members had aged past their twenties. No corner of the world was untouched by their influence, and time has done nothing to soften the fervor of their fans or dull our affection. On the long timeline of popular culture, their arrival was a bridge between the past and future, the tornado that swept us away from the black and white and carried us firmly into vibrant technicolor.
Source: Collin Cable/collider.com
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Paul McCartney and George Harrison had very different experiences at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India. In 1968, the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement invited The Beatles to come to the retreat he held annually for Westerners who wanted to learn about the movement.
It was peaceful and quiet inside the ashram bubble—perfect conditions for writing songs, however, not for George. He had to remind Paul that they weren’t in India to write the next Beatles album. They were there to meditate. Telling Paul not to write songs was like telling him not to breathe, though.
Source: cheatsheet.com
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Eric Clapton and George Harrison were life-long friends. They shared the same love for music, and although they also shared the same love for a woman, nothing came between them.
So when George died of cancer in 2001, Clapton was beside himself. He had to do something to honor his friend, even if that meant doing something George would never have wanted.
George Harrison and Eric Clapton recording a TV special in 1985.
After George died, Clapton wanted to do something to pay tribute to his life-long friend. So, he came up with Concert for George, a star-studded tribute concert.
“It was [Clapton’s] idea,” George’s widow, Olivia, told Rolling Stone. “He phoned me not long after George died and said, ‘I’d like to do something.’ Eric was a very deep friend of George’s, so I felt confident and relieved that it was Eric coming to me.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
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Australian retailers (and we assume retailers also in the rest of the world) received the following notification today.
We have just been informed by Disney that the below title has been delayed indefinitely, due to authoring challenges:
162580 – BLR The Beatles: Get Back
Our order with Disney has been cancelled and we are instructed to re-order once a new date is set.
We recommend you do the same via your All Interactive Distribution login.
We will endeavour to update you, once we have confirmation on the new release date.
Source: noise11.com
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Get back to where you once belonged! Paul McCartney, 79, and Ringo Starr, 81, were spotted having a good ol’ time together last week in Los Angeles, sharing a low-key dinner with their wives, Nancy Shevell, 62, and Barbara Bach, 74. The duo, who worked together on such beloved Beatles hits like “Help!”, “Eleanor Rigby”, and “Let It Be”, both wore casual black looks for the outing and were spotted chit-chatting after the meal and also sharing a tender hug before heading off.
Source: Cynthia Cook/hollywoodlife.com
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In the mid-1970s, George Harrison was in a bad place. He needed someone to pull him out of the dark pit he’d entered during his separation from his first wife, Pattie Boyd. That person ended up being George’s future wife, Olivia Arias. She was the embodiment of all the things George craved. Shelter from a storm.
In 1972, Olivia Arias started working at A&M Records. She began having regular correspondence with George over the phone because A&M was distributing George’s new record label, Dark Horse.
After many phone calls, George became impressed with Olivia and arranged for her to work at Dark Horse. The first time they met in person, Olivia greeted George outside the new record label’s offices on its launch day.
No one arranged a welcoming party for George nor a celebration for the launch, yet Olivia felt like someone should greet him.
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JOHN LENNON spoke candidly about The Beatles' longevity during the band's early days. And shortly after they made their debut in the USA he revealed he thought the band was a passing "fad", but he also thought the British group would "not last another five years".
The Beatles became one of the biggest bands in the UK in just a few years. So it made sense for the Fab Four to cross the pond and venture to the USA to "take on America" - a feat not yet achieved by any other rock act at the time - but The Beatles managed it. In fact, when they arrived in the USA they were greeted by an almost violent fervour known as Beatlemania.
But despite how popular The Beatles were when they touched down, John Lennon was never convinced it would last very long.
Source: Callum Crumlish
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