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The world knows so many different Paul McCartneys: the charming young moptop, the Sixties avant-garde innovator, the bearded family man, the rock & roll legend. But the stunning new Hulu docuseries McCartney 3, 2, 1 presents Paul like we’ve never seen him before: the proud music geek. It’s just Macca in deep conversation with fellow legend Rick Rubin, as they listen close to the Beatles’ music, sharing memories and focusing on the sonic details. 3, 2, 1 has struck a nerve with fans, because there’s never been a music doc quite like it. “Each song’s got a story of how you wrote it,” McCartney tells Rolling Stone. “And luckily, I can remember a lot of the circumstances.”

It comes at a time when Beatles fans are feverishly awaiting Peter Jackson’s new Get Back doc, which finally drops this fall. Get Back premieres on Disney Plus in November, across three nights, digging into a wealth of unseen footage from the 1969 sessions for the album that became their bittersweet farewell, Let It Be. There’s also the new 50th anniversary edition of George Harrison’s 1971 epic solo statement, All Things Must Pass, which is sprawling with previously unheard treas details

Sir Paul McCartney was spotted out and about on Saturday enjoying the sunshine of wealthy New York vacation spot The Hamptons.

The musician, 79, shared a laugh with a friend as they larked around together at the shops.

The Beatles singer wore a white sweater with a blue motif on the front with black sweatpants.

Weekend jaunt: Sir Paul McCartney was spotted out and about on Saturday enjoying the sunshine of wealthy New York vacation spot The Hamptons

He added black sandals and a navy baseball cap, shielding his eyes from the sun with shades.

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George Harrison is being celebrated with a couple of 50th anniversary milestones this week — and a group of Oklahomans were right in the middle of both events.

Both musical events came in the wake of the breakup of The Beatles — leaving Harrison free to work with other musicians.

This week marks the "50th anniversary" rerelease of Harrison's groundbreaking triple album, "All Things Must Pass," as well as the 50th anniversary of the "The Concert for Bangladesh," the 1971 all-star benefit fundraiser Harrison put together for the beleaguered nation at the behest of his friend, master sitarist Ravi Shankar.

To get technical, the original release of "All Things Must Pass" came in November 1970, but since November 2021 is still a few months away, I guess the album can still slide in under the wire at 50 years-plus.

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Dhani Harrison has spoken out about John Lennon‘s past comments regarding George Harrison‘s 1971 album ‘All Things Must Pass’.

A huge boxset reissue of Harrison’s third post-Beatles solo album was recently announced to mark 50 years since its release.

The album, which is out today (August 6), has been completely remixed from the original tapes, with Harrison’s son Dhani serving as executive producer.

Publicly, Lennon was dismissive of the album saying in a Rolling Stone interview in 1970: “I don’t know… I think it’s all right, you know. Personally, at home, I wouldn’t play that kind of music, I don’t want to hurt George’s feelings, I don’t know what to say about it.”

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As we look back, The Beatles have always been the standard for rock and pop. They changed the landscape of music and society with the way they dressed, movies for a new generation, a blueprint for how a band should grow over time, and brilliant songwriting which is the standard still today.

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Paul McCartney is still making music history more than 57 years after his vocals helped propel the Beatles to their first-ever U.S. No. 1 hit, with his latest album—McCartney III Imagined—becoming the first remix album to lead U.S. sales in more than a decade.
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The album, which features acts like Anderson Paak, Dominic Fike and Phoebe Bridges on remixes of earlier McCartney songs, was No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart this week.

McCartney III Imagined also topped the Rock Albums chart and the Vinyl Albums chart, after physical album sales started on July 23.

The album came in at No. 19 on the Billboard 200, which also takes streaming plays into account, and appeared as the No. 13 album on the U.K.-based Official Charts Co. listing.

The album's original version—McCartney III, which features McCartney on all instruments—also topped the album sales chart in January.

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Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder first recorded their iconic collaboration ‘Ebony and Ivory’ in 1981 and it was released the following year as part of Paul’s album Tug of War.

In a throwback video, Paul and Stevie are seen performing the legendary song at the White House for former US President Barack Obama in 2010.

The performance was part of an experience titled Paul McCartney: In Performance at the White House - Paul performed several songs and a number of artists also took part and sang Paul’s music.

Stevie also performed his own version of Paul’s classic ‘We Can Work It Out’ - other tributes were made by Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, Jack White, Faith Hill and The Jonas Brothers. Each performance highlighted the impact of Paul’s music across different genres and generations.

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“One… two… three… four…” And we’re off – The Beatles’ seventh studio album begins with George Harrison’s tight, 12-bar riposte to the government’s punitive tax regime. Thirteen tracks later, it will end in another dimension…

JOHNNY MARR: “I’ve been thinking about George Harrison a lot recently. He’s a good advert for how incredibly famous people might want to conduct themselves. He seemed to be above needy celebrity. He was, I like to think, a very singular personality in rock music. When I was a little kid in the early ’70s, his support for the Krishna movement was a big deal – he had the eyes of the world on him, but he single-mindedly followed his own path. If that’s not integrity, I don’t know what is!

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THE BEATLES frontman John Lennon spoke candidly about the band and their popularity in 1966, prompting their music to be completely banned in South Africa.
During the mid-1960s The Beatles were more popular than ever. While the band were flying around the world and performing their incredible hits, the number of people that came out to see them sing showed them just how admired they were. During this exciting time, John Lennon explained how the band were definitely more popular than Christianity.

In March 1966 Lennon sat down with British newspaper The Evening Standard, where he mused: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.

"I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now.

"I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity."

He added: "Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and

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Paul McCartney has encouraged his fans and followers on social media to get vaccinated against coronavirus.

The Beatles legend is the latest high-profile music star to back the global vaccination effort, with Ariana Grande urging her fans to step forward and receive their jabs over the weekend.

Posting on his social media channels yesterday (August 2), McCartney shared an image of himself receiving one of his jabs.

“BE COOL. GET VAX’D,” McCartney captioned the image, before signing off with ‘Paul’.

McCartney previously spoke of his relief after news of the development of a coronavirus vaccination was broken back in December.

“I think we’ll come through it, I know we’ll come through, and it’s great news about the vaccine,” he said. “I’ll have it as soon as I’m allowed.”

In the UK, over 46 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, while over 38 million have received both jabs (via GOV.UK).
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In 1970 the members of The Beatles fighting with one another. The band had split up and their relationships were growing increasingly fraught. While Paul McCartney and John Lennon were embarking on perilous legal battles against each other, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were attending parties. During one of these events, George confessed that he was "in love" with his Ringo's wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett.

Chris O'Dell, a former Apple Corps employee, assistant and tour manager for bands including The Beatles recalled what happened in her book, Miss O’Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.

She wrote: "We sat at the long wooden table in the kitchen, Ringo and George on one bench, Pattie and I facing them on the opposite bench.

"Maureen spent the entire evening flitting around like a little bird, landing here, then there, jumping up to cook an omelette for Ringo, refilling our drinks, bringing plates of food to the table.

"[George] turned to Ringo and said: ‘You know, Ringo, I’m in love with your wife.'"

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n the late 1950s and early 1960s, something was happening on Merseyside that would change the world forever. A gentleman by the name of Bill Harry would create the word to describe this phenomenon, and it would be called “The Merseybeat. He would write all about this movement in his magazine of the same name and it would provide a useful insight into what many would consider a supernatural happening in and around the city at that time.

The origins of The Merseybeat were in church halls and basement cellars of houses in the Liverpool suburbs such as The Casbah Coffee Club which was a small basement of a large house owned by Mona Best. Her son Pete Best would go on to be the drummer with a little band at the time and would find himself later known as the “world’s most unlucky musician” after he would be sacked by that “little” band and replaced by Ringo Starr!

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Benson’s latest book, titled Paul (out now from Taschen), focuses on his iconic images of Paul McCartney. The Scottish photographer first stepped into Macca’s world in 1964, when he was a photojournalist working on London’s Fleet Street. He was about to depart for Africa on assignment when his editor called with a change of plans: he’d fly to Paris instead to capture the Beatles, and he wasn’t too happy about it.

“You think of yourself as a foreign correspondent, a big shot,” he says. “I didn’t want to do a new rock group.” But his perception of the band drastically changed when he watched them perform (he even ended up traveling with them on their famous trip to America that same year). “They were terrific,” he says. “I said to myself, ‘I was on the right story.’ ”

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Located on the waterfront, the Beatles statues have been redressed by famous milliner Stephen Jones OBE to “challenge and celebrate the role of these statues in modern times.”

The statues’ redress was inspired by Yellow Submarine for Sir Ringo Starr, Penny Lane for Sir Paul McCartney, Help! for John Lennon and Here Comes The Sun for George Harrison.

Sharing the statues’ new look to social media, Cavern Club Liverpool asked its followers what they thought of the makeover.

The responses may not have been what they expected.

Source: Sarah Kante/express.co.uk

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On a sunny spring day in 1966, halfway by means of the Revolver classes, The Beatles decamped to Chiswick Home for a day’s filming. The band had chosen the landscaped grounds of this 18th-century stately dwelling to movie two promotional movies for his or her single Paperback Author/Rain. Prepared Regular Go! director Michael Lindsay-Hogg had been recruited to movie in color and on location – creating placing standalone movies that might be described as the primary pop movies.

This was the newest cease within the evolving cinematic relationship The Beatles developed in tandem with their musical careers. What began with Pathé newsreels, press conferences and A Exhausting Day’s Evening continues within the band’s prolonged afterlife with Get Again – Peter Jackson’s three-part reimagining of Let It Be, which arrives in November.

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