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He's a Beatle, baby, not a loser this time. In a new video using deepfake technology, what appears to be a younger, so much younger than today version of Paul McCartney is seen dancing through a hotel hallway and other scenes. Eventually, in an unnerving scene, Young McCartney pulls off a mask to reveal himself as singer Beck. Turns out it's all been a video for Find My Way, a song by the two musicians on the remix album McCartney III Imagined.
Deepfakes are always disturbing, and this one, showing a twenty- or thirtysomething McCartney when the real singer is 79, may be more disturbing than most. The video went live on YouTube on June 22, and in one day, has been viewed more than 2 million times.
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Paying for an expensive full-page ad to run in the London Times on July 24, 1967, The Beatles and band manager Brian Epstein joined a few dozen activists to urge lawmakers—insistently—to legalize pot in the U.K. All four band members smoked and liked cannabis—but especially Paul McCartney, who repeatedly describes cannabis as being transformative in their songwriting development.
Given by the wording in the 1967 ad, you’d think the cannabis legalization argument was printed yesterday: “The law against pot is immoral and unworkable in practice,” the ad title reads. Pot is “the least harmful of pleasure-giving drugs, and […] in particular, far less harmful than alcohol.”
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Lee Bestall and Sue Burke in the RHS Tatton Flower Show garden she designed, inspired by The Beatles
THE Beatles have inspired an amateur gardener to create her first showpiece.
Sue Burke won a competition to design a garden in a competition for BBC Radio Merseyside.
Listeners were challenged to come up with an idea for a city garden.
The mum-of three was thrilled to see her sketches for My City Our Music become reality at the RHS Flower Show in Tatton, where thousands of visitors were able to appreciate it.
Sue, from Liverpool, said: "I've never done anything like this before.
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Last week, a new Paul McCartney documentary aired on the streaming platform Hulu. Titled McCartney 3, 2, 1, it focuses on Paul and record producer Rick Rubin, as they discuss and explore the music made throughout Paul's career, including The Beatles, Wings, and his solo work.
Paul and Rick sit down for a rare, in-depth chat about Beatles classics, including 'All My Loving,' 'Come Together' and 'In My Life,' dissecting everything from the composition and production of the songs to the lyrical content and stories behind them. It's the first time that Paul has spoken so comprehensively about his music, making it a historic show for fans.
The documentary, which is set to be released in the UK on Disney+ on August 25, is split into a total of six episodes. In the first, Paul shares stories from the early days of The Beatles, revealing untold stories about George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, while the third episode delves into the influences behind the band, from Indian music to Chuck Berry.
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“Anyone who covers a song of mine, I love,” Paul McCartney once remarked. That's generous. It's daunting to imagine how many teenage garage bands have workshopped an unlistenable metal version of "Love Me Do," how many sub-par Soundcloud rappers have freestyled over the "Come Together" riff. When you write songs for the greatest band in history, you inspire your fair share of bad with the good.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of Beatles covers spanning every genre imaginable: R&B, country, experimental rock, post-punk, funk — you name it. So it was both daunting and educational to take this deep-dive, assembling the 100 best.
100. Todd Rundgren, "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1976)
Todd Rundgren built a career out of defying pop conventions, but he doesn't experiment much with the Beatles' psych-pop masterpiece. The dream-sequence guitar slides, muted brass, fake fade-out and reversed percussion — it's all here, along with some added fuzz and a heavier drum gallop.
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On July 21, 1968, popular young actress and model Jane went on the hugely popular BBC chat show Dee Time. The early evening light entertainment series attracted up to 18 million viewers. Jane was well-known in her own right as well as being the girlfriend of one of the most famous men in the world, so when she told host Simon Dee that her five-year relationship with Paul was over, it created a huge stir. Jane cryptically said: "I haven’t broken it off, but it’s finished." Had Paul's latest blatant infidelity been the last straw?On July 21, 1968, popular young actress and model Jane went on the hugely popular BBC chat show Dee Time. The early evening light entertainment series attracted up to 18 million viewers. Jane was well-known in her own right as well as being the girlfriend of one of the most famous men in the world, so when she told host Simon Dee that her five-year relationship with Paul was over, it created a huge stir. Jane cryptically said: "I haven’t broken it off, but it’s finished." Had Paul's latest blatant infidelity been the last straw?
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There are very few facts you can use to stump Beatles diehards, but every once in a while, a new documentary comes along that is both revealing and totally unique in structure. McCartney 3,2,1, a six-part docuseries that recently premiered on Hulu, is one such piece of filmmaking. The concept is simple: Paul McCartney and legendary producer Rick Rubin sit in a room together, play Beatles and solo McCartney/Wings tunes, and discuss how they got made. Shot in black and white, the style is radically minimal yet always interesting. Throughout the six-part series, McCartney and Rubin isolate tracks and vocal performances, highlighting the intricate details that made The Beatles the best rock band on earth.
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The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel are very different bands; however, John Lennon said Paul McCartney one of The Beatles’ albums to be like a Simon & Garfunkel album. Interestingly, John revealed the Fab Four had a challenging time making the album. Here’s how the public reacted to the record.
The book Lennon Remembers contains a long interview with John. In the book, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner asked John questions about every era of The Beatles career. He especially focused on their later years together.
At one point, Wenner asked John how long The Beatles took to create their album Let It Be. “God knows how long,” John revealed. “Paul [McCartney] had this idea that we were going to rehearse or… see it all was more like Simon & Garfunkel [laugh], like looking for perfection all the time. And so he has these ideas that we’ll rehearse and then make the album. And of course, we’re lazy f—ers and we’ve been playing for twenty years, for f—’s sake, we’re grown men, we’re not going to sit around rehearsing. I’m not, anyway. And we couldn’t get into it.”
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The Beatles produced many classic albums; however, John Lennon wasn’t invested in all of them. He once claimed none of The Beatles cared about one of their classic albums. Here’s how the public and music critics reacted to the record.Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner published a lengthy interview with John as a book titled Lennon Remembers. In the book, Wenner asks John many questions about The Beatles and his early solo career. John was not interested in mythologizing The Beatles in the interview, so he was honest about the hard parts of being a member of the Fab Four.
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At 79 years old, Paul McCartney's life and legacy is well-cemented within history as being an integral part of one of the most influential and best-selling bands of all time, The Beatles.
As the group's bass guitarist and key vocalist, McCartney's contributions to music go far beyond harmonies and chord progressions, but rather, establishes him as a historic and essential bridge between the music of today and the music he helped pioneer. And in his latest album, “McCartney III Imagined,” McCartney does just that.
Released on April 16, "McCartney III Imagined" features collaborations with various rising stars of today’s music industry, including Dominic Fike and Phoebe Bridgers, in a series of remixed tracks of his own works. This project is unique, as it shows McCartney inserting himself into the present genre of musical talent he undoubtedly helped inspire.
Out of 11 tracks on the digital version of the album, there are a few standout tracks that show an experimental side of McCartney that we haven't seen before.
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After meeting in 1967, Paul and Linda McCartney spent three decades together before Linda sadly died.
Some of McCartney's biggest love songs such as 'My Love' and 'Maybe I'm Amazed', are said to be inspired by their relationship.
But how did the pair get together and when did they get married? Find out all about their love story…
Paul McCartney met American photographer Linda Eastman in 1967 at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails nightclub in Soho, London. Linda was on a work trip in the UK, where she was taking photographs of musicians for a book called Rock and Other Four-Letter Words.
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“Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a landmark album and song that may have happened because of a simple miscommunication.
In the new Hulu documentary “McCartney 3, 2, 1,” Paul McCartney reveals how the name “Sgt. Pepper” actually came to be before it became one of the Beatles’ most well-known and influential recordings.
“I was on a plane with our roadie, and we were eating,” McCartney says in an exclusive clip from the documentary that aired Thursday on TODAY.
“And he said, ‘Can you pass the salt and pepper?’ And I thought he said, ‘Sergeant Pepper.’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Salt and pepper.’ I said, ‘Oh, OK. I thought you said, "Sergeant Pepper."' So we had a laugh about that, but then the more I thought about it, ‘Sergeant Pepper, that’s kind of a cool character.’”
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One of Shawn Mendes‘ biggest influences is John Mayer, and the two now have a close friendship. And in a new interview, John admits to being so knocked out by Shawn that he even compares the 22-year-old Canadian singer to one of the Beatles.
“He’s remarkable,” John gushed to Apple Music 1‘s Zane Lowe on Wednesday. “He’s remarkable. That’s all there is to it…You know who he reminds me of? He reminds me of George Harrison.”
According to John, Shawn and the so-called “Quiet Beatle” are alike “in the sense that his spirit is immovable, and it’s his, and it’s honest. And that’s very George Harrison to me.”
Citing the way Harrison came across during a Dick Cavett interview years ago, John said Shawn has the same vibe, noting, “He’s not pushed around by the excitement around him.”
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If you’re a fan of The Beatles then you will love this.
There’s a glut of new Beatles material out there now and fans are loving it.
Just in case you managed to snag a subscription on Hulu (via VPN – long story, ask your techy friend) then no doubt you are set to check out “McCartney 3,2,1” the documentary that features ex-Beatle Paul McCartney dissecting the Fab Four’s music with rock and Hiphop music producer Rick Rubin. This special sees Sir Paul delving deep like never before on the music he made with the rest of The Beatles in their heydays. The 3-part series premieres on Hulu starting July 16.
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Paul McCartney has revealed that he still has unreleased “story songs” that were written in the style of ‘Eleanor Rigby’.
Penned by McCartney and John Lennon, the aforementioned classic track appears on The Beatles‘ 1966 studio album, ‘Revolver’.
Speaking to Uncut magazine for its September 2021 issue, McCartney explained there are some similar “story songs” that remain in his archive to this day.
“I’ve still got a few that I haven’t released,” he said. “Because I don’t think they’re that good.”
McCartney continued: “It’s quite a fun thing to do, to just dream up a name of a character and try and write the story of that character and then make it fit with another character. ‘Eleanor Rigby’, I did it with just the few. Father McKenzie and Eleanor.”
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