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In The Beatles‘ heyday, each member was painted as this larger-than-life caricature of a rock star. But what were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr really like? Harrison answers that question in one of his columns for the Daily Express in 1964. Here’s how each of The Beatles acted behind closed doors, and why they put on that famous “blasé” attitude.
“A lot of rubbish has been written about our personalities,” Harrison wrote with the help of Daily Express writer Derek Taylor, as recorded in the book George Harrison on George Harrison. So he went to set the record straight himself.
“John is supposed to be a relaxed, laconic comedian,” he began. “But this isn’t the whole picture or even the right one. John is a little shy, defensive, always aware of people, interested in their motives and not always pleased by what he finds.”
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When George Harrison died in 2001, he left behind an immense legacy. He’d been a Beatle, but he’d had a longer, just as successful solo career filled with great songs like “My Sweet Lord,” “All Things Must Pass,” and “Got My Mind Set On You.” In his final months, he’d been trying to record his last album, Brainwashed, but never finished it.
Instead, his son Dhani and one of his best friends, ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, finished the album and released it for George posthumously. This was our first glimpse into what Dhani was willing to do for his father and the tremendous legacy he left behind. Thanks to Dhani, George Harrison is reaching fans like never before.
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In 1964, Beatlemania was very much taking over England. And it was beginning to creep into other corners of the world as well. Paris, for example, was starting to get the appeal of The Beatles. During a trip to the city of light, the boys were inundated with “hundreds of marvelous chicks.” Here’s what George Harrison wrote about them in his column for the Daily Express that year.
Harrison and the rest of The Beatles had quite the female fan base. They got the opportunity to meet women from all over the world. In his column for the Daily Express, Harrison (along with the help of Daily Express writer Derek Taylor) shared his thoughts surrounding Parisian girls.
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For her second dance of the season, former Spice Girls member, Mel C (Sporty Spice) took to the dance floor alongside her partner Gleb Savchenko to perform a breathtaking Sunny Foxtrot to The Beatles song “Here Comes The Sun”.
The dance received high praises from the “Dancing With The Stars” judges, with Derek telling Mel, “You are a gorgeous dancer… so clean, so effortless.” While Bruno proclaimed Mel C has never looked better, Carrie Ann then made it clear that she adores “seeing this side” of the former Spice Girl. Meanwhile, Len cleverly referenced other Beatles songs during his high praise of their performance.
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A cassette tape recording of an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, including a never released song, made while they visited Denmark in 1970 will be auctioned in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
The tape, featuring the song “Radio Peace”, was recorded on Jan. 5, 1970 by four Danish boys who had succeeded in getting an interview with the couple for a local school magazine.
The tape, which the four are selling along with photographs from the meeting, will go on sale with an estimated price of between $31,500 and $47,000, auction house Bruun Rasmussen said.
During the 33-minute recording, Lennon speaks about the couple’s peace campaign, his frustration with the Beatles image, and the length of his hair.
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A collection of letters that the mother of The Beatles’ George Harrison wrote to a superfan over a five-year period has emerged for sale.
Louise Harrison replied to Lorraine O’Malley’s letters from August 1964 until her death in 1970, sharing notable events in the band’s history, as well as news of her son’s marriage to Pattie Boyd.
Mrs O’Malley, who started writing as a star-struck 16-year-old, kept the correspondence – which also included signed photographs of Harrison and bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr – safely stored in a safety deposit box for the next 50 years.
She has now decided to put the 55 letters and images up for sale with Omega Auctions, based in Merseyside, with an estimate of £6,000.
The letters went back and forth, with Mrs Harrison even telling Mrs O’Malley to call her ‘mum’ and passing on her new address when she and her husband moved.
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A Liverpool dad has revealed how he chatted to Sir Paul McCartney about their old school after he spotted his hero standing at a bus stop in the Heswall area of Wirral.
Beatles fan Colin Newitt, 52, was driving his family back home to South Liverpool on Saturday afternoon when they saw him as they were stopped at traffic lights.
Colin said "I wound the window down and shouted 'Paul'. He shouted back 'You alright?".
"I then told him that I went to the same school as him. He asked me which one and I said Liverpool Institute. He asked me who was my teacher and I said I couldn't remember but that Mr Parker was the head.
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Last week Ringo Starr appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss his brand new EP, Change The World. During the conversation, Kimmel brought up The Beatles’ upcoming documentary Get Back, which is being directed by the mind behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson.
The Get Back docuseries is comprised of video footage taken in 1969 when The Beatles were recording their final album, Let It Be.
A version of the footage was released in the same year as the album, in 1970, however it focussed on some arguments had within the band, rather than them working together.
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George Harrison‘s son Dhani Harrison might have been an only child, but he was never lonely. He hung out with his parents, who always treated him like an adult and his parent’s friends. Plus, Dhani had many cousins in his father’s friend’s children, including the children of George’s fellow Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. While there were only four people in the world who knew what it was like to be a Beatle, their children are also part of an exclusive club together.
What is it like to be a child of a Beatle? No one knows except Dhani and the rest of The Beatles’ spawn, and they’ve all bonded because of it. They’re all Beatles siblings.
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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono were recorded discussing George Harrison’s five-day departure from the Beatles in 1969, a biographer revealed.
John Harris was given access to the hundreds of hours of recordings made as the group began to disintegrate. His book, Get Back, arrives on Oct. 12 and ties in with Peter Jackson’s six-hour movie series of the same name, to be released in November.
In a lunchtime chat taped on Jan. 11, the day after Harrison walked out of rehearsals, Harris said that “Lennon, Ono and McCartney had lunch, and recorded a remarkable conversation,” He wrote in the Guardian: “On the audio I was given, it began suddenly and unexpectedly: Lennon: ‘I mean, I’m not going to lie, you know. I would sacrifice you all for her [Ono]… She comes everywhere, you know.’ McCartney: ‘So where’s George?’ Lennon: ‘Fuck knows where George is.’ Ono: ‘Oh, you can get back George so easily, you know that.’
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Paul McCartney refused to allow a cover of his song “Because of Linda” by a performer.
PAUL MCCARTNEY spent much of his career as a member of The Beatles covering tunes, but because of his late wife, Linda McCartney, he would not let a performer perform one of his compositions.
After The Beatles broke up in 1970, the band’s members moved on to pursue solo careers. Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda McCartney, formed the band Wings at the time. The theme song for the James Bond film Live and Let Die was written and recorded by the band in 1973. The song, which shared the same title as the film, drew a slew of celebrity fans, including one well-known cover artist.
Weird Al Yankovic, a spoof singer, was eager to cover the song shortly after it was published.
Paul was already familiar with Weird Al’s repertoire when they met, which featured parodies of Michael Jackson’s Bad (Fat) and Beat It (Eat It), as well as Madonna’s Like a Virgin (Like a Surgeon).
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George Harrison and his wife Olivia welcomed their only son Dhani on Aug. 1, 1978. As the child of an ex-Beatle and one of the best recording artists of all time, you can imagine that Dhani had a bit of an unconventional childhood. He grew up around great musicians and celebrities. However, outside of having a famous father, Dhani grew up in a bubble of privacy at his family’s home at Friar Park.
Many assumed that Dhani would have become a musician just like George. That’s not exactly what happened. It took some time for Dhani to realize that he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps.
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Fab Four enthusiasts will be delighted this month to have been granted access to four previously unreleased mixes from the band’s 1969 and 1970 Get Back sessions which ultimately culminated in 1970’s Let It Be. The batch of songs, released collectively as a single titled Get Back (Take 8), includes alternate versions of “Get Back,” “One After 909,” “Across The Universe,” and George Harrison’s “I Me Mine.”
The newly surfaced tracks were released as part of a rollout for the Super Deluxe reissue of Let It Be which will include 27 previously unavailable session tracks, as well as an updated mix by producer Giles Martin, and will hit shelves October 15th, 2021.
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On paper, the idea looked brilliant. In the opening weeks of January 1969, the Beatles were working up new songs for a televised concert, and being filmed as they did so. Where the event would take place was unclear – but as rehearsals at Twickenham film studios went on, one of their associates came up with the idea of travelling to Libya, where they would perform in the remains of a famous amphitheatre, part of an ancient Roman city called Sabratha. As the plan was discussed amid set designs and maps one Wednesday afternoon, a new element was added: why not invite a few hundred fans to join them on a specially chartered ocean liner?
Over the previous few days, John Lennon had been quiet and withdrawn, but now he seemed to be brimming with enthusiasm. The ship, he said, could be the setting for final dress rehearsals. He envisaged the group timing their set so they fell into a carefully picked musical moment just as the sun came up over the Mediterranean. If the four of them had been wondering how to present their performance, here was the most gloriously simple of answers: “God’s the gimmick,” he enthused.
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are the only Beatles left on Earth. That’s a scary thought. They’re not getting any younger either. Ringo is 81, while Paul is 79. Paul and Ringo might not have had a relationship like Paul had with John Lennon and George Harrison, but they were best mates, being Beatles together. They had their ups and downs.
Now that Paul and Ringo are the only Beatles left, all the bad times have faded, and all the good times are frequently remembered. They are the only two people in the world who know what it feels like to be a Beatle. Since George died in 2001, they’ve gotten close and kept in touch.
Paul and Ringo have their own successful solo careers. Paul has been touring with the same band for almost 20 years, while Ringo tours with an ever-changing All-Star band. However hard it is to see each other in person, the pair always try to make time for one another.
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