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During their run in The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney took turns as the dominant forces in the band. Around the time of A Hard Day’s Night (1964), John’s creativity and overall songwriting production were unparalleled.
Looking back on his Beatles career in 1980, John saw that fertile period as a product of youthful energy. “You can never be 24 again,” he told Playboy’s David Sheff. “You can never be that hungry twice.”
A few years later, with The Beatles wealthy enjoying stunning wealth and worldwide fame, Paul became the band’s dominant figure while making Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour (both 1967).
Thinking about what changed during that period, John noted the shift in his lifestyle (living with a wife and child outside of London) and how that contrasted with Paul’s life circa 1966-67.
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Paul McCartney joined Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show last week, speaking out about the latter years of The Beatles’ reign before their split. While relationship were strained to a point, he said footage from the upcoming Get Back documentary, which is based on hours of never-before-seen footage from the Let It Be recording sessions, reveals the truth. The musical legend said, in fact, the film shows the friendships and creative spark between the band members and dispels the narrative which has grown and solidified over the years: that he and John Lennon hated each other and were “rivals” by the end.
The Beatles star also went on to share what Lennon really thought of his hit Let It Be amid assumptions there was a fiery disagreement about the song.
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This was not the golden anniversary environmentalists had in mind for the 50th celebration of Earth Day (April 22).
The holiday dedicated to honoring Mother Earth and making sure we're doing all we can to preserve our natural world is, ironically, taking place indoors this year because of the global lockdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That hasn't stopped artists from doing their part to advance the cause, though.
Check out some of the efforts to shine a light on the importance of taking care of our planet from the likes of Paul McCartney, Lil Dicky, Kacey Musgraves, Bill Nye the Science Guy and many more.
Sir Paul remindedeveryone to "take care of this beautiful place." The photo was another Earth Day from long ago.
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If you’re a Beatles fan who caught the One World: Together at Home special (Apr. 18, 2020), you got a treat. It came in the form of Paul McCartney performing “Lady Madonna,” the hit Fab Four single originally released in March 1968. (Paul dedicated his performance to healthcare workers everywhere.)
While Paul played a solo version of the track alone on an organ, you heard him deliver the classic lyrics about the woman with “baby at [her] breast” who “wonders how you manage to feed the rest.”
To many listeners, the title and references will have religious overtones. (Many fans heard the same in “Let It Be,” which Paul said he wrote about his own mother.) But Paul was thinking in more general terms when he wrote “Lady Madonna.”
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George Harrison’s ‘Concert For Bangladesh’ was a turning point in popular culture, marking the first star-studded charity event which would go on and set a precedent for future charitable concerts. With the great and good of music all coming together to shine a light on a more than worthy cause, it all originated from the former Beatles guitarist’s original initiative where Bob Dylan well and truly stole the show.
The two very specially curated Concert For Bangladesh shows on August 1st, 1971, would go on and set a precedent for benefit gigs forever. The all-star day would see the likes of Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Badfinger and Ringo Starr all take to the stage to unite for a cause bigger than themselves.
The shows came about after the former Beatles man held discussions his close friend Ravi Shankar who, detailing issues during a dinner meeting, initially planned to raise $25,000 dollars to help the Bangladeshi cause. However, after getting Harrison on his side, the modest plans quickly grew into something rather extraordinary.
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If you can subtract the spate of emo boys picking up the uke by way of softening their hardcore band in an attempt to pick up girls, then the humble ukulele may well be the cheeriest instrument of all time. George Harrison certainly thought so.
Though Harrison acted as the fulcrum of The Beatles with his idiosyncratic guitar playing, the ‘All Things Must Pass’ singer was anything but a purist. In fact, Harrison was known to love all kinds of music to some degree, but perhaps his most cherished instrument was his ukulele.
It may sound a bit silly but the facts are that Harrison, one of the foremost rock and roll guitars loved that wacky instrument. The guitarist confirmed his adoration for the small guitar when he bought a complex in Hawaii and began buying them in batches. In fact, most people who have had a crossing of paths with the late great George Harrison probably came away from the exchange with a shiny new ukulele to boot.
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Any young millennials watching the One World: Together At Home broadcast at the weekend would be forgiven for wondering why Beatles-or-Stones was even a question at all. On the one hand you’ve got four cool old dudes split-screening themselves for a rendition of ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ where the enthusiastic one has obviously forced the rest of them into it and one’s taking the piss by air drumming. On the other, some cheesy old duffer who can’t even work out landscape is tinkling through ‘Lady Madonna’, apparently an old jazz song that makes out that Madonna’s skint.
Stones win – no contest. Now can we please get back to discussing 1D vs BTS, or Boris Johnson vs a similarly inept genocidal moron?
But as lockdown conversation runs into its last three subjects, the eternal question rears its head once more. That renowned and incisive bastion of investigative journalism Howard Stern raised this ever-pertinent issue during an interview with Paul McCartney just last week, skewering Sir Thumbs with the piercing accusation that The Beatles were brilliantest. “I love the Stones, but I’m with you,” Paul agreed. “The Beatles details
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are two of the greatest rock bands in music history. Both were British boy bands who rose to fame in the 1960s. Both have songs fans know by heart and both are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Luckily, we don’t have to choose between them. We can have both. But if we did, Paul McCartney is a little bit biased.
McCartney called into The Howard Stern Show on April 14 from his home in England where he’s staying with family. When Stern started telling him The Beatles were better than The Rolling Stones, McCartney couldn’t help but agree.
“The Stones are a fantastic group,” McCartney said. “I go see them every time they come out because they’re a great, great band. Mick can really do it, the singing and the moves and everything. Keith and now Ronnie and Charlie, they’re great. They really are great. So I love them.”
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We’re dipping into the Far Out Magazine vault to revisit George Harrison’s final interview look and performance of the song, ‘All Things Must Pass’ before The Beatle’s sad passing in 2001.
The interview with John Fugelsang took place in 1997 and was just another piece of television at the time. Sadly, Harrison’s passing from throat cancer just a few years later would mean this would be his last public interview and performance.
In the nineties, following the unprecedented success of MTV there came around a television channel which, instead of bringing you all new music all the time like the aforementioned acid-coloured behemoth, took time to sit back and reflect on musical milestones gone by. The channel was VH1.
On it they would host illustrious guests of the classic rock era such as Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton and often Fugelsang would allow them space to chat about new projects, reflect on old ones and play some tunes. He later said of the gig that with it he had the opportunity to host &ldquo details
The cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is iconic. No other image has perfectly captured the aesthetics of psychedelic art. Part of the cover’s appeal is the numerous famous faces on it.
Celebrities on the cover range from Bob Dylan to Lewis Carroll. The cover depicts 65 individuals in total – real and fictional. Oddly enough, only a few of the faces on the cover are women. Why is this?
What was the idea behind the famous Sgt. Pepper cover? Well, the faces on the cover were supposed to be the Beatles’ heroes. Jann Haworth, one of the designers of the cover, said the selection process was “was completely open-ended.” Surprisingly, the Beatles didn’t choose enough people to be on the cover to create a whole crowd.
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ifty years ago, in April, The Beatles broke up. But they remained so relevant that even the coronavirus crisis is borrowing from it. Their fun romantic song I Wanna Hold Your Hand has now been remastered to I Gotta Wash My Hands.
Another song that has acquired a new dimension altogether now is Here Comes the Sun, penned by George Harrison for a change, an oft-overlooked member of the band. A US hospital plays the song every time a patient recovers from coronavirus.
New Yorkers have been singing The Beatles’ songs during the lockdown.
So, how does a band that was together only for seven years still remain a glue between people and generations, even during a pandemic?
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At the beginning of 2019, Apple Corps Ltd and WingNut Films Ltd announced a new Beatles documentary, which would be based on around 55 hours of previously unreleased studio footage from the band’s 1969 “Get Back” and Let It Be sessions. Over the following months, Beatles fans have eagerly speculated about the film, which is being helmed by the Academy Award-winning director Sir Peter Jackson. Now, over a year later, more information has become available. As we await its premiere (currently slated for a September 2020 release via Disney), here’s what we know so far about The Beatles: Get Back.
It was made with the full co-operation of the band
Both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have sung the film’s praises, while John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono Lennon, and George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, have also offered their full support of the project.
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Each week, I'll present a new album for your consideration—a means for passing these uncertain times in musical bliss. For some readers, hearing about the latest selection might offer a chance reacquaintance with an old friend. For others, the series might provide an unexpected avenue for making a new one.
Classic rock has marked one 50th anniversary after another in recent years. When it comes to the Beatles, the bandmates' post-break-up solo work in 1970 is the most poignant of the bunch, especially when it comes to George Harrison. Having languished in the shadows of the world-breaking Lennon-McCartney songwriting juggernaut for nigh on a decade, the Beatles' lead guitarist was poised for a breakout release to define his own considerable talents apart from the group. As Harrison later recalled, "That was the great thing about [the Beatles] splitting up: to be able to go off and make my own record. . . . And also to be able to record with all these new people, which was like a breath of fresh air."
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How old is Paul McCartney?
Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 14, 1942 and is 77-years-old.
His mother, Mary, was a nurse, his father, James, a firefighter and Paul had a little brother called Michael and a stepsister, Ruth.
The singer, songwriter and producer found worldwide success as a vocalist and bassist for The Beatles and his songwriting collaboration with John Lennon is widely acknowledged as the most successful in musical history.
What are Paul McCartney's most famous songs?
During his songwriting partnership with John Lennon, from October 1962 to May 1970, Paul and John published 180 joint songs, which became the majority of The Beatles' catalogue of work.
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In 1973 Paul McCartney was beginning to truly forge his solo career. The Beatles were at the back of his mind and his path to solo stardom was laid out in front of him. But that didn’t mean the Fab Four weren’t still looming over everything he did.
One such presence was that of Sir Lew Grade, owner of the ATV television Network and, by extension, the Beatles’ Northern Songs catalogue. The singer had been crediting his wife Linda as his co-writer since 1971 and Grade was not happy about the inclusion.
Sir Lew Grade and Paul McCartney were deeply embroiled in a legal battle over the issue. Linda’s inclusion as the second composer of the song meant that Grade’s company were missing out on the royalties that would otherwise be due to them. Grade cited Linda’s lack of professional experience as a songwriter or musician as proof of McCartney’s clever switch to keep the PRS cheques in the family.
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