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Looking back at Beatles recordings, the run that began with 1965’s Rubber Soul represented a clear shift for the band. After tracks like “Norwegian Wood” and the journalistic “In My Life” went out on records, the band embarked on a period of intense experimentation.
By 1966’s Revolver, the group (along with its industrious engineers) were testing all sorts of new tricks in the studio. And even though George Harrison and other band members could drive people nuts making records, everyone agreed the effort was worth it.
For Ringo Starr, who sat at the drum kit for nearly every Beatles track ever recorded, there were too many highs during that period to count. However, Ringo has no problem pointing out what he considers the best work he did with the Fab Four — and the group’s all-time greatest songs.
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When the Beatles represented the United Kingdom during Our World, the world’s first live global TV linkup in 1967, a lot was at stake as they delivered “All You Need is Love,” a song specially written for the moment. An audience of 400 million people were watching, members of the Rolling Stones and the Who were in the studio, and the resulting recording was to be released on vinyl just days later.
But, as Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick told Uncle Joe Benson on the Ultimate Classic Rock Nights radio show, the responsibility for making it all work out fell on the shoulders of “two young kids” – himself, aged and his even younger assistant Richard Lush.
“I was in a terrible state because this thing was going to go out live and we didn’t have the technology then – backups and God knows what else,” Emerick said. “[T]he record that actually goes out and the one you see them recording, everything’s live apart from, I think, just Ringo (Starr)’s drum. The only overdub I remember doing afterwards was Ringo’s snare roll at the beginning.
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The series has since returned to Netflix with all three seasons and the Twitter account have followed up as to why it was temporarily removed.
The series sees bugs learning lessons and singing famous songs by The Beatles. The series has received multiple awards over the years and was popularised around the world when it first released in 2016 with two seasons and third season that was added in 2018.
On July 18th, 2019, the series was removed from Netflix in all regions around the world including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
It’s worth noting the Beat Bugs movie that released in 2017 called “All Together Now” remains on Netflix.
We talked to a customer service representative for Netflix who told us the following:
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Having a father who was a Beatle certainly casts a significant shadow.
But Dhani Harrison has more than forged his own path.
The only child of the late George Harrison and his second wife Olivia has played in bands (thenewno2, Fistful of Mercy) and composed for film and TV. He's played on albums by Perry Farrell, UNKLE and Wu-Tang Clan, and he was on stage when Prince shredded the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.
In 2017 Harrison, 40, released "IN///PARALLEL," his first album under his own name, and last month he put out a concert film, "IN///PARALIVE," on Facebook. And now he's touring with Jeff Lynne's ELO, opening and also joining the troupe in homage to his father and others during its rendition of the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care"...
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By the time The Beatles got to their White Album (1968), it didn’t take much to tell a Paul McCartney song from a John Lennon track. If you heard a throwback tune like “Honey Pie” or “Martha My Dear,” you knew you were listening to a song by Paul.
John called tracks in this vein “Paul’s granny music,” and he countered with songs like “Revolution” and “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” But John didn’t let it go at that. When Paul insisted on running through endless takes for “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” John stormed out of the studio in disgust.
After the disaster of the Let It Be sessions in early ’69, The Beatles regrouped for one last studio album. That would become Abbey Road, but it wouldn’t come easy. While Paul kept asking for new takes of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” several Beatles lost their patience.
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John Lennon’s son Sean is fed up of fans “hijacking” his memories of his dad by telling them how important he was to them.
Sean was only five years old when John was shot and killed outside his home in New York in December 1980.
However, in an interview with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast, Sean admitted that he often finds it hurtful talking about his father to fans, as they rarely take into account that his memories are intimate family ones.
“My relationship to my dad I feel is sometimes hijacked or something and people don’t seem to consider it,” he says. “Not to be critical but for the most part, as real as their feelings are, it is a dream. What I am talking about is a physical person who taught me how to cut my food at dinner.”
Speaking about Beatles fans’ idolisation of his dad, Sean, 43, says they have “no idea” of his own feelings – however much they love his music.
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By the late 1960s, The Beatles probably came to expect that someone in the band would walk out during a recording session. When Ringo ditched the group for weeks after tense days making The White Album, it served as a warning sign.
While recording “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” for the same album, John Lennon stormed out of the studio after being driven nuts by the endless takes. Next up was George Harrison, who left the band for close to two weeks during the Let It Be sessions. By then, it didn’t seem like a fluke.
Yet Paul McCartney had managed to keep his cool through most of those years. Making Abbey Road in mid-’69, Paul seemed especially determined to see the group through one more record.
But it wouldn’t be easy. After John declined to play or sing on “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” Paul began getting frustrated. It boiled over a few weeks later while recording John’s “Come Together.”
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Here's a sampling of popular music across the decades. It's a list of the albums (remember those) that topped the Billboard 200 chart in 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999.
A testament to their long careers, a few artists show up in this list more than once -- a couple in different decades. Also, interesting to note that while 10 albums hit No. 1 in 1969, a whopping 22 albums topped the chart in 1999.
1969 -- "Abbey Road," The Beatles
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A set of Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to the classic Beatles song Hey Jude will be offered at auction in the U.S this month.
McCartney used the lyrics during the recording of the song at Trident Studios in London in July 1968, and later gifted them to a studio engineer.
The musical manuscript is now expected to fetch $200,000 – $300,000 when it hits the block at Gotta Have Rock and Roll Auctions on July 26.
Paul McCartney famously wrote Hey Jude for John Lennon’s son Julian, after Lennon left his wife Cynthia for Yoko Ono.
“I started with the idea “Hey Jules,” which was Julian, don’t make it bad, take a sad song and make it better,” McCartney later recalled.
“Hey, try and deal with this terrible thing. I knew it was not going to be easy for him. I always feel sorry for kids in divorces.”
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A bronze statue of John Lennon is heading to Liverpool this summer all in the name of peace.
St George’s Hall will welcome the John Lennon Peace Statue on August 1 until the end of September following its time at Glastonbury Festival.
The artwork, which is 180cm high, was created by artist Laura Lian and cast by the Castle Foundry.
Laura said: "I made the statue to help inspire a new generation to reinforce John and Yoko’s message of Peace.
"We are really excited to have the statue at this beautiful historical Hall in Liverpool."
Alan Smith, general manager of St George’s Hall, said: "We’re delighted to host this statue showcasing one of Liverpool’s most-loved sons.
"In the month of August and September the city celebrates International Beatle Week and it’s fitting that we welcome this new addition.
"It’s sure to be a hit and will become a must-visit selfie and Instagram spot".
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While looking back on his career in 1980, John Lennon saw a lot he didn’t like about his time with The Beatles. In fact, he had no problem dismissing songs like “Cry, Baby, Cry” and “Glass Onion” as “rubbish” and “throwaway” material. He was even harsher about songs he didn’t write.
Regarding Paul’s “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” John wouldn’t even take part in the track’s recording during the Abbey Road sessions. Instead of contributing backing vocals or suggesting how to improve it, he hated the song so much he just left the studio for the day.
As for the famous medley on the second side of Abbey Road, John described “that sort of pop opera” as “junk” not worthy of a rock ‘n’ roll record. However, there was one bright spot for him, and it came on the album’s opening track.
The song was “Come Together,” which hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts in November 1969. Though John criticized a lot of Beatles tunes, he came as close as he could to raving about this one.
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When The Beatles showed up at EMI studios in 1962 for their first major recording session, they were unknown in London. Only the hippest guys at the company’s labels had heard of them, and the old-guard producers and engineers couldn’t care less.
However, one young engineer in the studio that day went on to work with the band on their greatest albums (including Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road). His name was Geoff Emerick, and he became one of the top names in the recording industry.
Yet in ’62, when The Beatles arrived to record “Love Me Do,” Emerick was as unknown as the band he heard play. But his recollections from that day are priceless. He mentions the “quite fidgety and quite funny” John Lennon calling an EMI employee named Norman “Normal.”
He also notes the affable bass player (Paul McCartney), a “dejected” and short drummer (Ringo), and a lead guitar player who was very young and “almost emaciated” (George Harrison). The other thing that struck Emerick about George that day in ’62 was the black eye he sported.
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He really does get by with a little help from his friends.
As the years passed, you didn’t hear any Beatles blaming Yoko Ono for splitting up the band. After all, they were there and knew firsthand that George Harrison could hardly stand Paul McCartney by 1969. Meanwhile, Paul had his own widely discussed issues with John Lennon.
That’s not counting the fistfight George and John had while the band was being filmed for Let It Be. And we won’t get into the time Ringo walked out on the group during the White Album sessions. Or the time a few months later when George quit the band for a while.
Indeed, the period from early ’68 through late ’69 had “Beatles breakup” written all over it. As it turned out, that happened to be the same time the love between John and Yoko blossomed and the two got married.
But before The Beatles went their separate ways, they had one more masterpiece to record: Abbey Road. Just as the sessions were getting underway, John and Yoko made an entrance that freaked everyone out. Decades later, the chief engineer called it the craziest thing he’d seen.
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Because of their crazy schedule and recording-contract demands, John Lennon and Paul McCartney always needed fresh songs to fill out the next album. As even Beatles fans will admit, they didn’t always come up with winners, but they had to finish them and move on to the next project.
By the time they got to Rubber Soul, John and Paul’s songs had become much more complex, but they still weren’t above recycling simpler, older material. That’s how Paul ended up pulling out and rehashing one of his earliest songs.
As Paul noted in his biography Many Years From Now, that’s how “Michelle” ended up on Rubber Soul. Back in the late ’50s, he’d play the song as an instrumental at parties where he’d wear a turtleneck and “pretend I could speak French” to impress girls. (Bear in mind he was hardly 17 at the time.)
At the suggestion of John, Paul decided to bring it out and add lyrics — including some French ones — for the band’s latest album. But he definitely didn’t speak the language, so he needed help from someone who did.
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