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Mark Ronson, who has produced for musicians like Adele, Lil Wayne, Nas, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, lent his producing talents to Paul McCartney's new, very Beatles-esque single "New," which dropped late Wednesday ahead of the October 15 album by the same name. In a funny twist of fate, however, one missed phone call could have rewritten history.
Ronson told MTV News that he first started working with McCartney after DJing his wedding to Nancy Shevell two years ago. "He called me to ask me to do it and it was the same weekend of my own wedding and I completely spaced, because I kind of had other sh-- like my own wedding on my mind," Ronson said.
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Behind every great band or artist is a person or team of people who, one way or another, help guide them to the greatness they inevitably achieved. Even The Beatles can’t escape this distinction: Brian Epstein, their first manager, played a pivotal role in their rise to international superstardom in the 1960s.
Epstein, whose death occurred on August 27, 1967 due to a tragic drug overdose, helped define the Beatles as the world would come to know them and helped transform John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr from a scruffy band of misfits into the squeaky-clean studs that set the pop music landscape on fire.
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Growing up in 1960s Liverpool and it would have been hard not to get swept up in Beatlemania. But now a digital image expert has brought the Fab Four up to date by superimposing them into today images of their home town.
Mike Price merged old photographs of John, Paul, George and Ringo with present day scenes to create these fascinating montages spanning half a century. His father, also called Mike who remembers Liverpool in the 1960s well, helped his son recreate the images.Mr Price said: 'Over the last few months I’ve done a series of 'then and now' pictures.
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Sir Paul McCartney has announced details of a new solo album and shared a track from the record called New. He told BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt: "It's catchy, it's summery, it's a love song. I think people will recognise it as definitely me."
The untitled album, due for release in October, will be Sir Paul's first solo album since 2007's Memory Almost Full. It will feature 12 songs, which he worked on with producers including Paul Epworth and Mark Ronson. "The record is very varied. I worked with four producers and each of them brought something different," said Sir Paul. DJ and producer Ronson is known for his work with a host of award-winning stars including the late Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Lily Allen.
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Iconic gates made famous by a Beatles song were painted yellow by a mysterious “artist”. Merseyside Police were making enquiries after tourists arrived at the entrance to former children’s home Strawberry Field in Woolton yesterday to find the top half of one of the gates had been painted yellow.
The message “There is always a field for imagination. John you know you should be glad” had been daubed on the wall next to the gates – which became a place of pilgrimage for fans of the Fab Four after John Lennon penned the song Strawberry Fields Forever. Police said the incident was reported to them by a tour operator who arrived at the gates just before midday and found the yellow paint still wet.
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He may have discovered the Beatles, but even with a little help from his friends, Brian Epstein’s legacy is being overlooked.For the past six years Geoffrey Ellis — an old friend who worked with Epstein while he was managing the Beatles in the Sixties before his death in 1967 — has been trying to persuade English Heritage to put a blue plaque on the house in Belgravia where the man Paul McCartney described as the “Fifth Beatle” lived and died.
Ellis, author of I Should Have Known Better: A Life in Pop Management, first contacted English Heritage in 2007, making the case for Epstein’s cultural impact and the fact that his promotion of the Beatles had resulted in “literally millions — possibly billions — of pounds flooding into this country”.
A Mount Rushmore–style sculpture with The Beatles in place of the four US presidents has taken centre stage in an exhibition. Titled Tomorrow Never Knows, the display is made up of four standalone pieces focusing on Liverpool’s musical heritage.
Terry McGunigle and Joe Forrest were commissioned to create the 8x16ft replica of the world famous south Dakota memorial with the faces of John, Paul, Ringo, and George instead of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Illustrator Elliot Chinnock’s contribution is a re-imagining of the Fab Four’s iconic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – with action figures including He-Man hijacking the famous scene.
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A previously unheard version of Ringo Starr singing 'Octopus's Garden' will be released along with a children's book of the same title this October. Earlier this year, Starr gave permission to publishing house Simon & Schuster to turn the famous Beatles' track into a picture book and, according to a post on his official Facebook account, it will come with a previously unreleased recording of the song, too.
Linking to an image of artwork from the book, a message said: "Here's an exclusive look at the artwork from the forthcoming picture book of Octopus's Garden – publishing this October, the song will be brought to life by illustrator Ben Cort and published with a CD of Ringo reading the story and an original, previously unheard recording of the song by Ringo."
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Every filmmaker hopes their viewers will be left with indelible images, which will play over and over in the mind like a narrative transfusion. The great cinematographers achieve this gift of imagination and the truly great photographers even define the sensibilities of their time. Gilbert Taylor was such an artist.
Starting his career in the late 1940s, he went on to shoot the quintessential movie images of the 1960s and 1970s. Taylor lensed some of the most iconic projects from Swinging London, including The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, Polanski's Repulsion, and Emma Peel's heartbreaking departure in The Avengers. His work with Dick Lester and The Beatles provided a dynamic document of the band in motion and captured their trendsetting vibe with cutting-edge, stylish photography.
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These never-before-seen photographs of celebrities captured by Andy Warhol are about to become and exhibition. This 1979 picture shows John Lennon and the boyfriend of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston. (BNPS)
Never-before-seen photographs of celebrities captured in informal moments by the artist Andy Warhol are to be sold. The American pop artist used photography as a medium of art towards the end of his career and had a tendency to snap spontaneous moments.
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Gallery 360,Northeastern University's on-campus art gallery, is hosting a collection of typewriters from famous writers, such as Ray Bradbury, John Lennon and Ernest Hemingway.
The collection belongs to a Northeastern parent, Steve Soboroff. Soboroff notes, “I love people who are the best at what they do. The idea that geniuses sat there and accomplished what they accomplished on these typewriters… it gives me the chills.” The exhibit will run from August 22-September 25.
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BENTON — Plans are being finalized for the celebration marking the 50th anniversary of “the first Beatle in America.” George Harrison’s 1963 visit to Benton will be remembered during the celebration that includes the unveiling and dedication of a historical marker on the Benton Public Square.
Harrison, a member of The Beatles, was the first of his band mates to travel to the United States. He spent nearly three weeks visiting his sister, then a Benton resident, and got to know the region and a number of its residents during his travels. The Harrison marker will be placed by the Illinois State Historical Society in Capitol Park, Harrison Committee member Robert Rea said. “This site allows visibility to passing motorist at all times and provides much greater pedestrian traffic as opposed to the originally proposed location east of courthouse,” Rea said.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (2) Paul McCartney; $3,620,049; $131.27.
2. (3) Taylor Swift; $3,126,773; $86.58.
3. (4) Kenny Chesney; $2,182,829; $75.32.
4. (New) One Direction; $1,805,905; $65.73.
5. (5) Fleetwood Mac; $1,427,403; $110.90.
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LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Yes, the Lake Geneva dateline is a bit beside the point, but I was so excited about a story Josh Stockinger wrote in Friday's editions I felt compelled to add my 2 cents while on a mini vacation.
Actually I wanted to be the first to add an online comment. It would have read, "Hey, I played with the New Colony Six, too! Well, OK, I mean I played kazoo with the group's frontman, Ronnie Rice. Once. On one song ('Runaway')." I was stopped in my tracks by the first post on Stockinger's story — a guy who said lying is the accepted norm in the rock 'n' roll business. So my brush with rock 'n' roll fame embellishment with a quick explanation of the truth seemed pretty lame.
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Sid Bernstein made musical history in 1964 when he took an unknown British pop group – the Beatles – to America and started the "British Invasion" there. He booked the Beatles to play at Carnegie Hall and later arranged their famous shows at the Shea Stadium – the first major rock stadium acts – and presented the first US appearances of the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, the Moody Blues and the Animals.
Bernstein's interest in British culture had been nurtured as a GI during World War II and, after returning to America, he kept up with what was going on by reading British newspapers. In 1962, he noticed stories about a new pop group from Liverpool whose public appearances were causing scenes of mass hysteria. “I said, 'I've got to bring them to America. The language is the same'.” He phoned Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who had reservations: the group's early records, released in the US on minor labels, were not selling well. Bernstein won him over, however, by promising to get the group i details