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All four of The Beatles took on various acting roles throughout their careers. Some of those roles were small and cheeky, while others were actually quite serious and impressive. Let’s take a look at just four times the members of The Beatles stepped outside of music and took on acting roles!

1. George Harrison in ‘Life Of Brian’

Out of all of The Beatles’ acting roles in their respective filmographies, this is probably the smallest one. George Harrison only plays a minor background role in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, but his role in the film as a whole is much larger than his brief appearance as Mr. Papadopoulos. Few might know that Harrison had his own film production company called HandMade Films, which produced the entire film.

2. John Lennon in ‘How I Won The War’

This 1967 film stars none other than John Lennon. How I Won The War is a British dark comedy movie that explores the similarities between war and games, and features John Lennon in the role of Gripweed. Out of all of the Beatles, Lennon took on acting the least number of times. Gripweed was his only non-musical role as an actor.

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In the years after The Beatles’ split, George Harrison dealt with a number of lawsuits. Perhaps most significantly, Paul McCartney sued his three former bandmates. He wanted to regain control of their music from manager Allen Klein. The former Beatles spent several tense years battling over this. Harrison also dealt with a lawsuit over plagiarism. He believed he should begin to fight back and start filing suits of his own.

George Harrison wondered if The Beatles should have been more litigious. In the years after The Beatles, a number of projects about them, or using their music, cropped up. Harrison said the band should put a stop to that.

“There’s not much more we [the Beatles] can be sued for, but we can sue a lot of other people,” he told Rolling Stone. “Being split and diversified over the years has made it difficult to consolidate certain Beatles interests. For example,...

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Sir Paul McCartney helped a couple get engaged on stage during a soundcheck ahead of a sold-out show in Chile.

Sir Paul, 82, spotted Chilean couple Yamil Alamo and Leonora Pereira dressed as 1970s versions of himself and his late wife Linda McCartney holding a sign that said: “Paul: Give us a handshake and we’ll get married.”

The Beatles star invited the couple up on stage in Santiago during Friday’s soundcheck where, in front of Sir Paul, Mr Alamo got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend of six years.

Chilean couple Yamil Álamo and Leonora Pereira got engaged in front of Sir Paul McCartney during a soundcheck as The Beatles star is currently on his Got Back tour. 

Mr Alamo said: “This was a very special moment for us because for many years we have tried to meet him and today is the day! I don’t have words to describe the experience.”

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In late September, Starr's team announced on Instagram: "Today Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band announced that unfortunately, they have to cancel their upcoming last two shows including tonight's performance at TD Pavilion at The Mann in Philadelphia, PA and tomorrow at Radio City Music Hall in New York City due to illness.

"Ringo has come down with a cold and after consulting a doctor he was advised to cancel these two remaining shows and get rest." Despite his recent illness, Starr, 84, has been known for his health-conscious lifestyle.

A source told Closer magazine: “He's still keeping up with the all-organic vegan diet and hasn't touched a drop of alcohol in 36 years, but even an obsession with health and avoiding germs isn't enough to keep the flu bug away, at least not anymore.

“For a guy who never got the sniffles, this is worrying.”

Before kicking off his tour, The Beatles icon revealed his secret to staying healthy and gave credit to being "vegetarian for the last 25 years" as well as having a personal trainer.

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Harrison’s advice also included how to navigate the fraught relationships that develop when working with many talented egos, such as in Monty Python.

“I was moaning about the others one evening in Tunisia and George said to me, ‘What do you think it’s like for me trying to get a look-in with Lennon and McCartney?’,” Idle said.

However, the most important lesson for the Spamalot star was how to deal with death which Idle believes is something we all need to talk about more. “I was with George when he died and it was beautiful. He wasn’t frightened or angry, he was very calm about the process,” Idle said.

“It was a lovely death to go through and we should talk about these things more because it’s there for all of us.” The Meaning of Life star faced his own health challenge recently, undergoing surgery after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, and was thankful the disease was caught early as he now enjoys “every moment” of his life.

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Happy Days' Henry Winkler has said he called Paul McCartney dozens of times after the Beatle gave him his number, but the musician never answered.

The actor, 78, said he once bumped into the music legend in New York and that Macca ended up giving him his number, suggesting they get in contact. Though Winkler called the number repeatedly for an entire day, he never managed to get ahold of McCartney.

Winkler made the comment on the October 1 episode of the Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach and Donald podcast, where he also asked McCartney to call him back if he was listening.

The actor—who found fame as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days—told the hosts he had met most of the Beatles during his career. "I met every Beatle except for George [Harrison]," he said.

Winkler added: "I was walking on the street in New York City with my wife, and coming the other direction was Paul McCartney, and he went, 'The Fonz!'

"We stood talking. A woman came out of a store, gave us each a rose. Another woman came up and said, 'Hey do you mind if I just stand here?' He said, 'We're in the middle of a conversation.'"

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In a touching tribute to mark their 13th wedding anniversary, Sir Paul McCartney has shared a rare and intimate photo of his wife, Nancy Shevell.

Known for keeping much of their personal life private, the 82-year-old Beatles star delighted fans by offering a glimpse into the couple's lives with the photo, which captured a tender moment between them.

Paul accompanied the post with a heartfelt caption, expressing his gratitude for their time together: "Wishing a fabulous anniversary to my beautiful missus [heart emoji]…

Hollywood actress and friend Rita Wilson was quick to reply, writing: "Happy happy anniversary love birds!." Leslie Mann added: "Cutest couple, Happy anniversary!" Kate Hudson stated: "Love you guys!!! Happy Anniversary."

The pair first met in 2007 and quickly became inseparable, with Paul finding love again after the loss of his first wife, Linda McCartney, and the end of his second marriage with Heather Mills.  Their wedding took place in an intimate ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London on 9 October 2011.

Last year, Paul revealed how he keeps the romance alive with the businesswoman in a post on his website. Opening up, Sir Paul explained how he tries details

Who, exactly, is the ‘Fifth Beatle’? Many have had that title bestowed upon them, deemed the essential but just-out-of-frame counterpart to Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. There’s producer George Martin, who worked extensively with the band in the studio, or road manager Neil Aspinall, and press officer Derek Taylor. But one of the top contenders for that title has always been Brian Epstein – the man who discovered the Fab Four in Liverpool, helped usher them into the spotlight, and died at the tender age of 32. Now, his story – and a slice of music history – is being told in biopic Midas Man, starring The Queen’s Gambit’s Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Epstein.

Empire has been working eight days a week to bring you an exclusive first-look clip from the film – featuring not just one but two ‘Fifth Beatles’, depicting a pivotal point in Beatles history: the moment in which Epstein fires original drummer Pete Best (played here by Adam Lawrence), who would go on to be replaced by Ringo Starr. Watch it here:

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BBC One show Fake Or Fortune? is appealing for help to prove a piano owned by 1990s pop star Chesney Hawkes once belonged to John Lennon.

In Thursday night’s episode presenters Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate the baby grand piano, which was acquired by Hawkes’ father Len Hawkes, who played in 1960s group The Tremeloes, when he was recording at Tittenhurst Park, a Grade II-listed country house Lennon once owned in the early 1970s.  Lennon and Yoko Ono left the house for New York in 1971 and sold the property and its recording studio to Ringo Starr, who moved in in 1973.  During the show the Fake Or Fortune? team were unable to prove the piano belonged to Lennon.

During the episode Hawkes explains that his family story goes that the Broadwood piano had been left on the lawn and that “it was John’s and Ringo didn’t want it”, so Starr gave it to his father.  Although the show’s team make a number of discoveries during the episode, they cannot prove it belonged to the Beatles star.

Without provenance it is estimated to be worth a few thousand pounds, but with evidence it was once Lennon’s, the piano could be worth hundreds of thousands.&n details

The Beatles’ Abbey Road, released on September 26, 1969, is one of the most iconic albums in music history. Its influence has made generations continue to pick up (or stream) the album, so here are five intriguing tidbits about Abbey Road that you may not have known!
1. The Iconic Zebra Crossing Almost Didn’t Happen

The famous album cover, showing the Beatles walking across a zebra crossing outside of Abbey Road Studios, is one of the most recognizable images in pop culture. However, the concept for the cover came about rather spontaneously. Paul McCartney sketched out the idea, and photographer Iain Macmillan had just ten minutes to capture the image. The Beatles were almost photographed at Mount Everest, but due to time constraints, they opted for the nearby zebra crossing outside their studio instead.
2. The Moog Synthesizer Made Its Debut

Abbey Road was the first Beatles album to prominently feature the Moog synthesizer, which added an innovative and futuristic sound to tracks like “Here Comes the Sun” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” George Harrison, fascinated by new technologies, had purchased the Moog in 1968 and used it creatively throughout the album. T details

When you write as many songs as Paul McCartney has, it’s understandable if you might have forgotten a few of them. It’s even more understandable if they’re Beatles’ songs, since he was often collaborating with John Lennon on them.

In the case of “What You’re Doing,” a hidden gem from The Beatles‘ 1964 UK album Beatles for Sale, McCartney has said that he didn’t really remember too much about its creation. But all evidence points toward it being one of his, and a sneakily great one at that, even if he didn’t think too much of it.

Beatles for Sale, the second album released by the Fab Four in the UK in 1964 and their fourth overall, found the band scrambling for material. Their schedule, always intense, reached a fever pitch in 1964, what with their usual recording and touring augmented by the creation of their first movie, A Hard Day’s Night.

On the A Hard Day’s Night album, John Lennon and Paul McCartney had written every song, marking the first time the band would release an album without any covers. They weren’t quite able to pull that off on Beatles for Sale. And maybe the busy nature of the time explains why McCartney didn details

To celebrate what would have been John Lennon’s 84th birthday, a box set has been shared containing “meditation mixes” of his 1973 song ‘Mind Games’.

Details of the box set were first shared back in August, when the late musician’s son Sean Ono Lennon announced the project. Initially, the mindful remixes of the hit were shared on the app Lumeate, before being confirmed as being given both a digital and limited-edition physical release.

Today’s release of the digital version (October 9) coincides with both John’s and Sean’s birthdays. The 3LP physical edition is set to arrive on Friday (October 11) via Capitol/UMe. Stream the digital version below, and pre-order the vinyl here.

The mixes feature nine reworkings of ‘Mind Games’ which were created in a bid to help listeners relax and guide them into deeper states of consciousness. Titled ‘Mind Games – The Meditation Mixes’, numerous sound design techniques and processes to the original multitrack recordings, and it was mixed and engineered by Sam Gannon.

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Sir Paul McCartney made a big statement at a gig in Argentina this week as he dropped a huge part of his show amid renewed tensions over the future of the Falkland Islands. The legendary Beatle is currently traveling the world for his Got Back tour, playing hits from his incredible 60-year career.

'Macca', as he is affectionately known, is currently on the South American leg and played two shows at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. However, he ditched a segment where he would fly a Union Flag, presumably amid fears it would offend the crowd, reports the Daily Mail.

Sir Paul, 82, usually flies three flags at the end of his shows. As well as the nation he is playing in, he will also wave a Union Flag and LGBTQ flag.

But the red, white and blue was noticeably absent in the Argentine capital on October 5 and 6. According to reports, it had been flown as usual at his gig in Uruguay on October 1. The tour will continue in Chile on October 11 after a break.

Sir Paul's representatives refused to comment, according to the Mail, but the gig came days after Argentina vowed to 'recapture' the Falklands. The South American country claims sovereignty over the island chain, which it calls Malvinas.

He catapulted into fame following his role as Eddie Munson in the fourth season of Stranger Things.

And now, Joseph Quinn is reportedly set to take to screens as George Harrison in a series of Beatles biopics.

The actor, 30, will be undertaking a role that is worlds away from the eccentric Hawkins High School student, as he steps into the shoes of the legendary guitarist for four films.

According to The Sun, the quartet of films will tell the story of the Liverpool-based band from each member's perspective - and Joseph has been handpicked by director Sam Mendes to appear in all of them.   A source told the publication: 'Joe is an incredible actor. It's a massive role, but Sam is delighted to have him on board.'   Joseph Quinn is reportedly set to take to screens as George Harrison in a series of Beatles biopics.

The monumental film series will be the first time Apple Corps Ltd, The Beatles, and the families of John Lennon and George, have all agreed to hand over full life-story and music rights for a scripted movie.  George died in November 2001 at the age of 58 following a battle with cancer.

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Of all the members of the Fab Four, drummer Ringo Starr seemed to be the most easygoing of the bunch. But Starr had an interesting vantage point from his place behind the kit. Indeed, just because he was the least forward-facing Beatle doesn’t mean he didn’t have strong opinions, including which Beatles album was his favorite.

In a 1977 appearance on the Inner-view radio show, Starr revealed what he believed to be the best Beatles album of all-time—and the album he never really cared for.

During Ringo Starr’s appearance on the Inner-view radio show, the Beatle and show host Elliot Mintz discussed which Fab Four album had sold the most copies at the time of their August 1977 interview at Starr’s Hollywood Hills home. “Well, if there’s any sense in the world, it’d be Abbey Road,” Starr mused. (By the time he and Mintz sat down to chat, the Beatles had sold over five million copies of the iconic record.)

“It should be [the best-selling album],” Starr continued. “The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. I love it. “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” and all those bits that weren’t songs. I mean, they were ju details