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Trafalgar Releasing and Mercury Studios have set a September 26 release for documentary One Hand Clapping, an opportunity for audiences to step back in time to 1974 with Paul McCartney and Wings.
The behind-the-scenes look delves into the making of the acclaimed One Hand Clapping album featuring rare footage, interviews with the band, insights from the creative team, and iconic Wings hits.
“It’s so great to look back on that period and see the little live show we did. We made a pretty good noise actually! It was a great time for the band, we started to have success with Wings, which had been a long time coming, said McCartney, whose exclusive filmed introduction will kick off the screenings along with previously unseen Polaroid photographs from the recording sessions.
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The full documentary directed by David Litchfield will include previously unreleased Backyard Sessions, showcasing McCartney on acoustic guitar performing beloved tracks from his catalog. Highlights include the previously unreleased song Blackpool and covers of personal favorites like “Twenty Flight Rock,” the song he played for John Lennon during their first meeting.
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Today, we're celebrating the 60th anniversary of the song 'Ringo for President' by The Young World Singers. Back in 1964, this catchy tune reached #132 in the charts and ignited a playful political campaign to make Ringo Starr the President of the United States of America.
Occurring during the Johnson/Goldwater race at the time, a well-organised group of fans banded together to enter the drummer as a third-party write-in candidate for Commander in Chief.
In recognition of today's anniversary, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight two limited editions with Ringo in mind. Please note that we are down to the last copies for Mania Days and a number of the prints in Ringo's PHOTOGRAPH Portfolio 2024, shipping later this month. See below and secure yours before they both become fully subscribed.
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George Harrison and John Lennon became close in the years they spent with The Beatles. They didn’t start out this way, though. Lennon initially hadn’t wanted Harrison to join the band, believing he looked so young that he damaged the band’s image. Harrison said that after an experience he and Lennon shared, he no longer felt he embarrassed him.
George Harrison said he stopped feeling like he embarrassed John Lennon after they tried LSD
In the mid-1960s, The Beatles began using LSD. Lennon and Harrison were the first to try the drug, and Lennon estimated that he used it 1,000 times.
“I don’t think John had a thousand trips; that’s a slight exaggeration,” Harrison said in The Beatles Anthology. “But there was a period when we took acid a lot — the year we stopped touring, the year of the Monterey Pop Festival, we stayed home all the time,...
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What if George Martin and The Beatles had never met? Martin, already established as a producer, would surely have gone on producing records for The Goons, girl singers and symphony orchestras, among others. The Beatles’ native talents would probably have lifted them to the charts at some point, but would there have been a Revolver or a Sgt. Pepper, with all that startling sonic growth from their first recordings? The fateful crossing of paths brought out the best in both Martin and the Fab Four, made their legacies and changed the face of pop music in the 60s. As John Lennon once said of Martin: “He helped us to develop a language.”
Born in 1926, George Martin grew up in north London. After serving in the Royal Navy, he attended the Guildhall School Of Music, studying piano and oboe, and worked in the BBC’s classical music department. In 1955 he began working as a staff producer at EMI Parlophone, and in his first few years he recorded a diverse list of artists, including Matt Monro, the Ron Goodwin Orchestra and Peter Sellers.
“That’s part of my background, the catholic world of music that has no limits, no blinkers,” Martin later said. “I know many musicians in t details
August 7, 1980, was a pretty significant day for rock history. Why you might be asking? Well, that was the day John Lennon returned to the spotlight after taking a five-year break. John sent the world into a frenzy by returning to the studio to record what would become his final album, Double Fantasy.
John had stepped away from the music scene to focus on being a dad and enjoy life in New York City with his wife, Yoko Ono. But like most artists of his caliber, he couldn't resist the urge to get back in the studio, so decided it was time!
Double Fantasy wasn’t just any album. It was a love letter to Yoko and a celebration of their life together. The album was a mix of John’s songs and Yoko’s, creating a conversation between them. It is full of themes of love, family, and the joy of starting over. Songs like “(Just Like) Starting Over” and “Watching the Wheels” reflected John’s Happiness and peace after years of uncertainty.
Recording the album was a joyful experience for John. He was working with a new group of musicians, and the atmosphere in the studio was electric. John was full of energy, cracking jokes, and encouraging everyone around him. He was passi details
If you were to ask John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison what made the band as great as it was — and it’s a question drummer Ringo Starr would be able to answer from his own experience — the odds are that they would say it was The Beatles in Hamburg..
Among the local places they performed in their native Liverpool was the Jacaranda coffee bar, run by Allan Williams, who would occasionally become their booking agent (in the days before Brian Epstein became their true manager). In August 1960, he informed them that he could book them in Hamburg, if they could secure a drummer, which — in the days before Ringo had joined them — they did in the form of Pete Best.
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It comes with the territory of being famous—procuring unsolicited nicknames that seemingly make celebrities’ skin crawl. This has sadly been a longstanding tradition for as long as anyone remembers, and no famous personality is safe from the practice. Among these folks is Paul McCartney. Racking up nicknames such as “Macca” and “Percy Thrillington,” McCartney has come to despise one name in particular: “The Cute Beatle.”
Inspired by his younger years as a clean-cut chap from Liverpool, the name has unfortunately stuck with him for quite some time. Due to his involuntary attachment, McCartney has had a public disdain for the name. Though, in McCartney fashion, he acknowledges it with a tasteful amount of grace and humor.
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It's widely agreed that The Beatles were the most influential, and to many, simply the best, rock band of all time. However, what tends to be overlooked is the fact that they were also one of the most daring rock bands, especially when you realize how much they changed both musically and visually from 1964 through 1970. Also, how they started out as a pop band, and ended up taking on a variety of styles and utilizing an increasing amount of experimentation.
In the 2020 book, "John Winston Ono Lennon," Beatles expert Brian Kehew, who was the co-author of the exhaustive "Recording The Beatles" book, discussed the member of the band who was undoubtedly the most daring when it came to experimental music, John Lennon, and when and how he came to embrace that side of his artistry.
"The experimentalism is a thread that has certainly been around for a few decades in the underground," Kehew said. "And those were not pop-y records. I don't know if he expected lots of people to buy 'Life with the Lions,' as much as he just wanted to do it. And in a way – because he was such an aggressive, pushy, 'I know what's good' person – he put it out, expecting people would listen to it and maybe be offended...like how an details
Spoon-bending performer and self-proclaimed mystic Uri Geller has told the BBC he is the buyer of a pair of glasses given by John Lennon to a man from Surrey. The iconic blue-tinted round sold for £40,000 in an auction on Wednesday held at Farleigh Golf Club, in Surrey.
Mr Geller, who plans to display the glasses prominently in his museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, said he was "elated" with his purchase.
He said: "John Lennon and I were very good friends while we were living in New York in the 1970s." The glasses were given by the former Beatle to a man from Surrey as a birthday present more than 55 years ago.
Catherine Southon Auctions said the singer gifted them to their seller - identified only as Michael - at Abbey Road Studios in 1968.
On putting in the highest bid, Mr Geller said: "I knew I had to buy these glasses whatever. I would have gone up to £500,000.
"Glasses are a passage into our soul, into our psyche." He said he had a “really close” friendship with John Lennon, “because we had an amazing connection”. The showman, now in his 70s, added: "John changed my life as that's where I learned about spirituality.
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Sir Paul McCartney confirmed Thursday that he was hacked by the British press, but doesn't have details. He said police will brief him when he returns to London.
McCartney held a wide-ranging press conference via satellite from Cincinnati in conjunction with his upcoming Showtime doc, "The Love You Make," about the benefit concert he put on after 9/11. But McCartney didn't bat off questions about his storied career, talking about how "Yesterday" and "Let it Be" came to him in dreams, the fact that he's about to marry his second NYC woman, why he was wearing a collarless jacket and how he loves ESPN and shopping networks. "Where do you think I got this jacket?" he said.
He also said that he's doing more Beatles songs than ever. "I try to give the audiences what they want," he said. Too bad he couldn't give Minnesotans what we want: A McCartney concert at Target Field. A proposed concert there fell through earlier this summer.
You can get more of his quips and reflections at my twitter site: @nealjustin
The Showtime special airs Sept. 10.
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THE Beatles, who rose to prominence in the 1960s captured the entire world with their brand of music.
By far, The Beatles have influenced generations through their music and connected people from across the globe through their massive hits.
But were all four members of The Beatles able to read or write sheet music? Ever wondered if they weren’t able to do so?
Is this true?
THE Beatles, who rose to prominence in the 1960s captured the entire world with their brand of music.
By far, The Beatles have influenced generations through their music and connected people from across the globe through their massive hits.
But were all four members of The Beatles able to read or write sheet music? Ever wondered if they weren’t able to do so?
Is this true?
Verdict:
TRUE
The Beatles, who are John Lennon (the late), Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, could not read music.
In a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon was quoted saying: "None of us could read music, none of us could write it.
"But as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) are as good as anybody," details
Houston has a wealth of arts organizations, offering performances of everything from avant garde theatre to classical music to multiple genres of dance. Even the most art-obsessed Houstonians may feel overwhelmed at deciding which performances to attend, especially if they're on a budget.
Thankfully, a popular program helps newbie arts lovers and longtime patrons alike. Houston Theater Week 2024 offers buy-one-get-one-free deals for more than 250 performing arts programs for the upcoming 2024-2025 arts season. Sponsored by the Houston First Corporation, the event, which runs from August 12 to 18, is a chance for Houstonians to explore performances by 22 professional performing arts organizations.
“Houston’s annual Theater Week is making a difference for both patrons and our arts organizations," Theater District Houtson's Hillary Hart said in a statement. "Not only does the revenue generated through ticket sales keep artists and other creative professionals working, it strengthens our already vibrant theater scene and exposes new audiences to a range of cultural performances by some of the best talent in the world at a discount."
Among the organizations participating this year are 4th Wall The details
"I didn't know what to do with myself, and trying something new was really risky," said the legendary singer. Paul McCartney is opening up about life after The Beatles.
The 80-year-old icon was a member of the 7-time Grammy-winning group with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr until it disbanded in 1970. McCartney then ventured out into a successful solo career.
On his website, the "Coming Up" singer answered a question that a fan asked via Twitter on the biggest risk he's taken in his decades-long career.
"The main question I had was whether to keep going after The Beatles," he wrote in the post published on Tuesday, "because it was a hard act — some might say, an impossible act — to follow."
Praising the group's talent, McCartney added, "The ingredients in the Beatles were so unique. You had John right there, who could have made any group brilliant. Then you had George's talent, and Ringo's, and then me."
McCartney confessed that once the members went their separate ways, "I didn't know what to do with myself, and trying something new was really risky."
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In the late 1950s, John Lennon formed a skiffle group called the Quarrymen, named after his school. The line-up featured John on guitar with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, John 'Duff' Lowe on piano, and Colin Hanton on drums.
After rehearsing at McCartney's house, they booked a recording session at Percy Phillips' studio at 38 Kensington, Liverpool, in July 1958 and recorded In Spite Of All The Danger, a song credited to McCartney and Harrison. They could afford only one copy of the 10in disc, so they agreed to share it, with each member keeping it for a week. Lowe ended up keeping it for 23 years.
When he rediscovered it in 1981, he contacted McCartney, who bought it from him for an undisclosed fee. It was eventually released on The Beatles Anthology 1 in 1995.
After several changes in their line-up, the Quarrymen evolved into The Beatles. Over recent years, McCartney has played In Spite Of All The Danger on concert dates, much to the delight of his fans.
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The Beatles have nothing left to prove as a musical entity. They have ranked as one of the most commercially successful and impactful names in the industry since they first broke out in the early ‘60s. Decades later–and long after they split–the band is still hitting new highs and improving their legacy.
This week, The Beatles’ 1 reaches a very special milestone. The compilation has now lived on the Billboard 200 for 550 weeks.
1 is The Beatles’ longest-charting title on the Billboard 200, Billboard’s weekly ranking of the most-consumed albums in the U.S. It’s their first release to make it to 550 frames on the tally, and it likely won’t be matched for some time.
The Beatles’ second-longest-running win on the Billboard 200 remains Abbey Road. That album is nearing 500 weeks on the list, as it’s already up to 491 stays on the roster. While it may be close to that sizable figure, Abbey Road doesn’t often appear on the Billboard 200–unlike 1.
The compilation rises just two spots this frame. Last week, it sat at No. 197; now it’s up to No. 195. The singles collection is barely hanging on, as the roster only features 200 spa details