Sir Paul McCartney revealed the surprising crush the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, had on him when he was part of The Beatles with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

The 84-year-old sat down on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast on Tuesday, and had an answer ready when he was asked if any famous person he'd met had ever blown him away.

"The Queen," he replied. "And that's an autograph you're not going to get. She's great. I love the Queen."

Elizabeth, who passed away in September 2022, met Paul on several occasions throughout his life, including when she knighted him in 1997. Did Queen Elizabeth have a crush on Paul McCartney?

"She was a babe," the singer said. "We all used to think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' You know, like, having a king, he's got this girl. This babe. So, we kind of liked her in other ways than we shouldn't have liked her."

"So meeting her was special," he added. Paul was nine years old when the Queen ascended to the throne in 1952, and said he was around 21 when they met in person for the first time.

Source: hellomagazine.com/Faye James

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Paul McCartney wasn't informed by the rest of the Beatles that "Let It Be" would feature more than they'd planned together.

John Lennon and George Harrison brought in producer Phil Spector to work on the tapes in March 1970, and he added an orchestra to the sound palette.

Lennon later stated he'd hoped a rough, unglamorous release would poke holes in the band's all-encompassing myth. Spector's avenue of approach was to create a wall of sound. How Phil Spector Overdubbed "The Long and Winding Road" in One Day

Phil Spector recorded orchestral and choral overdubs for three songs at Abbey Road in one day, ironically on April 1. The tracks in question were "I Me Mine", "Across the Universe", and "The Long and Winding Road".

He didn't economize - the Paul McCartney Project lists eighteen violins, four cellos, four violas, three trombones, three trumpets, a harp, two guitarists, and fourteen singers for "The Long and Winding Road" alone.

The orchestral parts for "The Long and Winding Road" were scored by conductor Richard Hewson, who was paid £40 for the night of work. Ringo Starr was the only member of the Beatles attending the session, and he drummed along when needed.

Spector reduced the eight-track tape to five to free up tracks, merging Ringo's drums, Billy Preston's electric piano, and George Harrison's guitar into one.

As engineer Peter Bown recalled, the orchestra walked out when Spector handed over extra parts with no mention of extra pay. The session later resumed, and the musicians got their extra payment. How Paul McCartney and George Martin Reacted to Spector's 'Let It Be' Overdubs.

Paul McCartney was handed the result on a pre-release record, with a note from Allen Klein saying the changes were necessary. He would later state, "No one had asked me what I thought." He listened to the tracks and found some issues.

He wrote to Klein on April 14, asking for the strings, horns, and voices to be turned down. He also wanted the closing harp removed, and the original vocal and Beatle instrumentation to be turned up. He ended his letter with "Don't ever do it again." Klein cared little for his request.

George Martin, always a part of the Beatles' craft, said he knew nothing either, would later state the work happened "behind our backs." He told EMI the credit should read "produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector." The request, understandably, wasn't accepted. 'The Long and Winding Road' Became Part of McCartney's Lawsuit Against the Beatles.

On December 31, 1970, Paul McCartney sued to dissolve the Beatles' partnership. Allen Klein's actions were included as one of the complaints at the High Court hearing, where Macca stated that ABKCO, Klein's company, had arranged for "The Long and Winding Road" to be altered without consulting or informing him.

Justice Stamp dissolved the partnership on March 12, 1971, though the reported findings centered on Klein's appointment and commissions. Phil Spector would remain unrepentant, once stating:

"Paul had no problem picking up the Academy Award for the 'Let It Be' movie soundtrack, nor did he have any problem in using my arrangement of the string and horn and choir parts when he performed it during 25 years of touring on his own."

"If Paul wants to get into a pissing contest about it, he's got me mixed up with someone who gives a s**t."
"Let It Be… Naked" and McCartney's Reconciliation With Richard Hewson

Macca didn't speak to Richard Hewson for a year after the original's release, but they reconciled and worked together on "Thrillington" and "My Love."

In November 2003, the former Beatle finally got his preferred version when "Let It Be… Naked" was released without the orchestra and choir, with "Don't Let Me Down" added.

It was different from the version fans were used to after so many years, but it was music Paul McCartney believed in.

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Sean Ono Lennon took to X over the weekend to clarify how his late father, John Lennon, provided for him and his half brother Julian Lennon before the former Beatles’ tragic murder in 1980.

Replying to a post on Sunday (Oct. 11) in which someone presumed, “One guy inherited most of the estate, the other largely cut out and forced to engaged in decades-long litigation in pursuit of a comparatively small share of it. Unbearably painful and enraging for the one, surely pretty darn awkward for the other. That they remain friends (and largely always were) is testimony to the redemptive power of being a chill dude with broad implications for the wider world.”

The comment was tied to a post from Sean a day earlier of the Lennon brothers enjoying a nice day out in nature to celebrate his 51st birthday and, according to Sean, the commenter got it all wrong.

“Julian and I inherited the same amount from our dad,” he wrote. “Our trusts were equal. Although his was slightly more, but negligibly so.”

Sean is the adult son of John and wife Yoko Ono and Julian, 63, is Lennon’s eldest, from his six-year marriage to his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).

Both men are musicians, with Julian scoring a pair of top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits from his 1984 debut album, Valotte, “Too Late For Goodbyes” (No. 5) and the title track (No. 9) and releasing six more albums in the years since, including 2022’s Jude, whose title is a reference to the Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” famously written by Paul McCartney in 1968 to comfort a young Julian during his parents’ divorce.

Sean Ono Lennon has had a long, eclectic music career as a member of a number of bands, including the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Cibo Matto, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and the Plastic Ono Band. He’s released three solo albums to date, 1998’s Into the Sun, 2006’s Friendly Fire and 2024’s Asterisms.

Source: billboard.com/Gil Kaufman

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During the Beatles‘ heyday, by all accounts, Paul McCartney and John Lennon had a loving, as well as deeply competitive, personal relationship. And while it ended in messy animosity during the Fab Four’s breakup in 1970 and in a series of thinly veiled musical shots they took at each other in their solo material in the years after — check out McCartney’s “Too Many People” and “Silly Love Songs” and Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?” — in the end they made peace before Lennon’s murder in 1980.

But, as it turns out, there is still one sore subject you can bring up about the two men that will get McCartney riled up: their heights.

On this week’s new episode of the pod Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the Parks and Recreation star waded into the subject with a simple question about the age gap between the Beatles, which unexpectedly turned into a Macca rant about the one fact about the band that he thinks filmmakers keep screwing up.

“George was how many years younger than you, Paul?,” Poehler asked. “I think like about one and a half [years younger],” he said of the late Beatles guitarist/singer, noting that Lennon was one and a half years older than him.

“Who was the tallest?” Poehler wondered in a follow-up.

Oh boy.

“We were all the same height,” McCartney, 84, said a bit defensively, holding up a finger in emphasis. “You really were,” Poehler said with a sly smile as she willfully opened the Pandora’s box.

Source: billboard.com/Gil Kaufman

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The song was released in 1970.

Typically, one-hit wonders are pop songs repeatedly blasted on the Top 40 Radio for a year or so before becoming culturally irrelevant and largely forgotten. However, some one-hit wonders are released by rock bands, as evidenced by Collider‘s recent ranking of “The 10 Best Classic Rock One-Hit Wonders.”

The list, published on September 29, included classic rock songs like 1972’s “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest, “Come On Eileen” by Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982, and “Because the Night” by Patti Smith Group, released in 1978. Collider named the Jim Gordon and Eric Clapton-penned track “Layla,” off Derek and the Dominos‘ record Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the “best classic rock one-hit wonder.”

According to Collider, while “Layla” is a beloved classic rock tune, Derek and the Dominos didn’t put out another record after Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, their first and only album. As fans are aware, Derek and the Dominos split in 1971, just a year after the band was formed. Pattie Boyd Revealed How She Felt About ‘Layla’ in Her 2007 Book.

The romantic track, released in 1970, was inspired by Clapton’s eventual wife, model Pattie Boyd. However, Boyd was married to Clapton’s friend, George Harrison, for 11 years until 1977. Songfacts reported that Boyd, who wed Clapton in 1979, revealed her opinion about “Layla” while penning her memoir, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, published in 2007.

Boyd wrote that Clapton had her listen to the track during a secret meeting “at a flat in South Kensington.”

“He switched on the tape machine, turned up the volume and played me the most powerful, moving song I had ever heard. It was ‘Layla,’ about a man who falls hopelessly in love with a woman who loves him but is unavailable. He played it to me two or three times, all the while watching my face intently for my reaction. My first thought was: ‘Oh God, everyone’s going to know this is about me,'” stated Boyd in Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, as reported by Songfacts.

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A rare vintage postcard with autographs of all four members of The Beatles is set to fetch thousands after being kept by a lunch lady for 63 years.

Rose Moulder served with Birmingham City Council's Catering Services where she was responsible for providing hospitality to artists performing at the city's Town Hall between October 1961 and March 1969.

They included world-famous musicians such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Kinks and Bob Dylan with Rose collecting all their autographs and keeping them safe at her home.

Rose passed away several years ago and now her cherished collection is set to go under the hammer at Auctioneum Ltd in Bristol where it could sell for over $5,370.

Auctioneer Andrew Stowe, from Auctioneum Ltd, said: "It's one of the most exciting collections I've ever seen. "There are seven autograph albums, each being a veritable 'who's who' of acts from the period. "Every turn of a page reveals another icon.

"Plus a large quantity of programs and signed photographs." The collection features seven autograph albums as well as postcards and programs. The highlight, Andrew says, is a postcard autographed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, which is expected to fetch over $4,025. Andrew added: "The Beatles performed at Birmingham Town Hall on June 4, 1963, right at the very start of Beatlemania.

"The tour started with Roy Orbison at the top of the bill, with the Beatles as a supporting act.  "By the time it reached Birmingham, The Beatles had been moved to top billing! "To have such a clear and crisp set of signatures from this time is simply wonderful, and the 'holy grail' for Beatles collectors."

Source: yahoo.com/Talker News

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