As we celebrate Father’s Day today, some of us will be looking back in memory at our dads who have left us. For Julian and Sean Lennon, it’s been over 40 years since John Lennon was killed. Today, The Beatles legend’s sons have paid tribute to their dad with a couple of touching childhood photos.

Julian Lennon, who John had with his first wife Cynthia, shared a picture as a boy with his dad.

The father and son are seen sitting on a sun lounger, with Julian in a towel from having been for a swim.

While John is shown wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt, hat and his iconic round sunglasses.

As for Sean, who The Beatles star had with his second wife Yoko Ono, he shared a childhood photo with his dad across eight Instagram posts.

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Sir Paul McCartney turned 79-years-old yesterday and fans of The Beatles have been sending him their well-wishes on social media. The star has also had tribute posts made to him by the John Lennon and George Harrison estates. As well as fellow surviving member of the Fab Four, Sir Ringo Starr.

The John Lennon estate shared a picture of Paul cutting a birthday cake in what looks like the early 1960s.

Also in the picture is John smiling up at him, and George looking like he can’t wait to get a slice.

The photo was simply captioned: “Happy Birthday Paul! [cake emoji]”

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Disney has opted for a streaming debut for the three-episode series over a theatrical release for the movie about the Fab Four.
Peter Jackson's 'The Beatles: Get Back' Coming to Disney+ for Thanksgiving Debut | THR News
Disney has opted for a streaming debut for the three-episode series over a theatrical release for the movie about the Fab Four.

Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back six-hour documentary series is headed to Disney+ for a Thanksgiving holidays debut.

The Walt Disney Studios, Apple Corps Ltd. and WingNut Films Productions Ltd. unveiled the timing for the bow on Disney’s flagship streaming platform, having opted against Jackson directing a single movie for a theatrical release (it was previously set to hit theater this August).

The Beatles: Get Back will comprise of three episodes, each around two hours in length, and will roll out over three days on Nov. 25, 26 and 27 exclusively on Disney+.

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In a conversation with late-night show host Conan O’Brien, former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr got real about his feelings regarding Beatles fan conventions. The multi-day festivals, much like Comic-Cons or other large-scale fan events, draw Beatles lovers of all ages, nationalities, and persuasions eager to sit back and let the evening go.

The “Photograph” singer throughout the years has had a love/hate relationship with the Fab Four’s devotees but his comments to O’Brien could be taken as a sign that the eldest Beatle, in the end, does care.
Ringo Starr, third from left, signs an autograph for a young fan as his fellow Beatles (left to right) George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney look on | Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
Starr’s spotty relationship with Beatles’ fans

In 2008, Starr took to his website to formally ask the band’s fans to stop writing him. It wasn’t clear at that point what had set off this request by the “It Don’t Come Easy” artist, but his remarks were anything but unclear. It was an unwelcoming message the artist formerly known as ‘the funny Beatle” issued to fans.

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When Paul McCartney was 24, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album which includes his track “When I’m Sixty-Four.” During an interview, Paul McCartney revealed why he used the number “64” in the song. In addition, he discussed how he would change the track if he wrote it at a later stage of his life.
What would have been different about The Beatles’ ”When I’m Sixty-Four” if Paul McCartney wrote it during another time in his life

2006 was an interesting year for Paul. The Los Angeles Times reports it was when he turned 64—an age which was especially notable since he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four” many years prior. In addition, he earned his 64th Grammy nomination.

During an interview, Paul said “It was really an arbitrary number when I wrote [‘When I’m Sixty-Four’]. I probably should have called it ‘When I’m 65,’ which is the retirement age in England. And the rhyme would have been easy, ‘something, something alive when I’m 65.’ But it felt too predictable. It sounded better to say 64.”

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In 1968 Paul Saltzman was a lost soul. The son of a Canadian TV weatherman, he was working as a sound engineer for the National Film Board of Canada in India when he received a “Dear John” letter from the woman he thought was going to be his wife. “I was devastated,” he says. “Then someone on the crew said: ‘Have you tried meditation for the heartbreak?’”

Saltzman went to see the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – the founder of transcendental meditation – speak at New Delhi University. Emboldened by promises of “inner rejuvenation”, Saltzman then travelled to the International Academy of Meditation in Rishikesh. It was closed because of the arrival of The Beatles.

As explained by Paul McCartney in the Beatles book Anthology, the exhausted group, still coming to terms with the suicide of their manager Brian Epstein in August 1967, had arrived in Rishikesh with wives and girlfriends to “find the answer” through the teachings of the Maharishi, whom Paul, George and John had first encountered at a lecture at the London Hilton. “There was a feeling of: ‘It’s great to be famous [and] rich,” said McCartney, “but what it’s all for?’

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