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In November 1976, David Cahn, in charge of Midwest promotions for Warner Bros. Records, was summoned to a Chicago hotel, where he learned the new client he and other regional managers would be working with was George Harrison.
It was six years after the Beatles broke up, and Dark Horse Records, the record label Harrison founded, was now to be distributed and marketed by Warner Bros. Records. The regional managers would be promoting Harrison’s seventh studio album, “Thirty Three & 1/3,” with the team’s goal of making the album a No. 1 seller.
“It was such a thrill to be able to meet George,” said Cahn, who grew up in Rochester and lives in the Buffalo area. “I think the Beatles were the best group ever, and he was my favorite Beatle growing up.”
Cahn, had been in the music industry at that point for six years, the first four as a disc jockey at FM rock radio station WPHD in Buffalo during the golden era of underground, free-form radio. After the station was sold, he went to work for Warner Bros.
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A national blue plaque to commemorate the life and work of Beatles icon George Harrison is to be unveiled later this year
The life and legacy of Beatles icon George Harrison is to be commemorated with one of the first blue plaques outside London.
Harrison's childhood home in Liverpool is now understood to be a possible location for a commemoration.
The Beatle, who was born on 25 February 1943, lived at 12 Arnold Grove in the Wavertree area of Liverpool until he was seven.
The Historic England scheme had been limited to the capital for 150 years.
Unveiling the first of the national blue plaques, arts and heritage minister Lord Parkinson said he looked forward to "recognising more people who have made their mark on national life".
A national blue plaque to commemorate the life and work of Beatles icon George Harrison is to be unveiled later this year
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With the announcement of four interconnected Beatles biopics coming in 2027, one for each member, the lives of the men behind history’s biggest-ever band have come into new focus. Nicknamed “the quiet Beatle”, George Harrison‘s contribution to global music and spirituality – thanks to his famous conversion to Hinduism in the 1960s – proves that Harrison’s tranquillity and peace-promoting attitude were mighty in their own way, and should not be understated.
In his final years, Harrison’s religious beliefs as a source of strength and inspiration in the face of a highly-publicized health battle have helped shape his permanent legacy. In many ways, Harrison died as he had lived – encouraging others to keep their hearts and minds open to the beauty of the spiritual world. While his bandmate John Lennon’s death is the more known of the two, due to his 1980 assassination at the hands of a fan and his widow Yoko Ono’s ongoing campaign against gun violence, George Harrison’s death is a reminder that a life’s ending can still be beautiful and meaningful.
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Never-before-seen candid photos of The Beatles on their first flight to the US, the official beginning of what the world would soon know as 'Beatlemania,' have emerged for sale for £16,000.
John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had no idea that their lives would change forever once they stepped off that very plane in New York and went on to crack America.
Alongside the 10 black and white snaps is a Pan Am flight menu, signed by the band.
The images were taken at a monumental time in their career, just before Beatlemania exploded in the US following their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Flying first class from London to New York on February 7, 1964, they were set to perform on the hugely popular US show two days later - a pivotal moment that catapulted them into international stardom.
These previously hidden images were taken by American businessman Robert Kinderman, who was also in first class, and whose teenager daughter Carol was a huge Beatles fan.
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“Yesterday” is one of the biggest and most beloved songs released by The Beatles. The tune was something different from the rock band, and it showed a new, especially thoughtful side of the globe-dominating outfit. Decades after its release, one of the two credited writers on the track has shared how it all came together.
In the latest episode of his podcast, Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, the man himself opened up about the tune and spoke quite a bit about “Yesterday,” admitting that it came to him unconsciously.
“I went to sleep one night and dreamed a tune. Somewhere in my dream I heard this tune. When I woke up, I go I love that tune–it’s great. I love that one,” McCartney stated in the interview. He added that once he was awake and realized he had something special in mind, he “kind of fell out of bed and the piano was right there to the left of my bed and I just sort of thought well I’ll try and work out how this song goes.”
McCartney admitted that when he was first singing what would become “Yesterday,” he assumed that it was something he’d heard before. He simply didn’t believe that he had come up with the melody himself–especially not while he was sleeping.
In the podcast, McCartney shared that for some time after he first created the “Yesterday” tune, he asked around to see where he may have grabbed it from. “The first person I saw was John [Lennon]. I said, ‘What’s this? It’s bugging me. What’s this song?’. He goes ‘I don’t know’,” the superstar revealed, bringing his friend and former bandmate into the conversation.
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The Beatles are each set to have their own movie.
"I'm honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies," Mendes, director of American Beauty, Spectre, 1917 and Road to Perdition, said in a statement.
Find out everything to know about the upcoming Beatles movies and when you can expect to see them.
According to a statement from Sony Pictures, Mendes' Beatles movies will each tell the band's story from their respective members' point of view, eventually intersecting to "tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history."
The movies will follow the band from its creation to their 1970 split, and McCartney, Starr and the survivors and estates of Lennon and Harrison have given Mendes and producers their blessing and full rights to their music and life stories for each film.
"We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time," producer Pippa Harris said in a statement. "To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege."
Are the new Beatles movies documentaries? Nope! The upcoming Beatles movies from Mendes will be scripted movies.
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After the Bee Gees made the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film in 1978, George Harrison branded them and their manager Robert Stigwood as "greedy". Picture: Getty
George Harrison was always regarded as the mystic, mellow member of The Beatles.
But George Harrison also had his moments, where he'd exhibit his tongue was sharper than his fellow outspoken former bandmate John Lennon.
There was one instance where he didn't hold back, in a 1979 interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
For the most part of the decade since The Beatles called it a day, George would seldom partake in interviews, due to his disinterest in discussing his life and work with the media.
He changed tack slightly ahead of his 1979 self-titled album, in a conversation which spanned his new music, nostalgia for his former band, and his reactions to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film which had opened in London that week.
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The 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road is famous for many things: the cover photo of The Beatles on the zebra crossing walking away from the studio, the fact that it was the last album they recorded, and because it was the first time the band had ever used a synthesiser.
What is less well known is how various members of The Beatles embraced the synth during the Abbey Road sessions, and how one of its key sonic features might well have contributed to the demise of the band.
There are slightly differing accounts as to how the modular Moog 3 arrived at Abbey Road. According to Geoff Emerick, Moog had given a demo of the synth at EMI Studios some months before the recording of Abbey Road, and the band were impressed enough to use the synth.
No one had seen synthesisers. This was the very first time, and it took up a whole room.
And in a recent McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast, Paul seemed to back this version of events up, saying that his recording of the track Maxwell’s Silver Hammer on the Abbey Road album "coincided with the visit of Robert Moog, the inventor for the synthesiser. No one had seen synthesisers. This was the very first time, and it took up a whole room.
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Paul McCartney was the lucky recipient of some incredible generosity from Cathy Guest, who recently returned the music legend's stolen electric bass guitar after more than half a century, and now she's crossing her fingers for some compensation.
The East Sussex resident discovered the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass in her attic following the death of her husband Hadyn, who'd apparently got it off his brother Graham. McCartney, who changed the course of music history forever with The Beatles, first purchased the instrument in Hamburg back in 1961 before it was robbed from a van and sold to a pub landlord 11 years later.
In conversation with The Sun, Guest herself revealed that she snuck a letter into the guitar case for McCartney to read, detailing her financial situation as she supports two children still in education.
"My husband inherited it when another family member died and he'd had if for years," she told the publication. "He had no idea where it came from. He was a keen musician and used to play all the guitars at home, including Paul's bass. We both loved music and I still go to gigs every weekend.
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Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Sam Mendes, and Neal Street Productions announced a groundbreaking creative endeavor to tell the story of The Beatles with four distinct theatrical feature films. The project marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles – Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
As conceived by Mendes, who will direct, the four theatrical feature films – one from each band member’s point-of-view – will intersect to tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.
SPE will finance and distribute worldwide with full theatrical windows in 2027. The dating cadence of the films, the details of which will be shared closer to release, will be innovative and groundbreaking.
Mendes will direct all four films and produce alongside his Neal Street Productions partner Pippa Harris and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Jeff Jones will executive produce for Apple Corps Ltd.
Source: thebeatles.com
