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Here's how Ringo Starr met his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett, and what their marathon first date consisted of. Ringo Starr married his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett (originally Cox) in 1965. They were married for 10 years. Here’s the story of how they met. Before Ringo got together with Maureen, he actually got engaged to a woman named Geraldine. Though, they eventually decided to break off the engagement. When Starr was with Geraldine, he became aware of Maureen Cox, who was going out with the Rory Storm (the band Ringo was in at the time) guitarist Johnny “Guitar.” But because they were both with other people at the time, Starr didn’t make a point to speak to her.
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A movie star who is still remembered today is on The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' three times and one time she's barely visible.The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band features numerous famous people on the cover. One movie star is featured on the album three times. During one of those appearances, she’s depicted as a doll.
The cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper includes people from many fields. For example, it includes authors like Karl Marx and Oscar Wilde, musicians like Bob Dylan and Dion DiMucci, and religious leaders like Aleister Crowley and Paramahansa Yogananda.
Despite this, Hollywood stars make up a huge portion of the people on the album. Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, and Marlene Dietrich are all there. According to Goldmine, child star Shirley Temple is on Sgt. Pepper three times. Each appearance is very different from the last.
The first time Temple appears on the cover, she’s in the front row of the crowd. Her hair is barely visible behind the wax figures of John Lennon and Ringo Starr. She can also be seen prominently on the right side of the front row in black-and-white. She’s depicted as a small child rather than the adult she was at the time.
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Paul McCartney and Jane Asher dated for five years. For about three of those years, the Beatle lived with his girlfriend and her family. He adored their family dynamic. Shacking up with his then-girlfriend was a distinct pleasure that broadened the musician’s horizons. At the beginning of their relationship, McCartney would always check himself into a hotel after visiting with Asher and her family or rush off to catch a flight out of Heathrow for Liverpool. But he hardly stayed over.
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When The Beatles finally hit the mainstream, they were constantly fighting in the singles charts to gain that highly-coveted number-one single.
But in January, 1963, it finally happened when they released their third single: Please Please Me.
The track hit the airwaves on January 11, 1963, and reached the top spot in the New Musical Express and Melody Maker Charts. However, it only hit number two in the Record Retailer chart - the list that would go on to become the official UK Singles Charts. As a result, Please Please Me has since been left out of the band's number ones compilation over the years.
With that said, the genius track came directly from one Beatles star: John Lennon - with a little production help from his friend George Martin.
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The collection will be at The Chrysler Museum of Art from December 5, 2023 – April 7, 2024.
The Chrysler Museum of Art will present Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm from December 5, 2023 – April 7, 2024.
Traveling from the National Portrait Gallery in London to Norfolk, the Chrysler Museum of Art will be the first venue in the United States to host this major exhibition.
Captured by McCartney using his own Pentax Camera, the exhibition features more than 250 photographs taken between November 1963 and February 1964, illuminating the period in which The Beatles became international superstars. The photographs were rediscovered in McCartney’s personal archive in 2020.
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Ringo Starr said "Photograph" is one of the best songs he ever wrote. He said some of the track's greatness had nothing to do with him.
During a 2007 interview with The Gainesville Sun, Ringo was asked if “No No Song” was one of his favorite songs from his catalog. “I have great memories of when we recorded that, because the last thing any of us were doing was saying ‘No’ in those days,” he said. “Things have changed, of course.
“Photograph’ is beautiful,” he said. “That’s one of the best songs I’ve ever written. I was writing it with George Harrison, so that also helped.” Notably, George co-wrote or produced other famous Ringo tunes like “Back Off Boogaloo” and “It Don’t Come Easy.”
“In those days, and still to this day, I only play three chords,” he added. “I’d write these songs, and then I’d give them to George and he would put in 10 more chords, and they’d think I was the genius.”
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The group’s popularity has endured for decades and has influenced countless other musicians over the years. In Hackman’s case, he’s taken his longtime love of the band and interwoven it with his classical chops to create “And I Love Her: The Beatles Re-Imagined,” a concert coming to Stanford's Frost Amphitheater July 16 as part of the Stanford Live Arts Festival.
The production “sees the Beatles through the lens of the women that inspired them,” Hackman said, “of their mothers, of their wives, and also the female characters that they created through their music, of which there are so many colorful ones.”
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If you were to take out a pad and pen and jot down the great songwriters of all time, likely the name Paul McCartney would be on that list. Whether he’s No. 1 or somewhere between there and No. 10, Sir Paul is there, to be sure.
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But while he wrote so many hit songs for the Beatles and with his former pal, the late John Lennon, McCartney also wrote songs for other artists. He enjoyed collaboration and even writing instrumental pieces for orchestras to play. His mind always moving.
For evidence of this, look no further than the songs and compositions below. Indeed, these are three songs you likely didn’t know Paul McCartney wrote for other artists.
1. “Love in the Open Air,” The Tudor Minstrels
Written by Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney said a song from The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is "madness." He decided that 'Sgt. Pepper' song should include an orchestra.
Paul McCartney said avant-garde music inspired The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
A song from Sgt. Pepper might be The Beatles’ most avant-garde moment.
The album was a big hit in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Paul McCartney said a song from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is “madness.” He decided that Sgt. Pepper song should include an orchestra. Subsequently, he clashed with The Beatles’ producer over this decision.During a 2021 interview with NPR, Paul discussed what inspired The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” “Because I’d been listening to a lot of avant-garde music at that time, just for my own pleasure and just to examine the scene and just see if I liked it, I thought that this orchestral cascade, this sort of mountain of orchestra and kind of quite chaotic, would be a good idea at this point in the song ‘A Day in the Life.'”
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Ringo Starr recently sat down with Goldmine and talked about his 1973 album ‘Ringo’ coming to its 50th anniversary, the ‘Beatles Anthology’, drums, and more. In the interview, when his musical idol was asked, Ringo mentioned that he loved Lightnin’ Major so much that he was planning on going to America:
“Musically, the major idol of mine was Lightnin’ Hopkins. I loved the blues. Life is weird. At 18 I went to the American consulate in Liverpool because I wanted to move to Houston, Texas because Lightnin’ was from there.”
Starr continued telling the story of him trying to move to Houston because he was so influenced by Lightnin’:
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