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Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Klaus Voormann never recaptured the magic of an all-time great jam Yoko Ono inadvertently broke up.Ringo Starr had a solid relationship with all of his Beatles bandmates, but he was incredibly close to John Lennon. Even after Lennon’s murder, the drummer showed respect by refusing to record a song of his that became a hit. The song we really want to hear, though, is the extended jam Ringo and John played on that Yoko Ono interrupted.
Members of the Fab Four didn’t stop working together even though the band broke up. Ringo drummed on albums by each of his former bandmates. That included the simultaneous John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band projects in 1970.
The drummer was an early member of the rotating supergroup that orbited around John and Yoko.
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In 1973 Beatle George Harrison gifted a manor house to the Hare Krishna movement so they could have a base in the UK. Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire is now one of the UK's foremost Hindu temples. Leading members share the story of its inception, its fight against closure and the legacy it holds today.
It was no coincidence that Shyamasundar Das met George Harrison at an Apple Records party in December 1968 - although he had not expected them to become lifelong friends.
He had come to England on a mission: To launch the Hare Krishna movement at the bidding of leader Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Shyamasundar Das decided to aim high and got himself an invite to a party at the Beatles' record label.
He recalls: "We arrived in September of '68, and by Christmas time I had met George Harrison and we were chanting Hare Krishna with the Beatles."
Source: Louise Parry & Deepak Patel - BBC News, Hertfordshire/news.yahoo.com
John Lennon didn't want his fans to know that he was married. One day, reporters followed Cynthia to the store and broke the story. John Lennon denied the rumor that he was married for as long as he could. But one day, the paparazzi followed Cynthia Lennon to the store and hounded her about her marital status. Though she denied the rumor as well, the story that followed was the end of their marriage being a secret.
At the time, Cynthia and the baby were living with her mother in Hoylake. It didn’t take long for the adamant press to hunt down the Beatle’s wife’s location.
“Half a dozen of them actually slept in a car in front of the house, waiting for Cynthia to emerge,” reads The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. “She waited nearly a week before she ventured outside, when she wheeled Julian to the greengrocer in his carriage. She was secretly photographed by hidden photographers with telephoto lenses.”
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Paul McCartney said performing The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” makes him feel like he’s drowning. In addition, he called this a pleasant experience. Notably, “Eleanor Rigby” was a double A-side with another famous Beatles song in the United Kingdom.During a 2015 interview with Esquire, Paul was asked why he continued to tour rather than sit back and relax. “Two reasons: I love it, and it’s my job,” he said. “Three reasons: the audience. You sing something and you get this incredible warmth back, this adulation. And who doesn’t like that? It’s amazing. Plus, the band’s very good. And having said there were three answers there are now about seven.
Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com
Paul McCartney picks his favorite songs to wishes he wrote ever. One of the most-known guitarists and bassists and legends, Paul McCartney, loves adding simple but catchy guitar techniques and styles to his music, riff, and solo parts for music bands like The Beatles. In this article, we will detail the songs of Paul McCartney named as his wishes he wrote of all time.
Paul McCartney, one of the most famous characters in the pop-rock genre, has impressed the rock and pop genre. McCartney’s songwriting, voice, and bass playing were critical to The Beatles becoming a founding member of the international fanbase.
His adventure started in Liverpool, England, where he and the other The Beatles members – John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr – revolutionized the music business and culture. McCartney contributed considerably to the band’s breakthrough sound as its bassist and one of its primary songwriters. Hits such as “Hey Jude,” “Let It Be,” and “Yesterday” became timeless classics, establishing The Beatles as one of the greatest bands of all time.
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Paul McCartney said The Beatles' "Let It Be" might flop if it were released today. Subsequently, he wondered if a band like The Beatles could exist now.Paul McCartney said The Beatles’ “Let It Be” might flop if it were released today. Subsequently, he wondered if a band like The Beatles could exist now. There are multiple reasons “Let It Be” doesn’t have the commercial appeal it once did.
During a 2015 interview with Esquire, a reporter told Paul it’s difficult to imagine him writing another song as impactful as “Let It Be.” “I think that’s true,” he said. “When you sit down to write a song, it does cross your mind. You go, ‘This isn’t going to be like ‘Eleanor Rigby.’
“Bob Dylan was asked why didn’t he write another ‘Tambourine Man’ and he goes, ‘Because I’m not that guy anymore,'” Paul added. “I think that’s the truth.
“Some of it is also to do with the circumstances,” Paul continued. “Those songs were launched by The Beatles, the biggest band ever. If I had ‘Let it Be’ now, it just might not get as much attention. You might not be able to make a record as Beatle-y or as harmonious as the record we made. But it doesn’t stop me trying.”
Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com
Paul McCartney is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. But even he has a song that makes him "cringe" that will never be played again.
Paul McCartney is synonymous with writing hit songs. From his time with The Beatles, Wings, and then as a solo artist, it seemed like whatever music McCartney touched, turned to fire. And with good reason, as McCartney is credited with writing 32 hit singles and has won 12 Grammy Awards, making him the richest of all The Beatles. But even the most amazing of songwriters has one or two that they wince at. This includes McCartney.
While there are some songs from The Beatles that are significantly better or more controversial than others, critics would be hard-pressed to identify a song from their catalog to completely pan. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Paul McCartney and Wings. Their first few albums did not receive critical praise, like John Lennon or even George Harrison did with the biggest solo album of any of The Beatles.
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The Beatles’ first tour of America, in February 1964, was a musical sensation, recalling the rock ’n’ roll energy that Elvis had given the world a decade earlier. It was a cultural watershed, announcing the coming of a new generation. And Beatlemania was a media phenomenon, erupting at exactly the moment the Canadian critic Marshall McLuhan had coined the term “global village.” Telstar had been launched in July 1962, providing instantaneous communications across the Atlantic. As the world shrank, opportunity knocked—precisely when everyone wanted younger heroes. The Beatles happily obliged.
Source: Ted Widmer/wsj.com
Always heavily influenced by Motown and the American blues and rock of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Ray Charles, as they made their big jump from the smaller stages in Liverpool to defining their sound in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles’ repertoire extended into earlier influences of rockabilly, folk, and country-western with covers by Carl Perkins and Buck Owens among others.
All four members had their particular brushes with country. A big Chet Atkins fan, George Harrison started playing Atkins’ 1962 black Country Gentleman and Tennessean Rose model Gretsch guitars while in The Beatles. Atkins also admired the band and released an album of their covers, Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles, in 1966, with liner notes written by Harrison.
“I have appreciated Chet Atkins as a musician since long before the tracks on this album were written, in fact, since I was the ripe young age of 17,” wrote Harrison in the liner notes to Atkins’ album. “Since then I have lost count of the number of Chet’s albums I have acquired, but I have not been disappointed with any of them. For me, the great thing about Mr. Atkins is not the fact that he is capable of playing almost every type of music but the conviction in the way he does it.”
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Months after the release of ‘The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,’ the documentary about her, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, May Pang recalled how her relationship with the late Beatle started in a recent interview with Fox 2 Detroit.During the chat, Pang said she met the band members in the summer of 1970 when they were about to break up. Upon that, the interviewer referred to Ono’s offer for her to have an ‘affair’ with Lennon, to which she said:“That was in ’73. That’s fifty years ago. I know it sounds wild, but it’s fifty years ago. You know, I’m sitting in the office, thinking – I hadn’t had my first cup of coffee – ‘What is she saying to me?’ So, this whole thing happened, and I’m sitting there going, ‘But I don’t want him.’ She goes, ‘Oh, I know, but he’s gonna start seeing other people, but I think you’ll be good ’cause you don’t have a boyfriend.’ And I’m going, ‘But I don’t want him.'”
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