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A strange thing happened when a member of the Hare Krishna Temple asked George Harrison for money to publish a book. George had helped the Temple establish itself in London. Therefore, they were embarrassed to ask him for more help, and this time for money. However, Krishna helped them.
By the mid-1960s, George was disillusioned with many things, including fame. As a Beatle, George had met all sorts of celebrities and dignitaries, but none impressed him. He had also recently taken LSD with John Lennon. The hallucinogen had opened a door to a place unknown to George. Soon all George cared about was finding the tools he needed to break through that door.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/strange-occurrence-happened-hare-krishna-temple-asked-george-harrison-money.html/ A strange incident occurred when the Hare Krishna Temple asked George Harrison for money
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As Beatlemania flooded fans in America and the U.K. throughout the mid-1960s, The Beatles were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of screeching fans at all of their performances. Around that same period in their career, the band pursued a more serious style of music away from the two-minute, radio-friendly pop songs of their early days and opting for a more psychedelic and immersive approach on albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. With screaming fans drowning out the music, and the more comprehensive orchestration required to pull off their newer material, The Beatles ultimately opted to end touring once and for all in 1966.
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Beatles insiders got the confirmation that a Revolver box set is indeed coming — with a September 13th “save the date” notice from the powers that be indicating more info was on its way. Giles Martin, the son of the Beatles' legendary producer George Martin, is once again spearheading the new box set, which his rumored to drop in late-October. The package follows such critically acclaimed expanded and remixed versions of 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1968's The Beatles (aka the “White Album”), 1969's Abbey Road, and 1970's Let It Be.
Back in 2021 Giles talked about remixing Revolver, telling Variety, “If you take something like 'Taxman' (it's) guitar, bass and drums on one track, and vocals and a sort of shaking and guitar solo (on the right). And it sounds good; they’re amazing recordings, and amazing mixes. Y'know, we have to look into what technology we can do to make things de-mixed and all this kind of stuff, which I’m looking into.
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The Beatles‘ A Hard Day’s Night is one of the most famous rock ‘n’ roll movies ever. John Lennon wrote a song for A Hard Day’s Night that the film’s director didn’t like. Subsequently, the track became a hit.Walter Shenson produced A Hard Day’s Night while Richard Lester directed the movie. During a 2000 interview with Salon, Shenson discussed the film. “Dick and I came up with the idea of [writer Alun] Owen to do the screenplay — not because he was available and had done a play and some television but because he was from Liverpool and it seemed natural that he could write in The Beatles’ idiom,” he said.
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Paul McCartney wrote a song that sounded like something his former bandmate, George Harrison, would’ve written. It’s surprising considering how long Paul pushed George’s songwriting aside while they were bandmates. Paul didn’t appreciate George’s musical contributions and claimed only he and John Lennon were The Beatles’ songwriters.
A couple of years after George died in 2001, Paul wrote “Friends To Go.” It appeared on his 2005 album, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard. Paul later confessed to Gary Crowley (per The Paul McCartney Project) that when he started writing the song, it morphed into something George would’ve written.
“Funny thing about some songs is when you’re writing them you can think you’re someone else,” Paul said. “I mean when I was doing ‘Long and Winding Road’ I thought I was Ray Charles. In actual fact my record of it, the Beatles’ record of it, is nothing like Ray Charles at all. But in my mind, I was being him. I was playing Ray.
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Paul McCartney was fond of the instrumentation of The Beatles’ “Lady Madonna.” The song’s instrumentation inspired Paul to sing like another rock star on the track. “Lady Madonna” became a hit twice in the United Kingdom.
The Beatles‘ “Lady Madonna” was Paul McCartney’s attempt to mimic boogie-woogie music. Paul said he was doing an impression of another rock star when he sang “Lady Madonna.” Subsequently, the rock star in question covered the track.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed the origin of “Lady Madonna.” “‘Lady Madonna’ was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing,” he recalled. “I got my left hand doing an arpeggio thing with the chord, an ascending boogie-woogie left hand, then a descending right hand.
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According to some reporters, George Harrison was direct during interviews with The Beatles. They gathered that he was different from his bandmates.
The band often fooled around to get through exhausting, silly interviews with reporters who knew nothing about them. For the most part, George included himself in the fooling around. However, he sometimes let his true nature come through.
When that happened, George’s temperament scared some journalists because they didn’t know how to talk to him. They wanted silly answers to their silly questions, and sometimes George didn’t play along.
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If you ever wondered who took the clean-cut members of the Beatles and turned them into soul searching songwriters capable of penning wildly psychedelic tunes like “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “Within You Without You”, look no further than Bob Dylan. For it was on this day in 1964—so the story goes, anyway—when Dylan introduced John, Paul, George, and Ringo to the glories of smoking the ‘ol jazz cabbage.
Following their sold-out show at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NYC on August 28th, Dylan arrived to meet the Beatles at the Delmonico Hotel across the river in Manhattan where the popular folk singer wasted no time in almost immediately pulling out a joint to smoke with the mop-topped foursome. While the band relayed stories to Dylan of trying cannabis once a few years prior in 1960, they said it hadn’t worked. Dylan clearly had the goods–as rock stars typically do–and the Beatles would go on to get ridiculously high on that fateful evening in New York City.
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What would music be without the Beatles? It’s a question we certainly don’t enjoy pondering because the legacy the Beatles created in just 10 years is nothing short of astronomical. It is interesting, though, that their success was created in a relatively short period of time, and their years spent performing live were even shorter. As one of the bands that rarely played live after finding their audience, each performance carries weight.
So, after searching through what film is still available to the public, we’ve rounded up just five of these notable performances. Read and watch below for a few unforgettable performances from Britain’s most beloved mop tops.
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George Harrison said one of his songs could’ve had a good dance routine. Not many of George’s songs are danceable, but you could dance if you feel like it.
Granted, George was known for writing love songs and some of the most spiritual tunes, but he did know how to write danceable songs too. In a 1992 interview with Timothy White (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters), George said his song “Teardrops” could’ve had a good dance routine.
“That’s quite a nice song,” George said. “That could be done by some black group, because you could make a good dance routine to that one.”
“Teardrops” isn’t a typical George Harrison song, considering its heavy keyboards and pop tones. It’s a surprise the former Beatle even recorded it. George was not a fan of pop music by any means. The genre made him feel “uptight.” Regardless, it could’ve had a good dance routine.
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