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John Lennon had strong feelings about Paul McCartney’s contributions to The Beatles’ “Lovely Rita.”
Paul said someone falsely said she inspired the track.
The individual in question was not named Rita.
A vinyl copy of The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
John Lennon was asked if The Beatles‘ “Lovely Rita” was about a real person. During a separate interview, Paul McCartney said someone incorrectly said she inspired the song. Notably, “Lovely Rita” appeared on one of The Beatles’ most famous albums.
John was asked if Rita was real. “Nah!” John replied. “He makes ’em up like a novelist. You hear lots of McCartney-influenced songs on the radio now. These stories about boring people doing boring things: being postmen and secretaries and writing home.”
John contrasted himself with Paul. “I’m not interested in writing third-party songs,” he revealed. “I like to write about me; ’cause I know me.”
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George Harrison liked carrying a ukulele banjo around with him at all times because its sound made people laugh. The former Beatle was already so charismatic he didn’t need the instrument to make people feel good. Still, the ukulele banjo allowed him to jam with friends as well.
According to Ukulele magazine, George wouldn’t have fallen in love with the ukulele without George Formby, who popularized the instrument in England in the 1920s. At one point, Formby was the highest-paid performer in the country, and everyone knew about him.
In 1992, George told Timothy White (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters) that Formby wasn’t exactly a massive influence on him as a child. However, growing up, he couldn’t escape Formby’s music.
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There are few things in this life that are permanent. If we were to get technical about our previous statement, we might make exceptions for the changing of seasons or the washing machine’s uncanny ability to hide a sock or two. But truly, what doesn’t pass eventually?
George Harrison believed, at least to some degree, that “All Things Must Pass.”
It’s a comforting and daunting sentiment believing that nothing lasts forever, and Harrison might’ve said it best. So, let’s find out more about Harrison’s famous post-Beatles song “All Things Must Pass.” Read below for the history and meaning of the song… quickly, before this article passes into oblivion.
At its core, the 1970 song is about moving on. For Harrison, this meant a few things, but most prominently it meant moving on from The Beatles after the band’s breakup in April 1970. In an interview with TV show host Dick Cavett in 1971, Harrison expressed his relief about The Beatles’ separating. “That’s what happened, and it was good, but it was also good to carry on [and] do something else. In fact, it was a relief,” he said.
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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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