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George Harrison once revealed how he wanted people to use his songs. He wanted them to record their own versions. Plenty of artists have covered George’s songs over the years.
After The Beatles broke up in 1970, the band fought tremendously. It left the door open for anyone to come in and take what they wanted. Instead of fighting with each other, they should’ve been protecting their catalog.
Since they lost their catalog, they no longer had the choice of how people used their music. Suddenly The Beatles were in advertisements and other things.
During a 1992 interview with Timothy White for Goldmine, George said he and his bandmates agreed that no Beatles song should be in an advertisement. They had to come together and protect their music.
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Although The Beatles split up back in 1970, each of the band members continued to release solo music in the decades that followed. While their friendships were ultimately repaired, their rivalries in the charts never came to an end. John Lennon enjoyed a decade of releasing chart-topping hits before he was murdered in 1980. George Harrison dropped ten albums across a decade, nearly all of which hit gold status. And Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney have continued to release albums to this day. But there were some things they couldn't compete on.
In 1997, McCartney was the recipient of an extremely exclusive honour from The Queen herself.
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John Lennon said one of the songs from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul was about an important topic.
John said he wanted to mimic Jesus Christ and Mahatma Gandhi.
Rubber Soul became a hit in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Beatles‘ Rubber Soul includes songs about a variety of topics. For example, John Lennon said one Rubber Soul song is about “the underlying theme to the universe.” John revealed the song was written as part of his “marijuana period.”
The book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon includes an interview from 1980. In it, John discussed his views on love. “It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer when I was younger,” he recalled.
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The Beatles practically grew up in front of the world. They were barely out of their teenage years when they hit it big in 1962. The public took almost as much interest in their love lives as it did in the music. John Lennon was the first Beatle to get married (George Harrison had some thoughts about it affecting the band’s image), and Paul McCartney knew it was destined to fail.
John Lennon and Cynthia Powell met in school in 1957. The attraction wasn’t mutual at first, but Powell became drawn to John when she saw him play music. John and a pregnant Powell married in 1962, just as the Beatles started to find success, but marriage didn’t seem to suit the songwriter.
John once said he felt embarrassed being the only married member of the group. He likened his marriage to Powell to walking around with his fly open.
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George Harrison said he wrote “Not Guilty” about the “grief” he received from his fellow Beatles, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, during the making of The White Album. The “Taxman” singer was getting increasingly angry with his bandmates at the time and needed to vent his frustrations. It all came out in a song.
George wrote his first song, “Don’t Bother Me,” in 1963. Paul and John immediately agreed to keep The Beatles’ songwriting to themselves.
When George came to John, Paul, and producer George Martin with his songs, they only allowed him a couple on an album. Eventually, George grew tired of having to push, so he started stockpiling.
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In the summer of 1963, the Beatles had some time off, and while the other three members of the band went on holiday to Europe, George Harrison became the first Beatle to visit America, when, on September 16, 1963, along with his brother Peter, he went to Benton, Illinois – population, 7,000 - to visit their older sister, Louise.
According to George, “I went to New York and St Louis in 1963, to look around, and to the countryside in Illinois, where my sister was living at the time. I went to record stores. I bought Booker T and the MGs' first album, Green Onions, and I bought some Bobby Bland, all kind of things.” George also bought James Ray’s single “Got My Mind Set On You” that he later covered in 1987.
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Each night during its U.S. tour, the All-Starr Band serves up two hours of jukebox rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s-1980s, including The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine,” Toto’s “Africa,” Men at Work’s “Who Can It Be Now,” Carl Perkins’ “Matchbox” and the Isley Brothers’ “Work to Do.”
Every song is a hit,” says guitarist Lukather, the Toto stalwart who has performed with the All-Starr Band since 2012 and recently completed a string of gigs with his own group on a bill with Journey. “Ringo is on fire, and it’s so inspiring to be around him. I love every member of the All-Starrs, they’re all dear friends.”
Lukather says that the All-Starrs’ fifteenth outing (with different member configurations dating back to 1989) is unique for two reasons.
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George Harrison said you can hear traces of two of his Beatles songs in his 1987 tune, “When We Was Fab.” The former Beatle wrote it with Jeff Lynne (who George once called a Beatle copycat) after he found he wanted to write a Beatlesque tune. That itself was surprising.
Being a Beatle was often hard for George. He realized being in one of the most famous bands in the world came with a price. The whole experience aged him. It wrecked his nerves and made him paranoid. Everyone wanted a piece of him, and he wasn’t willing to give it to them.
Meanwhile, The Beatles were making uninspiring music. In the mid-1960s, George craved change and wanted answers to who he was and what he was doing on Earth.
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The Beatles split up in 1970 just after they released their final album, Let It be. The Fab Four then all went their separate ways and began working on solo music. George Harrison released his seminal album All Things Must Pass in late 1970. And a year later, he began working with John Lennon on the star's second studio album, Imagine.
Lennon ultimately released Imagine on September 9, 1971. It was a smash hit on the charts and reached number one in both the UK and USA album rankings. Imagine has also since been voted 80th in Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Harrison did not have completely fond memories of working on the record, however. He was brought on board to contribute some guitar on a few hits across the ten-track album.
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Remixed "Revolver" to reveal new layers of the Beatles' extraordinary musical powers
The deluxe box set and remix, coming October 28, used machine learning to produce its pristine sound
This week, producer Giles Martin held a listening session at New York City's Republic Studios, where he unveiled his remixed version (prepared with engineer Sam Okell) of the Beatles' legendary "Revolver" album. As the key feature of an upcoming boxed set, slated for release on October 28, the remixed "Revolver" is a revelation made explicitly possible by recent advances in sonic technology.
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