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George Harrison surmised that The Beatles‘ 1999 reissue of their 1969 album, Yellow Submarine, sold many copies because people were sick of music with drum machines. They wanted something nostalgic.
In 2000, George spoke to Billboard about The Beatles’ reissue of Yellow Submarine.
Billboard said, “Your old band has got the No. 1 album around the world.” George said it was great because it wasn’t just The Beatles’ fans who’d grown up with the band who bought the album. It was a whole new generation of fans. The reissue had sparked their interest in The Beatles.
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No matter how talented a vocalist is, some songs might cause them to struggle and even cause health issues. Especially when you need to scream at the top of your lungs, which is mostly the case with heavy metal bands, it becomes inevitable to hurt your throat or vocal cords after some time.
However, sometimes an artist doesn’t need to be a heavy metal singer to shred their vocal cords. John Lennon, the frontman of one of the bands that provide their audience with a relatively calm and joyous feeling with their songs, also hurt his vocal cords once while trying to sing a Beatles song.
With a raspy singing voice that expressed a wide range of feelings, John Lennon became one of the most unforgettable voices in music history. Although insecure about his voice, Lennon was ranked number 5 among the 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time by Rolling Stone. Apart from using his voice to communicate sincere feelings, Lennon also screamed his emotions in some songs.
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John Lennon said The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” was one of his more personal songs. He explained the setting of “Penny Lane” and his connection to it. He was more connected to the actual Penny Lane than the other Beatles.
John Lennon said The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” reflected his life. In addition, he compared it to a scene from one of The Beatles’ movies. Notably, audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom had different reactions to “Penny Lane.”“Or why don’t you put something about your childhood into the songs?'” John quoted the reporter saying. “Which came out later as ‘Penny Lane’ from Paul — although it was actually me who lived in Penny Lane — and ‘Strawberry Fields [Forever].'”
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Sparks immediately flew between George Harrison and Pattie Boyd, but their connection wasn’t destined to last. As their marriage wore on, Boyd said she felt increasingly isolated from her husband. While it was clear that something wasn’t working, Boyd said that the final straw didn’t come until she learned about an affair between her husband and Ringo Starr’s wife.
Boyd and Harrison met on the set of the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day’s Night, and Harrison felt immediately drawn to her. At the end of the day, he asked her out, but she had a boyfriend and refused.
“And then I told my girlfriends and they said, ‘You’re completely mad! How could you turn him down?'” Boyd said, per Yahoo News. “And I said, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, what I was thinking.'”
They met again, though, and this time Boyd didn’t have a boyfriend.
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George Harrison and Bob Dylan were life-long friends who admired each others’ work. However, their relationship went deeper than that. George was often amazed by everything that Dylan did in his career and inspired him to follow his own direction and be the person he wanted to be. When they came together, they made unbelievably good music.
So, George didn’t like the Dylan fans who weren’t as open to everything Dylan decided to do. George and Dylan first admired each other as they treaded down their paths in the music industry.
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George Harrison surmised that The Beatles‘ 1999 reissue of their 1969 album, Yellow Submarine, sold many copies because people were sick of music with drum machines. They wanted something nostalgic.
In 2000, George spoke to Billboard about The Beatles’ reissue of Yellow Submarine.
Billboard said, “Your old band has got the No. 1 album around the world.” George said it was great because it wasn’t just The Beatles’ fans who’d grown up with the band who bought the album. It was a whole new generation of fans. The reissue had sparked their interest in The Beatles.
“I know, it’s funny, isn’t it? It’s interesting, and it’s amazing, ’cause I’ve been out a couple of nights lately where there’s been a lot of people, and there’s lot of young people who are just so into it,” George said. “It’s great, it’s really good, because you see kids who are 5, 6, and 17 — that whole span — and they genuinely like it.”
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George Harrison stayed outside for most of The Beatles‘ meeting with their idol, Elvis Presley. The King of Rock & Roll’s stylist found him in the backyard. They talked about spirituality. George hadn’t dived head-first into Eastern religion yet, but he was about to. Once he did, people like Elvis didn’t impress him anymore.
In a 1987 interview with Creem Magazine, George explained that The Beatles smoked herbal cigarettes before meeting Elvis.
“He was really nice and he was charming, and it was a big thrill for us, meeting him–especially because … well, we looked forward to it, but it was probably up on Mullholland Drive, which goes around and around and around, and we were in the dark, in the back of this limo,” George said.
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David Frost will long be remembered as the broadcaster who went head to head with former US president Richard Nixon in a series of interviews following the Watergate scandal.
But a trove of previously lost recordings of Frost’s interviews, with some of the greatest entertainers of the last 70 years, will now be brought back to life for a new radio series.
His son, Wilfred Frost – who followed in his father’s footsteps as a journalist – has spent the last five years searching and digitising his archives.
“There’s tapes that were lost for a generation,” he told The Telegraph.
He said he felt a “duty” to “celebrate” his father’s legacy and has produced a nine-part series, which will air on BBC Radio 4. A television show is also expected to follow next year.
To gather the lost recordings, he had to strike a deal with the US broadcaster CBS for the rights to some interview tapes that had been stored in its archives in Pennsylvania.
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“The thing was I turned up and, like today, it was a very hot day,” he said.
“I happened to be wearing sandals so I just kicked them off, because it was just so hot, and went across barefoot. There was no special meaning behind it – it was really hot.”
The Let It Be singer recently returned to the scene of the photo as he recorded his new album Egypt Station at the legendary London studio, and shared a video of himself crossing the road on Instagram, much to the delight of die-hard fans.
One fan described him as “the king”, while another wrote: “Paul Icon walking across Abbey Road this time wearing sandals, stops to give crowd a hello as only Paul McCartney can do.” (sic)
During the raw question and answer session, the Liverpool-born star also revealed how the people and humour of his hometown in made him the man he is today and revealed his favourite memory of growing up in the Northern city.
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George Harrison considered retiring at a relatively young age. He was only 33 when he contemplated it during a 1976 interview. George guessed he’d throw in the towel around the age of 37. Thankfully, his prediction didn’t quite come true.
During a 1976 interview, the BBC pointed out that George’s newest album, Thirty Three & 1/3, was his current age. They asked the former Beatle, who was only 27 when the band broke up, if he ever thought of stopping.
“Yeah, I did,” George said. “I suppose back in the 60s I gave myself to about 36. So, still got a couple of years, but I think I’ll probably be around 37 or 38 at the moment that I feel and suppose I could stop.
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