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Paul McCartney said the lyrics of his solo songs contain a “schoolboy prank.” In addition, he said the lyrics of The Beatles‘ “Day Tripper” are similar. Notably, “Day Tripper” was a hit twice in the United Kingdom.
During a 2018 interview with GQ, Paul discussed the origin of his song “Fuh You.” “This song was coming to a close and we were just getting a bit hysterical in the studio, as you do when you’re locked away for long hours, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll just say, “I just wanna shag you,” he said. “And we had a laugh.”
And I said, ‘No, I’ll tell you what we can do is, I can make it questionable as to what it is I’m singing,'” Paul added. “So the actual lyrics are ‘You make me wanna go out and steal / I just want to f*** you’ or … ‘I just want it for you.‘ It’s a schoolboy prank.”
Paul said “Fuh You” was born out of a libertine approach to songwriting. “I mean, it’s intended as a popular song,” he said. “So you don’t feel like you’ve got to adhere to any rules.”
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George Harrison said he had to “punch” a doctor out for mistreating his mother, Louise, in her last months. The Beatle had enough on his plate in 1970; he didn’t need a doctor carelessly taking months off his mother’s life.
When George was 10, Louise gave him money to buy a beginner’s guitar from a boy at school.
From the day that George came home and asked for his first guitar, Louise supported her son. She encouraged him musically and let him leave school to travel to Hamburg, Germany, with The Beatles.
When the band played at The Cavern Club, she always cheered them on in the front row. After The Beatles became famous and Beatlemania exploded, Louise found that the only way she could support her son from home was to support his fans.
Soon, excited girls started visiting George’s house. Louise sometimes invited them inside for tea. She answered fan mail and communicated with fan clubs.
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A line in George Harrison‘s “Badge” came from a drunk Ringo Starr. He gave a few nonsensical lines to George’s humorous song, which he later gave to Eric Clapton.
In the late-1960s, George became friends with Eric Clapton. The Beatle asked Clapton to perform on his White Album hit, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and George wrote “Savoy Truffle” for Clapton.
Then, in 1968, George learned that Clapton’s band Cream was about to make their last album.
“Each of them had to come up with a song for that ‘Goodbye’ Cream album and Eric didn’t have his written,” George told Mitch Glazer at Crawdaddy in 1977 (George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters). George took it upon himself to help his friend write a song.
According to George’s 1980 memoir, I Me Mine, Clapton had the song’s melody before George started writing the lyrics.
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After seeing two videos of an elephant in India being beaten by handlers, Sir Paul McCartney has teamed up with PETA India to send a letter to the Indian government requesting help for the animal, named Jeymalyatha.
“I have considered India a spiritual place ever since I travelled there in the 1960s. I was impressed by India’s cultural love for animals,” McCartney wrote in the letter. “I know India reveres elephants, its national heritage animal, but cruelty to animals happens everywhere, even in India. What reflects on a country’s values is how that cruelty is addressed.”
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Only a handful of rock drummers are on a first-name basis with most of the world. Ringo Starr is one of them. The timekeeper for the Beatles has some impressive drumming skills and crafted beats that are instantly recognizable. Despite his talents behind the kit, Ringo said there is one thing he could never do as a drummer because of his emotional style.
Ringo sat in the background as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison provided the melodies that helped drive the Beatles’ popularity. Still, there’s no doubt the kitman left his mark on the band.
“Come Together” wouldn’t be the same without Ringo’s rolling, tom-heavy beat. He drives the menacing closing moments of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” and Ringo puts on a memorable display in the early part of “The End.” Really, all of Abbey Road gives Ringo a chance to shine in a way he hadn’t before.
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In 1970, the only producer George Harrison had ever worked with was The Beatles’ producer, George Martin. When the band broke up, he had to find a new producer to look after the many songs he planned to record for his first solo album outside The Beatles, All Things Must Pass. George Harrison chose one of the most prolific producers of the 1960s, Phil Spector.
However, he should’ve thought a little harder before deciding.
In 1970, George was experiencing profound change. It was a very dualistic time in his life. The Beatles broke up, and he was without a band and a producer. George’s marriage to his first wife, Pattie Boyd, was crumbling, he’d just bought a dilapidated mansion, Friar Park, and his mother was dying.
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Two Beatle children - Stella McCartney and Zak Starkey - celebrate their birthdays on 13 September. Which Beatle was the first to have a child?
Heather McCartney (born 31 December 1962)
Technically, Heather is the eldest Beatle child by four months, but Paul is not her biological father: she was born to Joseph See Jr and Linda Eastman in 1962, but her parents divorced after two years of marriage. McCartney adopted Heather after he married her mother in March 1969.
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The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday.
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, "Double Fantasy," earlier that day.
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Ringo Starr has been in the music business for six decades, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The drummer became famous playing with the Beatles, but those years represent just a fraction of his career. He’s contributed to some classic albums by other artists (and not just as a drummer) in addition to his steady stream of solo works and concert tours. Ringo’s career might have been quite different if not for a chance encounter with Ed Sullivan that led to the Beatles becoming international superstars.Any musician can release a song or album on the internet to help build an audience. But the Beatles had to cultivate a following the old-fashioned way — by playing live.
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Pattie Boyd has joked she demanded royalties from ex-husband Eric Clapton as part of their divorce settlement for inspiring his rock classic ‘Layla’.
The model and rock muse, now 78 and a successful writer, was wooed from her husband, Beatles guitarist George Harrison, after Eric played her his 1970 anthem and told her it was written in honour of his love for her.
But she resisted leaving George, who died aged 58 in 2001, for Eric until the Beatle’s cheating led to their divorce in 1974.
Pattie, who then divorced Eric, 77, in 1989, jokingly told the Sunday Times magazine she hasn’t received a penny from the track.
She said: “I asked for that in my divorce and he said, ‘Are you kidding?’ That’s why I have to write books.”
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