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Paul McCartney once said he thought “so much” of what John Lennon and Yoko Ono “held to be the truth was crap.” And that included one of their most widespread messages. Which famous Lennon line did he say he didn’t think was “entirely true,” and where did it come from? Plus, what did he say was really behind The Beatles‘ split?In 1969, Lennon and Ono were behind a worldwide peace campaign that saw posters, billboards, pamphlets, and other anti-war messaging spread far and wide. The simple message read: “War is over! If you want it,” and the couple signed, “Happy Christmas from John & Yoko.”
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Some of the Beach Boys and the Beatles practiced Transcendental Meditation thanks to a run-in with Maharishi Mahesh. Here’s what Jardine said about how he got started with TM.
Some Beatles were deeply involved with meditation practices, especially guitarist George Harrison. Thanks to one YouTube video, The Beach Boys’ Jardine elaborated on his experience with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation — actually, two Beatles inspired him to start the practice.
In the 1960s, The Beach Boys were invited to perform for a UNICEF event in Paris, France. On the way over, they played a concert in London, England. At one point, Jardine heard a knock on his door, and “there were two Beatles standing there.” It was John Lennon and Harrison, who asked if they could come in, and Jardine obliged.
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The Beatles’ legacy was set in stone even though the band broke up decades ago because of several reasons and ongoing problems between Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Some of them can be considered as their manager Brian Epstein’s death, McCartney’s willingness to become the band’s leader, Lennon’s relationship with Yoko Ono, and drug use, which slowly prepared for the Beatles’ end.
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George Harrison‘s wife, Olivia, and their son, Dhani, have safeguarded his legacy since his death in 2001. Alongside the remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and their son, Sean, Olivia, and Dhani, help make important decisions about The Beatles.
However, Olivia and Dhani are more opinionated about certain things than others.
Yoko Ono became the first Beatles widow after Mark David Chapman assassinated John in 1980. Olivia followed after George died of cancer in 2001. They have taken their husbands’ seats in Beatles boardroom meetings.
They discuss Beatles business and vote on things that affect the band and their music, including projects like Peter Jackson’s recent three-part documentary, The Beatles: Get Back.
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Initially, George Harrison thought Ringo Starr had died when he got the late-night phone call about John Lennon‘s death in December 1980. No call that late at night could bring anything good.
In a 1988 interview on Aspel and Co., George explained that he’d been sleeping at his home, Friar Park, when he got the call about John’s death.
“The call came through sometime in the morning, four or five in the morning,” George said. “I didn’t take the call. Olivia took the call, and she said, ‘John’s been shot.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, how bad is it?’ I just thought maybe a flesh wound or something like that, but she said, ‘No, that’s it, he’s dead.’
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John Lennon said his record company wanted one of his songs to be a single. He found the song “embarrassing.” He said something to Yoko Ono in the song that he felt he couldn’t say to her in person.
One of John Lennon‘s songs was really popular with his fans. Despite this, he didn’t want to release the song as a single. The former Beatle said this may have hurt the success of the album Imagine.The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono is an interview from 1980. During the interview, John was asked about his song “Oh Yoko!” “It’s a very popular track, but I was sort of shy and embarrassed and it didn’t sort of represent my image of myself as the tough, hard-biting rock’ n’ roller with the acid tongue,” he said.
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John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon has explained why he legally changed his name.
In 2020, the son of the late Beatles star – who is also a musician – changed his name from John Charles Julian Lennon to Julian Charles John Lennon.
During a recent appearance on the podcast Word in Your Ear, he opened up about his decision to change his name, stating that the pandemic played a role.
“It was in 2020, just before we all got locked in a cage that I finally actually decided to legally change my name by default,” he said.
“Because originally my name was John Charles Julian Lennon, and the crap that I had to deal with when travelling and security companies and this and that and the other.”
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However, one person in the media didn’t stereotype The Beatles; radio personality Cousin Brucie, a.k.a. Bruce Morrow.
Cousin Brucie helped The Beatles become famous in the U.S. He told Forbes that he received the first Beatles record from an armed security guard, who had it handcuffed to his wrist in an attaché case.
The song was “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” “He says to me you can’t have it until 9 o’clock. So at 9 o’clock when I played it would automatically go on our syndication to 40 states,” Cousin Brucie said.
“So I played, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand.’ Never played before. And I heard it. I played it eight times. I knew what was happening. Now it seems what happened is dozens of radio stations because of my reach copied that record. Now it wasn’t great quality. But the next day they all did what I did. And it went everywhere.”
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Director Peter Jackson says he has a new Beatles movie idea in mind less than a year after the release of his acclaimed The Beatles: Get Back.
“I’m talking to the Beatles about another project, something very, very different than Get Back,” he recently told Deadline. “We’re seeing what the possibilities are, but it’s another project with them. It’s not really a documentary … and that’s all I can really say.”
Get Back premiered on Disney+ in November and included nearly eight hours of footage originally intended for the band's 1970 film Let It Be, which was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The 2021 movie recently earned five Emmy nominations, including two for Sound Mixing, which, as Jackson said, “is always a category that people don’t hold in the highest esteem, I guess would be a way to say it, other than people who work in the field. Get Back is all about the sound, and restoring the sound and developing the AI things to separate the musical tracks.
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George Harrison temporarily left The Beatles, as seen during their Disney+ documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back. Ringo Starr confirmed that he walked away from the group before that after feeling like the other three members were “really close.”
Along with George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon, Ringo Starr is one of the featured artists in the Beatles. These artists broke records in the UK and overseas, making history with their unique rock music and massive fan base.
It wasn’t always easy for the band members, as Ringo Starr confirmed he left the Beatles while working on The White Album.
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