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Ringo Starr‘s first NFT collection was sold Monday, June 13, at an online sale hosted by Julian’s Auctions.
The “Ringo Starr NFT Collection — The Creative Mind of a Beatle” included a total of 20 NFTs based on five unique works of art created by the legendary Beatles drummer. All 20 NFT packages, each of which included an animated digital version of a Starr painting and a 25-by-25-inch canvas print of the same artwork signed by Ringo, were sold.
Winning bids spanned from $5,760 to $10,240, and the 20 packages sold for a cumulative total of $127,360. You can check out the full results at JuliensLive.com. As previously reported, most of the NFTs also incorporated a custom-made drum track played and recorded by Starr.
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John Lennon‘s murder shook the world, but most of all, his bandmates, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney. They were all scared for their safety afterward. George retreated further out of the spotlight. However, he eventually realized he wouldn’t live in fear that someone would also assassinate him. He didn’t think anyone would want to murder him. Unfortunately, George was wrong.George was in bed when he got a call that John had been shot. He went back to bed to get away from it all, but when he woke up again, nothing had changed. John was still dead. George became angry. His friend didn’t leave his body the way he should’ve.
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George Harrison had a dark sense of humor, but no one should view his comments to Tom Petty following Roy Orbison’s death as such. As his wife Olivia explains, George always cut to the chase, and he never forgot to look at things positively.
George Harrison at The Beatles' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1988.
In 1987, George invited Petty, Orbison, Jeff Lynne, and Bob Dylan to record a song called “Handle With Care.” He wasn’t going to skip a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, having all four rock stars in one recording studio. Later in 1988, George asked the guys to record an album under The Traveling Wilburys.
Petty hardly slept the night they asked Orbison to join the supergroup. He was so excited that the veteran rocker agreed. In a video about the making of The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, Petty said, “Every time we’d start thinking about it, ‘Wow, Roy Orbison’s in the band!'”
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George Harrison‘s wife Olivia says she’s always been good friends with John Lennon‘s wife, Yoko Ono. The former Beatles’ might not have had the best relationship over the years, but their widows have stayed close. They’re the only two women in the world who knows what it’s like to be a widow of a Beatle. Yoko might have gotten some unwarranted flack over the years from fans and the press, but Olivia has been friends with the visual artist for decades. Being the only widowed Beatle wives has bound the two soft-spoken women.Olivia says she’s still friends with Yoko, “though I haven’t seen her in a long time. She’s not been very well recently, but she always befriended me … We didn’t spend a lot of time together, but she’s just magnificent.
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George Harrison was just as good a gardener as he was a musician, but he’d rather fans remember him as the former rather than the latter. He was first and foremost a gardener, with a couple of hits under his belt.
George never concerned himself with his legacy. His wife Olivia told the LA Times she didn’t think her husband thought fans would remember him.
He knew his first album outside The Beatles, All Things Must Pass, “meant things to people. He knew it helped people in their lives — people wrote to him, they told him. And he said, ‘Even if it’s one person, even if it helps somebody, then that’s great.’ But he wasn’t concerned about how he would be remembered,” Olivia said.
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Having spent the first half of their career being airbrushed for mass appeal, in 1966 The Beatles started to put noses out of joint on a grand scale. First there was Lennon’s ‘bigger than Jesus’ quote. A few months later came the notorious – and quickly aborted – cover of 1966’s odds-and-sods album for the US market, Yesterday And Today.
For the latter, Robert Whitaker can take both the credit and the criticism. As the Beatles’ favoured photographer since a chance meeting in Australia in 1964, he was trusted by the band, and sufficiently confident to make bolder suggestions than the standard ‘four-in-a-row’ photo shoot when they arrived at his Chelsea studio on March 25, 1966.
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When the Beatles arrived in Australia in 1964 for their first and only tour of the country, huge crowds greeted them everywhere they went. But one of the biggest turnouts was in Adelaide, where an estimated 350,000 people flocked to the city to catch a glimpse of them.
Adelaide wasn’t originally on the tour schedule, but local radio presenter Bob Francis petitioned to have it added, and 12,000 tickets were sold out in just over five hours for four shows, two each on 12 and 13 June.
The Beatles were the biggest band in the world and their songs were dominating the Australian charts with hits such as Can’t Buy Me Love (No 1 for six weeks in May and June 1964) and All My Loving, also previously a No 1.
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George Harrison didn’t think The Beatles would last very long, certainly not until 1970. When it was time for the Fab Four to go their separate ways, George ensured he had a plan.
George Harrison and The Beatles performing on a TV set in 1963.
In 1963, at the start of Beatlemania, The Beatles had no idea how much longer they’d last. They expected the worst and hoped for the best.
In the book George Harrison on George Harrison, John Lennon said, “‘How long are you going to last?’ Well, you can’t say, you know. You can be big-headed and say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to last ten years.’ But as soon as you’ve said that you think, ‘We’re lucky if we last three months,’ you know.”
Paul agreed. He didn’t think they could go on making songs like “From Me To You” in their forties. George also agreed. Although, he didn’t think The Beatles would last past about 1965.
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Many other artists were influenced by The Beatles’ songs from Revolver. Earth, Wind & Fire, for example, performed a cover of one of Revolver’s songs for a unique film. The film didn’t appeal to George Harrison.
A film based on Fab Four songs didn’t appeal to George Harrison.
The Beatles’ connection to Earth, Wind & Fire starts with a strange film. Roger Stigwood, a producer, produced a film called Sgt. The Fab Four’s music inspired Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Bee Gees were the stars of the film, which also featured Peter Frampton and other musicians.
George Harrison talked about his thoughts on the film in a 1979 interview with Rolling Stone. “I just feel bad for Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees, and Pete Frampton for doing it,” he said, “because they had established themselves as decent artists in their own right and then… it’s like the classic thing of greed.”
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John Lennon revealed why The Beatles‘ songs took so long to put together in the studio. In addition, he revealed Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” was a repeated source of inspiration for the Fab Four. John said there weren’t many arguments when The Beatles made songs together but there was a lot of tension.According to a 1969 interview in the book Lennon on Lennon: Interviews and Encounters, John was asked if The Beatles argued a lot while recording. “It’s not so much arguments, but there’s just tension,” John said. “It’s tense every time the red light goes on for a kickoff.
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