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A new photography book titled 'With a Little Help from My Lens (My Time with the Beatles)' will be showing rare and never-before-seen images of the Beatles on and off duty.
The images were shot by photographer Tommy Hanley, who had a close relationship with the English band during the 60s.
Following Tommy's death, his son Tony Hanley decided to revisit the original black and white negative photographs taken by his father, and reprint many of them into colour.
The book features around 280 photographs - some of which already are well known but others which have never been seen before.
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George Harrison could point to 1966 as the year that his understanding of the world changed, a shift for which he credits LSD. Though he did not intend to take the drug the first time, he said it fundamentally altered his perspective on things. While he appreciated the altered outlook, he said it also changed the way he thought of fame. After taking LSD, Harrison said that he realized he did not like being famous.
In 1965, Harrison and John Lennon had dinner at their dentist’s house. After the meal, they all had coffee. Once they’d finished, their dentist, John Riley, informed them that the sugar cubes were laced with LSD. When Riley told them, Lennon was angry, but Harrison wasn’t sure what it meant.
“The dentist said something to John, and John turned to me and said, ‘We’ve had LSD,'” Harrison said, per Vice. “I just thought, ‘Well, what’s that? So what? Let’s go!'”
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George Harrison knew his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine, upset John Lennon. Months before he died, John admitted the book hurt him because George hardly mentioned him. He claimed he’d influenced George and helped him write songs.
However, George said John overestimated how much he influenced him.
In 1980, John told Playboy that George’s memoir hurt him. He was upset that George barely mentioned him, even though he’d acted like George’s big brother.
John said (per Beatles Interviews), “I was hurt by George’s book, ‘I, Me, Mine.’ He put a book out privately on his life that, by glaring omission, says that my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil.
“In his book, which is purportedly this clarity of vision of his influence on each song he wrote, he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I’m not in the book.” Playboy asked why.
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George never forgot things, but he always moved on from them. He learned to do that through spirituality. This is the basis of All Things Must Pass, after all. George knew we were only on this earth for a short time, so he didn’t waste time on silly things.
He tried telling this to Paul. There was no point in fighting with Yoko.
There was a time when George and Paul initially had similar thoughts on Yoko Ono. Once John started bringing her to the recording studio, a place at that point where none of the Beatles’ women ever went, his bandmates began getting annoyed.
There was a situation concerning Yoko eating some digestive biscuits in the studio, which angered George. Then there was the time George insulted Yoko to her face.
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Paul McCartney explained why he wrote The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.”
He said the song was partly inspired by “archetypal” paperbacks.
Paul revealed what John Lennon said as his bandmate wrote the song.
Paul McCartney said The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” was partly inspired by a newspaper and partly inspired by books. He had the idea for the song while driving to John Lennon’s home. Subsequently, John said a few things while Paul was writing the song.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul said he was driving to John’s house when the concept for “Paperback Writer” came to him. “You knew, the minute you got there, cup of tea and you’d sit and write, so it was always good if you had a theme,” he recalled.
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Every time the Beatles come up, there’s the inevitable danger of hyperbole. But at the same time, it’s sort of hard to be that hyperbolic considering the scope of the group’s impact. Pop music and pop culture as we know it incubated in the ’50s, and then really blossomed in the ’60s — and the Beatles were at the very top of a feverishly, rapidly changing medium in tumultuous, transformative times. All these decades later, they still influence up-and-coming artists; new generations are still falling for them (on TikTok, they’re worshipped as if they were a currently active band); and their songs can still surprise and disorient no matter how long they’ve been in the atmosphere. Nobody really thought pop music was supposed to have a 60-plus year shelf life back then.
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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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