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The Traveling Wilburys were a musical supergroup of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. All were highly esteemed musicians, but Petty said they were particularly reverent of Dylan. While they treated him like they would anyone else, they looked up to him. Petty said that they worried that they might scare him into quitting the group.
Dylan invited Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to join him on a tour of Australia in 1986. They’d worked together before, so it was an easy decision for Petty.
“We’d all been huge Dylan fans, and we were very intrigued by the idea of playing with Bob,” Petty said, per American Songwriter. “So off we went. And that went on for two years. We’d do part of it and then more would get added on, and then more would get added on. We really did the world with Bob Dylan.”
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 marks marks the 13th Annual Global Beatles Day (GBD). Given the state of the world, the event, which began in 2009, takes on a greater meaning this year. The Beatles core message of peace and love is, yet again, a rallying point for a call to action says the event’s foundeFaith Cohen, Indianapolis-based GBD founder, has in the past suggested honoring the contributions of the Beatles in many ways including playing their music exclusively on that day to sharing historic and personal Beatles photos and memories among the band’s worldwide fan community. This year, in addition to celebrating the special day, she has a new call to action for June 25th, the date that commemorates the historic worldwide television broadcast debut of ‘All You Need Is Love’ during 1967’s Summer of Love. As it happens this year June 25th coincides with a scheduled Paul McCartney performance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival and a concert appearance by Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band in Hollywood, FL.
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On June 6, 1962, 60 years ago this week, the very nervous, almost-Fab foursome of John, Paul, George and Pete entered EMI’s studios on Abbey Road in the St. John’s neighborhood of London for their first recording session under the recording contract that the already legendary producer George Martin had offered their rather green manager, Brian Epstein, on the label he was then managing, Parlophone, when the pair had met the previous February. But the group — who were tearing up the pub and club circuit in the north of England after a long, grueling stint in Hamburg, Germany, where they’d played eight hours a day, six days a week, honing their craft and becoming one of the tightest and rawest bands in the country — nearly didn’t make the cut during that first session.
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It was a cultural lightning strike without precedent … a band from working-class Liverpool that conquered the world with its infectious melodies, intricate harmonies, and boundless creativity. In a recording career spanning less than a decade, notes "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley, The Beatles propelled the humble pop song into the realm of high art, to become the most inventive and influential musical act of their era.
Their most innovative songs were, as one biographer put it, "stone bowls in an era of cupped hands."
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George Harrison struck gold when his record company, Dark Horse Records, hired his future wife, Olivia Arias. From the moment they met, Olivia made sure the path in front of George was clear. Without her, he’d have no voice or body. She helped him in the songwriting process as his amanuensis. When a deranged fan broke into their home, she saved him.
Olivia was the only person George could have been with who could keep him in line. As their friend Tom Petty said, she had a pretty tough job being Mrs. Harrison.
In a special edition of Rolling Stone, “Remembering George,” Tom Petty looked back at his relationship with George. Speaking about writing “Cheer Down” together, Petty revealed that the song’s origin came from something George’s wife, Olivia, used to say to him when he got overexcited.
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Turns out, the “quiet Beatle” wasn’t so quiet after all. Especially in the decade after the Fabs’ heyday. The new book, George Harrison In the 70s, by Eoghan Lyng examines how Harrison navigated a turbulent decade, both personally and professionally.
Using each of his 70s albums as chapters, we trace Harrison’s emergence from the Beatles into an artist completely his own. Beginning with the masterpiece, All Things Must Pass, we get a sense of the enormous backlog of material that had been waiting to be unleashed on “the material world.” Having watched the Peter Jackson documentary, Get Back several times, this writer was stunned at the George songs that the Beatles passed on that later showed up on George’s debut. It was a true, “What were you guys THINKING (or not)?” moment. Harrison was neatly vindicated.
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First things first. The photograph emblazoned on The Beatles‘ Abbey Road album cover was indeed taken on a street named Abbey Road. It was that picture that dressed up The Beatles’ 11th studio album (1969), which was designed in the Side 1, Side 2 style with a total of 11 tracks. Abbey Road, along with its album cover, would eventually become known as one of the greatest records of all time. But what of its culturally iconic photograph? What is the story behind the immortalized snapshot of the four Beatles?
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Floor seats for Paul McCartney at the Dome list for over 700 dollars on Ticketmaster. But when Sir Paul first played the Hollywood Bowl with the Beatles, the group’s manager Brian Epstein kept things a bit more affordable.
“They would only let me charge three, four, five, six and seven dollars all three years they toured,” says the man who promoted the show. “Now, I could have gotten 20 dollars without a blink of an eye. But no, Brian said that he wanted people to save their money to buy albums.”
Bob Eubanks has been a familiar face on TV since the Sixties. He’s best known as host of daytime and nighttime versions of “The Newlywed Game” on ABC and the syndicated coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade for 36 years. But before that, he was a DJ in Los Angeles and a music promoter.
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The Beatles‘ The White Album includes many great songs. For example, it includes The Beatles’ “Julia,” a moving ballad about John Lennon’s mother. Another 1960s rock star revealed he helped write the song.
The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980. In it, John was asked about The Beatles’ “Julia.” John said the song was partly about his mother, Julia Lennon, and partly about Yoko Ono. John said he didn’t write the track alone but he didn’t name the song’s co-writer.
Donovan is a rock star most known for songs such as “Sunshine Superman” and “Season of the Witch.” During a 2016 interview with Vulture, he discussed co-writing The Beatles’ “Julia” when he was in India.
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The British queen, who is celebrating 70 years on the throne on June 2, was thanked by Sir Paul McCartney (left) in an Instagram post. Getty Images
Get back! Paul McCartney is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee with a sweet #TBT snapshot.
The Beatles legend, 79, posted a classic photo Thursday of himself and the 96-year-old monarch posing together at the royal opening of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 1996.
The beloved rock icon captioned the image: “70 beautiful years of Queen Elizabeth the second. Congrats ma’am! And thanks.”
In the smiling pic, the queen is seen looking on as she sports a bright baby-blue hat and dress while carrying a bouquet of white flowers.
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