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Fans are already planning their journey to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on May 13 as Paul McCartney takes his Got Back tour to the home of the Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams.
Nearly 60 years after The Beatles first album, Please Please Me, was released, McCartney, who turns 80 on June 18, is still going strong and filling packed stadiums and arenas. More than 70,000 people will crowd SoFi for the sold out concert on Friday. McCartney has been spotted twice recently in L.A., once on a double date with Ringo Starr and their wives and once hiking in the Hollywood Hills.
As McCartney performs in Los Angeles for the first time since his Dodger Stadium concert on July 13, 2019, Los Angeles magazine speaks with the authors of The Beatles in Los Angeles: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Jeremy Louwerse, and Tom Weitzel, about some of the most important local moments in Beatles history and some little known Beatles facts.
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Beatles legend John Lennon revealed one song he 'hated' singing.
The Beatles entered the music scene in the early 1960s, originally as the Quarrymen, but soon the foursome would become the legendary band we know today. However it was not easy entering the scene on the back of the massive rock and roll scene in the 50s and 60s.
This is something that John Lennon struggled with at first stating that he felt 'daring' performing the Beatles own tracks- after they released debut single Love Me Do, in 1962. In an interview in 1972 he said: "Love Me Do is one of the first ones we wrote ourselves, you know.
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George Harrison and John Lennon didn’t always have the best relationship. Initially, John thought George was too young to join The Beatles and treated him like a little brother. George held his own against John’s early treatment, but he didn’t stop viewing John as his older brother. He admired everything that John did. Some of George’s closest friends saw how much he wanted John’s acceptance. In Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, George explained that he thought John was initially embarrassed having him in The Beatles (then the Quarrymen) because he was so young.
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Paul McCartney is a practical person, so he doesn’t exactly believe in ghosts. When the former Beatle hears a bump in the night, he brushes it off, thinking about the house’s plumbing. However, just because Paul doesn’t believe in the supernatural doesn’t mean he doesn’t believe in spiritual signs. “I would say no, not really,” Paul answered. “I’ve heard bumps in the night, but it’s usually the plumbing! You know, I’m a bit too practical so if I see something or hear something, I normally will reach for a rational explanation. “I do know a lot of people who go, ‘Oooo!’ and think, ‘Oh, that must be something spooky!’ No, the thing is I’ve never seen a ghost so I can’t believe in them. I’m not sure.”
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On Saturday, Ringo Starr was presented with an honorary doctorate by Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music as part of the renowned school's 2022 commencement festivities.
The former Beatles drummer was not in attendance at the event, but accepted the honor virtually via a pre-recorded video.
"I send you all peace and love, everybody," Ringo began his speech. "I'm sorry I can't be with you today in person, but I do want to congratulate the Class of 2022, yeah! Well done, graduates. And I want to thank you for the honorary doctorate degree. I'm a doctor at last."
The 81-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer continued, "I never went to college, but I certainly have had a lot of experience making music, so I suppose I earned this in my own way."
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George Harrison’s childhood home is on Airbnb. It’s beautiful, quaint, very English, very dapper.
The owner, Ken Lambert, paid about $223,000 (£171,000) for the house in an online auction.
It’s currently listed at $246.02 (£200) per night, which isn’t bad when you consider what you’re getting. You get the entire 3 bed 1 bath townhouse.
“I had to make sure that it was reasonable…I’m a big Beatles fan,” Lambert told Seacoastonline.
Lambert meticulously curated the legend’s childhood home. The aim was to reflect what it must have looked like when Harrison was living there as a kid (1950-1962).
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Before Tom Petty and George Harrison worked together in The Traveling Wilburys, Petty wrote one of his most popular tunes, “Free Fallin.'” He recorded the song and showed his record company, but they rejected it. That didn’t fly with George. The ex-Beatle worked his magic, and suddenly a famous record executive was interested in it.In 2017, Petty was honored at the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala. In his acceptance speech, The Heartbreakers frontman talked about his music career. He looked out into the crowd and gave shout-outs to record executive Mo Ostin and George’s widow, Olivia Harrison. Seeing them reminded Petty of when George helped get “Free Fallin'” made.
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George Harrison revealed what he thought of “Octopus’s Garden,” a song by Ringo Starr from The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
George discussed how Beatles fans reacted to the song. Abbey Road became an international hit.
One of the few songs Ringo Starr wrote for The Beatles is “Octopus’s Garden.” George Harrison once revealed what he thought of the song. Subsequently, he discussed why it was difficult for The Beatles to make albums.According to the book George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters, George discussed Abbey Road in a 1969 interview. He revealed he liked the only song on the album Ringo wrote: “Octopus’s Garden. “Because, I mean, most people say, ‘Oh, well, it’s Ringo,’ or you know, ‘Ha-ha’ or something,” he said. “But it’s great that Ringo should do it. You know, why shouldn’t he do it.”
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The Beatles broke up due to “personal differences, business differences, musical differences,” according to Paul McCartney. After one member walked out on a rehearsal in The Beatles: Get Back, McCartney had a second idea to break the news to the public — with a broadcast-inspired final live performance.
Years after their final concert, fans got new footage of The Beatles thanks to the Disney+ documentary series The Beatles: Get Back.
There, John Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr wrote and rehearsed “Get Back,” “I’ve Got A Feeling,” “One After 909,” and “Dig a Pony.” One member of the band even walked out during a rehearsal, saying he was officially done with The Beatles.
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One of the songs Paul McCartney wrote for The Beatles’ Abbey Road was based on a poem from the 1600s. Paul owned the sheet music for another song based on the same poem. Despite this, Paul decided to write his own song using the same words.
According to the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul received some sheet music his stepsister owned. One of the pieces of sheet music was a song based on the poem “Cradle Song” from Thomas Dekker’s play Patient Grissel, which was first published in 1603. “I liked the words so much,” Paul said.
Despite this, Paul couldn’t play the song as written. “I thought it was very restful, a very beautiful lullaby, but I couldn’t read the melody, not being able to read music,” he recalled. “So I just took the words and wrote my own music. I didn’t know at the time it was four hundred years old.”
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