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The Beatles' final few years together were extremely strained. The band's final album, Let It Be, was bogged down by arguments, disagreements, and public discourse. As revealed in Peter Jackson's Disney Plus documentary, Get Back, George Harrison felt particularly slighted by his bandmates. One instance even saw him stand up and say: "I'm going to quit the band now."
His ex-wife, Pattie Boyd, revealed how he felt particular disdain for Paul McCartney.
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Nicolas Cage has announced he will be having a baby girl with wife Riko Shibata and even told people what she will be named.
The actor married Riko last February and, in January 2022, they announced the happy news that they were expecting. A rep confirmed that "the parents-to-be are elated!"
And now, during his appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Cage has confirmed not only that they are expecting a daughter, but that she will be named after former Beatle John Lennon.
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Emily Atack has opened up in a new podcast about growing up as well as her incredible family tie to Sir Paul McCartney. In an episode of "Brydon&", she talks about being around Paul, who is her cousin, and then-wife Linda when she was little.
Talking with Rob Brydon, she said: "Paul is my grandmother's first cousin. At school I went around saying he was my uncle, as it sounds a bit cooler. But I grew up with him in our lives. He's a lovely man, a family man. He was very close to our grandmother, Betty, and our grandad, Mike. They were very helpful to him growing up.
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It seemed like just yesterday when tickets for Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour opener, which is slated for Thursday at Spokane Arena, went on sale. Time has moved as quickly as tickets for the sold-out show, which will be McCartney’s local debut.
There is only one tour opener, and Spokane will be the first to experience what the former Fab Four member delivers on his spring tour.
McCartney, 79, typically kicks off his shows with a Beatles classic. “A Hard Day’s Night” has been the leadoff song since 2015. Prior to that, it was another Beatles hit, “Eight Days a Week. “Hello Goodbye” was also a concert opener.
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It was evident to Cathy Johnston who she was catching when her police detective uncle invited her to a show in Seattle in August 1966.
“He said do you want to go to a concert?” Johnston recalled. “I asked who it was that we would be seeing, and he said he didn’t know. ‘It’s some guys with long hair, and the band is some kind of bug.’ That made it easy to figure out. It was the Beatles.”
During the summer of 1966, there was nothing as big as the Beatles. Three weeks prior to the show Johnston caught with her sisters, the Beatles released their groundbreaking album, “Revolver.”
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George Harrison loved chanting just as much as singing. However, he didn’t realize it until he began his spiritual journey in the 1960s. George had reached the top of a wall. He saw so much more when he looked over it and never turned back. George put all of his energy into spirituality, and he claimed it helped him live in the material world.
He also claimed his spirituality helped save him from a plane crash.
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon both had a soft spot for The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” John explained why he enjoyed the song so much. John compared “I Am the Walrus” to the work of a 1970s band.
Paul McCartney felt The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus” was partly inspired by a famous children’s book. Interestingly, John Lennon revealed why “I Am the Walrus” was one of his favorite Beatles songs. Subsequently, he compared it to the work of a famous 1970s band.
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A Christmas card sent from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Harold Wilson, which the then-Prime Minister marked “no”, has gone on display in a museum.
The card, which reads “War is Over! If you want it” and is signed “with love to the Wilsons from the Lennons”, was sent in December 1969 when the Beatle and his wife launched a poster campaign as part of their peace campaign.
It was rescued from the “nutty filing” cabinet in Downing Street by secretary and Beatles fan Ruth Ferenczy, who kept the card at home until her daughter Alex Rowe decided to loan it to The Liverpool Beatles Museum.
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Turning 80 on June 18 2022, Paul McCartney has enjoyed an immense level of fame for 60 years. It’s to his credit that he continues relatively humble, sensible and creative. He may be the greatest popular song-writer of the 20th century. His melodic and harmonic gifts, demonstrated over decades, seem unmatched by his near-competitors and he still writes songs that invite people to sing along.
McCartney’s continuous productivity and popularity have a solid basis in attitudes — a loving celebration of people and places, together with optimism and a desire to add beauty to life — that are worth honouring and emulating because they are no longer common among artists.
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Over 20 years after the death of George Harrison, his widow Olivia Harrison will publish a book of poems dedicated to the late Beatles legend.
Came the Lightening, a collection of 20 poems Olivia penned for George following his 2001 death, is set for release on June 21 via Genesis Publications.
“Here on the shore, 20 years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land,” Olivia said of Came the Lightening in a statement. “Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.”
My book of 20 poems for George
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