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Paul McCartney said John Lennon had intentions of being a writer. In the same vein, Paul said John drew inspiration from a famous poem while writing The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Paul said another Beatles song was influenced by the same poem.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed John’s relationship to literature. “John had done a little poem that [his aunt] had framed in the kitchen,” Paul recalled. “It was nice: ‘A house where there is love …’ John had writing aspirations.”
Paul discussed the first book of short stories John wrote. “At first he was writing what turned out later to be In His Own Write,” Paul said. “He would show me what he’d been typing. I would sometimes help him with it. We would sit around giggling, just saying puns really, that’s basically what it was; ‘In the early owls of the Morecambe,’ I remember, ‘a cup o-teeth’ was one section that was in the typewriter when I was around there. But I would like all that and I was very impressed.”
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The Beatles Childhood Homes ... Take A Tour!
The Beatles' childhood homes helped shape the artists that would take over the world ... and they're now in perfect condition for vacationers who want to visit or even stay.
George Harrison's Liverpool home has been recently renovated ... it's now an Airbnb thanks to superfan Ken Lambert. He snagged the property at auction back in November with a $250k bid.
The house doubles as a museum for weekly tours. The band rehearsed there in the late '50s -- back when they called themselves The Quarrymen.
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Someone who wasn’t a musician helped Paul McCartney write The Beatles‘ “Hello, Goodbye.” Paul wrote the song to express a positive message relating to a “deep theme of the universe.” Subsequently, audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom had similar reactions to the song.Alistair Taylor was the assistant of Brian Epstein, The Beatles’ manager. According to the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Taylor recalled helping Paul create “Hello, Goodbye” in his book Yesterday. “Paul marched me into the dining room, where he had a marvelous old hand-carved harmonium,” Taylor recalled. “‘Come and sit at the other end of the harmonium.’
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It's now just two years shy of The Beatles’ first visit to Edinburgh in 1964, April 29 to be exact, when the only place to be for Capital Beatlemaniacs keen to indulge in a bit of Beatlemania was the ABC Cinema on Lothian Road or, failing that, outside the picture house as they waited to mob their heart-throbs on their arrival.
On that night, midway through the band’s 1964 Spring tour, the Fab Four played two concerts in the city before heading to Glasgow the following evening. A young kilted fan gets to meet the Beatles at the ABC cinema in Edinburgh in 1964 - (l-r) Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison...
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John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon has signed a recording contract with BMG and is planning on releasing new music in 2022. Here’s what Lennon said about BMG and his upcoming album Jude, and how he recently paid tribute to his father, a former member of The Beatles.
Julian Lennon smiles and poses at an event.
Singer and songwriter Julian Lennon has a new recording contract with BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group), and plans to release an album in 2022. His last album, Everything Changes, came out in 2011, so it has been over a decade since Lennon put out a record.
Lennon shared that he has been working on his new music for years. “After working on new music for the past few years, I am happy to have found the perfect partner in BMG, to help me bring this work to light,” he said of his upcoming album Jude (per BMG).
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George Harrison‘s sister Louise has kept herself busy managing a Beatles tribute band called Liverpool Legends for about two decades. She even has a special connection with the musician and actor who plays George. With him, Louise can imagine she’s hearing her brother perform again.
In 1963, The Beatles decided to take a holiday. George visited Louise in Benton, Illinois with his brother Peter, becoming the first Beatle to travel to the U.S.
During his trip, George visited a record store and found that they didn’t have any Beatles records. He then visited the WFRX-AM radio station and handed them his copy of “She Loves You.”
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In 1968, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, invited The Beatles to visit his ashram in Rishikesh, India.
The group heard the guru speak in London and were spellbound. Then, after a 10-day conference of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement in Bangor, Wales, Maharishi invited The Beatles to India. It became a media frenzy, and many other celebrities came along for the three-month stay. They learned about meditation, quit drugs, and experienced one of their most creative periods, writing about 48 songs.
However, the band’s peaceful stay was cut short. They made a startling discovery about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. John Lennon was not pleased. He felt as if he’d been taken for a fool, let the guru know, and abruptly fled the country. However, the rest of the band didn’t quite understand why John was so hurt.
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Paul McCartney's brother, photographer and songwriter Mike McCartney claimed the Beatles may not have existed and they both could have been doctors.
Their mum Mary died in October 1956, after a battle with breast cancer. Mike said the world may have been without the Liverpool quartet if their mother had lived. The origins of the Fab Four date back to 1957, when Paul met a young John Lennon by chance at a church fete at St. Peter's Church in Liverpool.
Speaking to the ECHO, Mike McCartney explained how the guidance from their mother may have meant him and brother Paul would have followed more educational routes. He joked: "You'd be speaking to Dr McCartney now, or she was a Catholic so maybe it would be Father McCartney."
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John Lennon called him his "soul mate." George Harrison called him the band’s "art director." He's the reason Paul McCartney switched to bass guitar. He had the fashion sense and the stage presence. He even invented the band's iconic "mushroom head" hairdo. As Ted Widmer writes in a lengthy piece for the New Yorker, original Beatles member Stuart Sutcliffe "remains a spectral presence in Beatles lore"—so much so that he appears in the eclectic crowd on the Sgt. Pepper's cover. Widmer examines Sutcliffe’s heavy influence in the band’s earliest days and leaves the impression that, without him, the Beatles never really would have been. (Incidentally, the band’s name was a joint creation between Sutcliffe and Lennon.)
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I met President Putin once. His eyes scared me when they locked with mine across Red Square and I got the feeling from his hard, cold look that we weren’t going to be mates.
It was back in May of 2003 and my then-boss Paul McCartney was performing for the first time in Russia as part of a European concert tour on which I was the head of Macca’s publicity team.
If you’re the Beatle who wrote Back In The USSR for The White Album in 1968 and you finally get to play in Moscow 35 years later, then there’s only one place that you want to do the gig – beside The Kremlin in Red Square.
And so that’s where we built the huge stage. We were told that there was only space for about 60,000 in Red Square. We had a look and said no, we think you can fit in at least another 40,000. The Russians said no, our eyes deceived us, there wasn’t the room. So we put 60,000 tickets on sale and they went in a flash. Oddly enough, come the night of the gig, another 40,000 had squeezed in. The Russians said that had nothing to do with them…
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