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John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote countless songs for both The Beatles and some other artists. But Lennon said he peaked lyrically back in 1969 when he wrote a song for a charity compilation album: No One's Gonna Change Our World. For their contribution to the album - which also included such artists as Lulu, Cilla Black, and Rolf Harris - The Beatles included the song Across the Universe.
The psychedelic Across the Universe was featured on the aforementioned compilation record but was later included in the band's final album, Let It Be, a year later.
The same year, in 1970, Lennon was asked in an interview what his favourite Beatles tracks were. He revealed his top five were: Strawberry Fields Forever, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Am The Walrus, Girl and Across The Universe.
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I’ve never understood those who say they don’t like the Beatles. To me, it’s like saying you don’t like breathing – or chocolate moose – just daft. The Beatles music is as much part of our culture as the air around us and the chance to see them in IMAX was one I couldn’t pass up.
As has been widely publicised, The Beatles: Get Back has been streaming on Disney+ for some months. Originally, it was meant to be a movie documenting the challenging time they recorded an album in front of film cameras. However, as director Peter Jackson has explained, as the editing process took shape he felt it would have been far too restrictive to shrink down the 50 hours of footage to just two and a half, instead deciding on an eight-hour edit that worked just as well as a three-part series.
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A BEATLES fan who is set to open his dream first record shop has received an unexpected endorsement from one of his heroes - after George Harrison appeared in his wife’s apple core.
Mark Thorne, 42, owes his obsession with music to his lifelong love of the Beatles, so he was taken aback when his wife Lottie bit into her lunchtime snack - and spotted something which looked like the late lead guitarist looking back at her.
Mark, who is preparing to open Thorne Records in Edinburgh’s Bruntsfield this month, told her to stop eating immediately.
Now he hopes the remarkable find is a good omen for his business, which will of course stock the Fab Four.
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This Feb. 28, 1968, AP file photo shows The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.
Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that?
The standard answer is: Be really excellent at your craft and you will become renowned. Sadly, it’s not that simple. Excellence is a requirement, but often it’s not enough.
Let me hold up the Beatles to explain what I’m talking about. If ever there was a group that could rise to the top on the basis of sheer creative genius, it was them.
But that’s not how it looked at first. Every record label they approached rejected them.
“The boys won’t go,” one company’s representatives said. “We know these things.” A dejected John Lennon said that they thought “that was the end.”
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The Beatles’ unforgettable concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps’ Savile Row headquarters on January 30, 1969, debuted as a 65-minute feature at an Exclusive IMAX® Event Screening and Filmmaker Q&A on January 30, 2022.
Director/producer Peter Jackson said: “I’m thrilled that the rooftop concert from ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ is going to be experienced in IMAX, on that huge screen, it’s The Beatles’ last concert, and it’s the absolute perfect way to see and hear it”. “Ever since Peter Jackson’s beautiful and illuminating docuseries debuted, we’ve heard non-stop from fans who want to experience its unforgettable rooftop performance in IMAX,” says Megan Colligan, president of IMAX Entertainment. “We are so excited to partner with Disney to bring ‘Get Back’ to an entirely new stage and give Beatles fans everywhere a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch and hear their heroes in the unrivalled sight and sound of IMAX.”
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Europe’s ban on animal testing for cosmetics is at risk, and Sir Paul McCartney is stepping in to help.
The ex-Beatles frontman is adding his voice to the ‘Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics European Citizens’ Initiative’ spearheaded by PETA and more than 100 other animal protection organisations. The aims is to mobilise 1 million European citizens to call on the European Commission to uphold and strengthen the ban on testing cosmetics ingredients on animals.
“We all thought the battle was over and that cosmetics tests on animals in Europe were a thing of the past, but sadly, that’s not the case. The European Chemicals Agency continues to demand the use of thousands of rabbits, rats, fish, and other animals in cosmetics ingredients tests,” says McCartney - a longtime vegetarian and animal advocate.
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In an interview with Daily Star, the British hitmaker spoke of his shock at learning who he was speaking to.
Paul recalled: "Somebody rang me up, and this high voice I didn’t recognise said, ‘Hi, Paul.'
"I thought, ‘This is a girl fan, and how the hell did she get my number?’ I was quite annoyed," he admitted.
The former Beatles member revealed who was actually on the other end of the phone.
Yesterday hitmaker Paul McCartney didn't recognise the 'softly-spoken' voice on the end of the phone (Image: GETTY)
He explained: "Then the voice said, ‘It’s Michael,’ and suddenly it dawned on me.
"It wasn’t a girl, it was Michael Jackson, and he basically said, ‘Do you want to make some hits?’"
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George Harrison always had a firm sense of spirituality, even before getting interested in Hinduism in the 1960s. However, George’s fellow rock star, Mick Jagger, and who knows how many others, looked at George’s spiritualism at face value. It seemed like a passing phase.
In a special edition of Rolling Stone, “Remembering George,” The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger touched on George’s spirituality. Initially, when George began to get more interested in it, he said it looked like any other phase that a musician would dabble in during the 1960s.
“He could be funny and charming and also quite acerbic,” Jagger said. “He had the sort of quality that normally people would associate with John. And then, later, George developed this other side to him.
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Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that?
The standard answer is: Be really excellent at your craft and you will become renowned. Sadly, it’s not that simple. Excellence is a requirement, but often it’s not enough.
Let me hold up the Beatles to explain what I’m talking about. If ever there was a group that could rise to the top on the basis of sheer creative genius, it was them.
But that’s not how it looked at first. Every record label they approached rejected them.
“The boys won’t go,” one company’s representatives said. “We know these things.” A dejected John Lennon said that they thought “that was the end.”
So how did the Beatles make it?
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George Harrison knew how to write a good love song. Although, it was often hard to tell if he was talking about his love for God, his first wife, Pattie Boyd, his second, Olivia, or just a woman in general. Either way, loving the women in his life took him one step closer to God.
George had a knack for describing romantic feelings without sounding too sappy. He did write one of the greatest love songs in music history, after all. Here are 15 of George’s most romantic love songs with a few honorable mentions.
15. ‘I Need You’
George’s “I Need You” from Help! is sad but no less sweet. It’s a good old fashion love song urging someone to come back. “You don’t realize how much I need you/ Love you all the time and never leave you/ Please come on back to me/ I’m lonely as can be/ I need you.”
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