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After releasing McCartney on the heels of The Beatles’ split, followed by Ram, Paul McCartney formed Wings in 1971. Wings was Paul’s first band since leaving one of the biggest groups in the world. So, there was no pressure. He had to soar, literally.
He couldn’t think like a Beatle anymore, but he did have his influences, including Bob Dylan. If Dylan could record an album fast, Paul wanted to do the same. However, looking back, Paul probably shouldn’t have rushed an album that became his first critical and commercial failure.
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THE BEATLES wrote only a few tracks that were considered true "rock" music, and their most influential came in 1968 with a song Ringo Starr that gave him blisters on his fingers, and he described as "total madness".
Just a few short years before The Beatles all went their separate ways in 1970, they released The White Album. The band's ninth album was released in 1968 and was a massive hit that included such timeless tracks as Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness is a Warm Gun. One of their most standout hits followed a strike of inspiration from listening to The Who, however.
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At the height of their fame in the mid-60s, three quarters of The Beatles escaped the daily madness of being chased by fans across central London by moving to new homes in north Surrey.
George Harrison departed to Esher, and John Lennon and Ringo Starr 10 minutes up the road on the exclusive St George's Hill estate at Weybridge.
Two decades later, schoolboy Howard Bowden discovered the Fab Four via author Philip Norman's acclaimed 80s biography Shout!: The True Story of The Beatles. It set him off as a life-long fan to seek out many of the places they made famous: from Abbey Road studios in London and venues where it all started in Liverpool, to legendary Beatles landmarks across the US.
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Sir Paul McCartney has said he finds it emotional listening to a song he wrote which he says was him “talking to John (Lennon) after we’d had all the sort of disputes about The Beatles break up”.
The 79-year-old was reflecting on the track Dear Friend, which featured on Wild Life, the debut album from Paul McCartney and Wings, formed in 1971 after the Fab Four had parted ways.
The band, also known by their original name Wings, had a founding line-up which included Sir Paul’s late wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and The Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.
Outtake from the Wild Life album cover shoot at Osterley Park, London, 1971 (MPL Communications Ltd/Photographer Barry Lategan)
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John Lennon’s son, Julian, is turning items from his personal collection of Beatles memorabilia into NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, that are being sold at auction.
The items, which are each one of a kind, include the coat John Lennon wore in the “Magical Mystery Tour” film and three Gibson guitars the music legend gifted his son.
The centerpiece of the “Lennon Connection” auction are notes written by Paul McCartney for the song “Hey Jude,” which was originally titled “Hey Jules” as a letter to a 5-year-old Julian when John and his first wife, Cynthia, Julian’s mother, divorced. Experts predict the “Hey Jude” notes could fetch more than $60,000.
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George Harrison‘s wife Olivia once said that George and Bob Dylan “had a soul connection.” However, it wasn’t always so. George had to coax Dylan into opening up to him and letting him in during one of the first times they hung out.
What loosened everything up and got Dylan to take down the protective walls around his heart in the otherwise awkward meeting was music, of course. And a song called “I’d Have You Anytime.”
In his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine, George wrote about the origin story of his song “I’d Have You Anytime.” He wrote it with Dylan when he visited him in America for Thanksgiving in 1968. However, it wasn’t easy getting Dylan to relax around him.
“‘I’d Have You Anytime’ was started in America, in Woodstock—I was invited there by the Band,” George explained. “It was Thanksgiving time and I’d just finished producing a Jackie Lomax album, directly after the Beatles ‘White’ album.
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George Harrison was close with many people, but one of his best friends was Electric Light Orchestra frontman, Jeff Lynne. For a while, though, it didn’t seem like they’d ever become close. George thought Lynne was just another Beatles copycat.
However, that all changed after George realized Lynne was the only person who understood him as a musician. Since Lynne was such a big fan, he was the only person George could think of to help him record his album Cloud Nine.
Their friendship might have had unconventional beginnings, but George and Lynne loved each other. They got to share a beautiful yet heartbreaking last moment together shortly before George died.
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Leo Sayer is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a recording artist with a new album and a live performing schedule in 2022. The new recording, Northern Songs: Leo Sayer Sings the Beatles, was released on January 28. Listen to many of the tracks and watch the official trailer below.
Sayer self-produced the new album, giving his own signature spin to 19 iconic songs written and composed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.
Of Northern Songs, Sayer says, “[It] started life in 2011. I was fooling around in my new studio and found an interesting way to arrange ‘Eleanor Rigby’ by mashing it up with Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean.’ It worked surprisingly well, feeling like a great groove.”
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The cast of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil made a tribute video in honor of a very important day in Beatles history. (Photo: Cirque de Soleil on Youtube)
Las Vegas (KSNV) — The cast of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil is celebrating the anniversary of The Beatle's last concert by sharing a special tribute video featuring their own rooftop performance.
The performance was filmed atop The Mirage Hotel & Casino, home of The Beatles LOVE show, with 27 performers participating in the dance tribute.
Using two drones and four cameras, the group performed the tribute video using 'Get Back' (LOVE Version), one of the songs performed during The Beatles rooftop concert. The whole shoot was completed in two and a half hours.
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The Beatles‘ “Something” has been covered by numerous artists, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and James Brown. During an interview, George Harrison said he was disappointed with Ray Charles’ version of “Something.” The quiet Beatle said Brown’s cover of the song made up for Charles’.
George revealed he only enjoyed one part of Charles’ “Something.” “Actually, when I was writing that song, in my mind I was thinking of Ray Charles singing it,” George recalled. “As it happened, the song ended up with over 150 cover versions, but when Ray Charles did it, I was really disappointed, except for the middle, the bridge to it, he sings great. But it was a bit of a corny sort of way he did it.”
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