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George Harrison and Ringo Starr had a special relationship. While John Lennon and Paul McCartney were writing most of the band’s songs, they left George and Ringo in the background. They wrote their own songs together and helped each other. Their collaboration only strengthened after The Beatles.
However, they worked together so much that George forgot that Ringo played on about two-thirds of his solo debut, All Things Must Pass.
In an interview with Rolling Stone radio (per the Daily Mail) in 2020, Ringo admitted that he “didn’t have the talent” to finish the songs on his debut solo album Sentimental Journey. So, he often turned to George for help.
Source: cheatsheet.com
Around 150 public radio channels across Europe will play "Give Peace a Chance" at 0745 GMT on Friday in solidarity against the war in Ukraine, the European Broadcasting Union announced.
The track, penned by John Lennon, will be heard in more than 25 countries including Ukraine, while European commercial radio stations will also join in the moment, the EBU said.
"This powerful call for peace through an iconic song will resonate with millions of listeners," said EBU director general Noel Curran.
The idea came from German public broadcaster RBB.
"The horrors of the war against Ukraine are more apparent every day. Our solidarity, our humanity and our support are needed," said RBB chief Patricia Schlesinger.
Source: Agence France-Presse/ndtv.com
Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney are the final headliners to be announced for this year’s Glastonbury festival, joining Billie Eilish. McCartney heads to Worthy Farm on Saturday, June 25, not long after wrapping his U.S. jaunt, with Lamar closing the stalwart British festival’s Pyramid Stage on the Sunday.
Other names in the announcement include Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Kacey Musgraves, Big Thief, Haim, Charli XCX, Herbie Hancock, Phoebe Bridgers, Pet Shop Boys, the Avalanches, Caroline Polachek, Roísín Murphy, Black Midi, Caribou, St. Vincent, Cate le Bon, Foals, Jarv Is…, Doja Cat, Dry Cleaning, Idles, Courtney Barnett, Sleaford Mods, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Little Simz, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Nubya Garcia, and Yves Tumor. Check out the bill so far, which also includes the previously announced Diana Ross, below. Many more acts for the sold-out festival will be announced in the coming months.
Source: Jazz Monroe/pitchfork.com
1965 album Rubber Soul changed the landscape of pop and rock music forever. You may know every word, but do you know these 14 frivolously fun facts about The Beatles’ 6th album?
Source: cracked.com
John Lennon‘s son, Sean Ono Lennon, has strong feelings about some of the former Beatle’s songs. For example, he really likes a song John wrote about Paul McCartney. Despite this, he regretted asking Paul about the track.
Sean remastered some of his father’s solo material for the box set Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes. During a 2020 interview with Rolling Stone, Sean said he enjoyed listening to his father’s old songs. He praised “How Do You Sleep?,” a song in which John criticized Paul. In the song, John said Paul was making “muzak” rather than real music.
“When I interviewed Paul, obviously I didn’t bring up that song,” Sean said, referring to a BBC interview he conducted. “I don’t want to offend him, it’s as simple as that.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
For a brief moment in time, Syracuse was going to host two Paul McCartneys on the same night.
A Paul McCartney tribute band had booked a gig at one of Syracuse’s biggest stages on June 4. Then, last month, the real McCartney announced he’d be playing Syracuse this year as well. The date? June 4.
One of them had to blink, and it wasn’t going to be Sir Paul.
“Paul’s certainly not going to move his,” said Tony Kishman, frontman for the tribute band “Live and Let Die.”
So Kishman has rescheduled his show. That way, he said, McCartney die-hards can catch both concerts.
The original McCartney will play on June 4 at the Carrier Dome, and Kishman’s “Live and Let Die” band will play a couple of months down the line on Oct. 22 at the Oncenter.
Source: Jules Struck | jstruck@syracuse.com
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The Beatles are for many the greatest band of all time, the charismatic young musicians from Liverpool who changed the way music sounded in the 1960s and laid the foundations for the five decades of rock and pop music that have followed in their wake. But how best to navigate the maze of Fabs studio albums, rarities compilations, live recordings, mono and stereo mixes and deluxe remasters – not to mention the feature films, promo videos, documentaries and books?
Source: Chris Catchpole/mojo4music.com
It was September 12, 1964, the very height of Beatlemania, and 14-year-old Debbie Chase was exactly where every Beatles fan on the planet wanted to be: in the same room as John, Paul, George and Ringo.
But the Newton eighth-grader was determined to get even closer. And soon, on the strength of an audacity she marvels at to this day, she was indeed up close and personal with the Fab Four — thanks to a Globe reporter, Jack Thomas, who still occupies a special place in Chase’s memory.
Having recently released A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles were in town to perform at the Boston Garden. A psychiatrist had been quoted in a Globe article claiming the Beatles and their music had a pernicious effect on girls. In response, young Debbie wrote an indignant letter to the newspaper, defending her mop-topped heroes.
Source: bostonglobe.com
Dhani, George Harrison’s only child, has numerous pseudo siblings among his father’s friends’ children, including Bob Dylan’s son, Jakob. Paul McCartney’s children, Mary, Stella, and James, as well as John Lennon’s son, Sean, were among Dhani’s Beatle friends.
While their fathers were in the Traveling Wilburys, however, Jakob hung out with Dhani. They later teamed up on their own.
Dhani Harrison, the son of George Harrison, grew up in a celebrity-saturated environment.
Friar Park was a unique place to grow up. Dhani used to joke with his friends about how his father makes a living by “pushing buttons.” He had no idea those buttons were responsible for the success of hit albums.
Source: Micheal Kurt/technotrenz.com
For teenager Janice Mitchell, hearing the Beatles’ I Want to Hold Your Hand on US radio in December 1963 affected her in ways she still can’t quite articulate. “How do you explain why [you were] electrified when you were struck by lightning?” she says, laughing.
I Want to Hold Your Hand didn’t just sound more interesting than the other songs in rotation on her home town station, the single represented an escape from a difficult childhood. Mitchell, of Cleveland, Ohio, grew up with neglectful parents who eventually abandoned her and two younger siblings. And 1963 had been another hard year. Mitchell was reeling from the death of a beloved great uncle, one of the few adults who had shown her kindness.
The arrival of the Beatles provided a glimmer of hope. “I realised I wanted to go to where the Beatles were from, because I figured that’s where happiness would lie,” Mitchell says. “That was my goal: to go there and breathe Beatles air, walk on sacred Beatles soil and have a happy life.”
Source: Annie Zaleski/theguardian.com
