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In 1976, Lorne Michaels offered The Beatles $3,000 to reunite on his show, Saturday Night Live. Seven months later, George Harrison signed on as the musical guest while Paul Simon had hosting duties. That show had two great moments.
In one skit, George confronted Michaels about the pay. Then, George and Simon performed together in one of the most famous performances on SNL. Simon enjoyed performing with the ex-Beatle. He said it was an “effortless” collaboration.
Simon spoke very highly about his performance with George on SNL in a special edition of Rolling Stone, “Remembering George.”
“The roots of my friendship with George Harrison go back to 1976, when we performed together on Saturday Night Live,” Simon said. “Sitting on stools side by side with acoustic guitars, we sang ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ and ‘Homeward Bound.’
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The Beatles‘ movie A Hard Day’s Night inspired the creators of The Monkees‘ sitcom. Davy Jones once dismissed the idea that The Monkees was similar to A Hard Day’s Night. On the other hand, Jones once said a scene from The Monkees was directly lifted from A Hard Day’s Night.At one point in his book They Made a Monkee Out of Me, Jones dismissed the idea that The Monkees’ sitcom was similar to The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night. “[Monkees writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker] were true to their word and came up with this idea for a show,” he said. “It was based on The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night — four rock ‘n’ roll musicians trying to make it — living together in a house on Malibu beach — sea, sand, surfboards.
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On the release of Get Back, Peter Jackson’s new documentary on the Beatles, Dominic Sandbrook reveals what eight landmark moments in the Fab Four’s career can tell us about the changing face of Britain in the sixties It was a sunny afternoon in the summer of 1957, and all seemed right with the world. Twelve years after the end of the Second World War, Harold Macmillan’s Britain was booming, the economy buoyant, the “affluent society” in full swing. And in the comfortable Liverpool suburb of Woolton, everybody was looking forward to the St Peter’s parish church fete, a highlight of the summer calendar.
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The Beatles stopped touring before they reached their early studio pinnacle with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, leaving a string of un-played era-defining late-'60s hits. Then John Lennon and George Harrison died without ever mounting the never-ending tour cycles later favored by former bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
Still, Lennon and Harrison returned to several of their best-known Beatles songs during rare solo shows, and both McCartney and Starr have made highlights from the Fab Four's catalog a staple on their respective tours. McCartney has even covered songs by Harrison and Lennon, including "Something" and "Day Tripper." Harrison did Lennon's "In My Life" on his 1974 U.S. tour, too.
As a result, most of the expected songs from their time together have been performed onstage – either by the Beatles as a unit or by members of the group. But not all of them, as shown by the following list of 10 Surprising Songs Never Performed Live by the Beatles.
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Long before Peter Jackson's "Get Back," the Beatles were not only a phenomenon like none other in the world of music, but in the world at large as well. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr's innovations and contributions have influenced musicians ever since, and continue to gain them new adoring fans as one generation passes to the next. Their impact can be seen, heard, and felt well beyond music — in humor, fashion, politics, religion and film.
The Fab Four have inspired so many, and their catalogue of over 200 songs has inspired filmmakers to use their music here, there and everywhere. There are plenty of movies about the Beatles, but let's take a look at the best ones that were inspired by them. In most cases, these movies reiterate that all you need is love — and in others, some money and/or murder. In a few more instances, the Beatles' music even inspired their own films.
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon were key collaborators in The Beatles. There were four Beatles, including Ringo Starr and George Harrison, and each of them wrote songs. The Lennon-McCartney collaboration was responsible for such classics as “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Get Back,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and many more. In a recent interview, McCartney explained why writing with Lennon was so easy. McCartney appeared on the Fresh Air podcast with Terry Gross on Nov. 24. He’s just released a book, Paul McCartney: The Lyrics which includes songs he wrote with the Beatles and later in his career. So, there were many Lennon-McCartney songs to discuss.
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Old people have wisdom — and now, behind-the-scenes knowledge about the making of The Beatles’ 1970 album “Let It Be.”
According to Nielsen, the Thanksgiving Week 2021 debut of Peter Jackson’s Disney+ docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back” was viewed by people primarily (54%) over the age of 55. Those golden oldies racked up an impressive 503 million minutes streamed between three episodes over their first four days. (“The Beatles: Get Back” premiered Episode 1 on Thanksgiving Night, Nov. 25. Episode 2 on the following evening and the third and final episode on Saturday, Nov. 27. The Nielsen week also included Sunday, Nov. 28.)
Those 500-million-plus minutes streamed placed “Get Back” seventh among original streaming programs that week. It did not make the Top 10 overall when counting acquired programs.
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The very last song The Beatles recorded before they broke up was ‘I Me Mine’ but it wasn’t all of The Beatles.
As many people learned watching Peter Jackson’s ‘Get Back’, the album that became ‘Let It Be’ was recorded before ‘Abbey Road’ but released after ‘Abbey Road’.
The ‘Let It Be’ album was delayed a: because the planned ‘Get Back’ album was scrapped (it is now part of the new ‘Let It Be’ box set) and b: The ‘Let It Be’ album was awaiting the release of the ‘Let It Be’ movie (the original footage that Jackson used to create the ‘Get Back’ series.
The Beatles finished the ‘Get Back’ sessions in January 1969. In February 1969 they started work on the ‘Abbey Road’ album. ‘Abbey Road’ was released on 26 September 1969 and the ‘Let It Be’ album was released on 8 May 1970.
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George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix never officially met, but they had similar views on fame. They were two of the most famous musicians in the 1960s, George with The Beatles and Hendrix with The Jimi Hendrix Experience. However, neither of them could be bothered with fame. All they cared about was their music.
George Harrison in denim in 1967 and Jimi Hendrix in velvet in 1966.
During an interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Hendrix revealed what he thought of fame. Cavett asked him what kind of compliments he liked to hear. Hendrix said he didn’t like compliments.
“I don’t know, I don’t really live on compliments,” Hendrix said. “Matter of fact, it has a way of distracting me. A whole lot of other musicians and artists out there today, you know they hear these compliments, they say, ‘Wow, I must have been really great.’
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Just when everyone thought there wasn’t any stone left unturned when it came to documenting every aspect of the most influential and arguably greatest rock band of all time, director Peter Jackson (“The Lord of The Rings,” “The Hobbit”) gifted the world with “The Beatles: Get Back” this past Thanksgiving. Jackson’s three-part documentary is composed of 60 hours of footage and 120 hours of audio that were not used in a previous Beatles documentary, “Let It Be” (1970), directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The premise of the film was to show The Beatles in their studio candidly writing, composing and recording what would be their final two albums (“Abbey Road” and “Let it Be”) at the start of the new year in January 1969. The film’s climax featured the band performing live on the roof of Apple Studio for what would be their last performance.
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