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Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Wright revealed how Starr was always thinking of those less fortunate than him, even after he'd just performed to hundreds of fans at a sell-out gig.
Wright said: "Ringo, of course, was a sweetheart. I've seen it here at the Globe. Between the shows, you would get all the toys and everything thrown to the gods [the band]. They used to sweep them up and put them in a plastic bin."
At the time, Beatlemania was in full force, with thousands of young women looking to get a piece of the Fab Four in one way or another.
Wright - whose photography work has been placed on permanent exhibition at the newly renovated Globe - said the venue's employees "would take the [toys] all upstairs into the band's dressing rooms".
"The autograph books," he explained. "The lads would dive in and sign them - no b****y problem."
Source: Callum Crumlish/express.co.uk
George Harrison might have had a reputation as the “quiet Beatle,” but he was always the life of the party. People would gravitate to him, and it wasn’t just because he was a Beatle, although that played a big part. There was a reason why George had so many friends. As Paul McCartney would say, he was just a lovely guy. So, of course, when comedian Martin Short was given the opportunity to meet George, he wasn’t going to pass it up. The result turned out to be more than Short could have ever hoped. In a 2019 appearance on Conan, Conan O’Brien asked Short which celebrity he was most excited to meet. He explained that it’s no one in his peer group because “you’re competitive with them and want their failure.” It’s the stars that were big when you’re growing up that are the most precious to meet when you’re older.
Source: cheatsheet.com
A set of previously unheard interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, in which they discuss his favourite Beatles songs and their famous bed-ins, have been sold at auction.
Canadian journalist Ken Zeilig recorded 91 minutes with the couple on three separate occasions in 1969 and 1970.
It is believed only five minutes of the tapes were ever aired, in the 1980s.
The tapes beat expectations to sell for £38,000 on Tuesday to a Dutch buyer who remains unknown.
The interviews, which were conducted around the time of the couple's two bed-in protests for peace, covered a broad range of subjects, from the upcoming release of The Beatles' Abbey Road album and the future of the band and their Apple record label to the "War is Over" movement and their efforts to clear the name of James Hanratty, who was hanged for murder in 1962.
Source: BBC News
Photographer Ian Wright was just 18 when he captured The Beatles on stage on 22 November 1963. But the photos never made it into his newspaper because of an event half-way around the world.
The Beatles had just played their first set at the Stockton Globe to 2,400 screaming girls, and another 2,400 were making their way in for the night's second performance when the frontman of the support band heard a newsflash on his transistor radio.
"He had a clapped-out trannie that was held together with chewing gum and elastic bands, and he used to tie the little aerial around one of his cymbal stands," recalls Wright, who was hanging around backstage.
Source: Ian Youngs/bbc.com
Sir Paul McCartney’s grandchildren aren’t the biggest fans of him and his guitar (Picture: WireImage)
Sir Paul McCartney may be considered a music legend amongst many, but that doesn’t stop his grandchildren from urging him to put his guitar down.
While in the presence of Beatles royalty, an intimate acoustic performance in the living room sounds like a dream, right? Right. Unless you’re a child trying to watch TV.
Sir Paul hilariously revealed that his grandkids are always on hand to keep him grounded as they beg him to put his guitar away when he starts playing at home.
He claims they’d much rather binge on their favourite TV shows instead, telling the Daily Mirror: ‘I occasionally play around the house… it depends on what they’re doing.
Source: Katie Storey/metro.co.uk
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher dated from 1963 to 1968. Asher was Paul’s first love and his muse. He wrote many iconic love songs about her and heartbreaking songs when they fought. Paul didn’t always treat her the best and wrote songs about their troubles, but Asher made their relationship even more public by breaking things off with the Beatle on live TV.In 1963, The Beatles’ fame was slowly rising. They’d already released a couple of successful singles and were set to play London’s Royal Albert Hall in April for a BBC Radio special. According to Steve Turner’s The Beatles A Hard Day’s Write, the BBC’s listings magazine, Radio Times, sent Jane Asher, Britain’s “best-known teenaged girl,” down to attend the concert. She was only 17 years old at the time and already an established actor. She was also a panelist on the BBC’s popular new music show Juke Box Jury.
Source: cheatsheet.com
Today Ringo Starr released his new video “Let’s Change The World,” the lead single off his current EP Change The World. The song and video deliver a welcome dose of hope and Starr’s trademark optimism. The song was written by Joseph Williams and Steve Lukather, both of whom also played on the track, with backing vocals by Amy Keys, Zelma Davis, Billy Valentine and Darryl Phinnessee.
Lukather also appears in the video, which was created in collaboration with Kids In The Spotlight, a nonprofit that provides a platform for foster care youth to tell their stories through film. These underserved youth write, cast, and star in their own short films, and the experiences help them to heal and grow, as well as to prepare and lay the groundwork for future employment opportunities.
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In The Beatles‘ heyday, each member was painted as this larger-than-life caricature of a rock star. But what were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr really like? Harrison answers that question in one of his columns for the Daily Express in 1964. Here’s how each of The Beatles acted behind closed doors, and why they put on that famous “blasé” attitude.
“A lot of rubbish has been written about our personalities,” Harrison wrote with the help of Daily Express writer Derek Taylor, as recorded in the book George Harrison on George Harrison. So he went to set the record straight himself.
“John is supposed to be a relaxed, laconic comedian,” he began. “But this isn’t the whole picture or even the right one. John is a little shy, defensive, always aware of people, interested in their motives and not always pleased by what he finds.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
When George Harrison died in 2001, he left behind an immense legacy. He’d been a Beatle, but he’d had a longer, just as successful solo career filled with great songs like “My Sweet Lord,” “All Things Must Pass,” and “Got My Mind Set On You.” In his final months, he’d been trying to record his last album, Brainwashed, but never finished it.
Instead, his son Dhani and one of his best friends, ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, finished the album and released it for George posthumously. This was our first glimpse into what Dhani was willing to do for his father and the tremendous legacy he left behind. Thanks to Dhani, George Harrison is reaching fans like never before.
Source: cheatsheet.com
In 1964, Beatlemania was very much taking over England. And it was beginning to creep into other corners of the world as well. Paris, for example, was starting to get the appeal of The Beatles. During a trip to the city of light, the boys were inundated with “hundreds of marvelous chicks.” Here’s what George Harrison wrote about them in his column for the Daily Express that year.
Harrison and the rest of The Beatles had quite the female fan base. They got the opportunity to meet women from all over the world. In his column for the Daily Express, Harrison (along with the help of Daily Express writer Derek Taylor) shared his thoughts surrounding Parisian girls.
Source: cheatsheet.com
