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One in three meat-eaters who follow Meat Free Monday (MFM) for five years and beyond turn vegetarian, a new study claims.
Research by the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and MFM has found that more than 30 per cent of those who engaged with the programme for five years or more stopped eating meat, with 20 per cent of those who engaged for three to five-years.
The MFM campaign, which was founded by Paul McCartney and his daughters Mary and Stella in 2009, encourages people to eat a plant-based diet once a week. The idea is to help reduce their meat consumption in order to slow climate change, conserve precious natural resources and improve their health.
The study is published in the journal Appetite, which can be accessed here. It questioned 655 people who were registered on the MFM website as meat eaters, followed up by 18 in-depth interviews.
Source: Charlotte Krol/nme.com
Paul McCartney will include the previously unseen lyrics to an unrecorded Beatles song in his forthcoming book The Lyrics.
On Monday, the former Beatle revealed the 154 songs to feature in the book, which will be based on conversations McCartney had with the poet Paul Muldoon. Described as a “self-portrait in 154 songs”, The Lyrics will feature songs from throughout McCartney’s career, including Blackbird, Live and Let Die, Hey Jude, Band on the Run and Yesterday.
Publisher Allen Lane said the book would also feature the lyrics to the unrecorded song Tell Me Who He Is. The handwritten and never-before-seen lyrics were found in one of McCartney’s notebooks – believed to date back to the early 1960s – while preparing the book.
Source: Alison Flood/theguardian.com
Ringo Starr and Nancy Sinatra have paid tribute to Don Everly, one half of the rock duo the Everly Brothers, following his death over the weekend.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the musician passed away at his home in Nashville on Saturday at the age of 84. A cause of death has not been given.
A representative from the Everly family issued a statement on his passing to the newspaper, writing, "Don lived by what he felt in his heart. Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams... with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother."
The news of his passing comes seven years after his brother and other half of the act, Phil Everly, passed away at 74 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Musicians from across genres came out to mourn the All I Have to Do Is Dream hitmaker on social media.
"God bless Don and Phil the Everly brothers we loved them peace and love," wrote Starr on Twitter.
Source: Newsdesk/music-news.com
Much to my embarrassment — but also secret delight — it was thanks to my mother that I dated a Beatle at 17.
The occasion was a big charity night for the Red Cross and I had been invited — with my parents, of course — to go down to the house of actor Richard Todd (of The Dam Busters fame) in Henley, Oxfordshire, where he was hosting a reception party.
It was one of those old-fashioned charity events where film stars and celebrities turn up to attend a premiere or a first night and raise money for a good cause.
On this occasion my mother decided that her daughter needed an escort — and that my escort should be George Harrison.
I nearly choked on my tea when she said she'd fix it. 'What?! Are you serious?' I gasped. 'You can't just call George Harrison up out of the blue and say: "Hey, George, do you wanna take my daughter out!"'
Source: Hayley Mills/dailymail.co.uk
This week, as Billie Eilish rules the Billboard 200 once again with her sophomore set Happier Than Ever and Nas scores another top 10 title with his just-released effort King’s Disease II, one legendary musician finds himself back inside the highest tier on the tally long after his passing. Former Beatles member George Harrison returns to the top 10 on the all-genre ranking with his solo release All Things Must Pass, which reappears at No. 7. The set was re-released to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, and fans rushed to buy it on any of the many formats that were made available. The collector’s item has become a special win for the late superstar, and its success after so many years shows just how popular the musician remains to this day.
Source: Hugh McIntyre/forbes.com
This could be the chance of a lifetime for a Liverpool actor to play one of the Fab Four on screen.
Casting company, Dan Hubbard Casting, is on the lookout for an actor aged 19 to 25 to play Ringo Starr in the new film Midas Man.
Midas Man is the first feature film to tell the story of the life and career of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the film will explore Epstein's role in the 1960s cultural revolution as well as his influence on pop music across the globe.
Anyone hoping to apply to the role of Ringo Starr will need to be from Liverpool or "able to do the accent very well."
If you're able to play the drums this could give you an advantage over other applicants, with actors being asked to specify if they have any drumming experience.
Source: Charlotte Hadfield/liverpoolecho.co.uk
Every rock band has its die-hard fans, but few fans could match the fervor, excitement and utter devotion that Chicago’s Beatles worshippers showed when the band arrived for a Comiskey Park concert in 1965.
Just one year earlier, Beatlemania arrived in the U.S. in February 1964 when the Fab Four — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison — performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” More than 73 million people across more than 23 million households tuned into the show, according to Mark Lewisohn, author of “The Complete Beatles Chronicle: The Definitive Day-By-Day Guide To the Beatles’ Entire Career.”
Whatever it was about the band — the music, that long hair, the accents — teenagers, especially girls, became obsessed with the lads from Liverpool.
Source: Alison Martin/chicago.suntimes.com
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney made some of the most well-known songs in rock ‘n’ roll history; however, Dylan feels his songs are very different from McCartney’s. In the same vein, Dylan said he can’t perform songs the way McCartney does. Dylan said McCartney is less like himself and more like other famous musicians from the 1960s and 1970s.During an interview with the HuffPost, Bill Flanagan asked Dylan why he doesn’t play his songs the same way all the time like other acts from his generation. “I couldn’t if I tried,” Dylan said. “Those guys you are talking about all had conspicuous hits. They started out anti-establishment and now they are in charge of the world. Celebratory songs. Music for the grand dinner party. Mainstream stuff that played into the culture on a pervasive level.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
Paul McCartney was watching TV, saw a trumpeter playing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto on screen, and next minute invited him to play on one of the Beatles’ biggest hits.
Picture this. Paul McCartney, watching TV in a most ordinary scene, and happening across footage of the English orchestral trumpeter David Mason performing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto. So inspired, he becomes, that he knows he just must invite him to play on a new Beatles song he’s percolating on.
That’s how the story of the notoriously high piccolo trumpet solo on ‘Penny Lane’ starts.
Vocalist McCartney was looking for something to embellish the jaunty 1967 English pop song, so when he heard Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in the hands of the virtuosic Mason, he’d found just the colour the Fab Four didn’t even know they needed.
Source: Rosie Pentreath/classicfm.com
Beatles fans are started to speculate what the expanded ‘Let It Be’ box set may look like when it is released in October.The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ secret was leaked last week after former Apple Records box Tony Bramwell blabbed on social media about a 5-disc box set coming on 15 October. That was spotted by Beatle vlogger Caitlyn Larkin who put the news out to Beatles fans via her YouTube channel before Bramwell deleted his post.The expanded ‘Let It Be’ is expected to be released ahead of the Peter Jackson ‘Get Back’ movie, Jackson’s remake of the 1970 ‘Let It Be’ film. The original film was made by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. It was released to cinema, later to VHS and had an occasional broadcast on Free To Air television in the 1980s but have never been released on DVD or Blu-Ray.
Source: noise11.com
