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THE BEATLES frontman John Lennon spoke candidly about the band and their popularity in 1966, prompting their music to be completely banned in South Africa.
During the mid-1960s The Beatles were more popular than ever. While the band were flying around the world and performing their incredible hits, the number of people that came out to see them sing showed them just how admired they were. During this exciting time, John Lennon explained how the band were definitely more popular than Christianity.
In March 1966 Lennon sat down with British newspaper The Evening Standard, where he mused: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
"I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now.
"I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
He added: "Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and
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Paul McCartney has encouraged his fans and followers on social media to get vaccinated against coronavirus.
The Beatles legend is the latest high-profile music star to back the global vaccination effort, with Ariana Grande urging her fans to step forward and receive their jabs over the weekend.
Posting on his social media channels yesterday (August 2), McCartney shared an image of himself receiving one of his jabs.
“BE COOL. GET VAX’D,” McCartney captioned the image, before signing off with ‘Paul’.
McCartney previously spoke of his relief after news of the development of a coronavirus vaccination was broken back in December.
“I think we’ll come through it, I know we’ll come through, and it’s great news about the vaccine,” he said. “I’ll have it as soon as I’m allowed.”
In the UK, over 46 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, while over 38 million have received both jabs (via GOV.UK).
Walk on stage with Paul McCartney
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In 1970 the members of The Beatles fighting with one another. The band had split up and their relationships were growing increasingly fraught. While Paul McCartney and John Lennon were embarking on perilous legal battles against each other, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were attending parties. During one of these events, George confessed that he was "in love" with his Ringo's wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett.
Chris O'Dell, a former Apple Corps employee, assistant and tour manager for bands including The Beatles recalled what happened in her book, Miss O’Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.
She wrote: "We sat at the long wooden table in the kitchen, Ringo and George on one bench, Pattie and I facing them on the opposite bench.
"Maureen spent the entire evening flitting around like a little bird, landing here, then there, jumping up to cook an omelette for Ringo, refilling our drinks, bringing plates of food to the table.
"[George] turned to Ringo and said: ‘You know, Ringo, I’m in love with your wife.'"
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n the late 1950s and early 1960s, something was happening on Merseyside that would change the world forever. A gentleman by the name of Bill Harry would create the word to describe this phenomenon, and it would be called “The Merseybeat. He would write all about this movement in his magazine of the same name and it would provide a useful insight into what many would consider a supernatural happening in and around the city at that time.
The origins of The Merseybeat were in church halls and basement cellars of houses in the Liverpool suburbs such as The Casbah Coffee Club which was a small basement of a large house owned by Mona Best. Her son Pete Best would go on to be the drummer with a little band at the time and would find himself later known as the “world’s most unlucky musician” after he would be sacked by that “little” band and replaced by Ringo Starr!
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Benson’s latest book, titled Paul (out now from Taschen), focuses on his iconic images of Paul McCartney. The Scottish photographer first stepped into Macca’s world in 1964, when he was a photojournalist working on London’s Fleet Street. He was about to depart for Africa on assignment when his editor called with a change of plans: he’d fly to Paris instead to capture the Beatles, and he wasn’t too happy about it.
“You think of yourself as a foreign correspondent, a big shot,” he says. “I didn’t want to do a new rock group.” But his perception of the band drastically changed when he watched them perform (he even ended up traveling with them on their famous trip to America that same year). “They were terrific,” he says. “I said to myself, ‘I was on the right story.’ ”
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Located on the waterfront, the Beatles statues have been redressed by famous milliner Stephen Jones OBE to “challenge and celebrate the role of these statues in modern times.”
The statues’ redress was inspired by Yellow Submarine for Sir Ringo Starr, Penny Lane for Sir Paul McCartney, Help! for John Lennon and Here Comes The Sun for George Harrison.
Sharing the statues’ new look to social media, Cavern Club Liverpool asked its followers what they thought of the makeover.
The responses may not have been what they expected.
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On a sunny spring day in 1966, halfway by means of the Revolver classes, The Beatles decamped to Chiswick Home for a day’s filming. The band had chosen the landscaped grounds of this 18th-century stately dwelling to movie two promotional movies for his or her single Paperback Author/Rain. Prepared Regular Go! director Michael Lindsay-Hogg had been recruited to movie in color and on location – creating placing standalone movies that might be described as the primary pop movies.
This was the newest cease within the evolving cinematic relationship The Beatles developed in tandem with their musical careers. What began with Pathé newsreels, press conferences and A Exhausting Day’s Evening continues within the band’s prolonged afterlife with Get Again – Peter Jackson’s three-part reimagining of Let It Be, which arrives in November.
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An autograph hunter has shared fond memories of meeting Paul McCartney, George Best and other celebrities as a teenager in the Swinging Sixties.
Judith Leach, who lives in Moira, near Ashby, was an avid fan of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and other icons from a halcyon age of British pop culture.
The 71-year-old's collection of star signatures reads like a who's who of the time, with other names collected in her youth including those of legendary Manchester United manager Matt Busby; Graham Nash of The Hollies and later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Pat Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street.
Judith began collecting the autograph of celebrities in 1963, with her fascinating document of the time surviving intact for almost six decades.
The book has also made it through four house moves, each time returning to languish in a drawer.
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Do you remember seeing The Beatles perform in the Derbyshire town of Buxton nearly six whole decades ago?
Memorabilia of one of the UK's greatest and most loved bands' performance at the town’s Pavilion Ballroom has emerged thanks to the discovery of a poster advertising the event.
The Beatles performed in Buxton on April 6, 1963, with the poster of the even describing them as ‘No 1 Hit Parade Stars’ thanks to their song Please Please Me.
Please Please Me, the band’s debut album, was released on March 22, 1963, following the success of their first two singles, Love Me Do, which reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart, and Please Please Me which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts.
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The official Instagram page of Pearl Jam made a public announcement today to reveal their fan-curated project named ‘Deep’ and it’s now available on almost every streaming platform as well as on its own website.
You might remember that the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam released their eleventh studio album named ‘Gigaton’ last year and the band could not make the North American tour they scheduled due to a coronavirus pandemic. Since fans are still waiting for the new tour dates, the band made yet another exciting announcement for their fanbase.
Recently, Pearl Jam announced that they built a brand new site named ‘Deep’ and the band covered many legendary stars’ songs. According to the official statement, Deep includes covers from Neil Young, The Who, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and more.
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