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Peter Jackson shocked fans last month when news broke that his upcoming Beatles documentary “Get Back” was being expanded from a movie into a three part, six hour television series to stream on Disney+. The “Lord of the Rings” Oscar winner restored 60 hours of never-before-scene Beatles footage for the movie and just couldn’t whittle it all down into a movie-friendly runtime. In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Jackson teased what music fans can expect in his six hours of footage.
“I think people will be surprised by the series for two reasons,” Jackson said. “One, it’ll be far more intimate than they imagined it to be, because everyone is used to seeing music documentaries being a bit kind of MTV-ish, sort of together in a poppy kind of way and it’s just the music, music, music, you know? The music isn’t at the forefront of this film: weirdly, it’s what goes on behind the music at the forefront.”
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NASA's first mission to the Trojan asteroids associated with the planet Jupiter will be carrying some words of wisdom meant to inspire humanity in the distant future. The Lucy spacecraft is scheduled to launch in October 2021, and it was recently kitted out with a plaque that will act as a time capsule.
While Lucy was named for the fossil skeleton of a human ancestor, the moniker was also inspired by The Beatles' 1967 classic song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The spacecraft's plaque is inscribed with quotes from band members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.
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The Beatles are likely the most documented, examined and celebrated musicians in books, film and TV of the last 60 years. This fall will bring Paul McCartney’s book “The Lyrics” and the Peter Jackson Disney+ docuseries “Get Back.” Still, when iconic producer Rick Rubin started talking to Paul McCartney, they found the impetus for a new project: “McCartney, 3, 2, 1,” a six-part docuseries on Hulu premiering July 16 in which Rubin and McCartney take apart some of the songwriter’s classics to look at the parts that made up the whole.
“They had sort of a musicology geekfest conversation that led to this project,” says Zachary Heinzerling, who Rubin brought in to direct. “Rick has a desire to discover what makes something magic and timeless. It’s chance and trial and experimentation but also advanced knowledge of music – the intersection of skill and that ineffable quality is where this project lands and every aspect of shooting and designing it is in service of showing both sides of the creative process.”
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The legendary musician Paul McCartney He continues to surprise everyone with his work. At the end of last year he released his most recent album “McCartney III”, and now he decided to surprise his followers during a party.
Through the different social networks it can be seen that the experienced musician joined a band for a live show. Although it was speculated that this spontaneous show was during his granddaughter’s graduation party, it actually happened during a work meeting of his wife Nancy Shevell.
Although the video is short, in a few minutes you can see that Nancy joins her husband while the band enlivened the party with the theme “I Saw Her Standing Here”, a song that is part of the first album that he released the Liverpool Quartet.
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Pop music superstar, songwriter and producer Richard Marx joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about his decades-long career, Beatles influences, his new memoir "Stories To Tell," and much more on "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Chicago-born Marx, who released his self-titled debut album in 1987, went on to have a string of 14 top 20 hits in the late '80s and early '90s, including "Don't Mean Nothing," "Hold On to the Nights" and "Right Here Waiting." As he tells Womack, he started out singing in commercials for his jazz-pianist-turned-ad-man father's jingle company at the age of five. "I grew up in the recording studio as much as I did the classroom."
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The six part Paul McCartney doc for Hulu, “McCartney 3,2,1,” is really stunning. As I went through it I thought, the more you learn, the less you know, the more questions you have. I got the feeling Rick Rubin felt that way, too. Six segments aren’t enough. I hope there are more.
This is my third piece on this series. Some things bubbled up during segments 3 through 6. First of all, Paul indicates to Rubin that of the 250 or so Beatles songs, the favorites that he wrote. One is not surprising, it’s “Yesterday,” which came to him in a dream and he still can’t believe it after 60 years.
The other favorite of his own songs, he says, is “Here, There and Everywhere.” The reason seems to be that John Lennon modestly praised the song when the album came out, conceding to Paul privately that it was essentially, “pretty good.” You see that McCartney has never forgotten that moment.
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A demo of a previously unreleased George Harrison song called “Cosmic Empire,” from the sessions for his landmark 1970 solo effort All Things Must Pass, has just been made available in advance of the upcoming deluxe reissue of the late Beatles legend’s classic album.
“Cosmic Empire” has been released digitally and via streaming services, and an animated lyric video for the track has premiered on Harrison’s YouTube channel. The clip features a kaleidoscopic montage of collages celebrating the natural and cosmic worlds, and including photos of Harrison and depictions of animals, plants, planets and much more.
The track was recorded on the second day of a prolific two-day session for All Things Must Pass, during which Harrison recorded demos of 30 songs. “Cosmic Empire” features George accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.
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The Beatles’ songs contain references to their lives and the people they knew. For example, John Lennon used one of The Beatles’ later songs to say “hi” to his best man and thank him. Here’s how another celebrity inspired him to do that.
The Ballad of John and Yoko” is an intriguingly honest song from The Beatles’ catalogue. In the book Lennon Remembers, John revealed songs like “Help!” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” are autobiographical, however, this might not be clear to listeners. In contrast, “The Ballad of John and Yoko” is obviously about John’s relationship with Yoko Ono from its title alone.
The song includes the lyric “Peter Brown called to say/We can make it okay/You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain.” Considering The Beatles’ songs include many named fictional characters like Eleanor Rigby and Molly Jones, one might assume Peter Brown is a character. In fact, Rolling Stone reports he was the assistant of Brian Epstein, The Beatles’ manager. He was even the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding. In Lennon Remembers, John explained why he mentioned Brown in the lyrics of the song.
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John Lennon sometimes criticized his own guitar playing, however, he felt he “made the guitar speak” on one of his songs. Subsequently, one of his collaborators said the song made a huge impact on him. Here’s a look at the song.John gave a famous interview to Rolling Stone’s Jann S. Wenner in 1970. In it he discussed numerous topics, from Christianity to Orson Welles to “Hound Dog.” However, much of the conversations centered on his newest album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. At one point, Wenner asked John if there were any songs where he made his guitar “speak.”
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The music icon played in the legendary band alongside John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, and he's confessed to loving the time around their 1968 album, which was officially titled 'The Beatles'.
Speaking as he celebrated his 81st birthday in Beverly Hills Park on Wednesday (07.07.21), he explained to TMZ: "I've loved the 'White Album' all of my life because we were back being a band."
The 'White Album' is widely considered to be one of the best records of all time, and it was recorded at EMI Studios in London.
Tensions within the group escalated after the album's release and they eventually announced their split in 1970.
Reflecting on his time in the band, Ringo jokingly added: "We made a couple of other good albums too!"
The drummer previously revealed he wanted fans to "spread peace and love" to celebrate his 81st birthday.
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