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George Martin’s AIR Studios currently sits in ruin on the Caribbean island of Montserrat thanks to the devastation of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and a series of volcano eruptions in the Nineties. But throughout the Eighties, everyone from the Rolling Stones and the Police to Elton John, Duran Duran, Dire Straits, and Black Sabbath traveled there to record era-defining albums.
The upcoming documentary Under the Volcano traces the entire saga of AIR Studios, featuring incredible archival footage and new interviews with Sting, Mark Knopfler, Tony Iommi, Verdine White, Giles Martin, Jimmy Buffet, and many others. The movie will be available via on-demand and digital platforms on August 17th.
“We went there for the isolation,” Stewart Copeland says in the trailer, looking back at his tumultuous time there with the Police as they made their final album. “Here we were in this paradise, which we soon turned into a living hell.”
“We weren’t physically aggressive with each other,” adds Sting, “but it got pretty heated.”
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The Beatles produced many classic albums; however, John Lennon wasn’t invested in all of them. He once claimed none of The Beatles cared about one of their classic albums. Here’s how the public and music critics reacted to the record.Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner published a lengthy interview with John as a book titled Lennon Remembers. In the book, Wenner asks John many questions about The Beatles and his early solo career. John was not interested in mythologizing The Beatles in the interview, so he was honest about the hard parts of being a member of the Fab Four.
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At 79 years old, Paul McCartney's life and legacy is well-cemented within history as being an integral part of one of the most influential and best-selling bands of all time, The Beatles.
As the group's bass guitarist and key vocalist, McCartney's contributions to music go far beyond harmonies and chord progressions, but rather, establishes him as a historic and essential bridge between the music of today and the music he helped pioneer. And in his latest album, “McCartney III Imagined,” McCartney does just that.
Released on April 16, "McCartney III Imagined" features collaborations with various rising stars of today’s music industry, including Dominic Fike and Phoebe Bridgers, in a series of remixed tracks of his own works. This project is unique, as it shows McCartney inserting himself into the present genre of musical talent he undoubtedly helped inspire.
Out of 11 tracks on the digital version of the album, there are a few standout tracks that show an experimental side of McCartney that we haven't seen before.
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After meeting in 1967, Paul and Linda McCartney spent three decades together before Linda sadly died.
Some of McCartney's biggest love songs such as 'My Love' and 'Maybe I'm Amazed', are said to be inspired by their relationship.
But how did the pair get together and when did they get married? Find out all about their love story…
Paul McCartney met American photographer Linda Eastman in 1967 at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails nightclub in Soho, London. Linda was on a work trip in the UK, where she was taking photographs of musicians for a book called Rock and Other Four-Letter Words.
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“Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a landmark album and song that may have happened because of a simple miscommunication.
In the new Hulu documentary “McCartney 3, 2, 1,” Paul McCartney reveals how the name “Sgt. Pepper” actually came to be before it became one of the Beatles’ most well-known and influential recordings.
“I was on a plane with our roadie, and we were eating,” McCartney says in an exclusive clip from the documentary that aired Thursday on TODAY.
“And he said, ‘Can you pass the salt and pepper?’ And I thought he said, ‘Sergeant Pepper.’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Salt and pepper.’ I said, ‘Oh, OK. I thought you said, "Sergeant Pepper."' So we had a laugh about that, but then the more I thought about it, ‘Sergeant Pepper, that’s kind of a cool character.’”
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One of Shawn Mendes‘ biggest influences is John Mayer, and the two now have a close friendship. And in a new interview, John admits to being so knocked out by Shawn that he even compares the 22-year-old Canadian singer to one of the Beatles.
“He’s remarkable,” John gushed to Apple Music 1‘s Zane Lowe on Wednesday. “He’s remarkable. That’s all there is to it…You know who he reminds me of? He reminds me of George Harrison.”
According to John, Shawn and the so-called “Quiet Beatle” are alike “in the sense that his spirit is immovable, and it’s his, and it’s honest. And that’s very George Harrison to me.”
Citing the way Harrison came across during a Dick Cavett interview years ago, John said Shawn has the same vibe, noting, “He’s not pushed around by the excitement around him.”
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If you’re a fan of The Beatles then you will love this.
There’s a glut of new Beatles material out there now and fans are loving it.
Just in case you managed to snag a subscription on Hulu (via VPN – long story, ask your techy friend) then no doubt you are set to check out “McCartney 3,2,1” the documentary that features ex-Beatle Paul McCartney dissecting the Fab Four’s music with rock and Hiphop music producer Rick Rubin. This special sees Sir Paul delving deep like never before on the music he made with the rest of The Beatles in their heydays. The 3-part series premieres on Hulu starting July 16.
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Paul McCartney has revealed that he still has unreleased “story songs” that were written in the style of ‘Eleanor Rigby’.
Penned by McCartney and John Lennon, the aforementioned classic track appears on The Beatles‘ 1966 studio album, ‘Revolver’.
Speaking to Uncut magazine for its September 2021 issue, McCartney explained there are some similar “story songs” that remain in his archive to this day.
“I’ve still got a few that I haven’t released,” he said. “Because I don’t think they’re that good.”
McCartney continued: “It’s quite a fun thing to do, to just dream up a name of a character and try and write the story of that character and then make it fit with another character. ‘Eleanor Rigby’, I did it with just the few. Father McKenzie and Eleanor.”
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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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