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Last week, a new Paul McCartney documentary aired on the streaming platform Hulu. Titled McCartney 3, 2, 1, it focuses on Paul and record producer Rick Rubin, as they discuss and explore the music made throughout Paul's career, including The Beatles, Wings, and his solo work.
Paul and Rick sit down for a rare, in-depth chat about Beatles classics, including 'All My Loving,' 'Come Together' and 'In My Life,' dissecting everything from the composition and production of the songs to the lyrical content and stories behind them. It's the first time that Paul has spoken so comprehensively about his music, making it a historic show for fans.
The documentary, which is set to be released in the UK on Disney+ on August 25, is split into a total of six episodes. In the first, Paul shares stories from the early days of The Beatles, revealing untold stories about George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, while the third episode delves into the influences behind the band, from Indian music to Chuck Berry.
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“Anyone who covers a song of mine, I love,” Paul McCartney once remarked. That's generous. It's daunting to imagine how many teenage garage bands have workshopped an unlistenable metal version of "Love Me Do," how many sub-par Soundcloud rappers have freestyled over the "Come Together" riff. When you write songs for the greatest band in history, you inspire your fair share of bad with the good.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of Beatles covers spanning every genre imaginable: R&B, country, experimental rock, post-punk, funk — you name it. So it was both daunting and educational to take this deep-dive, assembling the 100 best.
100. Todd Rundgren, "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1976)
Todd Rundgren built a career out of defying pop conventions, but he doesn't experiment much with the Beatles' psych-pop masterpiece. The dream-sequence guitar slides, muted brass, fake fade-out and reversed percussion — it's all here, along with some added fuzz and a heavier drum gallop.
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On July 21, 1968, popular young actress and model Jane went on the hugely popular BBC chat show Dee Time. The early evening light entertainment series attracted up to 18 million viewers. Jane was well-known in her own right as well as being the girlfriend of one of the most famous men in the world, so when she told host Simon Dee that her five-year relationship with Paul was over, it created a huge stir. Jane cryptically said: "I haven’t broken it off, but it’s finished." Had Paul's latest blatant infidelity been the last straw?On July 21, 1968, popular young actress and model Jane went on the hugely popular BBC chat show Dee Time. The early evening light entertainment series attracted up to 18 million viewers. Jane was well-known in her own right as well as being the girlfriend of one of the most famous men in the world, so when she told host Simon Dee that her five-year relationship with Paul was over, it created a huge stir. Jane cryptically said: "I haven’t broken it off, but it’s finished." Had Paul's latest blatant infidelity been the last straw?
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There are very few facts you can use to stump Beatles diehards, but every once in a while, a new documentary comes along that is both revealing and totally unique in structure. McCartney 3,2,1, a six-part docuseries that recently premiered on Hulu, is one such piece of filmmaking. The concept is simple: Paul McCartney and legendary producer Rick Rubin sit in a room together, play Beatles and solo McCartney/Wings tunes, and discuss how they got made. Shot in black and white, the style is radically minimal yet always interesting. Throughout the six-part series, McCartney and Rubin isolate tracks and vocal performances, highlighting the intricate details that made The Beatles the best rock band on earth.
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The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel are very different bands; however, John Lennon said Paul McCartney one of The Beatles’ albums to be like a Simon & Garfunkel album. Interestingly, John revealed the Fab Four had a challenging time making the album. Here’s how the public reacted to the record.
The book Lennon Remembers contains a long interview with John. In the book, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner asked John questions about every era of The Beatles career. He especially focused on their later years together.
At one point, Wenner asked John how long The Beatles took to create their album Let It Be. “God knows how long,” John revealed. “Paul [McCartney] had this idea that we were going to rehearse or… see it all was more like Simon & Garfunkel [laugh], like looking for perfection all the time. And so he has these ideas that we’ll rehearse and then make the album. And of course, we’re lazy f—ers and we’ve been playing for twenty years, for f—’s sake, we’re grown men, we’re not going to sit around rehearsing. I’m not, anyway. And we couldn’t get into it.”
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The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel are very different bands; however, John Lennon said Paul McCartney one of The Beatles’ albums to be like a Simon & Garfunkel album. Interestingly, John revealed the Fab Four had a challenging time making the album. Here’s how the public reacted to the record.
The book Lennon Remembers contains a long interview with John. In the book, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner asked John questions about every era of The Beatles career. He especially focused on their later years together.
At one point, Wenner asked John how long The Beatles took to create their album Let It Be. “God knows how long,” John revealed. “Paul [McCartney] had this idea that we were going to rehearse or… see it all was more like Simon & Garfunkel [laugh], like looking for perfection all the time. And so he has these ideas that we’ll rehearse and then make the album. And of course, we’re lazy f—ers and we’ve been playing for twenty years, for f—’s sake, we’re grown men, we’re not going to sit around rehearsing. I’m not, anyway. And we couldn’t get into it.”
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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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