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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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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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