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Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson has talked about her musical hero, The Beatles legend Paul McCartney, and made heartwarming comments to praise him.
At first, Wilson has revealed whether she ever get a chance to talk of The Beatles as a peer. She told that she talked with Paul McCartney three different times before his shows. Wilson added her words that McCartney is the man you want him to be.
“I got to talk to Paul about three different times before his couple shows that I went to see,” Nancy told during a recent interview with The Mistress Carrie Podcast. “One was with Wings, and then it was his newer band, the Paul McCartney Show I guess.
“And he’s exactly the guy you want him to be. He’s really generous and sweet, and there’s no pretense with Paul McCartney, he’s just a good person, and he’s kind of upbeat guy.”
Source: Sami Altintas/metalcastle.net
Flashback: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Tries to Bust Paul McCartney Out of Prison for Weed Possession
“Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved excessive,” the reggae legend wrote. “Master PAUL McCARTNEY’s intentions are positive”
Reggae legend Lee “Scratch” Perry is best known as the architect of reggae and dub, his mind-bending solo productions and his work with everyone from Bob Marley and the Wailers to the Clash to Beastie Boys. Less known by the general public, though, is the role he played in trying to extract Paul McCartney from a Japanese prison following a marijuana bust.
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A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES presents The Best of Abbey Road Live! In celebration of Abbey Road, RAIN will bring the greatest hits to life in addition to all your early favorites for three shows at the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston October 9th at 8:00 PM and October 10th at 1:00 PM and 6:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now at the Boch Center Box Office or www.bochcenter.org.
This mind-blowing performance takes you back in time with the legendary foursome delivering a note-for-note theatrical event that is “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” (Associated Press). Experience the world’s most iconic band and come celebrate The Best of Abbey Road Live with RAIN – A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES.
Source: whatsupnewp.com
A huge country mansion in the affluent village of Sunningdale once housed not one but two of the greatest musicians ever to come out of the UK.
The home is Tittenhurst Park, which was bought in the summer of 1969 by the legendary John Lennon, who lived there with his wife and conceptual artist Yoko Ono.
They lived in the posh village for two years until the summer of August 1971.
READ MORE: The posh Berkshire village which saw the first attempts at peace in Northern Ireland
Then, a familiar face took over, when Lennon sold the building on to his drummer, Ringo Starr.
Starr and his family lived there from 1973 until the late 1980s.
Source: Hugh Fort/getreading.co.uk
A while back on Twitter, some music dude asked his followers to name the Most Underrated Band of all time. There were many replies, but I think I identified the right candidate: The Beatles.
The request was not for the most undeservedly obscure, it was for the most underrated. And a very famous band can be underrated too. Of course some tweeters thought I was joking, but I would never joke about something like that – I have long believed that many people know the Beatles are good, but few people know just how good they are. How astronomically better they are than almost anybody else.
Turns out that I am not alone in this – that among the people who underrated the Beatles was one Paul McCartney. This at least was my takeaway from a most entertaining discussion on RTÉ1’s Arena between presenter Kay Sheehy and Pat Carty of Hot Press and The Music Machine on Dublin City radio.
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AMAZING!
'Imagine' a corn maze so inspiring that it requires multiple fields. This time lapse video of Mike's Maze at Warner Farm will thrill any John Lennon fan and make a dreamer out of anyone who watches it.
Imagine at Mike's Maze
Warner Farm - Sunderland, Massachusetts
Opening September 10th
If you're anything like me, you probably said 'Where the ^#$& is Sunderland?'
Don't let that stand in the way of your journey to see it in person. Driving from the NH Seacoast area, you can make it there in a couple hours.
A quick and easy two hours and eighteen minutes if you take 495 and then Route 2.
If you prefer a more NH based route?
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On this day 49 years ago, Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best as the drummer of The Beatles.
The English rock band went on to sell hundreds of millions of records over the following decade and soon established itself as one of the most influential groups of all time.
Yet Starr’s contribution to the band was usually overshadowed by the massive celebrity and formidable talents of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
The drummer was known as “the fourth Beatle” and was often portrayed as the least musically talented of the group, with some critics describing his joining the band as a stroke of pure chance.
It is a narrative that has stuck over the years – regardless of whether it is true.
Source: newsnationusa.com
Of all the Beatles’ classic albums, Let It Be is the one with the most daunting reputation. We’re all used to hearing it as their break-up album. The one where the Fabs fall apart. The one they began as a back-to-basics rebirth, until it became their tombstone. The messy film soundtrack that arrived in May 1970, just as the band was breaking up. The one Phil Spector took over. Their darkest, most divisive music. But that’s never been the whole story. This is also the album with classics like “Let It Be,” “Across the Universe,” “Get Back,” and “Two of Us.” Let It Be always raises the question: How did John, Paul, George, and Ringo make such uplifting music in their hour of darkness?
That’s the fascinating mystery behind Let It Be — and it’s about to get more fascinating. Rolling Stone took a one-on-one exclusive tour of the new Special Edition of Let It Be, which drops on October 15th. It’s a crucial box set that finally places this wildly misunderstood music in the Beatles’ story.
Source: Rob Sheffield/rollingstone.com
Paul McCartney has been making the most of lockdown. First he recorded the third in his trilogy of “McCartney” albums. Then he arranged for famous friends such as St Vincent and Beck to remix the LP. And now, here he is on McCartney 3,2,1 (Disney +, Wednesday), mucking about with super-producer Rick Rubin and talking, with undisguised enthusiasm, about the glory years of The Beatles.
At 79, McCartney’s effervescence is remarkable. He is surely fed up with questions about his humble upbringing in Liverpool. His early days playing with John Lennon. His relationship with unofficial younger brother, George Harrison. These are anecdotes that must haunt his dreams.
But no – he can’t get enough of it. It helps that on McCartney 3, 2, 1 he has an opportunity to nerd out. He is “in conversation” with producer and hit-maker Rubin in six 30 minute episodes – though in reality they’re just larking about together in a studio. And this proves the best possible environment in which to get the most out of Macca.
Source: Ed Power/irishtimes.com
In February of 1964, halfway through my sixth-grade year, the Beatles came to America. By coincidence, Aunt Shirley was returning from a trip to England on the same day the Beatles were landing at the recently renamed John F. Kennedy Airport. When we went to pick Shirley up, the airport was still crawling with dazed teenage girls; the Beatles had landed a mere couple of hours earlier. On the drive back into town, Shirley revealed that she had originally been booked on the same Pan Am jet that the Beatles were on, but at the last minute had changed her flight to TWA because, she explained, they had this great new feature: a projector was set up at the back of the aisle and a screen up front, and they showed a movie. I was aghast: For this, Shirley had missed being on the same plane as the Beatles?
Source: Jamie Bernstein/forward.com
