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Last week, April 23 marked St George’s Day and Sir Paul McCartney paid tribute to two late Georges associated with The Beatles. Firstly, his fellow bandmate George Harrison who died in November 2001, aged 58. And also Sir George Martin, The Beatles record producer, who died in March 2016 at the age of 90.
On his Instagram account, Sir Paul McCartney posted a picture of himself with the two Georges enjoying a cup of tea in The Beatles’ heyday.
The photograph was taken by Macca’s late first wife Linda McCartney, who died in April 1998 aged 56.
Sir Paul captioned the snap: “Two great Georges on St George’s Day. Have a happy one - Paul.”
The surviving Beatle also paid tribute to George Harrison on February 25, for what would have been his 78th birthday.
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Jimi Hendrix got to know all the top British rockers after breaking into the London scene at the close of 1966. At any given show, you might Paul McCartney, John Lennon, or Mick Jagger filing backstage to speak with Hendrix.
That continued into the era of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Just a few days after the release of the landmark Pepper, Hendrix paid tribute to the Fab Four by covering the title track at a Saville performance. McCartney, in the audience that night, considered it one of the great compliments of his life.
But as Hendrix’s career took off and the Beatles’ run moved toward its close, Hendrix became less wowed by the Fab Four’s output. Speaking about The White Album (1968), Hendrix saw the collection of tracks as an example of the band moving toward the past rather than the future. The Beatles, Hendrix thought, had become the establishment.
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Only one book about The Beatles was published during their time together. However, John Lennon had some criticisms for the book. Here’s how the author behind The Beatles: The Authorised Biography reacted to his words.
John famously gave an interview to Rolling Stone’s Jann S. Wenner which Wenner later published as a book called Lennon Remembers. John told Wenner that Hunter Davies’ The Beatles: The Authorised Biography was not truthful at all. He said it didn’t mention The Beatles’ orgies because the members of the band didn’t want to hurt their wives’ feelings. In addition, he said he would have preferred a book that was “real.”
For The Guardian, Davies wrote about John’s response to The Beatles: The Authorised Biography. “John had a go at my book on the Beatles, the only authorised biography,” he said. “When it came out, in 1968, it was seen as brutally honest. Hard to believe now, but at the time biographies of popular heroes revealed no warts. The word ‘f*ck’ was used and taking LSD admitted. Daring, huh?”
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In December 1970 the albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band were released to huge critical acclaim. The Beatles had shocked fans with the announcement they were splitting up on April 10 that year, but the reality was the band had gone their separate ways the previous year. John entered an intensely creative period that resulted in his first Plastic Ono Band release, swiftly followed by Imagine in September 1971. Although he was determined to estabish his new solo identity (with Yoko) Beatles bandmate Ringo played drums on the first album (with Klaus Voorman on bass guitar), while George Harrison would later play bass guitar on Imagine.
As he joined the worldwide Twitter listening party today at 6pm, Ringo immediately told everyone: "It's so incredible, the emotion on this record, just mind blowing. The sparseness of the band, the force of John Lennon. That's why he's one of the greats. This record proves it more than most...
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Paul McCartney showed his support for his fashion designer daughter Stella as he proudly modelled one of her designs on Saturday.
The Beatles superstar, 78, donned one of Stella's blue jumpers which is part of a collaboration line with the environmental charity Greenpeace.
Paul gave his best pout as he took a selfie to show off the piece of clothing which was emblazoned with a natural world scene and rainbow.
Family: Paul McCartney showed his support for his fashion designer daughter Stella as he proudly modelled one of her designs on Saturday
Clearly thrilled her father was supporting her new line she shared the picture on her Instagram, writing that she was 'so incredibly proud' to see him wearing it.
She wrote in the caption: 'So incredibly proud to see Dad @PaulMcCartney wearing our Stella x #Greenpeace limited-edition collab.
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Paul McCartney discussed bands ripping off The Beatles during the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band era in a new website Q&A. Paul McCartney ‘Slept In Bed’ With The Beatles Icon.
PaulMcCartney.com: At what point did you realize your music had changed the world? Or had, at least, helped change attitudes in the world?
P: I suppose it was our first big success in America. I started to realize that the attention was not just local, and it was around the time of Sgt. Pepper when we started seeing our clothes and the music we were making getting copied on an international level. Although this had happened before at home, with people getting the Beatle haircut and all dressing in a similar fashion, it was around about Sgt. Pepper that you could feel the worldwide movement. You could feel that people in California were thinking about what you were thinking about. And that’s when people started saying to us, ‘Wow man, you know your music changed my life!’ So, I think around about that time I started to think it was changing the world
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It was over 50 years that The Beatles broke up and John Lennon released his iconic debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Now as The Ultimate Mixes of the record are released, a special listening party has been announced for this Saturday with a whole host of guests. The interactive Twitter event will include the participation of The Beatles drummer Sir Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon.
Also contributing will be The John Lennon Estate, The George Harrison Estate, original Plastic Ono Band bassist and artist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White.
Plus Abbey Road recording engineer John Leckie, John and Yoko’s personal assistant Dan Richter and the new Ultimate Mixes’ engineer Paul Hicks and producer Simon Hilton.
The Twitter Listening Party will be hosted by Tim Burgess of the Charlatans and take place on Saturday April 24 at 6pm BST.
While the hashtag for the one-off event will be #TimsTwitterListeningParty and after the event, the newly launched Twitter Spaces will host a special discussion.
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THE BEATLES had one of their songs covered by legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, who said the track in question "was the greatest love song of the past 50 years" - but George Harrison wasn't "thrilled" by it.
The Beatles released their 11th album, Abbey Road, in September 1969. Just a year before the band split up, the Fab Four had dropped some of their most memorable work to date. Included in the album were some incredible hits including Come Together and Here Comes The Sun. Perhaps the most notable work on the album was George Harrison’s Something.
Something, which was released as a single, quickly became one of the band’s best-known and best-loved tracks.
The song is a lovesick ballad which George later revealed was inspired by his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd.
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Sir Paul McCartney, Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria were among the celebrities sharing messages about sustainability and environmental conservation on Earth Day.
Former Beatle Sir Paul, a long-standing vegetarian, shared an image of himself performing against the backdrop of the Earth.
He wrote to his 3.5 million Instagram followers: “Celebrating #EarthDay. It’s the only one we’ve got!”
Pop star turned fashion designer Beckham shared a black and white photo taken by her eldest son Brooklyn of a lion pouncing, describing it as “one of my favourites”.
She wrote on Instagram: “Happy #EarthDay our planet is so incredible! We can all, and must, do better to take care of it.”
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In 1966, while returning from a tour in Manila to London, The Beatles made a three-day layover in Delhi. Kabir Bedi, a 20-year-old-freelance reporter with All India Radio at the time, managed to get an exclusive interview with the Fab Four. In his memoir Stories I Must Tell (Westland Books), Bedi wrote that he spoke to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr for 30 minutes by bluffing to their manager, Brian Epstein, that the government had asked for the interview.
When Bedi later learnt that AIR had taped other programmes over the interview, he was outraged and left the national broadcaster. He headed to Mumbai, where he worked in advertising companies and later became a model and an actor. Here are edited excerpts of Bedi’s encounter with the Beatles.
By 1966, the year I interviewed them, The Beatles had become one of the most successful groups in the history of pop music. “Beatlemania” was raging around the world. And here I was, a crazy fan just out of college, interviewing them in their hotel room, the only Indian reporter to get through to them.
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