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During an interview John Lennon revealed one of the songs from The Beatles’ White Album was partially a parody. In addition, he felt there was something ironic about the circumstances in which he wrote the song. Here’s the story behind a classic White Album track.
In the book Lennon Remembers, John tells Jann. S Wenner his last batch of great Beatles songs were written when The Beatles were in India with Hindu guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He cited “I’m So Tired” and “Yer Blues” as some of these songs, revealing they were both realistic songs about him. He said the songs just came to him because he had time to write. Notably, neither of these songs are happy songs, with John longing for death in “Yer Blues.”
“They’re pretty realistic, they were about me,” John said. “They always struck me as – not, what’s the word? Funny… ironic? – that I was writing supposedly in the presence of [a] guru and meditating so many hours a day, writing, ‘I’m So Tired’… songs of such pain such as ‘Yer Blues,’ which I meant.”
Wenner then asked John if “Yer Blues” was a parody of English blues music. “Well a bit,” John said. “I’m a bit self-conscious – we all are a bit self-conscious. And The Beatles are super self-conscious people about parodying Americans, which we do and have done.”
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In a CBS News special about Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Paul McCartney, who has met the monarch multiple times, says he would describe her as "down to Earth."
"I think the thing about the Queen is that she's – she's royal, so you look up to her cause she's royal. But she's very down to Earth," the singer-songwriter told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King.
McCartney's connection to the queen goes back to when he was a young boy.
"Let's go to Paul McCartney at 10. What happened at 10?" King asked McCartney.
"Because the coronation was approaching, ... there was a competition for all the schools in England you had to write an essay on the monarchy," McCartney said. "And I liked that idea."
Queen Elizabeth's coronation was in June 1953, when she was 27 years old.
McCartney's essay "had the lyrics of a love song, as Paul wrote about 'our lovely young Queen,'" King said.
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The Beatles‘ album Abbey Road may not have been universally received as a masterpiece at the time of its release but since then, there’s no question it’s one of the greatest rock albums of all time.
One of the album’s tracks, “Sun King,” featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison singing in another language. Here’s what Lennon had to say about it.
‘Abbey Road’ was released in 1969
Abbey Road was recorded that year in the midst of The Beatles’ bitter dissolve. In addition to “Sun King,” the album featured what were to become classics: “Come Together,” George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun,” and the long medley with “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”
McCartney told CBS News how the album’s legendary cover image – and its title – came to be.
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Plenty of celebrities — and, for that matter, plenty of non-celebrities — go by names other than the ones they were given. Stage names are nothing new, and many entertainers simply pick names that are flashier, easier to remember, or more unique than their given names.
The man born as Krishna Pandit Bhanji wanted a name that didn’t have the (contradictory) religious connotations, and changing his name to Ben Kingsley gave him an immediate boost in Hollywood job opportunities.
Meanwhile, some actors have to change their names to meet Screen Actors Guild requirements. Only one actor with a given name can be registered with the prestigious group, so Michael Andrew Fox became Michael J. Fox and Emily Stone became Emma Stone to avoid duplications.
None of these reasons, however, explain why Paul McCartney goes by a name that isn’t the one he was given.
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The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr shared a new video on his official Instagram account today and announced the release of the renewed clip of his reggae-infused song named ‘Waiting For The Tide To Turn.’
As you may already follow Starr’s career that he released his last-ever solo album named ‘What’s My Name’ which features ten never-released before tracks. While the album got mixed reviews from professional reviewers, it also features a song that Paul McCartney sang and played bass guitar at the same time.
After releasing his latest solo album in 2019, he released a couple of new singles from his EP named ‘Zoom In Zoom Out’ EP like ‘Teach Me To Tango,’ Here’s To The Nights’ and ‘Waiting For The Tide To Turn’ in 2021. While the latest single of Ringo was released on his YouTube channel, today, he announced the release of the audio visulated version of the song.
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When The Beatles officially parted ways, George Harrison couldn’t have been happier. After years of seeing his songs dismissed and/or cut from Fab Four records, he could fill his own LPs with all the tunes he had stockpiled. And George promptly filled the three albums of All Things Must Pass (1970) with those songs.
Yet being on his own didn’t mean Harrison could simply relax and play music. That became apparent when he began dealing with a copyright infringement suit over his debut single, “My Sweet Lord.” That litigation kicked off while “My Sweet Lord” was still on the U.S. charts.
Later that same year, Harrison’s attempt at producing a benefit album brought about more legal headaches. At that point, you could see how the songwriter-performer could write a track titled “Sue Me, Sue You Blues” for Living in the Material World (1973). But the even larger lawsuit involving The Beatles had more to do with it.
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They were the shots that were heard around the world … and for a bookish 10-year-old girl in Philadelphia, in the United States, the assassination of John Lennon, in 1980, ignited a passion for The Beatles that would transplant her from stateside to Merseyside.
“Day in, day out, all you would see on TV was thousands of people in floods of tears, and I thought, ‘Who was this guy? He must have been really important,’” Holly Tessler recalls.
“That set me off wondering who The Beatles were. Being a nerd, I went to the library and found a biography and I became fascinated.
“I would come home and say to my parents, ‘Did you know Paul McCartney is left-handed?’ After weeks of endlessly studying trivia, my parents said, ‘Listen to the music, kid.’ So, I did – and that’s what really did it for me.”
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British rock legend Paul McCartney took to Instagram to encourage his 3.5 million followers to watch the hit documentary, Seaspiracy.
He joins a long line of celebrities encouraging more people to rethink their eating habits by watching the film, which debuted on Netflix in March.
The Beatles’ icon shared the film’s launch post via his stories.
He said: “Have you seen the incredible Netflix program Seaspiracy? It is a very strong documentary on fishing that everyone should watch.”
McCartney also directed followers to the film’s website, which calls for more people to shift to a plant-based diet in order to help the planet.
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John Lennon is one of the most acclaimed lyricists of all time and he said one of The Beatles’ later songs might have his best lyrics. During an interview, he discussed what kind of lyrics really stood out to him. Here’s how the world reacted to this song.
In Jann S. Wenner’s book Lennon Remembers, John is sometimes brutally honest about the Beatles songs he doesn’t like. However, he points to a few key tracks as favorites. While John didn’t enjoy the making of the album Let It Be, he was particularly fond of one of its songs: “Across the Universe.”
“There are many songs I forget like that, that I do like, John told Wenner. “I like ‘Across the Universe,’ too. It’s one of the best lyrics I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best…. It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it. Without tune, it stands. The ones I like are ones that stand as words, without melody. They don’t have to have any melody. It’s a poem, you could read them.”
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Paul McCartney’s 18th solo album, “McCartney III” was released in December 2020 to a world in isolation because of a global pandemic.
As we’ve come to expect from the legendary artist during a nearly six-decades-long career, his effort produced relevant, well-crafted, positive Pop playfulness that, at times, recalled his 1960s experimental indulgences.
With one of the most famous musical catalogs in modern music history, he’s no stranger to having his songs covered.
This time, he hand-picked a star-studded cast of contributors to offer their takes for “McCartney III Imagined,” out for listening since April 16. Altogether, these contemporary contributions nurture the originals, creating a vibrant garden from Macca’s framework.
“Find My Way” by McCartney and Beck initiates the style flip. As the credits of this and following songs suggest, the featured artists take aspects of the original, adding their own flair. US rocker Beck’s version adds a heavily funky, warm and electronic tinge to the already heavily textured track about offering someone emotional support in the COVID-19 era.
Source: SEBASTIAN GARCIA Valley Press Staff Writer
