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Beatles musician Ringo Starr has spoken out about not being able to join his family in the UK for Christmas due to the pandemic, saying he feels "miserable" but will "get on" with it.
The 80-year-old is based in Los Angeles with wife Barbara Bach and, like millions of others, will be unable to physically see his children and grandchildren over the festive period.
The father-of-three said: "I'm not in England, I should be in England. I go for Christmas with the kids and my grandkids and that’s not happening.
"So I had a few days of being miserable about that. And then you’ve got to get on.
You just got to get up again and say, 'well, let’s see what we can do today’. It’s no good sitting there being miserable for a long time, just odd moments."
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Paul McCartney, like most people, has a favorite Beatles song, and it’s a surprising one.
In a new appearance on The Zane Lowe Show, Sir Paul says the Beatles song he’s listened to the most is “Let It Be,” but his favorite is “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number),” which is the b-side to “Let It Be.”
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Macca calls the song “a zany, zany little B-side that nobody knows, but we had such fun making it.”
“It’s like a little comedy record. And I just remember the joy of making it,” said McCartney. “…But there’s a lot of songs that I love of the Beatles. I think ‘Strawberry Fields’ is a great song; I think ‘Hey Jude’ worked out great. I’ve got a lot of favorite songs. ‘Blackbird’ I love. ‘Eleanor Rigby’ I love.”
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In the 50 years since the Beatles split, seemingly every known scrap of their history has been scrutinized and curated for public consumption — every minute of studio tape, every radio broadcast, home and concert recording; every photo and interview and document and snippet of film footage — with one huge exception: the “Let It Be” film.
There are several reasons for this, but only one matters: “Let It Be” is a downer. We see our beloved Beatles breaking up before our eyes.
Originally intended as a spontaneous, “as live as live can be, in this electronic age” documentary of rock as it happens, instead we see the group, who had finished recording the 30-song “White Album” just six weeks earlier, miserably trying to have a jolly ol’ time working up even more tunes for the cameras — in the morning, in a dark and cavernous film studio, during a typically gloomy English winter. We see Paul and George arguing, John and Yoko wafting in from a heroin haze, and Paul trying to liven the tepid sessions by taking the helm — instead he comes off dictatorial — while Ringo looks on dejectedly.
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The Beatles broke up 50 years ago and since then we’ve lost both John Lennon and George Harrison. Nevertheless, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr remain good friends and occasionally feature in each other’s music or live shows for Beatles reunions. Most recently Sir Paul sang in the video for Sir Ringo’s new single Here’s To The Nights.
While last year, Sir Ringo joined Sir Paul on stage of the Dodger Stadium for the last night of his solo tour.
The two surviving Beatles performed Helter Skelter for the Los Angeles crowd.
And as Sir Ringo releases a new single, Sir Paul has put out his McCartney III solo album.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, The Beatles drummer said: “He does [have a new record out], yeah — he’s playing everything."
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Pop’s biggest sensations, The Beatles, were driven apart by business issues, Lennon’s obsession with Yoko Ono and what one observer called “hostile lethargy.” Or so the story goes.
A new film is lifting the lid on The Beatles' break-up
But maybe their final year-and-a-half together wasn’t quite as acrimonious as we’ve been led to believe.
Maybe there’s a different picture emerging . . . of goofing around in the studio, scintillating performance and gallows humour.
Maybe being in a giant goldfish bowl didn’t quite descend into the Fab Four’s total desperation to get away from it all and each other.
Yesterday, film-maker Peter Jackson, best known for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and First World War documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, offered us a “sneak preview” of his latest project.
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Paul McCartney got candid during his most recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday (December 20).
The iconic singer-songwriter addressed many matters during the eleven-minute segment, including whether or not The Beatles would have ever reunited, his latest album McCartney III and his experience of recording a project during quarantine amid the global spread of COVID-19.
The most noteworthy aspects of the expansive interview included John Lennon and a potential reunion between the members of (debatably) one of the most influential musical groups of all time.
Though it’s been forty years since Lennon was shot and killed in the archway of the Dakota, McCartney admits he’s unsure whether or not the quartet would have ever gotten back together again.
"He was showing no signs of slowing up. You know, he was still making great music,” he said of his band member Lennon. "The question is: Would we have ever got back together again? I don't know. We don't know."
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“The Lord Of The Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson has revealed footage of his much anticipated Beatles documentary, “The Beatles: Get Back.”
The film was supposed to be released in September, but was postponed to 2021 because of COVID-19.
Introducing the film from his editing room, Jackson said: “This film was due to be finished around about now, but like the rest of the world, has been affected by the COVID pandemic. And so the only good thing really is that we are in the movie in New Zealand and now that our country has largely stamped out the virus, we were able to come back into the cutting room and carry on with the editing that we’re doing.”
Jackson said the film had access to 56 hours of never-been-seen footage of the band. “And it’s really great stuff,” declared Jackson. “I would say we’re about halfway through the edit now, but because you’ve been so patient and the film has been delayed until 2021, we thought it was a good time to give you a little sneaky preview of what we’ve been working on and the sort of vibe and the energy that the film is going to have.”
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Ringo Starr has released the video for the terrific new song, “Here’s to the Nights” that was originally released on December 16. The song of peace, love and friendship was written by Diane Warren, and is the best thing he’s done in years. It features his friends, some longtime and some new, including Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eric Burdon, Sheryl Crow, FINNEAS, Dave Grohl, Ben Harper, Lenny Kravitz, Jenny Lewis, Steve Lukather, Chris Stapleton and Yola.
The video arrived on December 18, the same day McCartney’s much-anticipated McCartney III was released.
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Paul McCartney is a people person. He initially resisted the Beatles’ permanent retreat to the studio, and on the eve of the band’s breakup, suggested they return to the road. (He had to settle for the roof.) In the decades since then, he’s rarely stayed off the stage for extended stretches. In recent years, he’s only picked up the pace, touring eight times (and totaling 310 shows) in the decade preceding the end of the “Freshen Up” odyssey that was supposed to extend into this year. His serial monogamy extends to his band too: His current touring (and sometimes recording) group, a four-person unit that coalesced in 2002, has lasted nearly as long as the Beatles and Wings combined. (One of its members has been by his side since 1989.) McCartney is constantly sighted on buses and subways. He goes on talk shows, calls into radio programs, and sits for features in magazines, obligingly “revealing” time after time that he sometimes dreams of John and George.
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Sean Lennon has come to Twitter to defend his mother, Yoko Ono, and to counter what he sees as the wrong idea about his late dad, John Lennon.
Sean is such a lovely guy, and I don’t blame him for putting the record straight. He also calls Paul McCartney’s “McCartney III” an instant classic.
Most importantly he says of his parents: “I’ve never seen two people have more love and respect for each other than my parents.”
It’s 2020, I can’t believe anyone is questioning John and Yoko’s love. They were human beings, they separated at one point. John had a relationship with May Pang. But Yoko deserves our respect. She’s also 87, and frail. Sean also deserves our respect as he cares for her.
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