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Few people will ever know what it’s like to have a sibling forever remembered and discussed the world over, but that is the reality for Julia Baird, who has now lived the greater portion of her life deprived of John’s physical presence, yet surrounded by his imperishable legacy.
At the end of the 1970s, the inimitable icon John Winston Ono Lennon, who would have turned 80 last month, was longing for his family and reflecting on boyhood summers spent in Scotland.
Had his life not been cut tragically short in New York City 40 years ago this December, the former Beatle would have returned. An audio recording, made shortly before his death, confirms his intention to take second son Sean to Edinburgh in 1981.
For John’s eldest sister, Julia, the knowledge that her big brother, who she hadn’t seen in over a decade, had been planning to come home was excruciating.
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Michael Jackson worked with Sir Paul McCartney many times in his early career, even performing a duet. He also did an iconic radio interview with George Harrison, showing how these two were also very close. MJ was such a fan of The Beatles he even purchased a huge amount of the Lennon-McCartney back catalogue - but does he still own them?
Does Michael Jackson still own the rights to songs by The Beatles?
Michael Jackson purchased the publishing copyrights to songs written by Lennon-McCartney and some early songs by George Harrison.
This was something which, according to one biography of the Thriller singer, Michael had joked about with Sir Paul McCartney at dinner.
However, things became real when the catalogue of songs from ATV Music became available to purchase, and both Sir Paul and Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, decided against purchasing them.
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"They ARE awful. But I also think they're fabulous. Let's just go and say hello."
What if young record store manager Brian Epstein had not, in 1961, after a scrappy gig in a "sweaty basement," popped over to say hello to the band? What if, as Craig Brown wonders in "150 Glimpses of the Beatles," Paul had done better in his exams, moved up a school year and never gotten to know George? Or Ringo had had more patience with U.S. immigration forms and succeeded in moving to Houston? Or the engine fire on a 1965 flight from Minneapolis to Portland had ended in catastrophe, cutting the band off in their prime? We are haunted by the shadows of what didn't happen. "Think what we would have missed if we had never heard the Beatles," the Queen once mused. As the world marks 40 years since the murder of John Lennon - gone, now, for as long as we had him - shimmering alternative histories are especially poignant. A feeling of loss is palpable.
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An oceanfront Palm Seashore property as soon as owned by the late John Lennon and his spouse Yoko Ono has bought for round $36 million, in keeping with an individual with information of the deal.
Named El Solano, the property listed six months in the past for $47.5 million. Positioned on South Ocean Boulevard, popularly known as Billioniare’s Row, the home is subsequent door to a property owned by creator James Patterson, information present.
Mr. Lennon and Ms. Ono purchased the property round 1980, in keeping with the e book “Nowhere Man: The Remaining Days of John Lennon,” by Robert Rosen. Mr. Lennon was shot to demise a number of months later, and the couple’s plans to renovate the property by no means got here to fruition. Ms. Ono bought the property in 1986.
The sellers had been John and Cindy Websites. Mr. Websites, previously an government at Bear Stearns, is a accomplice at funding agency Wexford Capital. Ms. Websites based Go Determine, a series of barre-centered health studios. They purchased the home for $23 million in 2016, information present.
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Ringo Starr put together an impressive solo career after The Beatles,. Following the official breakup of the band in 1970, Ringo got started with the humble Beaucoups of Blues album. The following year, Ringo began his run of hit singles.
Ringo kicked off that streak with “It Don’t Come Easy,” a track his old friend George Harrison produced. With Harrison writing and arranging and Ringo on vocals, the song charmed audiences and cracked the top five in the U.K. and America.
Suddenly, Ringo was a viable solo artist. Since he never was a prolific songwriter, Ringo considered just releasing singles for a time. But if he wanted to do that he needed a follow-up to “It Don’t Come Easy.” When the idea for his next single came to him in his sleep, he got to work with a recycled drum part from a Beatles classic.
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Maya Hawke scored her biggest role to date with the news on Friday that she'll be starring in the upcoming comedy film Revolver.
The 22-year-old actress will play the lead role in the film about a surprise meeting with The Beatles in Alaska in the mid-1960s, Variety reported.
Joining the Stranger Things star as her on-screen dad will be her real-life father Ethan Hawke, 49.
The northern city is thrown into chaos after a flight carrying The Beatles to Japan makes an unannounced stop in Anchorage, sending the residents into fits of Beatlemania.
Jane thinks her ticket to adulthood involves losing her virginity to George Harrison during the band's pit stop at a local hotel, but she learns that what she's really seeking is right in front of her.
Not much is known about Ethan's arc in the film, but he's more than qualified to play Jane's father.
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The Stones were bolder. The Who was louder. But the Beatles simply ruled, from their first single in ’62 until their breakup eight years later. The argument can still be made that they ruled.
Everyone knew them, or thought they did.
As Craig Brown’s “150 Glimpses of the Beatles” suggests, to understand them, you must push past the publicity, the myths, the lies. His doorstop of a book digs deep to try to uncover the truth.
It was July 6, 1957, when the Beatles began. John Lennon, surly and nearly 17, was performing at a school event with his band, the Quarrymen. Paul McCartney, just 15, watched nervously. “I wouldn’t look at him too hard, in case he hit me,” McCartney said later.
Afterward, McCartney worked up the nerve to introduce himself. He played a few songs, including “Be-Bop-a-Lula.”
“He was as good as me,” Lennon marveled. “It went through my head that I’d have to keep him in line if I let him join. But he was good, so he was worth having. He also looked like Elvis.”
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Listen to ‘Isolation’, the sparse fifth track on ‘Plastic Ono Band’ (John Lennon’s first post-Beatles record), a meditative piano ballad on which he laments the fact that “the world may not have many years”, and you may find it difficult to believe that the album turns 50 this year. Featuring both the brittle, paranoid ‘Working Class Hero’ and the unabashedly romantic ‘Love’, it’s a timeless collection that truly encompasses the complex singer-songwriter’s duality.
It would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday earlier this month. To celebrate both this and the album’s anniversary, publisher Thames & Hudson has released John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band, a lush coffee table book that gathers together interviews new and old, hand-written song lyrics and previously unseen photos – from Lennon’s childhood snaps to candid studio pics – that tell the story of this singular musician and magnificent record.
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If you were a fan of Jamaican giants Toots Hibbert and Bob Marley, the idea of British pop stars recording reggae songs might have terrified you. Did the world need that ’74 Eric Clapton cover of “I Shot the Sheriff”? Clapton thought so. The former members of The Beatles also went there in the ’70s.
That wouldn’t have come as a complete surprise to fans of the Fab Four. After all, The Beatles took their first stab at Jamaican music way back on 1964’s “I Call Your Name.” On that track, you hear the band shift into a ska beat in the middle eight bars.
Island sounds crept into the band’s music again on The White Album (1968). On that record, McCartney developed “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” with a rocksteady beat. (While the recording reportedly bugged Lennon to no end, it wasn’t the groove that annoyed him.)
After the Beatles’ breakup, Toots & The Maytals and Marley & The Wailers broke internationally with their reggae sounds. And Lennon and McCartney took a stab at the music in their ’70s solo work. In both Lennon’s and McCartney’s cases, these dives into reggae predated that of Clapton.
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The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac are both classic rock bands, but you wouldn’t really associate one with the other. However, one of the Fab Four’s later songs was directly inspired by a Fleetwood Mac song. Here’s how Fleetwood Mac inspired The Beatles — and how John Lennon’s passing inspired a member of Fleetwood Mac.There are numerous books and articles about The Beatles’ influence on pop culture, however, The Beatles definitely drew inspiration from other artists. For example, Abbey Road is filled with references to other artists. Listen closely, and you’ll hear homages to everyone from Ludwig van Beethoven to Chuck Berry. In addition, one of the tracks from Abbey Road took influence from one of the Fab Four’s contemporaries, Fleetwood Mac.
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