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The legendary rock and blues guitarist Eric Clapton’s daughter Ruth Clapton-Bartlett replied to a fan’s question wondering if she liked The Beatles and unveiled her actual opinions about the band and her father’s once rival George Harrison.
As you may remember, Eric Clapton and lead guitarist of The Beatles George Harrison were the two sides of a famous love triangle including the English photographer Pattie Boyd.
George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd diverged from each other due to alcohol and drug overuse, and various affairs a few years later they got married. At the time, Eric Clapton and George Harrison were spending most of their time working together and eventually, Clapton fell in love with his friend’s wife.
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The Beatles were one of the most famous bands in the world by the time 1967 came around. However, this year was to be tragic as it signalled the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Many would take a long time to recover from such a loss – but what did the Beatles do?
Brian Epstein was the manager of The Fab Four right at the beginning of their careers.
In fact, it had been Brian who sacked the drummer Pete Best, replacing him with the now iconic Sir Ringo Starr.
However, in the days before his death, Brian was, according to Barry Miles’ book Many Years From Now, in the Priory Clinic where he was struggling to deal with insomnia and an addiction to amphetamines.
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When Geoff Emerick published Here, There and Everywhere (2006) about his time working for The Beatles, fans of the Fab Four had cause to celebrate. Previously, if you wanted to hear from the inner circle at Beatles sessions, you had to go to the bone-dry All You Need Is Ears (1979) by producer George Martin.
Emerick didn’t disappoint in the slightest. Between anecdotes of close-mic’ing violin players and piecing together “Strawberry Field Forever” from two separate recordings, Emerick told a few unforgettable tales featuring Beatles at one another’s throats.
One of those stories revolved around the 1968 sessions for “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” In Emerick’s recollection, John Lennon got sick of the Paul McCartney-penned track shortly after the sessions began. (John referred to it as more of “Paul’s granny music sh*t,” Emerick wrote in Here, There and Everywhere.)
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"It's just great to be back," said Peter Naylor, a superfan of the Fab Four, as the city centre venue reopened its doors on Thursday.
"Such an iconic club, such great music. We missed it, missed coming down here," he told AFP.
Billed as "the most famous club in the world" and the "cradle of British pop music", the Cavern shut its doors in late March as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in Britain.
Its reopening coincided with the first day of the seven-day annual International Beatleweek festival, which celebrates the music of the biggest pop band in history.
Most events have been cancelled this year due to restrictions on audience numbers, but the cramped underground venue is hosting gigs and live-streaming them to fans across the globe.
Events held across the northwest English city coincide with the 50th year since the band broke up.
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The Liverpool cinema frequently visited by John Lennon and George Harrison during their youth is under threat of being rebuilt by supermarket chain Lidl.
The building was best known as the Abbey Cinema in Wavertree during the 1960s, when Lennon paid tribute to the venue in an early draft of The Beatles‘ classic ‘In My Life’. “In the circle of the Abbey, I have seen some happy hours,” he wrote, originally one of the song’s “places I’ll remember all my life”.
Although the site has not hosted a cinema since 1979, fears have arisen that the original building itself could be under threat.
Lidl have stated that they are “considering all options for the site, which include the potential for a new building of high quality design” and that their preference was “to erect purpose-built food stores” – but added that they have preserved original structures in the past.
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It was the messy end of the greatest band of all time. George Harrison looked around him and realised he was deeply unhappy and the problem was the two men in the room with him who clearly could no longer work toegether and had little interest in hearing his ideas, creatively or otherwise. He said afterwards: "It never came to blows, but I thought, 'What’s the point of this? I’m quite capable of being relatively happy on my own and I’m not able to be happy in this situation. I’m getting out of here.'"
On January 10, 1969, Harrison walked out of the explosive recording session for the album Let It Be. On top of the difficulties within the band, the process was being recorded for a 1970 documentary of the same name.
He said: "Ringo had left at one point. I know John wanted out. It was a very, very difficult, stressful time, and being filmed having a row as well was terrible. I got up and I thought, 'I’m not doing this any more. I’m out of here.'
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John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman, in prison since 1980 when he murdered the former Beatle, has tried and failed once more to gain parole.
Here is what’s known about the assassin’s attempts to gain release from prison.
In 2012, the Texas-born Chapman appeared before the parole board to once again request release from maximum security Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, NY. The convicted killer is being held there after serving 31 years in Attica Correctional Facility. During his hearing at that time, the shooter offered his remorse for his actions in 1980.
“Absolutely it was not worth it,” The Denver Post reported him as saying. “Absolutely ridiculously selfish act to take another human’s life so that I could be pumped into, you know, something that I wasn’t to begin with. I deeply regret it.”
Mark David Chapman shown in a mug shot, 2010
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Stella McCartney has paid tribute to her 'spectacular sister' Mary McCartney on her 51st birthday with a set of childhood snaps of the pair shared to her Instagram.
The fashion designer, 48, revealed her 'unconditional' love on Friday for her sibling in the pictures taken by their late mother Linda McCartney.
Stella also shared a picture of herself with her elder sister Mary, now a photographer and vegetarian food writer, with their father and music icon, Sir Paul McCartney, 78.
The designer posted nine snaps to her social media, captioned: 'Celebrating my spectacular sister's birthday today. Unconditional, full love for you, Big Sis xx Lil Sis Stelly.'
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The Beatles have been known to change lives over the course of their music’s existence. Decades after the band was formed, John Lennon and Paul McCartney‘s music is still finding its way into new fans’ ears, with incredible results – lifelong fans.
Over the course of the band’s existence they worked hard to create new, nuanced music.
However on August 28, 1968, the band were in Rishikesh, India, where they were meditating with a number of their famous friends.
But things quickly turned sour when Mia Farrow’s sister had a bad experience.
Farrow’s sister – named Prudence – had an “attack of the hours, paranoia”.
According to McCartney at the time, he explained: “Prudence Farrow got an attack of the horrors, paranoia, what you’d call these days an identity crisis, and wouldn’t come out.”
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Sir Paul McCartney, 78, was a part of the prominent British rock band The Beatles, which also consisted of John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The legendary musician tied the knot with his first wife Linda McCartney in 1969.
Following the Beatles, the couple eventually formed the band Wings and recorded an array of hits in the 1970s.
The pair also share three adult children together; Mary, Stella and James.
Paul recently opened up about his marriage to Linda in a recent broadcast as the singer admitted one of their initial attractions to each other was their shared "love of animals".
Speaking about their relationship, he explained: "When I met Linda, one of the immediate things was our love of animals.
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