Beatles News
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather has released a new song, “Run to Me,” with Ringo Starr on drums. It also features Toto’s David Paich and Joseph Williams along with Huey Lewis and the News bassist John Pierce. “Run to Me” will appear on Lukather’s upcoming solo album, due at some point in 2021.
“I wanted to release this now because it fits the moment — a time where we all need a happy song for an unhappy time,” Lukather said in a press release. “When I got together with Joseph Williams and David Paich to collaborate on the songwriting, there was pure collective inspiration among the three of us to articulate this message of hope directed toward our daughters. Musically, the song is absolutely influenced by my growing up in the Sixties, inspired by some of my favorite elements of the repertoire that defined that indelible era.”
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The Cavern Club, best known for launching The Beatles, faces ruin as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
It opened in Liverpool in 1957 and hosts about 800,000 visitors per year.
Bill Heckle, one of the club's directors, said it had lost £30,000 a week since the lockdown began in March.
"We went five months before unfortunately we had to make about 20 people redundant. We think we might have to make another 20 redundant in the next few weeks."
The Beatles played their first Cavern gig in 1961 and the late entertainer Cilla Black worked as a cloakroom attendant at the Mathew Street premises.
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The Beatles song Good Day Sunshine rang out at the Democratic National Convention last night, sparking speculation that its writer Paul McCartney gave the party his blessing to use the band's notoriously expensive music.
The 1966 track played over a montage of Jill Biden going for a run, on the night her husband Joe was formally crowned as the Democratic nominee for president.
Viewers remarked that the DNC would have had to spend 'half its budget' to license the song - unless McCartney gave it away for free.
McCartney referred to Trump as a 'mad captain' in the 2018 song Despite Repeated Warnings and met privately with Hillary Clinton during her 2016 campaign.
Nike once faced a $15million lawsuit for using the Beatles song Revolution in its ads while producers of the movie Yesterday reportedly paid $10million in licensing fees.
Donald Trump too has previously fallen foul of artists who disapprove of his politics, including the Rolling Stones who threatened to sue him last month for using their songs at his rallies.
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He is one-quarter of the most successful group of all time, and has written iconic songs including Yesterday, Hey Jude! and Let It Be.
And Sir Paul McCartney has given an insight into his musical success, revealing he still uses an amplifier he bought when he was aged 14.
The Beatles legend, 78, revealed his 'Little Green Amp' - the Elpico AC55 - as he took a trip down down memory lane at his Hog Hill Mill Studios in East Sussex in a hour-long audio tour included in the re-release of his 1997 solo album Flaming Pie.
Source: Eve Buckland/dailymail.co.uk
One of the most iconic couples in the world, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were the "it" pair of the late 60s and 70s. To say they were obsessed with one another might be an understatement, as these two were together everywhere they went, including Beatles recording sessions and even on stage with the "Fab Four."
Though controversy still exists about Yoko's involvement with the break up of The Beatles, we're taking a look back at Ono and Lennon's private life and the things fans might not have known about their relationship. There is way more about this memorable couple than fans may have known.
10 Lennon Was Married When He Got Together With Ono
Before John Lennon and Yoko Ono became an item, the Beatles singer was married to a woman named Cynthia Powell Lennon in 1962, but the pair divorced in 1968 after Cynthia found her husband with Ono.
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AFTER a recent story in the John O'Groat Journal about Paul and Linda McCartney visiting Wick, I went on a desperate search for a relic that would help tell my own story of meeting the superstar couple.
The original article concerned two sisters who reflected on a missed opportunity to get Paul's autograph when the ex-Beatle came to Caithness 50 years ago on holiday.
The singer/songwriter and his family, along with their dog, visited the county in the summer of 1970 and then teenagers Irene Brass and Elaine Mackenzie said they couldn't believe their father had failed to get an autograph even though he skippered a boat taking them to Orkney.
My own story dates from 11 years later, when I was a student at the University of Kent in Canterbury and was returning to my parents in Wick at the end of the spring semester in March 1981.
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All good things, it’s been said, must come to an end. Even the Beatles.
Though John Lennon had informed his bandmates months earlier that he was leaving the group, the breakup of the Beatles did not become official until April 10, 1970, when Paul McCartney issued a press release stating he was no longer working with the fabulous foursome.
That release came after a whirlwind year in 1969 that saw McCartney, Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr record Abbey Road, which contains the final occasion all four members recorded together with its closing song, “The End,” and also Let It Be, the band’s final record, while also being filmed during rehearsals and writing sessions for the documentary Get Back.
In the midst of recording and being recorded, internal relationships in the band were tested as musical disagreements, arguments about finances and management, and Lennon’s heroin addiction became more prevalent.
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It was sixty years ago today, on August 17, 1960, that the Beatles got together to play…their first live performance at the Indra Club in Hamburg’s red light district. The Fab Four in utero—Ringo Starr wouldn’t replace Pete Best as drummer until 1962—began what George Harrison would call their “apprenticeship” in a former striptease club on the Reeperbahn.
Historian Julia Sneeringer tours the “sinful” main street of the St. Pauli harbor district via contemporary tour guides and helps to explain what the Beatles were doing so far from the Liverpool of their childhoods.
“The Reeperbahn was (and still is) defined as a zone of pleasure, a place to consume an array of sensations and to ‘let loose’ anonymously without fear of community censure,” she writes. “As such, it became a harbinger of many trends that would hit the nation with such force in the late 1960s, such as more open sexuality or broader tolerance of interracial couples and homosexuality.”
Source: Matthew Wills/daily.jstor.org
In the first half of this year, only two bands sold at least one million album units: the Korean boy band BTS and a British foursome that has had three top ten albums, including a Billboard No. 1, in the last three years … even though they broke up 50 years ago.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles. They remain the one band with endless staying power and an audience insatiable for more, more, more. This year marks a half-century since the band parted ways – yet paperback writers continue cranking out book after book.
The eclectic roster for 2020 includes “The Beatles on Screen: From Pop Stars to Musicians,” “The Beatles: Sweden and Denmark 1963-1970 (Unseen Nordic Archives),” “John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool,” “The Greatest Mystery of the Beatles: Critical Thinking on: Paul is Dead,” “The Beatles Finally Let It Be,” and “After Abbey Road: The Solo Hits of The Beatles.” (As well as a book tie-in to Peter Jackson’s rescheduled-to-2021 “The Beatles: Get Back” film, the approaching 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder promises another spate of books, such as James Patterson’s “The Last Days of John Lennon.”)
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Sir Paul McCartney wouldn't want to have become famous in the age of social media.
The 78-year-old singer thinks there is a lot of "pressure" in making Instagram profiles seem interesting and though he's happy to "dip in" now and again, he'd rather let his team run his online accounts so he can focus on making music.
He said: "I would not want to be trying to get famous now, with social media and stuff.
"Lots of people in my family do Instagram and I say, 'I can't believe you're doing this, because every time you post something you've got to think of something clever to say.' It's the worst pressure on earth. Because all you're doing is taking a picture of your breakfast and you've got to say, 'Pancakes are not just for Shrove Tuesday.' For me that is not fun.
Source: perthnow.com.au
