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In the movie, Meeting The Beatles in India, award-winning Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman tells the story of how, at age 23, he met the world's most famous band and their entourage at the ashram. He'd traveled there on his own spiritual quest following a painful romantic breakup.
While at the ashram, Saltzman took many now-famous photos of The Beatles, interacted with the band members, and watched them write some of the now-classic songs they composed during the trip. Saltzman is responsible for the iconic group photo taken in Rishikesh that featured the band, their wives and girlfriends, The Beach Boys' Mike Love, Donovan, Mia Farrow and others.
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I can rarely say that a 55-year old album is still on my heavy music rotation to this day.
The Beatles’ sixth album “Rubber Soul” was released on December 3, 1965.
The album title is derived from the term “plastic soul,” a colloquialism for un-authentic soul music, with the Beatles showing humility and admiration towards the African American artists who defined the soul genre.
Being the first album free of concert, radio or film commitments, this album began a creative renaissance for the band, allowing them to focus more on production rather than stage performing.
Combining the musical talents of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles have been widely regarded as the greatest band of all-time.
They have become my favorite musical group not only because of their status, but also because of the impact they have had on the music industry that is still seen today.
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During a conversation with GQ Magazine, Paul McCartney talked about John Lennon, The Beatles, his guitar collection, and more.
When asked, "You've said in the past that you've occasionally dreamed about John Lennon. When was the last time?", the musician replied:
"I don't keep count, really, but it was probably about a month ago. The thing is: if you're a performer - or me as a performer, I find that dreams are often related to a gig or getting ready for a gig or being in a recording studio and I think a lot of performers are like that.
"So, often, John or George will be in there. And the good thing is you don't really think anything of it, it's just normal, like, 'Oh, yeah?' and you're just chatting away, talking about what we're going to do, as in making a record or something.
"So he's often there, I'm glad to say... And it's normally very pleasant, you know? I love those boys."
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On Monday, August 17, 2020, the music city of Hamburg will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best appearing live on stage as “The Beatles”. Due to the Covid-19 situation, the event will be solely available online – streamed directly from the Indra Club, the original venue in St Pauli.
As part of the two-hour program, the Fab Four will be honored with plenty of live music, stories about their legendary time in Hamburg as well as talks with renowned experts and former companions. Under the tagline “Stream & Shout”, the live show will be aired from 3:00pm (EST) here. Moreover, celebrating the occasion, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg will be streaming a Beatles homage by jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann directly from its Grand Hall, starting at 2:00pm (EST).
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With new and vivid first-hand details and over 40 personal photos never-before-seen in any other movie about The Beatles, Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman shares an extraordinary life experience in a new feature documentary, Meeting the Beatles in India.
Saltzman learned transcendental meditation while spending a week in 1968 at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh on the banks of the Ganges River along with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Photos and recollections not revisited for 50 years are brought to life.
Narrated by Oscar® winner Morgan Freeman with executive producers including Pen Densham and David Lynch, Meeting the Beatles in India adds vital details and context to one of the seminal cultural events of the 20th Century.
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Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan had been unarguably two of a very powerful artists of their era — however somebody outshone them in John Lennon’s eyes. He most well-liked a distinct rock singer whose music is lesser-known. Interestingly, Dylan revealed his emotions about John in a music.
In a 1970s interview with Rolling Stone, Jann S. Wenner requested which modern artists John admired in any medium. John stated as a result of he was an “ego-maniac” he solely assessed one other artist by way of whether or not he noticed them as a menace. What did he imply by that? He didn’t elaborate.
After that, John stated he admired an eclectic group of musicians, together with Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Frank Zappa. In addition, he praised the painters Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, and Marcel Duchamp. He then began discussing his spouse, Yoko Ono.
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John Lennon and Sir Elton John, it seems, had an interesting relationship. In the movie Rocketman, a tribute to John is clear when Taron Egerton, playing Sir Elton, looks at a photo of John to influence his choice of stage name. While this isn’t strictly factual, clearly the pair had a close bond which was important enough to include.
Did Sir Elton John and John Lennon ever collaborate?
John Lennon and Sir Elton absolutely did collaborate, with some interesting circumstances behind some of their working together.
Both Sir Elton and John were keen songwriters, with Sir Elton usually relying on his writing partner, Bernie Taupin, to provide him with lyrics which he could set to music.
Interestingly, John and his Beatles writing partner, Sir Paul McCartney, did not have this issue, as they both contributed lyrics and music to one another’s compositions.
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Amid the unfolding horror and confusion of allofthis™, we all made a few promises to ourselves about lockdown. We would read more books, maybe learn a new language… and we’d do puzzles! Lego started selling out everywhere. Not the easy, ‘help-your-nephew-at-Christmas’ type, but the big bastards – the Tower Bridges, the VW Camper Vans, the kind of thing where an adult could say to themselves, ‘It’s OK – I’m still being an adult, because bridges and cars are ADULT things.’
Another of the things I was especially looking forward to in September was the new Beatles movie, Get Back, the Peter Jackson-directed re-telling of what became the fated ‘Let It Be’ film project. But, like so many things this year, it was not to be. Covid has put paid to many cultural events – Glastonbury, Tokyo 2020, theatre – and now 2020’s big Beatles release has joined them; we won’t find out until August 2021 whether Ringo retrieves the Precious.
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In some ways, the Beatles' album art could be just as fascinating as the music inside. The stories behind 16 of their famous LP covers include a lengthy creative relationship, one-off moments of inspiration and weird experimentation, a memorable public outcry and a very sad goodbye.
Five of these 16 features images came courtesy of late photographer Robert Freeman, who worked with the Beatles from 1963-66. This fruitful era produced career-defining early cover art for With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles for Sale, Help! and Rubber Soul, as well as a number of the band's EPs and John Lennon's books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.
The tasteful Freeman was notably absent from the creative process surrounding their most controversial cover from that period – the quickly yanked Yesterday ... and Today, which featured the in-famous "butcher cover." A series of iconic moments followed as the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, their self-titled White Album and then Abbey Road while working with a rotating group of new collaborators including Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and Iain Macmillan. The first two were a study in contrasts, one busy and the other almost completely empty. The last created a must-do photo op for thousands of London tourists.
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Lennon-McCartney were regarded as the backbone of The Beatles, with their songs changing the music scene. The pair have influenced a huge number of performers with their music and their creativity in the recording studio. While Sir Ringo Starr and George Harrison also contributed, it was John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney who really made the magic happen - but even Sir Paul was left confused by how they were named.
There does not seem to be a reason why John Lennon’s name went first, except perhaps that the names were alphabetical.
Sir Paul described how the decision making took place, which he has said happened without him being there.
He even suggested the names would be swapped depending on who wrote the song.
He told The Telegraph in 2015: “We had a meeting with Brian Epstein [manager of the Beatles]. I arrived late.
“John and Brian had been talking. ‘We were thinking we ought to call the songs, Lennon and McCartney.’
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