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Album sales fell by almost 19% from 2018 to 2019. ... Taylor Swift, BTS And Billie Eilish: The 10 Bestselling Albums In The U.S. In 2019 ... ″Cats″ World Premiere ... This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser ... Perhaps the most surprising title on the tally is The Beatles' Abbey Road, ...
Taylor Swift, BTS And The Beatles—These Were The 10 Bestselling Artists In The World In 2019. Taylor Swift has been named the Global Recording Artist of 2019 by the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), meaning the organization has declared her the bestselling musician of last year.
1 day ago - Plus: Billie Eilish, The Beatles and more land in the top 10. Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist of 2019, according to IFPI, the organization that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Swift earns the honor for the second time, her first being in 2014.
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Two summers ago, in August, Mark David Chapman took off his prison uniform, put on his smartest clothes and – under the watchful eyes of the Wende Correctional Facility guards – made his way to the New York Parole Board building complex. This was the 10th time Prisoner 81A2860 had made such a journey, all of which had taken place within the past 20 years, having made his first appeal two decades after his initial conviction for the murder of John Lennon. Ten journeys there. Ten journeys back. And 10 rejections, despite this time Chapman seeming more contrite than he’d ever been in his many appearances in the now familiar setting. “Thirty years ago, I couldn’t say I felt shame and I know what shame is now,” he told the parole board. “It’s where you cover your face, you don’t want to, you know, ask for anything...”
The man who violently ended the life of Lennon – and any hope that The Beatles may reunite 11 years after their messy split in 1969 – is now 64. He is losing his hair and resembles little the doughy, socially inept young man who announced himself to the world 40 years ago. Five shots. Four bullet-holes in the back of Lennon, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital, New York, a little after 11pm on the evening of 8 December 1980.
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There aren’t many instruments the incredibly talented Sir Paul McCartney can’t play. And, in truth, there aren’t many he didn’t play on The Beatles records. But one instrument will always be attached to the iconography of Macca, his bass guitar.
The singer/songwriter has been famed for his voice, for his exceptional ear for music and his uncanny pop sensibilities. But atop of all that he is a fantastic bass player too. The isolated bass track on ‘Come Together’ is a shining example.
McCartney’s landmark guitar, bought when Paul was only 18, had humble origins, “Eventually, I found a little shop in the center of town, and I saw this violin-shaped bass guitar in the window,” he told Tony Bacon for a Bass Player cover story back in the summer of 1995.
The original guitar McCartney bought was Höfner 500/1 violin bass, a right-handed model that he turned upside down, for the equivalent of around £40. While the guitar was stolen during the late sixties he did have a spare which was given to him by Höfner in 1963, was seen and heard starting as early as that year’s ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’. Macca played the guitar from then all the way until the final ‘Let It Be’ rooftop concert in 1969. Some say Paul still has the setlist from the last Beatles, from 1966, taped to its side.
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One of the most iconic late stars of all time, The Beatles legend John Lennon’s official Instagram page unearthed yet another golden-worth photo of the classic guitar of John Lennon.
Today is a very special day for the John Lennon fans because he is celebrating the 70th anniversary of his legendary guitar called ‘Gibson J-160E.’ This guitar was very special for him because it was used in all the Beatles’ projects by himself.
The Instagram account of John Lennon has not forgotten the special day of John Lennon with his Gibson guitar. It shared a rare photo of John Lennon’s guitar and told the little-known history and details of the guitar.
Here’s the story of John Lennon’s Gibson:
“The 70th Anniversary John Lennon J-160E is built in the exacting image of the groundbreaking original J-160E of the 1950s and ’60s. Much as with the design of the archetypal jazz guitar, the ES-175, just a few years before, Gibson applied a great deal of forward-looking, out-of-the-box thinking to the design of the J-160E in 1954. Prior to the arrival of this guitar, players of acoustic flat-tops struggled to be heard on stage, performing into inefficient microphones or hassling with add-on soundhole pickups that usually faired little better. ⠀
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Going back to the Far Out Magazine vault to bring you a rare recording of an interview involving Michael Jackson and The Beatles guitarist George Harrison which has been unearthed and shared online.
Appearing on BBC Radio 1 in 1979, the recording had been initially discarded by the broadcasting company who decided only to keep hold of a short clip sample. Now, however, work has been completed on the full restoration of the clip.
In what will be aired as a ‘BBC Radio Solent Special’, the company released the clip 40 years after it was first recorded in a programme that has been titled ‘When George Met Michael’. A moment in history as two geniuses come together.
The show sees both Harrison and Jackson in a discussion about their influences and techniques as well as reviewing new releases of the time. The topics of the conversation included the likes of The Blues Brothers, Nicolette Larson and so much more.
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Early on, George Harrison realized he wasn’t guaranteed the guitar solo on every song The Beatles recorded. In late 1964, while the band was laying down “I’ll Follow the Sun,” George had to campaign to get the lead part on the Paul McCartney track.
Geoff Emerick, the engineer on most of the Fab Four’s best recordings, recalled George walking into the control booth at Abbey Road studios to demand he get the solo on that song.
“I am supposed to be the lead guitarist in the band, after all,” Emerick quoted George saying in the book, Here, There and Everywhere. (George got his wish, but not without Emerick calling the solo “embarrassing.”)
As the ’60s wore on and George experimented with the sitar (at the expense of his guitar playing), the Beatles’ lead guitarist found himself ceding more solos to his bandmates (usually, Paul). On the title track of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it happened again.
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You’d have a hard tracking down all the covers of Beatles songs. Just looking at “Yesterday,” you’d count into the thousands. Everyone from Frank Sinatra to Joan Baez took a stab at that classic, penned by Paul McCartney and attributed to Paul and John Lennon (i.e., Lennon-McCartney).
But if you want to look at the number of successful Beatles covers, the list is shorter. Obviously, Lennon and McCartney wrote their music with themselves in mind as the vocalists, so you needed guts to cover a track like “Strawberry Fields Forever” or “Come Together.”
In fact, for all the thousands of interpretations of Lennon-McCartney songs, only two ever made it to No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts. And of those two, only one was a track the Fab Four recorded for one of the group’s studio albums.
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In 1972, The Beatles had been broken up for two years, but all four former members of the band were enjoying successful solo careers. George Harrison (All Things Must Pass) and John Lennon (Imagine) had already released platinum-selling albums; Ringo Starr’s would follow in ’73.
For his part, Paul McCartney tasted success as a solo artist right away with April 1970’s McCartney. After releasing Ram (1971) with his wife Linda, the couple formed Wings, which would would be Paul’s outlet for the rest of the ’70s.
Like the final Beatles releases, Wings albums went out on the Apple label, and Paul would occasionally use Abbey Road studios to record tracks. And that’s where he was in late ’72 while working on Red Rose Speedway.
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For everyone who’s been waiting and wondering about the Beatles’ 50th anniversary of “Let it Be,” we have to let it be for now.
The actual anniversary of the album’s release is May 8th, and the Michael Lindsay-Hogg movie came out on May 13, 1970.
But I’m told the whole 50th anniversary celebration will occur in the fall, not this spring. There are two reasons.
One reason is that no work has been done yet on the mixing, remixing and so on of the original album, the original movie’s soundtrack, or the Peter Jackson documentary. The mixing sessions are set for this July. It shouldn’t take too long. At this point Giles Martin and his crew know exactly what they’re doing.
The other reason is that all these expensive packages will be aimed at a holiday release. They’re a waste of time in May for Apple Records and for retailers. If they come in October, they’ll be part of the Christmas shopping madness. It makes more sense all around.
Source: by Roger Friedman/showbiz411.com
The Duke of Sussex joined Jon Bon Jovi on a rainy London zebra crossing to recreate the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover at the recording of a charity single.
In one of his final engagements before stepping back as a working royal, Harry attended a re-recording of Bon Jovi’s song Unbroken, performed with the Invictus Games Choir to raise money for the international multi-sport event for injured or sick military personnel.
At Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded in the 1960s, Harry joined the singer at the microphone in a video shared on the Sussexes’ Instagram account. “We’ve been gargling next door, so we’re ready to go,” Harry joked to a sound engineer.
Source: The Guardian
