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The Beatles broke up in the early 1970s. Ever since, fans have wanted to hear new music from the Fab Four. In the 1990s, audiences got their wish – to a degree.
The release of the Beatles Anthology came with a few new tracks. Essentially these songs were John Lennon demos which were completed with the help of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. One of these songs, “Real Love,” sparked controversy when BBC Radio 1 refused to play it. Here’s why Radio 1 thought the Fab Four weren’t worth their time.
First, a little background on “Real Love.” The Beatles Bible reports the track was composed by John in 1979. At different times, he gave the song the titles “Real Life” and “Real Love.” He recorded several demos of “Real Love” with differing lyrics. Years after John’s murder, the song was released on the soundtrack of the film Imagine: John Lennon.
However, Ultimate Classic Rock reports “Real Love” wouldn’t become a Beatles song until much later. Paul, George, and Ringo worked with producer Jeff Lynne on one of the demos to finish the track. Lynne said it was a challenge to work with John’s demo.
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The official and verified Instagram page of The Beatles legend John Lennon has posted a rare photo and leaked a different hairstyle of him. We are used to seeing John Lennon with his long wavy hair and round glasses, but in this picture, we see him with his short hair and sporty style.
Also, this rare photo of him was taken by photographer Astrid Kirchherr, at Hamburger Dom Funfair, Heiligengeistfeld Feldstrasse in Hamburg, Germany, in November 1960. Here’s what the page captioned:
“Hamburg, 1960⠀
Photographer Astrid Kirchherr: ‘I didn’t have to tell them not to smile, they just knew. They only had to look straight into the camera. They were absolute professionals, even when it took a long time to get everything just right. No one got angry or said that they didn’t want to carry on.⠀I printed them 32 × 40cm, large, and gave each of them the group photo. John, Paul, and George also got their individual photographs. It was like giving a carousel to little children: they couldn’t believe it because they’d never had pictures that big. I don’t think John ever realized he was beautiful until he saw them.’⠀
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Paul McCartney’s recent appearances have always paid homage to his past. The singer’s contribution to music with the Beatles should rightly stand in the spotlight of any performance from Sir Paul. But for a while, the singer avoided looking back at the past.
Here we relive the tour that McCartney finally embraced his past and welcomed a host of Beatles hits to his setlist. This clip sees McCartney finally assimilating his solo career with his legendary band on his world tour.
During the seventies, following The Beatles disbandment and McCartney’s pursuit of solo glory, the singer stayed away from performing the Fab Four’s tunes. He did drop a few Beatles’ numbers during the Wings 1975-76 and 1979 tours, but for the most part they had been kept aside from the McCartney’s repertoire. On The Paul McCartney World Tour, that soon changed.
1989 would see McCartney take to the road for the first time since 1979 when the Wings tour ended. The singer had disbanded the group following a drugs bust in Tokyo in 1980 had left him feeling vulnerable while on the road. But that year would also see some other classic rock alumni take to the stage.
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The 1970s were a time for the world’s most eccentric artists to shine. Andy Warhol was at the forefront of the art world, leading the pop-art visual movement in which a plethora of music icons often functioned as muse.
It’s no surprise that Warhol would cross paths with other artistic individualists of the time, and it was widely reported that he became close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono throughout the 1970s.
The three-way friendship of Warhol, Lennon, and Ono blossomed over many years, with a number of obscure photographs being taken of the trio getting up to no good.
What started as a two-way friendship between Warhol and Lennon grew even stronger when Lennon introduced his partner, Yoko Ono. A Japanese-American multimedia artist, Ono dwelled in a scene surrounded by other influential artists such as Dan Richter and Peggy Guggenheim. It appeared that her knowledge of art shared with Warhol and her understanding of music due to her involvement with Lennon helped to create a multi-faceted friendship which, of course, was fuelled by their shared and differing artistic visions.
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John Lennon was a part of a pretty decent group during his career. A little known band called The Beatles. But after the Fab Four disbanded, and Lennon formed the Plastic Ono Band with Yoko Ono, he penned a letter to his friend, Eric Clapton, asking him to form a supergroup.
It all began after Eric Clapton joined the Plastic Ono Band for a one-off performance in Toronto where the bonafide guitar God noodled his way through a set littered with Lennon’s classic caustic wit and Ono’s unmistakable shriek.
While we can’t be sure of how Clapton felt sharing the stage with Lennon and Ono, the iconic guitarist wasn’t overawed easily but even he looks a little swept up in the madness that was following the pair in 1969. As Lennon jams through with his usual rock and roll swagger, Ono adds her unique tone across the performance of ‘Don’t Worry Kyoko’.
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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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