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Given all the instruments, microphones, and other moving parts used in studios, it’s obvious why recordings don’t come out flawlessly. And The Beatles had plenty of blemishes and other unintended accidents turn up on their albums.
Sometimes, the band was happy to leave in the mistake. A famous example came in the recording of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” during the White Album sessions. In the final verse, Paul McCartney sings that Desmond (rather than Molly) stays at home and “does his pretty face.”
Instead of re-recording the vocal part, Paul decided to leave it in for fans to wonder about. A few weeks after the Fab Four finally wrapped up “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” the band was recording another classic track with a few hitches: “Hey Jude.”
This time around, the problem didn’t come in the lead vocal. However, you can hear background noise (spoken words, in fact) about halfway through the hit single. And you can hear a Beatle drop the f-bomb in that moment.
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The Beatles legend Paul McCartney along with his daughter Stella McCartney honours her late mother Linda with a vegetarian Christmas feast each year.
Linda and Paul met in 1967. She converted The Beatles star to vegetarianism,which proved a problem at Christmas because there was no turkey to carve.
"The thing about becoming vegetarian is that some of the things that I saw as traditional male roles -- not wanting to get too sexist or genderist here -- such as barbecuing, and slicing the roast, went," Paul told Britain's The Sunday Times newspaper, reports aceshowbiz.com.
He added: "I wanted something to carve at Christmas!"
To give her husband something to do, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998, invented "a macaroni cheese that she shaped and left to set."
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In 1948 the HMT Windrush arrived in Britain carrying people from the Caribbean.
They had been invited by the government to fill the skills and labour shortage in the aftermath of WW2, leaving behind livelihoods, families and friends to travel across the Atlantic. Of those original passengers, it is estimated that around 68 men came to live and settle in Liverpool.
Many married local women and started families in Liverpool, bringing unique influences to the city, influences that could be said to have changed the world. One of those men was Harold Phillips, also known as Lord Woodbine, an RAF veteran from Trinidad.
He joined the war effort aged 14 after lying about his age and using his brother's passport.
In 1948, he arrived in the UK on board the Windrush, where he went on to create a lasting legacy which shaped the music and culture of not just Liverpool but also the rest of the world - helping to take The Beatles to Hamburg and even smuggling an under-age George Harrison into the German city.
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One of the most prolific and potent artists of all time, The Beatles delivered 13 full-length records for their fans. The band would grow and evolve from their boyband roots to something entirely more special, transcending genres, music, and fandom to become one of the best bands of all time.
The Beatles had such a strong career it’s not unusual to find fans have passionate affections for a particular moment in their career trajectory, or a particular era, let alone a particular album. But what was George Harrison’s favourite Beatles album of all time?
The quiet Beatle as he was often, and affectionately, known may be more accurately described as the too-often-overlooked Beatle. One of the finer songwriters of his generation with tracks like ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ and ‘Here Comes The Sun’ cements him in the pop music pantheon. It’s a place that is too often forgotten about.
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John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966 and soon left his first wife Cynthia Lennon and started up a relationship with the artist. Shortly after they were married in 1969, he told The Beatles he no longer wanted to be part of the band. His romance with Ono is often the focus of The Beatles fans’ anger regarding the group’s split, with many blaming her for drawing him away from mainstream music and into more experimental endeavours.
During an interview with Howard Stern last year, Paul McCartney opened up on the divide between him and his childhood friend Lennon following the disintegration of the band.
On the period of time during which he and Lennon exchanged jibes through their solo music, the Wings star laughed: “We were writing songs at each other, weaponising songs.”
However, he went on to admit his relief that they reconciled their feud before Lennon was fatally shot in 1980.
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At times, John Lennon would get annoyed when people read too much into The Beatles’ music. When he wrote “Glass Onion,” he said he was having a laugh at the expense of fans who would take a song and “play it backwards and stand on your head and all that.”
But John wasn’t above reading into lyrics — even Beatles lyrics. In one case, he said Paul McCartney had Yoko Ono on his mind when he sang, “Get back to where you once belonged.” (Paul said he wrote it about the fictional Jojo and Loretta.)
John also had ideas about the meaning behind another late classic by Paul: “Hey Jude.” In the song, when Paul sings that a man who’s found his ideal woman should “go and get her,” John took it as a reference to the new relationship in his (John’s) life.
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John was one quarter of the world famous band The Beatles, along with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. The four of them were thrust into the spotlight at a young age, but soon struggled to cope with the magnitude of their popularity. Artistic differences drove the band apart and in 1970 they split, with all of them going on to create their own solo material although animosity remained for a good few years afterwards.
Many credit John with being the most famous Beatle, particularly after his tragic death in 1980 when he was shot by a crazed fan outside his New York apartment.
When he died he was married to Yoko Ono, but an uncovered letter from 1958 revealed the strength of feeling John had for his girlfriend and, later his first wife, Cynthia Powell.
Writing in Vanity Fair in 2012, Bruce Handy revealed how the music icon wished his love interest a Happy Christmas.
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Paul McCartney’s newest collaboration isn’t what you think.
To promote his 2018 album Egypt Station, McCartney’s team reached out earlier this year not to his record label -- but to sweater label Lingua Franca to create a collection of limited-edition cashmere sweaters embroidered with titles of two of the album’s tracks: “People Want Peace” and “Do It Now.”
“Is this for real?” Lingua Franca’s founder and longtime Beatles fan Rachelle Hruska MacPherson recalls thinking when she received the email from the Beatle’s reps.
Indeed it was: two hundred emails later, the premium jumpers, as the British call sweaters, are now available for $400 apiece at McCartney’s official merchandise shop.
Artists have been selling limited-edition merch for years, but McCartney is one of many acts working to elevate their offerings even further beyond the standard concert t-shirt and enlisting new partners to help. Kanye West spurred many of these efforts with his wildly successful pop-up shops across the country in 2016, the year of his Life of Pablo Tour.
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Dr. Dre hasn’t released an album since 2015 and hasn’t gone on tour since the turn of the millennium. His last production credit on a No. 1 hit was in 2009, when he worked the boards on Eminem’s “Crack a Bottle.” But the hip-hop superproducer still topped all other music stars in earnings this decade, pulling in an estimated $950 million thanks mostly to his roughly 20% stake in Beats, the bass-heavy headphone maker Apple bought for $3 billion in 2014.
Other stars had more traditional ways of making money. Taylor Swift was the decade’s second-biggest earner with $825 million followed by Beyoncé with $685 million, both profiting from multiple centimillion-dollar tours, several multiplatinum albums and a slew of multimillion-dollar sponsor partnerships with brands from Adidas to AT&T.
Forbes measures the industry’s top-earning musicians annually for the Celebrity 100 by looking at touring data from Pollstar, music consumption numbers from Nielsen and interviews with managers, agents and many of the stars themselves. The list doesn’t include behind-the-scenes earners such as agents, managers and promoters, nor does it deduct living expenses or taxes.
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Paul McCartney, 77, prepares to unwind for the festive period as he and wife Nancy Shevell, 60, arrive at JFK airport ahead of Christmas
Published: 03:17 EST, 23 December 2019 | Updated: 08:46 EST, 23 December 2019
He recently revealed he's produced an album of carols only for his family after struggling to find 'good Christmas records'.
And Paul McCartney prepared for the festive period as he and his wife Nancy Shevell touched down at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday evening.
The Beatles icon, 77, carried his essentials in a black duffle bag as he joined his partner, 60, in her native state, ahead of their annual trip to St Barts.
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