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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones are two of the greatest bands, not only in British history, but in rock history. Their first meeting is the stuff of legend. Here’s what went down when the two bands collided for the first time.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones remembers when he was performing at the Crawdaddy Club in 1963 and noticed the Beatles in the audience. “Halfway through the set we kind of glanced up, and there were four silhouetted leather-clad persons standing just in front of the bandstand in amongst all these kids who were all dancing and playing around.” He remembered that the Fab Four were “being totally ignored by the audience.”
According to Slate, he elaborated “We’re playing a pub … and we’re whacking out our show and everybody’s having a good time, ya know? I suddenly turn around: there’s these four guys in black leather overcoats standing there. Oh fuck me! Look who’s here!”
After noticing the Beatles, Wyman “turned round to Charlie [Watts], and I said, ‘It’s the Beatles!’ They’d had two or three big No. 1 hits and they were like the rave of England at that time.”
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The final year of John Lennon’s life will be the subject of a new documentary timed to mark the 40th anniversary of the music legend’s death. John Lennon: The Final Year, from Reda Films, will include never-before-seen material and interviews with those who spent time with the slain Beatle during the last year of his life. Lennon died December 8, 1980, as a result of a fatal gunshot wound, while standing with his wife, Yoko Ono, in front of his apartment building on New York’s Upper West Side.
The film’s producer is noted Beatles author, Ken Womack of Wonderwall Communications. Womack’s forthcoming book, John Lennon 1980: The Final Days in the Life of Beatle John, will be published on Lennon’s birthday, Oct. 9. His most recent book was Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles, published in 2019 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the release of Abbey Road.
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JOHN LENNON and The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr last saw each other a matter of weeks before the Imagine hitmaker was tragically shot and died. In an interview the following year, Starr reflected on their final meeting, which was immortalised in a photo.
Their time together that day was enshrined forever in a polaroid picture. In an interview with Barbara Walters the year after Lennon’s death, Starr recalled the final time he saw his friend. “I saw him on the 15th November,” he said. “I was staying at The Plaza.
“Oh, man, they were happy. They were two people in one,” he added poignantly.
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George Harrison might have been the Beatles’ lead guitar participant, however that doesn’t imply he took each solo you hear in Fab Four songs. From early within the band’s run by the final Beatles album, you’ll discover songs that featured John Lennon or Paul McCartney taking solos.
In the case of “Taxman,” George’s composition that kicked off Revolver, Paul took the solo when George couldn’t nail down the half rapidly sufficient within the studio. On “Get Back,” John realized the lead as a result of George left the group throughout the Let It Be classes.
In different instances, John merely needed to provide a solo a go. “I like playing lead sometimes, so I do it,” he mentioned in 1964. After getting back from the band’s first tour of America, that’s what he did on ‘You Can’t Do That,” a monitor he’d written for A Hard Day’s Night. It turned his first solo on a Beatles launch.
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They developed into the Fab Four; the most famous group in pop music history.
But were you aware that John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison – minus Ringo Starr – once toured the north east of Scotland as a backing group and were called The Silver Beetles?
Or that, during their visit, McCartney was known as Paul Ramon and Lennon had the words Long John appended to his name?
This was long before the days of the Fab Four, George Martin, and Sergeant Pepper, as the Liverpool group took the world by storm.
Instead, in the spring of 1960, the three youngsters backed singer Johnny Gentle on a series of gigs in Inverness, Fraserburgh, Keith, Forres, Nairn and Peterhead.
The gigs were staged at such venues as the Northern Meeting Ballroom in Inverness, Dalrymple Hall in Fraserburgh and The Rescue Hall in Peterhead, between May 20 and May 28. Some of the concerts were well-attended, but others attracted barely any audience at all.
And Lennon and McCartney returned home to Liverpool after losing money on the trip.
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Around the time of the Beatles’ breakup, the band acquired a giant praise from Frank Sinatra. After protecting the Abbey Road observe “Something,” the Chairman of the Board took to singing the George Harrison tune in live performance. And Sinatra known as it “one of the best love songs written in 50 or 100 years.”
But by these days (the early ’70s), nobody would have been stunned by anybody protecting a Beatles tune. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, George’s outdated bandmates, had been about essentially the most well-known songwriters on this planet.
When Paul was a youngster, he truly appeared forward to days when somebody of Sinatra’s stature would sing his songs. In interviews for Anthology, Paul stated he even began out writing tracks with old-school crooners in thoughts.
“Back then I wasn’t necessarily looking to be a rock ‘n’ roller,” he stated. When the Fab Four recorded Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Paul pulled out a observe from the times he imagined himself as considered one of Sinatra’s songwriters.
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The Beatles’ 1969 album AbbeyRoad has gone on to become a defining moment in the illustrious career of one of the greatest bands to have ever walked the planet. It is one of the band’s rockiest records but it is on their isolated vocal that the album’s power shines through.
It was the band’s eleventh studio album and saw the Fab Four incorporates genres such as blues, rock and pop, and also makes prominent use of Moog synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker, and tom-tom drums. But the most fascinating part is the band’s varying vocals.
One thing that The Beatles have that most other bands could only hope for. The band had not only a group of quality musicians but of expert songwriters and wonderful singers. An iconic record on The Beatles’ roadmap, least of all because of its album artwork, it was another moment of creative elation as all four members took the wheel of the Yellow Submarine for a turn or two.
In the video below, brought to us by Leonardo Barbieri, we get to experience Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison all bring their songs to fruition. By stripping back the music and listening to their vocals alone, the connection each of the band had to their songs becomes clearer.
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When not playing its own Branson, Missouri, theater, Liverpool Legends fits anywhere from the 1,000-seat Bama up to amphitheaters that seat 10,000, playing Carnegie Hall, or headlining at the Rose Bowl.
You’d have to be of a certain age to have witnessed Beatlemania live, the screaming drowning out drums and guitars, enough hair being yanked to fill a warehouse with Ringo wigs, sufficient ecstatic tears shed to float another pond between England and the colonies.
Frustrated with then-state-of-the-art speakers that couldn’t overcome the shrieking -- of fans, not guitars -- the Beatles last staged a concert tour in 1966.
For their final years, they focused on what became legendary studio albums: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Abbey Road,” “Let It Be” and the self-titled double vinyl known as the White Album.
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In the early nineties, there was one former member of The Beatles that was breaking out from the shadow of one of the most famous bands the world has ever seen. For a time, George Harrison was a bonafide pop star.
Following 1987s commercial and critical success Cloud Nine, mostly buoyed by his mega-watt pop hit ‘I’ve Got My Mind Set On You’, George Harrison was a household name again for the first time since the 1970s All Things Must Pass.
His first record had ascertained Harrison his legendary status on his solo work alone but, despite all his experience, Harrison was never a big fan of touring after his 1974 tour. The pain of that tour with Ravi Shankar had clearly landed quite heavily on Harrison and for many years, despite commercial success, the Quiet Beatle was, for the main part, remaining quiet.
After sharing the stage in Los Angeles in 1990, Harrison was seemingly dipping his toe into the touring water when he joined the legendary Eric Clapton for a joint tour of Japan, the next year. It seemed as though the Beatle was gearing up for a tour. Yet after Harrison and Clapton performed at 12 shows across the land of the rising sun the guitarist would again retreat to his life off the road.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono met in London in 1966 when The Beatles were at the height of their fame. She was having an exhibition of her work at a gallery when he came for a private viewing the day before it opened. The pair hit it off emotionally and intellectually, with the musician leaving fascinated by the avant-garde artist.
Lennon and Ono soon began corresponding and subsequently embarked on a romance.
Their relationship was the final straw for his first wife Cynthia Lennon and their marriage ended in 1968.
A year later, he tied the knot with Ono in Gibraltar.
It was shortly after he married Ono, however, that Lennon told his fellow Beatles he was leaving the band, leading to the group splitting for good.
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