Beatles News
Something for the weekend: With December’s pre-Christmas payday feeling a lifetime ago, and a long time to wait before employees can say ‘here comes the sun’, many will be starting the new year with a negative mindset, suffering from high stress levels, or struggling with mental ill health.
However, research by bingo and slot operator Mecca Bingo has found that songs by Liverpudlian band The Beatles are most likely to get employees’ toes tapping, boosting both productivity and happiness at work.
Its survey of 2,000 UK individuals further found that tunes performed by legendary artists such as Elton John, David Bowie and Elvis Presley can also help shield employees from the January blues, with these iconic stars rocking the second, third and fourth places on Mecca Bingo’s Top five songs for the office playlist to boost productivity and happiness at work list.
Yorkshire songster Ed Sheeran came fifth in the final list, with songs such as The A Team, Perfect and Shape of You shown to improve employees’ moods.
Source: employeebenefits.co.uk
Edward Morrison after being nominated for governor by the New York State Liberal Party in 1974. He turned out to be a stand-in, however: The Liberals endorsed Hugh L. Carey, after Mr. Carey won the Democratic nomination.
Edward A. Morrison, a former New York deputy mayor whose avowal that John Lennon was a valuable cultural asset to the city helped Lennon avoid deportation in the 1970s, died on Saturday in Ocala, Fla. He was 85.
His son Andrew said the cause was congestive heart failure.
Mr. Morrison, a lawyer, was among the advisers to Lennon and his wife, the artist and singer Yoko Ono, when Lennon’s residency in the United States was challenged by the Nixon administration in 1972.
He was also a friend of the couple’s; Lennon and Ms. Ono had attended Mr. Morrison’s swearing-in as deputy mayor in 1972.
Source: nytimes.com
The Beatles bassist Paul McCartney has announced his new children’s book ‘Hey Grandude!’. The book is Paul’s first picture book and will be published in September 2019.
He has shared the mini video of the book on Instagram and wrote:
“I’m excited to share the cover of my new children’s book Hey Grandude! which will be out later this year. I’ve worked on this with a great illustrator called @KathrynDurst and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!”😃
Back in September 2018, he talked about the book and said:
“I’ve written a new children’s picture book. It’s called Hey Grandude!… I wanted to write it for grandparents everywhere, so it gives them something to read to the grandkids at bedtime.”
Source: Feyyaz Ustaer/metalheadzone.com
n many ways, the records that came out in 1969 defined our idea of what rock ’n’ roll would sound like over the next five decades. It was the year when all the wild ideas of the hippie era came into focus, birthing a variety of subgenres including heavy metal, prog and jam. Here is a small sampling of the shape-shifting albums that come out at the tail end of the ’60s.
The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”
The album the Fab Four made as they were falling apart, this stands as the group’s most approachable set, filled with timeless gems such as Paul McCartney’s “You Never Give Me Your Money,” John Lennon’s “Because” and George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun.” An exquisite goodbye to the band and the ’60s in general.
Source: Joshua Kosman/datebook.sfchronicle.com
We all know how incredibly successful Ringo Starr is;
Starr quickly became recognized as the drummer of The Beatles. The Beatles is considered to be one of the best bands in history and they have sold millions of copies of their music worldwide.
Today we have an awesome collection of Ringo Starr quotes about life and success.
35 Ringo Starr Quotes
1.”Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they’d say, ‘Oh, double-track that.’ I don’t know how you do that, because when I’m in a fill I’m sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can’t pure me the same, twice. So, that’s that.” – Ringo Starr
2.“I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’” – Ringo Starr
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TODAY!
Paul McCartney fans will have a rare treat all over the world: a one-off screening of “Bruce McMouse,” an animated film made by Paul and Linda McCartney with their group Wings. It features the Maccas voicing over animated mice, mixed in with rare concert footage of Wings on the road in Holland and Germany in 1972.
There’s been almost no publicity about this, no press release, nothing. “Bruce McMouse” will play in 12 cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. A lot of major cities are left out. Maybe they’ll be included later, or the film will turn up in a McCartney box set sometime. I have no idea.
Source: Roger Friedman /showbiz411.com
"Well, if you’re so cosmic you’ll know why," John Lennon explained to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as the final two Beatles left his Ashram before fulfilling their Transcendental Meditation regimen. "And he gave me a look like ‘I’ll kill you, you bastard,'” Lennon told Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone in December 1970, which was later published as the book Lennon Remembers. Inner peace is as much a bitch as karma, which bites the asses of rock stars and gurus alike. The Maharishi was accused of sexual misconduct during the Beatles' sojourn to India for enlightenment, a journey which may have culminated in the band teaming with the Beach Boys in spreading the movement. But it darkened Lennon's vibes so bad he banged out the holy rocking roller "Sexy Sadie."
Source: denofgeek.com
Speaking to “Q on CBC” radio, Rush’s bassist Geddy Lee has shared his thoughts about playing bass guitar, and revealed the story of how he started to play bass guitar.
He also praised The Beatles’ legendary bassist Paul McCartney, and revealed why McCartney is so important for rock music. Here’s the statement:
“I think about McCartney on [The Beatles’ 1969 track] ‘Something,’ I think that was the first time I ever heard the bass as a lead instrument.
That’s not uncommon in the early days of pop. There were a lot of so-called lead lines, but they’re played down with the dulcet tones, the lower tones, and so people don’t really appreciate that a lot of content as a lead instrument, but it really is doing that job.”
On why he started with bass guitar, he said:
Source: Feyyaz Ustaer/metalheadzone.com
Two iconic albums came out on January 20: Meet The Beatles! in 1964 and Bob Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece Blood On The Tracks.
For The Beatles, Meet The Beatles! was their second album to land stateside but their first release under Capitol Records. It featured the classics “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “I Saw Her Standing There and “All My Loving.”
Meet The Beatles! has sold over five million copies to date. As for what happened next for those four lads from Liverpool, well…if you don’t know, then clearly you have been living under a rock for the past five decades.
Eleven years after America met The Beatles, they stared down Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, which is now one of Dylan’s most celebrated albums, but upon its release, that wasn’t the case.
Source: Erica Banas/wror.com
HAVANA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The music of legendary British band The Beatles was practically banned in Cuba in the 1960s. But today there's a haven on the island for fans of the timeless rock group.
At night people line up to get into the Yellow Submarine, a busy nightclub in Havana that for almost eight years has celebrated the rock and roll spirit of the Liverpool quartet.
Named in honor of the band's popular song, the club has been built to resemble a submarine, with hatches and tubular features. The walls are adorned with images of "The Fab Four" and the lyrics of their most famous songs.
Here, Cuban bands play covers of Beatles hits and tunes by other well-known rock bands.
"Traces of the Beatles are scattered throughout the panorama of music in our country," journalist and cultural promoter Guillermo Vilar told Xinhua.
Source: Raul Menchaca/xinhuanet.com
