Beatles News
It’s the single most iconic image of the Beatles’ early days, or maybe of the band’s entire existence. Four young men — grinning and bemused, slightly nervous but mostly pleased with their own ability to whip up this kind of reaction — go careening down a city sidewalk. A tidal wave of hormones follows. Most, but not all, of the fans who go chasing them are girls. They scream and cry, and they’re just as happy and bemused as the actual Beatles. The point doesn’t seem to be catching the Beatles. Because what would they do if they caught them? Instead, it’s to take part in that same moment, that same generational feeling of excitement. The Beatles are there to summon that feeling, to channel it. They’re almost incidental to it.
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arly in his career, Richard Starkey was the drummer in another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, with whom he played numerous gigs at Butlins — a chain of insistently cheerful holiday camps designed to provide affordable vacations for working-class Brits desperate for a break, any break. Almost 60 years later, the career of the man who became Ringo Starr has come full circle: He now drums in a band purveying insistently cheerful music for audiences desperate for a Beatle, any Beatle.
Sir Ringo, as we may now call him, was always the dispensable Beatle. When he first joined the group, as he admitted on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, he “wrote a lot of songs” but they were never recorded. (That was the only self-deprecating moment he allowed himself in the show, and even that was probably unwitting.) He certainly couldn’t sing. It is frequently, nastily, but quite possibly accurately asserted that he wasn’t even the group’s best drummer. (Take a bow, Paul.)
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Legendary drummer and Beatle band member Ringo Starr played his first ever show in Israel Saturday night, bringing joyful fans to their feet, singing along at the top of their lungs.
Accompanied by his All-Starr band, Ringo made his Israel debut at the at the Menorah Mivtahim Arena in Tel Aviv in front of thousands of fans of all ages, the first of a two-night gig in the Holy Land.
The current line up of Ringo’s All-Starr band, which has changed over the years, included Steve Lukather, guitarist of “Toto”, “Santana” singer and keyboardist Gregg Rolie, guitarist Colin Hay of “Men at Work”, “10CC” bass guitarist and vocalist Graham Gouldman, saxophonist and flautist Warren Ham and drummer Gregg Bissonette.
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When Sean Gaillard found himself in a time of trouble, Paul McCartney came to him, speaking words of wisdom: “You just wait.”
In 2013, Gaillard was the principal of Wiley Middle School, hopeful that an application for a $1 million federal grant would transform the school into a cutting-edge learning center for science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
That dream crashed hard when Gaillard learned that the grant was not approved, leaving him with the difficult task of breaking the news to a staff that had worked tirelessly on the application.
As he had many times over his life, Gaillard sought comfort in the music and lives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles.
A Beatles fanatic, Gaillard is well-versed in the band’s history. Standing there in front of his faculty, he recalled the words a defiant McCartney uttered when the press all but declared the band yesterday’s news in 1966. “You just wait,” McCartney said, according to band lore.
Source: Lisa O’Donnell Winston-Salem Journal
He may have just turned 76, but Paul McCartney is clearly not ready to retire.
The Beatle has just released two new singles and announced a forthcoming album.
That's right, Macca is back. "I Don't Know" and "Come On To Me" dropped Wednesday.
His album, "Egypt Station," will be out September 7.
It's his first in five years and McCartney recently spoke to BBC 6 Music about continuing to make music. He said that unlike some people his age, he doesn't disparage today's music.
"I listen to people, and I think there's a lot of good stuff going on, myself," he said. "But no, a lot of people my generation will say, 'Oh, music's not as good as it used to be.' But I always say, 'No, that's what our parents said.'"
He said he enjoyed working with Kanye West on the single "Four Five Seconds," which also featured Rihanna.
McCartney will be keeping busy performing for the next few months, including at Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas, in October, he said. But he did talk to 85-year-old music legend Willie Nelson about retiring. "And he says, 'Retire from what?,'" McCartney said. " And I think that just says it. Retire from what?"
Source: Lisa Respers France, CNN
The Beatles legend confirmed details of his new album release earlier today.
Paul McCartney has recalled how George Harrison would get The Beatles out of doing things they didn’t want to do.
The Beatles bassist announced earlier today (June 20) he is set to release his first solo album in five years in September.
Speaking to Gordon Smart on Radio X, McCartney said: “George would often be the one – when we’d be having to do something we didn’t fancy – who would just go, ‘Why we fucking doing this? What the fuck? What the fuck’s this? I don’t fucking want to do this!’ And then it was like, ‘Yes!’
“You’d maybe say, ‘George, I think we have to do it,'” he continued. “‘I’m not fucking doing it!’ and you’d be going, ‘Yes, great!’ so none of us have to do it. He’s got us off it! And it was brilliant, always good to have one them around, you know? I have to do that for myself now.”
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The beatles commemorated in India before recording "The White Album."
A 50th-anniversary reissue of the 1968 White Album by The Beatles has been confirmed by Paul McCartney after months of speculation.
The double album, which is actually eponymously titled although widely referred to for its plain white cover designed by artist Richard Hamilton, was made after about 30 rough demos had been recorded at lead guitarist George’s Harrison’s suburban home in Esher, near London, in May, 1968. Many of the songs were written during the band’s stay in India to study meditation earlier that year and the happy-go-lucky sessions went well. The quartet later worked them up in the London studio in a process that was far less harmonious. Most of the demos became finished works that made the record, although a few were held over to Abbey Road and a few ended up on solo albums.
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He was The Beatles’ original drummer, the one that got replaced by Ringo Starr and missed the ride to music immortality. Which might also make him the disgruntled Beatle.
But was Pete Best the best-looking Beatle?
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Recently discovered in The Palm Beach Post’s archives is this November 1965 photo by Miami News photographer Charles Trainor. The Miami News was the Post’s sister paper. At the time, Best was spending the weekend with a disc jockey in Coconut Grove. It was about one year after the Fab Four conquered America, visited the Sunshine State and performed in Miami Beach on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Tastes differ — some prefer Paul McCartney, the “cute one,” or the spiky appeal of John Lennon. Some even prefer the offbeat charms of George Harrison and Starr.
Source: Larry Aydlette - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
It was 48 years ago in April that Paul McCartney announced the breakup of the Beatles, and even though nearly half a century has passed since then, interest in the greatest band of all time remains high.
The 2000 “1” album, a compilation of all of the Beatles number one singles, itself went to No. 1 — 30 years after the band broke up. Millions of fans, and not just baby boomers, listen to Beatles songs on the online streaming service Spotify every month.
There are dozens of books written about the legendary rock band, examining their rise, their influence on the zeitgeist of the ’60s, and why they have retained their appeal all these years later. No music act has been the subject of more television documentaries than the Beatles.
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Primary school-age kids are being given lessons in Beatlemania at one of the most unusual school classrooms in Britain.
The award winning Beatles Story museum in Liverpool said Monday its Discovery Zone, a fun educational area for primary schools, has been given an exciting new upgrade to educate children on The Beatles' early lives, rise to fame, music and their connection to Liverpool.
The new investment into the educational facilities at the Beatles Story has seen a full refurbishment of the Discovery Zone, incorporating exciting new features linking the story of the Beatles, their early lives and rise to fame with key areas of Britain's National Curriculum for primary schools.
Children learn about the legacy of Liverpool's most famous sons, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, through creative play on a giant interactive floor piano, touch-screen interactives and many other fun learning zones, connecting topics geography, history, fashion, technology, art and music.
Top of the list of new features is a new giant interactive floor piano, inspired by the popular film, BIG, children starring American actor Tom Hanks.
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