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A new film chronicles the Beatles’ impactful 1968 visit to India. A bonding exercise on ABC’s Abbott Elementary comedy could reveal more than the teachers intended. The music melodrama Queens wraps (raps?) its first season. The Winter Olympics continues with the short program in the newly controversial Women’s Figure Skating competition.Our fascination with the Fab Four continues with author-turned-director Ajoy Bose’s film (inspired by his book Across the Universe) that uses unseen recordings and photos, archival footage and eyewitness accounts to tell the story of the Beatles’ life-altering trip to India in 1968. With walkthroughs of the scenic locations the band visited as further visual allure, the film also explores the evolution of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as artists.
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From being arrested in Germany for lighting a condom on fire to performing for astronauts in space, there's a lot you still might not know about the Beatles legend
Paul McCartney is a living legend. Throughout a long and interesting life, the former Beatle has sold more than 100 million singles as a solo artist, achieved 60 gold albums, and been awarded 18 Grammys.
There’s no doubt that he’s one of the biggest and most successful musicians in the history of rock 'n' roll. Here are six surprising facts you may not know about Paul McCartney.
Paul McCartney was the first musician to broadcast music live into outer space
It seems fitting that one of the most successful musicians in history should have the honour of being the first person to perform live music for an audience in space. On November 12, 2005, part of McCartney’s live concert in Anaheim, California was broadcast to the International Space Station which is located over 200 miles above the Earth.
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Mark Thorne, 42, told how wife Lottie, 41, spotted the Fab Four guitarist after she bit into her lunchtime snack.He hopes the bizarre likeness of his late hero might help as he's preparing to open his own music store, Thorne Records, in the Capital’s Bruntsfield Place later this month.Mark said: "Lottie just said 'the core of my apple looks exactly like George Harrison'. I told her 'stop eating' and had a look and said 'oh my God, it's George'."I've worked in record shops all my life but it's always been my dream to open my own – and hopefully this is a good omen."Dad of two Mark said he owes his career to a lifelong love of the Beatles. He became obsessed with the Liverpool superstars after borrowing their Red and Blue albums from his local library in Stirling, where he grew up.When he tied the knot with Lottie, the couple sent wedding invitations in the shape of 7in singles based on Harrison's 1971 number one smash
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Sir Ringo Starr has published dozens of heart-warming, candid photos of the Beatles that helped him get through the coronavirus lockdowns.
The legendary drummer, now aged 81, compiled the rarely-seen images of himself with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison as part of an uplifting project.
He sourced and researched the photos, many of which were taken by fans, and secured permission to publish them.
The behind-the-scenes images chart the very beginning of the Fab Four, through to the height of Beatlemania, touring America and then the tensions that culminated in the world's biggest band splitting up.
They have been put together in the book 'Lifted: Fab Images and Memories in My Life With The Beatles From Across the Universe' that is due to be released today.
A limited number of 1,000 have been signed by Sir Ringo and cost £365 ($495) each.
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Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World showed fans a different side of George Harrison. There have been numerous films about the Beatles, but none about George. As a result, this project was unique. Thanks to George’s family’s tireless efforts, which have preserved George’s legacy since his death in 2001, one was able to delve into George’s world.
They couldn’t find the right director for the job. Olivia Harrison, George’s wife, was looking for someone to tell the true story of George Harrison. Scorsese was the only one capable of doing it.
Because Martin Scorsese was “capable,” George Harrison’s family wanted him to direct “Living in the Material World.”
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote countless songs for both The Beatles and some other artists. But Lennon said he peaked lyrically back in 1969 when he wrote a song for a charity compilation album: No One's Gonna Change Our World. For their contribution to the album - which also included such artists as Lulu, Cilla Black, and Rolf Harris - The Beatles included the song Across the Universe.
The psychedelic Across the Universe was featured on the aforementioned compilation record but was later included in the band's final album, Let It Be, a year later.
The same year, in 1970, Lennon was asked in an interview what his favourite Beatles tracks were. He revealed his top five were: Strawberry Fields Forever, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Am The Walrus, Girl and Across The Universe.
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I’ve never understood those who say they don’t like the Beatles. To me, it’s like saying you don’t like breathing – or chocolate moose – just daft. The Beatles music is as much part of our culture as the air around us and the chance to see them in IMAX was one I couldn’t pass up.
As has been widely publicised, The Beatles: Get Back has been streaming on Disney+ for some months. Originally, it was meant to be a movie documenting the challenging time they recorded an album in front of film cameras. However, as director Peter Jackson has explained, as the editing process took shape he felt it would have been far too restrictive to shrink down the 50 hours of footage to just two and a half, instead deciding on an eight-hour edit that worked just as well as a three-part series.
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A BEATLES fan who is set to open his dream first record shop has received an unexpected endorsement from one of his heroes - after George Harrison appeared in his wife’s apple core.
Mark Thorne, 42, owes his obsession with music to his lifelong love of the Beatles, so he was taken aback when his wife Lottie bit into her lunchtime snack - and spotted something which looked like the late lead guitarist looking back at her.
Mark, who is preparing to open Thorne Records in Edinburgh’s Bruntsfield this month, told her to stop eating immediately.
Now he hopes the remarkable find is a good omen for his business, which will of course stock the Fab Four.
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This Feb. 28, 1968, AP file photo shows The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.
Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that?
The standard answer is: Be really excellent at your craft and you will become renowned. Sadly, it’s not that simple. Excellence is a requirement, but often it’s not enough.
Let me hold up the Beatles to explain what I’m talking about. If ever there was a group that could rise to the top on the basis of sheer creative genius, it was them.
But that’s not how it looked at first. Every record label they approached rejected them.
“The boys won’t go,” one company’s representatives said. “We know these things.” A dejected John Lennon said that they thought “that was the end.”
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The Beatles’ unforgettable concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps’ Savile Row headquarters on January 30, 1969, debuted as a 65-minute feature at an Exclusive IMAX® Event Screening and Filmmaker Q&A on January 30, 2022.
Director/producer Peter Jackson said: “I’m thrilled that the rooftop concert from ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ is going to be experienced in IMAX, on that huge screen, it’s The Beatles’ last concert, and it’s the absolute perfect way to see and hear it”. “Ever since Peter Jackson’s beautiful and illuminating docuseries debuted, we’ve heard non-stop from fans who want to experience its unforgettable rooftop performance in IMAX,” says Megan Colligan, president of IMAX Entertainment. “We are so excited to partner with Disney to bring ‘Get Back’ to an entirely new stage and give Beatles fans everywhere a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch and hear their heroes in the unrivalled sight and sound of IMAX.”
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Europe’s ban on animal testing for cosmetics is at risk, and Sir Paul McCartney is stepping in to help.
The ex-Beatles frontman is adding his voice to the ‘Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics European Citizens’ Initiative’ spearheaded by PETA and more than 100 other animal protection organisations. The aims is to mobilise 1 million European citizens to call on the European Commission to uphold and strengthen the ban on testing cosmetics ingredients on animals.
“We all thought the battle was over and that cosmetics tests on animals in Europe were a thing of the past, but sadly, that’s not the case. The European Chemicals Agency continues to demand the use of thousands of rabbits, rats, fish, and other animals in cosmetics ingredients tests,” says McCartney - a longtime vegetarian and animal advocate.
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In an interview with Daily Star, the British hitmaker spoke of his shock at learning who he was speaking to.
Paul recalled: "Somebody rang me up, and this high voice I didn’t recognise said, ‘Hi, Paul.'
"I thought, ‘This is a girl fan, and how the hell did she get my number?’ I was quite annoyed," he admitted.
The former Beatles member revealed who was actually on the other end of the phone.
Yesterday hitmaker Paul McCartney didn't recognise the 'softly-spoken' voice on the end of the phone (Image: GETTY)
He explained: "Then the voice said, ‘It’s Michael,’ and suddenly it dawned on me.
"It wasn’t a girl, it was Michael Jackson, and he basically said, ‘Do you want to make some hits?’"
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George Harrison always had a firm sense of spirituality, even before getting interested in Hinduism in the 1960s. However, George’s fellow rock star, Mick Jagger, and who knows how many others, looked at George’s spiritualism at face value. It seemed like a passing phase.
In a special edition of Rolling Stone, “Remembering George,” The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger touched on George’s spirituality. Initially, when George began to get more interested in it, he said it looked like any other phase that a musician would dabble in during the 1960s.
“He could be funny and charming and also quite acerbic,” Jagger said. “He had the sort of quality that normally people would associate with John. And then, later, George developed this other side to him.
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Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that?
The standard answer is: Be really excellent at your craft and you will become renowned. Sadly, it’s not that simple. Excellence is a requirement, but often it’s not enough.
Let me hold up the Beatles to explain what I’m talking about. If ever there was a group that could rise to the top on the basis of sheer creative genius, it was them.
But that’s not how it looked at first. Every record label they approached rejected them.
“The boys won’t go,” one company’s representatives said. “We know these things.” A dejected John Lennon said that they thought “that was the end.”
So how did the Beatles make it?
Source: David Brooks/nytimes.com
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George Harrison knew how to write a good love song. Although, it was often hard to tell if he was talking about his love for God, his first wife, Pattie Boyd, his second, Olivia, or just a woman in general. Either way, loving the women in his life took him one step closer to God.
George had a knack for describing romantic feelings without sounding too sappy. He did write one of the greatest love songs in music history, after all. Here are 15 of George’s most romantic love songs with a few honorable mentions.
15. ‘I Need You’
George’s “I Need You” from Help! is sad but no less sweet. It’s a good old fashion love song urging someone to come back. “You don’t realize how much I need you/ Love you all the time and never leave you/ Please come on back to me/ I’m lonely as can be/ I need you.”
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