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Michael Jackson worked with Sir Paul McCartney many times in his early career, even performing a duet. He also did an iconic radio interview with George Harrison, showing how these two were also very close. MJ was such a fan of The Beatles he even purchased a huge amount of the Lennon-McCartney back catalogue - but does he still own them?
Does Michael Jackson still own the rights to songs by The Beatles?
Michael Jackson purchased the publishing copyrights to songs written by Lennon-McCartney and some early songs by George Harrison.
This was something which, according to one biography of the Thriller singer, Michael had joked about with Sir Paul McCartney at dinner.
However, things became real when the catalogue of songs from ATV Music became available to purchase, and both Sir Paul and Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, decided against purchasing them.
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"They ARE awful. But I also think they're fabulous. Let's just go and say hello."
What if young record store manager Brian Epstein had not, in 1961, after a scrappy gig in a "sweaty basement," popped over to say hello to the band? What if, as Craig Brown wonders in "150 Glimpses of the Beatles," Paul had done better in his exams, moved up a school year and never gotten to know George? Or Ringo had had more patience with U.S. immigration forms and succeeded in moving to Houston? Or the engine fire on a 1965 flight from Minneapolis to Portland had ended in catastrophe, cutting the band off in their prime? We are haunted by the shadows of what didn't happen. "Think what we would have missed if we had never heard the Beatles," the Queen once mused. As the world marks 40 years since the murder of John Lennon - gone, now, for as long as we had him - shimmering alternative histories are especially poignant. A feeling of loss is palpable.
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An oceanfront Palm Seashore property as soon as owned by the late John Lennon and his spouse Yoko Ono has bought for round $36 million, in keeping with an individual with information of the deal.
Named El Solano, the property listed six months in the past for $47.5 million. Positioned on South Ocean Boulevard, popularly known as Billioniare’s Row, the home is subsequent door to a property owned by creator James Patterson, information present.
Mr. Lennon and Ms. Ono purchased the property round 1980, in keeping with the e book “Nowhere Man: The Remaining Days of John Lennon,” by Robert Rosen. Mr. Lennon was shot to demise a number of months later, and the couple’s plans to renovate the property by no means got here to fruition. Ms. Ono bought the property in 1986.
The sellers had been John and Cindy Websites. Mr. Websites, previously an government at Bear Stearns, is a accomplice at funding agency Wexford Capital. Ms. Websites based Go Determine, a series of barre-centered health studios. They purchased the home for $23 million in 2016, information present.
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Ringo Starr put together an impressive solo career after The Beatles,. Following the official breakup of the band in 1970, Ringo got started with the humble Beaucoups of Blues album. The following year, Ringo began his run of hit singles.
Ringo kicked off that streak with “It Don’t Come Easy,” a track his old friend George Harrison produced. With Harrison writing and arranging and Ringo on vocals, the song charmed audiences and cracked the top five in the U.K. and America.
Suddenly, Ringo was a viable solo artist. Since he never was a prolific songwriter, Ringo considered just releasing singles for a time. But if he wanted to do that he needed a follow-up to “It Don’t Come Easy.” When the idea for his next single came to him in his sleep, he got to work with a recycled drum part from a Beatles classic.
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Maya Hawke scored her biggest role to date with the news on Friday that she'll be starring in the upcoming comedy film Revolver.
The 22-year-old actress will play the lead role in the film about a surprise meeting with The Beatles in Alaska in the mid-1960s, Variety reported.
Joining the Stranger Things star as her on-screen dad will be her real-life father Ethan Hawke, 49.
The northern city is thrown into chaos after a flight carrying The Beatles to Japan makes an unannounced stop in Anchorage, sending the residents into fits of Beatlemania.
Jane thinks her ticket to adulthood involves losing her virginity to George Harrison during the band's pit stop at a local hotel, but she learns that what she's really seeking is right in front of her.
Not much is known about Ethan's arc in the film, but he's more than qualified to play Jane's father.
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The Stones were bolder. The Who was louder. But the Beatles simply ruled, from their first single in ’62 until their breakup eight years later. The argument can still be made that they ruled.
Everyone knew them, or thought they did.
As Craig Brown’s “150 Glimpses of the Beatles” suggests, to understand them, you must push past the publicity, the myths, the lies. His doorstop of a book digs deep to try to uncover the truth.
It was July 6, 1957, when the Beatles began. John Lennon, surly and nearly 17, was performing at a school event with his band, the Quarrymen. Paul McCartney, just 15, watched nervously. “I wouldn’t look at him too hard, in case he hit me,” McCartney said later.
Afterward, McCartney worked up the nerve to introduce himself. He played a few songs, including “Be-Bop-a-Lula.”
“He was as good as me,” Lennon marveled. “It went through my head that I’d have to keep him in line if I let him join. But he was good, so he was worth having. He also looked like Elvis.”
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Listen to ‘Isolation’, the sparse fifth track on ‘Plastic Ono Band’ (John Lennon’s first post-Beatles record), a meditative piano ballad on which he laments the fact that “the world may not have many years”, and you may find it difficult to believe that the album turns 50 this year. Featuring both the brittle, paranoid ‘Working Class Hero’ and the unabashedly romantic ‘Love’, it’s a timeless collection that truly encompasses the complex singer-songwriter’s duality.
It would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday earlier this month. To celebrate both this and the album’s anniversary, publisher Thames & Hudson has released John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band, a lush coffee table book that gathers together interviews new and old, hand-written song lyrics and previously unseen photos – from Lennon’s childhood snaps to candid studio pics – that tell the story of this singular musician and magnificent record.
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If you were a fan of Jamaican giants Toots Hibbert and Bob Marley, the idea of British pop stars recording reggae songs might have terrified you. Did the world need that ’74 Eric Clapton cover of “I Shot the Sheriff”? Clapton thought so. The former members of The Beatles also went there in the ’70s.
That wouldn’t have come as a complete surprise to fans of the Fab Four. After all, The Beatles took their first stab at Jamaican music way back on 1964’s “I Call Your Name.” On that track, you hear the band shift into a ska beat in the middle eight bars.
Island sounds crept into the band’s music again on The White Album (1968). On that record, McCartney developed “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” with a rocksteady beat. (While the recording reportedly bugged Lennon to no end, it wasn’t the groove that annoyed him.)
After the Beatles’ breakup, Toots & The Maytals and Marley & The Wailers broke internationally with their reggae sounds. And Lennon and McCartney took a stab at the music in their ’70s solo work. In both Lennon’s and McCartney’s cases, these dives into reggae predated that of Clapton.
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The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac are both classic rock bands, but you wouldn’t really associate one with the other. However, one of the Fab Four’s later songs was directly inspired by a Fleetwood Mac song. Here’s how Fleetwood Mac inspired The Beatles — and how John Lennon’s passing inspired a member of Fleetwood Mac.There are numerous books and articles about The Beatles’ influence on pop culture, however, The Beatles definitely drew inspiration from other artists. For example, Abbey Road is filled with references to other artists. Listen closely, and you’ll hear homages to everyone from Ludwig van Beethoven to Chuck Berry. In addition, one of the tracks from Abbey Road took influence from one of the Fab Four’s contemporaries, Fleetwood Mac.
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John Lennon was married twice at different times of his life, though his marriage to Yoko Ono was best known. Before this, however, he was married to Cynthia Lennon, whom he met before he was famous. But what happened to Cynthia, after she and John broke up?
Cynthia Lennon first met John in 1957, when they were both attending Liverpool College of Art.
They began dating and in 1962 she became pregnant with Julian, who was subsequently born on April 8, 1963.
At this time, the band was only just making it big in the music business, but in the years which followed, The Beatles’ fame morphed into Beatlemania
Their relationship began to break down until John met avant-garde artist Yoko Ono and they began corresponding in 1966.
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From classic American rockers to British artists to the estates of late legends, here's a look at some of the musicians who have objected to Donald Trump using their songs at campaign events.
JOHN FOGERTY, PHIL COLLINS, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Some classic rockers say not only do they oppose Trump using their music, the choice of songs is ironic or downright wrong. John Fogerty, who last week sent the campaign a cease-and-desist letter over the use of “Fortunate Son” by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival, said he was baffled by the use of a song that could have been written to slam Trump. Phil Collins sent the campaign a demand to stop using “In the Air Tonight" after it was played at an Iowa rally this month. Many observers say it was an odd song to choose given that the air among the mostly mask-less people at the rally could have been spreading the coronavirus. And just as he had with Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bruce Springsteen objected in 2016 to Trump blasting “Born in the U.S.A." as a patriotic anthem, when it's actually a scathing indictment of the treatment of Vietnam vets.
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Grammy-Award winner Steve Lukather, best known as the lead guitarist for Toto, recently joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about the Beatles on "Everything Fab Four," a new podcast co-produced by me and Womack, a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon, and distributed by Salon.
Lukather, who has played on over 2,000 rock and pop tracks, talks about how he went from being "shitty at sports" and "bullied as a kid" to finding his soul in music when the Beatles hit "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964.
"Life went from black-and-white to color," says Lukather. "I was like, I gotta learn how to do that. I [joined] a band when I was nine. I mean, what are the odds of a little kid from West Hollywood seeing the Beatles on 'Ed Sullivan,' then playing on the 50th anniversary of that show?"
Nowadays, having been a member of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band for years, he counts Ringo as one of his closest friends. "I cherish that relationship probably more than anything at this point," Lukather says. "Ringo's the coolest guy I've ever been friends with — and I have a lot of cool friends."
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During an appearance on BBC 6 Music, The Beatles legend Paul McCartney talked about the ongoing pandemic, his upcoming new album "McCartney III," and more.
"McCartney III" is due this December, you can check it out here via Amazon.
When the interviewer said, "This is 'McCartney III,' so let's do a bit of context - if this is maybe the third part of the trilogy. 'McCartney I' in 1970 - that was kind of the start of the lo-fi-DIY-play-and-produce-everything-yourself. Have you always had a soft spot for that record?
"Oh, yeah. It happened just because I was spending a bit of time at home because, suddenly, I wasn't in The Beatles anymore.
"So you're a bit of a loose end, to say the least. But I had all my stuff - I had a drum kit, I had my bass, I had my guitar, had an amp, I got hold of a four-track recorder from EMI, which is the same machine that we'd used with The Beatles.
"So I just went real-lo-fi, just plugged the microphone straight into the back - didn't have a mixing desk - and made some music. That was it!"
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A kitten named after John Lennon when he was found on what would have been The Beatles star's 80th birthday has adopted the role of big brother to a smaller cat called Ringo.
Ginger tabby Lennon was named by RSPCA inspector and Beatles fan Anthony Joynes after he was discovered by students on John Lennon Drive in Liverpool earlier this month.
The frightened cat was taken to the RSPCA Wirral and Chester branch to be cared for, and has since become inseparable from a tiny black and white kitten.
The purring pair became so close staff decided to name the smaller cat after Beatles bandmate and drummer Ringo Starr.
Ringo has been hand-reared by staff since he was rejected by his mother at birth but has found a big brother figure in Lennon.
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The debate between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones has been going on ever since they first crossed paths on the charts 55 years ago. The argument at the time, and one that still persists, was that the Beatles were a pop group and the Stones were a rock band: the boys next door vs. the bad boys of rock. So who’s better? Tribute bands Abbey Road and Satisfaction engage in an on-stage musical showdown at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 14 at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium (GMA).
Full COVID protocols and socially distanced seating are in place.
Taking the side of the Fab Four is Abbey Road, one of the county’s top Beatles tribute bands. With brilliant musicianship and authentic costumes and gear, Abbey Road plays beloved songs spanning the Beatles’ career. They face off against renowned Stones tribute band Satisfaction - The International Rolling Stones Show, who offer a faithful rendition of the music and style of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the bad boys of the British Invasion.
“Music fans never had a chance to see the Beatles and the Rolling Stones perform on the same marquee,” said Chris Legrand, who plays “Mick Jagger” in the show.
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