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Paul McCartney announced that his 2005 children’s book High in the Clouds is being adapted into an animated movie produced by Netflix and Gaumont.
Oscar nominee Timothy Reckart will direct from a script by Jon Croker, while McCartney himself will provide original songs and music.
“To the creatures of the woodland, the land of Animalia sounds like a dream – a tropical island where all the animals live in harmony,” the book’s synopsis reads. “They are overshadowed by a much more evil community: the polluted Megatropolis, whose dirty skyscrapers block the horizon. And then one day, Wirral the Squirrel's woodland is destroyed by developers and he is thrown into the nightmare world of Megatropolis.
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hroughout his career, world-renowned British composer Howard Goodall has learned not to be too prescriptive, allowing his collection of sacred and secular music to take on a life of its own.
“It’s not my job to tell people what to think or what to believe,” he said. “It’s my job to put pieces out there that prompt people to think about things and respond in their own way.”
Whether writing choral music, stage musicals, or film and television scores, he is not presumptuous in regards to how his work impacts others - an approach that correlates with his insistence on editorial independence as a distinguished music historian and broadcaster.
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By 1966, The Who had become bona fide pop stars. “My Generation,” released late in the previous year, shot to No. 2 on the UK charts. “Substitute,” the band’s follow-up, cracked the top five in March ’66. That made four top-10 singles in about a year’s time.
But that didn’t make the band any less dysfunctional. In fact, ’66 was one of the high points for chaos within The Who. Though the band allowed singer Roger Daltrey back into the bands after he’d beaten up drummer Keith Moon, the situation hadn’t gotten much better.
In fact, by spring ’66, Daltrey was skipping Who gigs, which prompted speculation the band would replace him. Meanwhile, relations between Moon and Pete Townshend had deteriorated beyond belief. It included an incident in which Moon chased Townshend through a train car while wielding a knife.
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Bonjour! Today we did a very comprehensive analysis of Paul McCartney’s Twitter activity. So let’s do it. These are the main things: as of 2019-11-17, Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) has 4023414 Twitter followers, is following 16 people, has tweeted 5009 times, has liked 99 tweets, has uploaded 2532 photos and videos and has been on Twitter since September 2009.
Going from the top of the page to the bottom, their latest tweet, at the time of writing, has 73 replies, 648 retweets and 2,669 likes, their second latest tweet has 23 replies, 103 reweets and 917 likes, their third latest tweet has 221 replies, 267 retweets and 2,010 likes, their fourth latest tweet has 81 replies, 369 retweets and 3,022 likes and their fifth latest tweet has 93 replies, 1,386 retweets and 6,317 likes. (We could keep going, but we think you get the idea… 😛)
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We recently covered how Paul McCartney is one of the most giving and charitable individuals in all of rock music, if not all of the music industry entirely when McCartney left this massive tip at a restaurant. In a touching yet unrelated follow-up to that story, we can once again shine another glaring example on why there is no other individual in this world like Sir Paul himself.
The iconic co-founder of the Beatles recently took to Twitter to proclaim his involvement in ‘The World’s Big Sleep Out’. According to the official website of the campaign: “The World’s Big Sleep Out Campaign was founded by Josh Littlejohn MBE, the co-founder of the charity Social Bite – based in Scotland.” It is run in partnership with multiple organizations such as UNICEF USA, The Institute for Global Homelessness, Malala Fund and others. The goal of this endeavor is to help raise awareness for homelessness and displacement. McCartney had this to say via Twitter about the campaign. Paul McCartney ‘angers’ Michael Jackson in studio photo.
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A new event will give Beatles fans a chance to hear the legendary album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in a new immersive fashion. It will take place at National Museums Liverpool’s Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building at the Royal Albert Dock from 19 December 2019 to 9 January 2020 – not including 24-26 December and 31 December to 1 January.
Grammy-award-winning producer Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin, spoke to the Liverpool Echo about the location’s significance, saying that “without Liverpool there would be no Sgt Pepper. Liverpool is where it should be.” He also discussed the unique audio experience on offer, saying “people will become fully immersed in a soundscape, which is unlike any other. For me, it’s like imagining falling through the vinyl of a record and into this world where you’re surrounded by The Beatles. It’s like sitting in Abbey Road’s Studio 2 and having The Beatles play for you.”
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John Lennon was not just a global music phenomenon, but an outspoken advocate for the anti-war, Native American, African American and feminist movements. Here are some of his most memorable quotes from his lifetime of activism and entertainment, according to goalcast.com.
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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Billboard Magazine recently released its list of the Greatest 125 Artists of All Time, with The Beatles taking the top spot.
Rounding out the top five are The Rolling Stones at two, Elton John at three, Mariah Carey at four, and Madonna at five.
Music journalist Eric Alper said the point of this list is really quite simple: to spark debate and controversy.
“It’s fun for people like you and I to sit here and complain or gloat or be gleeful that our favourite artists are making another chart.”
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Let’s look at the band Chicago, best known for a string of hits like Hard To Say I’m Sorry, 25 Or 6 To 4 and Look Away. They took the number 10 slot, ahead of Elvis Presley.
“I remember them as kind of the AM radio staple in the 1980s and then they disappeared,” said Alper during his recent appearance on the 630 CHED Afternoon News. “But for 19-consecutive studio albums, they sold over a million copies in America.”
Another interesting case on this list is Taylor Swift.
Source: David Boles Global News/globalnews.ca
History is dotted with ‘where were you' moments, singular events that change the course of society in an instant. One such occasion was the the murder of John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980. On that day, fellow rock icon Tom Petty had been in the studio working on his Hard Promises LP, while also hoping he’d get a chance to meet the famous former Beatle.
“I was working with Jimmy Iovine, who was a friend of John’s,” the rocker recalled in the book Conversations with Tom Petty. “And Ringo was working next door that week. The talk right around that time was that John was coming to sing on Ringo’s album. So we were kind of jazzed up, thinking we were going to meet John.”
Sadly, fate had other plans. Lennon was gunned down that night outside of his home at the Dakota in New York, the victim of a deranged fan. Petty was still in the studio when he got the news.
“A call came and said John had been shot," Petty recalled. "We just thought it was nonsense. And then a call came right back in about 15 minutes that said that John’s dead."
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As December rolls around each year, it brings with it a sense of melancholy and remembrance of things lost, in particular John Lennon, who was executed in front of his New York home 39 years ago. At the time, there was little solace to be gained in the aftermath of that news and it remains so today, though the undeniable escape from the pain both then and now — ironically enough — was the music that John created as part of The Beatles with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
And rather than get mired in the sadness, one would rather go in the opposite direction and celebrate John’s memory, in this case by looking back at the day he met Paul and, despite the fact they could never have suspected it, was put on the road to quite literally change the world. That being said, the Earth didn’t shake, the clouds didn’t part and a choir or angels didn’t sing on July 6, 1957.
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On December 8th marked 39 years when one of the greatest minds to ever play rock ‘n’ roll was murdered. John Lennon meant so much to so many people it’s impossible to measure the loss. But if there’s a silver lining about the date, it’s also the late great Gregg Allman’s birthday. To remember these two monumental rock legends, check out The Allman Brothers Band doing the primarily Lennon-penned Beatles song “Rain” from the Jones Beach Theater on September 7, 2013 for this edition of Sunday Cinema.
Allman’s history with the song stretches back to 1985 when he recorded a version of “Rain” with a choir that came out as part of The Allman Brothers Band’s 1989 Dreams boxset. Allman would perform the song live in 2005 as part of his solo act. He would subsequently bring the tune to The Allman Brothers Band in 2013.
“Rain” was a good choice for Gregg to cover as it came at a particularly heady time for The Beatles and the young Allman. “Rain” arrived in May of 1966 along with the primarily McCartney-written tune “Paperback Writer.” Both songs came out of the groundbreaking Revolver sessions although neither appea details
Yoko Ono has posted an emotional tribute to John Lennon on the 39th anniversary of his death.
The former Beatle was shot and killed outside his New York apartment on December 8, 1980. He was 40 years old.
Remembering her late husband, Ono called again for America to change its gun laws before describing the loss of John as a “hollowing experience.”
Ono wrote: “Dear Friends. Every day, 100 Americans are shot and killed with guns. We are turning this beautiful country into a War Zone. Together, let’s bring back America, the green land of peace.”
Ono shared a statistic that revealed over 1,400,000 people have been killed by guns in America since Lennon’s death.
Ono added: “The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 39 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him. Imagine all the people living life in peace.”
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Unbelievably,Today will mark 39 years since former Beatle John Lennon was gunned down in front of his home at The Dakota in New York City. Lennon loved Manhattan and felt free there, free enough to not carry security detail or to put any kind of buffer between himself and the public.
Lennon was killed late in the day, so late that many didn’t learn of his death until the next morning. For weeks afterward, radio stations endlessly played his music.
Also after his death came quite a few songs written in tribute to Lennon.
Here are three of the best tribute songs. These are ‘the best’ because each of the composers/performers knew Lennon well and it shows in each song.
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It was 39 years ago today that world-famous The Beatles star John Lennon was shot to death by a fan as he returned home in New York with his wife.
The music and pop culture icon, Lennon is being commemorated Sunday for his music, wordplay and visual arts.
Lennon was the founding member of The Beatles, formed with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) in Liverpool, England in 1960.
He was born in England on Oct. 9, 1940 during a German air raid in World War II. A child of divorce, Lennon grew up with his aunt, Mimi.
His mother Julia Lennon was the first person to introduce him to music when she taught him how to play the banjo and piano.
Lennon lost his mother in a car accident in July 1958. His father, Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman, never had close relations with his son.
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On October 9 of next year, John Lennon would have turned 80 years of age. On the exact date of this momentous occasion, Friday evening, October 9, 2020, Beatles fans and music aficionados from all over will "come together" at the Norwalk Concert Hall, 125 East Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut, for a very special theatrical concert event entitled "Remember Lennon: Imagine 80." Doors open at 7pm and showtime is 8pm.Connecticut-based Liverpool Productions Beatles Fan Club premiered a similar event in 2010 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven in celebration of John Lennon's 70th birthday. The show was a speculative representation of a concert that Lennon may have performed had he still been alive and actually playing out. The show incorporated multi-media slide-shows and rare video, a full backing band and state-of-the art production to present an evening of John Lennon's Beatles and post-Beatles material live in concert. It included not only Lennon's earlier "Moptop" hits with his mates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, but also covered John's most memorable and poignant recordings as a solo artist.
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