Beatles News
Everyone knows about The Beatles and their India connection. The group visited India at a time of no Internet and very few news sources as compared to today. So for all those grey-haired people who have grown up listening to The Beatles, and seek information on the band’s time in India, Ajoy Bose’s book on the group can be a good source of information.
Across the Universe focuses more on the band’s escapades in India, with some stories from other parts of the world thrown in for good measure. The author prefers to justify the title on the grounds of their story involving people from across the world.
Bose did not get to talk to The Beatles, but has done a lot of research on the group and borrowed a lot from people who met them. One of them is Ajit Singh, owner of Pratap Music House in Dehradun, who had visited the Rishikesh ashram and interacted with the band. In fact, he had also repaired their guitar. The author did get to interview George Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd to tie up some loose ends. For a Beatles fan, this book brings to life several memories of the songs and the group.
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The world of music would forever change on July 6, 1957, when John Lennon first met Paul McCartney.
Lennon at the time was a 16-year-old up-and-coming musician who dreamed of becoming the next Elvis Presley. He was hoping to make that goal a reality by being the front man of a rock ‘n’ roll group he formed in Liverpool named The Quarry Men (also written as “The Quarrymen”).
PAUL MCCARTNEY WISHES LATE BEATLES BANDMATE GEORGE HARRISON A HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY
A 15-year-old McCartney had shown up at one of the band’s performances to see them play at a Liverpool church hall.
“[It] was a rather unremarkable event,” Tony Bramwell, a friend of the band told Woman’s World Thursday. “You really didn’t say, ‘Wow! I was there!’ The Quarry Men were playing and not very well, and it was the day Paul said, ‘Hello.’ It actually wasn’t exciting at all.”
But Julia Baird, Lennon’s half-sister, quickly noticed a connection between the two aspiring artists.
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Paul McCartney paid tribute to his parents after a ceremony making him a Companion of Honor at Buckingham Palace.
The former Beatle was joined by wife Nancy Shevell at the Friday ceremony on a sparkling spring day.
He said in a written statement that he saw the award “as a huge honor for me and my family and I think of how proud my Liverpool mum and dad would have been to see this.”
The 75-year-old songwriter, bass player and singer received a knighthood 21 years ago.Ringo Starr, the Beatles’ drummer, was made a knight earlier this year. The other two Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison, have both died.
The Liverpool band shot to worldwide fame in the early 1960s.
Source: ABC News
George Harrison's first electric guitar is up for auction.
Julien's Auctions says Harrison played the Hoffner Club 40 when The Beatles played around Liverpool, England, as The Quarrymen. Harrison traded his acoustic guitar for the electric model with Ray Ennis, who was a member of The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Harrison donated it to a band competition in 1965 and it was won by a member of a German band who died in 2017. His widow is putting it up for auction.
The auction house estimates the guitar will sell for between $200,000 and $300,000.
A 1965 Fender Telecaster owned by The Band's Robbie Robertson played by Harrison, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan is also on the block and estimated to sell between $400,000 and $600,000.
The auction will take place at New York's Hard Rock Cafe on May 19.
Source: ABC News
Sir Paul McCartney was arm in arm with wife Nancy Shevell as they paid a visit to a north London fitness studio on Thursday morning.
The veteran former Beatle, 75, went some way towards proving that age is just a number by stepping out in jogging bottoms and trainers ahead of a workout with Nancy, 58.
Staying warm beneath a tracksuit top and thick quilted coat, Sir Paul was in characteristically high spirits while strolling alongside his American wife. Joining her husband, Nancy looked ready for her own workout in hooded top, blue leggings and trainers.
Sir Paul McCartney has given dozens of unseen photographs taken by his late wife Linda to the V&A’s new photography centre.
The 63 pictures include images of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones, as well as personal portraits of the McCartney family on holiday.
Martin Barnes, senior curator of photographs at the South Kensington museum, said McCartney, who in 1968 was the first woman to have a photograph on Rolling Stone’s cover, was “a talented eyewitness of pop culture”. He said: “This exciting gift complements the museum’s collections of photography. Our greatest thanks go to Sir Paul and his family for this generous gift.”
The V&A Photography Centre, which opens on October 12, will more than double the space devoted to photography at the museum. At its heart is the Royal Photographic Society’s renowned collection, which was controversially moved from Bradford’s National Media Museum, its home for more than a decade. It includes work by pioneering 19th-century photographers as well as 20th-century masters such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen.
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A set of photographs from the Beatles 1964 show at Dundee's Caird Hall has been purchased at auction by a museum in the city.
Leisure and Culture Dundee paid £6,600 for the 33 photographs and 38 negatives of the Fab Four's second and final appearance in Dundee. The pictures will be displayed at Dundee's McManus Galleries this year. The images show the group being interviewed before the concert, as well as shots from during the sell-out show. The set also includes photos of screaming fans waiting for The Beatles to arrive at the venue.
The photographs were taken by Dundee-based professional photographer Winnie Forbes-Cochrane. Leisure and Culture Dundee chairman Sinclair Aitken said Dundee had a "rich and diverse musical heritage." He said: "Caird Hall and the concerts there are a huge part of that, so it's really pleasing to see these pictures of The Beatles come home.
These pictures are a fantastic acquisition for the McManus and will now be preserved in our collections for future generations to enjoy."
Source: BBC News
The Beatles will never go out of style! The saga of the beloved band is mythical and significant as ever, even 48 years since their heartbreaking split.
Loyal fans may claim they know everything about icons John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, but will be surprised and delighted to find amazing first-person stories, little-known facts, and revealing photos inside the special collector’s issue about the band’s life and legacy. Relive the wild magic of their early days playing in Liverpool and Hamburg as well as the love-filed epidemic that their meaningful, catchy tunes caused on young music lovers everywhere.
Go behind the scenes for the creation of The Beatles’ brilliant, groundbreaking songs and learn the real reason McCartney got arrested.
Check out the new special and get an inside scoop on Pete Best’s firing, plus find out how Lennon’s wife Cynthia (accidentally) discovered his affair with Yoko Ono. To re-experience the glory days of the most influential pop band in history, shop Remembering the Beatles, on newsstands now.
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Beatles animator Ron Campbell directed the British band's 1960s cartoon and also helped animate its 1968 film, "Yellow Submarine."
Chances are most anyone reading this was touched in some way by a man whose name few will even recognize.
Ron Campbell never met The Beatles but he directed the Fab Four's 1960s cartoon series. And he's had a hand in cartoons including "The Flintstones,""The Jetsons,""Scooby-Doo," "Rugrats" and "Smurfs."
He also was one of the animators for The Beatles' feature film "Yellow Submarine."
“The best part of my career is never saying, ‘Oh sh*t I have to go to work,’ “ Campbell, 78, said in a recent telephone interview from his Arizona home.
Campbell will be in Naples to meet customers and sell his art work Friday through Sunday at an art gallery along Third Street South.
The Australian native said he began his career in the late 1958s, animating television ads. American film and TV producer Al Brodax noticed his work and hired him to work on Krazy Kat and Beetle Bailey cartoons, Campbell said.
Brodax helped to create The Beatles cartoon — which ran from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the U.S. — and he recruited Campbell for that project.
Source: Dave Osborn, dave.osborn@naplesnews.com
Decades after their breakup, the Beatles remain one of the most popular bands on the planet — including bookstores, where their history has been pored over and recounted often enough to fill several shelves of high-quality reading.
But what if you aren't looking for in-depth textual analysis and just want a quick graphical representation of some Fab Four info? Authors John Pring and Rob Thomas have you covered with their new book Visualizing the Beatles.
Available for purchase now, the book adds to the countless reams of existing Beatles literature by offering what the publisher describes as "a full-color graphic history of the Beatles, from their instruments to their tours to their outfits, hairstyles and more" — all laid out using infographics designed by Pring and Thomas, and taking readers on a start-to-finish survey of the group's discography from Please Please Me to Let It Be.
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