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Drew Harrison, John Lennon in the Sun Kings, will celebrate what would have been Lennon’s 78th birthday with a fundraising show at the Empress Theatre.
The event will start at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at 330 Virginia St.
Harrison promises a loving, emotionally charged retrospective of the life and career of one of the most popular artists of all time, told through songs, stories and images from The Beatles through the final recordings of his life.
Harrison has been performing John Lennon’s songs and telling the stories and anecdotes that go along with them for well over a decade. The show is his tribute to Lennon and interpretation of his music.
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon were such bitter rivals during their tenure in The Beatles that McCartney claims Lennon only ever complimented him one time. “Once. Once John gave me a compliment,” McCartney, 76, recalled on “60 Minutes” in a segment airing Sunday. “It was only once the whole time.”
“It was ‘Here, There and Everywhere,'” the Wings singer revealed. “John says just as it finishes, ‘That’s a really good song, lad. I love that song.’ And I’m like, ‘Yes! He likes it!’ ” McCartney and Lennon were famously competitive, which gave the late “Imagine” singer’s kind words even more weight.
“I’ve remembered it to this day. It’s pathetic, really.” “We were competitive … not openly,” he added. “But we later admitted [we were]. He’d have written ‘Strawberry Fields,’ I’d write ‘Penny Lane.’ He remembered his old area in Liverpool, so I’ll remember mine.”
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Paul McCartney announced he has written a kid's book, inspired by his grandchildren.
The rock legend unveiled the book on This Morning, in a video link sent to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield which they revealed on the show. But he told the story of the naming of the book, saying the name came from his grandchildren, but hardcore Beatles fans would not help but notice the name seemed to hark back to one of the band's most popular anthems.
Paul said: "I'm announcing the fact have written a new children’s picture book called 'Hey Grandude.' And why is it called that? "I have eight grandchildren and they are all beautiful. And one day one of them said, 'Hey! Grandude!'"And I said, 'What?' but I kind of liked that, so from now on I’ve been called Grandude."
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If anyone still needed a primer on Paul McCartney 60 years after he, John, and George laid down their first tracks, this month’s Egypt Station, the 18th and latest studio album of McCartney’s solo career, wouldn’t be a bad pick for a first listen. At 76, McCartney has finally let himself go gray, but he’s never needed dye to seem younger than his years; more than a decade after recording his own elegy, he’s active, vital, and viral, flitting from Fallon to Maron and selling out a stadium somewhere near you. On his first studio release in five years, and his first ever to debut at no. 1 on the Billboard chart, he’s similarly restless and, worn voice aside, resisting senescence: Except for his classical records and his collaborations with Youth, it’s his second-longest non-soundtrack album (after 2001’s Driving Rain), and it features two tracks that fall somewhere on the thirstiness scale between “Press” and “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?,” which could have been embarrassing if both the songs and the singer weren’t so silly and infectiously fun.If anyone still needed a primer on Paul McCartney 60 years after he, John, and George laid down their first tracks, this month’s Egypt Station, the 18th and latest studio album of McCartney’s solo career, wouldn’t be a bad pick for a first listen.
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Courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/ UMeOn Wednesday at New York City's legendary Power Station recording studio, reporters got a first listen to the upcoming reissue of The Beatles' self-titled 1968 double album, a.k.a. The White Album.
Giles Martin, late Beatles producer George Martin's son, headed up the project with the blessing of, and input from, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison.
Martin was on hand to play selected tracks for the intimate crowd, and while John Lennon once famously said the album was the sound of The Beatles breaking up, Giles believes nothing could be further from the truth.
According to Giles, both Ringo and Paul agree that the recording sessions revealed the sound of a band working together collectively as a unit to push themselves artistically, and doing pretty much whatever they wanted -- much to his father's chagrin.
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It took 50 years, but fans will find it well worth the wait. Sir Paul McCartney appears in his first 60 Minutes profile, a report containing surprisingly intimate moments in which he shares rare details from the Beatles years and his subsequent decades as the most successful musician in popular music history. Sharyn Alfonsi's interview with McCartney will be broadcast on the 51st season premiere of 60 Minutes, Sunday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. PT on CBS.
Alfonsi interviewed McCartney as he prepared to tour for his new album, "Egypt Station." It's also a few weeks away from the 50th anniversary of the band's classic album, "The Beatles," known as "The White Album." The 76-year-old music legend, who is credited with 29 number-one songs, was candid when she asked him if he and John Lennon ever complimented each other on their songwriting skills.
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Since the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles White Album is now underway, here's an excerpt from recording engineer/producer Ken Scott's autobiography Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust that I was lucky enough to co-write. It provides a behind-the-scenes look into the sessions for the album that has rarely been seen before, and busts a few myths about what actually happened along the way.
"The White Album sessions were just like the multitude of other sessions that occurred before The Beatles existed, and have continued ever since. The biggest difference is that no one's talking about any of those other sessions over forty years later; not many of them anyway.
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Stella McCartney has remembered her late mother Linda on her birthday by unveiling a lingerie set to raise awareness of breast cancer.
The designer’s mother, the wife of Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney, died in 1998 at the age of 56 after battling the disease for three years. She would have turned 77 on September 24.
Stella shared a black and white image of Linda on Instagram to mark the day, and wrote: “This light guided me through my childhood years and into the woman I am today… “She is with me and in all I do, a true change agent that was so ahead of her time that she will never truly have known how she inspired so many people… a naturally beautiful, kind and loving woman… I celebrate you mum.
“Every single day in my children’s faces and innocence I see you and I will hold you in my heart on this day, your birthday… lovely Linda, you are loved and missed more than I could ever put into words xx.”
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Using anecdotal evidence, archival interviews, and an analysis of some reefer rumors, we’ve attempted to answer an almighty question: Which Beatle was most fond of the sweet leaf?
In our series, "HiTunes," we investigate various marijuana lore throughout music history, debunking myths and sifting through hazy rumors for the blunt truth. Why have multiple artists written songs warning others about smoking with Willie Nelson? Why do so many songs about weed reference Humphrey Bogart? What albums required the most weed to make? We'll explore these urban legends and more. Tracking The Beatles’ substance intake provides a something of barometer for ‘60s rock as a whole. Jittery, amphetamine-aided R&B/teeny-bop pop gave way to mellower, blunted folk rock (Help!, Rubber Soul), then to head-blown psychedelia (Revolver, Sgt. Pepper), and finally to coked-up eclecticism (The White Album, Let It Be).
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In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Beatles’ iconic self-titled LP (best known as the White Album) is getting a special anniversary release. The box set The Beatles (White Album) is available November 9 via Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. The double album’s 30 tracks were mixed by producer Giles Martin (the son of prominent Beatles’ producer George Martin, who originally produced the record) and engineer Sam Okell in both stereo and 5.1 surround audio. The super deluxe set also features 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes, many of which have never before been released. Watch the reissue’s trailer below.
The Beatles (White Album) super deluxe edition arrives with seven discs in total, as well as a 164-page hardbound book of rare photographs, a fold-out poster, reproductions of hand written lyrics, written pieces by Paul McCartney, Kevin Howlett, John Harris, and more.
Source: by Braudie Blais-BillieAssociate Staff Writer/pitchfork.com
