Memory Almost Full -Message from Sir Paul McCartney
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Monday, April 30, 2007
It's based on a recording by John Lennon
30.4.07
An unheard recording originally made by the late John Lennon could find its way to commercial release later this year.
The track, titled "Now And Then", is to be compiled from archive Beatles recordings by the remaining Beatles, and is planned for release as single, reports the Daily Express.
Alongside Lennon's vocals, sessions from the late George Harrison will also be incorporated, as will drumming from Ringo Starr and vocals from Sir Paul McCartney.
ELO musician Jeff Lynne was on board as the tracks original producer and reveals, "The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn't finish.
"It was sort of a bluesy sort of ballad, I suppose, in A minor. It was a very sweet song; I liked it a lot, and I wish we could have finished it."
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Uncut-Beatles
UNCUT COVER - 27.04.2007
UNCUT - June 2007
World Exclusive - Paul McCartney
'I wanted to forget The Beatles and start again...'
Pages 46 - 55 - Wings Special, plus a small mention of the new album...
"I bought a mandolin" he explains. "it isnt tuned like a guitar, so I didnt
know my way around it.
But the feeling of picking my way through and finding chords was magic. It was like I was 17 again. I remembered - this is what its all about. It was like me and John (Lennon) learning piano."
UNCUT is out now.
Friday, April 20, 2007
THE MANAGER
"Without Mister Epstein there would have been no Beatles",says Paul McCartney in a 1992 BBC interview.Known as the manager of the Beatles and their mentor,Brian is one of the most wealthiest figures in rock music.While the Beatles were enjoying their worldwide success,he busied himself managing other British artists such as rock groups Gerry and The Pacemakers,Freddie and the Dreamers and also Priscilla White,the cloakroom attendant at the Cavern,became a star in the Epstein firmament when he renamed her Cilla Black.
Although generally not in a laughing frame of mind,depression plagued him all day due to constant pressures and worries over his boys and girls which eventually led him to become addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates.After the Beatles last show in San Francisco in 1966,Brian attempted suicide,stricken by the emptiness of the future.His projects after the Beatles "retired" from touring were mixed and he took little pleasure in them.Eventually he entered a clinic where his condition was diagnosed as a mixture of exhaustion,depression and insomnia.The pessimism remained even after he left the clinic.And in August 1967,he died of an overdose on sleeping pills.
LONG LIVE THE BEATLES!
"The Beatles saved the world from boredom"--George Harrison,Beatles Anthology
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Beatles Philosophy
Every time I hear this puzzling lyric I wonder what the riddle could possibly mean. What kind of hole needs fixing, what is the ‘rain’ that gets in, and how does it prevent the mind from wandering where it will go? ... The lyric seems to suggest that the wandering mind (thinking or consciousness) is possible because we set up the conditions for thinking. We fix the holes, fill the cracks, and paint the rooms of our consciousness. This allows the mind to wander, to be free. More...
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The Beatles Philosophy
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
LET IT BE
Considered to be the last ever Beatles album,Let It Be is the band's 13th studio album since their debut in 1963 with Please Please Me.Billed also as the second to the last album which came out to be the last.The album was first created as far back as January 30,1969,during which the Beatles were into a moment of dissolution.
Originally titled "Get Back",the whole concept and idea was that of Paul McCartney's.For the band to be able to go back to its roots and do a live performance.The Beatles were a big mess in 1968 and 1969 during which business problems arised.The group has not played onstage since 1966 and Paul was ready to go extremes to keep the Beatles a band.Assuming almost dictatorial control of the group.The sessions at first doesnt have any discipline and direction that the band was open to play anything they like.While the group rehearsed, a film crew documented the whole sessions directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.George Martin,the group's producer was only given a thanks credit on the album.
"There was no one in charge,there was no George Martin around but he did popped in a couple of times",said Glyn Johns who engineered the sessions.McCartney pushed the ideas of touring and recording without any overdubs.Adds Johns,"They'd already proven themsleves to be the greatest innovators of modern music with the albums Revolver,Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper,this was the complete reverse of that,I was so blown away by the fact that they were able just to play and sing live."
With all the problems arosed and after seven years the Beatles were breaking up and the title of the album was changed to Let It Be on a more appropriate McCartney song of reflection and surrender.The album has its own hard road to release.In March 1969,Johns compiled two different acetates of material for the Beatles to evaluate.Johns' May 1969 Get Back test pressing was rejected by the band;they'd also turned down a second disc with a new track lineup in January 1970.In February,Lennon invited Phil Spector to review the tapes,with the Let It Be movie slated for May,Spector had two months to make silk out of a year old rawhide.Spector pulled a meager ten songs from Apple sessions and rooftop concert for the album.He filled the album with a 1968 Lennon outtake "Across the Universe" and George Harrison's "I Me Mine" both topped with mountains of brass and strings.He also infuriated McCartney by pouring orchestral schmaltz on "The Long And Winding Road".McCartney later used the word "butchery".The group officially broke in April following a statement from Paul that he's no longer working with the group and will be a solo artist from now on.
On May 20,1970,the Let It Be film premiered in London,none of the ex-Beatles bothered to attend.The dream is over.The following month of June,the album went to the number one spot on Billboard's album charts marking the very end and the last Beatles album ever to do so.A feat that wasnt repeated until 25 years later when Anthology 1 topped the charts in 1995 and Anthology 2 and 3 topping the charts in 1996 and 1997.
Friday, April 6, 2007
We can Work It Out!
'We can't work it out how a cleaner binned £700,000 of Beatles memorabilia' By Christopher Hope
Last Updated: 12:44am BST 07/04/2007
A cleaner threw out £700,000 worth of original pictures of the Beatles including the only surviving copy of the photograph on their breakthrough album Please Please Me, according to a legal action filed at the High Court. More...
Source: Beatles Memorabilia
Fab Four to the River Raisin Centre
Beatles' to invade Monroe
By: Barbara Krolak story updated April 05. 2007 8:37AM
The tribute band Yesterday will bring the sight and sound of the Fab Four to the River Raisin Centre for the Arts Saturday. People always told Don Bellezzo he looked and sounded like John Lennon, so when he wanted to start a band, he turned to the Beatles.
Twenty years later, he's refined his look and sound as part of Yesterday, a tribute to the Beatles. He and his bandmates will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at the River Raisin Centre for the Arts, 114 S. Monroe St."We're lookalikes and soundalikes. It's just like seeing the Beatles in concert," Mr. Bellezzo said from his home in Las Vegas. More...
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British Superbands to Honor The Beatles
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rock bands are to cover tracks from the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 "Sgt. Pepper" album to mark its 40th anniversary in a special BBC radio show, the broadcaster said on Friday.
Oasis, The Killers and Razorlight are among those who will take part in recording sessions for the BBC Radio 2 programme to be aired on June 2, a day after the anniversary.
Other bands covering songs from the acclaimed album include James Morrison, The Fratellis, Travis and the Kaiser Chiefs. The album, whose full name is "Sgt.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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