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The group’s popularity has endured for decades and has influenced countless other musicians over the years. In Hackman’s case, he’s taken his longtime love of the band and interwoven it with his classical chops to create “And I Love Her: The Beatles Re-Imagined,” a concert coming to Stanford's Frost Amphitheater July 16 as part of the Stanford Live Arts Festival.
The production “sees the Beatles through the lens of the women that inspired them,” Hackman said, “of their mothers, of their wives, and also the female characters that they created through their music, of which there are so many colorful ones.”
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If you were to take out a pad and pen and jot down the great songwriters of all time, likely the name Paul McCartney would be on that list. Whether he’s No. 1 or somewhere between there and No. 10, Sir Paul is there, to be sure.
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But while he wrote so many hit songs for the Beatles and with his former pal, the late John Lennon, McCartney also wrote songs for other artists. He enjoyed collaboration and even writing instrumental pieces for orchestras to play. His mind always moving.
For evidence of this, look no further than the songs and compositions below. Indeed, these are three songs you likely didn’t know Paul McCartney wrote for other artists.
1. “Love in the Open Air,” The Tudor Minstrels
Written by Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney said a song from The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is "madness." He decided that 'Sgt. Pepper' song should include an orchestra.
Paul McCartney said avant-garde music inspired The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
A song from Sgt. Pepper might be The Beatles’ most avant-garde moment.
The album was a big hit in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Paul McCartney said a song from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is “madness.” He decided that Sgt. Pepper song should include an orchestra. Subsequently, he clashed with The Beatles’ producer over this decision.During a 2021 interview with NPR, Paul discussed what inspired The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” “Because I’d been listening to a lot of avant-garde music at that time, just for my own pleasure and just to examine the scene and just see if I liked it, I thought that this orchestral cascade, this sort of mountain of orchestra and kind of quite chaotic, would be a good idea at this point in the song ‘A Day in the Life.'”
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Ringo Starr recently sat down with Goldmine and talked about his 1973 album ‘Ringo’ coming to its 50th anniversary, the ‘Beatles Anthology’, drums, and more. In the interview, when his musical idol was asked, Ringo mentioned that he loved Lightnin’ Major so much that he was planning on going to America:
“Musically, the major idol of mine was Lightnin’ Hopkins. I loved the blues. Life is weird. At 18 I went to the American consulate in Liverpool because I wanted to move to Houston, Texas because Lightnin’ was from there.”
Starr continued telling the story of him trying to move to Houston because he was so influenced by Lightnin’:
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The award will be presented at the 43rd annual John Lennon Tribute on Dec. 2 at Town Hall in New York.
Graham Nash will become the ninth recipient of the John Lennon Real Love Award at the 43rd annual John Lennon Tribute on Saturday, Dec. 2, at Town Hall in New York. Previous recipients include Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, Ani DiFranco, Donovan and Rosanne Cash.
The event, staged by the nonprofit Theatre Within, will be held days before the 43rd anniversary of Lennon’s murder on Dec. 8, 1980. The award draws its name from The Beatles’ 1996 hit “Real Love,” which Lennon wrote and recorded in the 1970s.
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Legendary producer Glyn Johns and Ringo Starr share tales of the album that should have been — and Johns recalls working with the Stones, Zeppelin and The Who Producer/engineer Glyn Johns recorded the whole of the Let It Be sessions for the Beatles in 1969, and mixed a raw version of the album that wouldn’t be released for another 52 years — so he’s far from a fan of the Phil Spector-embellished album that came out in 1970. “He did a terrible job,” Johns says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “Don’t misunderstand me — I respect Phil Spector for his early work tremendously. But somebody like Phil Spector shouldn’t ever be allowed near a band like the Beatles, in my view. Phil Spector was always the artist in the records that he made. He treated the artists like parts of the machine to make the end result. I don’t think the Beatles ever require that kind of input.”
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George Martin wanted to scrap George Harrison’s last-minute addition to The Beatles' song “She Loves You” until the rest of the band overruled the producer.Not every Beatles song was a massive success. The band gave up on one tune when they couldn’t sing it. Still, the misses were few and far between. If George Martin had his way, he would have shelved “She Loves You” because of George Harrison’s last-second change. The Beatles overruled Martin and scored one of their biggest hits.
The Beatles had a No. 1 hit in England with “From Me to You” in April 1963, but they weren’t yet the dominant force they became after they recorded “She Loves You” in July of that year. They were still relative upstarts. Martin insisted the band ditch Harrison’s nearly imperceptible addition to “She Loves You.”
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In a recent appearance, Paul McCartney addressed the allegations of whether he tried to erase John Lennon’s legacy.
Reflecting on the distortions and the need to set the record straight, the musician said:
“So, I think with all these distortions that were beginning to happen, there’s kind of a sort of revisionism that was starting, I sensed. And I thought, well, look, I don’t want to kind of put John down at all. I mean, I’m his biggest fan. I’m the last person to do that because I really feel very privileged and loved every second that we had together.”
He then explained his perspective on their songwriting partnership:
“I mean, let’s face it, to be McCartney in the Lennon-McCartney songwriter partnership was fantastic, but it was a question of me thinking, ‘Well, I better stick it down now before the memory goes completely,’ which is going fast; even as we speak, it’s ebbing away.”
Sharing his side of the story, Paul continued:
“And I better get with someone I know and trust, like Barry Miles, who wrote the book, to actually just put forward my side of things. Because the kind of thing that started to happen was… George Martin wrote a book called ‘The Summer of Love,’ and he asked me to proofread it just to see if his memory was the same as mine, and he got to a song called ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.’
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Paul McCartney said many of his songs were inspired by his childhood experiences. For example, he revealed freak shows he used to visit influenced The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour."
Paul McCartney said The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” was inspired by a fake five-legged sheep.
Paul said he and John Lennon wrote The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” together.
In retrospect, John wasn’t sure if he contributed to the track at all.
Paul McCartney said many of his songs were inspired by his childhood experiences. For example, he revealed freak shows he used to visit influenced The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” Notably, Paul said these freak shows became cherished memories for him.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul said trips to fairgrounds and freak shows when he was young inspired him to write The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” “I used to go to the fairgrounds as a kid, the waltzers and the dodgems, but what interested me was the freak shows: the boxing booths, the bearded lady and the sheep with five legs, which actually was a four-legged sheep with one leg sewn on its side,” he said. “When I touched it, the fellow said, ‘Hey, leave that alone!'”
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George Harrison was a great rock n’ roll guitarist for The Beatles, but he was also fascinated with cultural music, such as Indian music and reggae. He had a passion for Indian music that led to him learning the sitar and adopting a more spiritual lifestyle. He also found reggae to be an intriguing genre and said the genre was somewhat similar to The Beatles. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and became an influential genre thanks to artists like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. The music intrigued Many international audiences as it not only introduced them to the culture but also had a distinct sound that blended many genres and instruments.
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