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Yoko Ono revealed she likes one of The Beatles' albums better than 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. She also named her favorite Beatles song, which was a huge hit.
Yoko Ono revealed she likes one of The Beatles‘ albums better than Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. She also named her favorite Beatles song, which was a huge hit. Blasphemous though it may seem, John Lennon wasn’t the biggest fan of Sgt. Pepper.
During a 2016 interview with US Weekly, Yoko discussed her attitude toward two of The Beatles’ albums. “I don’t know if people will hate me for saying this, but I always preferred The White Album to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” she said. “Don’t get me wrong, I love Pepper’s too.” At this point, plenty of Beatles fans would agree with Yoko’s conclusion.
During a 2012 interview with The Telegraph, Yoko named “All You Need Is Love” as her favorite Beatles song. “I’m glad they were saying all you need is love, not anything like all you need is money!” she said. Interestingly, her explanation of why she likes the song so much has everything to do with its lyrics and nothing to do with its composition.
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In addition to busting myths about the final days of the Fab Four and providing an intimate glimpse into one of the most beloved musical partnerships of the modern era, Peter Jackson’s 2021 docuseries Get Back introduced fair weather Beatles fans to Mal Evans. Whether having the time of his life taking an anvil solo on early rehearsals of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” distracting the London bobbies trying to bust up the infamous rooftop gig, lugging guitars or delivering endless cups of tea, the nattily dressed, shaggy-haired gent became one of the breakout stars of the eight-hour epic, lightening tense moments with his good-natured grin and the mischievous twinkle behind his horned-rimmed glasses. His moment at center stage was long overdue, since he spent most of his life on the very edge of the Beatles’ white hot spotlight.
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Australian weather presenter Sam Mac has come under fire from his TikTok viewers after surprising his dad with tickets to see Sir Paul McCartney and went on to leave his mom abandoned.
Australian weather presenter Sam Mac has been criticized by a number of his 2.3 million viewers on TikTok after he shared a video of him surprising his dad for his 70th birthday.
Dressed in their best evening outfits, Sam had told their parents they were looking for a bar called SPM in Sydney, Australia. However, they were confused when Sam told them the bar actually didn’t exist.
“So I’ve been lying to you both,” says Sam in his sneaky video.
“There is no bar called SPM. SPM stands for Sir Paul McCartney.” Sam’s mom gasps off-camera and shouts: “Paul McCartney!”
Unfortunately, this is the moment viewers learn that Sam’s mom has not been invited to join her husband and her son at the concert.
“Sorry mom, you’re not invited,” he says to her smiling face.
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Sir Ringo Starr says the new Beatles song "Now and Then" is the "closest we’ll ever come to having" the late John Lennon back.
The 83-year-old drummer became very emotional whilst working with Sir Paul McCartney, the only other surviving member of the iconic band, on their new Artificial Intelligence-assisted song.
The track is a demo recorded by Lennon, who was killed in December 1980 at the age of just 40, in the wake of The Beatles break-up. It features his voice and him playing the piano at his Dakota building apartment in New York.
Ringo and Paul, 81, used the same technology to isolate and improve Lennon's vocal that was employed to enhance the audio in Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back.
Discussing the recording process with Radio Times magazine, Ringo said: "He called me up and said he’d like to work on 'Now and Then’, ‘What do you think?’ ‘I think it’s great. So he put the bass on, he sent the files to me. I put the drums on. It was the closest we’ll ever comes to having him [John] back in the room so it was very emotional for all of us. It was like John was there, you know?”
Source: loudwire.com
Following his acclaimed documentary Get Back, director Peter Jackson is continuing his relationship with the Beatles by directing his first ever music video for the band’s final song, Now and Then.
It will feature unseen footage of the band, including what Jackson describes as “a few precious seconds of the Beatles performing in their leather suits, the earliest known film of the Beatles and never seen before.”
Now and Then features performances from all four Beatles, including guitar parts recorded by the late George Harrison in 1995, and vocals by John Lennon drawn from a late-70s demo prior to his death in 1980. Jackson was part of the team who used AI-assisted software to isolate Lennon’s vocal from the demo recording, having already used the technology during the making of Get Back to isolate different parts of the recording process for songs that appeared on the Beatles’ final albums Let It Be and Abbey Road.
Source: Ben Beaumont-Thomas/theguardian.com
Lady Judy Martin passed away on Sunday - seven years after her husband died in 2016.
The couple married in June 1966
Tributes have flooded in for the former Abbey Road secretary.
The Liverpool Beatles Museum said: "Very sad news to hear of the passing of Lady Judy Martin. Reunited with George.
"Our thoughts and prayers our with the Martin family. May she RIP."
Lady Judy married Sir George - known as the fifth Beatle - the year he signed the group.
Source: Holly Christodoulou/thesun.co.uk
What do you get when you put the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney in a studio together? A “fucking blast”, says producer Andrew Watt, as he recalls the former Beatle’s excitement while recording the Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds.
Discussing the record’s making in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Watt reveals the reason the band decided to have McCartney feature on its fourth track, Bite My Head Off.
“It would be expected to have him play on a great big ballad like Depending on You, or one of the softer songs to get that ‘melodic Paul McCartney’ thing,” says the producer.
“But you’ve got to also understand, Paul McCartney loves to fucking rock. So I thought, “Why not pick the most punk-rock fucking song – the one where everyone’s on 10 the whole time – and let these guys have the time of their lives rocking out together?”
Watt also shares that the ’64 lefty Hofner he’d gifted Macca at the time was responsible for the Beatles’ fuzzy bass sound on the track: “My guitar tech, Mark, put in a Univox Super Fuzz circuit into the bass, so when he hit one of the Hofner switches it gives the loudest, most wicked fuzz bass you ever heard in your life,” he says, adding that McCartney was “crying laughing” by the end of it.
Source: guitar.com
When I was growing up, the cost of a plan ticket was prohibitive, well beyond our budget so a ‘day trip’ was much more likely for us. Wealthy people might go to the seaside for a week or two and live it up in a hotel or boarding house, but people like us would mostly just go off somewhere for the day. The idea of the day trip was something that had a new lease of life after the Second World War. It was a way of having a break. An inexpensive holiday. If you didn’t have enough time or money, you just went out for the day and it often involved a charabanc, the old term for a bus or coach. You’d all just get on that and go for a trip. If anyone had a car – though in my family I was the first to buy one – then you could drive somewhere too.
On the way out of Liverpool, we might head ‘left’ to Wales. Maybe we’d get as far as the market town called Mold, where one of my aunties lived. The name Mold might sound a little off-putting, but it’s lovely countryside round that way. That part of the country is also full of ruins and there’s a castle in Mold that we’d go and explore. Even though we were a bit disappointed that it was mostly just a little hillock with some standing stones, it was so different to what we knew in Liverpool, which was still full of bomb sites from the war.
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An 'Acknowledgment of Country' sign at Sir Paul McCartney's concert in Sydney over the weekend has divided several fans of The Beatles singer.
The sign was displayed over two large screens at McCartney's gigs at Allianz Stadium on Friday and Saturday night.
It read, 'We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation and all family groups connected to this Country, as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather and perform today.
'We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.'
Concertgoer Kobie Thatcher shared her anger over the sign on X on Saturday evening, writing : 'You can't even go to a concert now without an "acknowledgement of country."'
Source: Savanna Young/dailymail.co.uk
Paul McCartney may be the only person on Earth who believes the Beatles have any unfinished business in 2023.
For years, McCartney fixated upon “Now and Then,” a song John Lennon sketched in the late 1970s that the surviving Beatles attempted to complete in the mid-1990s when they were searching for new material to supplement their long-gestating documentary, “Anthology.”
Thanks to machine learning techniques developed by a technical team led by Peter Jackson, the director who helmed 2021’s multipart Beatles documentary “Get Back,” McCartney and Ringo Starr, the other surviving band member, received the opportunity to finish “Now and Then” in the past year. Now touted as “the last Beatles song” — a phrase that’s an omnipresent slogan in all its marketing — “Now and Then” makes its debut this Friday, roughly 26 years after it was slated to appear on “Anthology 3,” the concluding volume in the Beatles’ multimedia archival project. Accompanied by a brief, heartfelt making-of mini-film and music video, “Now and Then” will also appear on a deluxe expanded reissue of “1962-1966” and “1967-1970,” the career-spanning compilations commonly called the “Red Album” and “Blue Album,” respectively.
Source: Stephen Thomas Erlewine/latimes.com
