Beatlesarama sources | A lushly pared-down acoustic version of The Beatles’ classic ode to the six string, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” premiered as a music video on Vevo under a limited partnership between Apple Corps and Cirque du Soleil. The version comes from an early take on the song, with the original lyrics, sung plaintively [...]
The Beatles are commonly considered to be the most important musical group of the 20th century, but even regardless of their historical significance, their original output is endlessly listenable. Within a span of only eight years in the 1960s, the Fab Four released a string of 11 studio LPs — more if you count the soundtrack and score for their animated [...]
By Colin Fleming | Rolling Stone magazine | In the annals of Beatles singles, we have what we might think of as a game-starter in "Please Please Me," a game-ender in something like "Let It Be," and a host of game-changers, the most important of which is rarely discussed as one of the band's top efforts. And yet, "Paperback Writer," [...]
Paul McCartney is now opening up about the tough times after the Beatles split in 1970. In fact, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said he didn't even know what to do next. "I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends," he told BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes. McCartney also addressed the reason for the split, [...]
At the height of Beatlemania in the 1960s, a reporter asked John Lennon the secret of the group’s success. His reply? ‘We have a press agent.’ Lennon’s answer may have illustrated his famously dry wit, but it also contained more than a grain of truth. Tony Barrow, the Beatles’ press officer from 1962 to 1968, undoubtedly [...]
from Billboard Magazine When news broke that the Michael Jackson estate would sell its 50% share of Sony/ATV Music Publishing to Sony in a $750 million deal, many wondered whether Paul McCartney would finally be able to acquire the rights to his share of the company’s crown jewel — the Lennon-McCartney catalog — since it begins [...]
