“NO CAMERAS. NO CROWD. JUST THE WIND” PAUL MCCARTNEY’S SECRET TRIBUTE TO JOHN LENNON EXPOSED. On the anniversary of John Lennon’s passing, Paul McCartney quietly made a journey to pay respects to his lifelong friend. No announcement. No press. No stage. Just an old friend, a guitar, and a song that meant everything. He stood […]
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The entire fallout of The Beatles’ breakup was only a good thing in the eyes of John Lennon. He didn’t want to fight among his best friends by any stretch, but he would rather have gone off on his own and made the music that he wanted than have to force those Beatles smiles whenever […]
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The entire appeal of The Beatles wouldn’t have existed on record were it not for George Martin. There are plenty of artists who helped make the Fab Four what they were when they were still a scrappy garage rock outfit, but when looking at their later records, some of those beautiful orchestrations would have been […]
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It is difficult to quantify just how much power The Beatles were bestowed with back in the 1960s; during the peak of the Cold War, they managed to infiltrate the airwaves of both Manhattan and Moscow in ways that military forces could only dream of. Yet, their colossal power failed to endear the band towards […]
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The 1970s marked a new dawn for Paul McCartney. Free of the expectations that began to weigh heavily on him, as one of the leaders of The Beatles, McCartney could enter the ‘70s with a fresh slate and explore the sweet melodic style of his songwriting, without any internal judgement. But at the same time, […]
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At the peak of their power, it seemed as though The Beatles had more global power than a small nation; at the very least, they had enough power to threaten the ego of President Marcos of the Philippines, who sent his military police after the Fab Four back in 1966. Nevertheless, the band never managed […]
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The Beatles might seem like a whirlwind of truly monumental moments of creative conjuring, that those moments are enshrined with a kind of poetic joy that they rarely had time to feel down or depressed, but that’s a little far from the truth. Behind the mania, behind the swell of intrigue, fame, and fortune were […]
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In all the years people have spent trying to understand the power of The Beatles and how it happened that those four unlikely lads from Liverpool got as famous as they did, the findings always seem to boil down to one thing: friendship. At the heart of The Beatles was a deep and genuine care […]
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Paul McCartney‘s father – also born James, though known as ‘Jim’ – was the leader of Jim Mac’s Jazz Band in the 1920s, playing trumpet and piano. Keeping the latter in the front room of the family home, Jim raised his sons to hone their musical ear, and it was this that began McCartney’s infatuation […]
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The Beatles have countless songs that can be described as “classics”. They practically wrote the book on pop classics, in fact. From ‘Let It Be’ to ‘Here Comes The Sun’ to ‘A Day in the Life’, there are more examples of Beatles songs that have since come to define the musical heritage of the UK […]
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