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The Beatles' festive fan club recordings are to be reissued on coloured vinyl in a forthcoming box set, to be released on 15 December 2017. The band recorded messages for their fan club each year from 1963 to 1969. They were sent to members as flexi...
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Sir Paul McCartney says photo of woman breastfeeding inspired him to write songSir Paul McCartney has spoken of his inspiration for the Beatles song Lady Madonna: a photograph of a woman breastfeeding her child in National Geographic.McCartney said h...
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Paul McCartney has revealed a source of inspiration behind The Beatles' song Lady Madonna. McCartney told National Geographic's editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg that the 1968 hit was partly inspired by a photograph of a Malayo-Polynesian woman surround...
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Niall Horan is the third former One Direction member to notch up a US solo No 1, matching Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. But Ringo and Paul can at least console themselves with the dozens of others they still hold …When the Guardian tailed One Direc...
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Via his cult compilations, Lance Barresi has dug up rare and oddball hard rock and heavy psych cuts that provided the soundtrack to the hippy comedownIn the age of “music overload”, when it’s possible to access millions of songs via YouTube, Spotify...
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Nor does Finland. Or the Beatles. And Nasa never sent robots to Mars. Just some of the intrigues other than JFK the internet lovesThe much anticipated release of new files about the assassination of John F Kennedy have again thrown a spotlight on the...
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from Billboard Magazine 10/14/2017 by Gary Graff Last week’s music world tragedies were a double whammy for Ringo Starr. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-6925396787885240", enable_page_level_...
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Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band kicked off their 2017 tour of North America with the first of eight concerts at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is the longest-running incarnation of the All-Starrs, and feature...
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'Dear sir or madam, will you read my book?' This is a personal post from this site's creator, Joe. I'm very proud to present my first book. It's a full-length biography called Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs, and is available as a paperback (3...
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Eight of Paul McCartney's post-Beatles albums are to be reissued on CD and vinyl on 17 November 2017. They include four McCartney solo albums: McCartney (1970), McCartney II (1980), Tug Of War (1982), and Pipes Of Peace (1983). There is also the Paul...
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American singer, songwriter and guitarist who found fame with the Heartbreakers in the 1970sHeartbreakers frontman Tom Petty – a life in picturesLast week the rock star Tom Petty, who has died after suffering a cardiac arrest aged 66, and his band, t...
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He was the master of mainstream rock songwriting with heart and brains, with a back catalogue that rang through the ages When Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers first emerged, they cut anomalous, even anachronistic figures in US rock. It was 1976, the y...
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He may have lacked precision and showmanship, and he did write Octopus’s Garden. But those who dismiss Ringo as a journeyman who got lucky wildly underestimate a rhythmic powerhouseIn 1983, the British comedian Jasper Carrott made an unhelpful contri...
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Paul McCartney's One On One tour continued its North American leg with the first of two shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. Macca Back at The Mecca #OneOnOneTour #PaulMcCartneyMSG pic.twitter.com/aRct0anrk9 — MSG (@TheGarden) September 1...
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The Beatles drummer has explained why he believes leaving the EU is a ‘great move’ … ‘but don’t tell Bob Geldof’ Ringo Starr has described his impatience for Britain to “get on with” Brexit, declaring that “to be in control of your country is a good...