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The history of music can be divided into two parts: before the Beatles and after. Such was the potency of their influence, not only as songwriters and music makers, but as a business entity and industry role model. Arguably the clearest example of how the Beatles changed the world within a matter of months is the period leading up to the release of their fourth U.S. album, 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night. In February of that year, the Beatles made their first pilgrimage to America, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show which was televised to some 73 million viewers. (Among the list of musicians who wou...
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A guitar once owned by John Lennon sold at auction for $2.9 million – $500,000 more than the previous top price for a Beatles item. He had the 12-string Framus Hootenanny acoustic from the band’s early days, using it on the 1965 albums Help!and Rubber Soul. It also appeared in the Help! movie as the group performs “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” The previous Beatles record price was another Lennon acoustic guitar, a Gibson J-160E which sold for $2.4 million in 2015. READ MORE: 29 of the Most Expensive Rock Memorabilia Ever Sold The sale was handled by Julien’s Auctions at the Hard Rock Ca...
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Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said a famous spat between Paul McCartney and George Harrison captured in the 1970 film about the making of the Beatles‘ final album was no big deal. “Nothing was going to be in the picture that they didn’t want,” Lindsay-Hogg told Grammy.com. “They never commented on that. They took that exchange as like many other exchanges they’d had over the years … but, of course, since they’d broken up a month before [the film’s release], everyone was looking for little bits of sharp metal on the sand to think why they’d broken up.” During the often tumultuous reco...
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Original director Michael Lindsay-Hogg confirms that the shivering little hair on the microphone as John Lennon sings “Across the Universe” in the new Disney+ remaster of Let It Be was meant to be there. This potentially distracting moment arrives about 17 minutes into the Beatles film. “At the beginning, we talked about taking that out – because they can take it out,” Lindsay-Hogg tells Variety. “We talked about taking that out and then we thought, no, it actually was there – this little funny bug of hair, which is on the kind of felt of the mic or whatever the covering of the mic is. So, lea...
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When the Beatles‘ Let It Be film premiered in May 1970, it was met with negative reviews and painted a bleak portrait of the world’s biggest rock band on the brink of destruction. But as a restored version of the documentary arrives on Disney+ this week, it’s poised for a reappraisal — including from Ringo Starr. “I was always moaning about the original film, because there was no real joy in it,” Starr told the Daily Beast. The drummer cited a heavily dissected scene between Paul McCartney and George Harrison, where they snipe at each other while trying to work out a song arrangement. “It was ...
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A new documentary chronicles John Lennon‘s first solo show outside of the Beatles. Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World opens on June 28. Celebrated documentarian D.A. Pennebaker – who also made the 1967 Bob Dylan movie Don’t Look Back, 1968’s Monterey Pop and 1979’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars – shot the footage from the 1969 Toronto Rock N Roll Revival; the upcoming film is directed and produced by Ron Chapman. Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World also includes appearances by Little Richard, the Doors, Chuck Berry and Alice Cooper. You can watch the film’s traile...
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A remastered edition of the Beatles‘ Let It Be film will stream on Disney+ on May 8. It’s the first time the film has been available in over 50 years. The new movie was restored by Peter Jackson‘s team at Park Road Post Production and contains footage not featured in Jackson’s 2021 Get Back docuseries, which also streamed on Disney. The original Let It Be film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was released on May 13, 1970, about a month after the Beatles had broken up and a week after the album of the same name arrived. “Peter Jackson seesLet It Be and his Get Back as companion pieces,” Hogg ...
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Paul McCartney handled the guitar solos on some of the Beatles‘ most memorable tracks, including “Drive My Car,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Helter Skelter” and “Taxman.” But he wasn’t always so confident about his playing – in particular during their initial performances. “We had this gig and it was like, the first thing I ever played, and I was lead guitar player,” McCartney says on the Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast. Beatles bandmate “John [Lennon] was rhythm, and I had a solo and I totally froze. [I] could not move my fingers. … It was like, just so embarrassing. My lead guitar play...
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