In 1994, Yoko Ono gave Paul McCartney demo tapes that would eventually become the 2023 Beatles song “Now and Then.” She helped bring a major piece of Beatles’ history to the world decades after her husband’s death. Several years before she gave McCartney the tapes, Ono also helped preserve more of the Beatles’ history. After Ono learned Beatles road manager Mal Evans’ memoir was slated for destruction, she stepped in to save it.
Beatles’ road manager Mal Evans wrote a book that was nearly destroyed
In 1988, artist Leena Kutti accepted a temporary position at New York publishing house G.P. Putnam’s Sons. She was to go through their storage room and clear it out. This meant throwing away much of the artwork and manuscripts stored there.
While sifting through boxes, Kutti discovered thousands of vintage photographs of The Beatles and a manuscript titled Living the Beatles’ Legend: Or 200 Miles to Go by Malcolm Evans.
Beatles’ road manager Mal Evans wrote a book that was nearly destroyed
In 1988, artist Leena Kutti accepted a temporary position at New York publishing house G.P. Putnam’s Sons. She was to go through their storage room and clear it out. This meant throwing away much of the artwork and manuscripts stored there.
While sifting through boxes, Kutti discovered thousands of vintage photographs of The Beatles and a manuscript titled Living the Beatles’ Legend: Or 200 Miles to Go by Malcolm Evans.
- 11/26/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
After The Beatles broke up, John Lennon made his dissatisfaction with the band clear. He rolled his eyes at the music they made as a group and insulted his former bandmates’ solo efforts. Despite all that he shared with the press, Lennon’s actions told a different story. Here are three times he showed that he didn’t hate the band as much as he said he did.
The Beatles | Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images John Lennon apologized to Paul McCartney for leaving The Beatles
In 1969, Lennon told his bandmates that he wanted a divorce from The Beatles. Before this, he included a reference to Paul McCartney in the 1968 song “Glass Onion.”
“I threw the line in — ‘the Walrus was Paul’ — just to confuse everybody a bit more,” he said in the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff.
The Beatles | Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images John Lennon apologized to Paul McCartney for leaving The Beatles
In 1969, Lennon told his bandmates that he wanted a divorce from The Beatles. Before this, he included a reference to Paul McCartney in the 1968 song “Glass Onion.”
“I threw the line in — ‘the Walrus was Paul’ — just to confuse everybody a bit more,” he said in the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff.
- 4/11/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ringo Starr joined The Beatles significantly later than his bandmates, so he didn’t live through some of their earliest experiences as a group. He also wasn’t on all the songs they recorded, though this continued to happen after he joined the band. For various reasons, Starr was not the drummer on five Beatles songs.
Ringo Starr | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Ringo Starr plays a different instrument on The Beatles song ‘P.S. I Love You’
Soon after joining the band, Starr joined them in the studio to record “Love Me Do.” He struggled with timekeeping, though, much to the frustration of producer George Martin. Ultimately, Starr’s version of “Love Me Do” made it on the album, but he wasn’t so lucky with another song.
“They started ‘Ps I Love You.’ The other bloke played the drums and I was given the maracas,” Starr said in the...
Ringo Starr | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Ringo Starr plays a different instrument on The Beatles song ‘P.S. I Love You’
Soon after joining the band, Starr joined them in the studio to record “Love Me Do.” He struggled with timekeeping, though, much to the frustration of producer George Martin. Ultimately, Starr’s version of “Love Me Do” made it on the album, but he wasn’t so lucky with another song.
“They started ‘Ps I Love You.’ The other bloke played the drums and I was given the maracas,” Starr said in the...
- 4/5/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Toward the end of The Beatles, George Harrison grew more frustrated with his creative restrictions. His music often took a backseat to John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s, and he believed McCartney had too much control. Paul’s stubbornness appeared during the “Hey Jude” recording session, further frustrating George Harrison.
George Harrison found it difficult to be in a band with Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and George Harrison | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
The Beatles ended in 1970 as each member went in different ways musically. George Harrison might have been the most relieved to no longer be in the band as he had felt restricted in The Beatles. He wanted to bring unique sounds to the band but was often stifled by McCartney. In a 1979 interview with Rolling Stone, Harrison called McCartney “pushy” and said it wouldn’t be a good idea for them to be in another band together.
George Harrison found it difficult to be in a band with Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and George Harrison | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
The Beatles ended in 1970 as each member went in different ways musically. George Harrison might have been the most relieved to no longer be in the band as he had felt restricted in The Beatles. He wanted to bring unique sounds to the band but was often stifled by McCartney. In a 1979 interview with Rolling Stone, Harrison called McCartney “pushy” and said it wouldn’t be a good idea for them to be in another band together.
- 3/1/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The clarity of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back brings a lot out in the mix. Audiences can see chord changes and teary eyes. Members of The Beatles’ inner circle also make appearances. Peter Brown, who was Brian Epstein’s assistant, pops by with papers. Longtime friends Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans, the managing director of Apple and the band’s road manager, respectively, stick around to make sure the band is getting what they need, while co-producer and engineer Glyn Johns does the same for the audio. Jackson also gives hazy focus to the man who disturbed the sound, Yanni “John” Alexis Mardas, better known as “Magic Alex.”
In The Beatles: Get Back, Magic Alex develops, designs, and delivers a state-of-the-art recording console, which creates far too much hum to be usable in recordings. He also gifts John Lennon with the prototype of a combination rhythm guitar and bass.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Magic Alex develops, designs, and delivers a state-of-the-art recording console, which creates far too much hum to be usable in recordings. He also gifts John Lennon with the prototype of a combination rhythm guitar and bass.
- 12/1/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
A music scholar has discovered which baseball film inspired John Lennon’s “Grow Old With Me,” solving the decades-old mystery about the origin of one of the singer’s final songs prior to his 1980 murder.
The opening lyric in “Grow Old With Me” quotes Robert Browning’s 1864 poem “Rabbi ben Ezra“: “Grow old along with me / The best is yet to be.” Lennon had admitted that he was inspired to write the song after watching a baseball movie on television during a trip to Bermuda, but the actual film...
The opening lyric in “Grow Old With Me” quotes Robert Browning’s 1864 poem “Rabbi ben Ezra“: “Grow old along with me / The best is yet to be.” Lennon had admitted that he was inspired to write the song after watching a baseball movie on television during a trip to Bermuda, but the actual film...
- 10/4/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Sep 30, 2019
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary celebrates an end of an era, but the album marked the beginning of a new phase.
The Beatles' Abbey Road celebrated its 50th Anniversary amidst a flurry of activity. The band dropped a music video for "Here Comes the Sun." Recently unearthed audio shows the band may not have been ready to call it quits. While it is true they still had the Let It Be album to release, Abbey Road was a step forward and a clue to a new direction. It is fitting the band named the album after the studio, because the Beatles progressed quickly during recording sessions and the Abbey Road sonic staff often rushed to keep up.
The Beatles grew from album to album, musically and lyrically, as songwriters and as musicians. Their voices were freed from the confines of pop as they demolished standards one record at a time.
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary celebrates an end of an era, but the album marked the beginning of a new phase.
The Beatles' Abbey Road celebrated its 50th Anniversary amidst a flurry of activity. The band dropped a music video for "Here Comes the Sun." Recently unearthed audio shows the band may not have been ready to call it quits. While it is true they still had the Let It Be album to release, Abbey Road was a step forward and a clue to a new direction. It is fitting the band named the album after the studio, because the Beatles progressed quickly during recording sessions and the Abbey Road sonic staff often rushed to keep up.
The Beatles grew from album to album, musically and lyrically, as songwriters and as musicians. Their voices were freed from the confines of pop as they demolished standards one record at a time.
- 9/28/2019
- Den of Geek
Tony Sokol Sep 26, 2019
The Beatles' Abbey Road turns 50 and the new "Here Comes the Sun" music video shines a light on the magic studio.
The Beatles' Abbey Road 50th anniversary celebration dawns with the debut of a new "Here Comes the Sun" music video. George Harrison's song opens side 2 of the 1969 album, which was named for the studio it was recorded in. The sun at the center of the music video, which was directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney of Trunk Animation, was filmed in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Harrison wrote the song on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton's “Hurtwood Edge” home in Ewhurst, Surrey, which was about a half hour drive from George's "Kinfauns" home, according to his 1979 book I Me Mine. Sessions for the "Get Back" album (which became Let It Be), were tense, and Apple Corps, the Beatles' business organization,...
The Beatles' Abbey Road turns 50 and the new "Here Comes the Sun" music video shines a light on the magic studio.
The Beatles' Abbey Road 50th anniversary celebration dawns with the debut of a new "Here Comes the Sun" music video. George Harrison's song opens side 2 of the 1969 album, which was named for the studio it was recorded in. The sun at the center of the music video, which was directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney of Trunk Animation, was filmed in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Harrison wrote the song on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton's “Hurtwood Edge” home in Ewhurst, Surrey, which was about a half hour drive from George's "Kinfauns" home, according to his 1979 book I Me Mine. Sessions for the "Get Back" album (which became Let It Be), were tense, and Apple Corps, the Beatles' business organization,...
- 9/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Geoff Emerick, the audio engineer who worked on several Beatles classics including Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road, died Tuesday. Emerick’s agent, David Maida, confirmed the engineer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death was a heart attack. He was 72.
Emerick’s manager, William Zabaleta, posted a video in which he said he was on the phone with Emerick when the engineer suddenly fell ill. Zabelta immediately called 911 but by the time an ambulance arrived it was too late. “Geoff suffered from heart problems for a long time,...
Emerick’s manager, William Zabaleta, posted a video in which he said he was on the phone with Emerick when the engineer suddenly fell ill. Zabelta immediately called 911 but by the time an ambulance arrived it was too late. “Geoff suffered from heart problems for a long time,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jon Blistein and Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Dec 24, 2018
Crimble comes at the end of every year and The Beatles made it maybe. George Martin biographer chimes in.
The Beatles Christmas messages began as a personal show of holiday gratitude to the band’s fan club, but grew into an annual tradition as important as any evergreen chestnut for a generation. Growing up, the silly off-key carols meant Christmas. They were exciting. They were fun. They were funny. I never in my life worried about offending someone by saying Merry or Happy Christmas because, due to these recordings, I would forever mangle greetings like “Hare Kringle” and “very new jeers.” Inviting Krishna devotees and insult comics into the happy proceedings.
Christmas was never a religious holiday at our house. It rocked. And it all started when radio stations started playing the crimbly greetings. Long after the Beatles broke up, prog and oldies stations alike would keep up the tradition.
Crimble comes at the end of every year and The Beatles made it maybe. George Martin biographer chimes in.
The Beatles Christmas messages began as a personal show of holiday gratitude to the band’s fan club, but grew into an annual tradition as important as any evergreen chestnut for a generation. Growing up, the silly off-key carols meant Christmas. They were exciting. They were fun. They were funny. I never in my life worried about offending someone by saying Merry or Happy Christmas because, due to these recordings, I would forever mangle greetings like “Hare Kringle” and “very new jeers.” Inviting Krishna devotees and insult comics into the happy proceedings.
Christmas was never a religious holiday at our house. It rocked. And it all started when radio stations started playing the crimbly greetings. Long after the Beatles broke up, prog and oldies stations alike would keep up the tradition.
- 12/20/2017
- Den of Geek
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