August 26th, 2009 by Hannah
The Beatles are arguably the greatest band to ever grace the world but the secret behind their split has never been completely understood and the fact that the musicians kept mum about the circumstances didn’t exactly help the curiosity. However, a previously unreleased Rolling Stone interview tape with John Lennon has recently surfaced and it reveals the great amounts of tension between him and Paul McCartney. In the interview, John comments on feeling sick over selling out as well as being fed up playing sidekick to Paul, a feeling mutual for Ringo Starr and George Harrison. John also had a problem with how the rest of the band treated his wife, Yoko Ono.
April 8th, 2009 by Hannah
On April 14th, George Harrison will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Beatles as a band already have a star on the famous Hollywood tourist route and John Lennon has his very own. Now, George, who died in 2001 because of cancer, will have a star in front of the Capitol Records building. His star will be the 2,382nd on the infamous Walk. His widow, Olivia Harrison and his son Dhani, are expected to attend the unveiling. Honestly, I’m quite surprised that this hadn’t happened sooner. I wonder when the two living members of the band will get their own stars.
April 2nd, 2008 by Hannah
The last unfinished John Lennon track could see the light of day as a tribute to “fifth Beatle” Neil Aspinall who died last week.
Now And Then was unearthed with Real Love and Free As A Bird during the Fab Four’s Anthology series in the 1990s. While the other two tracks were spruced up by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr and went on to become top ten hits, Now And Then was left untouched.
Neil worked as chief of Apple Corps until last year and ensured The Beatles profited from their back catalogue. An insider said: “There have been discussions about finishing Now And Then. It would be quite a task. The process of re-recording the two tracks that charted was fairly painless because the songs were almost complete. Now And Then will need a significant amount more work to get it into a condition where it could be released.”
With George also dead, I reckon Paul and Ringo should work together one last time in tribute to departed members of the group’s inner circle.
October 11th, 2007 by Hannah
Nine solo albums by the late George Harrison have been made available to download for the first time. The announcement means solo music by all four members of The Beatles can now be purchased digitally. Isn’t this some great news for all Beatle fans and the entire music community, our music needs to be free and not bound by the clutches of record companies who will pay the artist some exorbitant amount of money to make albums and they we have to pay a hell lot to buy their CDs. I also somehow support the thing that pop artist Prince did some time back when his new CD was made available for free with a newspaper during the distribution. The conclusion of a lengthy legal battle between the band’s label Apple Corps and Apple Inc, which owns iTunes, paved the way for the developments. Well once these albums see the daylight for being available for download then I think there shall be a movement for more such albums to follow suit.
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