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After spending the last 50 years in an attic, John Lennon’s famous 'Help!' guitar is headed to auction as part of the upcoming “Music Icons” sale at Julien’s Auctions on 29 and 30 May. Both Lennon and George Harrison played the Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar while making the album and accompanying film Help!, as well as their 1965 album 'Rubber Soul'. The guitar then went for a trip. It ended up with Scottish singer-songwriter Gordon Waller, who was one-half of the duo Peter and Gordon, before being passed on a road manager. Fifty years later, it was discovered in an attic in the ...
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Earl Slick recalled how he nearly derailed his first session with John Lennon, who had asked him to appear on his 1980 album Double Fantasy. The American guitarist first met the ex-Beatle during sessions for David Bowie’s Young Americans in 1975, but in a new interview with Guitar World, he admitted he’d been too high on drugs to remember the experience. “This is so strange because John is my favorite Beatle,” Slick said. “I was uncharacteristically nervous before Double Fantasy started. I went in early on the first day. I thought if I could grab a cup of coffee and a smoke and just chill out ...
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Sir Paul McCartney was "so embarrassed" when he tried to play lead guitar with the Beatles. The 81-year-old music legend was part of the iconic rock group alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr but explained when he tried playing lead guitar during an early gig instead of bass, he "totally froze" on stage. Speaking on the 'Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics' podcast, he explained: "Mind you, when I first met John. He didn’t play guitar, ‘cause I had to show him guitar chords because he’d been taught by his mum [Julia], and she only knew banjo chords. " We had this gig and it was ...
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson finds it "bizarre" when people criticise the 24-year-age gap in his marriage. The 33-year-old actor has been married to Samantha Taylor-Johnson, 57, since 2012 but when asked about the notion that some people take issue with his personal choices, he noted that he started things earlier in life than most and "doesn't understand" why it has ever been questioned. He told Rolling Stone UK: "What you gotta realise is that what most people were doing in their twenties, I was doing when I was 13. You’re doing something too quickly for someone else? I don’t understand that. What s...
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Sir Paul McCartney once hummed the 'Super Mario Bros' theme tune back to its composer. The Beatles legend, 81, appeared to be rather taken with the six-note jingle used for the hit video gaming franchise and just one year on from its release in 1986, he hummed it back its composter Koji Kondo when he requested that he come backstage to meet him and his wife Linda. Koji had already been inspired by a number of famous songs to create the famous theme tune, including that of 'Imagine' by Paul's late bandmate John Lennon and hailed the 'Hey Jude' rocker's ability to instantly recite his work back ...
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Sir Sam Mendes is set to make four separate films about each member of The Beatles. The 59-year-old filmmaker previously pitched the idea of making four separate movies about Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison to executives in Hollywood, and Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler, of Sony Pictures Entertainment, were both wowed by his ambitious plans Sam - who will direct all four films - told Deadline: "We went out to Los Angeles just before Christmas to pitch the project, and it’s fair to say we were met with universal enthusiasm. "The reason Sony stood out from c...
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«Zünde ein Streichholz an und beobachte, wie es ausgeht.» Die Performancekünstlerin Yoko Ono (90) war schon lange vor ihrer Beziehung mit Musiker John Lennon von den Beatles erfolgreich. Mit kleinen Beschreibungen wie diesen ermutigt sie Beobachter, ihre Ideen selbst auszuprobieren. Eine Ausstellung der Tate Modern in London widmet sich nun vom 15.2. an ihrem Werk. Nach Angaben des Museums ist «Yoko Ono: Music of the mind» die größte Ausstellung, die es bisher für die japanische Künstlerin in Großbritannien gab. Projekt kommt auch nach DeutschlandDie Ausstellung wurde gemeinsam mit der Kunstsa...
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John Lennon disliked Muhammad Ali because he made The Beatles "look really stupid", it has been claimed. The band met the boxer on their first trip to the US in February 1964 when they were both on the brink of megastardom, but the meeting reportedly didn't go well as the legendary fighter - who was still known by his birth name Cassius Clay at the time - insulted the group, leaving them unimpressed. Photographer Harry Benson had taken the 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' hitmakers to meet Ali - who died in 2016 aged 74 - when he was preparing for his Sonny Liston fight and they were waiting to appear...
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Sir Paul McCartney feared he'd be "finished off" when he was robbed at knifepoint. The 81-year-old musician has recalled the terrifying moment when he and wife Linda were recording Wings' 1973 album 'Band on the Run' in Lagos, Nigeria, and were ambushed with all their “cameras, tape recorders, cassettes in a bag, and Linda’s photographic equipment”. In an interview for his record label, seen first by The Sun newspaper, he said: “We’d been visiting some of our crew at their house and someone said, ‘Do you want a lift home?’ We said, ‘It’s such a beautiful night, we’ll walk.’” Adopting a "desper...
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Justin Timberlake thinks men don’t express emotions that leave them feeling vulnerable. The ‘SexyBack’ singer, 42, made the admission while discussing his new single ‘Selfish’, which he says was inspired by the late Beatle John Lennon’s ‘Jealous Guy’, which was about his envious streak that would often result in turmoil between him and his wife Yoko Ono. Justin, who has been married to actress Jessica Biel, 41, since 2012, told Zane Lowe on the DJ’s Apple Music 1 show about the inspiration for the track, from his upcoming sixth studio album ‘Everything I Thought It Was’: “That's the beauty abo...
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