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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2013 20:42:16 GMT -5
Listening to 1. I Saw Her Standing There 2. Misery 3. Anna (Go To Him) 4. Chains 5. Boys 6. Ask Me Why 7. Please Please Me 8. Love Me Do 9. P.S. I Love You 10. Baby It's You 11. Do You Want To Know A Secret 12. A Taste Of Honey 13. There's A Place 14. Twist And Shout 15. Please Please Me Documentary Liner notes here: albumlinernotes.com/Please_Please_Me.html
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Post by poetrylover3 on Feb 16, 2013 11:56:57 GMT -5
St James-I agree about the White album, although I often feel Revolver's fine songwriting is overlooked as well as Rubber Soul.
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Post by razzgospel on Feb 18, 2013 13:15:48 GMT -5
It's hard to pick an album. Revolver, Rubber Soul and the White Album all had many great recordings. As an aside, Paul's son is playing at a small club in New Haven soon. Has anyone heard any of his music?
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2013 9:20:25 GMT -5
I guess I'm still stuck in the 60''s
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Post by steve on Feb 21, 2013 16:43:07 GMT -5
My favourite is always Revolver. After that, it varies but I'd probably say Abbey Road or Rubber Soul. I love the Beatles - just about any era for me and for a multitude of reasons. I was predominently a John fan but that is too much of a simplification. I do think that it is a pity that it ended when it did and the finality that John's death bvrought. I often wonder what a 1971 Beatle album would hafve been like-"it isn't hard to do" (see what I did there?). Probably they are special because they never did reunite properly and that is probably a good thing. I would say that I do not fall into the "Beatles or Stones" category. I would say I am "Beatles & Stones". But going back to favourites, I go to Revolver over and over. It is one album where John & Paul are both strong- to me the other albums are either strong John or strong Paul albums- not entirely true perhaps but my opinion nonetheless. I never tire of the Beatles. I was about 5 when I first became aware of them and I can't think of a time when they were not part of my musical life. So to summarise: I like 'em.
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2013 7:46:15 GMT -5
Mark RonsonBy Eric R. Danton for Rolling Stone Magazine March 22, 2013 8:10 AM ET Word that Paul McCartney is working on a new album was overshadowed earlier this week by news that he's also planning a world tour, but details are starting to emerge about the rocker's latest recording project. Mark Ronson is involved, for one thing. After DJing McCartney's wedding to Nancy Shevall in 2011, Ronson joined the former Beatle in the studio to produce three new songs, he told The Associated Press. "It's really good. He writes really good songs," Ronson said. The producer is no stranger to working with talented performers, having collaborated with Grammy winners Amy Winehouse, Adele, Bruno Mars and Christina Aguilera. But teaming with McCartney, he said, was "on another level." "He understands that you're so nervous to be working with Paul McCartney, 'cause everyone is," Ronson said. "He gives you a lot of leeway, but then at the end of the day, you need to deliver the goods." Ronson didn't talk specifics about how the new songs sound, but he said McCartney has a broad palette to choose from, given the singer's vast catalog with the Beatles, Wings and on his own. The new album will follow Kisses on the Bottom, a collection of standards that McCartney released last year. "He's done every kind of music. He invented the rule book in several different ways," Ronson said. "I don't know if [our stuff] is revolutionary, but they're brilliant songs. I just tried to give him a sound he was looking for." Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-worked-with-mark-ronson-on-new-songs-20130322#ixzz2OGw0YEtY Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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Post by steve on Mar 22, 2013 18:12:59 GMT -5
I might go and see Paul on this tour but I worry that he is past it. I've been to a few of his shows and he was brilliant each time but the Olympic performance was, to me, below standard. He's done enough to deserve retirement-much as it pains me to say it as I've been a fan since I was a young lad.
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2013 20:03:10 GMT -5
Paul McCartney Jams With Ronnie Wood at Son James' London Show Veterans help younger McCartney kicks off his tour Paul McCartney surprises his son James as he performs with Ronnie Wood in London. By RJ Cubarrubia March 28, 2013 James McCartney marked the start of his tour in a big way when his dad Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood showed up to celebrate and play alongside him onstage. The younger McCartney kicks off a U.S. tour on April 6th at Portland's McMenamin's White Eagle Saloon, and to prepare, he played a show at London's Ambassadors Theatre last night. According to the Daily Mail, James played cuts off his upcoming debut album, Me. Although his father started off on the sidelines, Wood hopped onstage with James and accompanied him on guitar. Paul McCartney later joined the party, taking the stage and playing some piano during the set. Me is set for a May 21st release. For full tour dates, visit James McCartney's website. Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-jams-with-ronnie-wood-at-son-james-london-show-20130328#ixzz2Ot0bY1S7 Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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Post by steve on Apr 9, 2013 1:16:57 GMT -5
Good old dad, coming along to help out.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2013 8:48:27 GMT -5
Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paul McCartney supergroup was mooted
Jimi Hendrix sent telegram to Beatles star Paul McCartney in 1969 asking him to record in a supergroup with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.
As supergroups go, it would have been up there with music's most intriguing and celebrated: Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams and Sir Paul McCartney.
It's been long known that jazz trumpeter Davis and guitarist Hendrix had been toying with plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. But a piece of memorabilia, which has been on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague, confirms that they were also trying to recruit McCartney as the bass player. Williams, one of the best jazz drummers of the 1960s, was also lined up for the group.
A telegram (complete with a typographical error, below) that Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles' Apple Records in London on October 21, 1969, told him to get in touch with producer Alan Douglas:
"We are recording and LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
Beatles aide Peter Brown replied on McCartney's behalf, telling Hendrix the following day that McCartney was on holiday in Scotland and not expected back for another two weeks. It was at a time when McCartney's band, The Beatles, were falling apart because of artistic and financial disputes.
Hendrix has had a musical resurgence this year following the release of his posthumous record People, Hell And Angels – 12 previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1968 and 1970 – which has become his highest-charting album in 44 years.
The telegram, which advised McCartney to contact producer Douglas if he could make the session, has been part of the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia collection since it was purchased at auction in 1995 and is now attracting renewed interest in Prague where it is on display at the restaurant. Hard Rock historian Jeff Nolan said: "Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware of the telegram. It would have been one of the most insane supergroups."
Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray told AFP: "At first it sounds really weird and off the wall. But on second thought it makes perfect, Hendrix-type sense to chuck in someone who's a great musician but comes from a different tradition. I regret this never actually took place . . . it would have been magnificent."
Eddie Kramer, the engineer who produced most of Hendrix's music, agreed, saying: "It would have been phenomenal. Lord knows where it may have gone; those huge egos in the studio at the same time. I would have loved to have done that one. But it was not to be."
Jimi Hendrix - Bleeding Heart on MUZU.TV.
At the time, Davis was moving away from his jazz roots toward a fusion-based sound and it's not clear exactly what music the band would have tried to record. In his autobiography, Davis said he and Hendrix occasionally jammed together at his apartment in New York and were only prevented from recording by their busy schedules. Other reports say that the recording failed to happen because Davis wanted $50,000 up front to attend the session.
McCartney is the only one of the four musicians who is still alive. His spokesman, Stuart Bell, said the former Beatle was too busy on his world tour to comb his memory for his thoughts about a telegram sent more than four decades ago.
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Post by steve on May 12, 2013 16:43:37 GMT -5
That would have been interesting if it had ever happened- though a bad time for Paul as it was during the time of the Beatles final disintegration. What a thought though.
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Post by earleg on May 22, 2013 21:45:27 GMT -5
Would have been a great deal if they could have done it.
I'm pretty certain Eric Clapton jammed with Miles and band in late '60s at the Record Plant NYC and was recorded.
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Post by Admin on Aug 31, 2013 7:11:18 GMT -5
Paul McCartney released an original song titled "New," from his upcoming album of the same name. This LP release with 12 songs will be his first album of new solo material since 2007. The album is due for release on October 15th in the U.S.
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2013 7:44:29 GMT -5
Sgt Pepper's finally goes platinum! (Only 46 years after release) BPI rule change means awards for slew of big-selling classic albums by Beatles, Dylan, Marvin Gaye and more By: Sean Michaels theguardian.comThe Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with pop art cover by Sir Peter Blake. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has finally been certified platinum, almost half a century late. Following a change to the way the British Phonographic Industry association awards sales certificates, 13 Beatles albums will finally receive awards for which they have long been eligible. Since 1973, the BPI has awarded silver, gold and platinum sales certificates to albums that sell 60,000, 100,000 and 300,000 copies respectively in the UK. Despite these long-established rules, the BPI only distributed official notices to record labels that requested the awards; otherwise, blockbuster sellers wallowed in officially unmetallic obscurity. That changed last month. Now, whether or not a label requests a certificate, albums that reach those sales thresholds will automatically receive their awards. Accordingly, the Beatles – in addition to acts such as Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye, whose classic albums have continued to sell in large quantities – have received a slew of overdue sales certificates. Still, the Beatles won't receive everything they deserve. Although the BPI began giving out sales certificates in 1974, four years after the Fab Four split, these new awards are only being given out based on receipts since 1994. A record like Sgt Pepper's, which has sold roughly 5.1m UK copies overall, will not receive its proper designation of 17x platinum: instead, the LP is officially triple-platinum, based on 900,000 copies moved since 1994. Clearly, despite these chart technicalities, nobody needs to shed a tear for the Beatles' commercial difficulties. Besides, Paul McCartney will get another run at the BPI's sales mile-markers later this year, when he releases an album called New.
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Post by steve on Sept 7, 2013 8:32:00 GMT -5
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