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BEATLES NEWS - Tuesday 7th May 2024

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PAUL MCCARTNEY UNVEILS ARCHIVAL ‘BEATLEMANIA’ EXHIBIT AT BROOKLYN MUSEUM: SEE HIS PERSONAL PHOTOS Jenny Regan, Hannah Dailey/Billboard The collection documents the Fab Four on the cusp of international fame in 1963-64.When Beatlemania first swept the United States in 1964, a moment pinpointed in time by the band’s first-ever televised performance on The Ed Sullivan Show that February, only four people knew exactly what it was like to be at the center of such a revolutionary cultural frenzy: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. READ MORE DIRECTORS PETER JACKSON AND MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG CHAT BEFORE DISNEY+ RELEASE OF “LET IT BE” Marshal Knight/Laughing Place The director of Let It Be, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, recently sat down with the director of The Beatles: Get Back, Peter Jackson, to discuss the landmark 1970 documentary. Let It Be has been restored thanks to Jackson and the team behind The Beatles: Get Back. Let It Be is streaming May 8th on Disney+.   READ MOR
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BEATLES NEWS - Monday 6th May 2024

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DISNEY PLUS' RESTORATION OF THE BEATLES' LET IT BE DOCUMENTARY LOOKS LIKE A WINDOW IN TIME IN ITS FIRST TRAILER Carrie Marshall/news.artnet A long-lost Framus Hootenanny that belonged to John Lennon has finally been found and will hit the block in New York this month. The storied 12-string acoustic guitar will headline the Music Icons sale that Julien’s Auctions is hosting at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on May 29 and 30. READ MORE JOHN LENNON’S GUITAR, REDISCOVERED AFTER DECADES LANGUISHING IN AN ATTIC, HEADS TO AUCTION Vittoria Benzine/news.artnet A long-lost Framus Hootenanny that belonged to John Lennon has finally been found and will hit the block in New York this month. The storied 12-string acoustic guitar will headline the Music Icons sale that Julien’s Auctions is hosting at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on May 29 and 30. READ MORE WHAT’S COMING TO DISNEY+ THIS WEEK | THE BEATLES – LET IT BE What's On Disney Plus It’s the start of a brand new week and
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BEATLES NEWS - Sunday 5th May 2024

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MACCA IN MANILA SOON? PAUL MCCARTNEY REMAINS A TOP CONCERT DRAW ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD Pocholo Concepcion/Business Mirror The buzz is that the celebrated Ex-Beatle’s ‘Got Back’ tour will have an Asian leg — which might include the Philippines. At age 81, Paul McCartney can put his feet up or do anything he wants without worrying about money — while royalties from songs he recorded with The Beatles, Wings, and from his solo albums are wired to his bank account.  READ MORE ALMOST TWO DECADES ON, THIS VIBRANT UK CITY IS STILL A ‘CAPITAL OF CULTURE’ Jon Fellowes/People In 2008, Liverpool was declared the European Capital of Culture, having undergone an ‘economic and cultural renaissance’ since the decline of its traditional industries. The celebrations included all manner of cultural highlights, including a performance of ‘Liverpool: The Musical’ featuring Beatles legend Ringo Starr.  READ MORE WHAT DOES “JAI GURU DEVA OM” MEAN IN THE BEATLES SONG ‘ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’? Kelly Scanlon/Far Ou
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BEATLES NEWS - Saturday 4th May 2024

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PAUL MCCARTNEY HILARIOUSLY RESPONDS TO FAN 60 YEARS AFTER SHE TELLS HIM SHE ‘LOVES’ HIM Ingrid Vasquez/People One lucky fan has finally received a response from Paul McCartney, 60 years after she first professed her love to him.  In a video shared on TikTok and Instagram on Friday, May 3, The Beatles musician, 81, responded to a woman named Adrienne, who declared her love for him in a throwback video surrounded by fellow fans.   READ MORE MAN FINDS HIS FATHER'S OLD GUITAR; STUNNED TO KNOW THE ORIGINAL OWNER NEWS18 A man had discovered an old guitar hidden in his father’s damp attic and found that it was worth £600,000 (Rs 63 crore) thanks to its wood markings. According to a report published in The Sun, the 12-string guitar had been lying unused in the loft at an undisclosed address in the English countryside for more than 50 years.  READ MORE   THE BEATLES RECORDINGS GEORGE MARTIN THOUGHT WERE “RUBBISH” Tim Coffman/Far Out Magazine George Martin has always been the musical masterm
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BEATLES NEWS - Friday 3rd May 2024

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THE “REAL” BEATLES SONG JOHN LENNON CALLED HIS BEST Lucy Harbron/Far Out Magazine In total, John Lennon wrote 95 songs for the Beatles. But that’s only the officially released effort. It’s estimated that the band’s archive is hundreds of songs deep as John Lennon and Paul McCartney proved to be prolific from the moment their friendship and creative partnership began.  READ MORE PAUL MCCARTNEY’S RARELY SEEN PHOTOGRAPHY GETS A BIG MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK Hollie Mclaughlin-Martin/Art News During the early 1960s, at the height of “Beatlemania,” New York City was taken by storm as The Beatles kicked off their visit to the US. Tens of thousands of fans hurried to the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four, and band member Paul McCartney was ready to greet them. But McCartney did more than simply posing for pictures—he also shot photographs himself, using his Pentax 35mm film camera. READ MORE LET IT BE BEATLES: THE COMMUNITY RADIO SHOW THAT’S 32 YEARS OLD AND STILL GOING STRONG S
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BEATLES NEWS - Thursday 2nd May 2024

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BEATLES NORWEGIAN WOOD SITAR IS WORTH £53K Colin Ricketts/News.JustCollecting The first sitar owned by Beatle George Harrison and played on Norwegian Wood has sold at auction for more than £53,000 in Los Angeles.  The instrument, bought by Harrison in 1965, is arguably one of the most important and influential in late 60s pop culture.   Although Harrison fairly swiftly passed it on to a friend, it sparked a life-long love affair with Indian classical music that was vividly audible during the later years of the Beatles.   READ MORE HOW YOU CAN SEE JOHN LENNON'S LONG-LOST GUITAR IN IRELAND — FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Denise O’Donoghue/Irish Examiner Irish Beatles fans and music lovers have the opportunity to lay their eyes on John Lennon’s long-lost guitar for one week only, before it is expected to fetch a record price at auction in the United States.  Lennon’s Framus 12-string hootenanny acoustic guitar was recently found in an attic in England after 50 years on the missing list.  READ MOR
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BEATLES NEWS - Wednesday 1st May 2024

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SEAN ONO LENNON, ELVIS COSTELLO ATTEND SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE BEATLES’ ‘LET IT BE’ IN NEW YORK Rural Radio The restored version of The Beatles 1970 documentary, Let It Be, was shown at a special screening in New York City on Monday, April 29, with stars like Sean Ono Lennon, Elvis Costello and Paul Shaffer in attendance.  The evening included a special Q&A with the film’s original director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Apple Corps Ltd.’s Jonathan Clyde. READ MORE NEW DOCUMENTARY LOOKS AT 1969’S ROCK N ROLL REVIVAL MUSIC FESTIVAL kshe95 A new documentary will give music fans a behind-the-scenes look at Toronto’s 1969 Rock N Roll Revival music festival, which featured John Lennon’s first time performing outside The Beatles.  The documentary, Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World, details how promoters John Brower and Kenny Walker were able to book Lennon for the show and how his appearance almost didn’t happen. In the end he took the stage for a debut performance of The Plastic
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