Great American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a 3+1⁄2 octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists to achieve significant…
John’s romantic insecurities are beginning to become a recurring theme in his lyrics as of mid 1964, as evidenced in “I’ll Cry Instead” and “If I Fell.” These insecurities remained evident in his work throughout the Beatle years, sometimes in a less descriptive way as in “Don’t Let Me Down” and “I Want You (She’s…
On March 25, 1969, John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono moved into the suite at the Hilton in Amsterdam to start what would become known as the “Bed-in”, a peace protest, in which the couple received journalists from 9 am to 9 pm to spread their message of peace to the world –…
OTD in ‘64, the Beatles walked down the Champs-Élysées with members of the British press before their evening show at Cyrano Theatre. Beatles publicist Derek Taylor explained that this was to supply the London dailies with the “ohh, là, là’ their readers were presumed to expect from Frenchness.”“However, the French were withdrawn in their response….
Working on the “Get Back” sessions (later changed to “Let it Be”) at Studio Two of EMI Studios in London, three of the Beatles (Paul, George, and Ringo as John was vacationing in Denmark) recorded 16 takes of the George Harrison song “I Me Mine.”Three months later, on April 1st, Phil Spector’s controversial orchestral overdubs…
The Beatles were seen for the third time on US TV when a clip from the BBC’s “The Mersey Sound” showing the group playing “She Loves You” was aired on “The Jack Paar Show.” Many sources mistake this as the band’s first US TV appearance (including Parr), but the first was on November 18, 1963…
Often referred to as a folk rock album, “Rubber Soul” incorporates a mix of pop, soul and folk musical styles. The title derives from the colloquialism “plastic soul”, which McCartney heard in reference to Mick Jagger’s singing style. After the British version of “A Hard Day’s Night,” it was the second Beatles LP to contain only original…
Events today in Beatles history 1962 Cavern lunch session: the Beatles. 1963 Concert at the Gaumont, Wolverhampton (‘The Beatles Autumn Tour’). 1965 Harry Moss cuts the mono version of ‘Rubber Soul’. UK LP release: George Martin’s instrumental version of ‘Help!’. 1966 ”Yesterday’… And Today’, 22nd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). 1976 UK LP release:…
1962 – Performance at the Cavern, with the Mersey Beats. 1963 Newspapers publish that a priest of the Church of England asks the Beatles to record a Christmas song. John and Paul see the musical ‘Six Of One’ at the Adelphi Theatre. The Fab Four were at a ceremony at EMI House in London where…
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