TUG OF WAR AND PIPES OF PEACE
CLASSIC SOLO WORKS TO RECEIVE ARCHIVE COLLECTION REISSUE TREATMENT
In stores: 2nd October 2015
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MPL and the Concord Music Group are proud to announce two more
landmark installments in the multiple GRAMMY-winning Paul McCartney
Archive Collection.
On 2nd October, 2015, Paul's early '80s back-to-back classics Tug of War and Pipes of Peace will receive lavish multiple configuration reissue treatment including exclusive 2015 remixes of both the entire Tug of War album and the Pipes of Peace
classic collaboration with Michael Jackson 'Say Say Say,' a treasure
trove of previously unreleased tracks and never before seen video, and
much more.
Beatles fans will get to see the figures of The Fab Four set in a pose that pays tribute to the 1969 Abbey Road album cover, which captured all four members walking across the famous zebra crossing outside of Abbey Road Studios. To
recreate the new figures at the tourist attraction, artists utilised
measurements taken from previous sittings with the band, as well as
image research from the Abbey Road album photo shoot to style each
figure.
Artists utilised measurements taken from previous sittings
with the band, as well as image research from the Abbey Road album photo
shoot
Madame Tussauds artists used a number of image references from the Abbey Road
album cover photo shoot, which explain some differences between the
original photo and the figures, including the group’s line-up and Paul’s
flip-flops. The band have a long history with the museum, as
they were the first rock band to appear in the grand hall at Madame
Tussauds London. All four members originally met with studio artists in 1964 to take measurements for the creation of their original wax figures. Fans can see the waxworks from Friday for a limited time.
Almost 51 years ago, screaming masses of young people ran
amok in the streets of Toronto, proving definitively that Beatlemania
was alive and well in Canada.
They were anxiously awaiting their first glimpse of the Fab Four in
the flesh as the Beatles prepared to play Maple Leaf Gardens for the
first time.
CBC was there, capturing the happy pandemonium of fans young and old
(check out the grandmas who give the guys their stamp of approval
because they're "decent, clean boys!"), as well as talking to John
Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison about the fan
fury that follows them around the world.
Click through the gallery above for vintage photos of the Beatles'
British Invasion, courtesy of the CBC Still Photo Collection, and watch
the amazing archival news footage for a glimpse at the boy band demands of 1964.
Paul McCartney and Metallica will headline this year's Lollapalooza Festival, which rolls into Chicago's Grant Park July 31st through August 2nd.
Paul will serve as the Friday night headliner,with the Weeknd, the War on Drugs, Alabama Shakes, Kaskade, Gary Clark
Jr, Flying Lotus and Radiohead's Philip Selway also scheduled to perform
July 31st.
Saturday night will see the arrival of Metallica along with
Smith, Tyler the Creator, Charli XCX, Kid Cudi, Brand New, Django
Django, Alesso and more.
The festival will wrap up Sunday, August 2nd with Florence and the
Machine and Bassnectar sharing headlining duties, with Of Monsters and
Men, A$AP Rocky, TV on the Radio, FKA Twigs, Odesza, George Ezra, Marina
and the Diamonds, Twenty One Pilots and more rounding out the bill.
Richard
Lester’s 1968 film, “Petulia,” aimed dead center at the swinging ’60s
and hit the bull’s-eye in evoking the disoriented historical moment of
the Vietnam War, psychedelia and mod fashion, when everything seemed to
be unraveling.
To the delirious playfulness of his two Beatles musicals,
“Help!” and “A Hard Day’s Night,” Mr. Lester added a new layer of
grown-up chaos with this story of a divorced, floundering San Francisco
surgeon (George C. Scott); a kooky, free-spirited British beauty (Julie
Christie); and her abusive husband (Richard Chamberlain), adapted from a
novel by Lawrence B. Marcus. With Nicolas Roeg’s phantasmagoric
cinematography and fractured narrative style, which jumps forward and
back, this bittersweet movie was way ahead of its time.
“Petulia,” which screens Aug. 10 and 13 at the Walter Reade Theater, is a high point of Lincoln Center’s
weeklong 15-film retrospective, “Richard Lester: The Running Jumping
Pop Cinema Iconoclast,” beginning August 7th, which also includes “The
Knack ... and How to Get It,” “Robin and Marian” and “The Three
Musketeers.”
Paul McCartney – Tug of War – Deluxe (CD/DVD – BOOK)
Personally supervised by Paul McCartney
Newly remixed using the original analogue multi-track tapes and mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London
– Special Edition 2 CD
– Deluxe Edition 3 CD/1 DVD plus a 112 page essay book and 64 page scrapbook Disc 1 – Remixed Album
Paul has claimed that "dozens" of potential Beatles songs were lost as he and John would frequently forget their work before getting the opportunity to record it.
Paul was talking to The Evening Standard about how new recording
devices have fundamentally changed the songwriting process, revealing
that songs he co-wrote with Lennon in the 1960s were often forgotten the
morning after.
Many songs co-written by the pair were lost, says Paul
"Things have changed quite a bit," said
Sir Paul. "You've got recording devices now which change the songwriting
process. For instance, John and I didn't have them when we first
started writing, we would write a
song
and just have to remember it."
"And there was always the risk that we'd just forget it. If the next
morning you couldn't remember it – it was gone. In actual fact you had
to write songs that were memorable, because you had to remember them or
they were lost! There must have been dozens lost this way.
"We didn't have tape recorders. Now you can do it on your phone. So you
would have to form the thing, have it all finished, remember it all, go
in pretty quickly and record it. Now, because you can get things down on
a device, I've got millions of things I want to record and do."
Paul will reissue the classic solo albums ’Tug of War' and ‘Pipes of
Peace' this October as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection.
Both albums will feature previously unreleased material and be available
in a variety of formats including 2CD, Deluxe, Vinyl and Digital.
The City of New York declares July 29th 2015 John Lennon Day
Yoko Ono, U2’s Bono and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
marked the city’s inaugural “John Lennon Day” on Ellis Island Wednesday,
celebrating the 40th anniversary of the day the Beatle got his green
card.
Yoko
Ono reveals her joy under the newly unveiled tapestry showing Manhattan
as a giant yellow submarine with late Beatle at the helm, which was
unveiled at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration during the
city’s inaugural “John Lennon Day."
“They let him stay, and he is still here. Yoko, he is still here,” said Bono.
Ono said that her “heart was crying” remembering her late husband, who
battled to get his permanent residency and stay in New York after the
U.S. government ordered him deported back to Britain over a pot
possession plea.
“I remember how proud and happy he was” to be able to stay in the U.S.,
she said. “I’m sure John would have felt great to have a New York day.”
Ono recalled Lennon's fight against violence and hatred. She said he
was a feminist before his time, taking their son Sean to Central Park
every Sunday, and that now she thinks of him when she sees dads pushing
strollers in the city.
"I just wish John was with us," she said. "Please be kind, be peaceful, and be loving."
The event, organized by Amnesty International, also celebrated Ono's
gift of the rights to record cover versions of Lennon's post-Beatles
songs to the human rights group, which has raised more than $5 million
in royalties.
A tapestry showing Manhattan as a giant yellow submarine with Lennon at
the helm — commissioned by Amnesty as a thank you to Ono — was donated
to The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation for display at the
Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration and unveiled Wednesday.
Mark-Viverito flashed a peace sign along with Bono, Ono and U2's The
Edge in front of the tapestry after declaring July 29 “John Lennon Day”
in New York City.
Paul was back in Liverpool today for the annual LIPA graduation ceremony.
The Beatles
star was on hand to honour the institute’s new Companions, who this
year included Gemma Bodinetz, the artistic director of the Everyman and
Playhouse theatres since 2003.
Among
others from the arts and entertainment world receiving the accolade
from Sir Paul – LIPA’s co-founder – today were Slade star Noddy Holder
and Travis frontman Fran Healy.
Among those receiving LIPA companionship's from Paul
were Slade's Noddy Holder, Travis star Fran Healy and Everyman's Gemma
Bodinetz
Paul with newly named fellow companions (left- right
back row) Scott Rodger, John Rago, Mark Featherstone-Whitty, Conor
Murphy, Hugh Padgham (left- right front Row) Sharon Watson, Noddy Holder Paul McCartney, Gemma Bodinetz, Fran Healy and James Thompson,
ahead of the the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts graduation
ceremony at the Echo Arena, Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday July 28,
2015.
The
other five new Companions were four-time Grammy-winning record producer
Hugh Padgham, music manager and founder of Quest Management Scott
Rodger, theatre designer Conor Murphy, professor of applied and social
theatre James Thompson and contemporary dancer, choreographer and
artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre Sharon Watson.
LIPA awards Companionships for outstanding achievement and practical contribution to students’ learning.
American
law professor John T Rago, who has supported LIPA through pro bono work
for the past 20 years, will also become an Honoured Friend of LIPA.
Paul with newly named fellow companions (left-
right back row) Scott Rodger, John Rago, Mark Featherstone-Whitty,
Conor Murphy, Hugh Padgham (left- right front Row) Sharon Watson, Noddy
Holder Sir Paul McCartney, Gemma Bodinetz, Fran Healy and James
Thompson, ahead of the the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
graduation ceremony at the Echo Arena, Liverpool.
Mark Featherstone-Witty, LIPA’s founding principal and CEO,
said: “The government recognises that the creative economy generates
£8.8m each hour to our economy and yet, with the second attempt to
define essential disciplines for schools, does not rate the disciplines
we teach as essential.
“Well, with around 95% of our graduates in
work three years after leaving us, is the government trying to destroy,
as it did with international students, a great British success story?”
Around
280 students from 16 countries graduated at today’s ceremony, having
completed either foundation certificate or degree programmes.
He'll star as the iconic singer-songwriter in Radio 2's 'When Elvis Met The Beatles"
British actor Tom Hughes is to play John Lennon in a forthcoming radio drama.
Hughes, known for his roles in BBC One's Silk and the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant film Cemetery Junction, will portray the iconic singer-songwriter in BBC Radio 2's When Elvis Met The Beatles.
The drama's writer, Jeff Young, describes it as "a kind of fake
documentary" that imagines what happened when the Fab Four met the
American singer at his L.A. mansion in August 1965. Kevin Mains, who
played Lennon's songwriting partner Paul McCartney in recent ITV drama Cilla, will co-star as Presley.
Hughes said of his role as Lennon: "It's said that you shouldn't meet
your heroes, I'm not sure that's true. John Lennon is a hero of mine.
I'll never have the chance to meet him, so playing him is the next best
thing. I was delighted to be asked and I just hope that in some way I've
done this great man justice." Meanwhile, three other actors who appeared in ITV's Cilla will co-star as Lennon's Beatles bandmates, the Radio Times
reports. Shaun Mason will play McCartney, Tom Dunlea will appear as
Ringo Starr and Michael Hawkins will portray George Harrison. Dunlea and
Hawkins played the same roles in Cilla.
Writer Jeff Young said of the forthcoming radio drama: "I was a big
Beatles fan when I was younger, but for this project, initially, I knew
very little about the Elvis and Beatles meeting. Then as I began
researching the story, the strangeness of the meeting and the
psychological dimensions, the dramatic opportunities became obvious. The
larger than life characters involved, including Brian Epstein and
Colonel Tom Parker, all set against a backdrop of corrupt American
politics and the disastrous war in Vietnam, made for a strange and
compelling narrative."
"In writing this drama I went back my old Beatles records and I became a Beatles fan, all over again," he added.
Richard
Lester’s 1968 film, “Petulia,” aimed dead center at the swinging ’60s
and hit the bull’s-eye in evoking the disoriented historical moment of
the Vietnam War, psychedelia and mod fashion, when everything seemed to
be unraveling. 
– Also includes a 112 page essay book and 64 page photo book about the music video for ‘Pipes ofPeace’
Personally supervised by Paul McCartney
Disc 1 – Remixed Album
The event, organized by Amnesty International, also celebrated Ono's
gift of the rights to record cover versions of Lennon's post-Beatles
songs to the human rights group, which has raised more than $5 million
in royalties.
"I've been very touched today," she said.
Meanwhile, three other actors who appeared in ITV's Cilla will co-star as Lennon's Beatles bandmates, the Radio Times
reports. Shaun Mason will play McCartney, Tom Dunlea will appear as
Ringo Starr and Michael Hawkins will portray George Harrison. Dunlea and
Hawkins played the same roles in Cilla.