COP WHO ENDED BEATLES´FINAL SHOW STILL HAPPY WITH HIS CONDUCT

 

The police officer who halted the Beatles’ final live performance on Jan. 30, 1969, says he's happy with how he dealt with the situation.

Ray Shayler was a 25-year-old constable with three years’ experience when he led a team of four cops to investigate reports of a disturbance at the Beatles’ Savile Row headquarters in London – as seen in Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 documentary movie Let It Be and Peter Jackson’s new series Get Back.
He didn’t know that Lindsay-Hogg expected a police presence, and installed a two-way mirror in the building’s foyer to follow proceedings. Some of the camera operators on the Apple Corps roof had also been instructed to film the officers in action.

“I wouldn’t say I was a fan,” Shayler told the Daily Mail in a new interview. “I didn’t like the Beatles much when they went a bit Hare Krishna, but we had a few Beatles records and LPs at home. I liked their music. But when I got on the roof, I had a job to do and I thought, ‘Well, we’ve got to try and stop this.’”

When he arrived, Shayler said the band members “sort of looked at us and carried on with what they were doing.” He spoke to road manager Mal Evans, telling him “that, much as I appreciated what they were doing, it couldn’t happen any more as it was amounting to a breach of the peace.”
Shayler asked Evans “how long it was going on for. He said, ‘One more record,’ so I said, ‘You might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb. Get on with that one, and then it stops.’ It was a discussion; it never got heated.”
Shayler also recalled the reactions he received from the Beatles as they left at the end of the performance.

 

“George [Harrison] and John [Lennon] didn’t talk to us, but there was a reason for that,” he said. “They’d recently been caught with cannabis or something and were on bail. It’d been in the papers. Paul [McCartney] was apologetic about the concert and Ringo [Starr] joked about the whole thing, saying, ‘Don’t put the handcuffs on me!’”

Now 77 and retired, Shayler said the incident was so low-key that he “didn’t even put pen to paper to record it.” He said he didn't “think that I let myself down in the way I handled the situation, but I do look sort of severe. ... I blame the helmet.

“Someone asked me how I felt being the man who stopped the Beatles’ concert – but I wouldn’t say that was true,” Shayler added. “I didn’t stop the Beatles. I merely suggested it would be a good idea if they didn’t carry on. If the Beatles had got stroppy or were determined to carry on, then things might have been different. But that wasn’t the way we worked in those days, and I always tried to resolve issues without arresting people.”

 

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GEORGE HARRISON'S LAST PERFORMANCE ON A RECORD

 

 

"Horse to the Water" is a song written by George Harrison and his son Dhani.

 

It was originally performed by Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, featuring Harrison, on the album Small World, Big Band (also known as Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra).

 
Recorded on 2 October 2001, the song is George Harrison's last performance on a record.

 
George only performed vocals on the track, as he was too weak from battling cancer to play guitar,[citation needed] and he died just over eight weeks later on 29 November. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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He listed the song's publisher as "R.I.P Music Ltd" instead of his usual music company Harrisongs.

 

In the liner notes of some versions of the CD, the credit is "Umlaut Corporation."

Holland played the song in tribute to George at 2002's Concert for George, with Sam Brown on lead vocals. 

 

This performance was included in the film but not the official CD release of the concert.

In 2010 Norwegian band ORBO & The Longshots released their version as a bonus track on their Live 10 album. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holland’s CD is sub-titled “….his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and friends”, that’s because for each track he invites various stars to join him for a track each. These include Sting, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison,  Dr John, and Eric Clapton, amongst many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PAUL MCCARTNEY AND RINGO STARR PAY TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HARRISON ON 20th ANNIVERSARY OF LATE BEATLE´S DEATH

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have shared tributes to late The Beatles bandmate George Harrison on the 20th anniversary of the latter’s passing.

George Harrison, died of lung cancer on November 29, 2001 at the age of 58.

Paul McCartney took to Twitter to share an old image of himself and Harrison in the studio with a caption reading: “Hard to believe that we lost George 20 years ago. I miss my friend so much. Love Paul.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ringo Starr also took to Instagram to share an image of him and Harrison smoking cigars, saying: “Peace and love to you George I miss you man. Peace and love Ringo”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George also received a tribute from his widow, Olivia Harrison, who shared a video to her Instagram page that featured a psychedelic photo of Harrison’s face set to his song ‘Within You Without You’, and ended with the words, “We love you, George.”
Meanwhile Peter Jackson’s Disney+ documentary – The Beatles: Get Back – was released last week and garnered a glowing five-star review from NME.

“It is precisely because of Get Back‘s lax editorial policy that it succeeds. You might not be able to say anything new about The Beatles in 2021, but Jackson hasn’t tried. He’s shown us instead,” wrote NME’s Alex Flood.

Earlier this month, Paul addressed the “misconception” that he broke up The Beatles. “I think the biggest misconception at the end of The Beatles was that I broke The Beatles up, and I lived with that for quite a while,” he said. “Once a headline’s out there, it sticks. That was a big one – and I’ve only finally just gotten over it.”

 

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TOM PETTY SAID GEORGE HARRISON DIED WITH DIGNITY DESPITE BEING HOUNDED BY PRESS FOR LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE

Even as he was dying, George Harrison couldn’t escape the press. Since The Beatles first became famous in the early 1960s, they watched his every move, just like all the other Beatles. George hated that part of fame. He called the media a bunch of “dummies.” They didn’t know the real George because they were too stuck on the craze that surrounded the band. Unfortunately, they didn’t give George much peace during the last year of his life either. According to George’s good friend, Tom Petty, they hounded George.
However, Petty said that George still died with dignity and left his body the way he wanted. Some things just needed to be kept private to accomplish that.
During an interview with Rolling Stone in 2002, Petty looked back at George’s last year. He said the press absolutely hounded George in the last year of his life. He could barely get any peace.

“I’ll tell you, the media wasn’t very sweet in the last year of his life,” Petty said. “He was probably the most hounded of his whole life when he was trying to deal with that. Especially in Europe, he never got a moment’s peace. He would have helicopters follow him when he left the house. I guess that comes with the territory. That’s part of the price you pay. He paid that price so many times — well, overpaid.”

No matter how much the press hounded him, Petty said George still had a positive outlook. “But he’d be the first to say there’s nothing to be gained by bitterness or anger, hatred. I don’t know how many times he would remind me that bitterness or pessimism is only going to slow you down finding the solution. And he lived that way. George was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you. We knew where we stood with each other.”

Looking back, Petty thought George’s spirituality helped him remain positive during those frustrating moments, running from the watchful eye of the press the last year of his life. Being as spiritual as George was, he gradually stepped farther and farther away from the material world, leaving all the nonsense behind. He was more concerned about staying around to be with his family and preparing for when he left his body. In the end, Petty said George was able to die with dignity.

“I would think it helped him immensely,” Petty explained George’s spirituality. “He is just a really brave guy, and he died with a great deal of dignity.”

Petty continued to explain that he was glad George didn’t die during the house invasion that nearly claimed the lives of George and his wife, Olivia, in 1999. “It’s so much easier for me than if he had died that night in the attack. I don’t think I could have dealt with that. I told him so. When I put on my TV the morning he was stabbed, it looked like he had died, there were so many biographical things coming up on the TV.

“After that, I told him, ‘I already kind of went through your death.’ And I said, ‘Just do me a favor and don’t die that way, because I just can’t handle it.’ He said he promised me he wasn’t going out that way.”
The most essential person in George’s life, his wife, Olivia, was there for her husband in their last couple of years together. Petty said, “Olivia had the hardest job in the world, because she loved George more than all of us, and she really took care of him and cleared the path in front of him, behind him, and inherited that crazy life, you know.”

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THE BEATLES FILMMAKER PETER JACKSON REVEALS WHO REALLY BROKE UP THE BAND

 

 

 

According to filmmaker Peter Jackson, who recently undertook a three-part, seven-hour documentary of the iconic band’s final years for Disney+, it wasn’t Yoko Ono at all. It was manager Allen Klein.

For all of their success as one of the most popular bands the world has ever seen, The Beatles met a rather messy and complicated end. It’s easy to point fingers at Yoko Ono or Allen Klein as the sole cause of their breakup, but the reality isn’t always that cut and dry.

Peter Jackson has been studying The Beatles for the better part of the last four years. He concludes that Allen Klein is the leading cause of the split. The Beatles: Get Back director talked about the break-up felt ’round the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The band broke up over disagreements, with Allen Klein coming in to run their business affairs,” said Jackson. “For the first time in the history of The Beatles, it was three votes to one. John, George, and Ringo wanted to bring in Allen Klein to run their business affairs, and Paul didn’t, and they said, well Paul, Allen Klein is coming in because we are three votes, and you are one vote.”

Just like that, one of the most recognizable music groups in history split up after fewer than 10 years together. Okay, there was a bit more at play than a single split vote. According to Radio X, the members were working on solo projects, and the Apple Records album release schedule became a battleground, further dividing John, George, and Ringo from Paul McCartney.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Jackson says it should be Allen Klein. The Beatles documentarian added that, from his perspective, the criticism levied at Yoko Ono is entirely off-base. Yes, Lennon and Yoko were indeed starting a life together and exploring artistic avenues beyond The Beatles. But she was far from an active contributor to the band’s demise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Yoko comes in and doesn’t interfere. She doesn’t express opinions. She’s quiet. She’s there because she and John are in love. There is no other complicating factor to it,” Peter Jackson continued in the Deadline interview.

Paul McCartney himself told BBC Radio 4 that Yoko wasn’t responsible.

 

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BBC HISTORY : WHY THE BEATLES WERE IN TUNE WITH BRITISH SOCIETY/ ISSUE: DECEMBER 2021

BBC History

Why The Beatles were in tune with British society

Issue: December 2021

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THE BEATLES GET BACK: AN HONEST EXPLORATION OF THE RECORDING SESSIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The documentary, of course, includes musical teasers as well as future releases. Paul McCartney introduces “Another Day,” “The Long and Winding Road” is composed and structured, and we hear “Golden Slumbers” just waking up. 

The song “Carry that Weight” was originally written for Ringo, already has the recognizable chorus, but also includes verses about “normal kinds of troubles everyone has,” as Paul puts it, which are later cut. 

Ringo plays a song he wrote called “Taking a Trip to Carolina,” accompanying himself on piano, and self-deprecatingly mocking himself throughout. The clearer images bolser the intimacy, and the easy humor.

One of the most brilliant, stylistically and conceptually, sequences of the limited series is when Lennon and Apple Films executive Denis O’Dell are talking about artwork while Paul writes “Let It Be.” Jackson lets this story play out subversively. The camera is never on Paul as a subject. We see him in the background, occasionally looking around to see if anyone is responding to what’s happening musically. We can actually see him composing it, checking which chord progressions sound better than the last. It is so well done and never calls little enough attention to itself as to be considered sublime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Jackson never plays a full song until he gets to the title tune. “Get Back” starts out while Paul is trying to kickstart himself into a new idea. Over the course of the first episode, we will see the song transform into a protest against white nationalism. Jackson intersperses newspaper clippings for context to denote how important this was while it was happening.

But he also transmits this particular song as special. He details why by showing it refined in the tiniest of ways. He has an ear for detail, and an eye for shortcuts. We hear how important something so simple as an occasionally enhanced backbeat can be in a performance.

Each song has a story, like each character, and “Get Back” is the lead. It is the first song the world hears from the session, and the first played from beginning to end in the documentary. Jackson presents great footage of revealing moments, but never unpackages the whole thing until it’s ready. Just like the Beatles. Jackson reinforces this when he shows the Beatles deciding to follow their early tradition by rushing it out as a single. It is also a declaration of the upcoming show, wherever that will be. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there’s the rooftop show,  The Beatles’ final public performance on Jan. 30, 1969. The Beatles: Get Back turns that cold winter’s day into a warm, relaxed, and very witty lunchtime performance.

The film, as a whole, is an honest exploration of the recording sessions, and Jackson doesn’t shy away from mixing his metaphors to make a comment. He includes a scene where Paul asks why John hasn’t written anything for the sessions yet. John says he will come through in the end, and we see Paul getting more upset. Meanwhile Ringo is playing with the echo on the PA system, and the two have to speak their most intimate thoughts louder and louder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jackson almost presents it as a play within a play. It is very reminiscent of a story from Ray Davies’ X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography, where he recounts hearing the Beatles having heated arguments on stage in front of tens of thousands of fans who couldn’t hear them. Jackson captures that microverse where the band are alone in a crowd, while still isolated.

Above all, The Beatles: Get Back is equally fun and poignant. It doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable vantage points, and offers nuanced interpretations of both the band and the music they are making. The history is more clearly. Each episode is magnificent, and the overall picture is pristine. Peter Jackson is right, though. These episodes run slightly longer than two hours each, and if he does a director’s cut, Beatlemaniacs will still want more.

 

 

The Beatles: Get Back documentary series is now streaming on Disney+.

 

 

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THE BEATLES: GET BACK (PART II) ON DISNEY+ TODAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2 Now Streaming.

Made entirely from never-before-seen, restored footage, The Beatles: Get Back provides the most intimate and honest glimpse into the creative process and relationship between John, Paul, George and Ringo ever filmed.

The Beatles: Get Back rolls out over the next three days, November 25, 26 and 27, 2021, exclusively on Disney+.

 
Directed by three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, They Shall Not Grow Old), the series takes audiences back in time to the band’s January 1969 recording sessions, which became a pivotal moment in music history.
 
The docuseries showcases The Beatles’ creative process as they attempt to write 14 new songs in preparation for their first live concert in over two years. Faced with a nearly impossible deadline, the strong bonds of friendship shared by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are put to the test.

The Beatles: Get Back also features – for the first time in its entirety – the bands’ last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London’s Savile Row, as well as other songs and classic compositions featured on the band’s final two albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be.

 

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GET BACK: NEW EPISODES ACROSS THREE NIGHTS

 

 

Peter Jackson's "The Beatles: Get Back" is a mesmerizing feast for the eyes, a veritable time machine that transports viewers back to the Beatles' heyday in January 1969. New fans and diehards alike will revel in the carefully restored images of the Fab Four as they bring such classic tunes as "Get Back," "Don't Let Me Down," and "Let It Be" to life in the studio, culminating in the famous Rooftop Concert.

In its finest moments, "Get Back" creates the illusion of experiencing the Beatles working in real time as they undertake a follow-up project to "The Beatles (The White Album)," which had been released in November 1968 and was currently lording over the world's record charts. While most groups might have been content to take a well-earned break after spending nearly six months in the studio on their most recent LP, the Beatles reconvened on the morning of January 2, 1969, at a cold and cavernous Twickenham soundstage in West London.

 

Working with Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who had recently helmed the Beatles' video shoot for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution," the group had tasked the American director with documenting their rehearsals for what would have been their first concert appearance since August 1966 at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. 

 
As Jackson's three-part docuseries makes clear from the outset, the Beatles had set themselves up for an especially daunting challenge, particularly given drummer Ringo Starr's upcoming role in "The Magic Christian" film, which was set to begin principal photography in early February.

 

What transpires on screen over the final two episodes amounts to the greatest come-from-behind victory in rock 'n' roll history. Working at Apple Studios on Jan. 21, the bandmates spend the next ten days knocking one song after another into shape, even going so far as to gird their courage and take to the roof for their final, thrilling lunchtime concert.

 

Jackson sagely peoples the docuseries with attention to the large swath of folks who made the Beatles tick, including girlfriends Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman, Linda's daughter Heather, who at times nearly steals the show when she visits the studio, producer George Martin, engineer Glyn Johns, and loyal roadie Mal Evans, among others. In staging Get Back, Jackson makes excellent use of Lindsay-Hogg, who acts as a secondary narrator of sorts, chewing on his ever-present stogie and marching through Twickenham and Apple studios.

 

Simply put, "Get Back" is nothing short of a Thanksgiving holiday miracle. As the series unfolds from dreary Twickenham to the eminently more convivial Savile Row, we observe the Beatles crafting new songs before our very eyes. It makes for a transfixing experience, indeed.

"The Beatles: Get Back" docuseries releases a new episode each day, Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 25-27 on Disney+. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PAUL MCCARTNEY: "RINGO WILL OUTLIVE US ALL"

 

 

Paul McCartney took the stage at the Royal Festival Hall in London on November 8, to discuss his new quasi-memoir, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present—touching on everything from his relationship with John Lennon, his thoughts on a new Beatles museum in Liverpool, his distaste for passport photos and more, the night was another gem of new reflections from the now-79-year-old former-Beatle.

“In those days you were allowed to look groovy in passport photos,” the “Let It Be” writer said as he unveiled a never-before-seen photo of himself from the late ‘50s. “But now you’ve got to look into the camera and not smile—because it’s a totalitarian state!”

At another point in the evening, Paul humorously reflected on the health of the only other living Beatle, Ringo Starr.
“John and I went to grammar schools—Ringo, unfortunately, didn’t, but only because he was seriously ill when he was a kid,” McCartney said. “His mother was told he wouldn’t live—but Ringo will outlive us all!”

Recently, Ringo—himself now 81—told Jimmy Kimmel that he and Paul FaceTime regularly, and the two recently caught up over dinner with their wives in London.

Paul’s new book, The Lyrics, tells the story of his life through the lens of the hundreds of songs he’s written in his nearly seven-decade-long career. The 960-page book hit shelves last week.

 

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MARY MCCARTNEY MAKES A MEAT-FREE MEAL WITH DAD PAUL AND TALKS THEIR FAMILY´S HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New holiday episodes of Mary McCartney Serves It Up — featuring Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Stella McCartney — are now streaming on discovery+
Holidays with the McCartneys are all about fun, games, and good meat-free food.

Mary McCartney is back in her London kitchen in four new holiday episodes of her discovery+ series, Mary McCartney Serves It Up. Mary gave a first look at the episode where she invites dad Paul McCartney to cook with her, and talks their treasured holiday traditions. (The new star-studded episodes, available now, also feature Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mary's sister Stella McCartney.)

"In England, we have things called Sunday roast, where on a Sunday you have a roast dinner and it's sort of very much like a Thanksgiving kind of a festive dinner," says Mary.

The cookbook author and longtime vegetarian prepares sides like stir-fried Brussels sprouts, roast parsnips, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and a plant-based protein for the main.
"Dad does the slicing. Traditionally he always sliced the roast," she says, "and then I get all the trimmings together and a really nice red onion gravy."

In the episode together, Mary makes Paul a plate of delicious food before popping one last side out of the oven. "You know there is one thing missing, a new recipe I've been developing: vegan Yorkshire pudding," she says.

Poking fun at his daughter, Paul says, "Vegan Yorkshire pudding — what ever next!?"

 

The moment stirs up a memory for Paul. "When I was growing up, we didn't know people put gravy on Yorkshire puddings," he says. "For us, it was a golden syrup, Yorkshire puddings were dessert." Of course, Mary has a jar of golden syrup ready to go so the two can compare the savory and sweet versions. 

 

 

Aside from the food, the family's holiday season always involves Christmas crackers, fairy lights and good cocktails (like Paul's play on a margarita, the "McCarita").

"We like to play that game where you put the name of somebody on a post-it note and you stick it on your forehead and you have to guess who you are," laughs Mary. "It's all about pulling crackers and putting on festive music and everyone being together and having the night. It's quite simple."
Mary inherited her love of cooking from her late mother, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998. Linda raised her kids vegetarian and the family has long advocated for the physical and environmental benefits of a meat-free diet.

"I'm so passionate about it," Mary tells PEOPLE. With her discovery+ series, "I just wanted to do a bit of myth-busting and show it to be easy, quick, no-fuss and enjoyable."

Mary does not take an all-or-nothing approach when it comes to encouraging others. She stresses that there is room in the vegan community for those who just want to cut back.

"I'm very mindful of the fact that I grew up in a family that was vegetarian, so it's easy for me. But if you literally today are like, 'Oh my goodness, I would love to stop eating it.' You'd be like, 'Well, what do I eat then?' So that's really where I'm coming from is I would love to give you ideas," she says. "I'd like to just hold your hand through the process and show you some simple things that don't need to be complicated that will make it enjoyable because you want to enjoy your cooking and your food and your meal."

New episodes of Mary McCartney Serves It Up are now streaming on discovery+.

 

 

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NEW JOHN LENNON DOCUMENTARY BEING PREPPED FOR 2022

A new documentary, Borrowed Time: John Lennon, is in the works for 2022. The doc is directed by author and filmmaker Alan G. Parker, with the film's provisional poster featuring a shot of the former-Beatle outside his Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on October 13th, 1980. The copy states: “The legend you thought you knew. Think again.” No release date has been announced.

“Borrowed Time” was one of the tracks Lennon recorded during his summer 1980 Double Fantasy sessions. The track was eventually released posthumously in 1984 on the Milk And Honey album.

Alan G. Parker has been published in several leading rock magazines and written books on the Beatles, Monty Python, Status Quo, and worked at the Beatles' UK record label, EMI.

Yoko Ono told us she feels that John Lennon's status as a public artist pushed conventional boundaries and ultimately had its consequences: “He was meant to do it, I don't know. . . I think he was an inspired artist — he could not control himself about it, he just dished out all the things he was inspired to dish out, but also he was aware that it was very, very dangerous. I knew that he knew that he was playing a dangerous game. 'Gimme some truth' is what he was thinking, y'know? And so he was pushing that, to the point that it might have been dangerous — and yes it was, I mean, y'know. . . I think that probably he was too daring for his own good.” 

 

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RINGO STARR : MASTERCLASS

 

Ringo Starr helped create rock ’n’ roll drumming as we know it today. Now the 9-time Grammy Award winner wants to inspire new and seasoned drummers alike. Through demonstrations behind the kit and personal stories from his time in The Beatles, Ringo shares his principles for creative collaboration, finding your unique playing style, and embracing your musical journey with joy.

Ringo tells the origin story of his entry into the world of drumming, and shares insights that will help you find your own creative voice.

RINGO: I was born left-handed.

But my grandmother thought that was not a good sign, so she turned me right-handed. So I write right-handed, but anything else I do is left-handed. 

So I have a right-handed kit, but I lead with my left. I need time to do a fill because it takes me longer to get where I'm going. This is what I do. I work with what I've got, and that is what makes me me.

My name is Ringo, and this is my MasterClass. Welcome, everybody.

The dream of being a drummer came when I was 13. I was in hospital. I had TB, tuberculosis. While I was there, to keep us busy, a music lady would come in with percussion things, maracas, triangles. She gave me a little teeny drum the first time she came in. And something came over me that I knew this is what I want to do. It was like magic. And I wouldn't be in the band if she didn't give me a little drum.

From that day, I wanted to be a drummer and that was my aim. Of course, it didn't happen right away, went back home, and I had to go to work in a factory. And you know, I couldn't-- I didn't have a kit, couldn't afford one. I made my first kit out of biscuit tins, and the snare drum had little nails on it. So it gave you like, sst, sst, sst.

My stepdad, Harry, he went down for the funeral of his uncle. His uncle played drums, and there was a kit of drums in the corner. And he asked the guy's wife, do you want to sell them? And he came home with a set of drums. I mean, OK.

But you know, when you're 17, what do you know? They were old drums. I wanted new.  And so I saw in Liverpool, in the shop, there was an Ajax kit. And I walked in and thought, wow, this is great. And it took two sticks, and I-- you know, I couldn't really do it great, but I could

Wow. I asked my granddad to lend me the money. And I paid him back from the factory I worked in a pound a week. So I paid my debt back. That was great. And that's how it started.

You know, I'm not going to tell you that playing drums is easy because there is a lot to learn. Everything has to do its job. But when it comes together, it's just great. That's part of me now, you know. It was part of me then, and even before then that-- there's a tempo. You know, it's like there's a tempo to life. There's a tempo to every song. And if you get a load of musicians who are playing the same tempo it really helps. 

In this class, I'm going to tell you about my journey, about how I became me. We're going to talk about playing with other musicians, about writing songs. I'm going to get behind the kit and show you my drums. 

Lessons include:
• Have You Heard This? Ringo’s Early Days
• Playing in Bands
• You Don’t Need a Lot: Drum Kit Essentials
• Making the Kit Your Own
• Navigating the Kit: Tips and Techniques
• Playing With Feel
• Songwriting Demystified
• Connecting With Your Audience
• Different Strokes: Drum Demo With Jim Keltner and Gregg Bissonette
• Expanding Your Horizons
• An All-Star Jam with Joe Walsh and Steve Lukather

 

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TOM PETTY NEVER UNDERSTOOD WAS HOW ANYONE COULD CALL GEORGE HARRISON THE “QUIET BEATLE”

Tom Petty Said George Harrison Was Painfully Honest: ‘He Said Everything That Crossed His Mind’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Harrison made his sentiments known, no matter what. He was often blunt about things.
One thing Tom Petty never understood was how anyone could call George the “quiet Beatle.” During an interview with Rolling Stone after George died in 2001, Petty said the ex-Beatle hardly shut up. Petty guessed the nickname came about because the rest of The Beatles were just louder than George.

“George had a lot to say,” Petty explained. “Boy, did he have a lot to say. That’s hysterical to me, you know, that he was known as the quiet one. I assume he got that name because the other ones were so much louder. I mean, they were very loud people. [laughs] One time he told me, ‘Me and Olivia had Paul and Linda over the other night, and you would have thought there were a hundred people in the house, it was so loud.'”

 

In Petty’s speech, inducting George into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he said George really knew how to fill a room. He was a very “upbeat person” who had a “keen sense of humor” and spirit. George was never “preachy.” He “led by example.” However, George never shut up because he had a lot to say in a very small period of time.

 
George never shut up because he had to cram a lot of living in, claims Petty. The ex-Beatle didn’t like wasting time, so he put things very bluntly and honestly. He didn’t have time to play around.

“I’ll tell you, nobody I’ve encountered ever lived his life more every day than George did,” Petty continued. “He crammed in a lot of living and didn’t waste his time. And he had an idea a minute. Some nights he would have so many great ideas.

 

“George really said everything that crossed his mind. I used to say, ‘You really can’t get a thought to your brain without it slipping out your mouth.’ And he was painfully honest. It was an endearing trait, but sometimes you hoped that he wouldn’t be quite as honest as he was going to be.”

“Let’s be honest,” Petty said. “There was Cranky George, and he could be very cynical at times. He would always be the first to nail himself as being too cynical, but he was quite funny when he was really cynical.”
Most of the time, George knew exactly what to say. In Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Petty explained that when his and George’s Traveling Wilburys’ bandmate, Roy Orbison, died, George immediately called Petty.

“I don’t even know if I should say what he said to me, but I will anyway. When I came to the phone, he said, ‘Aren’t you glad it’s not you?’ I said, ‘Yeah. I am.’ He said, ‘He’ll be OK, he’ll be OK. He’s still around, so just listen, he’s still around.’ And that’s all he had to say about it.”

There are a many examples of George’s bluntness, though. He wanted people to realize that there was always the bigger picture to think about. 

 

 

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