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2 novembre 2023, la toute dernière chanson des Beatles est publiée.
Lors des sessions du projet Anthology, Yoko Ono a confié à Paul, George et Ringo une cassette audio contenant des démos "faites maison" par John à la fin des années 1970. Ils ont pu les retravailler et sortir "Free as a Bird" et "Real Love".
La troisième chanson a dû être abandonnée. La qualité de l'enregistrement était notamment trop mauvaise.
McCartney n'a jamais accepté cet abandon. Il répétait régulièrement en interview qu'il finirait bien par la terminer un jour.
La mort tragique de John a laissé un vide immense chez Paul.
Retravailler sur ce titre était une manière intime de dialoguer à nouveau avec son partenaire. Les paroles de la chanson, où John chante des phrases comme "Now and then, I miss you", résonnaient particulièrement fort pour Paul. Il y voyait un message d'amitié par-delà le temps.
Au début des années 1980, peu après l'assassinat de John, Carl Perkins était invité par Paul et Linda McCartney aux Caraïbes lors des sessions de l'album Tug of War. Carl Perkins compose alors rapidement une chanson pendant la nuit, intitulée "My Old Friend". Le lendemain matin, il la joue à la guitare devant les McCartney. Au milieu du morceau, les paroles disent :
"My old friend, Won't you think about me every now and then ?"
En entendant ces mots, Paul McCartney craque et quitte brusquement la pièce.
Ne comprenant pas sa réaction et se demandant s'il a commis un impaire, Carl Perkins est rassuré par Linda. C'est elle qui lui explique alors la raison de ce bouleversement : ce sont exactement les derniers mots que John Lennon avait adressés à Paul lors de leur toute dernière discussion dans le couloir du Dakota à New Yor : "Think about me every now and then, old friend".
Paul, qui n'avait pas encore réussi à libérer sa peine et à pleurer ouvertement la mort de son ami depuis le drame, a reçu cette chanson comme un électrochoc émotionnel.
Cette anecdote illustre à quel point la formule "now and then" était ancrée dans la mémoire de Paul.
Lorsque les Beatles ont enfin pu ressusciter la maquette de John, la phrase principale chantée par Lennon "Now and then, I miss you" est venue réactiver exactement la même résonance mélancolique et fraternelle qui hantait Paul depuis plus de quarante ans.
Ceux qui ont vu une obsession commerciale de McCartney pour publier ce titre auraient évidemment dû se taire. Le temps avançant inexorablement, la motivation de Paul était tellement ailleurs.
"Now And Then", The Beatles, 2023.
SandraColbeckBarnes retweeted
“When We Was Fab”: quando George Harrison tornò ai tempi dei Beatles in un video pieno di sorprese
Nel 1988 George Harrison decise di fare un viaggio nel passato, tornando idealmente agli anni in cui lui, John Lennon, Paul McCartney e Ringo Starr erano i quattro ragazzi di Liverpool che avevano rivoluzionato la musica.
Lo fece con “When We Was Fab”, brano scritto insieme a Jeff Lynne e incluso nell’album Cloud Nine del 1987. La canzone richiamava volutamente le atmosfere psichedeliche dei Beatles, con arrangiamenti orchestrali, effetti sonori e riferimenti musicali al periodo di Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Ma a rendere il brano ancora più speciale fu il videoclip, diretto da Godley & Creme, una piccola opera ricca di citazioni, ironia e apparizioni sorprendenti.
La scena si svolge su un marciapiede dove Harrison, con la sua chitarra, incontra una serie di personaggi mentre intorno a lui accadono cose sempre più bizzarre. Tra gli ospiti compaiono Ringo Starr ed Elton John, mentre illusioni ottiche, strumenti musicali e strani personaggi trasformano la strada in un universo fantastico.
Particolarmente curioso è il riferimento a I Am the Walrus, con la comparsa di un tricheco che ha alimentato per anni le ipotesi sulla possibile presenza di Paul McCartney nel video, mai confermata ufficialmente.
Il videoclip contiene anche numerosi richiami all’immaginario dei Beatles degli anni Sessanta, trasformandosi in una sorta di caccia al tesoro per gli appassionati dei Fab Four.
Pubblicato come singolo nel gennaio 1988, When We Was Fab raggiunse il 25º posto nelle classifiche britanniche e il 23º negli Stati Uniti, ottenendo anche diverse candidature agli MTV Video Music Awards.
Il fascino del video sta soprattutto nell’atteggiamento di George Harrison: dopo aver trascorso gran parte della carriera solista cercando di affrancarsi dal passato beatlesiano, il musicista sembrava finalmente pronto a ricordarlo con leggerezza, affetto e una buona dose di autoironia.
#GeorgeHarrison #WhenWeWasFab #TheBeatles #RingoStarr #PaulMcCartney #JohnLennon #JeffLynne #CloudNine #Beatles #Yesterdaypills
2 Novembre 1987 George Harrison pubblica “Cloud Nine”
Il 2 novembre 1987, George Harrison pubblica “Cloud Nine”, il suo undicesimo album in studio, segnando un importante ritorno dopo una pausa di cinque anni dalla sua carriera da solista.
Il disco viene co-prodotto da Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra) e viene registrato presso lo studio personale di Harrison con la partecipazione di musicisti quali Jim Keltner e Ringo Starr alla batteria, Eric Clapton alla chitarra, e Gary Wright ed Elton John al pianoforte
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SandraColbeckBarnes retweeted
#meghanmarkle #grifter Link Explains Why He Thinks Meghan Markle Should Be Investigated Along With Father Thomas Markle
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70 years ago today, @ElvisPresley made his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and “Hound Dog” had the audience screaming from the first note. 👑🎤 What’s your all-time favorite Elvis song? EdSullivan.lnk.to/ElvisSecon…
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The Beatles - If I Fell (1964). John Lennon and Paul McCartney isolated vocals.
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"It's because you've been unmasked as a fraud and a liar!"
Meghan Markle FLEES the UK after the internet calls BS on her PR spin. @itslinklauren doesn't hold back.
Full: youtu.be/3mEbtxKX37Y
SandraColbeckBarnes retweeted
"Ele acertou em cheio DE NOVO!
Os Sussex mudaram completamente a narrativa sobre o motivo pelo qual Meghan estava "suicida", culpando a mídia britânica pela separação dela do pai, e pelo motivo pelo qual deixaram a instituição em 2020.
A carta foi entregue a Meghan em janeiro de 2019, mas o afastamento entre pai e filha já existia antes de maio de 2018!
A Família Real foi inocentada DE NOVO e a instituição não teve culpa pela infelicidade de Meghan e Harry. Tudo não passou de uma fachada e uma narrativa falsa para chegar a LA e ganhar dinheiro."
Tom Sykes
He hits the nail on the head AGAIN! The Sussex’s have now completely changed the narrative as to why Meghan was “suicidal”, blaming the British media for her separation from her dad, and the reason they left the institution in 2020.
The letter was given to Meghan in January 2019 but the estrangement between father and daughter was already there prior to May 2018!
The Royal Family has been exonerated AGAIN and the institution was not to blame for Megan and Harry’s misery. It was all a cover and a false narrative to get to LA and make money.
SandraColbeckBarnes retweeted
Home movie. [ Friar Park ]
© George Harrison
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George Harrison stands at the gates of Friar Park,staring at what most people would call a disaster.
The Victorian mansion is decaying. Grass grows through the floors. The once-famous gardens are wild and overrun. Greenhouses have collapsed. Grottoes are buried. Paths have vanished under decades of neglect.
He’s 27. The Beatles have just broken up. He could go anywhere. Do anything. The world is waiting for his next move.
Instead, he buys the ruin and starts digging.
Not as a hobby. As a way of life.
He hires ten gardeners and works beside them from dawn until midnight, hands in the soil. His sister-in-law sees the place and asks what he’s thinking. George doesn’t explain. He just keeps working.
His son Dhani grows up watching his father gardening by moonlight, squinting in the dark because the shadows hide the imperfections that bothered him during the day. The music industry keeps calling — albums, tours, interviews. More George Harrison, the Beatle.
George wants to plant trees.
Friar Park isn’t just a garden. It’s a strange Victorian dream: caves, tunnels, a four-acre Alpine rock garden topped with a miniature Matterhorn, and gnomes everywhere. He even photographs himself among them for All Things Must Pass — then goes back to pruning.
When a nursery owner mentions slow sales, George buys one of everything. When someone offers 800 types of maple trees, he takes them all. His wife Olivia remembers him saying, “It’s not my garden, Liv.” He saw himself as a caretaker. The garden didn’t belong to him — he belonged to it.
By 1980, he publishes his autobiography and dedicates it “to gardeners everywhere.” He writes that he’s simple. He doesn’t want the business full-time. He’s a gardener. He plants flowers and watches them grow.
Journalists visit and call it un-rock-star-like. George doesn’t mind. He’s lived Beatlemania, stadium screams, cultural revolutions. Compared to restoring hedges, it felt empty.
After John Lennon’s murder, the gates close for good. George and Olivia keep working — not for visitors, but for the work itself.
He dies in 2001. Today, the gardens are considered masterpieces of Victorian landscaping. Olivia still tends them. The estate remains private.
George Harrison chose dirt under his fingernails over applause.
And in that choice, he found something stadiums never gave him.
Freedom.
SandraColbeckBarnes retweeted
This is a photo taken from behind George Harrison's mansion at Friar Park. Look at the bottom right hand corner. See the open door leading out to the balcony? That was where George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd lived while the house was being restored. They even had a kitchen put up there because it was too far to go all the way downstairs to the original kitchen.
Beneath that was the location of the home recording studio that, at the time it was built, was better than the one The Beatles used at "Abbey Road".
On the ground floor of the bottom left was where guests would arrive to attend parties in the "ballroom".
Could you live in an incredible estate like that? Remember, George and Patty had no children, and George and Olivia only had one son. That sort of house should be filled with children and family, don't you think?
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Well colour me shocked Harry & Meghan run to the press and act like victims AGAIN all because Daddy put his foot down by putting out a statement confirming they are private citizens! 🙄
So via a spokesperson aka them, they were a "little surprised" by the move...
Then then proceed to lie by stating they had not been warned in advance...
but this time Palace sources have hit back saying they were warned but were just not told of the contents.
The hypocrisy of Harry and Meghans actions should be studied. Their public media campaigns along with their insistence on personal privacy do not marry up when it comes to how they treat others.
They have repeatedly blindsided the Royal Family with highly publicised interviews, official statements, docuseries, and a memoir detailing internal family conflicts - as well as making sudden decisions regarding their living arrangements - they frequently react with public indignation when subjected to similar scrutiny.
This double standard truly shows their behavior as a display of entitlement, where they position themselves as victims despite having initiated much of the public conflict themselves.
The fact Harry and Meghan fail to see that its due to their persistent attempts to upstage the RF and now moving back to a country they claim is unsafe all in an attempt to strong arm RAVEC is exactly why his father King Charles was forced to clear up this very messy issue.
He should never have had to make this statement but they consistently try to mirror being working Royals for personal gain in an attempt to upstage them.
I will say this though unfortunately all the while they still hold titles and are on the Royal website its going to create a very messy grey area and this absolutely needs to be rectified.
On a side note I wonder if they will actually come and visit Sussex now 🤔 tomatoes and old eggs at the ready 😅
#HarryIsATraitor #harryabdmeghanexposed #royalfamily #teaandtherapy
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"This is great news for Americans... She's lost it all, including the popularity she so desperately sought..."
@michaeljknowles on why Meghan Markle's narcissism led to a long list of failures in America.
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I have always been suspicious as to why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quietly killed the "Archewell Foundation" and rebranded to "Archewell Philanthropies"
This was not a casual name change!
Delving into this imo it was a calculated corporate decision to escape public and charity watchdog scrutiny.
By hiring a massive "fiscal sponsor", H&M legally basically outsourced their back office.
I am covering this next week in two parts on my channrl as I have found some very interesting and damning information.
Here's a little snippet of some things I've looked into...
The Transparency Black Hole:
They no longer have to file public IRS tax returns (Form 990). Their financial intake, executive salaries, and donor lists are completely swallowed up and hidden inside a massive corporate shell.
The Expense Loophole:
Under a public foundation, watchdogs flag luxury travel and private jets.
Under this private model, personal lifestyle costs and "charitable expenses" completely blur together. Nobody can track the ledger.
The Dark Money Pass-Through: High-net-worth or controversial donors no longer write checks to Archewell. They pay Global Impact, who cleans the funds and passes them through.
Total anonymity for billionaires buying royal proximity.
The Content Funnel:
They can use non-profit donor money to fund "community outreach" and research, which then serves as the raw material for their multi-million dollar for-profit Netflix and commercial media deals.
They want the global prestige and moral high ground utilising their royal titles to draw in donations but they’ve actively rejected the public accountability that is supposed to go hand in hand.
By doing this they are operating like an elite Silicon Valley corporation, not a charity.
Why are the @RoyalFamily allowing them to behave this way?
I'm exposing the full mechanics of this financial shell game next week, so if you are fed up with their lies, fed up with the click bait gossip and are interested in the truth then please come and support my channel.
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Stay tuned. 👇
#Archewell #scam #harryandmeghan #PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle #RoyalFamily #teaandtherapy
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Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Jason Arday are proof that fraud is not a victimless crime. When you tell people lies to get money, you will be caught out and it isn’t racism to expose you. When you tell people you have skills you do not have, it is not racism when your work is scrutinised. When you tell people different versions of your life and people don’t believe you, that is not racism. Everyone you mislead is a victim, everyone who gave you money you haven’t earned is your victim.
Being black, brown, trans, lgbtq, or any other ticked box, doesn’t give you a free pass to be scum, nor does it give you a free pass from scrutiny, outrage and anger.
If you’re not prepared for the attention you’ll get when you get exposed, don’t court the attention with your lies in the first place.