As he releases his new album, Y Not, in January, Ringo Starrreveals that he received help from his former bandmate, Paul McCartney.
The Beatles share vocals on the first single, Walk With Me!
“Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on ‘Peace Dream.’ So I played him this other track and Paul said, ‘Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of cans.’ And he went to the mike and he just invented that part where he follows on my vocal. That was all Paul McCartney, and there could be nothing better,” said Ringo.
Awwwww!!!
“He makes it bigger and he makes it fuller,” he continued of Paul's work on the new single. “It makes the song like a conversation between us, and that was Paul’s idea to do his part one beat behind me. That’s why he’s a gen-i-us and an incredible bass player.”
So, Hollywood mega-mogul Robert Zemeckis is recreating the Beatles' Yellow Submarine for the 3-D big screen, and Zemeckis is crossing his fingers that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will appear in the remake!
Zemeckis has pitched the idea to McCartney and Starr, but he says they "haven't gotten the word yet on… whether they're interested in doing it or not."
The Back to the Future director is adamant on continuing with Yellow Submarine even if the two remaining Beatles decline to sign on, but the group has always been a "great source of inspiration" for Zemeckis.
Recently, an unheard interview with John Lennon surfaced, where the former Beatles bandmember put his comrades on blast, including Sir Paul McCartney.
Now, when questioned about the interview, Paul remains unfazed, insisting that it was probably drugs that made John speak ill of him, as well as recall that John often didn't mean half the things he said.
Says Macca:
"John said so much crap that he later said he hadn't meant. It's bullshit. We were there. We all enjoyed it. I never really criticised John. I'm not that critical. It's a question of personalities…Whatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses down to the end of his nose and say, 'I love you'.That's really what I hold on to. That's what I believe. The rest is showing off."
Do we sense some denial from Sir McCartney? Or is that some genuine truth? Guess we'll never know for sure.
The Beatles are arguably the greatest band to ever live, but the secret behind their split has never been fully understood. For years, the musicians have kept very mum about the circumstances that led to their breakup.
Until now.
A previously unreleased Rolling Stoneinterview tape with legendary band member John Lennon has now surfaced, and it reveals the great amounts of tension between him and Paul McCartney, as well as an angrier side of Lennon.
In the interview, John comments on feeling "sick" over selling out as a band as well as being "fed up" playing sidekick to Paul McCartney, a feeling that was mutual for Ringo Starr and George Harrison. John also had a problem with how his fellow band-mates treated his wife, Yoko Ono.
He said, "They despised her… It seemed I had to be happily married to them or Yoko, and I chose Yoko…George insulted her right to her face and I didn't hit him, I don't know why. Ringo (Starr) was alright but the other two really gave it to us. I'll never forgive 'em."
But ultimately, Lennon suggests the Beatles break-up was a long time coming. By the time they made it big in the early 1960s, Lennon said that the "music died" and that they never "improved" from that point forward.
Wow. A lot of resentment to be hidden for some many years.
You can read the entire Why The Beatles Broke Up article in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone.
Paul McCartney is setting out on a world tour next year aimed at performing in venues foreign to the music legend.
Locations being discussed are China's Tiananmen Square and the area surrounding Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie and several dates in Brazil.
The reason for the exotic locations is that this tour will be his last, according to reports!!!
The 70-year-old star is ready to give up life on the road.
"Paul wants to go out with a bang," claims a source. "He's played countless stadiums over his 50-year career and is on the hunt for the most unusual locations he can find. He realizes that the older he gets, the less his body will be able to cope with the demands of extended periods on the road."
But, don't worry!!! Sir Paul will still play the occasional show, but it may take the likes of President Obama or the Queen to get him there.
We'll be sad to see him retire, but what a way to go!!!
Dreams can come true fanatics, if you just believe and have one big friggin' sign!
A Perezcious reader sent us this photo and video of a former student of hers at a recent Paul McCartney. Her experience is one for the books:
"A former student of mine, Audrey, is obsessed with The Beatles and especially Paul McCartney. Over the weekend she went to another of his concerts. She held up a sign that said "Paul sign my arm so I can get it tattooed." The sign caught his attention and he stopped what he was doing and brought her on stage."
Watch her amazing experience above. We think she is just adorable.
So now that Michael Jackson is dead, is Paul McCartney getting his music back…or what?
It turns out that it's not so simple.
One rumor was that Jackson had left McCartney the Beatles catalog in his will and another rumor is that McCartney was "devastated" to learn that Jackson had not. McCartney debunks both, saying, "Some time ago, the media came up with the idea that Michael Jackson was going to leave his share in the Beatles songs to me in his will which was completely made up and something I didn't believe for a second… Now the report is that I am devastated to find that he didn't leave the songs to me. This is completely untrue."
While Jackson did buy the catalog of 250 songs in 1985, it was eventually merged with Sony Music's catalog, with Jackson holding onto 50%, which he often used as collateral when borrowing money.
As a songwriter, McCartney still receives royalties, as does John Lennon's estate, for their work as Beatles.
Even though the friends "drifted apart," they never "really fell out," McCartney said regarding his relationship with Jackson.
Paul McCartney said he'd like to collaborate with MGMT…sort of.
He said that it has to happen "organically" because he "can't call them" and that "if they called me, I'd say, 'How did you get my number?'. But I'd do it."
