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From singing “Eleanor Rigby” in the first person to why “The Long and Winding Road” is the best Beatles cover of all time #ArethaFranklin #QueenofSoul #Respect #Beatles #RnB Aretha Franklin ’s genius took so many forms — as a singer, a songwriter, an album-crafter, a live performer. But the Queen was also one of history’s most audacious Beatle fans. Nobody ever sang  the Beatles  like Aretha. Since she was one of the few Sixties musicians as famous and revered as they were, she felt free to take any approach she pleased to a Fabs song — sometimes radically reworking it, as when she sang “Eleanor Rigby” in the first person. When Aretha sang any song, even a Beatle song, she claimed it as her own — and the Beatles knew it. Nothing could make them prouder than getting one of their songs stolen by the Queen. When Paul McCartney wrote “Let It Be,” he sent an acetate demo to Aretha in hopes she’d record it, knowing full well she’d outsing him on it. (Needless to say, she did.) ...

#Beatles  #GOD  #LSD  #Hallucination  #PaulMcCartney LONDON — Former Beatle Paul McCartney has told a British newspaper he believes he once saw God during a psychedelic trip. The 76-year-old star told The Sunday Times he was “humbled” by the experience. He said that “it was huge. A massive wall that I couldn’t see the top of, and I was at the bottom. And anybody else would say it’s just the drug, the hallucination, but we felt we had seen a higher thing.” The Beatles’ music was heavily influenced by psychedelic drugs in the band’s final years. McCartney also spoke of allowing himself to believe that his lost loved ones, including his late wife Linda, are “looking down” on him. The singer is promoting a new album and a tour. He remains one of music’s most popular concert acts. By Associated Press , September 2, 2018 

#Beatles #George #Hey Jude #John #Paul #Ringo “Hey Jude” sums up  the Beatles ’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture. The single was a smash as soon as they released it on August 26th, 50 years ago — their biggest hit, topping the U.S. charts for nine weeks. It’s the Beatles at their warmest, friendliest, most open-hearted. John, Paul, George and Ringo sound utterly in sync, building to that power-drone “na na na na” chant.  Yet it’s a song born from conflict. Nobody knew they were falling apart — in fact, “Hey Jude” was released four days after Ringo officially quit the band, walking out on the White Album sessions. Paul wrote it during John’s divorce, to cheer up his mate’s five-year-old son. As Julian Lennon recalled, “He was just trying to console me and Mum.” The world has been taking consolation from “Hey Jude” ever since. It’s one of the very few Beatle songs about a conversation bet...

A telephone rings in a corner of Giles Martin’s private mixing room at  Abbey Road Studios , catching the latter-day producer of Beatles recordings by surprise. “That never rings,” he says, reaching over to pick up the receiver. It’s his wife, Melanie, calling from their 23-acre farm about 80 miles away with happily urgent news: Eggs laid by one of the ducks they keep — alongside sheep, horses and other farm creatures — were starting to hatch. By the next morning, all seven eggs will yield ducklings. Martin, 49, is visibly relieved at the farm report, which may well be a good omen for another septuplet delivery he’s shepherding into the world: a seven-disc 50 th- anniversary box set revisiting the Beatles’ 1968 double album “The Beatles,” colloquially known as the White Album. It was, in many ways, the Beatles’ most ambitious, most sprawling studio creation and demonstrably the biggest commercial success of the group’s fabled career: It has sold more th...