The Beatles

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Paul McCartney 'took' solo from George Harrison on Beatles ... (Fortnite)

PAUL MCCARTNEY and The Beatles' producer, George Martin, grew frustrated with George Harrison during the recording of one of his songs from Revolver.

He told the journalist: "I remember the day he [Harrison] called to ask for help on Taxman, one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along because that’s what he asked for. Despite this, the guitarist "reluctantly agreed" to let McCartney do his solo for him. But the perfectionist could not quite finish off the song exactly how he wanted. The mean-spirited song was aimed at the HMRC who, he claimed, were taking lots of money from him in income tax. In the mid-1960s The Beatles were releasing albums thick and fast.

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The reason why 'Anthology 3' didn't have a new original Beatles song (Far Out Magazine)

Alternate versions, studio banter, and even previously unreleased recordings were featured on the discs, along with new tracks recorded by the surviving members ...

That was more satisfying than just taking a John song, which was what we did for the second, ‘Real Love’. It worked out great but it wasn’t as much fun.” But it’s the end of the line, really. “[‘Free As A Bird’] was really like working on a record with John, as Lennon/McCartney/Harrison, because we all chipped in a bit on this one,” McCartney shared. “It felt very natural and it was a lot of fun, but emotional too, at times. Another reason might have been that recording ‘Real Love’ wasn’t as satisfying to the band as ‘Free as a Bird’. The arrangement also required quite a bit of fixing up in order to fully fleshed out the song, something that would have required more extensive input than the other tracks.

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David Bowie's homage to The Beatles on 'Young Americans' (Far Out Magazine)

Bowie was the postmodern spirit personified, and nothing could stop him in his quest to achieve his ultimate goal, total artistic enlightenment. He led by ...

During the track, Bowie sings “I heard the news today, oh boy”, which is quite famously the chorus for ‘A Day in the Life’, and it just seems too specific to be a coincidence, particularly when you consider the impact The Beatles had on Bowie. On this version of ‘Across the Universe’, Lennon recalled: “I thought, great, because I’d never done a good version of that song myself. Notably, he worked with a host of legends across his career, from Tony Visconti to Mick Ronson and even disco master Nile Rodgers. However, the most prominent is the former Beatles frontman John Lennon, whom he collaborated with for two tracks on 1975’s Young Americans.

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