Post Tagged with: "Paul McCartney"

The Beatles ... LIVE!: More Perfect Playlists

The Beatles … LIVE!: More Perfect Playlists

The Beatles’ early retirement makes compiling a concert playlist difficult – but not impossible.

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Paul McCartney, July 9, 2014: Shows I’ll Never Forget

Despite a recent illness, McCartney appeared trim, fit, and ready to rock.

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‘I just sort of dialed’: Ringo Starr surprised Paul McCartney in the hospital during illness

The Beatles bandmates remained in constant contact as McCartney battled an infection.

The Beatles reunite! (Well, kind of): More Perfect Playlists

The Beatles reunite! (Well, kind of): More Perfect Playlists

With Lennon and Harrison’s untimely passings, this is as close as we’ll ever get again.

The Beatles, "I Saw Her Standing There" (Star Club, 1962): Deep Beatles

The Beatles, “I Saw Her Standing There” (Star Club, 1962): Deep Beatles

The Beatles’ Star Club album remains controversial, but a spirited rendition of “I Saw Her Standing There” is worth the price of admission.

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Gimme Five: Stanley Clarke, Steve Gadd, Steve Lukather, Dave Mason + Brian Ray celebrate Paul McCartney

Collaborators from across his solo career talk about what McCartney has meant to them.

The Next Beatles Album (All Things Must Pass, McCartney, Plastic Ono Band, 1970): More Perfect Playlists

The Next Beatles Album (All Things Must Pass, McCartney, Plastic Ono Band, 1970): More Perfect Playlists

This time, we’re combining tracks from the group’s immediate post-breakup solo albums.

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Guitar With Wings: A Photographic Memoir, by Laurence Juber (2014): Books

Juber, with Wings from 1978-81, always had a keen sense of what this opportunity meant.

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‘He seemed to have fallen in a rut’: Foreigner’s Mick Jones on a Paul McCartney collaboration that never happened

Long before he co-founded Foreigner, Mick Jones palled around with the Fab Four during the heady days of Beatlemania in 1964. Fast forward a decade, and he could be found working as a sideman on George Harrison’s Dark Horse album. Hopes to collaborate with Paul McCartney, however, have yet toRead More

Deep Beatles: "Hold Me Tight" from With the Beatles (1963)

Deep Beatles: “Hold Me Tight” from With the Beatles (1963)

Some Beatles tracks forged new sonic territory, and others just rocked hard. “Hold Me Tight,” a track off 1963’s With the Beatles, harkens back to their beginnings in Hamburg and Liverpool You May Also Like: The Beatles, “Thank You Girl” from ‘Past Masters’ (1963): Deep Beatles The Beatles, “Please MisterRead More