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unusual facts about Lennon–McCartney



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The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me".

Al Coury

It was Coury who persuaded McCartney to include the successful single "Helen Wheels" on the US version of Band On The Run (because it was last-minute, the lyrics to the song were not included on the lyric sheet).

Backseat

"The Back Seat of My Car", a 1971 single release from the Paul McCartney album Ram

Calico Skies

McCartney had been staying in Long Island when the category-three storm Hurricane Bob that made landfall had hit in August 1991.

Ches McCartney

McCartney was taken with the book Robinson Crusoe, and carried a copy of it, along with a Bible, throughout his travels—the only two books he carried.

David Chapman

Mark David Chapman (born 1955), murdered John Lennon December 8, 1980

David Sheff

His interview subjects have included John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Steve Jobs, Ai Weiwei, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jack Nicholson, Ted Taylor, Carl Sagan, Betty Friedan, Barney Frank, Fareed Zakaria, and many others.

Double tracking

Some critics complained that the effect gave the impression that Lennon recorded all his vocals in a bathroom, but some performers, like Black Francis and Paul Simon, value the rich echo chamber sound that it produces.

Etta Scollo

Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to the recording of the Paul McCartney song Oh! Darling, which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics in 1988.

Gerry Lennon

Lennon stood unsuccessfully for the National League of the North in South Armagh at the Northern Ireland general election, 1933.

Helen Hall

40 Years Of Star Trek (2006); The Estate Of Clark Gable (2006); The Estate Of Stan Laurel (2007); The John Lennon Collection of “Magic” Alex Mardas (2004); The Star Wars Collection Of John Mollo (2003); Eric Clapton’s Guitars in aid of the Crossroads Centre (1999 and 2004).

I'll Follow the Sun

McCartney performed the song live during The 'US' Tour; he did too at the Paris Olympia on 22 October 2007, in Kyev for the Independence Concert on 14 June 2008, in Quebec City for the free outdoor concert on 20 July 2008, that was the 400th anniversary of the city, and at Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 September 2008.

Ivan Vaughan

He played bass part-time in Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, and was responsible for introducing Lennon to Paul McCartney at a community event (the Woolton village fête) on July 6, 1957, where The Quarrymen were performing.

James McCartney

He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and his father, whose full name is James Paul McCartney, as well as Linda's late mother, heiress Louise Linder Eastman.

Joe Lisi

He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys as a construction worker.

Joe Stefanelli

Based on this experience, Joe was hand picked by director Robert Zemeckis to be the voice of John Lennon in Forrest Gump.

John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project

The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is a chatterbot designed to simulate a conversation with John Lennon.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace in Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band.

Lennon Bermuda

#Wayne Furbert, Robert "Sai" Emery, Will Black, Francesca Dill, Ed Christopher, Ronnie Lopes, Dennis Moniz, Gita Blakeney, Paul Harney, TraceyLynn Harney, Adam Melvin – "All You Need Is Love" (Lennon–McCartney)

Lennon Bermuda is a tribute album and book inspired by John Lennon’s visit to Bermuda in 1980, where he recorded his Double Fantasy album.

LENNONYC

Interviewed in film are Yoko Ono, members of the Elephant's Memory band that played with Lennon and Ono in New York, Elton John, Dick Cavett, photographer Bob Gruen and Geraldo Rivera, who talks about a news report of his that inspired Lennon and Ono to stage the One to One benefit concert in 1972.

Let Me Roll It

During the Summer Live '09 tour, which included the Citi Field performances released on Good Evening New York City, McCartney added an instrumental version of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Foxy Lady" as a coda to "Let Me Roll It."

Life Begins at 40

However, Lennon's demo was eventually issued in 1998 on the John Lennon Anthology box set.

Live in New York City

Additionally, all of her solo performances, which included "Sisters, O Sisters," "Born in a Prison," "We're All Water," "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)," "Move on Fast" and "Open Your Box", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, to create a pure John Lennon album.

Love of the Loved

Oddly, the Beatles audition version was left off Anthology 1, even though the other Lennon–McCartney originals from the same session, "Hello Little Girl" and "Like Dreamers Do", were included.

Marta Grigorieva

Marta donated paintings to numerous charities, including British Red Cross (2009), St Paul's School Children Charity Fund in London (2008), English National Ballet (2008), Linda McCartney Centre for Breast Cancer Research Foundation (2007), Help London Child with Archant Publishing (2007), also supported victims of Cyprus through Honorary Consul for Cyprus in Monaco (2011).

McCartney

McCartney Library, academic library of Geneva College, named for Clarence Edward Noble Macartney

My Brave Face

McCartney included the song on his world tour in 1989-1990; a recording of it is included on the live album Tripping the Live Fantastic.

National Graves Association, Belfast

This plot contains the remains of 5 IRA volunteers, Joe McKelvey, Sean McCartney, Terence Perry, Sean Gaffney and Seamus Burns.

No More Good Days

Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger) scrubs up at the hospital before surgery; Bryce Varley (Zachary Knighton) prepares to commit suicide by shooting himself at the beach; Aaron Stark (Brían F. O'Byrne) and Mark attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting; Nicole Kirby (Peyton List) sneaks a boy into the Benford's house as she babysits their daughter Charlie (Lennon Wynn).

Northern Ireland Unionist Party

Cedric Wilson, Patrick Roche, Norman Boyd and Roger Hutchinson disagreed with McCartney, wanting to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business.

Number 9 Dream

Lennon liked the string arrangement he wrote for Harry Nilsson's rendition of "Many Rivers to Cross" from the album Pussy Cats so much that he decided to incorporate it into the song.

Off the Ground

Some weeks after its release, McCartney launched "The New World Tour", taking in many successful shows across the globe during the summer months.

Orange Swirl

The heavily Beatles/Elvis Costello-influenced disc features 12 original tunes and one Lennon/McCartney classic, "She's Leaving Home".

Otis–Lennon School Ability Test

The Otis–Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT), published by the successor of Harcourt AssessmentPearson Education, Inc., a subsidiary of Pearson PLC — is a test of abstract thinking and reasoning ability of children pre-K to 18.

Paulton, Illinois

Today the interior streets of the community are named McCartney (for the singer), Simon (for both the singer and the senator), Saint (for the early Christian Apostle), Pope (for the many Catholic leaders so named), Revere (for the patriot) and Newman (for the actor).

Peter and Gordon

Peter and Gordon told Palmiere at the Las Vegas Festival for Beatles Fans that they were to perform at the 2006 Adopt-A-Minefield show with Paul McCartney but the show was subsequently cancelled by McCartney, due to his impending divorce from Heather Mills.

Polocrosse

In 1962 Walcha became the first club team to win the Lennon trophy at the Australian Red Cross championships at Maitland when the four Goodwin brothers, Paul, Maurice, Noel and Brian together with Bob Gill and John Nixon played as the North New England No 1 team.

Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

R E Dunin-Borkowski, M R McCartney, R B Frankel, D A Bazylinski, M Posfai and P R Buseck, Magnetic microstructure of magnetotactic bacteria by electron holography, Science 282 (1998), 1868–1870.

Rockshow

The film had a limited worldwide cinema re-release on May 16, 2013, with an exclusive introduction and interview with McCartney.

Shaved Fish

The compilation includes many of Lennon's most popular solo recordings, five of which had not yet appeared on an album: "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma!," "Power to the People," the holiday single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," and "Give Peace a Chance."

Tell Me What You See

Nevertheless, the line "trying to get to you" (the title of an early Elvis Presley song recorded for Sun Records which served as inspiration for McCartney & Harrison's first composition, "In Spite of All the Danger") is a clear reminder of both songwriters' love for early rock and roll.

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

In an interview with the UK publication The Daily Telegraph Lennon commented on their relationship: "Charlotte hadn’t even heard "Strawberry Fields Forever" when I met her," Lennon said.

The Linda McCartney Story

The Linda McCartney Story is a 2000 American drama television film directed by Armand Mastroianni, starring Elizabeth Mitchell and Gary Bakewell.

Weather Underground

Rumors also circulated that the funds were donated by an internationally known female folk singer in Los Angeles or by Elephant's Memory, which was John Lennon's backup band in New York City and was a factor with the attempted deportation of Lennon, who had donated bail money for radical groups.

Wings at the Speed of Sound

This was followed in July with "Let 'Em In", which also scaled the singles charts. Amid all this, Wings finally went to North America for the Wings Over America Tour, playing McCartney's first shows there for ten years (after The Beatles' last tour in 1966) to euphoric reaction; a few selections from Speed of Sound were included.

With a Little Luck

Written in Scotland, "With a Little Luck" would become Wings' follow-up single to the then best-selling UK Single of all time, "Mull of Kintyre" and was one of the first synthpop records to appear on radio and in the charts and the beginning of McCartney's period of involvement and experimentation with synthesisers.


see also

Fran Jeffries

In 1966, Fran Jeffries recorded an album for Monument Records, This Is Fran Jeffries; a collection of standards and popular songs, produced by Fred Foster with arrangements by Dick Grove and Bill Justis, including a rendition of Lennon–McCartney's "Yesterday".

Tommy Quickly

"Tip of My Tongue" (Lennon–McCartney) / "Heaven Only Knows" (August 1963, Pye Piccadilly 7N 35137)