Paul McCartney

McCartney: 'Eleanor Rigby didn't exist'

breakingnews.ie
14-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Paul McCartney has crushed hopes an important piece of Beatles memorabilia has been unearthed - he insists he made the Eleanor Rigby character up. A payslip dating from 1911 and featuring a household maid named E. Rigby from...

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Gary Flockhart: The devil doesn't have all the best tunes after all

scotsman.com
14-Nov-2008
        

Published Date: 14 November 2008 DARK times, they say, bring out the poets. In the midst of Obama mania, similar-minded musicians have been celebrating a new era in politics in the US by giving away their songs for free....

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Exclusive First Listen: Paul McCartney

npr.org
14-Nov-2008
        

When The Fireman released its 1993 debut (the instrumental dance and electronica mix Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest), the band's identity was a mystery. U.K. music magazine Melody Maker eventually exposed it as a duo...

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Project X By The Book

idolator.com
14-Nov-2008
        

I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction...

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Beck's Sister Makes Her Own Musical Mark

spinner.com
14-Nov-2008
        

Filed under: News, ExclusiveSpinner.com: Beck's sister, singer-songwriter Alyssa Suede Campbell, didn't always want to follow in her family's musical footsteps. The 23-year-old was once a young championship figure skater who...

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How I Got That Story: Gilbert Garcia

aan.org
14-Nov-2008
        

In the sixteenth installment of this year's "How I Got That Story" series, San Antonio Current music editor Gilbert Garcia talks about his winning columns, which Ling Ma says are all "portraits of mediocrity." She's talking not...

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Special Beatles Memorablilia Up For Auction

looktothestars.org
14-Nov-2008
        

Written by Tim Saunders Sir Paul McCartney has donated a very special piece of music memorabilia to a charity auction. The 66-year-old former Beatle responded to an appeal from Annie Mawson, founder and chief executive of...

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'rolling Stone' Lists Top 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time

k-litefm.com
13-Nov-2008 3 related
        

By: Howie Edelson Rolling Stone.com has posted the "The 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time," and enlisted the help of rock legends including Billy Joel, Bono, Robert Plant, Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, James Taylor, Melissa...

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White, Keys take license to kill Bond movie theme

nydailynews.com
13-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Jack White's song is everything a Bond theme should never be: hesitant, wimpy and diffuse. There's no relationship at all between his guitar parts and the obligatory orchestral ones, and even less rapport between him and...

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Haggis

leadercall.com
14-Nov-2008
        

I have often written that if I ever visited Scotland, I would eat haggis. Yesterday, my family and I attended the 23rd Scottish Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There were pale men in...

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