Even though many of his current fans were born years after the fact, the world still remembers Lennon as one of its most important musical and cultural figures. And bandmate Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t forgotten about him either.

“I dream about him,” McCartney told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show this week. “When you’ve had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship… I love when people revisit you in your dreams.

“I often have band dreams, and I’m often with John [in them]… I have a lot of dreams about John, and they’re always good.”

When The Beatles decided to call it quits back in 1970, much of the public’s ire was directed at McCartney. “When the Beatles broke up, a lot of the talk was that, like, I was the villain, and that John and I didn’t really get on well.” 

“I kinda bought into it,” he admitted before explaining how he eventually came to realize they were truly good friends all along.

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“Grow Old with Me” was recorded as a demo by Lennon in 1980, and was later released as a part of his posthumous album Milk and Honey. Remaining members of the Beatles later tried to work on some of Lennon’s unfinished songs, but this was never one of them.

While discussing the new version of this song, Ringo Starr admitted that he still wells up when he thinks of Lennon, and he did his best to do him justice alongside McCartney.

“The other good thing is that I really wanted Paul to play on it, and he said yes. Paul came over and he played bass and sings a little bit on this with me. So John’s on it in a way. I’m on it and Paul’s on it. It’s not a publicity stunt. This is just what I wanted,” said Starr in a statement.

“Grow Old with Me” will be featured on Starr’s 20th studio album What’s My Name, scheduled to be released on October 25th.

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Today, we are talking about the great John Lennon and his copy of the Butcher album. The copy that has been withdrawn from sale in 1966 and the price for it went as high as £180,000.

The controversial Butcher album cover for “Yesterday and Tomorrow” contains original graphics of the Beatles with raw meat and some gruesome imagery which won’t be mentioned here and is also the reason for its withdrawal five decades ago.

The album cover was a work of the Australian photographer Robert Whitaker and as soon as the album hit the US market, it caused a huge outrage. Many people claimed that it was a protest against the Vietnam War.

During a big sale in The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, the place they kept Lennon’s original copy, it was sold to an American collector who paid an enormous amount of money for it.

The band managed to release the album back in the day with a different cover, one where it shows the Beatles members sitting around a travel trunk. This album was the only one that was loss-making for Capitol Records, the company that released it.

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Just like the film it’s based on, Nowhere Boy will focus on the early years of the future Beatle, and two women who played pivotal roles in his life – his mother Julia Lennon, who left him at an early age and aunt Mimi Smith, who raised him as her own child.

The stage version of this hit musical is still in early stages of development and producer Brian Lee believes it will premiere in the UK in the next few years.

“We’ve just secured the rights of the film and as a team we’ll be traveling to London this summer, trying to figure out the right person to bring this narrative to life,” revealed Lee while talking to Deadline.

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Even though many of his current fans were born years after the fact, the world still remembers Lennon as one of its most important musical and cultural figures. And bandmate Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t forgotten about him either.

“I dream about him,” McCartney told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show this week. “When you’ve had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship… I love when people revisit you in your dreams.

“I often have band dreams, and I’m often with John [in them]… I have a lot of dreams about John, and they’re always good.”

When The Beatles decided to call it quits back in 1970, much of the public’s ire was directed at McCartney. “When the Beatles broke up, a lot of the talk was that, like, I was the villain, and that John and I didn’t really get on well.” 

“I kinda bought into it,” he admitted before explaining how he eventually came to realize they were truly good friends all along.

The post Paul McCartney Misses Lennon: I Often Dream About John appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

“Grow Old with Me” was recorded as a demo by Lennon in 1980, and was later released as a part of his posthumous album Milk and Honey. Remaining members of the Beatles later tried to work on some of Lennon’s unfinished songs, but this was never one of them.

While discussing the new version of this song, Ringo Starr admitted that he still wells up when he thinks of Lennon, and he did his best to do him justice alongside McCartney.

“The other good thing is that I really wanted Paul to play on it, and he said yes. Paul came over and he played bass and sings a little bit on this with me. So John’s on it in a way. I’m on it and Paul’s on it. It’s not a publicity stunt. This is just what I wanted,” said Starr in a statement.

“Grow Old with Me” will be featured on Starr’s 20th studio album What’s My Name, scheduled to be released on October 25th.

The post Ringo Starr’s New Album Features One of John Lennon’s Final Songs appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

Today, we are talking about the great John Lennon and his copy of the Butcher album. The copy that has been withdrawn from sale in 1966 and the price for it went as high as £180,000.

The controversial Butcher album cover for “Yesterday and Tomorrow” contains original graphics of the Beatles with raw meat and some gruesome imagery which won’t be mentioned here and is also the reason for its withdrawal five decades ago.

The album cover was a work of the Australian photographer Robert Whitaker and as soon as the album hit the US market, it caused a huge outrage. Many people claimed that it was a protest against the Vietnam War.

During a big sale in The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, the place they kept Lennon’s original copy, it was sold to an American collector who paid an enormous amount of money for it.

The band managed to release the album back in the day with a different cover, one where it shows the Beatles members sitting around a travel trunk. This album was the only one that was loss-making for Capitol Records, the company that released it.

The post Rare Copy of Controversial Beatles’ Butcher Album Sold For £180,000 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

Just like the film it’s based on, Nowhere Boy will focus on the early years of the future Beatle, and two women who played pivotal roles in his life – his mother Julia Lennon, who left him at an early age and aunt Mimi Smith, who raised him as her own child.

The stage version of this hit musical is still in early stages of development and producer Brian Lee believes it will premiere in the UK in the next few years.

“We’ve just secured the rights of the film and as a team we’ll be traveling to London this summer, trying to figure out the right person to bring this narrative to life,” revealed Lee while talking to Deadline.

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