Tag: Paul McCartney
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Joe Cocker, king of the rock anthem
Joe Cocker died on this day, December 22, 2014, in Crawford, Colorado, at the age of 70. No mystery as to the cause of death. He smoked forty cigarettes a day.
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Jude Jude Judy Judy Judy
Paul McCartney’s rock anthem ‘Hey Jude’ was released on this day August 26, 1968. His notes for the song — a few lines scribbled on a piece of paper — sold for $910,000 at auction.
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‘Soulless bastard’ caused two suicides
The British band Badfinger was on its way to becoming the next Beatles but they got ripped off by a crooked American manager who got rich while the musicians went broke. And in the end two of them hanged themselves.
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Joe Cocker’s ‘soul anthem’
Paul McCartney said of Joe Cocker’s version of the Beatles 1967 song With a Little Help From My Friends: “It was mind-blowing, he totally turned the song into a soul anthem.”
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‘Everything can wait but the search for God’
George Harrison’s search for God The youngest member of the Beatles died on November 29, 2001, of lung cancer, in Beverly Hills. He was 58. Most Beatles albums included at least one Harrison song, including ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps‘, ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ’Something’, which became the Beatles’ second-most-covered song. After the Beatles…
Mary Saves the Day 