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Beatles memorabilia — the Fab Four’s audition tape —was discovered at a small record store in Vancouver.The precious find was made by Rob Frith, owner of Neptoon Records, who at first thought the reel-to-reel tape labeled “Beatles 60s Demos” was just a bootleg. In fact, he didn’t even bother to play it until years after acquiring it.Unbeknownst to him, it was a direct copy of the band’s original 1962 audition tape for Decca Records — a shocking realization that he just had after finally playing it.“I just figured it was a tape off a bootleg record,” Frith wrote on Instagram.

A Scottish songwriter can be revealed as the brains behind a huge hit by superstar Shakira which has just helped her win a Grammy award.

James Bond theme, has died aged 87.The British session musician passed away last Thursday (November 14) after suffering with Alzheimer’s disease according to his son, Kevin Flick.The Bond theme tune was originally recorded in 1962 for the first movie Dr. No, with Flick playing the famous riff on a 1939 English Clifford Essex Paragon Deluxe guitar plugged into a Fender Vibrolux amplifier.

CNN reporting that it had obtained Jones’ death certificate, which shows the producer’s actual cause of death.Per CNN, Quincy Jones died from pancreatic cancer. The report showed that he had been living with the illness for years, though this information was never made public.

Quincy Jones has been laid to rest at a private family funeral in Los Angeles.The legendary producer was laid to rest exactly a week after his death at his home in Bel Air, California at the age of 91. A larger, more public memorial is also being planned.His family told the Associated Press that the “intimate ceremony included Mr.

Paul McCartney has paid tribute to his late friend, the legendary producer Quincy Jones – see what McCartney had to say below.Yesterday (November 4), the music world was shaken by the news of Quincy Jones’ death. His publicist confirmed that the legendary producer had died surrounded by family on Sunday, November 3.Now, McCartney – who had first met Jones in the early 1960s – has paid tribute to the late producer in a lengthy post on social media.

news of the death of legendary music producer Quincy Jones, fans are re-sharing a controversial interview in which he took aim at The Beatles and U2.In 2018, Jones recalled his first impressions of the Fab Four in the now infamous interview, in which he described rock music as “nothing but a white version of rhythm and blues”, as well as detailing the first time he met Paul McCartney when the Beatle was 21.When asked what his first impressions of the Liverpool band were, Jones replied: “That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers.

The Jesus And Mary Chain, Robyn Hitchcock, The Wonderstuff, Katrina And The Waves and X-Ray Spex.Hitchcock himself shared the news on social media in the early hours of Monday (July 29), writing: “I heard the sad news today that Pat Collier passed away last night. Pat produced the bulk of the Soft Boys’ [1980 album] ‘Underwater Moonlight’ and went on to co-produce and engineer much of my solo work, from ‘Black Snake Diamond Rôle’ [in 1981] to ‘Jewels For Sophia’ [in 1999]”.I heard the sad news today that Pat Collier passed away last night.

The Beatles‘ classic 1970 documentary film Let It Be was premiered in London earlier this week (May 7), before arriving on Disney+. Speaking at the press launch, creators explained how one of the most vital scenes – and significant moments in music history – never happened.The film was screened in front of an audience at the Curzon Mayfair which included original recording engineer Glyn Johns and Giles Martin (son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin, who remixed the music in Let It Be), Louis Theroux, James Bay, The Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie and Captain America and Indiana Jones actor Toby Jones.The documentary, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was first released in cinemas 54 years ago and has been difficult to obtain since primarily because the original master tapes were stolen from Apple Corps shortly after the film was made.Speaking in a Q&A hosted by former Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman, Jonathan Clyde producer of the film and director of production at Apple Corps, said: “When we first started talking about [restoring] it with [head of Apple Corps] Neil Aspinall in 2000, he said rather unenthusiastically, ‘I suppose we’d better do something about Let It Be’.“But the problem was that the master sound, that’s 450 to 500, 15 minute reels of master sound from the 20-odd days of shooting, had been stolen from Apple [Corps] in the early ’70s.”He continued: “So in truth, there was not a lot we could do except whoever it was who pilched them was licensing them to bootleggers who were then bootlegging vinyl and CD box sets.

A Scot could make history tomorrow – becoming the producer with the most consecutive Christmas No1s.

Pete Tong has announced new details of his ‘Ibiza Classics’ UK arena tour for 2024.The BBC Radio 1 DJ released the ‘Ibiza Classics’ compilation album back in 2017, where iconic dance songs were covered by Jules Buckley and The Heritage Orchestra. The album features renditions of The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, and Armand Van Helden.

The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then‘.Martin was approached by surviving Beatles member, Sir Paul McCartney, with a demo for what would be deemed as the “final” Beatles song ‘Now And Then’. The track stems from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon and was completed with the help of AI – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording and allowed the surviving members to work with them.Speaking about the process of working on ‘Now And Then’ in an interview with The Sun, Martin said: “Paul played me what he’d started working on from the ’94 demo plus the extras he’d already done — new bass, piano, the guitar solo.

“Now and Then” — a brand new song by the Fab Four that was was released Thursday — well, the waterworks are about to begin again.The Peter Jackson-directed video, which dropped from the heavens Friday morning, is a flood of feels along a nostalgic, time-traveling trip that, true to the tune’s title, captures The Beatles “Now” and “Then.”When you first see present-day Paul McCartney and the eternally cool Ringo Starr — rocking a Ringo Starr T-shirt because, well, he can — all of a sudden surrounded by their late bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon in all their youthful glory, you’ll be reaching for a box of tissues.And trust us — one Kleenex will hardly be enough when you also see Harrison and Lennon sharing a mike in matching raincoats, Harrison in 1995 (when he laid down his guitar parts for “Now and Then”) trading licks with his “Sgt.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Christmas has come early for Beatles fans… who fortunately have been granted a week between gifts, so they don’t have to choose which to unwrap first. There was Thursday’s release, of course, of the newsmaking “Now and Then” single, a track that features the late John Lennon and George Harrison that was recently completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, with Martin on board as McCartney’s co-producer.

“Yesterday” all over again.That’s because there will be a brand new Beatles song — yes, you read that right — coming here, there and everywhere in just one week. On Thursday, it was announced that “Now and Then” — featuring all four members of the Fab Four — will be released on Nov.

“The White Album.”“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney explained on the podcast “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.” “Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with.”“The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not,” continued the “Yellow Submarine” performer. “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.”The British vocalist/songwriter would not let the subject be, adding that other members of the iconic group found the “disturbance” annoying.

Paul McCartney has admitted that Yoko Ono‘s presence during The Beatles‘ recording sessions was “an interference in the workplace”.Ono met John Lennon in 1966 and the couple were married from 1969 until his death in 1980.In a new episode of his new 12-part podcast series, McCartney: A Life In Lyrics, McCartney spoke about about the group’s feelings towards Ono, when she was brought into the studio by Lennon.“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney told poet Paul Muldoon (via The Independent).“Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with. The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not.”He continued: “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.

Paul McCartney is spilling the tea about The Beatles‘ time spent with singer and activist Yoko Ono, who was married to the late John Lennon.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Is it heresy to say that one of the greatest albums of all time just got a little bit better, 57 years after the fact? Possibly, but it doesn’t feel like too strong a statement to make after hearing the just-released Dolby Atmos mix of the Beach Boys’ 1966 classic “Pet Sounds,” as played back in one of the most state-of-the-art Dolby rooms in the world. It’s going to sound different under other listening circumstances, of course, whether the spatially immersive mix is being heard in a home with dozens of carefully calibrated speakers or through one of the all-in-one Atmos boxes that are now coming out. But what’s almost certain is that any status Brian Wilson’s masterpiece might’ve had as your own personal pet project is only going to be elevated with a lusher and richer audio interpretation of the work.

The Beatles-style remasters.In the ‘70s, The Wombles released four albums that spanned a string of hit singles including ‘The Wombling Song’, ‘Remember You’re A Womble’ and ‘Wombles Everywhere’.However mastermind Batt has now revealed that he’s destroyed all the original multi-track tapes so people “can’t fuck around with them after I’m gone.”Speaking to the ipaper, Batt said: “I mixed them as I wanted them, not how some corporation or great-grandchild might like to remix them when I’m not around.”It comes as a series of The Beatles albums have been remixed and expanded by Giles Martin, the son of late Beatles producer George Martin. So far, deluxe versions of ‘Sgt.

The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ has been released – you can listen to the studio outtake below.The track forms part of a new special deluxe edition of the legendary band’s 1966 album ‘Revolver’, which is set for release on October 28.Recorded during the first ‘Revolver’ recording session on April 6, 1966 in Studio Three at EMI Studios (now called Abbey Road Studios), The Beatles were joined by their producer George Martin, recording engineer Geoff Emerick and technical engineer Ken Townsend.“John [Lennon’s] ethereal vocals (fed from his mic through a rotating Leslie speaker), and innovative tape loops – including Paul [McCartney] saying ‘ah, ah, ah, ah’, which when sped up produced a sound similar to a seagull’s screech – converge with Ringo [Starr’s] thunderous drum pattern, George [Harrison]’s tamboura drone, and a backwards guitar solo,” a press release explains of the recording, which you can hear below.In an interview before ‘Revolver’’s 1966 release, McCartney told NME: “We did it because I, for one, am sick of doing sounds that people can claim to have heard before.”First confirmed by Giles Martin – the son of the late Beatles producer George – last month, ‘Revolver’ is the latest Beatles album to be re-released as a remixed and expanded deluxe box set following ‘Sgt.