A Beatles interview from 1964 that was recently unearthed from a film canister in a south London garage aired yesterday on the BBC. In the interview, John Lennon and Paul McCartney discuss how they first met as teenagers. “I was playing at a garden fete in the village where I lived just outside Liverpool, playing with a group, and he came along and we met,” said Lennon, while McCartney credits a friend named Ivan with arranging the chance meeting that helped fuse the most successful songwriting duo in rock history.
Lennon and McCartney also discussed how they composed songs together and how they arrived at the famous “Lennon/McCartney” credit. “Normally we sit down and try and bash one out,” McCartney said. “But then again, there’s no formula, because [John] can come up with one one day completely finished. We still say we both wrote it, though.” Despite the damp conditions of the garage, where the canister sat after the interview premiered 44 years ago in Scotland, the audio portion of the nine-minute film was still salvageable. The interview was recorded in the months following the Beatles’ triumphant trek to America and their famed Ed Sullivan Show appearance.
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Alan McGee, the former head of Creation Records who is credited with discovering artists like Oasis and the Libertines, spoke out against record labels in an interview with XFM. McGee urged new bands not to sign with labels, saying “I’d recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they’re all fucking rubbish. You’re better off doing it yourself. They’re living in the past.” McGee apparently practices what he preaches, as Poptones Records, the company he founded following the demise of Creation, has pretty much ceased to exist as the music industry continues to tilt digitally. Poptones was responsible for bringing the Hives to the U.K. and released side projects of bands like the Beta Band and the Icarus Line. The label’s website went offline this past May.
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Noel Gallagher has admitted he nearly named his album after a Geri Halliwell song – until his girlfriend pointed it out. ‘Dig Out Your Soul’, out on October 6, was nearly called ‘Bag It Up’, the star explained.
The Sun reports him saying: “The missus goes ‘Bag It Up’? isn’t that a song by Geri Halliwell. I was like: ‘You’ve ruined my entire fucking year!’.”The song in question was a UK Number One single in March 2000.
‘Dig Out Your Soul’ is due out on October 6, preceded by the single ‘The Shock Of the Lightning’ on September 29.
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The gravestone of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis has reportedly been stolen from the singer’s burial spot at the Macclesfield Cemetery in the U.K. Detectives say the gravestone was snatched sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. “There is no CCTV in the area and there are no apparent leads as to who is responsible for the theft,” a police spokesman said. The gravestone was inscribed with the words “Ian Curtis 18-5-80″ and “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” the title of Joy Division’s biggest hit. Detectives are asking that anyone with information about the theft to contact them. Ian Curtis committed suicide in May 1980, right before the band was due to come to the U.S. for a tour.
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