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Sir Paul McCartney was "so embarrassed" when he tried to play lead guitar with the Beatles. The 81-year-old music legend was part of the iconic rock group alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr but explained when he tried playing lead guitar during an early gig instead of bass, he "totally froze" on stage. Speaking on the 'Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics' podcast, he explained: "Mind you, when I first met John. He didn’t play guitar, ‘cause I had to show him guitar chords because he’d been taught by his mum [Julia], and she only knew banjo chords. " We had this gig and it was ...
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Pattie Boyd has sold her private collection of artifacts, which included the original painting from the cover of 1970’s Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, as well as various items from her marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton. The painting, titled La Jeune Fille au Bouquet and created by Emile Theeodore Frandsen in the mid ’50s, was acquired by Clapton directly via the artist’s son in 1970. Clapton later gifted it to Harrison in the late ’70s, who in turn gifted to Boyd in the late ’80s. Boyd has now sold the painting for $2.5 million. Boyd’s collection, which sold for a total of $3...
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Das ehemalige Topmodel Pattie Boyd war mit gleich zwei bekannten Musikern verheiratet - mit dem früheren Beatle George Harrison und dem Gitarristen Eric Clapton. Erinnerungsstücke aus ihrer Vergangenheit sind in London nun für rund 2,8 Millionen Pfund (umgerechnet rund 3,3 Millionen Euro) versteigert worden, wie das Auktionshaus Christie's mitteilte. Versteigert wurde zum Beispiel ein Liebesbrief, den Clapton auf eine Seite des Romans «Von Mäusen und Menschen» schrieb. Darin fragte er Boyd 1971, warum sie noch zögere, ob er ein schlechter Liebhaber sei oder hässlich, zu schwach, zu stark? Boyd...
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Letters central to one of the most famous love triangles in rock history are set to hit the auction block. Pattie Boyd, the famed model who romanced both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, is putting more than 100 personal items up for auction. Among them, letters Clapton wrote to woo her away from the quiet Beatle, whom Boyd was married to from 1966 to 1977. “Eric wrote the most divine, beautiful letters, and I don’t want to keep reading them,” Boyd noted to the New York Times, explaining why she decided to sell the love notes. “It hurts.” “It seems like an eternity since I last saw or spoke t...
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Pattie Boyd is selling the "desperate and passionate" love letters she received from Eric Clapton and the late George Harrison. The 79-year-old model-turned-photographer finds it "heartbreaking" to read the missives penned by her ex-husbands but she is ready for someone else to "enjoy" the notes. Pattie - who was pursued by Eric while married to his close friend - told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “I’ve had them all for so many years – far too long. I thought, why don’t I just sell everything and let everybody else enjoy it? “The letters from Eric – they’re so desperate and passionate, a pas...
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John Lennon used to be insecure about wearing glasses, according to Sir Paul McCartney. The 81-year-old music legend shot to fame alongside the late John - who was shot dead at the age of 40 in 1980 - as part of rock group The Beatles in the 1960s but revealed that his bandmate used to have "horn-rimmed glasses" that made him look like boy wizard Harry Potter and would only ever keep them on for fellow musician Buddy Holly. Speaking on Radio 2, he said: "John had these horn-rimmed glasses at the time and if ever there would be a girl coming round John would whip his glasses off and put them in...
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Director David Leland has died aged 82. The BAFTA-winning actor and filmmaker – who wrote movies including ‘Personal Services’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ and directed an Emmy-winning episode of ‘Band of Brothers’ – passed away on Christmas Eve surrounded by his family. His agency Casarotto Ramsay and Associates said in a statement: “He is survived by his wife, Sabrina, his four daughters, his son and his six grandchildren… all of whom he loved almost as much as Arsenal football club.” David originally trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before co-forming the Drama...
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A Grammy Award given to the late John Lennon is expected to fetch up to $500,000 at auction. The Beatles legend - who was shot dead in 1980 - and his bandmates, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison, were given the Grammy Trustee statuettes in 1972 in recognition to their "significant contributions to the field of recording", but the 'Imagine' singer didn't want his trophy, and it is now up for sale. Gotta Have Rock and Roll, a music memorabilia-based auction house, told TMZ that John told the president of the Grammys: "I'm not a Beatle anymore, you can keep it." A d...
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Sir Paul McCartney "doesn't want to let go" of his late Beatles bandmates. The 81-year-old music legend is one of the surviving members of the legendary 1960s rock group along with Ringo Starr but following the death of John Lennon - who was fatally shot in 1980 - and George Harrison's 2001 passing at the age of 51 after a battle with cancer, admitted that they will forever remain in his heart. He told The Sunday Times: "When we started we thought that, maybe, we’d have ten years — that was the maximum span for a rock’n’roll group. I like the idea of not letting go of each other. "You know, wh...
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Sir Paul McCartney has admitted the rest of The Beatles didn't "particularly like" John Lennon bringing Yoko Ono to the recording studio but they were not "confrontational" enough to argue against it. The 81-year-old musician has reflected on some of the group's final recording sessions before they split in 1970 and he admitted his late bandmate's insistence on going everywhere with his wife further fuelled tensions within the band because they resented the "interference" to the way they usually worked. Speaking on his 'Life In Lyrics' podcast, Paul - who was also joined in the band by Sir Rin...
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