Pete Townshend on the ‘Magic’ Era of Thunderclap Newman, ‘Tommy,’ and 1969, the Year That Saved the Who
In this expansive interview, Pete Townshend talks about his Thunderclap Newman project, creating 'Tommy,' and why 1969 was ...
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Mariah Carey Has Now Ruled the Billboard Hot 100 in a Record 20 Different Years
Next up are four acts that have each spent time atop the Hot 100 in 10 individual years: Paul McCartney (including his ...
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Paul McCartney had an idea for an alien musical, but it never got made
Paul McCartney’s extraterrestrial era has been exposed. In a newly-released book, ‘The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2: 1974–80,’ ...
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Paul McCartney’s Abandoned Sci-Fi Movie Treatment Found
A sci-fi movie treatment written by Paul McCartney for his post-Beatles band Wings was abandoned after he and co-writer Isaac ...
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Paul McCartney’s Ditched Wings Sci-Fi Movie Treatment Found
A sci-fi movie by Paul McCartney, featuring aliens taking over his band Wings and co-written by Isaac Asimov, was revealed in ...
Paul McCartney’s Scrapped Alien Musical with Isaac Asimov Detailed in New Book
The proposed film featured an eccentric plot that intertwined aliens, McCartney’s band Wings, and their efforts to take Earth ...
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Paul McCartney And Isaac Asimov’s Scrapped Alien Musical Detailed In New Book
The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2: 1974-80 by Adrian Sinclair and Allan Kozinn arrives on HarperCollins. The book reveals new ...
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Behind the Album: ‘Tug of War,’ the Paul McCartney LP That Got His Solo Career off to a Flying (Sort-of) Start
You could argue that Tug of War set the template for what Paul McCartney's solo career would become, as a record featuring ...
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Now Hear This: December 2024
Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each ...
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U.K.’s Royal Mint Celebrates Paul McCartney with a Commemorative Coin
McCartney is the latest in a series of British music legends saluted with commemorative coins by The Royal Mint. The others ...
Why Paul McCartney's dream of making a sci-fi musical film about earth-invading aliens with sci-fi author Isaac Asimov never got off the launch-pad
The nature of these creatures is not important; but they may be lizard like." As revealed in The Guardian, McCartney's ...
Musician reveals the time he wrote a song while high, driving to Austin
In a new documentary about yacht rock, Christopher Cross talked about how "Ride Like the Wind" came to be. It happened on a ...