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The 20 May promo clip was included in the Beatles' 2015 video compilation 1, and both the 19 May colour film and the 20 May film were included in the three-disc versions of the compilation, titled 1+. [37] The Beatles appeared on Top of the Pops to mime to "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" on 16 June.
Boyce has said that the song's opening guitar part (played by Louis Shelton) was an attempt to emulate the type of memorable and clearly identifiable riff that the Beatles had used in songs such as "I Feel Fine," "Day Tripper" and "Paperback Writer". [8] The latter Beatles' song had reached number one on the U.S. charts three months earlier ...
Although the Beatles rarely performed live after 1966, the group provided filmed promotional clips of songs to air exclusively on Sullivan's program over the next few years, including videos of both "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" from June 1966 and three clips from 1967, including "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "Hello, Goodbye". [18]
A re-creation of a ticket for a concert by the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl on August 23, 1964. ... Lewis offers the full backstory from 1967, involving a short but sharp dispute between one of ...
The Beatles created three promotional films for "Rain", [70] following on from their first attempts with the medium for their December 1965 single. [71] [72] Authors Mark Hertsgaard and Bob Spitz both recognise the 1966 promos for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" as the first examples of music videos.
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by the British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles ...
The subject of Beatles ’64 — the new documentary produced by Martin Scorsese that debuts Nov. 29 on Disney+ — is a familiar one: the Fab Four’s arrival in the United States on Feb. 7, 1964 ...
By Edward Baran (Reuters) - A Gretsch guitar that John Lennon played for the recording of the Beatles' hit song "Paperback Writer" and then gave to his cousin is expected to fetch up to $1 million ...