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...McCartney’s bass and Ringo Starr’s drums give the flimsy song a new solidity. Harrison is posthumously present with a guitar part from the failed 1990s studio sessions....
...She’ll mention jamming with Ringo and you’ll think . . . Starr? (Yes.) She has a group of songwriter friends from Omaha, a second home for her, that includes Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst....
...Originally intended for a small digital-only release, the album received worldwide acclaim, including from Jay-Z, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr themselves....
...The index is down 10 per cent for the year versus a loss of almost double that for Wall Street’s S&P 500....
...One of which, inevitably, would be some form of John, Paul, George and Ringo (and George). Call it the cultural transmission effect....
...Lennon wrote “Jealous Guy”’s melancholy melody for an earlier song called “Child of Nature”....
...The plentiful stock of cheaper homes has helped soften the impact of 2014’s stamp duty changes....
...Sting blurred all the lines when he sang his new song “Desert Rose” from the back of a Jaguar S-Type in his commercial for the car. But, in truth, the lines don’t exist any more....
...(Bristol trip-hoppers Massive Attack also used it on 1998’s “Man Next Door”.) And all because, at Headley Grange in 1970, John Bonham had been stationed in a stairwell to musical heaven....
...But the songs dwindle into chugging predictability, singer Black Francis lacks the screaming intensity of old and the lyrics are awful (“Ping pong bingo, fills à la Ringo”)....
...Mick Jagger hollers away on a cover of the Stones’ “Dead Flowers”, Keith Richards reprises “Sweet Virginia”’s honky tonk, Ringo Starr and John Mayer guest on “Roll Over Beethoven”: antique rivalry with Chuck...
...By comparison, the FTSE 350 index of leading UK shares has increased by 25.6 per cent, and the equivalent US stock benchmark, the S&P 500, is down by 17.2 per cent for the same period....
...Elvis had Colonel Tom Parker, and John, Paul, George and Ringo had Brian Epstein. McGuinness is U2’s fifth Beatle....
...up momentum in recent years to be more adventurous in using the Beatles catalogue, including the use of the John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s songbooks on American Idol and a remix of the songs in 2006’s...
...The succes of “Believe” success prompted the likes of Madonna, on 2000’s album Music, to copy Cher’s artificially elongated vocals....
...Ringo drinks. A familiar story, freshly told....
...If Ringo Starr can do it, he reasoned, why not me?...
...Even the American Kennel Club would concede, however, that Havens was within his God-given right s to name the resulting progeny a “puggle”, which sounds sweet and appeals to Hollywood celebrities, thus...
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