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Ravi Shankar - Sitar & Conductor for Shankar's orchestra I was fortunate to go to one of the concerts on this tour, just 2 days before this one, at the in Southern California. I have mostly fond memories of this concert, although many music critics and concert-goers had less favorable reviews (see article below). Cover art derived from a concert poster/flyer for this event. Read a not-so-favorable review of George Harrison's 1974 tour: Watch a concert video from this 1974 tour:   Rolling Stones finally issue an album of original material in the U.K. on April 15, 1966 The followin ..read more
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This is a LIFO system - latest items come at the top at the bottom of this page The Beatles Record That Made History 60 Years Ago This Month By Andrew for Parlogram Auctions In April 1964 The Beatles held the top 5 places in the American charts in a feat which has never been and will never be broken. The record which topped that chart was their latest single, Can't Bu Me Love' and this video tells the history of that song - from its composition in a Paris hotel room to its retirement from The Beatles' live shows in August 1965. Lost 1970 Beatles Doc ‘Let It Be’ to Stream on Disney+ The documen ..read more
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Bettye LaVette did one of the most emotionally cathartic versions in 2020, a gritty old-school R&B performance at 74, singing the lyrics in the first person. She felt a deep connection as soon as she heard it, saying, ‘‘I wonder if people know he’s talking about a Black woman?’” She made it the centerpiece of her 2020 album, Blackbirds, where all the other songs were popularized by Black women singers — Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown. “It is about the road that I..
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“Blackbird” is a song with a long history in Black music, from reggae (the Paragons’ gorgeous version from 1973) to jazz legends including Ramsey Lewis, Sarah Vaughn, and Cassandra Wilson. No song has a deeper dialogue between the Beatles and the Black America that gave them their voices. Anderson .Paak put his spin on “Blackbird” in 2013, years before he ended up contributing to Paul’s album McCartney 3 Imagined, with his funk remix of “When Winter Comes.” The Beatles’..
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Paul wrote this song as a dialogue with Black America; Bey’s “Blackbird” is part of that call-and-response, proof that the song always meant exactly what McCartney hoped it would mean. It’s one of the most profound and powerful Beatles covers ever, right up there with Aretha Franklin’s “The Long and Winding Road.” 
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