Paul McCartney considers his family and upbringing as one of the main influences behind his music. Growing up in Liverpool in a working-class home gave McCartney plenty of intriguing perspectives he likes to put into his music. He also learned lots of slang and phrases that he included in his lyrics. One title for a Paul McCartney song came from a phrase he picked up from his dad.
Paul McCartney said ‘Put it There’ was an old phrase from his dad
Paul McCartney’s dad was an important figure in his life. He provided for his family and looked after them after his mother died when he was just 14. McCartney also gained a passion for music from his father, as he would often play piano. His dad’s influence is often heard in his music, especially in one song called “Put it There”.
“Put it There” is a track from McCartney’s 1989 album,...
Paul McCartney said ‘Put it There’ was an old phrase from his dad
Paul McCartney’s dad was an important figure in his life. He provided for his family and looked after them after his mother died when he was just 14. McCartney also gained a passion for music from his father, as he would often play piano. His dad’s influence is often heard in his music, especially in one song called “Put it There”.
“Put it There” is a track from McCartney’s 1989 album,...
- 7/9/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Mick Fleetwood Enlists Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt to Honor ‘Songbird’ Christine McVie at 2023 Grammys
Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Mick Fleetwood joined forces to pay tribute to Christine McVie during the In Memoriam segment of the 2023 Grammy Awards.
The performance began with Kacey Musgraves, who sang a shattering cover of Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Lynn died in October at 90). Quavo then took the stage, joined by Maverick City Music, to honor his nephew Takeoff, who died in November at the age of 28 after being shot at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas.
And to bring the In Memoriam segment to a close,...
The performance began with Kacey Musgraves, who sang a shattering cover of Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Lynn died in October at 90). Quavo then took the stage, joined by Maverick City Music, to honor his nephew Takeoff, who died in November at the age of 28 after being shot at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas.
And to bring the In Memoriam segment to a close,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Larisha Paul and Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Mable John, the first female solo artist signed to Motown (then Tamla) Records, a Stax singer and longtime Ray Charles collaborator, has died at the age of 91.
John died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles; no cause of death was revealed. “We loved her and she was a kind person,” her nephew Kevin John told the Detroit News.
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John died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles; no cause of death was revealed. “We loved her and she was a kind person,” her nephew Kevin John told the Detroit News.
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- 8/27/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Former Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis has died at the age of 48.
The news was announced via his Facebook page on Monday (22 August). The cause of the death has not been disclosed.
“Rest in Peace, you were too beautiful for this world me lover,” Anstis’s wife, Antoinette, wrote. “Nothing will ever be the same again.
“Love always and ever. Until we meet again…”
Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth also paid homage to his ex-bandmate on his official Facebook page.
“It is with a deeply saddened heart that I have heard of the passing of my former guitarist Stuart Anstis at 48,” he wrote.
“Stuart -despite our eventual differences was an amazingly talented guitarist who brought a real sense of magick [sic] to everything he wrote in Cradle Of Filth.
“For a long time he and I were bestest [sic] of friends living in a small village here in Suffolk and despite that relationship eventually changing,...
The news was announced via his Facebook page on Monday (22 August). The cause of the death has not been disclosed.
“Rest in Peace, you were too beautiful for this world me lover,” Anstis’s wife, Antoinette, wrote. “Nothing will ever be the same again.
“Love always and ever. Until we meet again…”
Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth also paid homage to his ex-bandmate on his official Facebook page.
“It is with a deeply saddened heart that I have heard of the passing of my former guitarist Stuart Anstis at 48,” he wrote.
“Stuart -despite our eventual differences was an amazingly talented guitarist who brought a real sense of magick [sic] to everything he wrote in Cradle Of Filth.
“For a long time he and I were bestest [sic] of friends living in a small village here in Suffolk and despite that relationship eventually changing,...
- 8/24/2022
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Music
The Wanted singer Tom Parker has received a posthumous National Television Award nomination for his documentary about the charity concert he organised for cancer research.
Following his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020, Parker campaigned heavily for brain cancer awareness and organised a special concert, called Inside My Head, at the Royal Albert Hall last September. The show raised money for Stand Up To Cancer and The National Brain Appeal.
Six months after the concert took place, the British singer died in a hospice near his south-east London home on 30 March 2022, aged 33.
The Channel 4 documentary, also titled Inside My Head, followed Parker as he organised the event and also included footage of him and his family learning to live with his illness.
Parker will go up against Kate Garraway, who won the authored documentary category last year for a programme about her family's life after her husband, former political adviser Derek Draper,...
Following his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020, Parker campaigned heavily for brain cancer awareness and organised a special concert, called Inside My Head, at the Royal Albert Hall last September. The show raised money for Stand Up To Cancer and The National Brain Appeal.
Six months after the concert took place, the British singer died in a hospice near his south-east London home on 30 March 2022, aged 33.
The Channel 4 documentary, also titled Inside My Head, followed Parker as he organised the event and also included footage of him and his family learning to live with his illness.
Parker will go up against Kate Garraway, who won the authored documentary category last year for a programme about her family's life after her husband, former political adviser Derek Draper,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - TV
The Wanted singer Tom Parker has received a posthumous National Television Award nomination for his documentary about the charity concert he organised for cancer research.
Following his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020, Parker campaigned heavily for brain cancer awareness and organised a special concert, called Inside My Head, at the Royal Albert Hall last September. The show raised money for Stand Up To Cancer and The National Brain Appeal.
Six months after the concert took place, the British singer died in a hospice near his south-east London home on 30 March 2022, aged 33.
The Channel 4 documentary, also titled Inside My Head, followed Parker as he organised the event and also included footage of him and his family learning to live with his illness.
Parker will go up against Kate Garraway, who won the authored documentary category last year for a programme about her family's life after her husband, former political adviser Derek Draper,...
Following his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020, Parker campaigned heavily for brain cancer awareness and organised a special concert, called Inside My Head, at the Royal Albert Hall last September. The show raised money for Stand Up To Cancer and The National Brain Appeal.
Six months after the concert took place, the British singer died in a hospice near his south-east London home on 30 March 2022, aged 33.
The Channel 4 documentary, also titled Inside My Head, followed Parker as he organised the event and also included footage of him and his family learning to live with his illness.
Parker will go up against Kate Garraway, who won the authored documentary category last year for a programme about her family's life after her husband, former political adviser Derek Draper,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
Jerry Allison, the groundbreaking early rock & roll and rockabilly drummer who, as a member of The Crickets with Buddy Holly, co-wrote landmark songs such as “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be the Day,” has died. He was 82.
According to a post on the Buddy Holly Facebook page, “Ji was a musician ahead of his time, and undoubtedly his energy, ideas and exceptional skill contributed to both The Crickets, and rock n’ roll itself, becoming such a success.”
Allison, one critic wrote, “knew how to get an incredible variety of percussion sounds, given the limitations of equipment in the era, sometimes working with as little as one snare, a cymbal, and a bass drum (if that).”
His work on “Peggy Sue,” for instance, involves the use of a paradiddle, a drumming rudiment that combines single strokes with precisely placed double strokes. He also contributed the title; “Peggy Sue” was originally titled “Cindy Lou,...
According to a post on the Buddy Holly Facebook page, “Ji was a musician ahead of his time, and undoubtedly his energy, ideas and exceptional skill contributed to both The Crickets, and rock n’ roll itself, becoming such a success.”
Allison, one critic wrote, “knew how to get an incredible variety of percussion sounds, given the limitations of equipment in the era, sometimes working with as little as one snare, a cymbal, and a bass drum (if that).”
His work on “Peggy Sue,” for instance, involves the use of a paradiddle, a drumming rudiment that combines single strokes with precisely placed double strokes. He also contributed the title; “Peggy Sue” was originally titled “Cindy Lou,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Peggy Sue Gerron, the woman who inspired Buddy Holly’s 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue,” died Monday at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. She was 78.
Gerron met Holly in Lubbock in the mid-Fifties when he was a budding musician and she was still a high school student at Lubbock High (Holly’s alma mater). As Gerron recalled, their first encounter occured when Holly, running late for a gig, accidentally knocked her over. “He ran over to me, guitar in one hand, amp in the other,...
Gerron met Holly in Lubbock in the mid-Fifties when he was a budding musician and she was still a high school student at Lubbock High (Holly’s alma mater). As Gerron recalled, their first encounter occured when Holly, running late for a gig, accidentally knocked her over. “He ran over to me, guitar in one hand, amp in the other,...
- 10/2/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been quite a long time since Gary Busey was taken seriously as an actor of considerable talent, but back in 1978 he almost took home an Oscar for his spectacular portrayal of Buddy Holly in director Steve Rash’s controversial bio-pic, The Buddy Holly Story. Playing a 19 year old kid from Texas on the cusp of making rock and roll history at the age of 33, Busey lost a considerable amount of weight to embody the 146 pound front man, and more impressively, performed all of the songs sprinkled throughout the film live with a fictionalized version of Holly’s backing band, The Crickets. Though Busey’s portrayal was lauded, the film itself was harshly criticized not only for this fabricated characterization which reduced his real life three piece band, featuring Niki Sullivan, Joe B. Mauldin and J.I. Allison, to a fictional drum and bass duo in Jesse Charles (Don Stroud...
- 9/2/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Screewnriter Josh Olson ("A History of Violence") kicks off the week at Trailers from Hell with Steve Rash's 'The Buddy Holly Story': Oscar-nominated Gary Busey lost 32 pounds to play doomed rocker Holly, who weighed 146 at the time of his death. Busey had previously been slated to play Crickets drummer Jerry Allison in an aborted earlier attempt to dramatize Holly's life called Three Sided Coin, which was cancelled by 20th Century Fox over rights issues. Director Steve Rash made a splash with this, his first feature, that was never to be repeated.
- 7/30/2012
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Oscar-nominated Gary Busey lost 32 pounds to play doomed rocker Holly, who weighed 146 at the time of his death. Busey had previously been slated to play Crickets drummer Jerry Allison in an aborted earlier attempt to dramatize Holly’s life called Three Sided Coin, which was cancelled by 20th Century Fox over rights issues. Director Steve Rash made a splash with this, his first feature, that was never to be repeated.
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- 7/30/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
We are women, hear us roar. We can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and inspire many a chart-topping song!
10 Songs Inspired by Real WomenLucy in the Sky with Diamonds
The real-life Lucy from the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died at the age of 46. Lucy Vodden was classmates with John Lennon's son, Julian. One day, the young Lennon came home from school with a drawing that he entitled, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly wrote his hit "Peggy Sue" about Peggy Sue Gerron, who married Buddy Holly and the Crickets' band member Jerry Allison. Holly actually never had a romantic relationship with Peggy Sue, but he really, really, really liked her name.
It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan wrote "It Ain't Me Babe" about his ugly breakup with former squeeze folksinger, Joan Baez. Baez must've been thrilled.
10 Songs Inspired by Real WomenLucy in the Sky with Diamonds
The real-life Lucy from the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died at the age of 46. Lucy Vodden was classmates with John Lennon's son, Julian. One day, the young Lennon came home from school with a drawing that he entitled, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly wrote his hit "Peggy Sue" about Peggy Sue Gerron, who married Buddy Holly and the Crickets' band member Jerry Allison. Holly actually never had a romantic relationship with Peggy Sue, but he really, really, really liked her name.
It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan wrote "It Ain't Me Babe" about his ugly breakup with former squeeze folksinger, Joan Baez. Baez must've been thrilled.
- 10/1/2009
- Momlogic
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