Some 36 years later, McCartney is finally returning to play his first concert in Nashville on Monday, July 26. The Tennessean photographed and interviewed the McCartneys several times during their stay here in the ’70s, and on the eve of his sold-out show at Bridgestone Arena, we’ve gone into our archives for snapshots of an unforgettable moment in Nashville’s musical history.

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The Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park is proud to launch their 4th annual Summer Concert Series with a special performance by Harmony Project. The youth orchestra consists of talented, inner-city musicians. McCartney will introduce the ensemble, who will pay homage to The Beatles.

The event will take place on July 7 in Los Angeles. Admission is free for those who wish to indulge in Beatle-mania.

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Remaining Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr took a trip down memory lane at a press conference on Friday as they gear up for their highly anticipated reunion concert tonight!

Of The Beatles’ famous trip to India, Paul said his spiritual guru the Maharishi gave the band a “great gift” at a point in their lives “when we were looking for something to kind of stabilize us toward the end of the crazy 1960s,” reports the Associated Press.

Paul and Ringo will rock out together for the first time since 2002, when they headline a concert at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night benefiting the David Lynch Foundation, which provides funds for transcendental meditation in schools.

Other musicians set to perform at the concert include Sheryl Crow, Eddie Vedder, Moby and Bettye LaVette.

Here’s another one from Reuters:

The surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, performed together on Saturday to raise money to help kids learn a meditation technique the 1960s icons practiced at the height of their fame.

McCartney was joined onstage by Starr for a rousing rendition of “With a Little Help From My Friends” at Radio City Music Hall at the Change Begins Within concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes Transcendental Meditation.

The Beatles helped popularize Transcendental Meditation — described as a simple mental technique to combat stress — in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

“It started for us when we met the Maharishi in India and it’s going to get bigger and bigger and rule the world,” McCartney said after playing his post-Beatles hit “Jet.”

McCartney’s set topped an evening that included performances by Starr, Sheryl Crow, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper and others.

McCartney’s choice of songs included Beatles classics such as “Let it Be,” “Lady Madonna” and “Blackbird” and the concert was rife with nostalgia for the two dead Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison.

McCartney and Starr last played together in November 2002 at the Concert for George in London’s Royal Albert Hall after Harrison’s death from cancer at the age of 58.

“I love New York and John loved New York. Let’s hear it for John,” McCartney said before playing the plaintive “Here Today,” a song he wrote after Lennon’s murder in 1980 and which appeared on his 1982 “Tug of War” album.

Earlier, after playing his hit “It Don’t Come Easy,” Starr said, “I wrote that song with George Harrison and you know he would have been here tonight.”

Starr also played Beatles favorites “Yellow Submarine” and “Boys.”

Folk singer Donovan, who was also in India with the Beatles said, “George is here in spirit.”

The highlight of the evening was McCartney introducing Starr, invoking the name of the imaginary singer from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

“Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Shears,” McCartney said as his former drummer walked onstage to join him at the microphone.

Starr remained on stage for an encore, playing drums on a song written by McCartney while in India, “And Remember to be … Cosmically Conscious,” and “I Saw Her Standing There.”

Filmmaker David Lynch’s foundation says that since 2005 it has provided scholarships for more than 100,000 at-risk young people, teachers and parents in 30 countries to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The concert was intended to raise money to help 1 million children learn to meditate. (Editing by Bill Trott)

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On one part of the half-hour tape, John Lennon and Paul McCartney repeatedly collapse in laughter as they try to complete the ballad “I’ll Follow the Sun.”

“There are lots of false starts where the band can’t get it together,” said Alan Pritchard, head of the auction house’s entertainment department.

The tape also features versions of songs including “I Feel Fine,” “I’m a Loser” and “Don’t Put Me Down Like This.”

The tape is expected to sell for 8,000 pounds to 12,000 pounds (US$16,000 to US$24,000) at an auction in Midgham, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) west of London, on Tuesday.

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/story/_a/newly-discovered-beatles-tape-up-for/n20080731131809990010?ecid=RSS0001

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“Many years ago, I was fishing and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, ‘I am killing him – all for the passing pleasure it brings me.’ And something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.”

As for my take… I’m sorry Sir Paul, I really really like what you’re doing for the animals and all, plus the healthy benefits of the greens but I have been a meat eater all my life and  although I too hates to see maltreated animals, but I can’t stop being a meat eater. It’s my main source of protein. :)

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