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George Harrison released his tribute to
John Lennon, called “All Those Years Ago.” The song is notable for being the first record since the
Beatles 1970 breakup to feature all three surviving group members, George Harrison,
Paul McCartney, and
Ringo Starr.
According to several sources, the song was originally taped the year before for inclusion on Ringo s 1981
Stop And Smell The Roses album. Harrison had written the song with different lyrics for him to sing, with the song s basic track featuring himself on guitar and Ringo on drums. The song was left off the album, and after Lennon s murder in 1980, Harrison revamped the song into a tribute to his late bandmate.
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As the creator of the ‘wall of sound’ production style, Phil Spector‘s influence on the foundations of pop music undoubtedly rivals that of the very top tier of pop’s most legendary figures. Yet a long history of abusive and manipulative behaviour, including threatening gunplay, culminated in the 2009 conviction of the murder of actor Lana Clarkson, which saw him die in prison and will justifiably overshadow his many achievements.
Spector – who died today aged 81 – was born Harvey Phillip Spector in New York in 1939. His forays into pop music began in the late ‘50s as a member of vocal group The Teddy Bears, who gave him his first US number one in 1958 with the million-selling ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’, a phrase that was carved on his father’s gravestone. At the same time he studied production at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood and, following further success with his co-write on Ben E King’s ‘Spanish Harlem’, began working as apprentice to