Here are some various documents I've found about the Beatles/anything Beatles related.
Here are some various documents I've found about the Beatles/anything Beatles related.
LONDON- Former Beatle George Harrison has undergone cancer surgery in the United States, the singer's lawyers said in a statement.
Harrison had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, according to the statement, which was released to the British media.
The lawyers did not say when the surgery occurred but said it had been successful. They said Harrison was relaxing in Tuscany, Italy.
In 1999, Harrison suffered a punctured lung when he was stabbed by a man who broke into his home in Henley-on-Thames, west of London. A 34-year-old man, Michael Abram, was acquitted by reason of insanity and confined to a mental hospital.
-Athens Banner-Herald, Friday, May 4, 2001.
BERLIN-Paul McCartney held out the prospect of a collection of new songs this fall as he launched a retrospective album and a television documentary on his band Wings.
McCartney said he spent two weeks working on a new record in Los Angeles earlier this year, and hopes to complete it in June for a possible September release.
"I'm very excited about it," he said Monday. "For a few years now...I've had some songs that I've been writing, and I thought it was time to make a new album."
"Wingspan" is a two-part compilation that combines Wings' greatest hits-among them "Mull of Kintyre" and "Band on the Run"- and a second disc of lesser-known songs that documents the band's history.
A two-hour TV documentary, put together by McCartney's son-in-law, Alistair Donald, will air Friday in the United States on ABC.
"A lot of Wings' stuff, the early music, was in the shadow of the Beatles," McCartney said. "But as years went by, we knew we were making a really good group.
"The Beatles would be my No. 1 band really. But I have a lot of emotional attachment to Wings. It's two different stories."
As for any future collaborations, McCartney insisted that "at the moment, I'm just interested in writing on my own."
-Athens Banner-Herald, Wednesday, May 9, 2001
The U.K. magazine Uncut recently held a survey of really famous and well-respected people in the music industry to find out what they believe is the best Beatles song ever written. The results were published Thursday and the answer is Paul McCartney and John Lennon's controversial "A Day In The Life," off Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This was followed by two Lennon classics, both b-sides: "Strawberry Fields Forever" (the b-side to "Penny Lane") at No. 2 and "I Am The Walrus" (the b-side of "Hello Goodbye") at No. 3. All three of these songs were released in 1967. Among those really cool people who voted were R.E.M., Travis, Paul Weller (Style Council, Jam), Radiohead, Noddy Holder, and Goldie. Very interesting indeed. I have to say there is a special place in my heart for "She Said She Said." Oh, well.
June 1, 7 p.m. ET, Spin
LONDON- Sir Paul McCartney, the former Beatle who lost his first wife to cancer three years ago, is engaged to be married to Heather Mills, an activist for the disabled.
McCartney, 59, proposed on Monday during a trip to Britain's Lake District, his spokesman said Thursday. The two plan to marry sometime next year.
The 33-year-old Mills is a former swimwear model whose left leg was amputated below the knee after she was run down by a police motorcyclist in 1993.
The spokesman said McCartney bought the sapphire and diamond engagement ring in India earlier this year.
McCartney, who was knighted in 1997, has three grown children and a stepdaughter from his first marriage.
McCartney met Mills at a charity function. McCartney said last year that he was smitten instantly.
"I did fancy her from the start but I was playing it cool," he said.
Mills was married briefly in 1989. In 1999, she had been due to marry documentary cameraman Chris Terrill, but two weeks before the date of the wedding the ceremony was called off.
-Athens Banner-Herald, Friday, July 27, 2001
LONDON-Thirteen drawings by John Lennon went on public display for the first time as part of a new exhibition to highlight the former Beatle's artistic talent.
The sketches, on loan by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, are part of a larger display at a London gallery of 150 images created by Lennon between 1968 and 1980.
"The pictures show John's love for his family and attitude toward everyday life," said exhibition organizer Jonathan Poole. "They are amusing. They are meant to be funny and they shouldn't be taken too seriously."
The exhibition's main attraction is a sketch, "Multiple Self Portrait," which is made up of tiny line drawings. Other sketches show Lennon and his wife's famous "bed-in" when they spent a week in bed in 1969 in a public appeal for world harmony.
Another sketch, "I'm One of Your Biggest Fans," depicts Lennon chatting to a female fan on a New York street. It was drawn a year before Lennon was fatally shot outside his New York City apartment in 1980.
A selection of colorful children's pictures that Lennon drew for his son Sean are also on display.
The exhibition, which is free to the public, is being held at Harbour Yard. Some of the prints are for sale at prices ranging from $653 to $5,800.
Athens Banner-Herald, September 8, 2001
McCartney excited about new tunes
"A Day in the Life" Named Best Beatles Song
By Beth Wawerna
McCartney engaged to activist Mills
Lennon drawings go on exhibit
