Paul Weller recalls recording with Paul McCartney in 1995: “We were shitting ourselves”

Paul McCartney has paid a heartfelt tribute on social media following the sad death of his good friend, American recording engineer Al Schmitt.MORE: Paul McCartney reveals exciting family news - and it involves his children!The Beatles star took to Instagram to share a black-and-white photo of the pair in a recording studio laughing, alongside a personal message.The music icon wrote: "So sad to hear of the passing of my friend Al Schmitt.

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Dominic Fike performed his recent cover of Paul McCartney‘s ‘The Kiss Of Venus’ on US TV last night – check out the video below.The Florida artist recorded a rendition of the song for ‘McCartney III: Imagined’, a re-working of Macca’s latest studio album featuring St.

Mark Sutherland Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and over 150 successful artists and songwriters recently joined the growing chorus of voices demanding changes in the way music streaming pays creators in Britain.But while the open letter to U.K.

George Floyd to Daunte Wright. “In 2021, you would think that we had moved on so much farther past that . . .

Please Please Me got into the charts when I was 12 or 13. They sank in when the album came out.

Recording engineer Al Schmitt died at the age of 91 on Monday, according to the his family. With 20 Grammy wins for his work with everyone from Ray Charles to Paul McCartney to Natalie Cole to Steely Dan, Schmitt won more Grammy Awards than any other engineer in music history.

Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Sleaford Mods and more to celebrate grassroots venues is coming to Sky Arts.CC-Lab has been commissioned to produce The Live Revival, which will focus on grassroots UK venues that have been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The three-part series airs on May 20, May 27 and June 3 at 9pm.MusicWeek reports that venues including the 100 Club and Omeara in London, Thekla in Bristol, King Tuts in Glasgow and Rock City in Nottingham will feature in the series,

George Harrison and John Lennon spent their teenage years attending has been saved from demolition.The Abbey Cinema in Wavertree, Liverpool which featured in The Beatles‘ personal writings and the original lyrics of their 1966 song ‘In My Life’, officially closed in 1979.The cinema, which was designed by renowned architect and Liverpool City Council leader Sir Alfred Ernest Shennan, first opened in 1939.It has since been used as a bingo hall, snooker club and, most recently a Co-op supermarket,

NME about what should and could happen next following the government’s streaming inquiry – calling for a fundamental “shift in the way that business is done” to make payments fairer for musicians.This week saw over 150 artists – including Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher and Wolf Alice – sign an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to reform the streaming economy and “put the value of music back where it belongs – in the hands of music makers”.Pressure

Boris Johnson calling for a reform to the streaming economy – see it in full below.The letter, from the Musicians’ Union in association with the Ivors Academy and the #BrokenRecord campaign, says that the law around streaming revenues and royalty payments “has not kept up with the pace of technological change” in the music industry.

Chris Willman Music WriterPaul McCartney gets by on his new project, “McCartney III Imagined,” with a little help from… well, some strangers he may never actually have met before the album was completed. But the collection of remakes and re-thinkings of songs from his 2020 “McCartney III” album is bringing him some new pal now that it’s coming out, like St.

Sir Paul McCartney revealed that it was Bob Dylan who first introduced The Beatles to weed in the 1960s. The legendary singer, 78, claimed to Uncut magazine that bandmate Ringo Starr thought the "ceiling was moving." "It was at the Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue and 59th in New York City in August, 1964.

Paul McCartney has shared a story about the first time that The Beatles got stoned, with a little help from Bob Dylan.Macca was speaking as range of artists from throughout the ages paying tribute to Dylan to mark his 80th birthday for Uncut‘s June issue – which is out today.

Mark Ronson,” a new docuseries that will explore groundbreaking technology in music, will premiere on July 30.The six-part series will feature Paul McCartney, Questlove, King Princess, Dave Grohl, Adrock and Mike D from the Beastie Boys, Charli XCX and more.Hosted by renowned DJ, producer and artist Mark Ronson, “Watch the Sound” will uncover the untold stories behind music creation from some of the world’s most innovative artists.

READ MORE: The Beatles: Guess which Paul McCartney song John Lennon LOVED most?Sean wrote: "Happy Birthday Julian! (Hard to believe that thing on a wall is what we used to call a 'telephone. ')John and Yoko's son was referring to the wired landline phone in the top right of the picture.