RINGO STARR GRAMMY AWARDS FULL
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Here is a look at the two legendary musicians onstage after their performance tonight. Their music is nothing short of groundbreaking and will be revered by audiences both in the United States, but all around the world for many years to come. There is no denying that bands like The Beatles paved the way for artists today. This makes McCartney and Starr the only two surviving members of the legendary rock band. Fellow Beatle George Harrison lost his battle with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer on November 29, 2001. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” or “With A Little Help From My Friends ” however, fans of the Beatles will take what they can get while they still can.Īs most of you know, John Lennon was tragically shot and killed by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980. Now, while it was not the reunion that some of us would have hoped for, like a rendition of “Sgt. Sir Paul McCartney and his longtime band mate Ringo Starr took to the stage to perform McCartney’s song “Queenie Eye” from his album New.

RINGO STARR GRAMMY AWARDS FULL

We go the single closest thing that we will ever see to a full on Beatles reunion. Tonight at the 56 th Annual Grammy Awards history was made.

Cheers to you John, we miss you so.By Tasha St. But most of all, I wish he had not been murdered so cruelly and senselessly. I wish they had worked in a few more poignant moments honoring him. I am aware of the small controversy regarding Paul’s (slight) hand in writing “In My Life,” but this tribute was not the time nor the place to be attributing the song to “Lennon-McCartney.” We all know that song is a John Lennon song. I was deeply saddened as the show drew to a close, despite adoring all the things they DID celebrate (and singing along with Jude and all that.) I don’t feel like there were enough John songs, or at least enough deep and/or meaningful performances of John songs. Since I was not, I was waiting with bated breath for this celebration/ tribute/look back to that incredible time.

RINGO STARR GRAMMY AWARDS TV

I wish I had been born earlier so that I could have been a Beatles fan and watched them live on TV and heard them on the radio, and followed them around the country hearing them perform live and trying to contain my screams and tears. I feel like John was undercelebrated in this program, which as an American Beatlemaniac I had been looking forward to with unbelievable excitement. Paul re yesterday – “Are you nervous” – whoa! How the heck did they pull off that first show anyway? Bulldog was a rockin version, at least paul knew the lyrics. Joe walsh on Something – am i imagining it or did he play george’s version note by note, but muddle just a couple riffs that i know he could have played, in deference to George perhaps? Don’t let me down – nice that they included it for the millions who didn’t even know about it – and they included the part where john muddled the first refrain – nice merge to john and keith – great rendition, lots of feeling – great guitar, reverently understated – very excellent guitar jam (not the best of the night though) Dhani’s voice sounds so much like his father it gave me chills. They could have showed Yoko (the showoff – obligatory yoko bash) less and other people more (dhani?). i’ll make a separate post to cover paul and ringo’s performances. who knew joe walsh could still belt out those high notes in his low register! And the guitar duel was one for the ages. A few of the comments are pretty picky and I’d be interested in some responses, The merging into the live versions was a cool effect. The letterman interviews were great, learned some things. I thought they were generally a little heavy on the arrangements, given they were a 4 man band some of the backup singing and even some of the instruments could have been reduced…but this is only a serious problem to me in one song, Here Comes the Sun. The bios were perfect for the viewing audience. Due reverence given, it wasn’t overdone at all.

Technically near-perfect (Did anyone else notice the stagehand who didn’t quite get out of the way in time?), Top performances and performers.

Most importantly, it was GREAT to see ringo so healthy! last time i saw a clip of him he seemed kindof out of it.

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