Photos of The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York expected to fetch $25,000 at auction to mark 50 years since release of their first album

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Photos of The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York expected to fetch $25,000 at auction to mark 50 years since release of their first album

• Photographs by amateur snapper Marc Weinstein taken on August 15 1965
• Auction marks 50 years since the release of the album Please Please Me

By HELEN LAWSON
Mail On Line
PUBLISHED: 3 March 2013

Photographs from The Beatles' record-breaking Shea Stadium show are to go under the hammer this month to mark 50 years since the band released their debut album.
The 61 pictures, taken by amateur photographer Marc Weinstein, are expected to fetch £15,000 at the sale at Omega Auctions in Stockport on March 22.
The black and white shots capture the Liverpudlian four-piece at the peak of Beatlemania as they began a US tour.

George Harrison, left, and John Lennon during The Beatles' Shea Stadium show in New York in August 1965. The image, taken by amateur photographer Marc Weinstein, is part of a collection of 61 pictures due be sold at auction later this month


The auction on March 22 marks 50 years since the release of the band's first album Please Please Me - including a collection of their Shea Stadium gig


The copyright of these photographs is included in the sale at Omega Auctions in Stockport on March 22


The 'Fifth Beatle' Brian Epstein is seen in the foreground looking out at the 55,000-strong crowd at Shea Stadium

The August 1965 concert, compered by television star Ed Sullivan, was one of the world's first big outdoor stadium gigs - and even the 2,000 security staff couldn't stop the overexcited crowd charging towards the stage.
Screams from the fans were so loud that the music could not be heard through the amps - and turning on the stadium's system used during baseball games didn't help either.
The brief set, consisting of 12 songs in half an hour, raked in $304,000 - then the biggest grossing event in showbiz history.
The collection is up for sale alongside rare Beatles vinyl and memorabilia to mark half a century to the day since the release of Please Please Me, the band's first album.


The collection of Shea Stadium photographs is expected to fetch £15,000 at a Stockport auction house later this month


The collection, capturing the world's first outdoor stadium gig on film, shows the band - including this shot of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon - at the peak of Beatlemania


Ringo Starr behind his drumkit at Shea Stadium in August 1965

TThe winning bidder also wins the copyright for the photographs - so will be free to do whatever they want with them.
Record label Parlophone rushed through recording 14 songs for Please Please Me with producer George Martin after the single of the same name topped the New Musical Express and Melody Maker charts.
Last year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album as the 39th greatest of all time, in its top 500 list.
It also voted I Saw Her Standing There and the title track into its top 500 greatest songs of all time, at 139th and 184th respectively.


The Shea Stadium collection, taken by an amateur photographer, goes under the hammer this month alongside Beatles vinyl and memorabilia


The winner of the auction will also gain the copyright to the images


Ringo Starr, pictured in front of the record-breaking 55,000-strong crowd at Shea Stadium, New York

Sir Paul McCartney Gets Comic Book Treatment

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Sir Paul McCartney Gets Comic Book Treatment
Sir Paul McCartney's decision to leave The Beatles to seek solo fame has been turned into a new comic book.
06 March 2013


The music icon's story will feature in a 24-page graphic novel, entitled Paul McCartney: Carry that Weight, which aims to give fans new insight into the Fab Four's break-up in 1970.
Publisher Darren Davis of Bluewater Productions says, "It is about Paul McCartney leaving the Beatles. We tell that story. These are comic books. They're meant to be fun but educational, as well."
The new comic is set for release digitally and in stores on Wednesday (06Mar13).

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Picture: Paul McCartney and James McCartney - Paul McCartney posted this image to twitter United Kingdom Thursday 24th January 2013

'What's That You're Doing? (No.2/Vol.1)'

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'What's That You're Doing? (No.2/Vol.1)'

The second issue of 'What's That You're Doing?', the new monthly newsletter from PaulMcCartney.com, has been published today. The newsletter collects together the big stories from Paul's website each month.

To sign up to receive the newsletter, as well as all the latest updates on Paul's releases, tour dates and news, click HERE!

To read February's edition of 'What's That You're Doing?' click HERE!

Paul McCartney's teen doodle snapped up by fan who pays £3,764 for ONE dog-eared sketch

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Paul McCartney's teen doodle snapped up by fan who pays £3,764 for ONE dog-eared sketch
By DEBORAH ARTHURS
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PUBLISHED: 1 March 2013


A rudimentary doodle drawn by Paul McCartney when he was a teenager has fetched £3,764 at auction. 
The rare sketches, done by the Beatle during the late 1950s when he was studying at the Liverpool Institute High School For Boys, was sold by PFC Auctions last night amid a flurry of last minute bids. 
The drawings, multiple faces showing different expressions on a single sheet of paper, are rendered in pencil. 

Rare: The set of hand-drawings was said by auction house PFC to be a 'rare' lot to come up for sale

The piece of work (we call it that now; then no doubt McCartney meant it as no more than idle doodles) measures 12.5in by 8in and is in good condition, with the exception of a small tear in the bottom right hand corner.

The character studies may not seem to be the most accomplished pre-cursor to an illustrious art career, but the sketch offers a charming insight into McCartney's fascination with the art world.
For more than two decades McCartney has been a dedicated artist and his paintings have been met with critical acclaim.
The Beatles and Wings star has said he finds art as much of an outlet for his creativity as music. 
'What I find is that I do it when I am inspired, and that's how I can combine it with music,' he says. 'Some days the inspiration is a musical one and other days it has got to be painting'.

Dedication to art: McCartney at an exhibition of his works at a Liverpool gallery

But despite showing early interest and, indeed, an early talent for art - he won a prize at the age of 14 for a drawing he did of St Aidan's church on the Speke housing estate where he lived - McCartney was long reticent about his talents, saying he felt inhibited by his lack of formal training.
'I felt that only people who had gone to art college were allowed to paint,' he admitted - although it has to be said a lack of formal music training never held him back from performing well in that arena either.
Formal training or not, his natural talent is undeniable. An ink drawing of his provided inspiration for the artwork for the Sgt Pepper album cover - which won wide acclaim, and was deemed by Beatles biographer Bill Harry to be the most recognisable album cover in the world. 
In 1999 McCartney's work was displayed in a solo exhibition, Paul McCartney: Paintings, in Germany in 1999, curated by Wolfgang Suttner and has hung in various galleries in the UK too.
A coffee table book of his works with the same name was released the following year and his signed lithographs now sell for around £5,000 each.
Not bad for an untrained artist.

Young talent: McCartney as he would have looked as an art student around the time he did the sketches

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Red Nose Day 2013 T-Shirts Designed By Stella McCartney

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Red Nose Day 2013 T-Shirts Designed By Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney has created four fashionable charity t-shirts for this year’s Red Nose Day, which takes place on Friday 15th March.
 
The Beatles - as photographed by Linda McCartney, actress Marilyn Monroe, model Kate Moss and comedian Tommy Cooper have all been given the Red Nose Day treatment. The t-shirts are available to buy from the charity’s store and TK Maxx along with a giraffe design for children and babies. 25 customised limited edition versions are also available from Stella’s store in Mayfair and Brompton Cross.

The t-shirts have been manufactured entirely in Africa with 100% of the cotton sourced from Fairtrade certified co-operatives in Mali.

For the past 25 years Red Nose Day has been raising funds for people in need in the UK and Africa. For more information on the charity head over to their website HERE!
 

Mother Mary who Sir Paul McCartney never forgets

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Mother Mary who Sir Paul McCartney never forgets
The premature death of Sir Paul McCartney’s mum not only inspired Let It Be but forged a common bond with his fellow Beatle John Lennon
By: Julie Carpenter
Published: Thu, February 28, 2013

IT was a brief but touching answer to a question from a fan. When Sir Paul McCartney was asked on his website this week what he would do if he had a time machine, he had one heartfelt response: “Go back and spend time with my mum.”

The former Beatle’s mother Mary died in 1956 when McCartney was just 14, long before Sir Paul, now 70, became one of the greatest musical icons of the age.

She died at 47 from an embolism following an operation for breast cancer but the young Sir Paul, who has described her death as the “big shock” of his teenage years, only learned of her illness later, saying: “I didn’t know then why she had died.”
For her part his mother had taken precautions before going into hospital. She had cleaned their terrace home at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool and laid out her two sons’ school clothes ready for the next day, telling her sister-in-law: “Now everything’s ready for them in case I don’t come back.”

While her sons – Paul and his younger brother Mike – didn’t even know she was having an operation, her death had a lasting impact on Paul, later helping him forge a strong bond with his Beatles’ bandmate John Lennon, who lost his own mother at a young age. It also inspired one of the Beatles’ most famous hits, Let It Be. Mary, an Irish Catholic, was a nurse and midwife who married Jim McCartney at 31 after the couple met during an air raid on Liverpool in 1940. Jim, a British protestant, worked as a cotton salesman as well as being a self-taught pianist but Mary, unusually,  was the  breadwinner  and her earnings helped the family move  to better, if still modest, areas of Liverpool.

“She was very hardworking, my mum,” Sir Paul recalled in an interview a few years ago. “She wanted the best for us. We weren’t a well-off  family – we didn’t have a car, we just about had a television – so both my parents went out to work. At night when mum came home she would cook so we didn’t have a lot of time with each other but she was just a very comforting presence in my life.”

The McCartney family

AS A midwife Mary was on call day or night and one of Sir Paul’s earliest memories is of watching his mother cycling to work at three in the morning when the streets were “thick with snow”. He has also confided how Call The Midwife, the BBC’s Fifties-set drama, reminds him of his mother. One of the most difficult aspects of her death, he has confided, was the reaction of his father who simply fell apart with grief. 

“That was the worst thing for me, hearing my dad cry.  You grow up real quick, because you never expect to hear your parents crying. It shakes your faith in everything. But I was determined not to let it affect me. I carried on. I learnt to put a shell around me.”For McCartney it was music that “saved” him from his grief and he has also acknowledged that his loss connected him to John Lennon. Julia, Lennon’s mother, died when he was 17 the year after the two musicians first met and their shared loss was, according to Sir Paul, a “big bond” between them.

“We both had this emotional turmoil which we had to deal with and being teenagers we had to deal with it very quickly,” he has said. 

Bill Harry, founder of Sixties music newspaper Mersey Beat, knew the teenage Lennon and McCartney and says Paul was “very private about his mother. He really didn’t speak about her, unlike John, who was almost obsessed by his own mum’s death. But it was a big factor bringing the two of them together because it gave them an understanding of each other”. 

Sir Paul has admitted that “young people don’t show grief – they’d rather not” but that occasionally the pain would set in and he and Lennon would “be sitting around and we’d have a cry together”. 

Sir Paul has also spoken movingly of how his mother inspired the song Let It Be. When McCartney wrote the piece in 1968 the Fab Four had experienced unprecedented success but were by then divided by bitter arguments and the band was close to breaking up. But during this period of stress McCartney had something of a breakthrough.

HE  once explained: “One night, somewhere between deep sleep and insomnia, I had the most comforting dream about my mother. There was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes, and she said to me very gently, very reassuringly: ‘Let it be.’ It was lovely. I woke up with a great feeling. It was really like she had visited me at this very difficult point  and gave me this message: Be gentle, don’t ? ght things, just try to go with the flow and it will all work out.

“So being a musician I went  to the piano and started writing a song: ‘When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be.’”

Paul McCartney and John Lennon during at concert at the Cavern Club

When the single was released in 1970 it went on to become one of the Beatles’ greatest – and last – hits. They announced they were splitting up in the same year. “So those words are really very special to me because not only did my mum come to me in a dream and reassure me with them at a very difficult time  but also, in putting them into a song and recording it with the Beatles, it became a comforting, healing statement for other people too.” 

Seeing his mother again so clearly was a great boost for McCartney, not least because as the years had gone on, he had found it more and more difficult to recall her face. But McCartney also got together with his first wife Linda shortly afterwards and believed it was “as if my mum had sent her”.

The couple named their first child Mary after McCartney’s mother but it was a cruel irony that Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer, the disease which killed Sir Paul’s mother, in 1996. She died three years later after almost 30 years of marriage. As for McCartney’s mother, her last words  – told to her sister-in-law Dill Mohin – were of concern for her two sons. “I would love to have seen the boys growing up,” she confided. Had she done so, Sir Paul can be comforted to know that she would have been beyond proud.

Sir Paul McCartney would love to go back in time to see his mum