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domingo, 13 de noviembre de 2016
Pre-Sale NY Metro Fest For Beatles Fans 2017 Tickets: Sale ends Monday.
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Pre-Sale NY Metro Fest For Beatles Fans 2017 Tickets: Sale ends Monday.
NOTICE: Pre-Sale ends Monday 11/14/16. It's time to find out who will be the Special Guests and all the Details for the 43rd Annual New York Metro Fest - March 3-5, 2017!
Pre-Sale NY Metro Fest For Beatles Fans 2017 Tickets: Sale ends Monday.
NOTICE: Pre-Sale ends Monday 11/14/16. It's time to find out who will be the Special Guests and all the Details for the 43rd Annual New York Metro Fest - March 3-5, 2017!
sábado, 12 de noviembre de 2016
15 Years Ago: Paul McCartney Gets Personal on ‘Driving Rain’
Paul McCartney - Driving Rain. Original (left) and later-issued (right) cover art for Driving Rain
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15 Years Ago: Paul McCartney Gets Personal on ‘Driving Rain’
By Bryan Wawzenek
November 12, 201
After the 1998 death of Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney took some time off to grieve for the loss of his wife of nearly 30 years. And when he returned to music, the former Beatle became immensely productive, culminating in the release of Driving Rain on Nov. 12, 2001.
Between 1999 and 2000, he put out his third classical album (Working Classical), collaborated on an experimental work (Liverpool Sound Collage) and bashed out a record of mostly old rock ’n’ roll tunes (Run Devil Run). The raw approach that McCartney took for that album helped shape his concept for his next release of original material.
Driving Rain - Front Cover
When planning his new record in 2001, McCartney told producer David Kahne that he wanted to simplify the recording process. Instead of obsessing over demos, he envisioned a plan that hearkened back to the way he had worked within the Beatles in the mid-’60s.
“John [Lennon] and I came in on Monday morning and we’d show George [Harrison] and Ringo [Starr] what the song was,” McCartney recalled to Reader’s Digest. “I suddenly realized – the guys didn’t know what song we were bringing in – so that’s really ‘fresh.’ George Martin didn’t know, the engineer didn’t know… There was no time to run it through. But we didn’t need to… So I said to David Kahne, ‘Let’s do it the same way.’”
Driving Rain - Rear Cover
The producer hired three American musicians to join Paul for the Los Angeles sessions, each of whom had never met the rock legend before the first day in the studio. But the players (guitarist Rusty Anderson, drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and keyboardist Gabe Dixon) appeared to gel instantly, laying down almost the entire album in two weeks. The nature of the sessions produced some of the rawest McCartney material in decades, from opener “Lonely Road” to the extended jam “Rinse the Raindrops.”
Driving Rain - Rear of Booklet
Many of the songs that McCartney brought to the sessions were influenced by his personal life. The year before, Paul met and fell in love with Heather Mills, whom he’d marry in 2002. Mills got a track named after her (“Heather”) and was also the inspiration for some of the album’s love songs, including the earnest piano ballad “Your Loving Flame.” The gritty “About You” also was about McCartney’s new lover, written in thanks for helping him move on after the death of his wife.
But Linda was still on McCartney’s mind, too. He pleaded “let me love again” on “From a Lover to a Friend” and wrote his memories of his late wife on the Beatlesque ballad “Magic.”
“’Magic’ was about the first night I met Linda,” McCartney said in a 2001 TV interview. “And I used to say to my kids… ‘If I hadn’t stood up when Linda was leaving… which is something I didn’t normally do. I tried to play it cool, but I liked the look of this girl.’ You know, I said, ‘hey….’ And if I hadn’t have done that, I said to the kids, ‘we wouldn’t have gotten married, you wouldn’t have been here.’ So it’s a very important night, and a very important moment in my life.”
After the recording sessions were complete, Paul was inspired by real-world events yet again. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, McCartney was sitting in a plane on the tarmac at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, watching the terrorist attacks unfold. In support of the first responders, he helped organize the all-star Concert for New York City at Madison Square Garden on October 20, at which he performed his new song “Freedom.”
“The thing that occurred to me was that [the media] kept saying it was an attack on our freedom, the way we live… And Heather suggested to me that it might be a good idea to try and write a song about freedom,” McCartney said. “I thought it’d be nice to write a song from the perspective of someone who wants to say, ‘Don’t mess with my freedom’.”
The rocker held back the pressing of the new album in order to include “Freedom,” appearing as a hidden track (because the artwork had already been produced) that meshed the live version, with a guitar solo by Eric Clapton, with a studio rendition. The song was put out as a charity single, just before the release of Driving Rain.
Although the record received mostly positive write-ups from critics, it wasn’t one of McCartney’s most successful releases. In the U.K., it performed surprisingly poorly, becoming the artist’s lowest-charting (No. 46) LP of original pop music in his career. (Most of McCartney’s albums, before and since, have landed in the Top 10). It did slightly better in the U.S., rising to No. 26 on the Billboard chart and going platinum, which might have been aided by Paul’s decision to promote the CD on tour in 2002.
Given the album’s middling commercial reception, the songs about Mills (whom he divorced in 2008) and how poorly “Freedom” has aged, McCartney stopped playing songs from Driving Rain in concert years ago. However, the album did give him two key members of his touring band. Anderson and Laboriel have been with McCartney ever since.
Driving Rain - The C.D.
viernes, 11 de noviembre de 2016
Paul McCartney’s Got More Hip-Hop Moments Than You Might Think
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Paul McCartney’s Got More Hip-Hop Moments Than You Might Think
By Sidney Madden
November 11, 2016
Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images
Paul McCartney is undoubtedly one of music’s greatest living legends. As a member of Britain’s superstar group The Beatles, the singer-songwriter is one of the band’s most prominent figures. He’s composed over 2,000 songs for The Beatles and is universally hailed as one of the successful composers in rock and roll history. McCartney has dropped 17 solo albums, has 21 Grammys to his name, has been knighted by the Queen of England and the list goes one and on. But even though he’s been in the music world for almost 60 years, he still insists on staying on the cutting edge of music trends, namely hip-hop.
McCartney’s name entered the minds of turnt up rap duo Rae Sremmurd when they compared themselves to the famed group on their song “Black Beatles.” The song is currently climbing the Billboard charts, making the leap from No. 16 on the list to No. 9 on the Hot 100. This is all thanks in part to the #MannequinChallenge, a social media movement Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi jumped.
On “Black Beatles,” they even name-drop McCartney in their lyrics. “I wear leather Gucci jackets like its still the 80’s/I’ve been blowing OG Kush, I feel a lil’ sedated/I can’t worry about a broke nigga or a hater/Black Beatle, bitch, me and Paul McCartney related,” raps Slim Jxmmi in the second verse.
While this song is catchy as hell, McCartney’s name actually comes up in hip-hop more often than you might think. The former Beatle, often a coveted collaborator for rappers like Kanye West, has a history with rappers that runs deep. Check out his recent connections to the genre here.
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Uses Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” to do the #MannequinChallenge.
As the #MannequinChallenge became more of an online sensation by the day, Rae Sremmurd’s track “Black Beatles” broke into the Billboard Top 10 as a result of fans joining the movement using their song as the soundtrack. Paul McCartney gave the Ear Drummers duo a confirmation that he approves of their track by featuring it in his own short #MannequinChallenge video on Twitter.
Hangs with Eminem and Macklemore.
Paul McCartney hung out with both Eminem and Macklemore during the 2014 Grammy Awards weekend in Los Angeles. We wonder what that conversation was like. You can take a look at this rap-rock moment here.
Tries to attend a party hosted by Tyga.
Welp. Not all of McCartney’s connections to rap are positive. During the weekend of the 2015 Grammy Awards, the Beatles member was denied entry to a club in Hollywood where T-Raww was hosting a party.
TMZ caught video of McCartney being denied entry to The Argyle in Los Angeles while accompanied by fellow stars Beck, Woody Harrelson and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
Teams up with Kanye West for “Four Five Seconds.”
In what was one of the best loosies released in 2015, Kanye West, a longtime fan of McCartney, asked the British superstar to assist on Rihanna’s single “Four Five Seconds.” The trio created a soulful hit that played off folk, R&B and a touch of gospel, uniting all three of their fan bases.
Inspires Kanye’s song “All Day.”
Kanye took a page from McCartney’s playbook when he sampled the rock star for his 2015 track “All Day.”
“All Day” was actually crafted during the same sessions that resulted in the Rihanna collaboration “FourFiveSeconds.” McCartney whistled a tune that Kanye liked and the Chi-Town rapper liked it so much, he used it as the baseline to his new banger. McCartney had no idea Kanye was going to us the melody until he heard the song months late.
“It’s a great record, sonically it’s brilliant, but quite a few people said, ‘You can’t be connected with this, there’s, like, 40 N-words,” said McCartney in a radio interview in May 2016.
Influences other rappers to tap into his music.
Paul McCartney’s melodies and lyrics have been sampeld by the likes of De La Soul, 88 Key, Dr. Dre, The Roots and more. Dre, for example, sampled McCartney on his 2015 album Compton, taking “Spirits of Ancient Egypt” and revamping it for “Darkside/Gone.”
Gets educated by listening to hip-hop.
Even though he’s a Grammy Award winner and living legend, McCartney is still a student of music. He said in an interview with Rolling Stone in August that he listens to hip-hop for educational purposes.
“I listen to it for, you could call it, education,” said McCartney. “I hear a lot of it and go to concerts occasionally. I went to see Jay Z and Kanye when they toured. I’ve seen Drake live. It’s the music of now.”
Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images
jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2016
Paul McCartney does the Mannequin Challenge to rap song ‘Black Beatles’
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Paul McCartney does the Mannequin Challenge to rap song ‘Black Beatles’
Luke Morgan Britton
Nov 10, 2016
The Beatles star joins in on latest internet craze
Paul McCartney has taken part in the Mannequin Challenge craze.
The Mannequin Challenge is the latest viral sensation, following the Ice Bucket Challenge and the Harlem Shake. In it, people film themselves holding poses and staying completely motionless – like mannequins. There’s usually music playing in the background and a lot of the videos so far have been soundtracked by hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd’s ‘Black Beatles’.
The Beatles singer has joined in with his own version, also soundtracked by Rae Sremmurd’s track, on Thursday (November 10). His caption reads: “Love those Black Beatles.” See below.
Watch the ‘Black Beatles’ video below, as well as Rae Sremmurd’s own Mannequin Challenge, which was shot live at a gig.Love those Black Beatles #MannequinChallenge pic.twitter.com/aAu9umHKI7— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) 10 de noviembre de 2016
— Swae Lee Lee Swae (@iHipsterLee) 4 de noviembre de 2016
Meanwhile, Phil Collins recently revealed a long-lasting grudge he has with Paul McCartney. Speaking about a meeting with McCartney in which he asked him to sign some vinyl before he alleges the Beatle spoke down to him, Collins said: “I thought, ‘You fuck, you fuck.’ Never forgot it.”
“He has this thing when he’s talking to you, where he makes you feel [like], ‘I know this must be hard for you because I’m a Beatle. I’m Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me.’”
Later, in an interview with Billboard, Collins said that McCartney has since contacted him about his comments. “He’s been in touch about it because he was upset,” said Collins. “I certainly didn’t get any flowers from him; I got more of a ‘Let’s just get on with our lives.’ And I’m sorry he’s upset that I kinda said something nasty about him — well, it wasn’t really nasty. If people don’t tell people that sometimes their attitude could be a bit better then you’re not gonna get any better, y’know?”
miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2016
Donovan on the Time He Helped Write a Beatles Classic and Then Watched John Lennon Chase a Paparazzo Into the Jungle
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Donovan on the Time He Helped Write a Beatles Classic and Then Watched John Lennon Chase a Paparazzo Into the Jungle
By Donovan as told to David Marchese
Photo: Keystone Features/Getty Images
On December 2, at Music Without Borders' annual John Lennon Tribute concert, folk-rock singer and hippy icon Donovan will be honored with the Real Love award, which recognizes significant bodies of work as well as social impact. (Donovan will also be performing at the tribute.) Playwright Eve Ensler and photographer Bob Gruen are former recipients of the award, but none of them ever helped out a Beatle with a song or watched as that same Beatle angrily chased after a sneaky photographer.
In advance of the concert, we asked Donovan — whose Open Road is overdue for rediscovery, by the way — to tell us a story about Lennon, and here (lightly edited for clarity) in true mystical, optimistic, Beatles-y glory, is what he said:
As you may know, in 1968 I traveled with the Beatles to an ashram in Rishikesh, India, to study transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was quite an experience, one John was very excited about, especially the idea that humans exist on three levels of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. All the ancient books of course say that there is a fourth level of consciousness and the only way you can approach it is through meditation, which involves a mantra, which is merely a nonsense word that when repeated leads you away from being attached to thought forms and into the realm of pure consciousness, pure thought. Quite simple, really. And this is nothing to do with LSD, mind you. LSD started to become a problem after all the dealers got involved. The sacred plants, mushrooms and such, I found more productive. You probably know this, but Santa Claus comes from a Siberian tradition whereby the shamans would visit the tribal societies of northern Europe once a year, bringing drums and music and magical mushrooms to the tribes as well as the gift of understanding that the answers to all the great questions lie within. Anyway, when John learned about all this, meditation that is, he said, "Inside the mind is an extraordinary place? This is like a bloody science-fiction movie!" So we went to India to learn more. Once we got there, we plunged, very bravely I must say, into our own minds, to a place beyond thought, and answers to questions about life started arising in the form of songs — songs that could bring people together.
At the Maharishi's ashram a very touching experience happened: John asked me to teach him some new chord structures and how to do finger-style guitar. You know, I knew in 1965 when we met that he and I were similar. John and Paul [McCartney] are Liverpool Irish and I'm Glasgow Irish, and that means we were both in the ancient Gaelic tradition of bards and shamans and troubadours, poets of the very highest order, those with the goal of delivering peace and wisdom. So we had a similar outlook — I found myself very easily able to contribute lines to "Yellow Submarine" for example. I suggested the lyrics "Sky of blue and sea of green" and they worked quite nicely. The point is that the Beatles and I were drawn together, and the time I spent in India teaching him as a student, away from fame and fortune, was wonderful. He was a good learner, he learned in two days what I'd learned in three. These flamenco, blues, and jazz chord forms that I taught him, and the finger-style technique, developed into some of the extraordinary songs on The White Album.
As John was in this period of tuition with me, he told me he wanted to write a song about his mother. He said, "Donovan, you're the king of children's songs. Can you help me?" I asked him what exactly it was that he wanted to do. He said, "I want to write a song about the childhood that I never really had with my mother." He asked me to help him with the images that he could use in lyrics for a song about this subject. So I said, "Well, when you think of the song, where do you imagine yourself?" And John said, "I'm at a beach and I'm holding hands with my mother and we're walking together." And I helped him with a couple of lines, "Seashell eyes / windy smile" — for the Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland feel that John loved so much. And the song, which you may know, is the amazing "Julia." I haven't told many people that before.
Here's something else from that same trip, something that shows a different side of John that I haven't spoken about much. No press managed to break into the ashram when we were all there. An amazing army of media were parked nearby for three days, until the Maharishi asked the local army to escort them out, but a few of them managed to stick around. So one morning, John was washing his hair in the jungle after breakfast — I was sitting on the patio of his little bungalow — and John turned around and saw a paparazzo trying to catch a photograph. Yes, a photograph of the famous John Lennon in the jungle. John, people forget this, but John had that Liverpool's sailor swagger side to him. He wasn't just the icon people think of now. So John saw this paparazzo and immediately started chasing him through the jungle, cursing and yelling at him. I'd never seen someone so scared in my life as that photographer. John caught him and threw him over the fence of the ashram. That John, we could use more people like him. He was one tough nut. I miss him still.
Time Takes Time Blu-spec CD2
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Time Takes Time Blu-spec CD2
Posted by Roger Stormo
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
New edition "Time Takes Time" CD (Japan)
26. October 2016 saw the release of Ringo Starr's 1992 album "Time Takes Time" on a Blu-spec CD2 in Japan. As was the case with the original Japan release of the album, it includes the bonus track "Don't Be Cruel", otherwise only available on a German 1992 CD-single, "Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go". A Sony Music release, the album is also available on a yellow vinyl limited edition (1500 copies). The releases were available to buy at Ringo's recent concerts in Japan.
Limited edition yellow vinyl release.
The Blu-spec CD format is a Red Book Compact Disc manufactured by a proprietary process introduced by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2008. Instead of a traditional infra-red laser, a blue laser is used for recording the pits on the CD master that is needed for disc replication. The blue laser purportedly creates more precise pits, which Sony claims reduces distortion in the optical read-out process. The "Blu-spec CD2" or BSCD2 is a 2012 progression of the Blu-spec CD format which employs a more precise BD cutting machine, a master disc that is made from the same smooth material as silicon wafers for chip manufacture, and a different recording layer material for the master disc. Sony refers to this process as "Phase Transition Mastering". A Blu-spec CD and a Blu-spec CD2 disc can be played on all CD players and does not require a blue laser to be read.
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Time Takes Time Blu-spec CD2
Posted by Roger Stormo
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
New edition "Time Takes Time" CD (Japan)
26. October 2016 saw the release of Ringo Starr's 1992 album "Time Takes Time" on a Blu-spec CD2 in Japan. As was the case with the original Japan release of the album, it includes the bonus track "Don't Be Cruel", otherwise only available on a German 1992 CD-single, "Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go". A Sony Music release, the album is also available on a yellow vinyl limited edition (1500 copies). The releases were available to buy at Ringo's recent concerts in Japan.
Limited edition yellow vinyl release.
The Blu-spec CD format is a Red Book Compact Disc manufactured by a proprietary process introduced by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2008. Instead of a traditional infra-red laser, a blue laser is used for recording the pits on the CD master that is needed for disc replication. The blue laser purportedly creates more precise pits, which Sony claims reduces distortion in the optical read-out process. The "Blu-spec CD2" or BSCD2 is a 2012 progression of the Blu-spec CD format which employs a more precise BD cutting machine, a master disc that is made from the same smooth material as silicon wafers for chip manufacture, and a different recording layer material for the master disc. Sony refers to this process as "Phase Transition Mastering". A Blu-spec CD and a Blu-spec CD2 disc can be played on all CD players and does not require a blue laser to be read.
martes, 8 de noviembre de 2016
Fascinating pictures show the 1960s height of Beatlemania merged with images of the city as it is today
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When Liverpool was Fab: Fascinating pictures show the 1960s height of Beatlemania merged with images of the city as it is today
° Amateur photographer Keith Jones has merged pictures of 1960s Beatlemania with modern day Liverpool
° Stunning images offer a trip down memory lane to when the Fab Four dominated the music scene
° Mr Jones, 45, got the idea after discovering old postcards and realising city landscape remained the same
By JOSEPH CURTIS FOR MAILONLINE
7 November 2016
Incredible images show 1960s Beatlemania Liverpool in black and white merged with the colourful modern-day city.
The stunning pictures offer a trip down memory lane as excited fans are pictured queuing for a Beatles gig at the Cavern Club while modern-day commuters stroll past on their way to work.
Other shots show the young Fab Four playing in an otherwise empty bar, arriving at Speke airport and posing in the modern Derby Square.
The nostalgic pictures are the work of Port Captain and amateur photographer Keith Jones, 45, from Liverpool.
Amateur photographer Keith Jones, from Liverpool, has merged pictures from the height of Beatlemania with images of the city today, such as this combination of the Cavern Club today in Mathew Street with a huge queue for a Beatles gig in the 1960s
Mr Jones took on the project as a tribute to the Fab Four, pictured here posing in Derby Square, because they remain 'synonymous' with their hometown
He also merged a picture of modern day Speke Airport with that of the Beatles arriving in the city in 1964 for the premiere of their film A Hard Day's Night, with hundreds of fans packing out the building to give them a huge welcome
The photographer merged iconic styles of the 1960s - including the Fab Four clad in leather jackets outside the Mathew Street venue (pictured) - with the modern day surroundings
He said: 'I'm biased, I know, but who doesn't love The Beatles?
'I'm a lifelong fan of their music and having travelled the world a bit, it has been particularly clear to me that, for people from other parts of the world, the group are absolutely synonymous with their hometown.
'Ask anybody from New York to Nepal, Auckland to the Arctic, to name someone or something from Liverpool and I imagine John, Paul, George and Ringo would be right out in front.
'I feel our city should be proud and thankful for their music, their impact and their message, and blending their image back into the modern day scenes makes me smile and also wish I had been around to be in that queue for a lunchtime show at The Cavern Club!'
Mr Jones was even able to go back to the band's humble beginnings as The Quarrymen, revisiting the Childwall Abbey Hotel where they played at George Harrison's brother's wedding in the 1950s
It's not just the Beatles who are the centre of attention, as Mr Jones shines a spotlight on the city's history through this picture of a shopper in Lord Street surrounded by a modern day crowd
He captures the essence of Beatlemania outside the Mathew Street Cavern, pictured, and contrasts it with the more subdued scenes outside the club in modern Liverpool
Fans regularly fainted while waiting to see the Fab Four in Liverpool, pictured here in the High Street in the 1960s
Mr Jones first got the idea to merge old photographs with new ones at the same location when he came across old Victorian postcards and realised the pictured buildings still stood today.
'I went back as close to the same vantage point to 'rephotograph' the same view, to compare the scenes,' he said.
'It struck me that I found it equally fascinating whether the scene was unchanged in one hundred years, completely different or now a mixture of modern and historic elements.
'I'm lucky to live and work here in that the City of Liverpool has an amazing history, with everything from incredibly grand architecture from the most prosperous times in the 19th Century, to the most modern designs, quite often already placed side by side.
'When I get the chance to 'change the timeline' by blending in people from different eras to a modern day scene, it fascinates me to imagine how life was for city residents in decades gone by.'
In the early 1960s it was not unusual to see the Beatles out and about in Liverpool, as these pictures of Derby Square in the 1960s prove, and the landscape does not seem to have changed much in 50 years
An aspiring young Beatle is pictured on a bench in Renelagh Place in the 1960s in a scene that could easily still be the same today, aside from the fashion
Mr Jones, a port captain, said merging the photos of Liverpool then and now, pictured in Mathew Street, left him fascinated
When Liverpool was Fab: Fascinating pictures show the 1960s height of Beatlemania merged with images of the city as it is today
° Amateur photographer Keith Jones has merged pictures of 1960s Beatlemania with modern day Liverpool
° Stunning images offer a trip down memory lane to when the Fab Four dominated the music scene
° Mr Jones, 45, got the idea after discovering old postcards and realising city landscape remained the same
By JOSEPH CURTIS FOR MAILONLINE
7 November 2016
Incredible images show 1960s Beatlemania Liverpool in black and white merged with the colourful modern-day city.
The stunning pictures offer a trip down memory lane as excited fans are pictured queuing for a Beatles gig at the Cavern Club while modern-day commuters stroll past on their way to work.
Other shots show the young Fab Four playing in an otherwise empty bar, arriving at Speke airport and posing in the modern Derby Square.
The nostalgic pictures are the work of Port Captain and amateur photographer Keith Jones, 45, from Liverpool.
Amateur photographer Keith Jones, from Liverpool, has merged pictures from the height of Beatlemania with images of the city today, such as this combination of the Cavern Club today in Mathew Street with a huge queue for a Beatles gig in the 1960s
Mr Jones took on the project as a tribute to the Fab Four, pictured here posing in Derby Square, because they remain 'synonymous' with their hometown
He also merged a picture of modern day Speke Airport with that of the Beatles arriving in the city in 1964 for the premiere of their film A Hard Day's Night, with hundreds of fans packing out the building to give them a huge welcome
The photographer merged iconic styles of the 1960s - including the Fab Four clad in leather jackets outside the Mathew Street venue (pictured) - with the modern day surroundings
He said: 'I'm biased, I know, but who doesn't love The Beatles?
'I'm a lifelong fan of their music and having travelled the world a bit, it has been particularly clear to me that, for people from other parts of the world, the group are absolutely synonymous with their hometown.
'Ask anybody from New York to Nepal, Auckland to the Arctic, to name someone or something from Liverpool and I imagine John, Paul, George and Ringo would be right out in front.
'I feel our city should be proud and thankful for their music, their impact and their message, and blending their image back into the modern day scenes makes me smile and also wish I had been around to be in that queue for a lunchtime show at The Cavern Club!'
Mr Jones was even able to go back to the band's humble beginnings as The Quarrymen, revisiting the Childwall Abbey Hotel where they played at George Harrison's brother's wedding in the 1950s
It's not just the Beatles who are the centre of attention, as Mr Jones shines a spotlight on the city's history through this picture of a shopper in Lord Street surrounded by a modern day crowd
He captures the essence of Beatlemania outside the Mathew Street Cavern, pictured, and contrasts it with the more subdued scenes outside the club in modern Liverpool
Fans regularly fainted while waiting to see the Fab Four in Liverpool, pictured here in the High Street in the 1960s
Mr Jones first got the idea to merge old photographs with new ones at the same location when he came across old Victorian postcards and realised the pictured buildings still stood today.
'I went back as close to the same vantage point to 'rephotograph' the same view, to compare the scenes,' he said.
'It struck me that I found it equally fascinating whether the scene was unchanged in one hundred years, completely different or now a mixture of modern and historic elements.
'I'm lucky to live and work here in that the City of Liverpool has an amazing history, with everything from incredibly grand architecture from the most prosperous times in the 19th Century, to the most modern designs, quite often already placed side by side.
'When I get the chance to 'change the timeline' by blending in people from different eras to a modern day scene, it fascinates me to imagine how life was for city residents in decades gone by.'
In the early 1960s it was not unusual to see the Beatles out and about in Liverpool, as these pictures of Derby Square in the 1960s prove, and the landscape does not seem to have changed much in 50 years
An aspiring young Beatle is pictured on a bench in Renelagh Place in the 1960s in a scene that could easily still be the same today, aside from the fashion
Mr Jones, a port captain, said merging the photos of Liverpool then and now, pictured in Mathew Street, left him fascinated
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