"Another Girl" PLAYED LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME

Sir Paul in action(photo credit:Getty Images)

Its been almost fifty years since the Beatles played at the Budokan in Tokyo and Sir Paul McCartney is somewhat sentimental for playing there again.And one fact that Sir Paul made another first in the past 49 years by playing "Another Girl" onstage.The track which was on the band's fifth album Help! was never sung live until today.

Here are some other fun facts regarding the song:

1.On the album version it was Paul McCartney and not George Harrison who played lead guitar throughout the song.

2.The song was recorded in one take,and George Harrison's supposed to be guitar solo and lead guitar was said to have been mysteriously removed when McCartney remixed the song in the studio.

3.The song's music video which was actually a scene/song number on the Beatles' second feature film Help! was shot in Balmoral Island,Bahamas where McCartney was standing on a coral reef with a female model standing in as his "human guitar".Each of the Beatles had traded each others instruments on the video,with John Lennon playing drums,Ringo playing acoustic guitar and George Harrison playing bass.

4.Paul McCartney wrote the song himself while on a 10 day holiday in Tunisia though the track has been credited as "Lennon-McCartney" as their contract had stated.

While on his sentimental and historical performance in the Budokan,McCartney was said to have quipped
"It was sensational and quite emotional remembering the first time and then experiencing this fantastic audience tonight"

This serves as an awesome treat from Sir Paul to his Japanese fans considering that his tour of the country was cancelled last year due to illness.

Ticket to Paul's Japan concert 2015(photo credit:Karin Tokyo)

(c) Keith Vernon Adagio

Cynthia:The First Beatle Wife

Cynthia Lennon circa 1967 (photo credit:unknown)

The world of rock music was once again stunned over the news that Cynthia Lennon,first wife of Beatle John Lennon has passed away.Cynthia,known as the first Beatle wife married John Lennon just as the Beatles were starting world domination.

Cynthia Powell was born in Blackpool,Lancashire on September 10,1939,the youngest among three children  of Charles and Lilian Powell.It was in art college where she met and later married John,and they both had a son,whom she named John Charles Julian Lennon,who would later follow his dad's footsteps into rock stardom.

With the Beatles trying to make it to extreme popularity,Cynthia was often the casualty on that scenery,she would often follow the band by riding in entourage cars and would often kept silent by the management as to not hurt John's budding music career.As a result,her relationship with Lennon later soured and John would later leave her when he met Yoko Ono in 1966.

Cynthia was best known not only as the mom of Julian Lennon but as the first Beatle wife who went through a lot of things,things that Linda McCartney had called Beatle "madness": having to get pass through the pressures of rock stardom,groupies,insane paparazzis and crazy publishing deals.

Cynthia wrote two books about her relationship with John Lennon and later married Noel Charles who died in 2013.Her son Julian, was said to be by her bedside during her passing.Tributes from Beatles fans around the world and from friends like Paul McCartney and May Pang poured in as the news of her death graced the headlines.

A memorial on Julian's facebook page was created to her memory.

(c) Keith Vernon Adagio

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