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Here Come the Sons

Sometimes the people who should know the most about the benefits of protecting history know the least. James McCartney, Paul McCartney’s thirty-four-year-old son, has told the BBC that he and the other Beatle sons have considered creating a band called “The Beatles—The Next Generation.” Set aside the possibility that this is a particularly sadomasochistic April Fools’ joke, and you have, instead, a puzzling train of thought that cannot possibly stay on the tracks.

It’s not just that the Beatles’ offspring—McCartney, who is beginning to embark on a solo career; George’s son Dhani, who has recorded with a band called thenewno2 and, more recently, helped to develop a guitar app based on his father’s work; John’s son Sean, who has been a moderately successful solo artist and is now part of a duet act, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, with his model girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl; and Ringo’s son Zak, who has drummed with the Who and others—are different kinds of musicians than their fathers. And it’s not just that the chemistry that made the Beatles what they were, as individuals and as a collective, existed in a certain time and place, both defining and being defined by the massive social changes that surrounded it. It’s also that the very men who should be protecting that legacy are talking, even in passing, about burlesquing it. Lorne Michaels should offer them a thousand dollars each to abandon the idea.

McCartney’s idea, as whimsical as anything his father ever dreamed up, suggests another topic: why music genes don’t seem to be inherited in the same way as, say, intelligence, or appearance. In 2005, Rolling Stone published a cover story called “The Children Of Rock” (“They Grew Up In the Shadow of Legends—and Lived To Tell the Tale”). Sean Lennon was pictured on the front cover , along with Alexandra Richards (daughter of Keith), Nona Gaye (daughter of Marvin), Ben Taylor (son of James and Carly), and James Garfunkel (clone/son of Art). At the time, most of them were considering music careers: a decade later, few are recording regularly, having decamped instead for careers in modelling (Richards), acting (Gaye), and business (Garfunkel).

The second generation shouldn’t be maligned for their choices, of course. As the article details, children of famous rock stars have it easy in some ways (money, mainly), but hard in others (tumultuous home lives, a close-up look at the displeasures of fame, and, most dominantly, the pressure of their parents’ achievement). And, while there are plenty of second-generation talents (Teddy Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, Joachim Cooder, Justin Townes Earle), the kids that succeed most commonly do so by marking off the difference between their career and their parents’ careers. (It’s a dynamic that allows the parents, then, to be respectful and supportive—at a recent show at City Winery, Richard Thompson lovingly invited Teddy onstage to sing a few songs with him, and the Wainwrights have collaborated together often.)

Ironically, although talent and drive may not be inherited, vocal quality often is. Taylor’s vocals can sound eerily like his father’s. (As do, say, Harper Simon’s, who is Paul’s son.) The most famous example of this, of course, is the Lennon example—not Sean, but Julian, John’s older son, who briefly became a star in the eighties with hits like “Too Late For Goodbyes” and “Valotte.” John Lennon’s assassination was still a recent memory, and Julian served, at the time, as a kind of psychic replacement. His career tapered off quickly after that, though he released an album last year titled “Everything Changes.” It hadn’t, and the album didn’t make much of an impression.

So here’s to hoping that the Beatles—The Next Generation never happens, for the sake of the Beatles, the Beatles—The Next Generation, and for the rest of us. Jakob Dylan, who is perhaps the most successful second-generation rock star, used to cover The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” onstage when his band the Wallflowers were a going concern. Let’s all take that lesson to heart.

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The Beatles in London: The Best Beatles Tours & Places to Visit

By: Author Tracy Collins

Posted on Last updated: November 25, 2023

Whether you want to take London Beatles tours on a self-guided basis or would rather join a group tour, this guide is for you! Included is a rundown of seven Beatles-related London locations to visit – as well as seven of the best Fab Four London tours.

Will it be the Beatles store, the London Palladium, Paul McCartney’s home, Savile Row or the iconic Abbey Road you head for first? Read on to discover The Beatles in London – and how best to follow in their footsteps. 

The Beatles in London – Tour Guide Summary

• The Beatles Store, London

The Beatles Museum, London

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Located on Baker Street, the Beatles shop in London is a treasure trove for fans of the Liverpudlian quartet’s music. 

The Beatles London store stocks what is said to be the biggest range of Beatles merchandise you’ll find anywhere on the planet, and is just a minute’s walk from Baker Street tube station.

The products on sale include keyrings, t-shirts, mugs, homeware, bags, posters, collectable items, musical accessories like guitar straps and even autographs. 

Contrary to popular belief there isn’t actually a London Beatles museum, but you can visit a couple of museums displaying artefacts relating to the Fab Four.

Artistic impressions of John, Paul, George and Ringo can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, while the British Library (part of the British Museum) has some original lyrics on show plus handwritten birthday cards and some photos. 

Another option is to visit Madame Tussaud’s, where you can of course see their waxworks. Otherwise, you’d need to head to the Beatles Museum in Liverpool known as The Beatles Story . 

Heading to Liverpool? Read our Liverpool itinerary for Beatles fans.

Abbey Road was catapulted to worldwide fame after starring on the cover of the album of the same name. The road and the recording studios can be found in north west London, near St John’s Wood tube station. It’s an incredibly popular place to visit among Beatles fans from across the globe.  

The location is included on many tours of Beatles sites in London, including six of the seven listed below. Or you can take the tube to St John’s Wood to find it.

At the tube station exit (there is only one here) continue westwards along Grove End Road. About half a kilometre along is the turn into Abbey Road, and you should easily spot both the studios and the crossing. 

The term ‘Beatlemania’ was apparently coined after the band performed at the venue. This took place in October 1963. A newspaper then used the term within their gig write-up, and it caught on. The building on Argyll Street in Soho is also visually stunning, so it’s well worth a visit if you’re a fan and near the area. 

The famous Beatles rooftop gig took place on Savile Row, where Apple Corp has their headquarters. It was the last time they’d play live together, and was called to a halt due to police intervention. The gig was previously unannounced. At the end, John Lennon thanked the crowd and said he hoped the band had auditioned well. 

Marylebone Station was used at the start of A Hard Day’s Night , a Beatles feature film, so is a must for serious fans of the band or the movie. Interestingly George Harrison falling and tearing his suit was accidental, yet was included in the final cut.  

In 1963, Paul McCartney bought number 7 Cavendish Avenue, close to the Abbey Road studios. Apparently he still owns the house, and continues to use it as a London base to this day. It’s in the St John’s Wood area, near Lord’s cricket ground. 

7 of the best Beatles tours in London

If you feel like letting someone else lead the way so you can max out your limited time in London, the following are all contenders as best Beatles tour in London. Options include daytime and evening tours by black cab, minibus and coach, or even a day trip to Liverpool. 

• Duration: 2.5 hours
• Destinations: A Hard Day’s Night locations, Abbey Road, Beatles Store
• Departure point: Royal Court Theatre, London (next to Sloane Square station)
• What’s included: Minibus transport, tour guide, walk across Abbey Road
• What’s not included: Food, drinks or extras
• Means of transport: Bus

The tour begins in the upmarket Kensington area so you can see where the band’s first photoshoot took place. As you tour London, your guide will provide lots of interesting background information while you see the places where hit songs were written or that starred in the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night . 

A stop at Abbey Road is of course included, and you can make the famous crossing here. The final leg of the tour is a walk from Marylebone station to the Beatles Store on Baker Street. 

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• Duration: 2 hours
• Destinations: Soho, St James & Mayfair districts
• Departure point: The Granaio restaurant, London (near Piccadilly station)
• What’s included: Guided walking tour
• What’s not included: Abbey Road visit, food, drinks or extras
• Means of transport: Walking

If you want to take a Beatles walking tour in London, this very affordable one is recommended. You’ll learn all about city life during the swinging sixties, as well as the band themselves. Iconic locations visited include Carnaby Street, which was fashion central during the decade, and Ronnie Scott’s, a jazz club favoured by many prominent people as well as the Fab Four.

Do note that a visit to Abbey Road is not included on this particular itinerary, though you will see other sites such as the location of their last-ever gig, music venues and locations for Beatles photoshoots. 

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• Duration: 3 hours
• Destinations: Gig venues, Beatles’ homes, filming & photo locations & more
• Departure point: Sloane Square station, London
• What’s included: Black cab transport, tour guide
• What’s not included: Food, drinks, extras or tips
• Means of transport: London taxi

This private Beatles London tour takes place in a traditional black London cab and is designed for one or two people. During the three hours you’ll learn all about the history of one of the biggest bands ever, visiting about 30 locations related to John, Paul, George and Ringo en route.

You’ll discover all the London districts that were important to the Beatles during the 1960s, including Mayfair, Soho, Chelsea, Marylebone and St Johns Wood – the latter being where the famous Abbey Road studios are located. 

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• Destinations : Gig venues, Beatles’ homes, photo locations & Abbey Road
• Departure point: Original London Visitor Centre, London (near Piccadilly station)
• Means of transport: Minibus 

This 2.5 hour tour of London takes you to around 35 locations that are related in some way to The Beatles. Included is iconic Abbey Road, where you’ll get to follow in the Fab Four’s footsteps by making the same crossing they did. It lasts for two-and-a-half hours and takes place during the evening. 

You’ll also discover other places where the band posed for photographs as well as where they composed songs and played gigs. The only place the four all lived in together is also visited, as is the site of their final group performance and the art galleries where John met Yoko and where he exhibited his own works.  

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• Duration: 4 hours
• Destinations : Paul McCartney’s office, art galleries, Abbey Road & more
• Departure point: Central London hotel pick-up
• What’s included: Black cab transport, tour guide, complimentary water
• What’s not included: Food, extras or tips

Get a London black cab ride and a Beatles tour of London in one by booking this trip. You’ll be driven around the city in a black taxi after pick-up at your hotel, touring the key sights relating to the Fab Four. The guide grew up in the sixties, and will share all sorts of stories and snippets of information during the four hour tour. 

En route you’ll see various places where the band worked, lived and played, including Paul McCartney’s current office, the gallery where John and Yoko met, homes where various hits were composed and of course Abbey Road.

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• Duration: 1 day
• Destinations: Liverpool, The Beatles Story, Cavern Club, Penny Lane & more
• Departure point: Euston Station, London
• What’s included: Return rail travel to Liverpool, Beatles Story entry, Magical Mystery Tour
• What’s not included: Food, drinks, extras & tour guide
• Means of transport: Train & coach tour in Liverpool 

Even if you only have a day at your disposal, it is possible to take a trip to Liverpool to visit the home city of the four plus The Beatles Story museum. This is an unguided tour, and includes all you need to discover the history behind the famous British band.

You’ll travel by train from London Euston to Liverpool’s Lime Street station in central Liverpool, where there’s free time to explore the city. A ticket to The Beatles Story is included, in addition to a two hour Magical Mystery Tour of iconic sites like Strawberry Fields, the Cavern Club and Penny Lane. Former homes and schools are also seen along the way. 

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• Destinations: Beatles’ homes, art galleries, last gig venue, Abbey Road
• What’s included: Black cab transport, expert tour guide, free water, hotel pick-up

This Beatles tour of London by black cab places you in the safe hands of a Beatles expert, who will show you photos of the Fab Four and tell tales from the sixties as you tour London’s related sights. 

Up to five can participate in this personal tour of the city, seeing where Paul lived and the apartment John and Yoko called home. You’ll see the famous Abbey Road studios and can also cross the road there just as John, Paul, George and Ringo did. The venue for their final rooftop concert and Apple Records HQ are also included.  

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The Beatles in London – FAQs

Areas frequented by the Fab Four during the 1960s include Mayfair, Soho, St John’s Wood and Kensington. The band once shared a home in Mayfair – Flat L at 57 Green Street. The flatshare was fairly short-lived as the growing family of John, Cynthia and Julian Lennon soon needed more space.

A blue plaque unveiled by Yoko Ono marks the spot where John Lennon lived with her in 1968. The address is 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone. Ringo Starr was the one who took on the lease, renting it out to John and Yoko for several months. Paul McCartney also composed there, as did Jimi Hendrix who also lived there for a while. 

Abbey Road is in the St John’s Wood area of north west London, and the Beatles famously used the recording studios there. The zebra crossing the members of the band are walking across on the cover of the album is probably the most visited crossing in the world. The nearest tube station is St John’s Wood.  

John and Yoko met in late 1966 at a London art gallery. Yoko was about to exhibit there and was busy preparing her pieces for display. The connection was said to be instantaneous, and although the partnership attracted controversy they were wed in March 1969. 

The Beatles played an unannounced concert from a rooftop on Savile Row, London in 1969. This was the headquarters of Apple, the band’s record label. They were over 40 minutes in before they were asked by the police to turn down the sound. It turned out to be their last live gig as a foursome. 

John Lennon was shot in New York, not London. The killing took place in 1980 in Manhattan, when Mark Chapman shot him four times. Apparently, the gunman was obsessed with Lennon. 

From the homes of Lennon or McCartney to the site of The Beatles’ last live gig ever or shopping till you drop at the memorabilia store, how will you explore the part the Fab Four played in city life during the swinging sixties?

Whether you opt for an organised tour or go your own way, there’s no denying the influence this trailblazing band from Liverpool had on the pop music scene.

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Cirque official on closing of ‘The Beatles Love’: ‘It wasn’t our decision’

The decision ends a production that opened in June 2006, with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison — the widow of George Harrison — in attendance.

The Hard Rock Las Vegas will rock without the Beatles.

“The Beatles Love” by Cirque du Soleil is closing at The Mirage/Hard Rock Las Vegas on July 7. Producers announced the decision Tuesday morning.

Thus ends the only live production anywhere in the world licensed by Apple Corp, the Beatles’ parent company.

Cirque du Soleil CEO Stéphane Lefebvre said Mirage/Hard Rock Las Vegas officials pulled the plug on the show.

“This wasn’t our decision,” Lefebvre said in a virtual interview Tuesday afternoon, after being asked why the show is closing. “As you you know, Hard Rock needs to take control of the entire venue and do some major renovations. So they need to get the show closed by July 7.”

Lefebvre, based in Montreal and Cirque’s top-ranking official said he found out “late last week” the show would be shut down. He also confirmed there are no plans to tour “Love,” a show that would seem to have strong demand internationally.

“If it has a life beyond this venue, it will need to change the format a little bit. The theater is so unique, it’s a 360-degree stage and very deep,” Lefebvre said “If we want to move it elsewhere, if we look at somewhere in Europe, we need to make some significant changes.”

A total of 230 members of the “Love” cast and crew are to lose their jobs as the result of the shutdown.

‘Love’ problems

The future of “Love” had been in question as The Mirage turns over to Hard Rock Las Vegas. The show was reportedly running between 40- and 60-percent capacity in its 2,013-seat theater. That is the lowest box-office performance of Cirque’s six productions on the Strip.

The loss of “Love” creates a void among Cirque shows in Las Vegas. The company still operates “Mystere” at Treasure Island , “O” at Bellagio , ‘Ka” at MGM Grand , “Michael Jackson One” at Mandalay Bay and “Mad Apple” at New York-New York.

Cirque also owns Blue Man Group at Luxor and is a partner in the outgoing “America’s Got Talent Live — Superstars” show at Luxor.

Lefebvre addressed possible new Cirque projects, saying, MGM Resorts International remains the company’s primary Las Vegas partner, though Cirque is in partnership with Phil Ruffin with its longest-running show, “Mystere” at Treasure Island and is closing out its business relationship with Hard Rock.

“MGM is by far is our strongest and most important partner,” Lefebvre said. “I think first and foremost, before we start looking around at other potential partners, we really want to do something with MGM. Absolutely.”

The MGM portfolio now includes Cosmopolitan, where Spiegelworld’s “OPM” closed earlier this year. Lefebvre said investigating that space, among other smaller-scale opportunities “could be interesting for us, clearly.”

The future of “Love” had been in question as The Mirage turns over to Hard Rock Las Vegas. The show was reportedly running between 40- and 60-percent capacity, the lowest box-office performance of Cirque’s six productions on the Strip.

‘A captivating show’

Mirage President Joe Lupo praised the show, which will have run for about a year and a half under his company’s stewardship of the resort.

“Throughout its historic 18-year run at The Mirage Las Vegas, ‘The Beatles Love’ has been a captivating show that has delighted millions of guests as they shared in the wonder of Cirque du Soleil,” Lupo said in a statement. “I want to share my sincere appreciation to MGM and the entertainment team who ensured that the show’s legacy continued during our ownership transition.”

Lupo also thanked the Cirque performers and team members, adding, “The closure marks the continued construction that directly impacts daily offerings, as we continue the process of transforming our property into the Strip’s newest icon.”

When “Love” bows out, Cirque will have closed three shows in a little more than four years. “R.U.N” at Luxor came and went in five months ending in March 2020. “Zumanity” at New York-New York did not return after the pandemic shutdown , closing permanently in November 2020. “Mad Apple” replaced “Zumanity” in the same theater in May 2022.

‘Love’ history

The decision ends a wondrous production that opened in June 2006, with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison — the widow of George Harrison — in attendance. McCartney and Harrison scouted “O” at Bellagio together in 2001 to gauge how The Beatles’ music and images could blend with Cirque artistry.

Harrison was a close friend of Cirque co-founder Guy Laliberte, with the idea from the show hatched between the two at the F1 Montreal Grand Prix in 2000. With Harrison leading the initial vision for the show, Laliberte steered the production to creation at the Mirage.

The Love Theatre took over the former Siegfried & Roy Theater at the resort.

According to Cirque figures, a total of 44 nationalities are represented. The show required 11,600 costume pieces, 250 pairs of shoes, and 225 wigs each night. A total of 750,000 lumens in projections, 500 props and scenic pieces were required to put on the show.

Upcoming moves

The closing of “Love” is not the only shift in the entertainment landscape at The Mirage. Current Mirage Theater headliner Shin Lim is also the focus of speculation he will be leaving the resort this summer. Several interested parties are reportedly attempting to lure the headlining magician.

The Mirage Theater’s former Aces of Comedy program, developed under MGM Resorts, ended with the hotel’s sale to Hard Rock. Several familiar headliners (including David Spade, Ron White and Ray Romano) moving to other venues on the Strip.

The Center Stage series is holding down the comedy programming in the short term, alternating showtimes with Lim. His post-Mirage plans should be announced soon.

Meantime, “Love” will fade out after playing to more than 11.5 million ticket-holders in its 18-year run. Every performance closes with “All You Need Is Love.” That is how we will remember this show.

John Katsilometes’ column runs daily in the A section. His “PodKats!” podcast can be found at reviewjournal.com/podcasts . Contact him at [email protected]. Follow @johnnykats on X, @JohnnyKats1 on Instagram.

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The pop superstar has rescheduled her postponed “Weekends With Adele” dates at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

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Honoree Blake Shelton will be joined by a number of stars at the Las Vegas fundraising gala, including Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth.

He’s a three-time Grammy Award winner, an artist who has amassed 23 billion streams world wide. He’s a proud Las Vegan, and he’s leading a “Human Love Rebellion” to a chic Strip theater.

The 1,480-seat capacity Encore Theater on the Strip is the most intimate venue for the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ 2024 tour.

Missy Elliott’s First-Ever Headline Tour: Out Of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience Creates Cosmic Event

WITH BUSTA RHYMES, CIARA, AND SPECIAL GUEST TIMBALAND

Arena tour marks historic milestone in missy elliott’s 30-year career,   watch the video news break for the hottest summer ticket here, presales begin april 9 | general onsale starts april 12 | details available here.

Today’s solar phenomenon was eclipsed by the supernova announcement of global superstar Missy Elliott’s history-making debut headline tour, OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience . Continuing her stellar dominance as one of the most significant artists in music, the pioneer of female Hip Hop/R&B will land in arenas across North America this summer with Hip Hop legend Busta Rhymes , Multi-Platinum selling superstar Ciara , and mega producer Timbaland .

“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts.’ Being the FIRST female Hip Hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and now going out on my FIRST headline tour,” shares Elliott. “Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family! So get ready to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We can’t wait to share this experience with the fans!”

This summer’s hottest ticket is produced by Live Nation in association with Mona Scott-Young , Elliott’s longtime manager and CEO of Monami Entertainment, and represented by Seth Shomes through Day After Day Productions (DADP). The 24-city run blasts off on July 4 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, making stops across North America in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Brooklyn, and more, before wrapping up in Rosemont at Allstate Arena on August 22.

Scott-Young adds, “Missy has always been an iconic groundbreaker and continuously pushes herself to be bolder and go where she has never been before – and surprisingly, one of those places is headlining her own tour! For decades, fans and peers worldwide have clamored for Missy to tour and they’re finally going to get what they’ve been asking for as she teams up with Ciara, Busta, and longtime partner-in-rhyme Timbaland, to deliver a start-to-finish, nonstop, high-octane, OUT OF THIS WORLD concert experience. This will be one for the books, so trust me, you don’t want to miss it!”

Always on the cutting edge, Elliott conceptualized an OUT OF THIS WORLD visual to skyrocket the tour announcement when she reunited with longtime collaborators – director extraordinaire Dave Meyers   (“Get Ur Freak On,” “Work It,” “Pass That Dutch”); celebrity super-stylist and 2024 NAACP Image Awards Fashion Vanguard Award recipient June Ambrose ; and acclaimed creative director Hi-Hat ( The Voice ) – to bring her intergalactic vision to life.

Watch the must-see tour announcement video HERE .

TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with Verizon presale (details below) beginning tomorrow, April 9. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, April 12 at 10 a.m. local time at Missy-Elliott.com .

• Verizon Presale : Verizon will offer an exclusive presale for the OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience in the U.S. through Verizon Up. Customers will have access to purchase presale tickets for these newly announced dates beginning tomorrow, April 9 at 10 a.m. local time until Thursday, April 11 at 10 p.m. local time. For more details, visit Verizon Up .
• VIP: The OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience will also offer a variety of VIP packages and fan activations to elevate their concert experience. Select packages will include premium tickets, group photo onstage, VIP Lounge access, exclusive tour poster, specially designed VIP gift items, and more. For more information, visit com .

OUT OF THIS WORLD — THE MISSY ELLIOTT EXPERIENCE TOUR 2024 DATES:

Thursday, July 4 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena

Saturday, July 6 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena

Tuesday, July 9 — Oakland, CA — Oakland Arena

Thursday, July 11 — Los Angeles, CA — Crypto.com Arena

Saturday, July 13 — Las Vegas, NV — T-Mobile Arena

Tuesday, July 16 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena

Thursday, July 18 — Austin, TX — Moody Center

Saturday, July 20 — Houston, TX — Toyota Center

Sunday, July 21 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena

Wednesday, July 24 — Tampa, FL — Amalie Arena

Thursday, July 25 — Sunrise, FL — Amerant Bank Arena

Saturday, July 27 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena

Thursday, August 1 — Baltimore, MD — CFG Bank Arena

Friday, August 2 — Hampton, VA — Hampton Coliseum

Saturday, August 3 — Belmont Park, NY — UBS Arena

Monday, August 5 — Philadelphia, PA — Wells Fargo Center

Thursday, August 8 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena

Friday, August 9 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center

Saturday, August 10 — Boston, MA — TD Garden

Monday, August 12 — Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center

Thursday, August 15 — Detroit, MI — Little Caesars Arena

Saturday, August 17 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre

Monday, August 19 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena

Thursday, August 22 — Rosemont, IL — Allstate Arena

ABOUT MISSY ELLIOTT

One of the most significant female artists in the annals of contemporary music, Missy Elliott is making history once again in 2024 the OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience – her first-ever headline tour, accompanied by her longtime co-stars Busta Rhymes, Ciara and special guest Timbaland. An avant-garde solo superstar, pioneering songwriter-producer, and across-the-board cultural icon, the four-time GRAMMY® Award winning Elliott has attained unprecedented success, including 22 GRAMMY® nominations spanning three decades, eight MTV Video Music Awards, and sales now exceeding 30M in the U.S. alone. All of Missy’s six studio albums have each been RIAA platinum certified or better, marking her among the only female rappers ever to achieve that remarkable accomplishment. Among her countless triumphs, 2023 saw Elliott named as the first female hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, rightly declaring her “ a true path breaker in a male-dominated genre. ”

Elliott’s most recent work, 2019’s acclaimed EP, ICONOLOGY , drew instant applause upon its surprise release, with USA Today declaring it “ a master class at the school of Missy Misdemeanor Elliott. ” That same year saw the iconic star making history as the first female hip-hop artist ever to receive the MTV Video Music Awards’ prestigious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. 2019 also saw her break new ground as the first female hip-hop artist and third-ever rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In addition, Elliott became the first female rapper to receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, celebrating her lasting contributions to music and popular culture. Further accolades followed in 2021, with Elliott named among the twelve inaugural inductees for the new Atlanta landmark, The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and later honored with her own star on the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2022, Elliott’s hometown of Portsmouth, VA celebrated its favorite daughter by presenting her with the Key to the City and renaming a portion of McLean Street to “Missy Elliott Boulevard” and declaring October 17 as Missy Elliott Day. What’s more, Virginia’s Norfolk State University awarded Elliott with the Presidential Commencement Medallion and an honorary degree at their fall 2022 commencement ceremony, acknowledging her “ outstanding professional achievements and extraordinary contributions to public service. ”

In addition to her historic induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective presented Elliott with its Recording Academy Global Impact Award, honoring her personal and professional achievements in the music industry. The 2023 GRAMMY® Awards saw Elliott among the superstars celebrating the 50 th anniversary of hip-hop, joining such icons as LL Cool J, Ice-T, Method Man, Busta Rhymes, and Salt-N-Pepa for a landmark performance honoring the genre’s diverse history. Additional 2023 tributes include the Black Music Honors’ “Music Innovator Icon” award as well as a special ESSENCE cover story celebrating her headline performance at the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture in New Orleans. Indeed, Missy Elliott deserves all the flowers and then some. Now, with her OUT OF THIS WORLD — The Missy Elliott Experience hitting arenas across North America with Ciara, Busta Rhymes and special guest Timbaland – and new music always on the horizon – Missy Elliott continues to stand tall over pop culture as a true creative architect and revolutionary artist, her prophetic sound and vision as groundbreaking and influential as ever before.

ABOUT BUSTA RHYMES

Busta Rhymes persists and perseveres as one of history’s most indomitable, impactful, and influential rappers. His patented tongue-twisting flow and lyrical fireworks changed the art form, flooding the culture with speed and begging it to maintain pace. He has garnered a staggering 12 GRAMMY® Award nominations, sold over 10 million albums worldwide, and delivered seven Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200. Dubbed “the greatest performer of all time” by JAY-Z and “the James Brown of hip-hop” by Phife Dawg, he notably made it from the humblest of beginnings in East Flatbush Brooklyn, all the way to the White House visiting with President Barack Obama. In retrospect, Pitchfork hailed the seminal When Disaster Strikes… as “the turning point, the moment Busta Rhymes became the Joker of the deck that got to stay in the game.” He is a rare force of nature who started off with Leaders of the New School and has collaborated with everyone from Dr. Dre, Janet Jackson, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Mariah Carey to Dave Chappelle, Ozzy Osbourne, and Chris Rock. Esteemed outlets such as Billboard, Vibe, and The Source placed him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of All Time, while MTV has called him “one of hip-hop’s greatest visual artists.” BET Jams crowned Busta’s “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” as the “Greatest Hip-Hop Video of All-Time.”  He was named the 2023 BET Icon/Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.  As an accomplished actor, Busta’s diverse career filmography spans the acclaimed “Higher Learning,” “Narc,” and “Finding Forrester.” His animated hits include The Rugrats Movie and blockbusters such as Shaft and Halloween: Resurrection. Busta launched the next phase of his career with his 2023 aptly titled album, BLOCKBUSTA, executive produced by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, and Swizz Beatz via Busta’s label, The Conglomerate ENT. and distributed by Epic Records. The game is still just trying to catch up to this Icon.

ABOUT CIARA

Ciara is a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Over her twenty-year career, she has sold over 23 million records and 22 million singles worldwide, including chart-topping hits “Goodies,” “Ride,” “Oh,” “1, 2 Step,” “I Bet,” “Level Up,” and “How We Roll.” Ciara is not only known for her vocal talent and dance moves but she has starred in both TV and film roles, most recently the reimagined The Color Purple . Ciara is the founder and CEO of Beauty Marks Entertainment (BME), a company at the vanguard of the fast-changing music industry. With a business model built on fully supporting the artist, the female-led enterprise places Ciara at the forefront of forward-thinking entertainers taking an entrepreneurial approach to their careers. Along with husband Russell Wilson, she launched The House of LR&C, a new concept in retail with a focus on doing good. In keeping with her entrepreneurial spirit, Ciara is the co-owner of Ten To One rum and recently launched her skincare line OAM (On A Mission) which provides clinical level results through vitamin C. As part of her ongoing philanthropy work, she co-founded the Why Not You Foundation with husband Russell Wilson which is dedicated to fighting poverty through education and empowering today’s youth to lead with a “why not you” attitude. Most recently they became New York Times Bestselling authors with the release of their first children’s book “Why Not You” (Random House) which was inspired by the work they do through their foundation.

ABOUT TIMBALAND

Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning producer, artist, author and entrepreneur, Timbaland is one of the greatest minds in music history. With more top-ten hits than Elvis Presley or the Beatles, he has taught the world to “say it with sound.” Dubbed the Emperor of Sound and ranked #3 by Billboard on a list of 50 of the greatest producers of the 21st century. Timbaland’ the musical mastermind is behind the most memorable hits of our times. With over 18-Grammy nominations, 4-Grammy wins and 200+ ASCAP Music awards, his indelible imprint has been stamped on countless hits from some of the most successful and legendary artists in the world. From Jay-Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” and “Big Pimpin,” to Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” and “Cry Me A River,” Aaliyah’s “One In A Million,” Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It,” Ginuwine’s “Pony,” and One Republic’s “Apologize” amongst many others, Timbaland’s credits have established him as one of the most iconic producers of all time.  To date, Timbaland has released two books, a biography aptly titled The Emperor of Sound, and his children’s book Nighttime Symphony, and in the middle of the Global Pandemic, he and Swizz Beatz launched VERZUZ . The series garnered a Webby Award for Special Achievement – “Break the Internet” as it crushed the Instagram record for livestreaming. Timbaland and Swizz received the “Shine A Light Award” at the 2020 BET Awards, while Bloomberg Businessweek included them among, “The 50 Most Influential People: ‘The People Who Changed Global Business” in 2020. Within a year, VERZUZ also won a NCAAP Image Award for “Outstanding Show (Series or Special) . ” Dozens of television shows, a Billboard cover, and more have chronicled and studied “The VERZUZ Effect . ”

Founded by Timbaland and his business partner Gary Marella, Beatclub the music tech platform is disrupting the music business by offering an all in one solution for music creators to make millions in revenue through syncs, selling beats, sample packs, acapellas, services and more. Some of Beatclub’s equity holders include Justin Timberlake, J Cole, Tommy Brown, Tainy, Mike Dean and more.

ABOUT LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT

Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com .

ABOUT MONA SCOTT-YOUNG

Mona Scott-Young is an award-winning talent manager, TV/film producer, marketing guru, content creator, published author and entrepreneur. As CEO and Founder of Monami Entertainment , and Monami Productions, Scott-Young is a much sought-after executive with a 360° approach toward connection with a global audience. Scott-Young built upon her remarkable track record for success in all areas of entertainment to create leading lifestyle and entertainment powerhouses Monami Entertainment, home to Hip Hop legend Busta Rhymes, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Missy Elliott, and breakthrough female rapper ScarLip, plus Monami Productions which produces hit programming for Viacom, Amazon, WEtv, Bravo and more. Scott-Young has also appeared as on-camera talent and continues to tap her entrepreneurial spirit, unique brand appeal and marketing prowess  to connect with audiences through other platforms and products as co-owner of MYX Fusions Wine Beverages .

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Peter Brown, One of the Beatles’ Closest Confidants, Tells All (Again)

At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.

By Ben Sisario

Peter Brown stood in his spacious Central Park West apartment, pointing first at the dining table and then through the window to the park outside, with Strawberry Fields just to the right.

“John sat at that table looking through here,” Brown said, “and he couldn’t take his eyes off the park.”

That’s John as in Lennon. And the story of the former Beatle coveting this living-room view in 1971 — and how Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, eventually got their own place one block down, at the Dakota — is just one of Brown’s countless nuggets of Fab Four lore. In the 1960s he was an assistant to Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, and then an officer at Apple Corps, the band’s company. A key figure in the Beatles’ secretive inner circle, Brown kept a red telephone on his desk whose number was known only to the four members.

And it was Brown who, in 1969, informed Lennon that he and Ono could quickly and quietly wed in a small British territory on the edge of the Mediterranean, a piece of advice immortalized in “The Ballad of John and Yoko”: “Peter Brown called to say, ‘You can make it OK/You can get married in Gibraltar, near Spain.’”

Next week, Brown and the writer Steven Gaines are releasing a book, “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words,” made up of interviews they conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people close to it, including business representatives, lawyers, wives and ex-wives — the raw material that Brown and Gaines used for their earlier narrative biography of the band, “The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles,” published in 1983.

Now 87, Brown is a polarizing figure in Beatles history. He was a witness to some of the band’s most important moments and was a trusted keeper of its secrets. “The only people left are Paul and Ringo and me,” he said.

On a tour of Brown’s apartment, the spoils of his access were everywhere. In his bedroom, Brown showed off an original image of the cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” with background figures (like Gandhi ) that didn’t make the final cut. In the dining room are binders and boxes stuffed with Beatle-related snapshots and correspondence.

But the publication of “The Love You Make” four decades ago also made him a kind of villain. According to Brown, the band agreed to interviews to set the record straight about its history. Yet the book — primarily written by Gaines, a journalist and biographer known for detailed, warts-and-all portraits — was seen as tawdry and sensational, preoccupied with sex lives and internecine conflicts, with music a secondary subject. Excerpts ran in National Enquirer.

To the band and many of those around them, it was seen as a betrayal. Paul McCartney accused Brown of misleading him by pitching it as a more general book about music in the 1960s. Linda McCartney said she and Paul burned it.

“That book was a shame,” Mark Lewisohn , the pre-eminent Beatles scholar, said in a recent interview.

“It’s almost like there are two different Peter Browns,” Lewisohn added. “There’s the Peter Brown I know, who is this upright, respectable, very successful businessman. And then the one who attached his name to this Steven Gaines book.”

Brown has heard all the criticism before, and waves it off. Sitting in a chair he inherited from Epstein — and dapper as always in a purple button-down shirt and charcoal slacks — Brown said the book stands as an accurate portrayal, and that the Beatles knew full well what they were getting into.

“There was never any effort on my part to make it negative,” Brown said in his unflappably gentle voice, as classical music wafted quietly through his home. “And nobody’s ever questioned that it was true.”

He also rejected McCartney’s version of events. “Paul imagines things,” Brown said. “Everything he does, he has his own way of remembering, and he’s crazy about it.”

Gaines, for his part, attributes the notoriety of the original book to his and Brown’s refusal to produce a sanitized hagiography, and their decision instead to publish controversial private details. Among those was a rumor that Lennon once had a sexual encounter with Epstein, which Brown and Gaines reported as fact, based on their research.

“Nobody had put something like that in a book,” Gaines said. That episode, on a trip to Spain in 1963, has been debated for years by Beatles commentators. Lennon denied having sex with Epstein, saying in an interview with Playboy: “It was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated.”

Brown and Gaines’s new book, “All You Need Is Love,” goes even deeper into Beatle lore than their first. It offers an extended transcript of Ono denying, not too persuasively, that she introduced Lennon to heroin, and includes various firsthand accounts of the threats and chaos the band faced on tour in Manila in 1966. Ron Kass, who led the Beatles’ Apple label, describes the impossibility of running a business with Lennon and McCartney as the bosses. One, he says, wanted the label design to be green, the other white; Kass decided to make each side a different color.

There are also startling comments from McCartney and George Harrison about Lennon, revealing the tension and raw feelings that were still present a decade after the band broke up, in interviews recorded just weeks before Lennon was killed in December 1980. Harrison calls his former bandmate “a piece of [expletive]” and wonders why he had “become so nasty.”

McCartney describes Lennon and Ono as “very suspicious people,” and portrays his relationship with them as a kind of power struggle.

“The way to get their friendship is to do everything the way they require it. To do anything else is how to not get their friendship,” McCartney says in the book. “I know that if I absolutely lie down on the ground and just do everything like they say and laugh at all their jokes and don’t expect my jokes to ever get laughed at,” he adds, “if I’m willing to do all that, then we can be friends.”

Lennon never got a chance to respond, Brown said. “I spoke to John, and said, ‘Listen, I’m coming to New York to do some of the recordings,’” he recalled. “And he said, ‘Yes, fine. Looking forward to it.’ And that was the week before he was murdered.” Ono’s interview was done a few months later, in the spring of 1981.

As with many Beatles histories, there are plenty of contradictions, opposing perspectives and selective memories. Interviews with the manager Allen Klein and the lawyer John L. Eastman offer an icy tit-for-tat on the battle for business control during the band’s last days. And Alexis Mardas, a.k.a. Magic Alex, the supposed inventor who others in the book call a con man, gives his account — with skeptical footnotes added by Brown and Gaines — of the Beatles’ retreat in India in 1968.

When asked about finding the truth amid contrasting accounts in an oral history, Brown turned philosophical. “It depends on where you’re sitting,” he said.

There are even conflicting stories about the genesis of Brown and Gaines’s new book. According to Brown, it began when a New York Times reporter — me — asked him for comment three years ago about “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s exhaustive look at the band’s stormy recording sessions in early 1969. Brown realized then, he said, that he was one of the last remaining witnesses to important history.

But Gaines said that the origins of the project go back years before, to when he wondered what to do with the original interview tapes, which were languishing in his safe deposit box on Long Island. Gaines said he considered donating or selling them, but Brown demurred. They settled on a book of edited transcriptions, though they still squabble over details like ownership of the tapes. “It’s ‘Rashomon’ with Peter,” Gaines said.

After Brown quit his work with the Beatles on Dec. 31, 1970 — the day that McCartney filed a lawsuit to dissolve the band’s partnership — he came to the United States and worked with Robert Stigwood , the Australian-born entertainment mogul who had huge hits in the 1970s with the Bee Gees and the films “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease.” Then Brown founded a public relations firm, BLJ Worldwide, which in 2011 came under scrutiny for its work representing the families of Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Brown declined to speak about that episode on the record.

But he remains most proud of his association with the Beatles, and said he viewed “All You Need Is Love” as a final gesture defining his legacy with the band.

“This is the end of it,” he said. “Hopefully we’re closing the door now.”

Ben Sisario covers the music industry. He has been writing for The Times since 1998. More about Ben Sisario

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Yoko Ono Told John Lennon How to Take Heroin, New Book Claims: I Told Him 'It Was Just a Nice Feeling'

In an excerpt from The Beatles oral history book 'All You Need Is Love,' Ono reportedly recounts how Lennon "wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it"

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Yoko Ono reportedly told John Lennon how to take heroin, according to an excerpt from a new oral history book on The Beatles .

The Sunday Times shared several new excerpts from All You Need Is Love — a book featuring interviews from the early 1980s with Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr , as well as Ono and other loved ones in the band's world.

In one interview from the book, Ono, now 91, reportedly said she advised Lennon on how to take heroin, and denied that she "put John on H," which she claimed his bandmate Harrison had accused her of. Ono also said that Lennon "wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it."

Per the Times excerpt, Ono reportedly said she first "had a sniff of" heroin in Paris and that she experienced "a beautiful feeling" as she did not get sick from it. "It was just a nice feeling," she said in the book, according to the outlet. "So I told John that."

Ono also reportedly said that Lennon would ask her about her experience using the drug, the Times reported. Ultimately, Ono thought he "wanted to take it, that’s why he was asking," per the excerpt. She also said that they "never injected" the drug.

A rep for Ono did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

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In 1970, Lennon, who was killed in 1980, previously detailed his first experience with heroin, telling Rolling Stone that it was "not too much fun" and that he "never injected anything."

"We sniffed a little when we were in real pain," he said. "We got such a hard time from everyone, and I’ve had so much thrown at me, and at Yoko, especially at Yoko. Like Peter Brown in our office – and you can put this in – after we come in after six months he comes down and shakes my hand and doesn’t even say hello to her. That’s going on all the time."

"And we get into so much pain that we have to do something about it. And that’s what happened to us," Lennon added. "We took 'H' because of what the Beatles and others were doing to us. But we got out of it."

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All You Need is Love comes from former members of the Beatles inner circle, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines, who first interviewed group members for 1983's  The Love You Make . The initial book was not well-received by the band, The Times notes, with Gains sharing that Paul and Linda McCartney "tore the book apart and burned it in the fireplace, page by page."

Now using those same interview transcripts, the new oral history details tensions between those within The Beatles inner circle, the ending of the band and more.

In one excerpt, Starr, now 83, discussed how he knew "it was time" for The Beatles to break up, and in another, McCartney, now 81, reportedly compared the group to a "football team," stating, "You don’t like to see a chick in the middle of the team."

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McCartney previously reflected on the "period of change" in the Beatles' history when Lennon would bring Ono to studio sessions during his  McCartney: A Life in Lyrics  series on iHeartPodcasts. McCartney said at the time that "anything that disturbs us, is disturbing" while recording.

"We would allow this and not make a fuss," he said. "And yet at the same time, I don't think any of us particularly liked it. It was an interference in the workplace. We had a way we worked. The four of us worked with  George Martin . And that was basically it. And we'd always done it like that. So not being very confrontational, I think we just bottled it up and just got on with it."

All You Need Is Love , which is being touted as a "groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time," will be out on April 9 via Macmillan .

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Clarence "Frogman" Henry Dies: ‘Ain't Got No Home' Singer Was 87

Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the New Orleans R&B singer whose 1956 hit “Ain’t Got No Home” showcased a vocal range that could soar to falsetto and plummet to the croak that provided his nickname, died Sunday. He was 87.

His death was announced by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation on social media. No cause of death was disclosed, but Henry reportedly had been in declining health and recently underwent surgery.

The Heritage Foundation said the “beloved icon of New Orleans music” was surrounded by friends and family at his passing Sunday night.

“Frogman’s absence at the upcoming 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be deeply felt, as he was scheduled to grace the stage on local's Thursday with the New Orleans Classic Recording Revue,” the Foundation said. “Rest in peace, Frogman.”

The very catchy song (“I sing like a girl and I sing like a frog,” went one verse) that rocketed Henry to nationwide fame would eventually secure its place among the era’s novelty classics like “Love Potion No. 9” by the Clovers and “Alley Oop” by The Hollywood Argyles. The song would be used in various films and TV shows, notably Barry Levinson’s Diner (1982) and Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995). A version recorded by The Band was used for a notable scene in Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987), with Corey Haim singing along while taking a bubble bath.

Born in New Orleans on March 19, 1937, Henry began playing piano as a child, picking up trombone and playing both instruments in his high school band. He played with local groups during and after high school, and was overheard singing in the jokey croak style by a Chess Records exec who encouraged Henry to record the song. Catching the attention of New Orleans DJ Poppa Stoppa, who christened Henry “Frogman,” the song rose to number 3 on the national R&B chart and number 20 on the US pop chart.

Henry had a big follow-up hit in 1961 with “(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do” and, to a lesser extent, “You Always Hurt the One You Love,” both in 1961. He was chosen by The Beatles as an opening act for the band’s 1964 North American tour.

While national fame was fleeting, Henry would maintain decades of popularity in New Orleans and among fans of R&B and Cajun-style music. He retired from the club circuit in 1981 but long continued annual appearances at the Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Times are a-changing: Don't hate on Bob Dylan; enjoy his evolution and vocal maturity

With the return of Bob Dylan to Nashville March 26-27 on his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour came the perennial dialogue: Dylan fans lamenting that they recently saw him live, thought that he was terrible, and that he was nothing like the Dylan of Old.

Dylan’s singing voice is perhaps the element of his artistry that has come most under fire. People say he’s lost his voice. The comment is made less as an objective observation and more as an expression of disappointment in not hearing the voice of Dylan that people know and love.

Why do people want the elusive Old Dylan so badly? What is our obsession with demanding repetition from artists we love? In hindsight, would we have preferred The Beatles to make bubble-gum pop their whole career?

My hope is for people to approach Dylan with a more open mind. To see him as someone who, from the beginning, was able to undergo chemical changes with the snap of a finger, to transform from song to song, album to album.

Dylan’s concert at Brooklyn Bowl saw a re-imagining of classic songs, including the rejiggering of his rock anthem “When I Paint My Masterpiece” into a samba, and the once-funky “Gotta Serve Somebody” into a blues shuffle.

I was amazed at how much vitality and spontaneity Bob had when singing these songs; it was as if the reconfigurations allowed him a new relationship to the words and their delivery. It was unfamiliar and beautiful territory.

Matt Siffert, Nashville 37214

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Paul McCartney Praises Beyoncé’s ‘Killer Version’ of ‘Blackbird’: ‘I Spoke to Her on FaceTime and She Thanked Me’ for ‘Letting Her Do It’

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Paul McCartney has weighed in on Beyoncé’s cover of “Blackbird,” nestled near the front of her latest album “Cowboy Carter.”

“I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird’. I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place. I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!”

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McCartney does not mention in his post that she used the master recording of the original guitar-and-foot-tapping backing part he recorded for the Beatles’ White Album in 1968 as the backing track for her new version, as reported earlier this week in Variety . He also receives a co-producing credit on her new recording.

Beyoncé’s lyrically and musically faithful version of the 1968 tune adds additional harmony and/or lead vocals from four Black country singers — Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Tiera Kennedy — along with some fresh bass and orchestration, over McCartney’s original solo acoustic track.

This is not the only cover on Beyoncé’s new album; “ Cowboy Carter ” also includes a new version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” (with an updated rewrite of the country star’s lyrics and song structure).

The singer-songwriter solidified the origins of the song’s inspiration in a recent interview with GQ .

“I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar, and I’d heard about the Civil Rights troubles that were happening in the 60s in Alabama, Mississippi, Little Rock in particular,” McCartney said.

“So that was in my mind, and I just thought, ’It would be really good if I could write something that if it ever reached any of the people going through those problems, it might give them a little bit of hope. So I wrote ‘Blackbird.’ In England, a bird is a girl, so I was thinking of a Black girl going through this; now is your time to arise; set yourself free; take these broken wings.”

“One of the nice things about music is that you know that a lot of people listening to you are going to take seriously what you’re saying in the song. I’m very proud of the fact that The Beatles’ output is always really, pretty positive.” 

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Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport (SVO) is one of the 4 major airports serving Moscow, the capital of Russia. The airport is situated in the city of Khimki, Moscow Oblast and it is located 29 km (18 mi) from central Moscow. The airport has had international flights since it opened officially as a civilian airport in 1959. Moscow is the most populous city of Russia, known for its wealth, tourism, history, architecture, UNESCO World Heritage Sites and serves as the cultural, scientific and financial centre.

Can you leave Moscow Airport (SVO) airport during a layover? Do you need a visa? It's possible to leave Moscow airport during a layover. However, you would need a visa depending on your nationality to pass through immigration and customs control. ( more info ).

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Moscow Organized Tours

St. Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square

Probe the glory of the famed St. Basil’s Cathedral in the heart of the city and learn the history of the great Red Square. Your tour begins at the 16th Century St. Basil’s Cathedral with a guide that lectures on the origin of the site and various historical events attached to them. Recorded as one of the oldest church buildings in Russia, the Cathedral was built under the rule of Ivan The Terrible and is shaped in the form of a bonfire flame rising to the sky and remains a symbol of Russian. The building now serves as a Museum Of Religion with a ban on church services. The Red Square is a large stretch of cobblestone square in central Moscow formerly used as parade grounds by the Soviet Union encompassed by the beautiful architectures of the Kremlin, the St. Basil’s Cathedral, the State History Museum and other marvels. The Lobnoye Mesto where several high profile public executions were carried out. » book this tour

The Grand Kremlin Palace

Explore the highly revered presidential palace of Russia. Learn how important the various monuments and landmarks are important to the history of Russia on a private tour of the palace in the city of Moscow. As part of your tour package, a guide takes you through the exquisite halls and towers of The Kremlin which at a time during the 17th – 20th century was residential to the Tsars and the royal family and the famed Ivan The Terrible, all of which’s history and more you’ll learn from your guide as you’re taken through the palace from the Kutafya Tower through to the Palace Of Facets and led to see the never-rung Tsar Bell, the largest in the world and as per the Guinness Book Of Records the largest cannon in the world, Tsar Cannon. » book this tour

Moscow: Metro & The State Tretyakov Art Gallery Tour

Admire the art-adorned famous Moscow Metro Station and explore a vast collection of classical Russian art at the State Tretyakov Art Gallery. The breath-taking marble halls of the Moscow Metro Stations are adorned with beautiful mosaic artworks. Chandeliers and intricate architecture enough to pass for a palace which indeed is known to the locals as the “People’s Palace” when it was opened in 1935. Included in your tour after seeing the beautifully designed Metro Stations is a visit to Tretyakov, one of the largest in the country which houses a vast collection of classical Russian art, sculptures and the famous 15th century icon The Trinity by Andrei Rublev. Founded in 1856 the gallery boasts of a range of 130,000 collections in its exhibit. » book this tour

Moscow Things to do / Sightseeing

With a touch of distinct architectural design, the 127-year-old GUM (abbreviation) known as the State Department Store during the Soviet era facing the Red Square, functions now as a shopping mall that houses about 150 shops where you can find any luxury brand, gourmet food just to name a few. It is the largest department store in Russia and with its ornate interior has become a tourist attraction. Fun Fact: It contains a historical luxury soviet era toilet.

Time required: Full Day.

Airport to here: Trip takes 34 minutes to make via taxi and an 1 hour via public transport.

The Moscow Kremlin

The Kremlin which translates “fortress inside a city” is an ancient fortified complex settled in the center of the city. As one of the largest fortresses in Europe, it has a host of five palaces, four cathedrals and 20 towers. The Grand Kremlin Palace, which is within the complex, was residence to the Tsar’s and houses two of the world’s largest monuments, the never shot Tsar Cannon and the never rung Tsar Bell mainly consisting of copper and also gold. The peak of the towers has ruby stars placed on them, believed to possess powerful energy. The Kremlin currently serves as residence to the President of Russia.

Time required: 2 hours minimum, 4 hours maximum to explore.

Airport to here: At least 28 minutes via taxi and an hour by bus.

Central House Of Artists

For most contemporary art lovers, this is one of the most and best places to visit in Moscow. The Central House Of Houses is the largest Russian exhibition complex and features a largely early 20th-century collection of modern Russian art, exquisite Soviet art collection and a sculpture garden with Soviet-era sculptures. CHA hosts 300 annual local and international exhibitions, film festivals and serves as a great spot for socialization for people of all ages.

Time required: Full day.

Airport to here: 40 minutes via taxi and an hour via public transportation.

The UNESCO listed World Heritage Red Square surrounded by exemplary architecture is by far Russia’s most historically significant places to visit. It’s grounds for the colorful famous St. Basil’s Cathedral, the GUM and the brick platform on which executions ordered by Ivan The Terrible were carried out called the Lobnoye Mesto and Lenin’s Mausoleum just to name a few. The body of Soviet Union Dictator, Vladimir Lenin is displayed in a granite tomb at the Red Square, since 1930.

Airport to here: Trip takes 33 minutes by taxi and an hour by public transport.

The Moscow Metro

The city of Moscow proves to be one of alluring grandeur, architectural design and the extravagant Metro Station proves it quite precisely. Covered with ornate walls and earning the title ‘People’s Palace’, has become a tourist attraction on its own and has 232 stations. It generally has a classical aesthetic beauty for stunning photographic experiences and many of them feature bursts of Soviet leaders. The Sportivnaya station houses The Museum Of The Moscow Metro where a collection of interesting models of trains can be found.

Airport to here: This will depend solely on which of the stations is preferred to visit as there is a several of them.

State Historical Museum

The museum, on the Red Square houses a vast collection of Russian history in antiquity (including the 17-19th century) and holds exhibitions to display them. For a better understanding of Russian history a tour of the Museum is requisite.

Airport to here: 35 minutes via taxi and an hour via public transport.

Alexander Garden

How about a stroll through a tranquil garden with beautiful views of the city, landscape designs, ornamented colorful flower beds, Russian fairy tale and water figures and a vast variety of artistic monuments from different eras like the Romanov Obelisk.The Alexander Garden along the Kremlin walls was founded in 1821 to celebrate Russia’s victory over Napoleon forces is the city’s first public park and links the Red Square and The Kremlin.

Time required: A couple relaxing hours will do.

Airport to here: 36 minute drive via taxi and an hour via public transport.

Park Zaryadye

A free to visit green space that features a floating bridge with a view of The Kremlin insight, a food court that highlights Russian cuisine and a simulated flight over Moscow created by way of a collection of footages, an interactive theme park ride that tours the city of Moscow. Another alluring space for a great photographic and leisure experience in the city of Moscow.

Time required: You’ll need at least 2-3 hours to explore.

Airport to here: 37 minutes via taxi and an hour via public transport.

Things to Do in Moscow Airport (SVO)

Relaxing and sleeping.

Airport Lounges and Relaxing There are several lounges in each terminal. » view all lounges or buy a lounge pass or membership online

Hotel and Sleeping There are many options for hotels close to the airport as well as transit hotels in the airport found in the transit areas of Terminal D and E. » view all or book an airport hotel online

Rest Area and Sleeping in Airport There are no designated rest zones within the airport.

WIFI/Internet and SIM Card

WIFI/Internet: Free WiFi is available at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, but you must connect to the Wi-Fi network via call or text.

SIM Card: There are several shops within the airport that sell SIM cards. » buy a global sim card for Moscow, Russia that you can use for other countries as well!

Transportation to/from airport

Taxi: Licensed taxis are readily available outside of the 1st floor of the Arrivals hall.

Train: The Union Pearson Express is an express train that runs between the airport and downtown in just 25 minutes. ( more info ).

Bus: There are buses that connect the airport with Moscow’s extensive transport network. ( more info ).

Shuttle: There are hotel and private shuttle services at the airport.

Car rentals: Offices of rental operators are located on the 1st floor of Terminal D » view available cars or rent a car now online

Parking: A safe and secure parking facility is available. You can book your parking slot online.

Luggage Storage & Lockers

24-hour Luggage offices can be found on the landside of every Terminal. » book a luggage storage or locker at Moscow Airport (SVO) online (subject to availability).

Money Exchange and Withdrawal

- Moscow Airport (SVO) ATMs, currency exchanges and banks

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Cosmos Selection Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport Hotel, a member of Radisson Individuals

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• Dear guests, please note that you can get to the hotel by the Aeroexpress running between terminals B/C and F/E, or by the shuttle running between the hotel and terminals B/C, "Departure Zone" parking C. For more information on shuttle services, please view the schedule here .
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Our hotel is the sole accommodation on the Sheremetyevo International Airport premises in Moscow with direct access to the main terminals. Guests also appreciate convenient access to trains running every half hour to the Belorusskaya station in downtown Moscow. The beautiful hotel with 391 rooms combines a towering design by famous Swedish architect Christian Lundwall. Take advantage of 24-hour dining at Restaurant Stratosphere or visit Altitude Bar & Restaurant to enjoy a panoramic view from the 11th floor as you linger over dinner on the terrace. After a day of travel or meetings, you can unwind in the fitness center and sauna. Some of our many helpful services include Free high-speed, wireless Internet access and secure parking adjacent to the hotel. The extensive event space comprises 46 meeting rooms with modern audiovisual equipment and a business center for delegate use.

Please note that all passengers are required to present a valid visa and go through customs and passport control to access the hotel. Our hotel offers visa support service.

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Book a business function with unparalleled convenience at our hotel's location in Sheremetyevo Airport. Our bright, modern event space spans 2,200 square meters and offers a range of venues, including a 200-square-meter ballroom, five boardrooms and 42 well-equipped conference rooms. Entrust your details to our professional staff if you are hosting a banquet for 150 guests or a conference for 250 persons. Everything is possible when we follow our signature Yes I Can! Attitude.

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Moscow visitors find a cosmopolitan atmosphere and fantastic food inside our on-site restaurants. Restaurant Stratosphere combines tasty European and Russian dishes with around-the-clock service. Modern Russian influenced cuisine at our 11th-floor venue, Altitude Restaurant & Bar, where you can take in panoramic views of the airport’s landing field while dining on the terrace.

Bolshoi Theatre

Spend an unforgettable evening at this legendary theatre - the oldest in the city - with its world-leading resident opera and ballet troupes.

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