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    Smaller Event to Celebrate Glastonbury Anniversary in the Works

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    The organizers Michael and Emily Eavis are planning a small event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Glastonbury after the music festival was canceled for 2021 due to pandemic.

    Jan 24, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Michael Eavis is considering hosting a smaller event in September after the 2021 Glastonbury festival was cancelled.
    The co-organiser of the world famous music extravaganza – who curates the lineup with his daughter Emily Eavis – would love to be able to put on a small-scale event to celebrate the inauguration of the festival, which first launched on 18 September 1970, after they were forced to postpone the Somerset five-dayer for a second time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
    Eavis told LBC radio, “I would like to do something in September. I would like to do something smaller somewhere around the anniversary date of when we started, which was the 18th of September 1970. I would like to consider possibly doing something around that time.”

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    And when quizzed on whether they’d ask major acts to perform at such an event, he said, “Yes, but I do need to get reassurance from the ethics people.”
    Michael and Emily announced on Thursday (21Jan21) that the rescheduled 2020 festival – which would have been the event’s 50th anniversary – would not go ahead this year, due to the continued spread of coronavirus throughout the U.K., and the restrictions that are in place to fight the respiratory illness.
    The decision to call off the festival for the second year in a row came despite the best efforts being made to get fans at Worthy Farm and the artists on stage, which would have included headliners Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney, and Kendrick Lamar.
    Other major festivals in the U.K., such as the Isle of Wight Festival and Download Festival are still pushing ahead with their preparations in the hope of staging their events this year.

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      Glastonbury Festival 2021 Called Off Due to Covid-19 Pandemic

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      The British music festival which takes place annually at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England has been cancelled by organizers amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

      Jan 22, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Organisers of the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival has cancelled its 2021 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the second year running.
      The iconic music event, held annually at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, will not go ahead, organisers Michael and Emily Eavis announced on the festival’s Twitter account.
      “With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us,” they said. “In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.”
      They confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket has now been offered the opportunity to roll their deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume.

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      The Eavises added they were “very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022.”
      Last year’s 50th-anniversary event was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial U.K. lockdown in March 2020.
      In December 2020, the former member of The Beatles admitted he was reluctant to headline the music festival due to coronavirus concerns. The 78-year-old musician said, “Glastonbury, where you’ve got over 100,000 people packed into a field? That’s a super-spreader.”
      Despite the organizers’ confidence, the “Hey Jude” hitmaker didn’t expect next year’s festival to take place either.

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      Paul McCartney's Daughter Mary Tapped to Direct Abbey Road Studios Documentary

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      Mary McCartney has been officially announced to sit behind the lens for the upcoming project that documents the untold story of the famed studio in London.

      Jan 13, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Paul McCartney’s filmmaker daughter Mary is to direct a feature-length documentary about the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.
      “If These Walls Could Sing”, the untold story of the studios where the Beatles recorded their legendary “Abbey Road” album, will be produced by Oscar-winner John Battsek following a new development deal between his Ventureland and Mercury Studios.
      In a statement following news of the upcoming project, Mary said, “Some of my earliest memories as a young child come from time spent at Abbey Road. I’ve long wanted to tell the story of this historic place and I couldn’t be collaborating with a better team than John and Mercury Studios to make this creative ambition a reality.”

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      A release date for “If These Walls Could Sing” has yet to be released, but it’s expected that it will drop in conjunction with the recording studios’ 90th anniversary celebrations, which will kick off in November this year (21).
      The project marks the first time Abbey Road has opened its doors for a feature length documentary, and will include an “all-star cast of interviews, unparalleled access to the studios and, of course, a spellbinding soundtrack,” a press release promised.
      Mary – the daughter of Paul and his late wife Linda McCartney – first made a name for herself as a photographer before taking on the screen, and now has seven directing credits to her name.
      She also produced a 2001 TV documentary called “Wingspan” about her father’s musical career post-Beatles.

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      Paul McCartney Might Back Out of 2021 Glastonbury as He Sees the Event as Covid-19 'Super-Spreader'

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      The 78-year-old musician admits he is reluctant to take the stage at the upcoming Glastonbury music festival over coronavirus concerns as he sees the event as a potential super-spreader.

      Dec 19, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Paul McCartney is reluctant to headline Britain’s Glastonbury music festival in 2021 over fears surrounding the coronavirus.
      The Beatles legend, 78, had been due to top the bill at the musical extravaganza this June (20), before it was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic – and the “Hey Jude” hitmaker doesn’t expect next year’s festival to take place either.
      He said, “Glastonbury, where you’ve got over 100,000 people packed into a field? That’s a super-spreader.”
      Despite admitting they are “a long way” from being able to say if there will definitely be a festival in 2021, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has insisted bosses are doing “everything” in their power to try and get the Worthy Farm music extravaganza to take place next year.

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      The 50th anniversary of the iconic event, which was sadly cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic this summer (20), was due to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar.
      Despite being forced off the stage, the rocker has been busy making music and recently released a sequel to his classic albums, 1970’s “McCartney” and 1980’s “McCartney II”, by making a record in which he wrote and produced all the songs, as well as singing and playing all the instruments.
      Reflecting on the newly-released McCartney III, he told The Sun newspaper, “We were shocked to find ourselves in the middle of this but, for some creative people, it gave us unexpected time.”
      “I should have been rehearsing for my shows, culminating in Glastonbury, and suddenly all of that was knocked out, so I was able to do some recording,” he recalled. “I was just making music purely for me that no one really was going to hear, except me and my family. I suddenly had about 11 or 12 tracks, not knowing what to do with them… but then the penny dropped.”
      “I thought of McCartney I and II. I’d played all the instruments on those, which put this in the same class, so this should be McCartney III. I’d found a place for it.”

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      Excited Idris Elba Jumps at the Chance to Interview Paul McCartney for BBC Special

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      ‘Idris Elba meets Paul McCartney’ is set to air on U.K. TV on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in December, and will cover The Beatles member’s incredible life and career.

      Nov 28, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Paul McCartney is to be interviewed by Idris Elba for an hour-long BBC special covering his incredible life and career.
      The “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” actor meets Paul McCartney will air on U.K. TV on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in December. The show will also air as a radio broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.
      According to a press release, the show will span Paul’s first songwriting forays as a teenager, through his rise to fame with The Beatles and his solo work right up to his new album, “McCartney III”, out December 18.

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      The actor and musician reveals that, when asked to interview the music legend, he jumped at the chance, saying: “When I was asked if I wanted to speak to Paul McCartney, after I realised it wasn’t a joke, I immediately said, ‘Yes’… who wouldn’t?!”.
      “I am a massive fan of Paul’s! His work has inspired and driven me as a musician, and once I get through the shock of sharing the stage with him, I’m excited to talk about his music and craft. What an honour! Looking forward to sitting with you, Paul.”
      An equally enthusiastic Paul adds: “I’m looking forward to sitting down to a chat with the mighty Idris!”.
      In addition to the interview special, the BBC will also air the “Hey Jude” hitmaker’s July, 2018 homecoming gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England – the venue where The Beatles made their name in the 1960s – over the Christmas period.

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      Taylor Swift Enjoyed One of the Best Nights of Her Life Jamming With Paul McCartney

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      The ‘Lover’ singer recalls spending one of the most fun nights of her life partying with the former Fab Four and having a blast playing music at the celebrity gathering.

      Nov 14, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift enjoyed one of the “best nights of her life” jamming with Paul McCartney.
      In a joint interview for Rolling Stone magazine, the pop star calls “Hey Jude” singer Paul “the catalyst for the most fun times ever” as she laments the fact the COVID pandemic got in the way of a planned joint performance at the Glastonbury festival this summer (20).
      “If this year had gone the way that we thought it was going to go, you and I would have played Glastonbury,” she says. “And I remember thinking it would have been so much fun because the times that I’ve run into you, I correlate with being some of the most fun nights of my life.”
      “I was at a party with you, when everybody just started playing music… I was playing (Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters song) Best of You, but I was playing it on piano, and he didn’t recognise it until about halfway through.”

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      Grohl, who was also at the gathering, joined Taylor on drums, but the “Let It Be” star admits that when it comes to impromptu performances, he needs encouragement to get up onstage, noting, “Reese Witherspoon was like, ‘Are you going to sing?’ I said ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ She said, ‘You’ve got to, yeah!’ She’s bossing me around.”
      “I love that person, because the party does not turn musical without that person,” says Taylor, adding, “If nobody says, ‘Can you guys play music?’ we’re not going to invite ourselves up onstage at whatever living-room party it is.”
      “I seem to remember Woody Harrelson got on the piano, and he starts playing Let It Be, and I’m thinking, ‘I can do that better,’ ” laughs Paul. “So I said, ‘Come on, move over, Woody.’ So we’re both playing it. It was really nice.…”
      “I love people like Dan Aykroyd, who’s just full of energy and he loves his music so much, but he’s not necessarily a musician, but he just wanders around the room, just saying, ‘You got to get up, got to get up, do some stuff,’ ” he adds.

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      Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney to Rock Out With Jazz Band at Livestream Event

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      The Foo Fighters frontman and the former Fab Four are set to lead this weekend livestream events with performances as part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
      Jun 20, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Dave Grohl and Sir Paul McCartney will perform as part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band livestream celebration on Saturday, June 20, 2020.
      The band is taking its New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Midnight Preserves jam session online in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a host of big names have signed on to be part of the show from the comfort of their homes.
      As well as Grohl and McCartney, the gig will feature Arcade Fire, Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews, and Beck.
      The Round Midnight Preserves stream will begin at 8 P.M. ET on the Preservation Hall Foundation’s website, as well as on the band’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitch pages. It will benefit Spotify’s COVID-19 Music Relief fund.
      Meanwhile, Peter Yarrow and Judy Collins will be among the performers taking part in a virtual music and environmental activism festival staged in place of late folk legend Pete Seeger’s annual event. The late singer/songwriter launched the two-day Clearwater summer bash in New York’s Hudson Valley in the late 1990s to raise funds for his conservational group, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s 2020 show will be going digital.
      Billed as “The Virtual Great Hudson River Revival: An Epic Stream to Save the River”, the 12-hour livestream on Saturday, June 20, 2020 will also feature sets by singers Tom Chapin and the Chapin Sisters, Guy Davis, Kyle Tigges, The Mammals, and John McCutcheon among many others, starting from 11 A.M. ET.
      For more information and to tune into the event, click here.
      Among your other weekend livestream highlights:
      Saturday Night Opry: Brad Paisley (7.30 P.M. ET Saturday)
      Greenpeace: Action All Areas (Billy Bragg, Melanie C, Dave & Django Stewart, and more) (12 P.M. BST Saturday)
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      Papa Roach (5 P.M. ET Saturday)
      Hellfest: Faith No More, Bad Religion, At The Gates, Every Time I Die, Prophets of Rage, In Flames (11 A.M. BST Saturday & Sunday)
      Robyn (3 P.M. ET Saturday)
      Small Business Live: 2 Chainz, Allen Stone, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, and more (4 P.M. ET Saturday)
      The Big Night In: The Alarm, Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats), and Captain Sensible (The Damned) (4 P.M. ET Saturday)
      Melissa Etheridge (6 P.M. ET Saturday)
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      J Balvin – Behind the Colores: The Live Experience (7 P.M. ET Saturday)
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