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Paul McCartney - Hope For The Future

Created for the video game Destiny.

Paul McCartney - Meat Free Monday

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Meat Free Monday is a campaign to convince people who eat meat to skip eating it one day of the week to help reduce their carbon footprint. As any self-respecting Beatles fan knows (or Simpsons fan for that matter), Paul McCartney is a guy who skips eating meat seven days of the week. He once wrote a song titled “Meat Free Monday” to encourage people to take that pledge, and now it’s resurfaced with a new video. The campaign released a new lyric video for the track featuring photos sent in by fans who took the pledge. It was posted this week as global leaders flock to the UN headquarters in New York for the first major discussion on climate change since the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Paul McCartney - Appreciate

"Presented by Microsoft."

Released 50 Years Ago Today

The first Beatles album was released in the UK fifty years ago today.  The record hit #1 on the British album charts in May 1963 and stayed there for the next 30 weeks until it was dethroned by their followup UK release, With The Beatles. The first US releases came in January 1964 when competing labels issued Meet The Beatles and Introducing...The Beatles.  Feeling old?

Ravi Shankar Dies At 92

Legendary sitar player and Beatles collaborator Ravi Shankar has died at the age of 92.

Labeled “the godfather of world music” by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music. He also pioneered the concept of the rock benefit with the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. To later generations, he was known as the estranged father of popular American singer Norah Jones. As early as the 1950s, Shankar began collaborating with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. He played well-received shows in concert halls in Europe and the United States, but faced a constant struggle to bridge the musical gap between the West and the East. Shankar’s popularity exploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock. Though the audience for his music had hugely expanded, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebelliousness of the hippie culture.

Here's a bit of that famous 1967 Monterey show.