Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited to perform on stage at the 56th Grammy Awards.
McCartney and Starr took to the stage at Los Angeles' Staples Center and played "Queenie Eye", a recent single from McCartney's latest album New. The performance marked 50 years since The Beatles' career-making performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
The deluxe reissue of The Jam’s final album, The Gift, is reviewed in the new issue of Uncut (December 2012, Take 187) – so for this week’s archive feature, we’ve stepped back to Uncut’s December 2008 (Take 139) issue, to spend a year by Paul Weller’s side, as he celebrates his 50th birthday. We are invited into the Guv’nor’s inner sanctum, to his star-studded birthday party, and into dressing rooms across Britain and America. And we learn that, like any good mod, Weller remains “more interested in the future than the past”. Words: Paul Moody
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Bruce Springsteen passed a whole new milestone last night [July 31] by playing a show that lasted for over four hours.
The singer, who was played the final night of his European tour in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki, played a set that lasted for four hours and six minutes in the city's Olympiastadion.
Ten years into the game, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach add funk and soul to their potent blues-rock brew, with triumphant results...Of all El Camino’s many achievements, the most easily overlooked might be the fact that it exists at all. Ten years and seven albums is, after all, an impressive distance to travel on the back of The Black Keys’ consciously primitive manifesto. It’s partly a matter of providence.
There’s a good line from James Petralli in the biog which accompanies “Fits”, the new White Denim album. “We set the tempos high,” he says, “and set off.”
