Beatles News Roundup: "Affordable" McCartney Concert Tix?, Paul Honors Sam Mendes and Others in Liverpool; A Photographer's Tale of the Beatles in India

How to Get Affordable Tickets to Paul McCartney’s ‘Got Back 2025’ Tour Online - Billboard

Looking for cheap Paul McCartney seats? Here’s where to find tickets still available and on sale online.

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Sam Mendes, Adrian Lester and James Nesbitt honoured by Paul McCartney at LIPA - Jersey Evening Post

James Bond director Sir Sam Mendes, actor Adrian Lester and Cold Feet star James Nesbitt have been honoured by Sir Paul McCartney at a Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) graduation ceremony.

The ceremony, which took place on Tuesday at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, saw The Beatles bass player award the trio a companionship for “outstanding achievement and contribution to student learning”, as he also honoured indie band The Wombats, who met while studying at the LIPA.

The band, made up of Matthew Murphy, Tord Overland Knudsen and Dan Haggis, also saw their manager Simon Bobbett receive a companionship.

...Sir Sam, who is currently planning a set of four individual but interconnected films based on the lives of each of the members of The Beatles, received his companionship via video link as he could not make the ceremony.

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How a Canadian man's existential crisis led to these very famous photos of the Beatles - CBC

In 1968, filmmaker Paul Saltzman went to India and took some photographs of the Beatles that eventually became very famous. These photos would form the basis of a book, as well as a show, on now, at the Markham Street Gallery in Toronto.

But at the time, Saltzman didn't go to India with the intent of having a book or a gallery show or even photographing the Beatles at all. He didn't even know they were there. He went because he was having an existential crisis. 

Saltzman says that, at the time, he had everything he could have wanted; he had a budding career in film, an apartment in Montreal, a girlfriend and a cool car. But one morning, he woke up and realized: "there were parts of myself I didn't like, and I wasn't a very self-reflective person, so that was a shock." Sitting on the edge of his bed, he asked himself what he was supposed to do about that, and he heard "a deep inner voice that was all calming and all loving." It was a voice that he describes as that of "his soul." And that voice told him to get out of his environment, and specifically, to head to India.