Beatles News Roundup: David Bowie's Favorite Songs, More

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David Bowie’s favourite songs revealed in note unearthed in V&A archive - NME

The Beatles' ‘Across the Universe’ and Sonic Youth's ‘Tom Violence’ are among those listed

Full list:

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’
  • Richard Strauss – ‘Four Last Songs’
  • Alan Freed and His Rock ’N’ Roll Band – ‘Right Now Right Now’
  • Little Richard – ‘True Fine Mama’
  • The Hollywood Argyles – ‘Sho Know a Lot About Love’
  • Miles Davis – ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’
  • Charles Mingus – ‘Ecclusiastics’
  • Jeff Beck – ‘Beck’s Bolero’
  • Legendary Stardust Cowboy – ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship’
  • The Beatles – ‘Across the Universe’
  • Ronnie Spector – ‘Try Some, Buy Some’
  • Roxy Music – ‘Mother of Pearl’
  • Edgar Froese – ‘Epsilon in Malaysian Pale’
  • The Walker Brothers – ‘The Electrician’
  • Sonic Youth – ‘Tom Violence’
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Continuing to perform on stage has many benefits, Starr said.

“It’s not like we don’t have hard times, but playing gives us a different mood all the time,” Starr said. “I love to play, and I know this band loves to play. … It doesn’t take our minds off the rest of the world, it just centers the musical part of our brain in our hearts, and we do the best we can.”

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For now, Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman is still running the place, and that’s despite the studio’s box office woes. If anything, Rothman is banking on what might be the riskiest project of his career: four Beatles movies, all directed by Sam Mendes, all set for an April 2028 release.

As if that weren’t ambitious enough, Puck’s Matt Belloni reports that the movies are “said to be costing about $100M each.” That’s $400M+ in total, a price tag that rivals the biggest studio bets of the past decade. Rothman, however, is betting on Mendes.

“He’s going to have to retire sometime, and the Beatles movies might be the right time to do it,” said one producer who has known Rothman for many years.

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During a faux documentary interview scene in the film, McCartney describes the couplet, “My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo/ I love to sink her with my pink torpedo,” as “like literature, really”.

“He came up with that,” Reiner told The Times. “We didn’t feed them anything.”

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During the night, Starr humbly played into it, trading posts at the mic on spotless versions of “Honey Don’t” and “Octopus’s Garden” or sitting behind the drum kit for his colleagues’ big numbers with the same sprightly touch seen in vintage Beatles performances. At one point, Starr departed to the dressing room to get some tea. “This is what it’s come to,” he joked. 

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