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Harry Styles' dancers are speaking about the Grammy performance mishap that left them spinning in the wrong direction.

Brandon Mathis explained in a now-expired Instagram Story that after rehearsing the piece perfectly, the turntable started spinning in reverse during the live show.

He said, "And in real time, we have to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse, Talk about professionalism."

According to Entertainment Tonight, another dancer, Dexter, explained on TikTok that the performance only ended up including one of the three "beautiful formations" they originally planned.

A Grammy source told E! News, "unexpected things happen in live television" and noted "Harry showed he was the ultimate pro in not missing a beat."

Kenny Loggins has announced additional dates for his final concert tour titled, This Is It. Greenville, South Carolina, Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Franklin, Tennessee are among the seven newly scheduled dates.

Though it's billed as his farewell tour, Loggins says "I don't see this as the end of my professional career, but certainly a halt to the grind of major touring."

Aside from his hits as Loggins & Messina, the two-time Grammy winner has sold over 25 million albums and topped the charts with songs like "I'm Alright," "Footloose," "Danger Zone," and "This Is It."

The tour will kick off on March 10 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Florida and will wrap October 27, in Inglewood, California.

TL;DR:

• Kenny Loggins has announced seven additional dates for his final concert tour.
• The tour will kick off on March 10 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Florida and will wrap October 27, in Inglewood, California.

Fans don't need to worry about Post Malone's recent weight loss.

Images of the "Circles" artist appearing noticeably slimmer while on tour in Australia have sparked concerns that the rapper might be sick or struggling with addiction.

However, a source close to Malone told TMZ that there's no need to be alarmed. The insider explained that he recently gained some weight for a movie role and is now adhering to a strict diet and working out.

Malone's dad also weighed in on his son's new look, commenting on Instagram, "Healthiest he's been in years! Mentally and physically."

It was 35 years ago tonight (February 8th, 1988) that the Who performed for the last time with drummer Kenney Jones as an official member of the group. The band -- Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Jones -- reunited for a three-song set at London's Royal Albert Hall during the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) awards, after receiving the prestigious lifetime achievement award. The group, who hadn't performed live since 1985's Live Aid concert, tore through their hits "Who Are You," "My Generation," and "Substitute," but were hardly at the top of their game. Talks had already begun about the band reuniting for some type of major project in time for their 25th anniversary in 1989.

Townshend told the band he didn't want to tour, preferring instead to record. He tossed around the idea of having outside writers such as Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen contribute material for the album, but nothing came to pass. Townshend has gone on record saying that the band couldn't raise the proper funds to record a new album, and Daltrey was adamant that he wouldn't carry on as the Who with Jones as a member.

Jones was a longtime friend of the group, and co-founded both the Small Faces and the Faces before playing on Who-related projects like the Tommy and Quadrophenia film soundtracks. He was made a full member of the band in late-1978 after drummer Keith Moon died. Jones also drummed on Townshend's first mainstream solo album, Empty Glass, and was featured on the album's standout track, "Rough Boys."

Daltrey was vehemently opposed to naming anyone Moon's replacement, preferring to change drummers on a project-to-project basis. After being out-voted by Townshend and Entwistle, he reluctantly approved Jones joining the band, yet openly criticized his drumming as being wrong for the Who.

With the prospect of a major tour looming, Daltrey gave the band an ultimatum: it was either him or Jones. Townshend, who was always Jones' biggest supporter, eventually sided with Daltrey.

Townshend told author Richard Barnes why he eventually relented: "Although I did promise Kenney that I wouldn't work without him, in the last conversation I had with him I started to get very irritated. He kept saying, 'The It's Hard album is not a great album. I've got a right to make a great album with the Who.' And I thought, 'This isn't true. You were brought in at the end. I've got a right to make a great album with the Who, or Roger, or John has, but you haven't."

Roger Daltrey says that despite never being happy with Jones as the Who's drummer, the two were actually quite close: "I actually got on very well with Kenney, I just didn't feel ever that he was the right drummer. . . And people didn't ever seem to listen to what I was saying. They'd say 'Well Kenny's a great drummer!' And I'd say 'Yes, I know Kenney's a great drummer, but he's not the right drummer!' (Laughs) He's a great drummer! Could you imagine putting Keith Moon in the Faces -- would he have been the right drummer for the Faces? Of course he wouldn't."

Pete Townshend's younger brother, touring Who guitarist Simon Townshend, grew up as a die-hard Who fan. Simon, who caught the Who with Keith Moon well over 30 times, recalled seeing his first Who show with Kenney Jones as the Who's new drummer: "I remember what Pete was wearing. Pete was wearing a Clash t-shirt. I mean, I love Kenney and I love his drumming and he's fantastic, fantastic. But in terms of the Who, my first time seeing Kenney play with the Who was in some respects -- not because of Kenney -- it was because the Who as I knew it had become something different, so I was very, sort of upset, really. Because up until that point all I'd ever saw was the Who as the fireball that they were with Moonie."

Kenney Jones told us that despite Daltrey commenting over the years that Jones was never right for the Who, Jones is quick to point out that he was Townshend and Entwistle's ultimate choice as Keith Moon's immediate replacement: "I think, to be honest, it was a confusing time for him and it was a confusing time for everybody. But, as Pete says, I had the support of Pete and John. I know I fitted, anyways -- not a problem. It's just, y'know, you can't fit in in two seconds flat, you have to find your way around it. Now, obviously I found my way around it. The hardest thing I found when joining the Who, was not actually playing in the Who, it was actually learning the songs in the Who and trying to find my way of playing them."

We asked Kenney Jones -- who stayed close with his Faces bandmates throughout the years -- whether or not he ever held a grudge against the Who for cutting him loose: "It was really something that Roger was flying into the middle, here, y'know? And I thought, 'Okay, this is enough -- 10 years with the Who,' and I thought, 'Fine, I'll just move on, that's great.' I haven't fallen out with any one of them, contrary to what anybody says. Pete and I have played together at the Albert Hall a few times, we speak on the phone quite comfortably. John I saw in different bars and stuff -- we talked, y'know, it's fine. I've seen Daltrey; it's all water underneath the bridge. It's what happened and it's what happened then -- not a problem to me."

Although the financial settlement between Jones and the Who has never been discussed, he eventually relinquished all rights in the band's partnership. In 1989, the Who, with drummer Simon Phillips and a host of additional musicians, undertook the 50-date 25th anniversary The Kids Are Alright tour, hitting North America and then Britain.

Townshend, Daltrey and Jones were all on hand for John Entwistle's funeral in 2002.

Daltrey says that he was glad that Jones chose to participate in the Who's recent retrospective, Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who, to shed light on the band's career: "It took a lot of courage for Kenney to do that, and indeed for people like (late former manager) Chris Stamp. Y'know, it's a painful part of their past. I'm sure it's still painful for him to have to revisit. The great thing is we're still all friends out of all this and we respect each other and we love each other."

Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey has been the Who's unofficial full-time drummer since 1996. Although Townshend and Daltrey have offered him a permanent spot as the Who's third official drummer, he has declined, preferring to remain a free agent.

In recent years, Jones has formed a new rock trio, the Jones Gang, with ex-Foreigner bassist Rick Wills and one-time Bad Company frontman Robert Hart -- as well as performing in a revamped version of the Faces with Ron Wood and the late-Ian McLagan.

On April 14th, 2012 Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of both the Small Faces and the Faces.

In 2018 Kenney Jones published his long awaited autobiography Let The Good Times Roll: My Life In The Small Faces, The Faces And The Who. He Ron Wood and Rod Stewart are currently compiling a new Faces album to feature both new and archival material.

FAST FORWARD

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey reunited with Kenney Jones on June 14th, 2014 in Surrey, England at Hurtwood Park Polo Club for the "Rock 'n' Horsepower" benefit in aid of Prostate Cancer UK. In January 2014, Jones was diagnosed with prostate cancer and following treatment; the disease has thankfully not spread.

Townshend and Daltrey -- backed by the event's house band -- performed with Jones on drums, marking the first time the three have shared a stage since the '88 BPI awards. The Who performed a rugged five-song set -- "I Can't Explain," "Substitute," "The Kids Are Alright," "Pinball Wizard," and "5:15." Townshend joined in later on the encore of the Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock N' Roll" -- which he explained was recorded in Ron Wood's house -- which is now Townshend's main London residence.

Other performers included Mick Hucknall, Jeff Beck, John Lodge of the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Mike + The Mechanics, John Parr -- of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" fame -- along with Steve Marriott's's daughter, Mollie Marriott.

Meghan Trainor told E! News Tuesday (February 7th) that she feared she was having a miscarriage early in her current pregnancy.

She told the outlet she took a pregnancy test one morning and "was stoked" to get a positive result. She continued, "And then an hour later, I was like, ‘Oh, here's my period.' It was tough."

Fortunately for the Dear Future Mama author, it was just some early implantation bleeding. When she finally went for her six-week scan she was excited to discover it was a "10-weeker."

Trainer announced last week that she and husband Dylan Sabra are expecting baby number two.

Foo Fighters, The Killers, Greta Van Fleet and Weezer are all confirmed for the 2023 edition of Sea. Hear. Now festival. Other performers included Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Mt. Joy, Sheryl Crow, The Beach Boys and more.

The festival will take place in North Beach Asbury Park and Bradley Park in Ashbury Park, New Jersey on September 16th-17th, 2023.

Ian Hunter's next album, Defiance Part 1 will feature an all-star lineup of guests. And that includes Johnny Depp, Joe Elliott ,Billy F Gibbons, Duff McKagan, Todd Rundgren, Slash, Jeff Tweedy, Robert Trujillo ,Waddy Wachtel, as well as the late Taylor Hawkins and Jeff Beck.

About the rock star lineup, the Mott The Hoople legend called it "a fluke." He said, "This was not planned. Really, I'm serious. I really couldn't believe some of them. I mean, it's amazing what's happened. It's been such a buzz."

The first single, "Bed of Roses" was released last month and features Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers on guitar and Ringo Starr on drums.

Hunter commented about naming the album Defiance, and said, "It's like, people my age shouldn't be making records, blah, blah, blah. But we've still got a bit left."

Recorded for Sun Records, the album will be released on April 21.

TL;DR:

• Ian Hunter's next album, Defiance Part 1 be released on April 21.
• It will feature Johnny Depp, Joe Elliott ,Billy F Gibbons, Duff McKagan, Todd Rundgren, Slash, etc.

The day after winning two Grammy awards, Ozzy Osbourne posted online that he was "blessed to work with some of the greatest musicians in the world" and he specifically mentioned his producer Andrew Watt.

The message started out in true Ozzy fashion with: "I'm One Lucky Mother f***er to have won Best Rock Album Grammy."

He went on to write that winning the Best Metal Performance "was equally gratifying," especially since the song featured his friend and Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Lommi.

The album features an all-star guest lineup including Eric Clapton, Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo, Duff McKagan, Zakk Wylde, Josh Homme, and Mike McCready. Two guests that appeared on the album, Taylor Hawkins and Jeff Beck have since passed away.

Ozzy was voted Best Metal Performance for "Degradation Rules" and Best Rock Album for Patient Number 9.

He was not in attendance at Sunday night's (2-5) awards show, however, Watt was there and he accepted for him during a pre-broadcast ceremony.

TL;DR:

• Ozzy Osbourne posted online that he was "blessed to work with some of the greatest musicians in the world"
• He also wrote, "I'm One Lucky Motherf***er to have won Best Rock Album Grammy."

Behati Prinsloo is "laughing out loud" at the suggestion that her husband, Adam Levine, will address infidelity allegations on Wednesday's (February 8th) episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast.

A teaser clip for this week's episode shows host Alex Cooper saying to a mystery guest, "I have to tell you, I was a huge Maroon 5 fan, and I'm glad that you agreed to sit down with me today and discuss the scandal surrounding infidelity in your marriage."

However, representatives for both Levine and Prinsloo told the New York Post that neither will appear on the podcast. Additionally, the Victoria's Secret Angel commented "LOL" beneath the episode's Instagram teaser.

Polly Samson, the longtime wife of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, lashed out at his former partner Roger Waters for his view on Jews and Vladimir Putin. RockCelebrities.net posted Samson's slam against the former Floyd leader after his devisive comments were printed in the German newspaper, The Berliner Zeitung.

Samson whose daughter-in-law is Ukrainian tweeted: "Sadly, Roger Waters, you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also, a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense."

Roger Waters responded by tweeting: "THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE. . . Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the ISRAELI LOBBY to denounce me as an ANTI-SEMITE, WHICH I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN and NEVER WILL BE."

While talking to The Berliner Zeitung, Waters justified Russia's invasion against the Ukraine, setting, "(Putin) launched what he still calls a 'special military operation.' He launched it on the basis of reasons that, if I have understood them well, are: 1. We want to stop the potential genocide of the Russian-speaking population of the Donbas. 2. We want to fight Nazism in Ukraine."

He went on to say, "There is a teenage Ukrainian girl, Alina, with whom I exchanged long letters: 'I hear you. I understand your pain.' She answered me, thanked me, but stressed, I'm sure you're wrong about one thing though, ‘I am 200-percent certain there are no Nazis in Ukraine.' I replied again, ‘I'm sorry, Alina, but you are wrong about that. How can you live in Ukraine and not know?'"

Mick Fleetwood believes that in the wake of the recent death of Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac is over. On Sunday night's (February 5th) 65th Annual Grammy Awards telecast on CBS, the drummer paid tribute to his fallen bandmate by performing her signature Rumours ballad, "Songbird" along with Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow.

Christine McVie died last November 30th at the age of 79 of undisclosed causes.

Prior to the Grammy ceremony, Access Hollywood caught up to Mick Fleetwood, who revealed on the red carpet, he believes Fleetwood Mac would not carry on without Christine McVie: "I would say that the band is done. I think the thought of doing things without her right now seems to be very far-fetched. After a while of healing, who knows what may or may not happen -- but I would suspect that Fleetwood Mac is put to bed. It's a bit of a tall order to imagine doing something as Fleetwood Mac -- but stranger things have happened. It's been a strange band altogether. We have survived loss in the past, y'know? But it's, sort of, unthinkable right now."

Raquelle Stevens is defending herself from scrutiny three months after the release of My Mind and Me.

Following the release of the Apple TV+ documentary, Selena Gomez fans took to social media to accuse the Sunshine Mind author of being "dismissive" and "controlling" during her interactions with Gomez on film.

Stevens recently told the Chicks in the Office podcast, "I think what it's a good reminder of is that when people are scrolling through Instagram or they're scrolling through TikTok, or you're watching a documentary, you're getting a small glimpse into someone's life, you're not seeing the full picture. And the truth is we've had a friendship for the last decade because it's real, it's honest and I'm so grateful for that."

Lawyers for Taylor Swift are asking a federal judge to toss a copyright lawsuit claiming she stole aspects of a self-published book of poetry when she created a companion book for her album, Lover.

Billboard reports that attorneys for the singer call the case, filed by Teresa La Dart, "legally and factually baseless."

The lawsuit, filed in August 2022, claims that Swift's book copied her use of "pastel pins and blues," an image of the author "photographed in a downward pose," and the books overall format, among other things.

Attorney Doug Baldrige wrote, "These allegedly-infringing elements, each a generic design format, are not subject to copyright protection. Thus, defendants could not possibly have infringed plaintiff's copyright."

Brendon Urie is a dad!

A source told Page Six Monday (February 6th) that the Panic! At the Disco front man and his wife, Sarah Urie, have welcomed their first baby.

The singer first broke the news of Sarah's pregnancy in January while announcing the breakup of his band on social media.

At the time, he wrote, "We've been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard.. Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon! The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure."

Jay Z has opened up about Beyonce's Album of the Year Grammy loss. He told TIDAL, "I remove myself from the process and hope they just get it right. It got to the point where I was like, it's just a marketing thing. You go, you got an album out and it could help the sales go up."

He added that Renaissance should have won based on how it impacted the culture, saying, "Look how the energy of the world moved. They play her whole album in the club. I don't know if I've ever seen that. The whole entire joint — like, everything?! Every remix is amazing. Everyone's inspired. It has inspired the world."

Jay Z also opened up about his "God Did" Grammy performance with DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fridayy and John Legend, revealing why he decided to rap his entire verse. He explained, "I thought about it, I was in my head and I just broke down and said, ‘You know, it's a four-minute verse.' Again, for the culture, for Hip Hop, we got to do that.This ain't your traditional song. … It's not your traditional structure of what you think a song that would be nominated for Song of the Year would sound like. It's not what you expect. And for the culture and for Hip Hop, we got to do that."

He continued, "We owe that. This thing that changed our lives. We got to do that. A four-minute verse performed at the Grammys. We owe it to the culture, and it ain't even a burden. It's a blessing. It's easy and fun."

Miley Cyrus shared outtakes from the video for "Flowers" on Instagram to celebrate the single's third week at No. 1.

She captioned the clip, "'Flowers' is spending it's 3rd week at #1 & as magical as this moment feels I know it doesn't happen by chance. This song & it's success represents the power of YOU! This is your moment & it's my honor to be the messenger. It's fun to dance like nobody is watching but it's a lot better when you all are dancing with me. I love you. Gratitude, Miley"

Paul Stanley's rumored used of pre-recorded vocal tracks has long been the subject of many conversations in the Kiss fan community. Blabbermouth transcribed a chat with Kiss manager Doc McGhee, who spoke with the Syncin' Stanley YouTube page and explained, "He sings every track. So he sings to it. So he's not lip syncing. He fully sings. It's enhanced. It's just part of the process to make sure that everybody hears the songs the way they should be sang to begin with. Nobody wants to hear people do stuff that's not real, that's not what they came to hear."

Syncin' Stanley then pushed McGhee to clarify if he's, "actually saying there are backing tracks that (Stanley is) singing to," to which McGhee said: "He'll sing to tracks. It's all part of a process. Because everybody wants to hear everybody sing. But he fully sings to every song."

When we last caught up with Paul Stanley, he explained that if a fan shells out their hard earned cash to see Kiss in concert, they're getting a massive show by seasoned vets who know exactly what it takes to deliver the goods -- be it in an open air stadium or a smoke-filled, hole in the wall club: "There's absolutely no substitute for working your way up. Bands today that are starting out -- they don't have a clue. Most of these bands go from obscurity to selling a million albums, two million albums -- they couldn't entertain a phone booth and that's why (laughter) they don't sell tickets. You learn the craft by doing it. You start in the clubs, you work your way up to being third on a bill in an auditorium, then you get to headlining there, then you get to work your way into arenas. By the time you're in arenas, you damn well know how to do it."

E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt has sold his publishing and creative assets to Primary Wave. The deal includes Van Zandt's production stake in such Bruce Springsteen albums as The River, Born In The U.S.A., Tracks, and The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, as well as his work with Southside Johnny & The Jukes.

Musicbusinessworld.com reported, "Highlights of the deal include some of the artist's biggest hits, among them Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes' 'I Don't Want To Go Home' and 'This Time It's For Real,' and 'I Am A Patriot' -- famously covered by Jackson Browne, Pearl Jam, and others -- and the theme song for his 2019 Netflix series, Lilyhammer, and Darlene Love's holiday hit, 'All Alone On Christmas' -- the latter of which, was featured in such films as Home Alone 2: Lost In New York and Love Actually."

Among the artists that have covered Van Zandt's song over the years are Nancy Sinatra, Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector, Damian Marley, Brian Setzer, Gary U.S. Bonds, and Jimmy Barnes, among others.

Van Zandt was quoted in the announcement as saying about Primary Wave: "They have an incredible track record for being creative and proactive. Looking forward to seeing what kind of fun we can have with these songs I'm still really proud of."

Steve Van Zandt told us that he's always considered himself successful in music because he's spent his career making exactly the kind of music he loves: "In this business, the truth is you're either big or you don't exist, pretty much. There's very little in the middle. So, I basically found another way to make a living, which is what I always wanted to do, and put out records and whoever buys 'em, buys 'em. It doesn't matter how many people buy 'em, y'know?"

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band perform tonight (February 7th) at Hollywood, Florida's Hard Rock Live.

It was 59 years ago today (February 7th, 1964) that the Beatles landed at New York's JFK Airport launching what has become known as the "British Invasion" and forever changing the face of popular music -- along with literally everything that came after -- arguably marking the modern world's cultural "big bang." The group's trip took in three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show -- one being pre-taped prior to their first live appearance, and two full-scale concerts: the first at Washington, D.C.'s Washington Coliseum on February 11th -- one year to the day of recording their debut UK album, Please Please Me -- and a second show on February 12th at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall.

Once in New York, George Harrison fell ill with a 102-degree temperature and missed the following day's photo shoot in and around Central Park and a camera blocking session at the midtown CBS studio. He was well enough to recover for the show without incident.

Prior to the visit, on January 20th, 1964, the album Meet The Beatles was released. Although, it wasn't the first Beatles record released in America; Vee-Jay's Introducing The Beatles beat the band's Capitol Records debut by just short of six months, it was Meet The Beatles, with its hit chart-topper "I Want To Hold Your Hand" that kick started the post-Kennedy '60s, the British Invasion, and completely revolutionized how music was written, played, sung, and produced. On February 1st, 1964, Meet The Beatles entered Billboard's Top 100 LP listings at Number 92, jumping the next week to Number Three, and the following week -- February 15th, 1964 -- hitting Number One for the first of 11 weeks.

Despite Paul McCartney's claims, the Beatles did not wait until topping the U.S. charts to come to America. The logistics of waiting until February 1st, 1964 to plan the group's entire itinerary -- including lodging, travel, security, and numerous contracts -- would be nothing short of ridiculous. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" knocked Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" out from the top spot and stayed at Number One for a whopping seven straight weeks, before being toppled by the Beatles' own "She Loves You," which after two weeks was overturned on April 4th, 1964 by the band's official new single, "Can't Buy Me Love" -- the same week that "Fab Four" made history by holding down the Top Five positions in the Billboard singles chart.

Wednesday night, February 9th, marks the 59th anniversary of the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Seen by over 73 million viewers, the show has gone on to become one of TV's most iconic moments, much like Neil Armstrong's 1969 walk on the moon. The Beatles performed twice, both opening and closing the program.

Here's Ed Sullivan's legendary introduction from that night's show: "Now yesterday and today, our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, and these veterans agreed with me that the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool who call themselves the Beatles. Now tonight, you're gonna twice be entertained by them -- right now, and again in the second half of our show. Ladies and gentlemen -- the Beatles! (screams)"

The group performed a total of five songs that night: "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and their then-current Number One hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand." One of the more memorable parts of the show was during "Till There Was You," when the screen dimmed as each Beatle was highlighted with his name appearing on the screen. John Lennon didn't know it at the time, but an additional caption saying "Sorry Girls -- He's Married" was added under his name.

What many people don't know is that their legendary Sullivan appearance was actually their second of the day. Prior to the live February 9th broadcast, the Beatles taped a future segment for Sullivan's February 23rd show. After that, the audience was cleared for the live broadcast.

Up until the group's break-up in 1970, they continued to send promo clips of their latest singles to be aired on The Ed Sullivan Show -- including "Paperback Writer," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Hello, Goodbye," and "Let It Be."

Ringo Starr recalled that the group was sweating over getting the sound right for the show --- right up to the last minute: "The main thing I was aware of when we did the first Ed Sullivan Show was that we rehearsed all afternoon. Y'know, TV was such bad sound, so we would have 'em, like, tape our rehearsals, and we'd go up and we'd mess with the dials, y'know, that they had in the control booth. So we'd sort of got it all set with the engineer there, and we went off for a break, and -- the story has it, 'cause we didn't see it -- but the cleaner came in (laughs) while we were out, and she came to clean the room and the console, and thought, 'What are all these chalk marks?', and wiped them all off. So then we had a real hasty time trying to get some sound."

George Harrison said the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show even kept the streets safe for the hour that the show was on: "Later, they said that there was the least reported, or there was no reported crime. Even the criminals had a rest for, like, 10 minutes, while we were on."

Paul McCartney said that after all these years, the Beatles' Sullivan Show appearance is usually the first thing fans bring up: "I still get people talking to me about it now. Y'know, it's like, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Saying, 'Oh, yeah man, I remember -- Sunday night. We didn't know what had hit us.'"

During his last TV interview in April 1975, John Lennon told Tomorrow Show host Tom Snyder that the entire "Beatlemania" era was as confusing and disconcerting to the group as one would imagine: "It was like being in the eye of a hurricane, and you thought -- 'What's going on?' That was about as deep as it got: 'What is happening?' You'd suddenly wake up in the middle of one -- a concert or a happening -- and (think) 'How did I get here? Last thing I remember was playing music in a club and the next minute this."

Mick Jagger admitted that the Beatles opened all the doors for the Rolling Stones by recreating the music business in the early-'60s: "They were both rivals and they were also, I mean, they were also showing the way, 'cause they were the first at this kind of. . . They were kind of trailblazers in a lot of ways, and they went to the United States first, y'know, they showed the way, they were big international stars -- because in England, most people have never really been stars outside of England. You had your little patch and that was it. And the Beatles kind of showed you could be big internationally."

During Bruce Springsteen's 2012 keynote address at Austin's South By Southwest festival, "The Boss" explained what a cataclysmic event the Beatles hitting America in 1964 was: "This was different. 'Shifted the lay of the land; four guys, playing and singing, writing their own material. There was no longer going to be a music producer apart from the singer, a singer who didn't write, a writer that didn't sing. It changed the way things were done. The Beatles were cool, they were classical, they were formal and created the idea of an independent unit where everything could come out of your garage."

In 2010, The 4 Complete 'Ed Sullivan Shows' Starring The Beatles was reissued on DVD. The collection includes the full uncut shows from February 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 1964 as well as the Beatles' September 12th, 1965 return appearance, which was actually taped on August 14th, 1965 -- the day before their historic first concert at Shea Stadium.

Paul McCartney's initial post-Beatles solo career will be the basis of a new major documentary, tentatively titled Man On The Run. The film, which is being spearheaded by McCartney's own MPL Communications, will be directed by Morgan Neville -- best known for his work on such critically acclaimed docs as the Rolling Stones' Crossfire Hurricane; 20 Feet From Stardom; Keith Richards: Under The Influence; Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; and Won't You Be My Neighbor?, among others. No release date nor outlet has been announced.

According to the announcement, Man On The Run, which spotlights McCartney's decade leading his solo band Wings, "Draws on unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda's home videos and photos, as well as new interviews and is fully financed by MPL & Polygram Entertainment and presented and produced by MPL, Polygram Entertainment and Tremolo Productions."

Morgan Neville said in a statement: "As a lifelong obsessive of all things McCartney, I've always felt that the 1970's were the great under-examined part of his story. I'm thrilled to have the chance to explore and reappraise this crucial moment in a great artist's life and work."

Back in 2001 Paul McCartney released his Wingspan documentary chronicling the group's career. As he replayed the band's time together, he said that Wings was first and foremost a lesson in overcoming the impossible: "The great thing about this story is it's got a lot of human drama because it was a struggle trying to put it together after the Beatles. I mean, the Beatles career itself was a struggle, but then having reached those heights, to try and do it over and at the same time bring up a, a young family was quite an interesting human interest story. And that comes over."

IN OTHER McCARTNEY NEWS

Surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were caught on camera dancing last Thursday (February 2nd) at L.A.'s Henson Studios.

The "Fabs" were celebrating at Stella McCartney's new collaboration with Adidas and seen bopping along to Candi Staton's 1976 Top 20 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free."

Adele may not be a football fan, but she's not about to miss Super Bowl LVII.

The "Hello" singer told attendees of her Las Vegas residency Friday (February 3rd), "I'm just going for Rihanna. I don't give a flying F**k."

Her announcement was captured by an audience member who shared the clip on YouTube.