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1966 - George Harrison married Patti Boyd with Paul McCartney as Best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie A Hard Day s Night . George wrote Something and I need You about her. She left Harrison in the mid- 70s and started an affair with Harrison s friend Eric Clapton, who wrote the song Layla about her. Wonderful Tonight as well. The two married in May 1979, but split in 1988.
1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience began recording their cover of Bob Dylan s All Along the Watchtower at Olympic Studios in London. Their cover later went on to be their only top 40 single in the U.S. “[Hendrix] took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and brought them up into the outer limits of the stratosphere, turned them all into classics,” Dylan said in a 2015 speech (via Rolling Stone). “I have to thank Jimi. I wish he was here.”
Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner performing together.
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images I Will Always Love You, later popularized by Whitney Houston, is an iconic song in music history.
But contrary to popular belief, the lyrics center on the end of a professional relationship, rather than a romantic one.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Parton appeared with her mentor Porter Wagoner on his eponymous TV show. But when it came time for Parton to spearhead her own career, Wagoner was not happy, and a rift started forming. There was a lot of grief and heartache there, and he just wasn t listening to my reasoning for my going, Parton told CMT in 2011. I thought, Well, why don t you do what you do best? Why don t you just write this song?
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The 29-year-old Butler most recently played Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
The American actor and singer was spotted over the last couple of years with jet black hair in a similar shape to Elvis’ hair, ready for the role.
He famously beat the likes of Harry Styles, Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ansel Elgort to the role, after they all tested for playing The King.
Meanwhile, Hanks has shaved his head bald to play Elvis’ manager The Colonel.
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During an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Hanks shared how he had a meal with Elvis’ ex-wife Priscilla Presley who defended The Colonel’s reputation.
Iain Softley’s smart movie about the early days of the Beatles finds an indirect way of getting up close and personal with the music legends; the film-makers couldn’t afford the expense of using the copyrighted Lennon/McCartney songs. A study of the band’s hardworking lives gigging in Hamburg in the early 60s, the film counterintuitively centres on Stuart Sutcliffe (Steven Dorff) – the band member who was destined to die of a brain haemorrhage just as they were on the verge of greatness – and his German girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr, played by Sheryl Lee. (This tragic slant may have been an influence of Anton Corbijn’s Control.) Ian Hart gives a spiky, tasty, angular performance as John Lennon, who is shown as having an intense, almost romanticised friendship with the doomed Sutcliffe.