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Денни Лейн выступит с Битлз трибьют группой American English, помимо него в выстплении примут участие члены группы Wings духовики Howie Casey, Thaddeus Richard and Steve Howard. Ниже приведены любопытные высказывания Лейна (в настоящий момент работающего над сольным альбомом и автобиографией) о Битлз и Макке.
By ERIC SCHELKOPF
Shaw News Service
What if The Beatles and Wings, Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band, had played together?
Wings co-founder Denny Laine said he is eager to find out when he takes the stage on July 20 with Beatles tribute band American English.
"They are such good musicians," Laine said. "It is a very eerie kind of atmosphere when they come out doing all [of The Beatles] original hits."
Laine, along with three other original Wings members — horn players Howie Casey, Thaddeus Richard and Steve Howard — will perform with American English at the Arcada Theatre, 100 E. Main St., St. Charles.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets range from $25 to $50, available online at www.tickets.com or by calling (800) 882-4275.
Laine knows how The Beatles sounded on stage. As a member of The Moody Blues (he sang their 1967 hit, "Go Now"), Laine toured with The Beatles.
That is where he met McCartney.
The two instantly clicked, and formed the band Wings. Laine wrote many songs with McCartney, including "Mull of Kintyre," McCartney's first
No. 1 song since he was a Beatle.
"I had always liked his writing," Laine said. "He must have picked up on that in some way or another. I think he just wanted somebody who had similar ideas and someone who he knew a little bit. It was hard for him to start again after The Beatles."
But Laine said he did not see himself replacing John Lennon, McCartney's writing partner in The Beatles.
"They spent a lot of time together in a band, and they built their relationship to the point that they did," Laine said. "I don't think he was thinking of getting a writing partner (after The Beatles), it just kind of worked out that way."
Depsite their close relationship, Laine said Wings was basically McCartney's band.
"It was Paul's band, and I was his slightly younger brother, in some ways," Laine said. "The Beatles were much more of a collaboration."
Wings proved to be a bigger hit with American audiences than in Laine's and McCartney's native England.
"I think there were more No. 1 hits in America. The American audience was much more willing to accept us than the British one. We had to work for it more in England," Laine said.
His favorite Wings' album is "Band On The Run," which featured just Laine, McCartney, and McCartney's wife, Linda.
"The nucleus of the group was me and Paul musically and Linda with some harmonies," Laine said. "It just had a good feel because the two of us had worked so much as a writing team. We could just put things together very quickly without all the problems you have trying to get a band to rehearse. Sometimes it's easier when there's less people."
Laine is keeping busy these days. Along with working on a solo album, he also is writing his autobiography.
"I'm going through the beginning of it all, through childhood, The Moody Blues, Wings and everything else," Laine said. "I'm only like a third of the way through it. It's so difficult. There are so many stories, and you have to narrow it down to a few stories. You can't write it all."
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Отчет о их выступлении:
Wings members, Beatles tribute fill seats for return
By Mark Foster
Daily Herald Correspondent
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005
It was a hot night Wednesday at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, in more ways that one.
Beatles tribute band American English and members of Paul McCartney’s other band, Wings, rocked the 1926 theater building to its foundation.
Some buzz was generated earlier in the day that McCartney might make an appearance to join his old bandmates. Although that didn’t come to fruition, audience members twisted and shouted their appreciation, even as they sweated in a theater that had lost its power and air-conditioning earlier in the day.
The concert was the first event at the Arcada since Chicago-based Onesti Entertainment Corp. took over management of the theater. The outfit demonstrated its ability to put paying customers in nearly all 900 seats.
Ron Onesti, president of the company, stood on the stage and thanked audience members for coming to the show and putting up with the heat.
“The popcorn was popping in the concession stand and the machine wasn’t even on,” Onesti quipped.
American English, one of many acts in Onesti’s stable of entertainment, proved extremely popular with the crowd composed primarily of baby boomers.
After American English’s 18-song set, original Wings members Denny Laine, Howie Casey, Steve Howard and Thaddeus Richard joined the group to play a few Beatles tunes before delving into Wings numbers.
Wings was co-founded by Paul and Linda McCartney and Laine, who also was an original member of The Moody Blues.
“Original band members of Wings have come from across the nation and England for this show,” Onesti said earlier this week.
Onesti told the audience he plans to stage more live musical events at the theater.
American English started the concert attired in the trim black suits of the Beatles’ early mop top era, blazing through favorites including “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Please, Please Me,” “Help!” and “Can’t Buy Me Love.”
As Paul, John, George and Ringo, the band members played their parts to the hilt, with plenty of banter among themselves and the signature Beatles bow at the end of each number.
As the show progressed into the psychedelic era, the band members changed into the colorful costumes of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, ending the first set with “A Day in the Life.”
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Денни Лейн - опять на сцене: даёт два концерта в Нью-Йорке.
Denny Laine Returns
At the height of the British invasion, Denny Laine was one of the most recognizable voices on the entire British music scene.
As the lead singer on the Moody Blues' recording of "Go Now", a worldwide multi-million seller, he stood out in a large pack, and did so splendidly. His soulful, agonized lead vocal performance, coupled with Mike Pinder's chiming piano, proved irresistible on the radio.
After leaving the Moody Blues Laine's next major gig was as a member of Ginger Baker's Air Force, a big-band rock outfit that was a partial offshoot of Blind Faith.
Following this musical excursion Laine joined forces with Paul McCartney and Wings. The group was led by former Beatle Paul McCartney (joined by his wife Linda McCartney) on bass, guitar, piano, and vocals, with Laine at the core on guitar, bass, and vocals combined with his incredible talent for songwriting, solidified their place in rock history as one of the biggest selling acts of the 1970's. When Wings disbanded, Laine took a step back from the spotlight to work on several solo albums.
Beatles fans, don't miss this chance to see this legendary performer come back to NYC for 2 nights of triumphant music.
The Cutting Room, New York City
May 20, 2006 8:00 PM & May 21, 2006 7:30 PM
General Admission
$30.00
Tickets available through smarttix.com
or 212-868-4444
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McCARTNEY'S FORMER BANDMATE REUNITES WITH CHILDREN
Sir Paul McCartney's former bandmember Denny Laine has reunited with his estranged children after 11 years. Denny, who formed Wings in the early 1970s with McCartney, gradually lost contact with his two children - son Laine, 34, and singer daughter Heidi, 33 - after he divorced his wife Jo-Jo in 1980. But just before Jo-Jo died last October, after a long battle with liver cancer, she expressed her wish for her ex-husband to reunite with his children. And Denny met his daughter recently.
Heidi says, "Dad came over to Liverpool to play at the Cavern Club and we went to see him. It had been 11 years since we last met but it felt exciting and comfortable, like it was meant to be. "Unfortunately, earlier that day Dad found out his brother had just died, so we all kind of came together to support each other. It makes a person realise life is too short not to be together." |
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Denny Laine live in Midland, Pennsylvania next Saturday
Перед концертом Дэнни вспоминает о своей карьере...
Moody guitarist will flap his Wings again
Denny Laine is kind of a rock 'n roll hero. Just not the kind you hear about very often.
He's an understated guy, more involved with his guitar than with talking about how many legendary musicians he's played with, though it's a pretty impressive list. Just consider his decade-long run as Paul McCartney's chief co-pilot in Wings during the 1970s.
And that was after Laine co-founded the Moody Blues and served as lead singer on the group's first hit single, a driving piano ballad called "Go Now." Laine left the group in 1966, founded the Electric String Band, which earned the acclaim of Jimi Hendrix, among others. He played with Stevie Winwood and Ric Grech in the all-star band Ginger Baker's Air Force, then in 1971 fielded a call from McCartney.
Laine will be playing an array of Wings-era hits at the Aladdin Theater on Sunday night. The music will come bracketed by tales about rock's most legendary figures, but typically, Laine won't be doing the talking: that will fall to the show's producer, Pete Bennett, a garrulous insider whose own career includes long stints with the Beatles, all the ex-Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and more.
But let's give Laine the microphone for a moment and let him describe his own wild life in his own laid-back words.
"I formed the Moody Blues in Birmingham (England), back when the Spencer Davis Group was there, too. We were a blues band then, nothing but the blues. Then we got discovered and moved to London, and got into American rhythm and blues. We did the Beatles' second British tour, then toured with the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, all those guys, and we backed up quite a few black blues players, too.
"I quit the Moodies and started the Electric String Band, which had guitars and electrified violins and that. We were a kind of minor, underground hit if you know what I mean. We opened a Hendrix show, and even Jimi was impressed, I could tell. And that was where I think Paul started thinking of working with me. He was there too, with John Lennon.
"But that band broke up and so I went to Spain and studied flamenco guitar for a while. Then I joined Ginger Baker's Air Force and was living in my manager's office when Paul called. He said, 'Do ya fancy putting together a band?' And I said sure, so I was on the plane to his farm in Scotland to start rehearsing the next day. I slept in Paul's garage on a kind of mattress, they didn't have any spare rooms then.
"We just sort of jammed for a while in his barn. Paul got Linda to play keyboards, teaching her these simple parts. That was weird for me -- I was used to playing with really experienced people. But that's what Paul wanted to do. I got Henry McCullough from Joe Cocker's band to join us on guitar, then we went out to play these small gigs at universities. We'd just show up unannounced and ask if it was OK to play that night.
"I wrote a lot of songs with Paul (including the group's biggest worldwide hit, "Mull of Kintyre"), and it was just like the way he wrote with John: He'd bring in songs he'd started, or he'd help me finish something I'd started, or we'd take two completely different songs and fit them together. By 1976 we were huge, playing bigger shows than the Stones or Led Zeppelin. That Kingdome show in Seattle (the first rock concert in the stadium) was the biggest show we ever played. But we never got to Japan, until 1980, and that's when Paul got busted for having pot. That was the end of our touring days, so that was why I left. I didn't want to just play in studios.
"We never actually fell out, just sort of drifted away. The press might have twisted things around later, and so it did go haywire for a while. We saw each other at a UB40 concert last Christmas, and it was a bit nostalgic. Someone took a picture of us and I said, 'That'll be on the Internet tomorrow.' And it was.
"Now I've written a musical called 'Arctic Song,' basically a sci-fi environmental piece; it involves an alien who meets a Siberian girl and they solve the world's problems. I played some shows with Todd Rundgren, I've got a solo record nearly done, and I'm writing an autobiography, so I've got a lot on my plate.
"The show on Sunday will have a lot of Pete Bennett's stories. He started with Elvis, and worked with the Beatles and like that. He's just brilliant, and a character, too, so we have lots of laughs together. We play a lot of Wings stuff, Glen Burtnik, from Styx, is in the band, and he's terrific. I just know the caliber of the musicians is fantastic. It can't fail, to be honest."
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...presented by former Apple Records top executive Pete Bennett.
Любопытная информация про Пита беннета - организатора концерта
Promoter Bennett leads 'British Invasion'
By Regis Behe
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Buzz up!
The names roll off Pete Bennett's lips like the average person's grocery list. But instead of milk, bread and eggs, he speaks of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The Who and The Kinks. Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. And the film legends: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor.
It's easy to think it's a con, the delusional ravings of someone seeking attention. This man, cigar in hand, wearing a baseball cap and jeans, his visage a bit world-weary, seems so unlike a person who was a confidant of John Lennon. Who helped George Harrison put on the Concert for Bangladesh. Who was given dance tips by Michael Jackson. Who was brought in to work on presidential inaugurations for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
But there's an old saw stating it ain't bragging if it's a fact, and Bennett has stacks of magazines and newspaper clippings on hand. Photographs of him with Lennon and Yoko Ono. With Harrison and Ringo Starr. With the Rolling Stones on their way to Shea Stadium to see the Beatles perform in 1965. With Presley. With Sinatra. With Wayne, dressed up in Western garb, and a horse.
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"That's why Billboard called me the world's No. 1 promoter," he says, fishing out a copy of the magazine from 1983 in which page after page after page is devoted to Bennett and his galaxy of stars.
Who is this guy?
He's who he says he is.
"Pete Bennett is an evolutionary person (in the world of promotions)," says Denny Laine, the English musician who performed with Moody Blues and Paul McCartney and Wings. "He worked with all the best ... He's a very, very important character."
Rick Granati of the Granati Brothers, along with Steve Catanzarite, the managing director of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland, will present "Pete Bennett's British Invasion" Saturday at the venue in Beaver County. Featuring a Q&A session with Bennett, there will be music by Laine, the Granati Brothers, Joel Lindsay and students who attend the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.
Proceeds from the event will go to educational programs at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, a nonprofit with a mission of making high-quality arts and educational programs available and affordable to tri-state residents.
Bennett, who lives in Greenwich, Conn., and only admits to being 63, started out as a musician. He played drums as a teenager with Tommy Dorsey's band, then had a hit single on his own -- "Fever," an instrumental. But when an associate asked him whether he'd consider doing promotional work for Scepter Records, Bennett realized it was a rare opportunity. Having toured the country and developed relationships with disc jockeys -- including the legendary Murray "the K" Kaufman in New York -- Bennett quickly adapted to his new role.
"To me, it was easy," he says. "And meanwhile, I had 50 percent of the distributorship, and I was making money at that. Big money was coming in for me. I didn't realize how big I was becoming as a promotions man. I was doing national promotions."
Bennett began working with Cooke, who introduced him to Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay). Bennett promoted the boxer's "I Am the Greatest" album for Capitol Records in 1963. Then came Cole and the hit singles "Rambling Rose" and "Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer."
When the British Invasion started looking for a beachhead in the United States, Bennett became its point man. First, Herman's Hermits, then the Animals. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who all enlisted Bennett to push their records in the States.
With stars of this magnitude, it would seem the music would sell itself. But Bennett insists that his role was vital, cajoling radio disc jockeys to play records, especially interacting with the media to drum up interest.
"I always treated the media first-class," he says. "The newspapers guys, the reporters, the editors. I always gave them a break. Always. They're the ones that make you, and they made me. The media, they made me the star promotion guy in the industry. I'm their No. 1 promotions guy. ... I became a star myself. People want to talk to me."
His stories are priceless. Bennett was at Shea Stadium in 1965 for the landmark concert featuring the Beatles -- as a guide for the Rolling Stones. He was with Mick Jagger and company partying on a yacht when they decided, at the last minute, to check out the show. A few quick phone calls, and Bennett lined up limousines and a police escort.
When the entourage arrived at Shea, it was sheer madness -- girls and women screaming, bottles and cans flying through the air, especially when word got out the Stones were also present. What the world doesn't know, Bennett says, was the Stones and the Beatles congregated in one of the baseball dugouts.
"The guys were nervous," he says. "They didn't know what was going to happen. They were wondering if they were going to get hit in the head with a bottle or something. We stayed for about 20 minutes. It was so noisy, we didn't hear nothing. I said 'Fellas, let's get out of here because we're going to get bombarded.'"
There are other stories, other revelations. Bennett recalls having lunch with John Lennon in 1979 at the Plaza Hotel. In the New York Post that day was a story about the Beatles getting together July 5 at Woodstock.
Lennon, ever mischievous, laughed about the story and suggested they might as well do it.
"John says, 'Hey, they're going to give us $50 million, why don't we take it?' " Bennett says, laughing. "They wanted to get back together, except Paul was always a problem. John used to say 'Forget him. I'm not worried about him. He'll come in afterwards. We'll get Elton John (instead of McCartney).'"
The Beatles also enlisted Bennett to help run Apple Records, where there were four presidents -- John, Paul, George and Ringo. Bennett helped with the day-to-day operations of the label, picking talent -- notably, he passed on Bette Midler -- and assuaging the egos of the Fab Four.
When the Beatles split up, he had to juggle promotions for the solo singles and albums. Lennon might call him up to ask why a McCartney single was No. 14 with a bullet. When Lennon was told his single was No. 9, McCartney would call to complain. Harrison would also voice concerns.
And Ringo Starr?
"I always told Ringo, 'Don't worry, everybody loves you,'" Bennett says. "The Beatles trusted me because they knew I never did anything that would hurt their careers. I tried to enhance their careers and keep them up there at No. 1, and it was a hard thing to do."
While Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr were first and foremost artists, they were not above worrying about financial concerns. That's why Bennett says if Lennon hadn't been murdered -- he had advised Lennon to hire bodyguards, to no avail -- he is certain that the reunion would have happened.
"You know, they loved money," Bennett says. "As much money as they had, they loved money. Paul McCartney was hungry for money, and he's worth what, about $2 billion? They would have done it, no question about it. People say no, but they would have done it."
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In the 1960s, promoter Peter Bennett worked with an astonishing roster of talent. He pushed records by Nat King Cole and almost single-handedly shepherded the British Invasion to the shores of America. He would later work with actors such as John Wayne and Sophia Loren, and also branched out into politics, helping put on presidential inaugurations for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Here are Bennett's impressions of some of the stars he made brighter:
Sam Cooke: "One of the nicest guys around. Very talented, and he always wanted to get (his music) on the pop stations, which I did."
Nat King Cole: "Mr. Class. And, one of the best jazz piano players in the industry, which a lot of people didn't know."
John Wayne: "He was for the people. He would talk to a bus boy, he would talk to a waitress, he would talk to somebody moppin' the floors before he would talk to big superstars or actors."
Ronald Reagan: "I told him he would be the next president, and then he lost to (Gerald) Ford in the primaries. The following year, we had a big fundraiser at Bob Hope's house, and I said the same thing -- 'Mr. President.' He said, 'Peter, you said I was going to be president before, and look what happened.' But I guaranteed it would happen."
Mick Jagger: "Always a businessman. A very bright gentleman, but always business-like. He was great. He always had it together."
Pete Townshend: "Pete was quiet. He wasn't loud, he was a very nice man, and he didn't agree with a lot of the stuff Keith Moon did. They were opposites, but Pete was a very nice gentleman."
Sophia Loren: "A very nice person. She was, in fact, if you met Sophia, so tall and so masculine. She was a great, great lady, a very good-looking lady."
Elizabeth Taylor: "Very gullible and naive, but a very nice person."
Elvis Presley: "Elvis was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Very humble. Whenever he met people, it was yes sir, no sir, yes ma'am, no ma'am. He liked the Beatles, he met the Beatles, The Beatles loved him. They respected him, saw him as the greatest thing on earth."
Michael Jackson: "Michael was very religious with his mother, he was always with his mother, reading the Bible. ... He was always very gentle. He was always very shy; he didn't want to talk to a lot of people. Onstage, he was unbelievable with his dancing, but afterwards he was shy."
John Lennon: "He didn't believe in bodyguards. That was my big thing with him: 'John we're going here, we're going there, you see the mobs we cause.' I said I was a little nervous. He said, 'Pete, you take care of everything.' I said, 'What, now I'm your bodyguard too?' And then, you know what happened a few years later."
On filming the Concert for Bangladesh with George Harrison: "He didn't want to film it. He figured Bob Dylan would get nervous and all that. But we did, we filmed in 16 millimeter. We hid a lot of the cameras from the stage. .. We're backstage walking together, and George sees some cameras. He wanted to know what they were. I told them they were CBS, NBC, ABC, do you want me to throw them out? The next day, George told me we should have filmed it. I told him, 'We did, George, we did.'"
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This comes from Bob Gannon, who's on a break between McCartney shows in Europe (thanks, Bob!). More photos can be found in the slideshow at the bottom of the page:
Hi Guys,
I got to check out Denny Laine at the Monmouth Academy of Music. He played with New Jersey's own The Cryers. The Cryers started out with a 10 song set of songs from their last album and upcoming album. Songs were all pretty good and had a nice sound to them. Cryers will be backing Denny on a short tour. Denny came on stage and started out with a rocking "Time to Hide"
Set list:
01. Time to Hide
02. Say you don't mind
03. No Words
04. Deliver your children
05. Mull of Kintyre
06. Again and again and again
07. Ghost of the scrimshaw carver
08. The shades of Artic Blue
09. Food for all
10. Go Now
11. A blues song I did not recognize
12. Wish you good love
13 . Live and Let Die
14. Band on the Run (dedicated to Paul & Linda)
Although at times Denny's voice was a little strained, he more than made up for it in enthusiasm! He tells the stories behind the songs as well. Denny is a total sweetheart as he meets and greets all of the fans. He signs and takes picture as well. It was a very nice night for an area not known for it's entertainment and it was a fun set to listen to. He will be back with The Cryers in February in Freehold,NJ. December 11th they will be playing the Knickerbocker Cafe in Westerly Rhode Island.
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Wings' Denny Laine on stage on White's Bar in Saginaw Wednesday
Denny Laine is on the phone, apologizing, a day after our scheduled interview about his upcoming show at White’s Bar in Saginaw.
“I’m finishing my new album, it’s one I started a couple of years ago, and when I get in the studio I forget about everything else,” he said. “Everything went right out of my head.”
That’s quite all right. It’s not every day that you get to talk to one of the building blocks of rock, a founding member of the Moody Blues and, a few years later, the Wings. A multi-instrumentalist and songwriter with distinctive vocals — check out the Moody Blues’ “Go Now” — he’s definitely left his mark on the popular music scene.
And it’s rather refreshing, given how some performers of the day cling to their golden oldies, to find one still following the muse.
“I like to live in the future,” Laine says, though he’s not averse to revisiting those groundbreaking days. And that’s what he’ll share, through music and stories, when he comes to Saginaw on Wednesday, March 10. Laine’s story goes back to the Brum Beat days in the early 1960s, when English school boys slicked back their hair and pulled together a band.
“There were lots of bands, and we were all rivals,” he remembered. “I was in two or three of them — you’d fill in when someone couldn’t make a show — and then, at the end of my school days, I started my own.”
Called Denny and the Diplomats, it caught the attention of music moguls and fans, too, especially when it opened for the Beatles at the Plaza Ballroom.
“We were on this revolving stage, and somehow the speaker leads got tugged out when we finished and it turned to show the Beatles,” he said. “The funny thing is, the fans were screaming so loud, they didn’t really notice that there wasn’t any sound.”
Serious about his music, Laine moved forward, joining Mike Pinder in the Moody Blues while fellow Diplomat Bev Bevan moved into the Electric Light Orchestra.
“The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world,” Laine remembers of those days. “That led me into a folk rock trio and to Ginger Baker before I started recording on my own.”
And it was that blend of experience, along with a shared background, that led to the collaboration with Paul McCartney in Wings.
“Paul could play different instruments, too, which was great for songwriting,” Laine said. “We were both to the point where we could write all the parts for the band, another version of what the composers would do for the orchestra. We had come from the same background, from working-class towns where everyone worked in the factories. The same styles of songs had influenced us, listening to the American music on Radio Luxembourg, to the old blues masters.”
Most importantly, he said, “we already knew each other as people. He had kind of drifted away from working with someone — he wasn’t really writing with John Lennon any more at the end of the Beatles — and he was looking for something new.”
Of course, Laine said, the press went wild, calling for a new version of the Fab Four. But they launched the band at a few community events, trying not to be high-profile, Laine said, and by diffusing the expectations, “we just became the band we were. We weren’t intimidated; we were ready.”
Ten years later, about the time McCartney was arrested for carrying marijuana in Japan, the band on the run was his no more. And while rumors swirl about the break-up, Laine doesn’t even try to set the record straight anymore.
“There’s a string of truth in some of it,” he admitted, “but I’ve given up trying to explain everything. I can’t even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!”
He does still own some of his publishing rights, he said, and he and McCartney are still friends. And since Wings, he added, he’s been developing his own style and releasing a string of albums in a very low-key way.
“I didn’t want to start touring again, but in the end, I got tired of studio time,” he said. “It’s not living in real life. I started looking at what offers I’d get.”
He started with a few Beatles-related conventions, regaled audiences in England with reworked songs from his Electric String Band days, and gave American crowds the songs and stories, they craved. He’s not a nostalgia act, he stressed, “but I’ll do a couple of these a year, for the fun of it. Then I start moving forward again.
“Music is progressive, you get out, you experiment with new people and you grow. I’m constantly evolving. Living life in the public eye isn’t easy, but, I mean, look what I’ve learned through the years,” he said. “It’s invaluable. I know there’s a reason for everything and it works out for the good. Life is coming full circle now and I’m still enjoying it. I’m still up at the crack of dawn, excited to get to the studio and do more.”
And then, with a lovely British “Well, my dear,” Laine said his goodbyes and did just that
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/03/wings_denny_laine_on_stage_on.html |
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| DENNY LAINE ADDED TO ROCK CON: Denny Laine has been added to the list of Beatle-related guests at the first ever "Rock Con: Weekend of 100 Rock Stars," July 30 through Aug. 1 at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel & Conference Center, 2 Meadowlands Plaza, East Rutherford, N.J. Guests include promoter Sid Bernstein, May Pang, TV announcer Clay Cole (who featured both the Beatles and Stones as a guest on the same show), "Double Fantasy" engineer Dennis Ferrante, Hilton Valentine of the Animals, Phil "Fang" Volk of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Terry Sylvester of the Hollies, Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las, Gary Van Scyoc of Elephant's Memory and lots more. Complete info is online at www.RockFanFest.com. |
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DENNY LAINE ADDED TO ROCK CON
Хорошо.
Так или иначе, но Денни ассоциируется с битломанской тематикой.
Ну ещё десяток наберут таких - откуда сотня то?
Мэй Пэнг в звёздах затесалось.
Не звезда, в общем, а... другим работала. |
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"Have A Heart for Dennis" benefit for Dennis Ferrante
Shannon on bass guitar with Denny Laine (Moody Blues and Wings), Steve Holley (Wings), Will Lee (David Letterman and Fab Faux)
Shannon and Denny Laine. |
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| Former Wings member Denny Laine will be attending the Pittsburgh McCartney`s shows. |
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My interview with Denny Laine
The Fest for Beatles Fans this year was beyond incredible. The guests, the concerts, the auctions, and everything 'Beatle' that was happening throughout the Hyatt in Rosemont IL was magical. The special guests included Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell, Laurence Juber, Chris O'dell, Gary Wright, Mark Hudson as well as Liverpool (the best Beatles tribute band I've ever heard).
While there, I had an opportunity to do a short interview with Denny Laine for Beatle Ed's Fab Four Radio and decided I'd share it here for fans that are interested.
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Denny Laine и American English
