Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

* Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles.

After he began his performing career there was occasionally unfounded media speculation that Julian would undertake performances with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Known for having raucous shows expressing an extraordinary amount of energy, Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr stood dumbfounded backstage as Orbison performed completely still and simply sang through fourteen encores.

The islands have had their own government headed by a chief minister, the first of whom was James Alexander George Smith McCartney, since August 1976.

** James Alexander George Smith " Jags " McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands ’ first Chief Minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.

* August 30 – James Alexander George Smith " Jags " McCartney was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Similarly, although The Beatles ' productions were credited to George Martin throughout their recording career, many sources now attest that Lennon and McCartney in particular had an increasing influence on the production process as the group's career progressed, and especially after the band retired from touring in 1966.

The Fifth Beatle is an informal title that various commentators in the press and entertainment industry have applied to persons who were at one point a member of The Beatles, or who had a strong association with the " Fab Four " ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ) during the group's existence.

The band during this time period consisted of Best, bassist Stuart Sutcliffe ( see above ), and guitarists Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon.

Years after The Beatles had broken up, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr each worked with music producer Jeff Lynne on various solo projects, while Harrison and Lynne also worked together as members of the Traveling Wilburys.

The album features eight original compositions ( seven by Lennon – McCartney and " Don't Bother Me ", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album ) and six covers ( mostly of Motown and R & B hits ).

The session was attended by Lennon, McCartney, and producer George Martin.

A 10-minute standing ovation followed the concert ; the DVD shows several rock luminaries in the crowd, such as Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Sir George Martin and Sir Paul McCartney ( although neither Martin nor McCartney attended the opening night, contrary to what the DVD implies ).

In the original skit " Stig " is the Paul McCartney character and was portrayed by Battley, with Idle portraying the George Harrison character as " Dirk ".

Idle continued to play " Dirk ", but Dirk was now modelled after Paul McCartney, not George Harrison.

Several celebrities have stayed there, including Paul McCartney, Hugh Hefner, and former President George W. Bush ( while seeking re-election ).

In 2010, a mockumentary entitled Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison ?, featuring fabricated found footage audio tapes of a voice claiming to be Harrison explaining that the rumour was true, was released on video.

Over the next few minutes, McCartney introduced some of the lyrics, reworking " Get back to the place you should be " from fellow Beatle George Harrison's " Sour Milk Sea " into " Get back to where you once belonged ".

The lineup for the released versions of " Get Back " was Paul McCartney, lead vocal and bass ; John Lennon, lead guitar and backing vocal ; George Harrison, rhythm guitar ; Ringo Starr, drums ; and Billy Preston, electric piano.

In 2003 " Get Back " was re-released on the Let It Be ... Naked album, remixed by independent producers with the sanction of the surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, with John Lennon's and George Harrison's widows.

It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tamboura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Lennon, and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played by McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding " not unlike a celeste ".

A week before the general election, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi suggested to Harrison that he, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr stand for election as MPs for Liverpool as NLP candidates, but they declined.

On June 26, 2007, Ono appeared on Larry King Live along with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Olivia Harrison.

Ono appeared on-stage at Microsoft's June 1, 2009 E3 press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to promote The Beatles: Rock Band video game.

Pete Best joined Lennon, McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe and Harrison on the eve of their Hamburg sojourn, the five using the monikers, " The Silver Beetles " and " The Silver Beatles " ( they would experiment with " The Beat Brothers " and ultimately " The Beatles " while in Hamburg with Best ).

In 1961 The Beatles ( comprising Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Pete Best ), who had met Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, worked with him on their second.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ", ( Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall ), arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; string section and harp on " She's Leaving Home ", arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin ; harmonium, tabla, sitar, dilruba, eight violins and four cellos on " Within You, Without You ", arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin ; clarinet trio on " When I'm Sixty Four ", as arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; saxophone sextet on " Good Morning, Good Morning ", arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon ; and forty-piece orchestra ( strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion ) on " A Day in the Life ", arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney

The Beatles had left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Starr and then McCartney departing, and Lennon and Harrison departing together later.

Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison pleaded with Starr to return, and after two weeks he did.

Lewisohn also reports that, in the case of " Back in the U. S. S. R .", also recorded during Starr's absence, the three remaining Beatles each made contributions on bass and drums, with the result that those parts may be composite tracks played by Lennon, McCartney and / or Harrison.

Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).

The " Paperback Writer " clip is more conventional, with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison lip-synching and miming playing their instruments ( although Ringo is notably not ' playing ').

Paul McCartney ( also of Irish descent ) issued a single shortly after Bloody Sunday titled " Give Ireland Back to the Irish ", expressing his views on the matter.

" again, Lennon and McCartney prevented Orbison from going on again by physically holding him back.

" The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on called Notations.

While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).

" Ono later issued a statement claiming she did not mean any offense, as her comment was an attempt to console her husband, not attack McCartney ; she went on to insist that she respected McCartney and that it was the press who had taken her comments out of context.

Nonetheless, in the 1987 general election that he lost, Powell campaigned in Bangor for James Kilfedder, the devolutionist North Down Popular Unionist Party MP and against Robert McCartney, who was standing as a Real Unionist on a policy of integration and equal citizenship for Northern Ireland.

He appeared on sessions and videos for Paul McCartney and was involved in the soundtrack of the film Give My Regards to Broad Street.