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Paul and Linda McCartney attend the 1971 GRAMMYs

Paul and Linda McCartney attend the 1971 GRAMMYs

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Paul McCartney Accept The GRAMMY For Best Original Score At The 1971 GRAMMYs

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In the latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind, 18-time GRAMMY winner Paul McCartney accepts the GRAMMY for Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special for the 1970 Beatles documentary, 'Let It Be,' at the 13th GRAMMY Awards in 1971
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Apr 17, 2020 - 2:29 pm

While The Beatles are beloved around the world for their eternal music and forever-classic songs, the English rock icons are also celebrated for their visuals. Their early work in concert and promotional films surrounding their singles and albums are largely credited with birthing the concept of music videos, which would eventually give rise to TV networks like MTV. Their groundbreaking approach to curating music to image, and vice versa, has secured their stance as pioneers in both music and film. It's why, in addition to winning eight career GRAMMYs, with 24 nominations overall, The Beatles also count an Academy Award, the film industry's GRAMMY equivalent, on their wide-spanning résumés. 

In May 1970, The Beatles released Let It Be, an all-time favorite within the group's discography. To accompany the project, the band released a documentary of the same name, which chronicles the making and recording of Let It Be and also includes the act's iconic unannounced rooftop concert, their final public performance as The Beatles. 

Paul McCartney Accepts Best Original Score In 1971

Let It Be, both the film and the album, would become a bittersweet entry in the Beatles' saga. As the group's final album, with the film counterpart marking their last original release as The Beatles, Let It Be would go on to make major waves, going multiplatinum in and topping several charts around the world. 

Let It Be also had a huge presence at the 13th GRAMMY Awards, held in 1971. Let It Be notched four GRAMMY nominations that year, including Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Contemporary Song for the title track, as well as Best Contemporary Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for the album itself. 

Read: Peter Jackson To Assemble New Beatles 'Let It Be' Film From Archival Footage

While Let It Be, the album, did not win any GRAMMYs that year, the film's soundtrack took home the golden gramophone for Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special. (One month later, in April 1971, the film's soundtrack won the Oscar for Best Original Song Score.) 

Accepting the award at the 1971 GRAMMYs, held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, a smiling, stylish Paul McCartney—alongside his then-wife Linda McCartney, who died 22 years ago today (April 17)—kept his speech short and sweet: "Thank you, goodnight." 

In 2004, 34 years after its original release, "Let It Be," the song, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, forever solidifying the accompanying track, album, film and soundtrack in GRAMMY and Beatles history. 

Watch Michael Jackson Win Best Pop Vocal Performance For "Thriller" In 1984 | GRAMMY Rewind

Tegan & Sara perform at the 2017 Boston Calling Festival

Tegan & Sara perform at the 2017 Boston Calling Festival

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Tegan & Sara Announce 2020 'Tonight We're Seeing Colors' North American Tour

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The 40-date trek will take the GRAMMY-nominated twin-sister duo to theaters and venues across the U.S. and Canada throughout spring and summer
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Mar 11, 2020 - 8:32 am

Twin-sister duo Tegan & Sara have announced a North American tour starting this spring and running through the summer. Dubbed the Tonight We're Seeing Colors Tour, the 40-date trek is split into two legs, with the first half launching in mid-May and running through early June, while the second portion starts in late July and runs through early September. The tour, which also includes a festival performance at BottleRock Napa Valley 2020 in May, will feature support from Georgia and Jackie Mendoza on the first leg of the tour and IDER and Claud on the second half. More dates will be announced soon.

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In a post shared on the duo's official website, Tegan & Sara acknowledged the current health concerns impacting the music industry due to the global coronavirus outbreak, which has caused multiple festivals and tours to cancel or postpone, including Coachella and Stagecoach in Southern California.

"We are proceeding optimistically with our planning but acknowledge that we will watch the developing situation with COVID-19 closely and heed all recommendations about social gatherings as the tour approaches," they wrote. 

Read: Tegan And Sara On The Power Of Music 

The group is also taking actions to combat ticket scalpers and secondary ticket outlets for this tour, including omitting a pre-sale and limiting ticket purchases per person. 

"Also, the spike in the actions of scalpers and secondary sites – buying up tickets to our shows and selling them for absurd prices online – is upsetting to us," they wrote in the same statement. "Touring is life to us. Know that while seeing us live hopefully brings joy and inspiration to all of you, it also delivers us the purpose and meaning WE need to keep going! So, we hope we'll see ALL of you out there in 2020!"

Read: Sleater-Kinney And Wilco Announce It's Time Joint Tour

As well, the duo will donate $1 from every ticket sold on the tour to their Tegan and Sara Foundation, which "fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women," according to the foundation's website.

The forthcoming tour follows the duo's 2019 album, Hey, I'm Just Like You, released last September on Sire, and their accompanying memoir, "High School," a New York Times Bestseller. 

First-Time GRAMMY Nominees: Tegan & Sara

Formed in the late '90s in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Tegan & Sara received their first and only GRAMMY nomination at the 55th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2013, when their 2011 DVD/live Album, Get Along, received a nod for Best Long Form Music Video.

Tickets for Tegan & Sara's Tonight We're Seeing Colors North American tour go on sale Friday, March 13, at 10 a.m. local time. For more information and for the full tour routing, visit the duo's official website.  

"Answering Complicated Questions With Simple Answers": Tegan And Sara Recount Music & Identity

Paramore's Hayley Williams performs at Bonnaroo 2018

Paramore's Hayley Williams performs at Bonnaroo 2018

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Paramore Singer Hayley Williams Announces First-Ever Solo Tour

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The 22-date trek, running mid-May through late June, is in support of her forthcoming debut solo album, 'Petals For Armor'
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Mar 5, 2020 - 2:56 pm

Hayley Williams, the GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter best known as the frontwoman for pop rock trio Paramore, has announced her first-ever solo tour. The 22-date trek kicks off with a run of European shows in mid-May followed by a series of performances across North America through late June. The tour, which will wrap with a homecoming show in Williams' hometown of Nashville, Tenn., will feature support from The Ninth Wave on select European dates and Arlo Parks for the North American leg. 

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intimate shows. been craving the closeness a long time.

love to @theninthewave_ for joining me overseas and to @arloparks for coming with me stateside. 💐

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The tour is in support of Williams' forthcoming debut solo album, Petals For Armor, which drops May 8 on Atlantic Records. The album features the singer's debut solo single, "Simmer," among other new tracks.

"Wow. I am going on tour. Myself. It's not Paramore and truthfully, it's just a little terrifying," Williams said in a statement announcing the tour, as reported by Rolling Stone. "But if I know anything, it's that there's no safer place (besides at home with my dog) than to be in a room, on a stage, in front of the people who I've grown up singing my lungs out for. There was a time I thought I wouldn't tour Petals For Armor. What a joke. I must."

Read: Taylor Swift, Halsey And Tayla Parx Lead First-Ever All-Female Lineup At 2020 Capital One JamFest

The upcoming tour will take Williams to smaller shows in more intimate venues, according to her posts on social media. She tweeted, "intimate shows. been craving the closeness a long time." She also wrote on Instagram, "i crave INTIMACY. these are small shows - i've been wanting to do this for a long time."

In her tour announcement, she gave more background about the forthcoming shows. 

"This is a brand-new adventure," she said. "It's important to embark on something new every now and then just to show yourself that you can… The first run of shows is going to be hot, sweaty and intimate. My brand-newly-formed band and I will be playing rooms that Paramore outgrew a decade ago. It's going to be so satisfying to feel the energy of a crowd that close again, especially while performing songs that feel so vital for me, songs I have never performed before for an audience."

Ahead of the release of Petals For Armor, Williams last month (Feb. 6) dropped her Petals For Armor I EP, which featured the singles "Leave It Alone" and "Cinnamon."

Petals For Armor follows Paramore's 2017 album, After Laughter. The group has received two GRAMMY nominations across its 16-year career, including a Best New Artist nod at the 50th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2008. Williams, along with bandmate and co-writer Taylor York, won her first and, so far, only GRAMMY at the 57th GRAMMY Awards, held in 2015, winning Best Rock Song for Paramore's "Ain't It Fun," a single off the group's 2013 self-titled album. 

In September 2019, Paramore went on hiatus, noting that they were "taking a really nice break after grinding away for nearly 15 years!"

Interview: Hayley Williams Is Still Into Paramore

Elton John And Bernie Taupin

Elton John (L) and Bernie Taupin (R) win Best Original Song at 2020 Oscars

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Elton John And Bernie Taupin Win Best Original Song At The 2020 Oscars

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This marks John's second Oscar in the category, following his win in 1995
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Feb 9, 2020 - 9:35 pm

Elton John and lyricist/songwriter Bernie Taupin have won Best Original Song for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" at the 2020 Oscars. 

The song, featuring music by John and lyrics by longtime collaborator Taupin, is featured in the 2019 film Rocketman, a biopic based on the life of the former. John and actor Taron Egerton, who portrayed the singer in the film, performed the song together. 

Read: Giles Martin On 'Rocketman,' Elton John, Reinventing "Tiny Dancer" & More

Ahead of the win, John delivered an animated and soulful performance of the song live on the Oscar stage. 

Prior to the Academy Awards, "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" won Best Original Song at the Golden Globes and tied for Best Song at the Critics' Choice Awards earlier this year, among other awards and nominations. Rocketman was also nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards last month.

Read: Billie Eilish Delivers Touching Performance Of "Yesterday" At 2020 Oscars

The award marks John's second Oscar for Best Original Song, following his win in 1995 for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" from the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. This marks Taupin's first Oscar win.

John, a five-time GRAMMY winner, received his most recent GRAMMY nomination at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards, held in 2011, for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for "If It Wasn't For Bad," a featured track off his 2010 collaborative album, The Union, with Leon Russell.

Watch Janelle Monáe Open The 2020 Oscars In Sparkling Performance

Fleetwood Mac in 1975

Fleetwood Mac in 1975

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Poll: From "Dreams" To "The Chain," Which Fleetwood Mac Song Is Your Favorite?

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"Dreams" experienced a charming viral moment on TikTok after a man posted a video skateboarding to the classic track, and now it's back on the charts, 43 years later
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Oct 15, 2020 - 5:00 pm

In honor of Fleetwood Mac's ethereal '70s rock classic "Dreams," which recently returned to the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to a viral TikTok skateboard video from Nathan Apodaca, we want to know which of the legendary group's songs is your favorite!

Beyond their ubiquitous 1977 No. 1 hit "Dreams," there are so many other gems from the iconic GRAMMY-winning album Rumours, as well as across their entire catalog. There's the oft-covered sentimental ballad "Landslide" from their 1975 self-titled album, the jubilant, sparkling Tango in the Night cut "Everywhere" and Stevie Nicks' triumphant anthem for the people "Gypsy," from 1982's Mirage, among many others.

Vote below in our latest GRAMMY.com poll to let us know which you love most.

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