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In honor of the release of this year's holiday-timed Beatles' collection "On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2," Apple premiered the clip for "Words of Love." The charming and shiny new music video features the version of the Beatles' classic Buddy Holly cover that appears on the new album, recorded live at the BBC Radio studios a year before the band cut the song for a record. "Words of Love" is certainly not new, but director Pete Candeland has given the track a new lease of life with a partially animated music video that creates a poignant backdrop for the Beatles' harmonies and the often psychedelic vibe.
The sequel to 1994's "Live At The BBC," is focused exclusively on the teeny-bopping, moptopping 1963-64 era with 63 tracks. This take on "Words of Love," which appears on the new album, was recorded on July 16, 1963 at the BBC's Paris Theater in London. It was broadcast a month later on the show "Pop Goes the Beatles," more than a year before English rock band released a version of the song on 1964's "Beatles for Sale." In the United States, it was on the album "Beatles VI." It is the first official Beatles video since "Real Love" from 1996's "Anthology 2."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, harmonized on their version, holding to the vocal and instrumental sound of Holly's original as well as they could. When they had played this song in their early days at the Cavern Club in 1961 and 1962, Lennon and George Harrison were the vocalists. Ringo Starr played a packing case on this song as well as drums, to achieve a similar sound to Holly's "Everyday." So the new video for Buddy Holly cover "Words Of Love" naturally zeroes in on the peak of Beatlemania, before psychedelics and facial hair entered the picture.

The clip combines period-specific archival vintage black and white and color footage from The Beatles' concerts, tomfoolery and time on the road and intersperses them with whimsical animated segments which gives the short video an endearing, home-woven aesthetic. We see the band's "tourbus" loaded to the sky with luggage drive up and down and undulating landscape and see screaming fans clamor to get close to the band as multi-colored confetti streams from the sky. Watch below and marvel that this stuff happened 50 years ago which gives an impressive look at the frenzied Beatlemania days.

English rock band The Rolling Stones released an official music video for their song "Doom and Gloom," the lead single from their latest greatest hits compilation album, "GRRR!," which commemorates the band's 50th anniversary. It's tough to rationalize the existence of new The Rolling Stones music in 2012, and it's even tougher to figure out what the hell is going on in this new clip, but it's also hard not to applaud their return to the crunching, classic rock sound they helped pioneer.

Sounds like it was co-written by an Occupy Wall Street protester, despite its British pedigree, this hard-rocking, Louisiana bluesy number finds the band's lead vocalist Mick Jagger railing about various travails and was recorded in Paris and produced by Don Was. The French session marked the first time Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood had been in the studio together since completing "A Bigger Bang" seven years previously.

Even if you can't get on board with the music they're making now, you have to give The Rolling Stones a bit of a credit. While the average human hits a certain age and trades the guitar for the cane, Jagger and the boys continue to rock, defying time, death, and the inexorably creeping claws of dubstep. The uptempo grinder, "Doom and Gloom," for what it's worth, is a fun, straightforward rocker in the key of The Rolling Stones, nothing groundbreaking, but a satisfying dose of the band's longstanding formula, and continues Jagger's recent lyrical obsession with current events.

The Jonas Åkerlund-directed video is an old school button-pusher and stars "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" actress Noomi Rapace, who leads a classic rock 'n' roll lifestyle to reflect the song's lyrics. The video revolves around the seven deadly sins and captures the fever dreams of a gloomy Rapace lives through a hallucination in various stages of undress and adult situations. She's killing zombies, crashes planes, thrashes around in garbage naked, fighting off grabby businessmen, pan-handling and eating junk food until she passed out on a bean bag under a neon sign of The Rolling Stones' iconic lips and tongue logo.

Lady Gaga doesn’t go by the rules, especially when it comes to video premieres. The videos from the sold-a-million-in-a-week "Born This Way" have fallen somewhere in between, but her latest "Yoü and I," which just premiered on Perez Hilton even though it was supposed to be unveiled on MTV on Thursday night, might finally be the epic that everybody has been waiting for this time around. The thrilling storyline would be about the "torture" of being away from the one you love, feels like the strongest and most striking of any of the clips from "Born This Way."
The album's thirteenth track and fourth single, "Yoü and I," is a rock and roll ballad with tendencies of rock music and country music, and samples "We Will Rock You" (1977) by British rock band Queen. The moderato-tempo song also features Brian May on the electric guitar. On her Twitter, the New York star described "Yoü and I" as a "new song... written in NY on the piano I grew up on." Gaga described the song to her audience as a bit of a "rock-and-roll tune." She went on to say that it will probably never be used as one of her singles, but the song is very dear to her heart.
The song finds Gaga singing about a passionate love affair with a "Nebraska guy" whilst the lyric sheet features umlauts over every letter "u." The 25-year-old revealed in an interview with US Weekly that she finds it hard to perform this track as it is about her relationship with her on-and-off boyfriend, Luc Carl. The tune is about getting back together with a former love and Gaga penned the tune after getting back together with Carl, having previously split up with him. However, the singer broke up with him again shortly before the release of "Born This Way" and she admitted that she now gets upset when singing the tune.
The "I would walk 500 miles" theme video was shot in Springfield, Nebraska, finds the Mother Monster tapping into her various alter-egos, from male "greaser" counterpart Jo Calderone to Yuyi the Mermaid. Gaga explained the video's concept: "The premise of the video is that I've walked all the way from New York City to Nebraska to get [my boyfriend] back. And the [video is about the] idea that when you're away from someone you love, it's torture," she continued. "I knew I wanted the video to be about me sprinting back and walking hundreds of thousands of miles to get him back."