2017-12-29: Ringo Starr será ordenado cavaleiro

Ringo Starr será ordenado cavaleiro (cerca de 20 anos depois de Paul McCartney):

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15799505.Ringo_Starr_and_Barry_Gibb_awarded_knighthoods_in_New_Year_Honours/

Os tipos de condecorações do Império Britânico:

https://content.assets.pressassociation.io/2017/12/29224358/9c00444cefcdc89fa2e25e6426e6da99-1366x1280.jpg

Citando:
"The Beatles’ Ringo Starr and Bee Gees co-founder Barry Gibb have been awarded knighthoods in the New Year Honours, alongside a string of political figures including former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and key Tory backbencher Graham Brady.

Gibb, who is recognised for his services to music and charity, dedicated the honour to his late brothers and former bandmates and said: “The magic, the glow, and the rush will last me the rest of my life.”"
(...)"

2017-11-28: Paul McCartney fã de Elbow? (Vídeo)

PM enviou um e-mail aos Elbow depois de ouvir uma das suas músicas na rádio:
http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/elbow/guy-garvey-paul-mccartney-john-lewis-cover-fan/

Citando:
"The Elbow frontman has talked about whether The Beatles legend has heard their Beatles cover, and revealed why he made Macca's daughter Stella cry [Elbow recently covered The Beatles' Golden Slumbers for this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.]

But asked if Paul McCartney has heard their rendition yet, Guy Garvey told Radio X's Chris Moyles we wasn't sure, but revealed Macca is a bit of a fan.

Watch our video above to find out more.

The frontman explained: "We had an email from Paul McCartney last year about an Elbow song though, which is pretty much the best thing that's ever happened.

"He said he heard us performing Magnificent (She Says) on the radio when he was dropping one of his kids off, and he said he pulled over and waited till the end of song till he found out who it was."

He added with disbelief: "And then he thought to email us!" (...)"

2017-11-29: Fotos de objectos de JL recuperados

Fotos de objectos ligados a JL apreendidos recentemente podem ser vistas aqui:
http://expresso.sapo.pt/internacional/2017-11-21-Tres-diarios-dois-oculos-e-uma-caixa-de-cigarros-recuperados-mais-de-100-objetos-roubados-de-John-Lennon

Citando:
"Um homem de 58 anos já foi detido pelas autoridades alemãs. Há ainda outra pessoa suspeita do roubo, que vive na Turquia e terá sido motorista de Yoko Ono, viúva do músico:
Há de tudo: três diários, dois óculos, pautas, cassetes, caixas de cigarros e muito mais. No total, foram recuperados mais de 100 objetos roubados que pertenceram a Jonh Lennon. Tinham desaparecido em 2006 de Nova Iorque, nos Estados Unidos da América, e agora foram encontrados em Berlim, na Alemanha.

Na segunda-feira, a polícia fez rusgas a casa do principal suspeito, um homem de 58 anos que entretanto já foi detido. Há ainda outra pessoa suspeita, vive na Turquia e que terá trabalhado como motorista da viúva do músico, Yoko Ono, referiu Martin Steltner, procurador de Berlim, citado pela BBC.

Foi em julho deste ano que mais de uma centena de objetos foram apreendidos numa casa de leilões em Berlim. Agora, todos os objetos foram reconhecidos e identificados por Yoko Ono através de fotos."

2017-12-25: Lista dos álbuns mais caros

Beatles estão no topo até desta lista:
https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/money-aint-a-thang-11-of-the-most-expensive-albums-ever-produced/

2017-12-08: Última actuação de Lennon

Faz anos que JL foi assassinado. Para o relembrar:
https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/john-lennon-imagine-final-performance
Citando:
"On this day, 37 years ago, John Lennon was shot to death outside of his New York home by Mark David Chapman.

Take a second to remember the former Beatle's brilliance with this video of him performing "Imagine"—one of his most enduring songs—at the ATV special, A Salute to Lew Grade. It would turn out to be Lennon's final live performance."

2017-12-06: Album perdido de PM apareceu no YouTube

Aparentemente apenas 3 cópias foram feitas de prenda para os colegas de banda, mas apareceu no YouTube:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/listen-paul-mccartneys-incredibly-rare-long-lost-christmas-album-unforgettable-1965-2168612

Citando:
"Maccas becomes a Christmas DJ for his Beatles bandmates

Paul McCartney‘s incredibly rare and long-lost Christmas album ‘Unforgettable’ has resurfaced over 60 years since it was first made."

No YouTube:

https://youtu.be/aOoHlpf6hBQ

2017-12-04: Single promocional vendido na discogs

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/rare-beatles-promo-most-expensive-single-ever-sold-discogs/

'LOVE ME DO' DEMONSTRATION 7"

2017-12-04: O sonho recorrente de Paul McCartney?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sir-paul-mccartney-reveals-bizarre-11638592

Citando:
"The Fab Four frontman told how the nightmare­ has haunted him for 50 years.

Despite wowing audiences round the world since the 60s, Sir Paul, 75, said: “Ever since I started performing there is a dream I still have which is you are in a stadium playing with The Beatles or with this band and people start leaving and it is like ‘OK what are we doing wrong’ we try to pull out the bigs ones but they’re still leaving."

2017-11-23: Beatles lego set and the Black Friday

http://www.nme.com/news/get-beatles-yellow-submarine-lego-much-cheaper-black-friday-2164419

2017-11-22: Diários de Lennon (e gravação de concerto de Beatles) recuperados

http://www.nme.com/news/john-lennons-stolen-diaries-found-in-berlin-2162543#0lEXaBcmpwcbBjqW.99

Citando:
"They're among over 100 items belonging to The Beatles icon to be recovered

John Lennon’s diaries have been found in Berlin – and are among over a hundred stolen items belonging to the Beatles musician to be recovered by police.

Lennon’s diaries are currently on display at Berlin police headquarters – along with two pairs of his iconic round specs, a tape recording of a Beatles concert, sheet music and a cigarette case. The collection of items were stolen from Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono back in 2006."

2017-11-20: Bar em Hamburgo obrigado a mudar de nome...

... por Yoko Ono:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5098763/John-Lennon-s-widow-forces-bar-change-name.html

Citando:
"John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has sued a bar in Germany forcing it to change its name from 'Yoko Mono'.

Bar owner Nima Garous-Pour has been using the name for nearly 20 years in Hamburg, where the Beatles first found fame.

But lawyers for Yoko claimed that he had been using her name and identity without legal permission.

Judges at the city's regional court agreed - and ordered Garous-Pour to remove the sign, even though he had already shortened the name to simply 'Mono'."

2013-11-17: The story of Freda Kelly (by The Guardian)

... Beatles' secretary for around 10 years:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/17/beatles-secretary-freda-kelly-story

Citando:
""Paul, you could always rely on. He was the good one. George was very thoughtful – he would always say 'What have you got in your cupboard for me to sign?' Ritchie [Ringo, real name Richard] was always laughing. He was Mr Happy. John was a man of many moods. People think John Lennon was a big, hard man. He had his moments but there was a caring side to him."

By her own admission, Kelly was something of "an innocent" when she started working for the Beatles. "I was Miss Gullible. I was an Irish Catholic who went straight from the Girl Guides into the music business. I didn't know anything about anything."

It was Lennon who explained to her that her boss Epstein was gay – at the time, homosexuality was still illegal. "I remember saying to John: 'I can't make him out. There's something about him.' And he started laughing. He explained it to me in really simple terms. He said: 'Put it this way, if you and he were the last people on a desert island, you'd be safe.'""

E sobre o DVD:
"Good Ol' Freda will be shown on More4 on 10 December, 9pm. It is also available to buy on DVD from 4 December at amazon.co.uk"

2017-11-11: Tom Petty e o dia em que conheceu RS e GH

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-musicares-benefit/

Citando:
"Last night, Tom Petty was given the MusiCares Person of the Year Award at the organization’s annual benefit in Los Angeles. During his acceptance speech, he told a story about the night he met George Harrison and Ringo Starr, which ended up with him getting a lesson in paying your dues."
(...)
"You can watch the whole speech above, with this story beginning at the 7:40 mark. Petty recalled that he moved to Los Angeles in 1974, when he was signed to Leon Russell‘s Shelter Records by Denny Cordell. Shortly thereafter, he was hired by Russell to hang out at his home studio to provide lyrics in case the musicians came up with some worthwhile music.

“The first session, in comes George Harrison and Ringo, [legendary session drummer] Jim Keltner,” he began. “They didn’t need any words, but those cats were so cool, you know. And I found myself, after the session when we were hanging out, I found myself slipping my sunglasses on. Leon said, ‘What the hell are you doing with the dark glasses, man?’ I said, ‘It feels cool, you know, like Jimmy Keltner — he’s got his on."

2017-11-11: O início de The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill e o Mellotron?

O início do TCSOBB sempre foi um mistério. Afinal foi feito com um Mellotron:
http://flypaper.soundfly.com/produce/how-mellotrons-work-and-what-makes-them-so-special/

Citando:
"The Beatles – “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”

This is an unusual one — the Spanish guitar introduction here is a bit from one of the early Mellotron accompaniment tapes. Prior to the M400, most Mellotrons had two manual keyboards — one for playing single notes, and one that triggered variously styled accompaniment patterns."

Mais sobre os teclados Mellotron no link acima.

2017-11-11: PM... Passeia em Londres

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5072885/Paul-McCartney-displays-thinning-hair-London.html

2017-11-10: PM e o seu cão...

Knickers? Depois renomeado para Martha:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5071837/In-Paul-McCartney-s-arms-puppy-loved-much.html

Citando:
"It was written by Sir Paul McCartney as a paean to his English sheepdog.

But the Beatles’ 1968 song Martha My Dear might have ended up being called Knickers My Dear.

Two years earlier, the star had decided to fulfil his dream of owning a dog and contacted breeder Ann Davis.

Sir Paul, who was then dating Jane Asher, turned up in his Aston Martin DB6 at her home, where he posed with her sheepdog Cuddles before driving back to London with his new puppy, priced at ten guineas.

Paul McCartney pictured with his puppy and Ann Arch's sheepdog 'Cuddles' in the mid 1960's at her home in High Wycombe

A few weeks later, the breeder received a telephone call asking if she could look after the pup while the Fab Four were travelling abroad.

The great-grandmother said yesterday: ‘He was very attached to the puppy and he didn’t want to leave it with his housekeeper.’

But when the dog arrived at her home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, she was in for a shock when she was told what the star had called it."

2017-11-05: PM junta-se a Stevie Van Zant para cantar "I Saw Her Standing There"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2017/11/05/paul-mccartney-joins-stevie-van-zandt-to-complete-beatles-song-with-springsteen-on-tour/#7a3fba603e1c

2017-11-02: PM e a redução no consumo de carne

Um vegetariano acérrimo, PM fez mais um vídeo:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-releases-new-short-film-encouraging-people-to-eat-less-meat-meat-free-monday-2156013

Citando:
"There’s a simple but significant way to help protect the planet and all its inhabitants,” Paul McCartney – who has been vegetarian since 1975 – says in the short.

“And it starts with just one day a week. One day without eating animal products can have a huge impact in helping maintain that delicate balance that sustains us all.”

The film uses Paul McCartney’s own music – tracks from his 1997 classical music album ‘Standing Stone’, as well as an unreleased song called ‘Botswana’."

2017-11-02: PM revela que foto da NG inspirou Lady Madonna

A foto que inspirou LM. E um novo documentário no YouTube, em breve:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5041245/Paul-McCartney-reveals-inspiration-Lady-Madonna.html

Citando:
"National Geographic's January 1965 issue published a photograph entitled Mountain Madonna, of a woman whose way of life was threatened, with one child at her breast and another laughing up at her. "
(...)
"Speaking on documentary film One Day A Week, the 75-year-old confessed he was inspired to write the song after seeing an image of a woman in National Geographic magazine in the 1960s.

He explained that the maternal bond in the photo, which saw a vulnerable woman breastfeeding with another child close by, had really 'affected' him - leading him to write the number one single."

2017-101-02: Gravação de Something no último concerto completo de GH

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/george-harrison-plays-a-sublime-something-at-last-concert-w510664

O vídeo ("pirata"):
https://youtu.be/qwn0qY2qY_s

Citando:
"For reasons he never quite articulated, Harrison left a fortune on the table and didn't agree to any more dates after Japan [12 dates]. The only exception was an April 6th, 1992 show at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was a benefit concert for the National Law Party days before the British General Election. Clapton wasn't around for this one, but he used many members of his touring band along with Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers on lead guitar. Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Gary Moore and his son Dhani Harrison came out for the encores of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Roll Over Beethoven."

Harrison didn't let professional camera film the show, but here's decent amateur footage of "Something." Many fans felt it was vastly superior to the Japanese shows with Harrison in better vocal shape and seemingly a bit more relaxed. He largely disappeared for the rest of the decade, popping up only for the Beatles anthology project and to label Oasis "rubbish" after Liam Gallagher had the tenacity to call him a "fucking nipple.""
(...)
"The Royal Albert Hall marked the last time that George Harrison played a full concert, though months later he did play a handful of songs at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert and in 1997 John Fugelsang cajoled him into playing "All Things Must Pass" and a few other tunes at a TV taping. He also played at song at Carl Perkins' funeral in 1998. Right around that time, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. He'd spend the remaining years of his life battling the disease while recording Brainwashed, his final album."

2017-10-16: Lucros da Apple tornados públicos

Estamos a falar da "verdadeira Apple" :), não da outra empresa que vende telemóveis a preços indiscritiveis (e que terá quebrado o compromisso de não entrar no mercado da música):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beatles-still-make-day-67000-11348048

(Exemplos de fontes de rendimento: Do filme Eight Days a Week e do jogo Rockband). Não inclui royalties das músicas.

2017-10-29: PM toca no México

... para 48000 pessoas e motiva os mexicanos depois do terramoto:

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Paul_McCartney_lifts_spirits_in_quake-hit_Mexico?profile=1228

2017-11-02: Assassino de JL, livro escrito e Jesus?

Parece que acredita que foi perdoado e escreveu um livro (já vendido):
http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/john-lennon/john-lennon-killer-thinks-jesus-has-forgiven-him/

Citando:
"The unusual item was sold by Eric Holler, who runs a website, known as Serial Killers Ink, that sells pieces from notorious criminals.
Speaking to The Mirror newspaper, Eric explained: "We initially obtained the letter from a private citizen who was a pen pal of
Chapman's.

"I have never been in touch with Chapman myself. It sold about an hour after it was listed on the website. I would love to obtain more
Chapman items as they sell extremely well.""

2017-09-11: Pauta de Eleanor Rigby retirada de leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-41228883

Citando:
"The handwritten score, which is signed by Paul McCartney, was due to be sold later with a guide price of £20,000.

But Omega Auctions in Warrington, Cheshire, said it had removed the lot following a complaint from a woman in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

The auction house said an allegation of theft had been made to Thames Valley Police.

A spokeswoman said the allegation was made following a "family dispute" over the score's ownership."

2017-08-26: Botas de camurça de Ringo (1963) vão a leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-40960525

Citando:
"Unlike the leather boots worn by the rest of the Fab Four, Starr had his own suede versions of the distinctive pointed-toe footwear with a lower heel.

This was so he could use the pedals of his drum kit while performing on stage.

The sale has been organised by The Beatles Shop in Liverpool. Its owner estimates the boots will fetch up to £5,000 in the 26 August auction.

The size-seven boots were given to a family friend by Starr's mother and stepfather in the 1960s and have remained in his possession ever since."

2017-10-26: Fotos nunca vistas de John Lennon de 1970 vão a leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-41761334

Citando:
"The negatives, which date from February 1970, capture Lennon at a pivotal point in his career - The Beatles were breaking up and he had recently released his third single, Instant Karma.

It became the first solo single by a member of the iconic rock band to sell more than a million copies in America.

Ms Glover said the negatives and images taken from them would be on display at the attraction from November, before being auctioned in 2018.

She added that the valuation day had also uncovered a signed Beatles Christmas Show programme from a concert in Bradford in 1963, which was valued at £8,000, and a signed John Lennon postcard, which was estimated to be worth £5,000."

2017-10-26: Fats Domino e Beatles

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/fats-domino-giant-talent-inspired-ska-beatles-bling-89-boogie-woogie

E as reacções de PM:
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/paul-mccartney-writes-touching-tribute-to-fats-domino-a-huge-influence-on-the-beatles-1202599893/

Citando:
"“Rest in peace Fats Domino, the great rock ’n’ roll pianist and singer who thrilled us in our early days in Liverpool,” he writes. “His hit records like ‘Ain’t That A Shame’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘I’m In Love Again’ and many others introduced us to the sounds of New Orleans rock ‘n’ roll. We were excited to meet Fats once in his home town of New Orleans. He was wearing a huge star spangled diamond encrusted watch which was our first encounter with bling! His voice, piano playing and musical style was a huge influence on us and his appearance in the film ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ was truly magnificent. As one of my favourite rock ‘n’ roll singers, I will remember him fondly and always think of him with that twinkle in his eye. I read that he had eight children. He himself was named Antoine. His kids were named Antoine III, Anatole, Andre, Antonio, Antoinette, Andrea, Anola and Adonica. Now that is pure Fats!”"

2017-10-16: The Beatles on the Road (Harry Benson book)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/rarely-seen-beatles-photographs-show-10915957

Citando:
"Previously out-of-print, a new re-edition by publisher Taschen brings back the best of Benson’s black and white Beatles portfolio.

Complemented by quotes and newspaper clippings from the period, an introduction by the photographer himself adds exciting personal testimony to these iconic images of the greatest band in musical history."

2017-10-11: Alan Parsons fala de George Martin e do Let it Be

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/862547/alan-parsons-project-eye-in-the-sky-the-beatles-pink-floyd

Citando:
"He is the go-to producer for established artists who crave his authentic, warm and detailed sound on their recordings.

This is no surprise given that he learned his trade under the tutelage of the late, great Sir George Martin.

He is famous for his deft influence on the sound of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be albums. 

Parsons and his songwriting partner Eric Woolfson achieved major success in the own right with The Alan Parsons Project, selling more than 60 million albums.

And with the 35th-anniversary release of The Alan Parsons Project seminal album Eye In The Sky, Parsons grants Express.co.uk a rare and exclusive interview."

2017-10-09: Google Doodle para John Lennon

... por diversos dias:
https://tecnoblog.net/43208/feliz-aniversario-john-lennon-com-direito-a-doodle/

2017-10-09: Simbolo de paz em record de Guiness?

https://www.publico.pt/2015/09/17/culturaipsilon/noticia/e-o-aniversario-de-john-lennon-e-estao-todos-convidados-1707869

Citando:

"É o aniversário de John Lennon e estão todos convidados

Yoko Ono quer bater um recorde mundial no dia 6 de Outubro: o maior símbolo da paz formado por pessoas pode acontecer no Central Park de Nova Iorque."

2017-10-09: JL faria anos hoje, recordado por Brian May

... dos Queen:
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-05-09/rock-icons-john-lennon-brian-may-the-beatles-queen-lennon

2017-10-07: Beatles na capa da revista Uncut...

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/introducing-new-issue-uncut-9-101767

2017-10-08: Come together e Foo Fighters (e não só)?

http://www.nme.com/news/music/foo-fighters-liam-gallagher-joe-perry-the-beatles-come-together-cover-caljam-festival-2148185

Citação:
"Foo Fighters were joined on stage last night by Liam Gallagher and Aerosmith‘s Joe Perry to perform a cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Come Together’ – watch fan-shot clips of the rendition (...)"

2017-10-06: Liam Gallagher e Sir PM

https://www.joe.co.uk/entertainment/liam-gallagher-shares-a-hilarious-story-of-his-last-meeting-with-sir-paul-mccartney-144417

2017-10-05: Beatles ainda na lista de melhores álbuns (votação)

http://teamrock.com/news/2017-10-05/pink-floyds-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-voted-all-time-greatest-album

Citando:
"The complete Top 10 is:

The Dark Side of The Moon – Pink FloydIV – Led ZeppelinII – Led ZeppelinSgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The BeatlesWish You Were Here – Pink FloydAppetite For Destruction – Guns N' RosesBack In Black – AC/DCAbbey Road - The BeatlesHighway To Hell – AC/DCLed Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

In August, Classic Rock followers on Facebook and Twitter were asked to vote for their favourite albums, and were presented with a 200-strong shortlist, to which they could add. The most popular albums added to the original list were Close To The Edge by Yes and Pink Floyd’s Animals.

Other notable points included both Floyd and The Beatles getting three albums in the top 20, while Led Zeppelin got four. Of rock’s biggest bands, perhaps the Rolling Stones fared worst, with just two albums in the top 50 but none in the top 20."

2017-09-27: Reservar a suite do Bed Peace?

 http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/26/you-can-stay-in-the-suite-where-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-held-their-bed-in-for-peace-6956677/#ixzz4trezsLc3

Citando:
"If you didn’t know, that’s the hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their second bed-in for peace for eight days in 1969, an act of non-violent protest that involved John and Yoko refusing to move from their beds and inviting press in to hear them speak about peace.

They stayed in Suite 1742, which remained open for booking for years afterwards."

2017-10-02: Reacções à morte de Tom Petty

http://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-pay-tribute-to-tom-petty-2146834

Citando:
"As tributes to pour in from Petty’s musical contemporaries (...)
“Sending love to Tom Petty and his family at this difficult time,” McCartney wrote, before adding: “so sad to hear of his passing. What a lovely, intelligent and talented man he was.”

Starr, meanwhile, wrote: “God bless Tom Petty, peace and love to his family”. He added: “I’m sure going to miss you Tom”. See those tweets (...)"

E um artigo da BBC sobre a forma como reagiu (quase sempre compreensivamente) a pessoas com músicas parecidas:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41482121
Citando (BBC e a Rolling Stone):
"Petty told Rolling Stone: "I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock 'n' roll songs sound alike. Ask Chuck Berry.""

2017-09-29: Cítara vendida em leilão por ~50K GBP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4935284/Sitar-played-George-Harrison-sells-47-000.html

Citando:
"In the Beatles Anthologies, he said: ‘We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something.

‘We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the sitar up - it was just lying around.

‘I hadn’t really figured out what to do with it. It was quite spontaneous: I found the notes that played the lick. It fitted and it worked.’

Norwegian Wood was recorded in October 1965, and has noted to kick-start the ‘Great Sitar Explosion’ in rock and roll.

However, this lead to Harrison generating his lifelong passion for Indian music and learning the sitar and growing his interest Hinduism and Indian culture, all occurring after the string broke on his personal instrument while recording.

He became the first Beatle to visit India and travelled to Mumbai to study the sitar with Ravi Shankar in 1966 following the band’s final live concert in San Francisco.

Over the next several months Harrison continued to play the sitar and decided to exchange his older-style ‘crummy-quality one’ with a more sophisticated style designed to play better into microphones.

It was a lifelong passion for the star, since his marriage to first wife Pattie Boyd in January 1966. 

Harrison reportedly gave the sitar to Miss Boyd’s friend George Drummond who hosted them in Barbados for the wedding, while getting a better sitar flown to the island for him."

2017-09-27: PM e Billy Joel juntos ao vivo

http://www.nme.com/news/watch-paul-mccartney-play-beatles-classics-with-billy-joel-2145513

Citando:
"Paul McCartney recently teamed up with Billy Joel at a gig in New York to perform two Beatles classics.

The pair joined forces for ‘Let It Be’ track ‘Get Back’ and ‘Birthday’ from ‘The White Album’ during the concert at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale."

2017-09-21: Yoko Ono processa empresa do John Lemon (bebida)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4510270/yoko-ono-sued-for-john-lennon-name-as-lemon/

2017-09-15: Cítara de George Harrison vai a leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41276669

Citando:
"A sitar owned and played by George Harrison is going to be auctioned in the United States.

The instrument, purchased from a shop on London's Oxford Street in 1965, was used by Harrison during the recording of the Beatles song Norwegian Wood.

The Indian string instrument, crafted by a well-known music shop in Kolkata, was later gifted to a friend of Harrison's first wife, Patti Boyd.

Bidding for the sitar will begin on 28 September at $50,000 (£37,327).

Harrison had discovered the sitar in 1965, on the set of the Beatles' second film, Help.

His love affair with oriental mysticism first made itself known in Norwegian Wood, John Lennon's tale of an extra-marital fling. Acoustic guitar and muted bass were augmented by the Indian instrument."

1967-08-25: Beatles chegam a Bangor

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-41044309

Citando:
"It was not just the press who came - the fans flocked too.

The Beatles stayed in the Normal College, now the university's Management Centre.

Len Jones was one of the gardeners there at the time and said they caused quite a stir.

"I came here at eight o'clock in the morning to start work and there were hundreds of people here. They were singing and they were meditating," he had said previously .

"The Beatles came then, you couldn't move with hundreds of people, especially the girls. And they were all screaming 'Beeeeatles, where are yooooooouuu'?

"The whole college, everybody stopped work for a day or two. It was heaven and it really put Bangor on the map."

But The Beatles would not be in Bangor for long. They arrived on Friday - and on Sunday, the payphone rang in the corridor of the university halls where they were staying.

Eventually, someone answered the phone and Paul McCartney received the news that their manager Brian Epstein had been found dead."

2017-09-10: Paul McCartney ajudou na cirurgia a Dave Grohl

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4868066/Paul-McCartney-organised-Dave-Grohl-leg-surgery.html

2017-08-27: Sobre Brian Epstein

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-invented-pop-music-11059803

2017-08-23: Documentário de 1982 sobre os Beatles?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-compleat-beatles-10-takeaways-from-1982-fab-four-doc-w498816

Citando:
"But one Beatles doc you might not know – and its cause has not been helped by not having an authorized DVD release yet – is 1982's The Compleat Beatles, written by David Silver, directed by Patrick Montgomery, and narrated by Malcolm McDowell, chief droog from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Clocking in at two hours – and titled in the spirit of The Compleat Angler, England's definitive book on fishing, from 1653 – The Compleat Beatles tells the band's entire story, from pre-fame days, with checkpoints at each album, right up through the breakup. It's brimming with keen musical analysis, and a coterie of voices you normally don't get with a Beatles documentary.

For a long time, in the VHS era, it was a staple of high-school music teachers, starting 35 years ago in the summer and fall of '82. If you were lucky enough to have had the TV set wheeled in by a Beatles-mad instructor, you know this is a special film."

2017-08-23: Telecaster de George Harrison (Limited Edition)

Por "apenas" 2499 USD:
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/26196-fender-releases-limited-edition-george-harrison-rosewood-telecaster

Citando:
"The George Harrison Rosewood Telecaster is inspired by the guitar that Fender built specifically for him in 1968. As the brainchild of Fender luthier Roger Rossmeisl and the finished product of Philip Kubicki, the instrument instantly gained significance as it was the first all-rosewood guitar ever to be produced by Fender and was unveiled in the hands of the world’s most recognized guitarist. Harrison used the rosewood Telecaster while recording some of the most recognizable music of the late 1960s and famously played it during the historic London “Rooftop Concert” in January of 1969. Hand-crafted using the most up-to-date luthier techniques, this new edition is more accessible than the Fender Custom Shop’s George Harrison Tribute Rosewood Telecaster® released in 2016, and provides more fans with the opportunity to celebrate the iconic star."

Na Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074ZQJ4L8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl

2017-08-21: Original de Eleanor Rigby vai a leilão

Escrito a lápis. E a campa também. A campa?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/21/eleanor-rigbys-grave-deeds-to-be-auctioned-with-beatles-song-score

Citando:
"Theoretically, then, whoever buys the deeds could be buried alongside the Rigby family in seven years’ time.

The score, handwritten in pencil, is signed by producer George Martin and McCartney and notes that the song was to be recorded in Abbey Road Studio number two and was to include four violins, two violas and two cellos.

The two lots will be among items on sale at the Beatles Memorabilia Auction to be held in Warrington on 11 September."

2017-08-10: Ringo Starr fala de novo Álbum (que sai em Setembro)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/ringo-starr-talks-new-lp-future-deluxe-beatles-albums-w496783

2017-08-08: Carta aberta de John Lennon a Cynthia vai a leilão

http://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lennon-yoko-ono-divorce-letter-2122463

Citação:
"The open letter to his ex-wife Cynthia was written in 1976 in response to claims in her first book about him

John Lennon disputed that Yoko Ono was to blame for the end of his first marriage in a newly discovered letter."
(...)
"The note was written in 1976 in response to excerpts from Powell’s book, A Twist Of Lennon, being published in the News Of The World, as Billboard reports. It is titled “An open letter to Cynthia Twist”, referring to her new name following her third marriage to John Twist.

“Dear Cynthia,” it began. “As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. or Yoko Ono… and that’s reality!

“Your memory is impaired to say the least. Your version of our first L.S.D. trip is rather vague, and you seem to have forgotten subsequent trips altogether!”"

2017-08-08: Mais sobre o Rolls de John Lennon

https://arstechnica.co.uk/cars/2017/08/picture-yourself-in-john-lennons-psychedelic-rolls/

Citando:
"Lennon had the Phantom V customized in true rock-star style. The rear seat was converted to a double bed, a television, telephone, and refrigerator were installed, along with a 'floating' record player and a custom sound system (which included an external loud hailer). Then, in April 1967, just as the recording of the game-changing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was finishing, Lennon asked Surrey coachbuilders, JP Fallon, to give the Phantom a new paint job. The freshly-painted Phantom was unveiled days before the worldwide release of Sgt. Pepper's on 1 June, and it seemed part of the overall concept of the album.

The new color scheme is often described as 'psychedelic' and certainly the colors, particularly the dominant yellow, reflected the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But look carefully and you will see it is no random swirl, but a floral Romany scroll design, as used on gypsy caravans and canal barges, with a zodiac symbol on the roof."

2017-08-03: PM em novo disco de Foo Fighters

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-plays-drums-on-upcoming-foo-fighters-lp-w495625

Citando:
"Foo Fighters recruited Paul McCartney to play drums on one track from their upcoming ninth LP, Concrete and Gold. In a new interview with ET Canada, in which Dave Grohl called the Beatle "the most wonderful guy in the world," the band detailed how quickly the collaboration came together."

2017-07-29: PM tem música nova sobre Trump?

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/paul-mccartney-explains-hes-written-13402339

2017-07-28: A história do Rolls Royce de John Lennon

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/john-lennons-phantom-v-the-psychedelic-beatle-mobile-w494054

Citação:
""You swine! How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!" So screamed an outraged Englishwoman as John Lennon's Phantom V cruised past on London's posh Piccadilly promenade in the summer of 1967. The ornately decorated limousine, sprayed an electric yellow and bedecked with colorful floral tendrils, Romany scrolls and zodiac symbols like a hallucinatory gypsy caravan, so offended her sensibilities that she briefly attacked it with an umbrella – or at least that's the way Lennon always told the story."

2017-07-27: RS e a sua música nova com PM (e não só)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-ringo-starrs-new-song-with-paul-mccartney-joe-walsh-w494309

Citando:
"Ringo Starr celebrates goofing off on the tour bus and "[kicking] ass" onstage in his new all-star track "We're on the Road Again," featuring rock icons Paul McCartney, the Eagles' Joe Walsh (Starr's brother-in-law), Edgar Winter and the song's co-writer, Toto's Steve Lukather."

2017-07-24: Última aparição de George Harrison na TV (VH1)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-harrison-last-tv-interview/

Citando:
"When George Harrison stopped by to plug a new project for his old friend Ravi Shankar on July 24, 1997, it was almost as if he somehow knew this would be his last TV appearance. Sparked by an intuitive line of questioning by VH1’s John Fugelsang, Harrison turned expansive on his faith and what happens when we die.

Most of that, as you’d expect, was initially left on the cutting-room floor, as VH1 chose to focus instead on the musical portion of their conversation. Harrison was diagnosed with throat cancer later that year, and during the period before he died, the network reedited the former Beatles star’s segment to include his meditation on death.

VH1 then aired the expanded version on the day Harrison died, finally giving full voice to a remarkably deep conversation on the nature of death and salvation. Song performances included “Any Road,” a previously unheard number that later appeared on 2002’s Brainwashed; “If You Belonged to Me,” from the Traveling Wilburys‘ 1990 album, Vol. 3; and, most touchingly, the title track from All Things Must Pass."

2017-07-24: O contabilista dos Beatles

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-fortune/beatles-accountant-50-years-scruffy-boys-didnt-want-pay-tax/

2017-07-20: DF autografado vai a leilão de novo

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-mark-chapman-autographed-album/

Citando:
"One of rock’s more upsetting and morbid pieces of memorabilia is up for sale again.

The copy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s 1980 album Double Fantasy that Lennon autographed for his assassin just hours before being murdered is being sold by its current owner, with the exchange being brokered by Moments in Time, the same agency that handled its previous sale. According to the New York Daily News, the asking price is $1.5 million.

“It’s the most incredible artifact in rock ‘n’ roll history. There’s no question,” Moments in Time owner Gary Ziamet told the paper. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to sell it once again.”

Discovered behind a planter box after Lennon’s murder and used as a key piece of evidence in the trial, the copy of the album includes police reports and the killer’s “forensically enhanced fingerprints” as well as Lennon’s autograph. Photos of the LP, along with further background information regarding its history, can be seen at the Moments in Time sale listing."

2017-07-20: Sobre o WDWDIITR

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/why-dont-we-do-it-in-the-road-the-beatles-sex

Citando:
"As McCartney explained when – understandably – interviewers wondered why anyone would ever write a song like that, perhaps there is something admirable in the straightforward way the monkey goes about its business. “That’s how simple the act of procreation is, that bloody monkey hopping on and hopping off,” he said. “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? could have applied to either fucking or shitting, to put it roughly. Why don’t we do either of them in the road?”

Had someone failed to give him a satisfactory reason as to why both of those things were unacceptable, McCartney would presumably have cut a rather different figure in his old age, breathlessly making love and openly defecating on the M4. But we only have time to tackle the first of McCartney’s two gripes here, and it’s an important one: why aren’t more of us enthusiastically banging in the street?"

2017-07-15: A relação de John Lennon e a Rolling Stone

A importância de John Lennon para a revista Rolling Stone e as entrevistas e capas:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/50th-anniversary-john-lennon-history-with-rolling-stone-magazine-w491961

Citando:
"Flashback: Inside John Lennon's Long History With Rolling Stone

John Lennon was the 'North Star' for 'Rolling Stone' since the magazine's earliest days, and his interviews in these pages made news around the world."
(...)
"A year later, Wenner heard record stores were selling Two Virgins in a plain brown wrapper, since Lennon and Ono appeared naked on the album's cover. Rolling Stone editor emeritus Ralph Gleason suggested the magazine contact Beatles publicist Derek Taylor and ask to see the images in full. "They said OK and sent it over," says Wenner. "It was as simple as that."

The cover – accompanied by an interview by Jonathan Cott – caused a national scandal. Featuring Lennon and Ono naked from behind (the full-frontal shots were inside), it hit newsstands on November 23rd, 1968. A New Jersey postmaster general stopped issues from going to East Coast subscribers. One San Francisco newsstand employee was arrested for selling obscene material. (nude beat-le perils s.f., declared a San Francisco Chronicle headline soon after.) Wenner was exuberant. "The point is this," he wrote in the next issue. "Print a famous foreskin and the world will beat a path to your door.""

2017-07-07: Retrospectiva da carreira de Ringo Starr

"Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs

A crash course in the last 45 years of the most under-appreciated Beatle":

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/meet-the-beatle-a-guide-to-ringo-starr-s-solo-career-in-20-songs-20150325

2017-07-16: Fotos de JL e GH vão a leilão dia 16

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4674450/Unseen-photos-John-Lennon-George-Harrison.html
Citando:
"Pictures taken in July 1971, a month before New York Concert for Bangladesh 
The intimate pictures are expected to fetch more than £3,000 at an auction 

Candid photographs showing John Lennon and George Harrison reuniting a year after the Beatles split are set to go under the hammer. 

The intimate photos were taken by a music executive in a New York apartment where Harrison asked his former bandmate to perform in a landmark charity concert he was putting on for refugees in Bangladesh.

But soon after the pictures were taken things turned sour between the pair, as the meeting sparked a row between Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono."

2017-07-14: Rolls Royce de John Lennon volta a Londres

... Para o aniversário de Sgt. Pepper's:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lennon-rolls-royce-london-display-psychedelic-2110104

Citando:
"Lennon’s vehicle will return to the UK later this month for a new exhibition in London. The Great Eight Phantoms exhibition will run from 29 July to 2 August at Bonhams on 101 New Bond Street – more information about the exhibition can be found here."

2017-07-07: Música de novo álbum de RS no Spotify

Álbum sai em Outubro e toca nele PM se bem se recordam:
https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/07/ringo-starr-recruits-paul-mccartney-for-new-album-give-more-love-shares-title-track-listen/

2017-07-07: PM fala de nova fase da tournée nos EUA

3h de espectáculo com 75 anos, a tocar e cantar a sério (não como outros) é obra... Detalhes em entrevista à RS:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/paul-mccartney-on-touring-beatles-hits-kanye-and-jay-z-w490158

2017-06: Beatles no top da Billboard 50 anos depois

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-beatles-sgt-pepper-50th-billboard-20170605-story.html

Citando:
"The Beatles are once again in the upper reaches of the Billboard 200 albums chart as the 50^thanniversary edition of the group’s 1967 classic, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” jumped to No. 3 a week after the release of the new stereo remix.

In terms of total equivalent sales factoring in streams, “Sgt. Pepper” logged 75,000 sales last week, behind only rapper Bryson Tiller’s “True to Self,” which tops the chart with equivalent sales of almost 107,000 copies, and Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn.,” at No. 2 on sales of 84,000 copies."

2017-07-02: PM chega a acordo sobre direitos de músicas

http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/06/30/sony-beatles-copyright/

Os detalhes do acordo não são ainda conhecidos. Mas PM ganhou enquanto os Duran Duran perderam. O que pode indicar uma mudança na indústria.

2017-06-29: When other bands copy the Let It Be cover.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/6k2wfz/when_other_bands_copy_the_let_it_be_cover/

2017-06-27: Quem não gosta de Imagine?

Agora que Yoko Ono é autora, há muito mais pessoas que não gostam de Imagine.
E havia antes este senhor, que se refere à canção de uma forma muito, mas muito negativa.
É só ele que acha isto?

Is John Lennon’s Imagine patronisingly sappy, or a moving meditation on hope? | Bridget Minamore and Peter Aspden | Opinion | The Guardian

2017-06-25: Stella McCartney proud of Blackbird

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40398365

2017-06-22: Brexit and Imagine / Let it Be?

Nahhhh...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-tusk-channels-john-lennon-10669609

2017-06-21: ER guitar cover

http://societyofrock.com/young-man-tackles-eleanor-rigby-all-by-himself-and-the-result-would-make-the-beatles-proud/

2017-06-21: UB40 e cover dos Beatles?

Parece que sim (em 2008): "I'll Be Back" foi regravado por esta banda que vem agora a Portugal. 

• http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/ub40
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwentyFourSeven_(UB40_album)
• http://aurinegra.pt/ub40-substituem-the-cranberries-na-expofacic/ (aonde se ouviu falar desta cover)

2017-06-19: Let it be a cappela

Versão interessante do Let it Be:
http://www.viralmirror.com/gentri-church-cover-beatles-let-it-be/

2017-06-18: PM aos 75 (Time, Life)

Artigo da Time sobre os 75 anos de PM. E na capa da Life (foto no artigo abaixo):

Paul McCartney: Legendary Beatles Member Turns 75 | Time.com

Citando:

"There’s a curious sensation to realizing that Paul McCartney — the lad of lads, the Beatles precocious imp, Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft — is turning 75 years old. Though it may be odder still to imagine a world without him. For more than 50 of those years he has not been simply Paul McCartney (or, since 1997, Sir Paul) but a Beatle, a known phenomenon in all hemispheres, a star of absurd magnitude, and, soon after, a man of absurd wealth. The Beatles last played before a paying audience in 1966. The band recorded together for the final time in ’69.

And for everything that McCartney has accomplished since — the 12 Grammy nominations; the six No. 1 hits with the Wings in the 1970s; the platinum chart-toppers with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder in the 1980s; the jaunt into classical composition; performing at Buckingham Palace; his 2015 recording (hey there, kids) with Kanye and Rihanna — a Beatle he will always be, defined by those prolific, god-given, glorious years of the Fab Four’s prime. Paul wrote “Yesterday” when he was 22."

E o artigo da wikipedia (EN) sobre este mito vivo ;) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

2017-06-18: Steve Howe e a altura do Sgt. Pepper's

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2017/06/15/tomorrow-beatles-steve-howe/

Citando:
"That is the approach I took when talking with Steve about Tomorrow. The link below navigates to the conversation that I conducted for the two Tomorrow releases, including an introduction of each of those albums. At the time, it struck me how the songs on Tomorrow’s only studio album from 1967 mirrored some of the concepts from Sgt. Pepper’s, and I discussed that with Steve. In addition, there is information about the direct interaction between the two bands. (One point of interest that didn’t come up: Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick also contributed his talents to the Tomorrow production.)

Overall, the content is a companion piece of sorts to the era that is described in the book from the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band box set. This conversation may appeal to those interested in Tomorrow even without having read the box set’s book.

There have been some minor edits made to the original posting that the reader won’t miss, like fixing run-on sentences that at the time I was reluctant to eliminate in an effort to preserve each and every word Steve said. But there is one new set of additions that I felt would be largely beneficial, and that is the inclusion of YouTube videos to help provide some context to Steve Howe’s comments. These appear as embedded windows, and as links within the text."

2017-06-16: Letra de canção de GH sobre Starr encontrada por viúva

Olivia Harrison, espera que PM e RD gravem a música. Sentada?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3818336/george-harrisons-widow-lost-beatles-song-ringo-starr/

Citando:
"George is thought to have written it as a plea for the band to stay together around the time of their 1970 split.

She told of Ringo’s shock — and said she hopes the star, 76, and fellow surviving Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, 74, put it to music.

She said: “He’d never seen this song before. He was so surprised. There was a folder in George’s piano bench."

2017-06-16: PM na lista de honra da Rainha de Inglaterra

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/ed-sheeran-emeli-sande-and-sir-paul-mccartney-get-royal-approval-in-the-queens-birthday-honours__19441/

Citando:
"The three stars have been recognised in Her Majesty the Queen's Birthday Honours' List, which rewards the achievements and services of British people from all walks of life who contribute to society.

Emeli, Ed and Sir Paul will all be taking a trip to Buckingham Palace to accept their honours, awarded to them for the contribution they have made to British music at home and abroad."

2017-06-16: Ono creditada como autora de Imagine

https://startsat60.com/trending/news/john-lennons-wish-for-yoko-ono-finally-answered

Citando:
"The National Music Publisher’s Association (NMPA) has announced that Ono will be given a writing credit on Lennon’s biggest solo hit ‘Imagine’, 47 years after it was released.

The announcement, made at a ceremony in New York overnight, comes years after Lennon admitted he regretted failing to credit his wife as a writer on the track, saying he let his ego get in the way."

2017-05-31: Beatles na capa de Les Inrockuptibles No.1122 (revista francesa)

Beatles na capa de Les Inrockuptibles No.1122 (revista francesa) com artigo de diversas páginas por ocasião dos 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's.

2017-05-31: Réplica de Cavern Club construída com materiais reutilizados

O que um fã consegue com muito amor e pouco dinheiro:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/beatles-fan-turns-garden-shed-10511879

2017-06-10: Beatles voltam aos tops (Billboard)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7825681/13-things-charts-this-week-bryson-tiller-beatles

Citando:
"5. Over on the Billboard 200, The Beatles'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandreturns at No. 3 following its 50th anniversary re-issue. Plus, two Gregg Allman-related albums make gains following his death. Read this week's full Billboard 200 Chart Moves notebook."

2017-06-06: Imagem recortada usada na capa de Sgt. Pepper's vai a leilão

... Poucas foram vendidas e esta é a única que foi assinada por Peter Blake (foto no artigo):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-cutout-from-beatles-sgt-pepper-up-for-auction-w486086

Sítio do leilão:
https://m.paddle8.com/auction/the-beatles/

2017-06-06: PM e Stevie Wonder no top com EaI (35 anos)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mccartney-stevie-wonder-ebony-and-ivory/

Citando:
"The song in question, “Ebony and Ivory,” was demoed in late 1980 and developed during the sessions for McCartney’s third solo album, 1982’s Tug of War. With lyrics using the piano as a metaphor for ideal race relations, the song seemed like a natural for the duet treatment — and McCartney immediately knew who he wanted for a partner. “I wanted to sing it with a black guy,” he later recalled. “And my first thought was Stevie.”

Phoned by McCartney, Wonder quickly agreed. “I listened to the song, and I liked it very much,” said Wonder. “I felt it was positive for everybody. I won’t say it demanded of people to reflect upon it, but it politely asks the people to reflect upon life in using the terms of music … this melting pot of many different people.”

The duo convened at AIR Studios in Montserrat under the guidance of producer George Martin, who helmed the Tug of War sessions, and cut a pair of duets for the record — “What’s That You’re Doing?” and “Ebony and Ivory,” which would make its way to radio in late March as the album’s lead single. (Though McCartney and Wonder recorded in person, their schedules kept them from filming the “Ebony and Ivory” video together — they had to be spliced into the frame via editing magic.)"

2017-06-05: Sgt Pepper’s Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall review

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/05/sgt-peppers-musical-revolution-howard-goodall-review-untold-treasures

2017-06-01: Sgt. Pepper's faz 50 anos (edição de 2 CDs e 1 CD já nas lojas desde final de Maio)

Faz hoje 50 anos da edição em UK do Sgt. Pepper's: já meti as mãos e os ouvidos há uns 2 dias na edição comemorativa (2 CDs). E apesar de muito do que vem no CD circular por aí há anos, é sempre interessante de ouvir (remisturado e remasterizado). Para quem nunca ouviu é interessante para perceber o quão bons (e discretos) músicos os Beatles eram. Ouve-se layers e layers de percussão e outros instrumentos (alguns desaparecem com a mistura final no uníssono que se torna) e só quem já brincou com gravações (como eu e muitos outros) sabe dar valor ao difícil que é no final tudo soar coerente e coeso.
Uma versão das cordas do SLH é também interessante (a somar à do Eleanor Rigby da Anthology). E as versões remasterizadas do SFF e do PL estão mais fresquinhas. Entre aspas. Bonito de se (ou)ver.

2017-05-22: Poster dos Beatles da Mary Hopkins vendido por 28K GBP

Mary Hopkin's Beatles poster sells for £28k at auction - BBC News

2017-05-24: Keith Richards ajudou Paul McCartney a aparecer no "Pirates 5"

How Keith Richards helped Paul McCartney land his Pirates 5 cameo (exclusive)

2017-05-24: A história do estranho que assistiu à gravação do FAH

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/when-jesus-dropped-by-beatles-fixing-a-hole-sessions-w482068

2017-05-21: Livro defende que JL foi assassinado pela CIA

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/615684/Beatles-john-lennon-killed-CIA-mark-david-chapman-fbi-usa-new-york-sgt-peppers

Citando:
"An explosive book suggests the Beatles megastar was murdered by US intelligence agencies in a chilling attempt to halt Lennon’s support of “leftist” and “radical” politics.

John Potash’s Drugs as Weapons Against Us states that crime agencies allegedly tracked various high-profile pop stars before their untimely deaths, claiming their huge influence effectively brainwashed young Americans to follow a “leftist agenda”."

2017-05-17: Os melhores livros sobre os Beatles (pela RS)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/10-best-beatles-books-20160504/here-there-and-everywhere-my-life-recording-the-beatles-by-geoff-emerick-20160421

2017-05-17: História da gravação de WALHFMF

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-beatles-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-w482062

Citando:
""I always saw those [songs] as the equivalent of writing a James Bond film theme," McCartney explained in Barry Miles' biography, Many Years From Now. "It was a challenge. It was something out of the ordinary for us because we actually had to write in a key for Ringo and you had to be a little tongue in cheek." Like school kids, the songwriting partners procrastinated on the assignment until the last possible moment. Starr's track would be the last one composed for the album."

2017-05-16: Filme sobre época do Sgt. Pepper's (Crítica)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/was-fifty-years-today-beatles-sgt-pepper-beyond-review-1003725

Citando:
"In  fairness, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! is not wholly devoid of interest, especially for forensic Fab Four fans. Lengthy archive newsreel clips give an intriguing sense of life inside the Beatlemania bubble just as the band were in transition from moptop pop minstrels to planet-shaking rock aristocrats. The chapter on Epstein's death also has a pleasing journalistic rigor that is lacking elsewhere. Yanked out of a meditation retreat with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to hear the news, Lennon's shell-shocked reaction still feels raw five decades later. "There's no such thing as death anyway," George Harrison argues. "There's death on a physical level, but life goes on everywhere."

More earthly insights into Epstein's death come in a contemporary interview with Simon Napier-Bell, a budding pop impresario in Sixties London who later went on to manage Wham! and many other artists. After spurning repeated sexual advances from Epstein, Napier-Bell came home from a weekend in Dublin to find several bleary messages that the tormented Beatles manager had left on his prototype answerphone machine the very night he died. "I did the stupid, British, correct thing and immediately erased the tape," Napier-Bell says ruefully.

In visual terms, Parker tries to compensate for a dearth of fresh Beatles material with small stylistic flourishes. Trippy animated credits invoke the surreal look of Yellow Submarine (...)"

2017-05-12: Filmagens durante o filme Help! aparecem

... nos arquivos de um dos autores (já falecido):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/12/unseen-footage-of-the-beatles-during-filming-of-help-emerges-after-50-years

Citando:
"Unseen footage of the Beatles larking around as they filmed a movie in the Austrian Alps has emerged after being stored in a garage for more than 50 years.

The footage, entitled Snow Scenes, was taken by the late actor Leo McKern, best known as Rumpole of the Bailey on ITV between 1978-92.

In 1965, McKern was in the Richard Lester-directed film Help! along with the Beatles, playing a cult supervillain called Clang who is after the ring on Ringo’s finger.

A keen amateur photographer and filmmaker, McKern caught the Beatles relaxed and off guard as they prepared to film scenes in the ski resort of Obertauern.

“It is unseen footage of people who were, at that time, the most famous people on earth,” said the actor Neil Pearson, who is also a rare books dealer. “It is footage of golden age Beatles, fooling around between takes, waiting for something to happen ... I know that feeling.”"

2017-05-04: How the Star Wars/Sgt. Peppers Mashup Recreated the Beatles Sound | Inverse

Interesting info (did you see the mashup?):
How the Star Wars/Sgt. Peppers Mashup Recreated the Beatles Sound | Inverse

2017-05-11: Apartamento usado por GH e RS (tour de 1964) para arrendar

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4495294/Ringo-Starr-George-Harrison-s-former-flat-rent.html

Citando:
"Apartment in Knightsbridge was home to the legendary music stars during their first world tour in 1964 

It is where the Beatles met for a cup of tea before travelling to Buckingham Palace to receive their MBEs 

The pair, who shared the Whaddon House flat with George’s future wife, Pattie Boyd, moved into the property after it was recommended to them by their manager, Brian Epstein, who lived upstairs to keep an eye on them."

2017-05-04: Video: The unbelievable full-album Sgt. Pepper/Star Wars mash-up - Hot Air Hot Air

Very Good for Star War fans, interesting effort for Beatles fans: We must admit that the look-alike sound and lyrics turned out interesting. Only true Star Wars (and Beatles') fan could do this:

• Video: The unbelievable full-album Sgt. Pepper/Star Wars mash-up - Hot Air Hot Air

2017-05-02: Rascunho da capa de Sgt. Pepper's por JL vai a leilão

http://nerdist.com/john-lennon-sketch-beatles-sgt-peppers-album-cover-auction/

Citando:
"The auction site notes that “it is unknown how this undated drawing figures into the history of the album cover and Lennon’s involvement.” That said, this drawing does look a lot like what the final album art ended up as, so perhaps this was a final stage of the band deciding on the layout with each other, or perhaps he was just quickly showing a confidante what his band’s next album would look like. Whatever the case, the illustration was found in a sketchbook by the owners of Lennon’s former home in Surrey, England, and it’s a pretty neat piece of newly discovered music history."

Paul McCartney Sgt. Pepper Exclusive: “It Was A Risk!” | MOJO

Paul McCartney Sgt. Pepper Exclusive: “It Was A Risk!” | MOJO

Citando:

"PAUL McCARTNEY HELPS MOJO celebrate 50 years of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with an exclusive interview in the magazine that hits UK shops on Tuesday, April 25. He recalls the circumstances surrounding the group’s most groundbreaking album and gives his verdict on the new stereo mix designed to add legs to one of popular music’s key benchmarks.

(...) How dare Beatles band go all weird?

“We were always being told, ‘You’re gonna lose all your fans with this one.’” McCartney tells MOJO. “And we’d say, ‘Well, we’ll lose some but we’ll gain some.’ We’ve gotta advance.”

In 1967 The Beatles ran the gauntlet of a media gripped in a moral panic over the younger generation’s embrace of drugs, and others who regarded Pepper’s stylistic smorgasbord and hints of thematic coherence as evincing ideas above the group’s station. The Lovable Moptops stereotype died hard.

“We were always being told, ‘You’re gonna lose all your fans with this one.’”

“Sgt. Pepper did actually get a terrible review in the New York Times,” recalls McCartney. “The critic [Richard Goldstein] said he hated it, thought it was a terrible mess, and then he was on the streets all week and heard the talk, heard what people were saying, and he took it back [in a subsequent Village Voice piece], recanted after a week: ‘Er… maybe it’s not so bad.’ But we were used to that. She Loves You was ‘banal’. But if we liked it and thought it was cool, we would go for it.

“…I mean, George doing Within You Without You,” continues McCartney, “a completely Indian record – it was nothing anyone had heard before, at least in this context. It was a risk, and we were aware of that.”

But even given Sgt. Pepper’s subsequent rise to peerless status, there’s one aspect of the record that has consistently drawn flak, even (perhaps especially) from fans.

(...) “The original stereo mix is a bit of a period piece,” McCartney concedes. “You’ve got the drums in one corner. You’ve got the vocals in another corner. We would be at listening parties, have some mates around and I’d go, ‘Listen to the drums on this, man!’ …and you couldn’t hear ’em. Oh! They’re over there in the other corner of the room.”

That’s been addressed in the reissue of Sgt. Pepper that’s due on the streets on May 26. A muscular new Giles Martin stereo mix returns the Beatles’ drums and vocals to central positions reminiscent of the original mono mix, and gets McCartney’s seal of approval.

“‘Muscular’ is a good word,” he agrees. “It sounds more like us playing in the room and more like we intended it.”"

2017-04-19: Documentário BBC sobre o Sgt. Pepper's

http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/new-bbc-documentary-to-mark-50-years-since-beatles-sgt-pepper-s-lonely-hearts-club-band-a3524116.html

Citando:
"Out-takes and previously unheard material from the recording of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will feature in a new documentary marking 50 years since the Beatles’ landmark album was released.

The documentary, presented by composer Howard Goodall, will show how the band made one of the most influential albums of all time and include alternative versions of its famous songs.

It is part of a new season of programmes on BBC2 "

2002-11-29: Something no concerto de homenagem a GH (Vídeo)

http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/watch-eric-clapton-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-perform-something/31094

Citando:
"On November 29, 2002, the first anniversary of George Harrison's death, an impressive assemblage of the former Beatle's band mates, family members and buddies gathered at London's Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute to his life and music.

That event—which was released in 2003 as The Concert for George—featured performances by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and many others."

2017-04-20: A última sessão de gravação de Sgt. Pepper's

...Foi para gravar a Sgt. Pepper's Inner Groove. Ao que parece em vários dias. O YouTube reproduz esta magia que só saiu na prensagem do RU:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-complete-sgt-pepper-runoff-groove/

2017-04-17: PM vai tocar no Brasil em Outubro

http://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/radar-cultural/paul-mccartney-toca-no-brasil-em-outubro-diz-jornal/

Citando:
"Brasil na comemoração dos 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, de acordo com a coluna de Ancelmo Gois no jornal O Globo. Os shows no Brasil devem acontecer em outubro – e um deles seria na Bahia, onde o músico nunca tocou.

No início do mês, o jornal Destak também trouxe a informação da passagem do ex-Beatle por aqui em 2017."

2009-09-06: A história (e a capa de um dos discos) de Penina

A canção oferecida por PM aos Jotta Herre e também gravada por Carlos Mendes no Hotel Penina:
https://www.google.pt/amp/www.dn.pt/gente/interior/amp/a-cancao-que-nasceu-num-bar-de-hotel-1354450.html

Citando:
"Os Jotta Herre ainda tentaram que ele tocasse baixo, mas McCartney optou pela bateria. "Ficámos a tocar até às 3.30 da manhã", contou Flamínio, hoje representante da editora Universal Music no Porto.

Juntos tocaram vários standards. Mas no final da noite McCartney quis dar "um presente" a este grupo de músicos do Porto. "Antes de se ir embora ele disse: vou-me embora mas antes vou oferecer-vos uma música. Sentou-se ao piano e em pouco tempo compôs Penina", contou José Carlos Flamínio. O antigo músico dos Jotta Herre lembra que na altura "o bar ficou cheio porque as pessoas aperceberam-se que o que estávamos a tocar era diferente do habitual e quando desciam dos quartos viam Paul McCartney".

Depressa esta "brincadeira" chegou aos jornais ingleses. "Na altura estava no Penina Henry Cotton, famoso jogador de golf e correspondente de um jornal inglês (Daily Express). Pouco depois  escreveu que McCartney tinha dado uma gorjeta de milhares de contos aos Jotta Herre", lembrou Luís Pinheiro de Almeida.  Essa "gorjeta" valia mais precisamente 6600 contos, o valor que na altura se estimava que tinha cada canção dos Beatles.

O próprio Paul McCartney escreveu na Club Sandwich (revista do seu antigo clube de fãs): "Nunca pensei eu próprio em gravá-la". Mas esta canção gerou alguns problemas: "Em Londres gerou um grande sururu, porque havia imensa confusão com a venda do catálogo das Northern Songs para a ATV e ainda estava tudo muito nebuloso", contou Luís Pinheiro de Almeida."

2016-04-17: Mais um artigo sobre o preview de Sgt. Pepper's

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-unheard-sgt-pepper-outtakes-exclusive-first-listen-w476067

Citando:

"The box has alternate takes of each song — in some cases drastically different and all offering revelatory insights into the most legendary of rock masterpieces. It's the first time the Beatles have opened their vaults and released new recordings since Anthology.

The new remix has long been craved by hardcore Beatle heads, who have always complained about the diffuse stereo mix. The mono version was the one George Martin, engineer Geoff Emerick and the band spent weeks mixing — but the stereo version was rushed out without the Beatles even there in the room. "They were trying to create this immersive world that the stereo didn't have," Giles Martin says now. "Nobody paid much attention to the stereo mix. What we did was work out what they were doing in the mono mix and apply it to stereo."

No matter how well you know the album, this remix is full of nuances any fan will notice, especially the bottom end —Ringo’s kick drum really reveals new dimensions. It's a tribute to the band and their producer."

2017-04-16: Beatles no Alasca?

Sim, aparentemente estiveram lá duas vezes:
https://www.adn.com/arts/2017/04/15/what-was-it-like-to-be-13-when-the-beatles-came-to-anchorage-a-new-screenplay-explores-just-that/

Citando:
"The reason the band landed in Anchorage on June 27, 1966, varies depending on whom you ask. According to some, the jet, which was heading to Japan, stopped in Alaska to dodge a typhoon. Others say it was a planned refueling stop extended because of mechanical problems.

A brief history of the Beatles' (brief) time in Alaska:
https://www.adn.com/culture/article/brief-history-beatles-brief-time-alaska/2014/07/06/

The Beatles were wrapping up their last tour ever and were reportedly irritable and bored during their brief stay at the former Anchorage Westward Hotel, now the Hilton."

E um guião à espera de financiamento para se tornar num filme sobre esse dia em que as mães das adolescentes as fecharam em casa para não irem ter com os Beatles:

Citando:
"In her screenplay "Revolver," Kate Trefry captures an extraordinary day in the life of Anchorage.

"It's based on my mom and her friends' experience when the Beatles landed in Anchorage in 1966," said Trefry, 30, who is from Anchorage. "My mom was 13, so my grandma locked her in the house like a lot of moms did. But a few of her friends escaped and went to the hotel where the Beatles were staying and actually got to the floor where their room was, but didn't see them.""
(...)
"As for "Revolver," the Fab Four's unannounced Anchorage visit provided Trefry with plenty of material both real and imagined."

2017-04-14: A história de "In Spite of All Danger"

Uma canção McCartney-Harrison (autoria que nunca se iria repetir mais) e que pode ser ouvida no Anthology 1:
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2017/04/14/beatles-in-spite-of-all-the-danger/

Citando:
"Today, critics often dismiss “In Spite of All the Danger,” with Unterberger calling it “not that much” and “a routine doo wop-like early rock ‘n’ roll ballad.” In his review of Anthology 1, Mojo‘s Mat Snow writes that the song “gives no inkling of the band who would cut ‘Love Me Do’, never mind ‘A Day In The Life.'”

Clearly, McCartney retains affection for the track: He occasionally performs it livein concert, particularly during his 2005 world tour and the television special Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road.

Just four years after the primitive recording of “In Spite of All the Danger,” the renamed Beatles would record “Love Me Do” at Abbey Road Studios and launch their career. Their artistic growth developed rapidly, and this 1958 song is a baby step in their journey."

2011-06-17: Entrevista de PM à RS (2011)

Entrevista de PM sobre o sucesso de Beatles 1, Linda, GH e a namorada de então (H. Mills):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-on-beatles-1-losing-linda-and-being-in-new-york-on-september-11th-20110617

2017-04-1౩: Há 52 anos Help foi gravada

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/help-19691231

2017-04-11: As 20 melhores canções de GH (com vídeo)

Estas listas são sempre listas... Conhecem todas?
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/the-20-best-george-harrison-songs.html?a=1

2017-04-11: Julian Lennon e a pena branca?

Bom não ouvir Julian falar do período mau com o pai. Agora fala de... Penas brancas. Mas as causas são nobres, justiça seja feita:
http://www.today.com/parents/julian-lennon-sign-he-got-dad-john-lennon-t110285

Citando:
"It was a pretty normal request, until one of the tribal leaders presented Julian with a white swan's feather.

Julian, son of John Lennon, felt goosebumps wash over him.

"Dad had said to me that if there was a way of letting me know that he was going to be all right, or that we were all going to be all right, it would be in the form of a white feather," he told TODAY Parents.

That was two decades ago, and since then, Julian — a talented photographer, musician, filmmaker and now author — has been raising money for the White Feather Foundation to help support environmental and humanitarian causes."

2016-04-10: Os takes alternativos da reedição do Sgt. Pepper's

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-unheard-sgt-pepper-outtakes-exclusive-first-listen-w476067

2017-04-07: Inside the Beatles’ Lost ‘Sgt. Pepper’-Era Track ‘Carnival of Light’

Inside the Beatles’ Lost ‘Sgt. Pepper’-Era Track ‘Carnival of Light’

Citando:
"But there’s one track recorded during the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions that’s a holy grail of sorts for fans: an experimental piece from early 1967 called “Carnival of Light,” which can be thought of as a precursor to the White Album‘s “Revolution 9.” (There were rumors that the song would finally get an official release on Sgt. Pepper‘s expanded reissue, but it didn’t show up there.)

The song was created for two events that were being held at London’s Roundhouse Theatre on Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 that was alternately known as both the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave or the Carnival of Light Rave. David Vaughan, who was promoting the happenings, asked Paul McCartney to contribute some music, and the Beatle agreed. On Jan. 5, 1967, during a break in the sessions for “Penny Lane,” they created “Carnival of Light.”

In November 2008, McCartney told the BBC what his instructions to the other three Beatles were. “I said all I want you to do is just wander around all the stuff, bang it, shout, play it, it doesn’t need to make any sense,” he said. “Hit a drum then wander on to the piano, hit a few notes, just wander around. So that’s what we did and then put a bit of an echo on it. It’s very free.”"

2016-04-10: Audição prévia do Sgt. Pepper's em Abbey Road

... com Giles Martin (filho de George Martin):
http://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beatles-long-awaited-sgt-pepper-remix-previewed-abbey-road

E uma foto de um dos pianos de parede de Abbey Road usado para o acorde final do ADITL. Giro.

2017-04-09: Chuck Berry foi a enterrar

Foto de guitarra floral no link (dos Stones):
http://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/chuck-berry-funeral-brings-messages-mccartney-stones

Citando:
"In McCartney's letter to the man that The Beatles covered and admired in their early days, and continued to praise, he said: “As you know, Chuck was a huge influence on me and my companions.” The Stones sent a white floral bouquet in the shape of a guitar, for which the accompanying card said: “Thanks for the inspiration.”"

2002: Os 100 maiores Bretões listam 3 Beatles

Na lista dos 100 maiores Bretões (um programa que quando feito em Portugal deu a vitória a... Salazar, se bem se lembram) lista 3 dos Beatles!  JL está no top 10 (#8). Sabem quem ficou de fora?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons

2017-04-07: Mais um video antigo descoberto: PM e a mãe?

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/first-ever-film-footage-future-12843433

No YouTube:
https://youtu.be/LbMPQUaiqVI

Citando:
"Now Peter has scoured another You Tube film – Liverpool Trams: Green Goddesses Remembered, by Online Videos – and he said: “This is my finest find yet... absolute gold!

“It is circa 1955 and at one point a tram is seen heading down East Prescot Road, from Old Swan towards Page Moss, where Paul’s Aunty Jin and Uncle Harry lived.

“He is only on screen for a second but, comparing him with old pictures, I am 100% convinced that is Paul sitting at the window, at 29 minutes and 25 seconds into the film. And is that his late mother, Mary, sitting behind him? It looks like her.”"

2017-04-07: Notícia patrocinada falsa sobre suicídio de PM no FB

FB está a ser criticado por não estar a ser eficaz a bloquear notícias falsas:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3271383/facebook-admits-being-tricked-into-publishing-sick-fake-news-story-about-suicide-of-paul-mccartney/

2017-04-07: Revisitando anúncios da Nike com músicas de JL/Beatles

http://www.adweek.com/creativity/revisiting-instant-karma-nikes-triumphant-second-stab-at-a-john-lennon-song/

Citando:
"This time, it licensed Lennon’s “Instant Karma” for a commercial directed by David Fincher (who, at 29, would make his first film, Alien 3, that same year). This time there was no controversy. “Instant Karma” was a solo Lennon song, and Ono happily licensed it—and the ad soon became a classic in its own right."

2017-04-07: Acerca de May Pang (e OVNIs)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Pang

2017-03-16: Esboço de capa de Walls and Bridges (JL) vai a leilão

Esboço de capa oferecido a guitarrista do álbum vai a leilão:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/john-lennon-doodles-album-walls-10040326

Citando:
"One of the drawings depicts a flying saucer with the word "UFOer" written on the bottom of the object, most likely influenced by Lennon's UFO sighting that year.

This sighting was mentioned in the album liner notes: "On the 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a UFO J.L.""

2017-04-06: Casa de JL em Surrey ainda está à venda

Interessados?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-lennons-plush-9m-surrey-10173120

Citando:
"The six-bedroom pile in Surrey – where the late Beatle wrote some of the band's biggest hits in the 1960s – was valued at £13.75million in 2012.

The singer lived in the luxury home from 1964-1968 and wrote a number of tracks for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band."

2017-04-05: Sgt. Pepper's no site oficial

Informação da reedição, agora no sítio oficial dos Beatles:
https://thebeatlesstore.com/collections/sgt-pepper-collection

2017-04-26: Sgt. Pepper's reeditado (detalhes das diversas edições)

Finalmente os detalhes oficiais (via site de PM):
https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/sgt-peppers-back

Citando:
"Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition Tracklists:

CD
(‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix)
1.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band    
2.  With A Little Help From My Friends 
3.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 
4.  Getting Better     
5.  Fixing A Hole    
6.  She's Leaving Home     
7.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!    
8.  Within You Without You     
9.  When I'm Sixty-Four    
10. Lovely Rita    
11. Good Morning Good Morning     
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)    
13. A Day In The Life 

Deluxe [2CD, digital]

CD 1:  ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)

CD 2:  Complete early takes from the sessions in the same sequence as the album, plus various versions of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane”
1.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9]
2.  With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]        
3.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1]    
4.  Getting Better [Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End]    
5.  Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]    
6.  She's Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental]    
7.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 4]
8.  Within You Without You [Take 1 - Indian Instruments]     
9.  When I'm Sixty-Four [Take 2]    
10. Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]    
11. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]        
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take 8]        
13. A Day In The Life [Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord]    
14. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7]        
15. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 26]    
16. Strawberry Fields Forever [Stereo Mix - 2015]        
17. Penny Lane [Take 6 - Instrumental]    
18. Penny Lane [Stereo Mix - 2017]    

Deluxe Vinyl [180g 2LP]

LP 1:  ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)
SIDE 1                                                                                   SIDE 2
1.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band               1.  Within You Without You 
2.  With A Little Help From My Friends                        2.  When I'm Sixty-Four 
3.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds                              3.  Lovely Rita
4.  Getting Better                                                               4.  Good Morning Good Morning
5.  Fixing A Hole                                                                 5.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6.  She's Leaving Home                                                  6.  A Day In The Life 
7.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! 

LP 2:  Complete early takes from the sessions in the same sequence as the album
SIDE 3
1.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9 And Speech]    
2.  With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]        
3.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1]        
4.  Getting Better [Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End]    
5.  Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]    
6.  She's Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental]        
7.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 4]    

SIDE 4
1.  Within You Without You [Take 1 - Indian Instruments]     
2.  When I'm Sixty-Four [Take 2]    
3.  Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]        
4.  Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]    
5.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take 8]    
6.  A Day In The Life [Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord]
    
Super Deluxe [4CD/DVD/Blu-ray boxed set]

CD 1:  ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)

CD 2:  Complete early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order of their first recording dates
1.  Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 1] 
2.  Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 4]
3.  Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7]
4.  Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 26]    
5.  Strawberry Fields Forever [Stereo Mix - 2015]
6.  When I'm Sixty-Four [Take 2] 
7.  Penny Lane [Take 6 – Instrumental] 
8.  Penny Lane [Vocal Overdubs And Speech]
9.  Penny Lane [Stereo Mix - 2017]    
10. A Day In The Life [Take 1]    
11. A Day In The Life [Take 2]    
12. A Day In The Life [Orchestra Overdub]    
13. A Day In The Life (Hummed Last Chord) [Takes 8, 9, 10 and 11]    
14. A Day In The Life (The Last Chord)
15. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 1 – Instrumental]    
16. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9 And Speech]    
17. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 1 - Instrumental, Breakdown]    
18. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]

CD 3:  Complete early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order of their first recording dates
1.  Fixing A Hole [Take 1] 
2.  Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]
3.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Speech From Before Take 1; Take 4 And Speech At End]    
4.  Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 7]    
5.  Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]
6.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1 And Speech At The End]    
7.  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Speech, False Start And Take 5]    
8.  Getting Better [Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End] 
9.  Getting Better [Take 12] 
10. Within You Without You [Take 1 - Indian Instruments Only] 
11. Within You Without You [George Coaching The Musicians]    
12. She's Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental] 
13. She's Leaving Home [Take 6 – Instrumental] 
14. With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]     
15. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Speech And Take 8]

CD 4:  ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and bonus tracks in Mono
(Tracks 1-13:  2017 Direct Transfer of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Original Mono Mix)
14. Strawberry Fields Forever [Original Mono Mix]
15. Penny Lane    [Original Mono Mix]
16. A Day In The Life [Unreleased First Mono Mix] 17. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Unreleased Mono Mix - No. 11] 
18. She's Leaving Home [Unreleased First Mono Mix] 
19. Penny Lane [Capitol Records U.S. Promo Single - Mono Mix]

DISCS 5 & 6 (Blu-ray & DVD)
Audio Features (both discs):
- New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album and “Penny Lane,” plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of “Strawberry Fields Forever” (Blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 / DVD: DTS Dolby Digital 5.1)
- High Resolution Audio versions of 2017 ‘Sgt. Pepper’ stereo mix and 2017 “Penny Lane” stereo mix, plus 2015 “Strawberry Fields Forever” hi res stereo mix (Blu-ray: LPCM Stereo 96KHz/24bit / DVD: LPCM Stereo)
Video Features (both discs):
- The Making of Sgt. Pepper [restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased]
- Promotional Films:  “A Day In The Life;” “Strawberry Fields Forever;” “Penny Lane” [4K restored]"