2017-04-01: Video raro de PM e Beatles (Helter Skelter)

Muito interessante, este vídeo (e o resto do canal) no YouTube:
https://youtu.be/JPM7MCAiaFs

2017-04-01: Lovely Rita sem voz e baixo

Uou, isto é qualquer coisa (a versão limpa):
https://youtu.be/Ixrf41uy8Lg

Ver os comentários, alguns indiciam punch in de bateria p.e. que se ouve melhor nesta versão. E.g. 1:11.

2012-04-30: Ken Scott fala de gravações com os Beatles (White Album)

http://www.guitarworld.com/interviews/abbey-road-engineer-ken-scott-beatles-white-album-sessions-were-blast/15536

Citando:
"What can you tell me about the session for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," when Eric Clapton came in to play the guitar solo?
That's a question I'm asked so frequently, and I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. For the book, I wanted to try and get back to that session because I know it's a very important session and a lot of people are interested in it. I actually tried regression therapy to take me back, and, unfortunately, it didn't work [laughs]. I still have no memory of that session.

Given the song's heaviness, was there anything special about the “Helter Skelter” session?
Not much different—they just played a lot louder than usual."

2016-08-11: Clapton e os Beatles

Diversas colaborações de Clapton com os Beatles, algumas pouco conhecidas / não creditadas (com vídeo; listagem não extensiva):
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/exploring-eric-claptons-collaborations-george-harrison-and-beatles/29940

2016-11-21: A guitarra isolada de Clapton no WMGGW

http://www.guitarworld.com/features-blogs/hear-eric-claptons-isolated-guitar-track-beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/14575

2017-03: Review do reissue de FITD (PM)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/paul-mccartney-flowers-in-the-dirt-reissue-review.html

2017-03-29: Fato de Lennon (1964) vai a leilão

http://nypost.com/2017/03/28/john-lennons-suit-headed-to-the-auction-block/

Citação:
"Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein hired Millings to design the majority of the singers’ stage-worn outfits during the early to mid-1960s.

The suit has two D.A. Millings & Son labels sewn into the interior of the jacket. One label features the handwritten word “John” so the jacket could easily be identified when making costume changes during performances.

“John” also is handwritten in red ink on the pants below the fly zipper.

The auction lot includes a glossy photo of Lennon clad in the suit, along with a letter of authenticity from Madame Tussauds, where the suit was displayed."

2017-03-29: Guia completo para todas as canções que PM e Costello escreveram

http://people.com/music/paul-mccartney-elvis-costello-song-collaboration-guide/

2017-03-27: Animador Ian Emes e Wings (PM)?

O animador que trabalhou para os Pink Floyd (projecções no Dark Side of the Moon e mais) trabalhou para os Wings:
https://boingboing.net/2017/03/27/trip-out-on-pink-floyds-da.html

Citando:
"As a result of his work for Pink Floyd, Linda McCartney asked Emes to animate Wings' "Oriental Nightfish". He has also made animations for concerts by Mike Oldfield, and directed The Chauffeur for Duran Duran."

Google says:
https://www.google.pt/search?hl=en-US&source=android-browser&ei=RJ_ZWOeAIcv4UInXu-AJ&q=Wings%27+%22Oriental+Nightfish%22&oq=Wings%27+%22Oriental+Nightfish%22&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3..41.127263.127683.0.128567.3.3.0.0.0.0.429.1157.3-1j2.3.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..2.1.428.vX9e16yrOAE

Wikipedia says:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oriental_Nightfish

2017-03-27: Algumas palavras sobre Pete Shotton (JL friend)

https://scholarsandrogues.com/2017/03/26/a-few-words-about-pete-shotton/

2016-10-09: Frases famosas de JL

JL e algumas das suas frases famosas:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/happy-birthday-john-lennon-14-11980664

2017-03-27: 50 factos sobre Sgt. Pepper's

Os números são impressionantes mesmo 50 anos depois:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/sgt-pepper-50-facts-iconic-12790884

2017-03-26: PM em gravações de novo álbum

Notícias derivadas da entrevista à BBC 6 (já aqui partilhada, com áudio):
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7736643/paul-mccartney-beatles-confirms-hes-working-on-a-new-album

2013-03-22: As férias de JL na Escócia (e o acidente de carro)

... antes do início da gravação do Abbey Road:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/john-lennon-s-high-jinks-in-the-highlands-1-4401009

Citando:
"It was a place where John Lennon was to bring his own children to share his love of long summers in the Highlands. The ex-Beatle was to be a regular visitor to Durness in Sutherland during his younger years after his dear Aunt Mater remarried a dentist called Bert who owned a home that overlooked Sango Bay."

2017-03-22: Capa de jornal brasileiro usa Help!

http://meiahora.ig.com.br/capas/?dia=22/03/2017

2017-02-26: Fato de GH foi exposto pela primeira vez (The Bag O'Nails club)

Emprestado pela viúva. Também lá vai estar o de JL e o fato usado por um astronauta americano nas grandes produções de Hollywood da ida à Lua :)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35670044

Citando:
"Harrison's suit is being loaned by his widow, Olivia, along with the musician's sitar, letters and a diary about the recording of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, which was released in 1967."
(...)
"Other Beatles items on display include John Lennon's lime green Sgt Pepper outfit - which has been on display previously - and handwritten lyrics for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

The exhibition's launch event took place at The Bag O'Nails club in London's Soho where The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience played, and where Sir Paul McCartney met his future wife Linda Eastman in 1967."

2017-03-16: PM tem de esperar por resultados do processo dos Duran Duran

PM tem de esperar por resultados do processo dos Duran Duran:

Paul McCartney, Denied Control Over Beatles Hits For Decades, Is Told To Wait : The Record : NPR

Citando:

"First, the fine print. In the U.S., authors are allowed to regain copyrights they had previously assigned to other parties, such as a music publishing company, after 56 years, a feature of stateside copyright law designed to give late-in-life artists and their families a financial silver lining (not that McCartney needs it). McCartney is extremely keen, after the previously mentioned burns he sustained, to regain control of his Beatles work — so much so that he filed termination notices, the legal mechanism for him to regain his copyrights, on The Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," about 10 years ahead of schedule. (They turn 56 years old in October, 2018.)

Despite that due diligence, McCartney is understandably skittish given his track record of failure in this particular area of his business. The pop genius filed suit, in fact, this past January against Sony/ATV — the world's largest music publisher, which controls much of the Lennon/McCartney songbook — based essentially on a conversation, shared in court documents, in late 2016 during a Billy Joel concert between his lawyer and Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Martin Bandier. The talk seemed to indicate that McCartney's reclamations, which should be protected by U.S. law, may not go as smoothly as he'd hoped."

2017-03-23: Mais uma entrevista de PM (BBC6, Áudio)

Por ocasião do Flowers in the Dirt reissue, que desta vez vai valer a pena (as versões acústicas das músicas de Costello-McCartney parecem valer a pena):
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39351710

2017-03-23: Chuck Berry e JL

A história de Chuck Berry, um condenado que tocava sem afinar em todo o lado viajando com a sua guitarra, a sua arma no seu Cadillac com sacos de 💰... E a partida que pregou a JL na TV:

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a53952/chuck-berry-obituary/

Citando:
"He drove himself from show to show in his Cadillac, carrying with him only his guitar, some clothes and a gun, demanding brown paper bags full of cash from terrified promoters and fronting pick-up bands made of local musicians without even bothering to tune his guitar. He played anywhere from state fairs and small town theaters to the Tonight Show and Mike Douglas Show, where I–and so many second generation fans–first saw him performing with John Lennon and found myself in thrall of his remarkable magnetism.

But like seemingly everything in Berry's life, there was a colorful story attached to the 1972 Mike Douglas appearance. Backstage before the show, Berry had pressed Lennon for unpaid royalties he felt due as a result of The Beatles' recordings of his songs. Then, after convincing Lennon to take the solo on "Johnny B. Goode," he proceeded to change they key just as they went on the air, resulting in a ramshackle performance, and a moment of embarrassment Lennon never forgot, that still tore the roof off of Douglas's Philadelphia studio."

Há vídeos disto no YouTube. É só procurar. Ou então clicar:
https://youtu.be/ULJZbNQRNgU

2017-03-22: PM fala de influência de Chuck Berry

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a53990/paul-mccartney-chuck-berry-the-beatles-tribute/

https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-on-chuck-berry

2017-03-22: Elvis Costello fala da colaboração com PM

O álbum conjunto dos dois nunca saiu, mas a reedição do Flowers in the Dirt traz 9 versões acústicas usadas por um ou por outro a solo e duas músicas não utilizadas:
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a54015/elvis-costello-interview-paul-mccartney-flowers-in-the-dirt/

Citação:
"But this week's reissue of McCartney's 1989 return-to-form Flowers in the Dirt, in pricey but spectacular deluxe and expanded form, includes a bonus disc of acoustic demos of nine songs by the pair, another disc of fully realized studio recordings amounting to the album that never was, and bonus downloads of an additional track, plus three rough and ready cassette recordings made in 1987—which will also be released for Record Store Day as a three-song cassette—in essence rewrites history.

"As to whether a record should come out, it has," Costello tells me, in his first ever in-depth interview about his songwriting partnership with McCartney. "This is it.""

2017-03-22: As fotos de David Magnus são outra vez notícia (CNN)

Em exposição em Londres:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/21/arts/the-beatles-unseen-photographs-david-magnus/

Citando:
"UK Prime Minister Theresa May says location of 'sick and depraved terrorist attack' was 'no accident'

Citando:
"(CNN)At 19, British photographer David Magnus was invited to shoot a still relatively unknown pop group called The Beatles during a concert at a Buckinghamshire private school.

Needless to say, they didn't stay unknown for much longer. The Fab Four would go on to be one of history's most influential and critically acclaimed musical acts -- and Magnus, who became a friend of the band, would be there to capture their career milestones.

"Nobody expected that these four talented lads from Liverpool would go on for what is now 54 years," Magnus, now 72, told CNN in an email.

"Looking back at that weekend and the time I spent through the years with The Beatles, I now realize how incredibly fortunate I was to spend so much time with them."

In June 1967, the band invited him to Abbey Road Studios (then known as EMI Studios) the weekend they recorded "All You Need is Love" for the BBC's "Our World," the world's first live, international satellite production, and the first time they'd performed the song in public.

Fifty years later, the public can see Magnus' behind-the-scenes photos from that weekend at his new exhibition, "The Beatles Unseen: Photographs by David Magnus," at London's Proud Chelsea gallery. "

2017-03-22: Liverpool recria canções de Sgt. Pepper's

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39350444

Citação:
"Liverpool is marking the 50th birthday of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album by asking a dizzying array of performers to reinterpret the songs in the city.

From choirs to cabaret performers and musicians to artists, each will stage an event inspired by a different track.

The album - released on 1 June 1967 - regularly comes towards the top of lists of the greatest albums ever made.

The Liverpool festival takes place in May and June and is split into two halves - one for each side of the LP."

2017-03-20: Yesterday e a versão electrónica?

Uou! Ainda há surpresas sobre os Beatles vindas de PM? Parece que sim:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/meet_the_idr_whoi_composer_who_almost_turned_the_beatles_yesterday_into_early_electronica.html

Citando:
"The March issue of UK monthly music magazine Q recently hit newsstands, featuring a Beatles 50th anniversary cover with an inset promising “Macca Speaks!”. Did we need another Paul McCartney interview, you may well ask? Is there anything Beatles-related left to tell? It seems there is. McCartney reveals that he once gave serious consideration to using an electronic backing for the 1965 recording of “Yesterday” instead of the string arrangement he ended up with. Now, in itself, this may not seem noteworthy except that, well, it was 1965… what did “electronic” even mean in music at the time?

To find out, we should get acquainted with Delia Derbyshire, composer and arranger at the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, who would have scored McCartney’s electronic “Yesterday.” Derbyshire is now best known as the composer of the classic 1963 theme to the original Dr. Who series (above), a fact we will return to. (...)"

2017-03-19: Frances fala de conselhos de PM

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39307498

Citando:
"I wrote Drifting and Sublime in my room at LIPA - the performing arts school up in Liverpool.

That's the one that Paul McCartney founded, right? Did he ever show up?

A couple of times. He'd come in to do little Q&As.

He was really nice, if you saw him walking past, you could just say "hi" and he was always really sweet.

What's the best advice you got from him?

He said that when he and John [Lennon] were writing, they didn't have anything to record what they were doing… Whereas now, if I'm writing in a session, I've got my phone there recording everything. And so if I forget something I can go back and find it.

But he said, "We didn't have that luxury. So if we forgot something, it wasn't good enough and we didn't use it."

I was like, "Oh my God, that's so true." Because if you've written something and 10 minutes later you don't remember it, then it's not good enough.

Do you stick to that advice even now?

No, because my memory's terrible!"

2017-03-18: RIP Chuck Berry, author of some well known tunes

... some of them, covered and played for years live by the Beatles:
https://www.yahoo.com/music/covering-chuck-berry-legendary-artists-from-the-beatles-to-the-boss-pay-homage-153236733.html

Long Tall Sally, Rock and Roll Music, Roll Over Beethoven, Come On, Maybelline, ...

Citando:
"Even after they made their mark on the world with their own music, The Beatles continue to sing Chuck Berry’s praises. John Lennon once said, “If you tried to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry,” In addition to including “Roll Over Beethoven” in many of their early sets, they recorded a studio version of the track, which became the opener of their 1964 album The Beatles’ Second Album."

2017-03-20: Charles Manson e os Beatles

http://www.abc10.com/mb/news/local/charles-manson-and-his-ties-to-the-beach-boys-the-beatles/423457854

Citando:
"Manson and The Beatles

While it's not fair to blame The Beatles for the horrible crimes committed by the Manson Family, their music played a major role in the Tate-LaBianca murders in the twisted minds of the group.

Manson was a fan of the Beatles, even referring to one of the temporary homes he and his followers lived in as the Yellow Submarine, according to Raw Story.

Manson believed the 1968 self-titled album, known as 'The White Album', was embedded with messages that he thought were speaking directly to The Family. He became convinced the album carried warnings of a race revolt pitting African-Americans against the white establishment. Manson believed the violence and race war would lead to Armageddon."

2013-03-17: PM e Elvis Costello falam da sua colaboração

Entrevistas (separadas):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/after-john-paul-mccartney-found-another-partner-to-get-the-most-out-of-him-the-proof-is-finally-emerging/2017/03/16/ae2fe91c-09a7-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html?utm_term=.036fd81cda96

2017-03-15: Paul McCartney unveils unheard demo for 'Distractions' - NME

Paul McCartney unveils unheard demo for 'Distractions' - NME

2017-03-15: Jimmy Page na BS de AHDN?

Sim:
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/hear-jimmy-page-rock-out-beatles-hard-days-night-score/30854

2017-03-14: Finalmente percebi porque soa tão bem...

... o remaster para o documentário Eight Days a Week e o CD correspondente (que é baseado em dois concertos numa sala americana de nome Hollywood Bowl). Recordo-me claramente de como soava o vinil de 1977 que uma prima minha tinha e ao voltar a ouvir o remaster cheguei a pensar que o GH era um picuinhas ao dizer (na Anthology) que não se conseguia ouvir a tocar e que toda aquela histeria e gritaria eram insuportáveis. Mas não. A questão é que os concertos são os mesmos mas o som foi todo "reconstruído" (para remover o barulho do público). 

Para saber como leiam o artigo seguinte todo, vale definitivamente a pena:
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/remastering-one-beatles-live-album-finally-made-great/

Citando:
"THE BEATLES’ REMARKABLE catalog includes just one official live album, and the group’s immense popularity made it unlistenable. The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, recorded in 1964 and 1965 but not released until 1977, was always a frustrating listen. Try as you might, you simply cannot hear much music above the fan-belt squeal of 10,000 Beatlemaniacs.

You can’t blame the Fab Four, nor their legendary producer George Martin. Martin did what he could with the three-track tapes, but the limitations of 1970s technology did little to elevate the music above the din. Boosting the high frequencies—the snap of Ringo Starr’s hi-hat, the shimmer and chime of George Harrison’s guitar—only made the racket made by all those fans even louder.

All of which makes the remastered version of Live at the Hollywood Bowl especially impressive. The do-over, which coincided with the August release of Ron Howard’s documentary film Eight Days a Week, squeezes astonishing clarity out of the source tapes. You can finally hear an exceptionally tight band grinding out infectious blues-based rock propelled by a driving beat, wailing guitars, and raspy vocals. This album never sounded so lucid, present, or weighty."

2017-03-14: Cassette com 3 demos de Flowers in the Dirt vai ser editada

Citando:
"Flowers In The Dirt – The Cassette Demos With Elvis Costello, the limited edition release features I Don’t Want To Confess, Shallow Grave and Mistress & Maid which were all recorded in 1989.
It’ll be on sale on April (...)":

http://teamrock.com/news/2017-03-13/paul-mccartney-to-release-3-track-record-store-day-cassette

2017-03-14: Sobre o Eight Days a Week

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/eight-days-a-week-19691231

2017-03-14: PM e Elvis Costello recordam gravações de Flowers in the Dirt

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-paul-mccartney-and-elvis-costellos-eighties-team-up-w471411

Citando:
"Songwriters look back on their spectacular 'Flowers in the Dirt' sessions, out soon in a deluxe box set"

2017-03-10: Sgt. Pepper's vai ter mais duas músicas

... quando for reeditado nos 50 anos. É fácil de adivinhar quais:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-iconic-beatles-songs-finally-9970665

2017-03-10: Vídeo do primeiro encontro dos Beatles

... encontrado por historiador?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beatles-fan-historian-uncovers-first-9996208

Citando:
""The McCartneys’ then home, in Forthlin Road, backed onto the police training centre – and the centre’s annual summer show is featured on the film.

“You can see four or five people in the distance watching the action from on top of the concrete shed in the back garden of 20 Forthlin Road, where Paul and Mike lived.”

In the biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Barry Miles writes: “The back of the house overlooked the grounds of the Police Training College, headquarters of the Liverpool Mounted Police."

2017-03-10: Joe Satriani cites GH as the most underrated guitarist of all times

E este elogio vem de um dos meus guitarristas favorito:

http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news-interviews/joe-satriani-names-most-underrated-guitarist—plus-five-personal-revelations

Citação:
"The most underrated guitarist in history? “George Harrison, without a doubt. Just think about this, here’s a young kid at the start of a movement. Not someone who ever thought he’d be a virtuoso on the instrument, he was an all-round musician, and he was destined to write two of the most popular Beatles songs of all time, ‘Something’ and ‘Here Comes the Sun.’ His guitar playing just got better and better, right up to his untimely death…

“I want to shout this, I want to put this in capital letters—HE WAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS MUSICAL! Most people can get good physically on the guitar, it’s not really that hard, but to be musical? That’s the real trick. There are a thousand other guitar players that could play rings around George, but what have they played that you really keep in your heart?”"

2017-03-07: Os Beatles ainda com recordes nos Billboard Charts (EUA)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7710336/future-beatles-simon-garfunkel-replaced-themselves-billboard-200-chart

E outro top, primeiros e segundos lugares do top (citação):
"Future — HNDRXX and Future (March 18, 2017)
Prince — The Very Best of Prince and Purple Rain (Soundtrack) (May 7, 2016)
Nelly — Suit and Sweat (Oct. 2, 2004)
Guns N’ Roses — Use Your Illusion II and Use Your Illusion I (Oct 5-12, 1991)
Jim Croce — You Don’t Mess Around With Jimand I Got a Name (Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 1974)
The Beatles — The Beatles (White Album) and Yellow Submarine (Soundtrack) (March 1, 1969)
Simon & Garfunkel — The Graduate and Bookends (the titles took turns at No. 1 multiple times; May 11-July 6, 1968)
The Monkees — More of the Monkees and The Monkees (Feb. 11-March 4, 1967)
Herb Alpert — Going Places and Whipped Cream & Other Delights (March 5, 1966; April 30-May 14, 1966)
The Beatles — A Hard Day’s Night (Soundtrack) and Something New (Aug. 22-Oct. 17, 1964)
The Beatles — Meet the Beatles! and Introducing… The Beatles (Feb. 29-May 9, 1964)
Peter, Paul & Mary — In the Wind and Peter, Paul & Mary (Nov. 2, 1963)"

2017-03-06: Hotel comemora 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's com visita

... A local aonde Brian Epstein ficava, e onde GH esteve para comemorar os seus 50 anos:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/its-no-mystery-portmeirion-mark-12689505

Citando:
"Portmeirion is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with its first-ever tour highlighting links to the Beatles - without needing a reservation.

Until now only guests booking a cottage could get to see up close some of the rooms in architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate village that had connections with the Fab Four."

2017-03-02: Filme a cores dos Beatles semanas antes da viagem aos EUA

"The Beatles Come to Town" color film:
http://www.guitarplayer.com/artist-videos/1436/watch-the-beatles-in-rare-1963-color-clip-from-before-their-us-arrival/62010

Citando:
"High-quality color footage of the group from before its February 1964 arrival in the U.S. is hard to come by. What’s readily available is mostly in black and white and often has poor audio quality.

The Manchester clip is an exception. It was created by Pathé News for the short feature The Beatles Come to Town and features performances of “She Loves You” and “Twist and Shout.” The film was shot in Technicolor and Techniscope (a budget widescreen process from the period) and features good-quality audio. Even without the benefit of modern restoration, it makes for enjoyable viewing. The film was originally shown in British theaters during the week of December 22, 1963 as a preview to the daily feature."
(...)
"While it’s great to see the ABC Theater footage restored and included in Howard’s film, the performance of  “She Loves You” is broken up with additional documentary clips that obscure the song’s final verse and chorus. Eight Days a Week also omits the additional footage from the original six-and-a-half-minute newsreel, including the theater preparations and the Beatles chatting with photographers. Fortunately,The Beatles Come to Town is available in its entirety on YouTube."

2017-03-02: Leilão de single (45rpm) autografado

Ask Me Why / Please, Please Me autografado vai a leilão e pode chegar aos 40K USD na Heritage Auctions:
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/02/autographed-45-of-the-beatles-please-please-me-may-bring-40000-at-heritage-auctions.phtml

Citando:
"The record includes recordings of Ask Me Why and Please Please Me (est. $40,000). John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all signed the Ask Me Why B-side of the record; McCartney and Harrison also signed the reverse side, which features an A-side recording of Please Please Me. Given to its original owner at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the single was released Jan. 11, 1963, 13 days before a signing session at the NEMS record shop, where the signatures likely were acquired.

A photo of the Fab Four signed by all four members of the band (est. $18,000) also is expected to draw heavy interest at the auction. The 8-by-10 glossy black-and-white picture, taken in early 1965 in the Bahamas, is signed with a felt-tip pen and includes a certificate of authenticity from Heritage Auctions and Tracks LTD.

An original pressing of the Help! Album Signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison of the Beatles (Capitol MAS 2386, 1965), (est. $12,000) will be available to collectors in the auction. The Gatefold Mono LP was the band’s eighth album for Capitol and the soundtrack for the band’s second major motion picture. It contains seven Beatles songs from the film with six instrumental pieces interspersed.

Savvy collectors and Beatles fans alike are expected to clamor for an extremely rare piece of memorabilia: a Postcard Signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Substitute Drummer Jimmie Nicol (est. $10,000). In addition to the band members’ signatures, this 3.5-by-5.5-inch postcard includes the inscription: “To Judy / Best Wishes / Jimmie Nicol” that was written by Nicol, who was filling in on the band’s Australian tour for regular drummer Ringo Starr, who was ill with tonsillitis and stayed home during much of the tour. According to the accompanying letter of provenance, the signatures were acquired by a 24-year-old steward who remembers serving Lennon two boiled eggs for breakfast aboard the plane to Sydney."