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.”"