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.