sábado, 29 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Paul McCartney e Abramovich

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBrkYF-GIfQZ9EG9j5OLcg8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowzuOICzCZ4ocDMPOHowY?hl=en-GB≷=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

Citando:
"Sir Paul, who received an MBE appointment in 1965 and was knighted in 1997, today joined the billionaire Russian-Israeli businessman - who was reported to have withdrawn his UK visa application in the wake of the Salisbury poisoning earlier this year. 

The 76-year-old Beatles star spent the holiday in Saint Barthélemy along with his wife Nancy Shevell, 59, and daughter Stella, 47. "

terça-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Paul McCartney participa em video de Natal de Xorden

https://blitz.sapo.pt/principal/update/2018-12-24-Shawn-Mendes-Ariana-Grande-e-Paul-McCartney-juntam-se-a-James-Corden-para-um-Carpool-Karaoke-especial-de-Natal

Citando:
"O comediante James Corden partilhou um vídeo especial de "Carpool Karaoke", alusivo à época natalícia.

No vídeo, vários dos seus convidados anteriores, entre os quais Shawn Mendes, Ariana Grande e Paul McCartney, juntam-se a Corden para cantar 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)', de Darlene Love."

 Video aqui:

https://youtu.be/SRdDTq2YBu0


sexta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Playlist de todas as músicas dos Beatles por ordem...

... cronológica:
http://www.revistabula.com/12806-todas-as-musicas-dos-beatles-em-ordem-cronologica/

https://open.spotify.com/user/beatles201/playlist/5ev8uY0Sav1EOu6kFfpF96

quarta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: As fotos de Norman Parkinson em Abbey Road

... Em Abbey Road (1963). Detalhes muito interessantes das gravações nesse dia (músicas do With The Beatles) e guitarras usadas:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/19/norman-parkinson-portraits-the-beatles-abbey-road

Citando:
"Pre Fab: Norman Parkinson's early Beatles portraits

The fashion photographer captured the Beatles at Abbey Road in September 1963, as they recorded their second LP With the Beatles

Main image: The Beatles at the President Hotel, Russell Square in London, on 12 September 1963. Photograph: Norman Parkinson/Iconic Images"

terça-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Paul McCartney e actriz Emma Stone

... Em novo vídeo sobre bullying:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6508825/Emma-Stone-unrecognisable-stars-alongside-Paul-McCartney-film-single-Cares.html

Citando:
"Speaking of the campaign, Sir Paul said: 'My hope is that if there are kids being bullied - and there are… 

'Maybe by listening to this song and watching this video, they might just think it's not as bad… that it's the kind of thing you can just stand up to and laugh off and get through.'


Alongside the video, the #WhoCaresIDo campaign has also been launched inspired by the song and film. 


Shot on 65mm Kodak Film with Panavision Cameras, 'Who Cares' features a message of universal positivity rendered in vivid colourful detail. "


2018-12: Get Back (live at O2, Paul McCartney with Ringo Starr)

And now for something really special. The video (PM, Ringo e Ron Wood dos Rolling Stones):
https://youtu.be/HO3tF2KlxCc

domingo, 16 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Paul McCartney na O2 arena com Ringo Starr

Último espectáculo do ano:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Brd-3G-nKOu/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=ru9pl1lhpjka

https://www.instagram.com/p/Brd-MEJn7vw/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1vpq6qj6fdpon

A review do Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/paul-mccartney-review-o2-arena-two-beatles-one-rolling-stone/amp/

Citando:
"A tingle went down my spine when a second drum kit was rolled out during the encores, while McCartney told the crowd: “We’ve got a little surprise for you. It was a surprise for me too – it only happened today.” Even with that heavy hint, it was as if a jolt went through the room, a communal blast of awe, as Ringo Starr ran onto the stage, fit and sprightly at 78, and settled into the drum seat behind his last surviving partner in the greatest band of the rock era.

“Y’alright?” asked McCartney, hamming up the Scouse accent. “M’alright,” shouted back Ringo. And with the ever nimble and always enthusiastic figure of their old ally and rival Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones ripping out Chuck Berry-style riffs"


2018-12: Gravações áudio de diário de Yoko Ono

... apareceram no YouTube (apesar de haver quem questione a sua autenticidade):
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/audio-of-yoko-onos-1968-secret-diary-emerges-in-dubbing-over-the-beatles-white-album/

No YouTube:
https://youtu.be/EU_dIRAL6as

https://youtu.be/_XIRWpmqQV0

Quoting:
"(...)

The audio was discovered by cultural historian Simon Wells who has, throughout his career, dedicated his time to writing multiple books on The Beatles, cult films, Charles Manson, The Stones and more. 

Having uploaded the audio to YouTube, Wells noted: “During the early days of her relationship with John Lennon, Yoko Ono would dictate her thoughts on life with Lennon into her own personal recorder – presumably to be given to John later.

“This, often personal, tape was made during the overdub session for ‘Revolution 1’ at EMI Studio number 3 on 4th June 1968. Parts of Yoko’s tape would be later used in the sound collage ‘Revolution 9’.”"

sábado, 8 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12-08: Mais de 1400000 pessoas morreram...

...Nos EUA desde que John Lennon foi assassinado com uma arma em 1980:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrIRZhFH4Ze/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=mkf1dp5radkz

quinta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: Curiosidades sobre o álbum branco

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6415977/Fifty-years-release-Beatles-White-Album-tantalising-secrets-record-changed-pop.html

2018-12: Como Yoko perseguiu

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6460947/How-Yoko-Ono-relentlessly-pursued-John-Lennon.html

Citando:
"John Lennon became mesmerized by Yoko Ono after she set her sights on him, writes author Ray Connolly in new book  Being John Lennon: A Restless Life

Yoko was aggressive, constantly badgering John with letters and appearing at places he was


Yoko broke into 'the orbit of the Beatles' after meeting John at the Indica Gallery in London, where she was preparing for a show the next day


'From the very beginning of her career, she understood the power of networking and self-promotion; especially self-promotion,' according to Connolly


John 'felt that she was the star and he the audience', never had he met anyone like this 'odd little Japanese woman dressed in her black intellectual's uniform'


Yoko was writing letters to John, getting under his skin and was everywhere he was, even showing up at a meeting with a yogi in the Indian Himalayas


Yoko and John became inseparable and he insisted Yoko be at all sessions - inhibiting to the other Beatles and driving a wedge between John and Paul  


Their relationship became strained by 1972 and Yoko decided to get John a mistress - May Pang, 22, a Chinese girl who had been working for the couple"

segunda-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2018

2018-12: 5 estrelas 50 anos depois (Express.co.uk)

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1047218/Review-new-rock-albums-releases-The-Beatles-Rolling-Stones-Jethro-Tull-Pretty-Things

sábado, 1 de dezembro de 2018

2018-11: Paul McCartney partilha fotos do início dos Wings

... por altura de mais um reissue (edições expandidas) a 7 de Dezembro:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/paul-mccartney-wings-reissue-wild-life-album-tracklist-linda-photos-a8660766.html

Citando:
"He explains that he had songs "knocking around" that would eventually end up on the Wild Life album. "What happens for me is that I write all the time and then suddenly I think: 'Oh god, I've got too many. I've got to record them to get them out of the way."

Addressing the backlash to the band and the album's lukewarm reception, McCartney says: "I'm not saying, 'yes, I'll do what you want. I'm saying, 'I'll do what I want.' People don't always like that."


The reissues of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway are released on 7 December via MPL/Capitol/UMe."

sexta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2018

domingo, 25 de novembro de 2018

2018-11: Documentário sobre o Imagine

Sobre o recente documentário sobre o Imagine:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/11/24/john-yoko-us-sky-review-lennons-message-peace-love-people-power/

Citando:
"The spirit of revolution was alive and well in John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (Channel 4), a documentary celebrating John Lennon’s peace, love and occasionally anger-laden album Imagine and, in particular, the much-admired title track.

This wasn’t so much the untold story of the making of a classic album as a fascinating addendum to an iconic story which had already been told in the companion film released by Lennon, Yoko Ono and director Steve Gebhardt in 1972, and fleshed out even more in Andrew Solt’s tribute Gimme Some Truth."


segunda-feira, 19 de novembro de 2018

2008-02: Morte do Guru

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/34076/Beatles-guru-Maharishi-dies-aged-91
Citando:
"Beatles guru Maharishi dies aged 91

THE guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died at his home overnight aged 91."


2018-11: Um relato dos Beatles na India

Em primeira mão... As cerca de 40 canções compostas lá deram origem ao White Album (e a muitas canções editadas mais tarde a solo por cada um dos Beatles - Jealous Guy, Not Guilty, etc.):
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1046990/the-beatles-visited-ashram-india-Susan-Shumsky

Citando:
"IN 1968 the shockwaves from the Beatles trip to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of transcendental meditation, reverberated around the world. The Fab Four were not the only celebrities to make the trip to the sparsely constructed ashram overlooking the River Ganges. Actress Mia Farrow, Beach Boy Mike Love and folk singer Donovan also attended but the Beatles were far and away the most famous."
(...)
"Maharishi asked George to tell Deepak the real story and he revealed the Beatles were asked to leave because members of their party were using drugs and alcohol.

The topic turned to the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance, during which no crime was reported in the USA.


Maharishi exclaimed, "When I heard this, I knew the Beatles were angels on Earth... It doesn't matter what John said or did, I could never be upset with angels." George then broke down and wept.


Later, George phoned Deepak and said: "A huge karmic baggage has been lifted from me, because I didn't want to lie.""

sexta-feira, 16 de novembro de 2018

2018-11: Beatles e RS, o veredicto (no RU)?

Beatles!

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1045916/The-Beatles-or-The-Rolling-Stones-UK-poll-Queen-Freddie-Mercury-Bohemian-Rhapsody-ABBA

Citando:
"It’s The Beatles! According to YouGov, 73% of the UK public has a positive opinion of the Fab Four, while 61% favour The Rolling Stones.

Meanwhile, both bands had very low negativity with the British public, with just 10% and 12% disliking the bands."


2018-11: A vergonha do assassino?

A transcrição da audiência para a liberdade condicional (entretanto negada mais uma vez) do "senhor" foi publicada:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/15/mark-david-chapman-john-lennon-killer-parole-hearing-transcript-shame

Citando:

"“I was too far in,” Chapman told the board. “I do remember having the thought of, ‘Hey, you have got the album now. Look at this, he signed it, just go home.’ But there was no way I was just going to go home.”


As in previous parole hearings, Chapman went into detail about the shooting and his regret over the “senseless” act. Chapman claimed he sought notoriety and felt no animosity for Lennon, even though he loaded his gun with more lethal hollow-point bullets.

“I secured those bullets to make sure he would be dead,” he said. “It was immediately after the crime that I was concerned that he did not suffer.”"

sábado, 10 de novembro de 2018

2018-11: O White Album reeditado (Público)

https://www.publico.pt/2018/11/09/culturaipsilon/noticia/white-album-disco-parecia-possivel-1849966

Citando:
"White Album, o disco em que tudo parecia possível

Faz 50 anos o álbum menos ordeiro dos Beatles. É reeditado esta sexta-feira e volta a colocar-nos diante de um disco que pode salvar músicos – que o digam Joana Barra Vaz, Miguel Araújo, Domingos Coimbra ou Nuno Rodrigues"


sexta-feira, 9 de novembro de 2018

2018-11: Beatles e Hendrix e os álbuns de 68

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=665972702

Citando:
""The White Album" and Electric Ladyland also came after periods of personal upheaval. Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, died in August 1967. Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, quit during the recording of Electric Ladylandfrustrated by the long and freeform sessions. But the loss of Epstein (and The Beatles' four-year run at the top of the charts) allowed them to take more control of the recording process. Hendrix, meanwhile, was able to produce and "direct" his own work, in close collaboration with his engineer Eddie Kramer. Loss turned to almost unchecked creative abandon."

quinta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2018

2018-11: White Album reissue (Rolling Stone)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/beatles-white-album-super-deluxe-is-a-revelatory-dive-into-their-frayed-late-sixties-drama-753695/

Citando:
"The outtakes vary in impact. A 12-minute “Helter Skelter” is not the noise fest I hoped but a solid groove, McCartney leading a blues-jam Beatles. The minute differences in Lennon’s two takes of longing for his mother, “Julia,” are telling; his vocal falls more naturally over the guitar in the second pass. An alternate down-home “Good Night” is a marvelous shock, Ringo Starr’s homely vocal gilded with earthy harmonies closer to the Band, moving in Byrds-like formation. And do not fear for the original album: Giles’ remix adds depth and detail without betraying the ’68 balance as in the new, striking contrast between the doldrums and tumult in Harrison’s “Long, Long, Long.”

The Beatles is now seen as the album on which they started to break up. But it was wisely titled: a self portrait of the band at odds but pulling together behind each writer, playing as they always did: in service to the song."


quarta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2018

quinta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2018

2018-10: Cantar com Paul?

Estar com Paul McCartney e até cantar com ele (em palco)? Parece-me bem:
https://www.omaze.com/experiences/paul-mccartney-duet-liverpool?ref=paul

Citando:
"Score VIP tickets to Paul McCartney’s sold-out concert at Echo Arena in Liverpool 

Join Paul on stage during the show to sing a duet (your friend will cheer you on!) 


Catch soundcheck and go home with limited edition merch


Get flown out and put up in a 4-star hotel"


quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Edição dos 50 anos do WH pelo WSJ

O Wall Street Journal fala do reissue do White Album:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/50-years-later-a-new-spin-on-the-beatles-white-album-1540911053

segunda-feira, 29 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Rapper MC e as dicas de piano

... De Paul McCartney em Abbey Road:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/stormzy-piano-lesson-paul-mccartney-2394572

Citação:
"The two artists met this summer after The Beatles star played an intimate show at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

During their conversation, McCartney made use of a nearby piano to give the grime MC some songwriting advice. Speaking to The Sunday TimesStormzy explained how the impromptu lesson came about.


“I was just so compelled, in the presence of someone that great, to get advice — anything for my career an OG like him can give me,” he said. “But I know the stigma that comes with being a rapper, so I introduced myself as a songwriter: ‘Can you teach me something?’”"


2018-10: Jogo Marvel's Spider Man recria capa de Abbey Road

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/10/28/marvels-spider-man-ps4-beatles-abbey-road/

Citando:
"For those that don't know: the above suit is called the UK suit because it's basically a cross between the standard main Marvel universe Spider-Man and Captain Britain.

As one commenter points out, the game opted to exclude the Dakota and Lennon memorial, so this is the closet Beatles-thing you're going to find in the game.


Marvel's Spider-Man is available exclusively for PlayStation 4. For more news and coverage on the open-world action game, click here. For more on the game itself, here's a snippet of our official review (via Matthew Hayes)"


quinta-feira, 25 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Filme sobre John & Yoko a ser negociado

https://nit.pt/coolt/cinema/realizador-big-little-lies-prepara-filme-john-lennon-yoko-ono

Quoting:
Jean-Marc Vallée:
O canadiano está a preparar-se para realizar um filme sobre a história do beatle John Lennon e de Yoko Ono, que será produzido pela Universal Pictures. O guião foi escrito por Anthony McCarten, o mesmo que adaptou a história de “A Teoria de Tudo”, sobre Stephen Hawking.


A ideia é que a música de John Lennon seja a banda sonora do filme. Este é um projeto que está em preparação há vários anos — não foi fácil convencer Yoko Ono a colaborar, e os contratos ainda não foram assinados. A expetativa é que a produção arranque em meados ou no final de 2019."


quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Drake bate record dos Beatles (Billboard)

https://mag.sapo.pt/showbiz/artigos/drake-bate-recorde-que-pertencia-aos-beatles

Citando:
"O tema "MIA", em parceira com Bad Bunny, foi o responsável por dar o novo recorde a Drake. A canção foi a 12ª do rapper a chegar ao top 10 da principal lista da Billboard.

Até esta semana, o recorde pertencia aos Beatles que, em 1964, conseguiram colocar 11 canções nos primeiros lugares do Hot 100."


quinta-feira, 18 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take acústico)

Descoberto durante a pesquisa para a versão expandida (?!):
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-739393/

Citando:
"“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Acoustic Version, Take 2) was recorded on July 25th, 1968, with just George on guitar and Paul on harmonium. It’s a dark and meditative draft of a still-evolving song, as Paul follows along, learning the chords. George tells the Abbey Road crew, “Maybe you’d have to give him his own mike.” (A previous run-through from the same day was on Anthology 3, but this take was just discovered during the research for this project.) George sings original lines he ended up discarding: “I look from the wings at the play you are staging / As I’m sitting here doing nothing but aging.”"
(...)
"The Deluxe Edition has new mixes in stereo and 5.1 surround from Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus one of the Beatles’ most legendary grails: the 27-song Esher demos, which they taped in May 1968. The Super Deluxe Edition adds 50 new tracks from the sessions, most unheard (or even rumored) until now."

2018-10: Paul McCartney interview

Entrevista disponível por Podcast:
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/paul-mccartney-climate-change-egypt-station-beatles-white-album-1202983261/

Citando:
"In the latest episode of iHeartRadio’s podcast “Inside the Studio,” released Mondayguest Paul McCartney opened up about topics both present and past with host Joe Levy."

domingo, 14 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Sgt. Pepper's ainda domina, mais de 50 anos depois

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-sgt-pepper-britain-favorite-album-737487/

Citando:
"The Official Charts Company, which has tracked album sales in the U.K. since 1969, proclaimed the Fab Four’s 1967 masterpiece as Britain’s favorite album, using a metric based on album sales, downloads and streams, the Associated Press reports.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Banddefeated second place finisher Adele’s 21and third place Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? for the honor. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon and Michael Jackson’s Thriller claimed Numbers Four and Five on the all-time Official Studio Albums Chart, which was revealed in full on Saturday."


sábado, 13 de outubro de 2018

segunda-feira, 8 de outubro de 2018

2018-10: Imagine revisto

Com a reedição de Imagine, as revisões do álbum aparecem. Este artigo tem uma foto interessante das duas capas diferentes de alnuns, em que na segunda John goza com Paul. Esta em Português:

https://nit.pt/opiniao/john-lennon-um-heroi-um-vilao-interessa

Citando:
"“How do You Sleep?” é de uma selvajaria sem paralelo. John descarrega toda a sua ira em cima de Paul e cada linha é uma entrada a pés juntos, com referências específicas a assuntos mal resolvidos e ataques pessoais do mais alto nível de ressabiamento: Those freaks was right when they said you was dead” (referência à teoria da conspiração que Paul tinha morrido em 1966) / “The only thing you done was Yesterday (referência ao single dos Beatles) /”And since you’ve gone you’re just Another Day” (referência ao single mais recente de Paul à data).

Quem toca guitarra no tema é George, esse mesmo, que na altura também em conflito com o Paul. Ringo também estava no estúdio, mas não quis gravar “How Do You Sleep?”, tendo até gritado That’s enough, John”, antes de se ir embora frustrado com o ponto a que as relações entre os velhos amigos tinham chegado."


quinta-feira, 4 de outubro de 2018

2018-09: Crítica ao Egypt Station

Desta vez considerado como "Minor entry" no catálogo:
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/album-review-paul-mccartney-remains-full-of-vigor-on-egypt-station/

2018-09: Selecção de músicas da nova versão do Imagine (sound)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoePPPoHp-h/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=tkwoxt8gpcov

quarta-feira, 3 de outubro de 2018

2018-09: Morte de Geoff Emerick

RIP:
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/geoff-emerick-beatles-engineer-dead-1202966681/
Citando:
"Geoff Emerick, the Beatles chief recording engineer who worked on some of the band’s most seminal albums, has died according to his manager William Zabaleta. He was 72 and believed to have suffered a heart attack.

Said Zabaleta in a statement to Variety: “Today at around 2’o’clock, I was making my way back from Arizona to Los Angeles to pick up Geoff so we could transport some gold records and platinum plaques to our show in Tucson. While on the phone, he had complications and dropped the phone. I called 911, but by the time they got there, it was too late. Geoff suffered from heart problems for a long time and had a pacemaker. … When it’s your time it’s your time. We lost a legend and a best friend to me and a mentor.”


Emerick, born Dec. 5, 1945, began working as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road at just 15 years-old and, just a few months months in, was face-to-face with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the London studio. He apprenticed and later worked on such early Beatles’ recordings as “Love Me Do”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You,” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” Later becoming the band’s chief engineer, he helmed “Revolver,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “The White Album” and “Abbey Road” as well as the dual-sided single “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever.” "


sábado, 29 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: Evento de Apresentação da Edição do 50° Aniversário do White Album

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/beatles-white-album-deluxe-giles-martin-1202962127/
Citando:
"The White Album's rep as a contentious project is overblown, said remixer/archivist Martin (son of George), who told the crowd, "I was looking for the arguments and the tension on the tapes, and it was very hard to find."

Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin, previewed his 50th anniversary remix of “The Beatles,” the two-LP opus better known as the White Album, at an invitational event at Capitol Records’ Studio A in Hollywood on Friday.


Unlike last year’s private playback of the younger Martin’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” remix, in which the entire album was unveiled, the White Album session necessarily offered just a sampling of the voluminous seven-disc Super Deluxe package, which will see release Nov. 9, 13 days shy of the collection’s 1968 U.K. release date.


Following brief opening remarks by Capitol Records Group chairman/CEO Steve Barnett and Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones, Martin presented an overview of the 107-track box – which will contain the 27 so-called “Esher demos” recorded at George Harrison’s home, remixes of the 30 original songs and 50 outtakes from the recording sessions, which stretched across five months and hundreds of hours of studio time."


2018-09: 50 anos do filme Yellow Submarine

... celebrado com o retorno do filme às salas de cinema. Hoje foi no Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (em Coimbra):
https://www.thebeatles.com/news/yellow-submarine-returns-big-screen-one-day-cinema-event

quinta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: McCartney e os elogios de John Lennon?

Mais O elogio:
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/paul-mccartney-john-lennon-compliment/

Citando:
"This Sunday, Paul McCartney will appear in his first 60 Minutes profile. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi spent two days with the Beatles songwriter at his U.K. recording studio, and a press release describes the pair’s interviews as “surprisingly intimate,” with Macca sharing “rare details from the Beatles years” and getting misty about the band’s final concert atop London’s Apple Building.

There’s also some laughs to be had, however. In one snippet, McCartney speaks on the competitiveness that spawned between he and bandmate John Lennon, and laughs while recalling that, in all their years together, Lennon only complimented him once."


terça-feira, 25 de setembro de 2018

segunda-feira, 24 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: Reedição do White Album a caminho!

Grandes notícias, com disponibilização de material finalmente tratado devidamente (Giles Martin):
https://nit.pt/opiniao/opiniao-opiniao/vem-ai-reedicao-do-white-album-maior-album-sempre-vai-ficar-ainda-maior

Citando:

"The Beatles Super Deluxe — O maior álbum de sempre vai ficar ainda maior

(...) A reedição do White Album chega a 9 de novembro e vai trazer duas novíssimas remisturas do álbum em Stereo e em Surround, ambas produzidas por Giles Martin — filho de George Martin, produtor dos álbuns originais dos Beatles. Ambas as remisturas, mais a mistura Mono original, vão aparecer na caixa Super Deluxe do White Album, que para além disto ainda oferece um CD das demos gravadas em Maio de 1968, na casa de George em Esher (pequena cidade em Surrey, onde este que vos escreve hoje trabalha) e mais 3 CDs de gravações das sessões do White Album em Abbey Road. Entre estas gravações, vamos poder ouvir uma primeira versão de “Let It Be”, dois anos antes do seu lançamento em 1970. A minha cabeça está a andar à roda.

A reedição do White Album será feita em 5 formatos diferentes."

sábado, 22 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: Video de John Lennon e George Harrison a tocar "How do You Sleep"

How do You Sleep é uma música (de JL sobre PM) que faz parte de uma sequência de "troca de mimos" entre JL e PM com músicas editadas em álbuns de um e de outro motivada pelo mau estar que se gerou entre os Beatles com o anúncio de PM sobre o fim dos Beatles (e processo judicial que se seguiu) ao mesmo tempo que lançava o seu primeiro álbum a solo.

Vídeo de JL e GH que vai ser brevemente editado numa nova compilação (detalhes no artigo):
https://www.jambase.com/article/the-beatles-john-lennon-george-harrison-in-newly-surfaced-video

O vídeo no YouTube (How do You Sleep, John Lennon, takes 5 e 6) com Alan White (que integrou os Yes mais tarde):
https://youtu.be/FoJQAyrUHh

Citando:

"The Beatles’ co-founders John Lennon and George Harrison appear together in a newly surfaced video. The previously unseen footage features the pair recording “How Do You Sleep” for Lennon’s 1971 solo album Imagine.

Lennon plays guitar in the footage from Ascot Sound Studios, the recording facility he built with his wife Yoko Ono in Berkshire County, England. Harrison can be seen playing slide guitar alongside keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, drummer Alan White and bassist Klaus Voormann. According to NPR, Lennon described Harrison’s playing on “How Do You Sleep? (Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take)” as George’s “best guitar solo to date on this cut, as good as anything I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere.”"


2018-09: Sobre o novo álbum de Paul McCartney (Público)

Sobre o novo álbum de PM (revista Ipsilon, parte integrante do jornal Público):
https://www.publico.pt/2018/09/21/culturaipsilon/noticia/paul-mccartney-e-um-historico-mas-ainda-nao-passou-a-historia-1844400

Citando:
"O ex-Beatle não meteu os papéis para a reforma nem se afundou numa poltrona a ver passar os dias. Egypt Station, 17º álbum a solo, diz-nos que a sua lenda ainda está a ser escrita."
(...)
"revista inglesa Mojo que “o avô não pode simplesmente ficar sentado na sua poltrona com um grande charro aceso e uma garrafa de tequila”. Mas a haver alguém cuja necessidade absoluta de acrescentar títulos à discografia é escusada, esse alguém é certamente o ex-Beatles. A menos que ‘Macca’ tenha dado especial relevância ao facto de, em 2015, numa altura em que fazia estrondo a notícia de que Kanye West e McCartney tinham gravado juntos o tema Only one, ter-se disseminado o tweet em que um fã do rapper escrevia: “quem raio é Paul McCartney ???!?? é por isso que adoro o Kanye, por lançar alguma luz sobre artistas desconhecidos”."

domingo, 16 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: PM e Helter Skelter e... tits (mamas, basicamente)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/charles-manson-paul-mccartney-helter-skelter/

Citando:
"McCartey also discussed the rumors of strong language being buried in Beatles tracks, saying: “I remember when we were doing the backing vocals in ‘Hey Jude’, someone says ‘Fuck off’ or something, and you can hear it in the final mix. We didn’t mean to leave it in, but we didn’t ever erase it. And we used to do things like we’d be singing ‘dit dit dit dit dit’ as a backing vocal and we’d change it to ‘tit tit tit tit tit’ for our own amusement. It’s schoolboy stuff. … But it gives you a laugh at that moment, and that’s valuable. You don’t want to sit around being too serious with music.”"

2018-09: Retrospectiva de 25 álbuns de Paul McCartney

Os 25 álbuns de PM vistos assim à pressa, que o tempo não é muito:
https://observador.pt/especiais/vive-e-deixa-viver-os-25-albuns-de-paul-mccartney-de-1970-a-2018/

sexta-feira, 14 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: NBC News review of PM new album

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/paul-mccartney-s-new-album-egyptian-station-highlights-ex-beatle-ncna909466

Citando:
"Obviously, medleys existed before McCartney began exploring them in depth in the late ‘60s, but they mostly fell into two categories: extremely similar songs being performed as one — like Little Richard’s “Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey” (later covered by the Beatles) — or in suites inspired by musical theater or operatic traditions (like in “West Side Story”). McCartney’s innovation, alongside co-conspirators John Lennon and producer George Martin, was to weave together pop songs that were compositionally and narratively separate but thematically linked. As seen on the opening and closing salvos of “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,” these mutant song structures built blooming fictional worlds and corralled the increasingly divergent writing styles of Lennon and McCartney."

2018-09: Sir PM answers to questions (Wired Auto-complete)

https://youtu.be/5Pf19jV1NYw

quinta-feira, 13 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: And now in English: Masturbation what?

Paul McCartney news on the GQ interview (now in English):
https://www.loudersound.com/news/paul-mccartney-recalls-masturbating-with-john-lennon

2018-09: Mais detalhes da entrevista de PM à GQ

Mais umas quantas histórias de Las Vegas e de GH perder a virgindade:
https://observador.pt/2018/09/13/prostitutas-alguns-mitos-e-aquele-momento-com-lennon-paul-mccartney-abre-o-livro-sexual-dos-beatles/

Citando:
"Por alguma razão que ainda não é totalmente clara, aos 76 anos de idade, Paul McCartney aceitou dar uma entrevista à edição britânica da revista GQ para falar sobre as suas aventuras sexuais. Nessa conversa, o cantor, autor, figura incontornável de uma das maiores bandas do século XX arrasta consigo um antigo companheiro de banda de que já se terá ouvido falar: John Lennon. Precisava de fazê-lo? Pode fazê-lo? Há quem diga que sim.

“As histórias nunca contadas de Paul McCartney” foi o título com que a revista embrulhou a conversa. Um dos episódios recordados pelo ex-Beatle — precisamente um que Lennon também protagoniza — é contado assim: “Estávamos em casa do John, éramos uns quantos. E, em vez de nos embebedarmos e de perdermos o controlo, sentámo-nos numa cadeira. Não havia luz e alguém começou a masturbar-se. E começámos todos a fazer o mesmo.”"


terça-feira, 11 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: McCartney e Lennon e... Masturbação?

E quando se julgava que já se sabia tudo sobre Lennon-McCartney, eis que Paul McCartney conta que os dois e mais 3 amigos se masturbaram em conjunto (antes dos Beatles):
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-mccartney-said-he-and-john-lennon-masturbated-together-with-friends_us_5b97e059e4b0cf7b0043fa94

segunda-feira, 10 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: Crítica ao Álbum Novo de Paul McCartney

E as críticas (reviews) começam a aparecer:
https://www.omelete.com.br/musica/criticas/paul-mccartney-egypt-station

Citando:
"“Ele fez de tudo. Ele fez álbuns experimentais. Ele fez álbuns de pop. Tudo que alguém pode querer fazer em um estúdio, ele foi e tentou”. Em entrevista à Rolling Stone, o produtor Greg Kurstin(Adele, Foo Fighters) explicou em poucas palavras o trabalho da carreira de Paul McCartney. Ao resumir a diversidade musical do Beatle, Kurstin explicou bem, ao mesmo tempo, seu último trabalho: Egypt Station."

Filme: How the Beatles Changed the World (2017, Imdb)

The history of The Beatles and their cultural influence:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6170130/
Trailer oficial:

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/how-the-beatles-changed-the-world

2018-09: Quão difícil foi terminar o White Album?

Bastante, aparentemente, pelo relato do livro de George Martin (parte 2):
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/09/the-beatles-struggle-to-finish-the-white-album-how-bad-did-it-get/

Citando:
"And that’s when George chimed in, offering advice to the Beatle about rephrasing his vocals. “Paul, can you try rephrasing the last line of each verse?” George asked. To Geoff’s ears, the Beatles’ producer was adopting the same “gentle, slightly aristocratic voice” that he had always deployed in his dealings with the Beatles. Geoff couldn’t help admiring the older man, later lauding him for “still trying to do his job, still trying to steer his charges toward increased musical sophistication and help push them to their best performances.” But Emerick wasn’t prepared for McCartney’s curt response: “If you think you can do it better, why don’t you fucking come down here and sing it yourself?” The engineer sat there in the booth, dumbstruck by Paul’s tone. “What happened next shocked me to the core,” Emerick later wrote. “In sheer frustration, quiet, low-key George Martin actually began shouting back at Paul. ‘Then bloody sing it again!’ he yelled over the talkback, causing me to wince. ‘I give up. I just don’t know any better how to help you.’ It was the first time I had ever heard George Martin raise his voice in a session. The silence following the outburst was equally deafening.”"

sábado, 8 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: Concerto surpresa de PM na estação Grand Central (Notícia e Video)


http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/07/paul-mccartneys-surprise-nyc-concert-wows-grand-central-commuters.amp.html

Citando:
"The former Beatle performed a rush-hour concert in the majestic main concourse of Grand Central Terminal Friday evening — to the shock of passing commuters.

“This is quite a surprise,” said Stephen McLaughlin, 57, as he waited for a train to Westchester."

Vídeo de Let it Be no Youtube:

https//youtu.be/poX1WbUbadI

E a foto no Twitter:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BneKEvFnYkV/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=18kjdj6aqiezn

Edição: adicionado vídeo a 2018-09-09, foto a 10.


sexta-feira, 7 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: YouTube originals, Paul McCartney Live from NYC

https://youtu.be/1QGxFpSb6Sc

2018-09: Jimmy Fallon e Paul McCartney...

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/paul-mccartney-surprise-fans-in-elevator-on-fallon-720267/
Citando:
"Groups of different fans were riding an elevator under the guise of being taken on an NBC Studios tour in 30 Rockefeller Center. Instead, the elevator opened to a scene of Paul McCartney and Jimmy Fallon doing various things.

One group was treated to the pair casually lounging in velvet robes while reading the newspaper, another group’s elevator doors opened to them playing ping-pong. “No way,” yelled a fan. “Oh yeah, way!” McCartney remarked. Yet another group freaked out when Fallon pretended to do a magic blanket trick, but when he dropped the blanket, McCartney was standing there. Each time, fans screamed in disbelief and delight.

“I thought when I was little I was going to marry Paul McCartney,” one fan said. “So that’s the closest I ever got and I am thrilled.”"


quarta-feira, 5 de setembro de 2018

2018-09: McCartney entrevistado por Howard Stern

E Jack Nicholson é referido:
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/paul-mccartney-opens-up-to-howard-stern-about-beatles-john-and-yoko-new-album-1202927684/

Citando:
"McCartney also talked about a recent encounter with Jack Nicholson. He said the actor came to a party he was at and sat down next to his niece, and then announced himself by saying, “Big balls coming in.” “That’s a little opening line,” McCartney said."

2018-09-05: Egypt Station album review

Reviews start pouring in:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mccartney-egypt-station-review/

segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2018

2018-08: Paul McCartney e Deus

https://observador.pt/2018/09/02/paul-mccartney-acredita-ter-visto-deus-quando-estava-sob-o-efeito-de-drogas-psicadelicas/
Citando:
"O ex-Beatle Paul McCartney afirmou numa entrevista a um jornal britânico publicada este domingo que acredita ter visto Deus numa ocasião em que estava sob o efeito de substâncias psicadélicas. Na entrevista ao The Sunday Times, o músico, de 76 anos, relatou que na altura se sentiu “humilde” perante tal experiência.

Era enorme. Uma parede imensa da qual eu não conseguia ver o topo e eu estava no fundo. Qualquer outra pessoa diria que era apenas a droga, a alucinação, mas nós sentimos que tínhamos visto uma coisa superior”, disse Paul McCartney.


Nos últimos anos dos Beatles, a música do emblemático quarteto de Liverpool foi fortemente influenciada pelo uso de drogas psicadélicas. Na mesma entrevista, McCartney afirmou acreditar que os seus familiares mais próximos que já morreram, incluindo a sua mulher Linda, continuam a olhar por ele."


quarta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2018

2018-08-31: 50 anos da Apple e álbuns interessantes...

... editados, que não os dos Beatles:
https://www.nme.com/blogs/five-great-apple-releases-that-arent-by-the-beatles-2372065

Citando:
"Tomorrow (August 31) marks the 50th anniversary of Apple Records, the artist-friendly label that The Beatles founded when when they returned from their famous mind-expanding trip to India. Back then, the venture was touted as a compassionate alternative to the stranglehold of major labels, with an emphasis on an open-minded, creative atmosphere, rather than one designed to make its bosses bags of money. (They already had bags of money)."

domingo, 26 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: XYZ, Yes, Led Zeppelin e Beatles o quê?

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimmy-page-yes-beatles/

Citando:
"Imagine the legendary rock guitarist who bustled up our hedgerows appearing onstage with the band that recorded a double album around Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi.” The idea seems, as the Brits say, not bloody likely – but it came to pass in the summer of 1984, when Jimmy Page joined Yes for a live rendition of the Beatles‘ “I’m Down.”"
(...)
"The June 24, 1984, concert, which took place in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, found the newly re-ascendant Yes touring triumphantly behind their hit 90125 LP. But just a few years before,  they’d reached one of their periodic low points, with the band going on hiatus following the turbulence of 1980’s Drama. Page was also struggling, coping with depression after the sudden death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and the group’s subsequent breakup.

Read More: The Night Jimmy Page Joined Yes Onstage to Cover a Beatles Song | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimmy-page-yes-beatles/?trackback=tsmclip"

sexta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Várias versões da capa do Abbey Road

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/abbey-road-album-cover-tributes/

Citando:
"The Beatles once planned to call their second 1969 album Everest, after their engineer’s favorite brand of cigarettes. In a logical, if expensive and time-consuming move, they originally intended to travel to the Himalayas to shoot the cover photo. But with the increasingly fractured group unwilling to make that voyage together, McCartney instead sketched out a much easier concept. The album’s title was also changed to the name of the street that was home to their long-time recording studio.

The simplicity of the photograph’s set-up is obviously a major reason such a large number of artists have used Abbey Road homages as their own cover art. Not everybody can commission Klaus Voormann to create an incredible collage of line drawings, or arrange for a room full of life-sized cut-outs of various historical figures. But to recreate Abbey Road, all you really need is a street with a white-striped crosswalk – and as you can see below, even that’s negotiable."

Read More: 50 Years of 'Abbey Road' Album Cover Tributes and Parodies | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/abbey-road-album-cover-tributes/?trackback=tsmclip

quarta-feira, 22 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: A História de Hey Jude, 50 anos depois

https://observador.pt/2018/08/21/hey-jude-tem-50-anos-a-historia-da-musica-que-paul-mccartney-escreveu-para-o-filho-de-john-lennon/

2018-08: Mais uma música do novo álbum de Paul McCartney - Fuh You (Lyric Video) no YouTube

Mais uma música do novo álbum de Paul McCartney - Fuh You (Lyric Video) no YouTube:
(4) Paul McCartney - Fuh You (Lyric Video) - YouTube




2018-08: PM e o boato Paul is dead

... Cerca de 50 anos depois:
http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5373174/paul-mccartney-paul-is-dead-james-corden

Citando:
"During an extended cut of his “Carpool Karaoke” segment that was filmed in his hometown of Liverpool and aired on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show, the former Beatle revealed his reaction to the far-fetched fan theory. “We just kind of let it go,” he explained.

McCartney also discussed the time he spent nine days in a Japanese prison after getting caught with marijuana at the Tokyo airport in 1980. “I still am hazy as to how that happened, but it did,” he said. “And in my suitcase, yes, there was some marijuana in the suitcase. And I ended up in jail.”"


2018-08: How do you sleep (alt. Take)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnW76gH3qS/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=sj75n6o52ut9

terça-feira, 21 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Os filhos dos Beatles na música

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-children-musicians/

Citando:
"


The first Beatles child to enter the music business has also been the most successful. Julian Lennon's 1984 debut, Valotte, featured two Top 10 singles (the title track and "Too Late for Goodbyes") and went platinum. But future efforts had diminishing sales, and Lennon was eventually disillusioned by the industry's attempt to portray him as the reincarnation of his father, John Lennon."


segunda-feira, 20 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Fuh you?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-mcartney-raunchy-new-song-fuh-you_us_5b7ac4a4e4b018b93e95f816?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

Citando:
"When you listen to the song on YouTube, it definitely sounds as if “Fuh You” is a whitewashed substitute for “fuck you.” The line sounds like “I just wanna fuck you.”"

2018-08: As 227 canções dos Beatles

... não sei bem porque ordem ;)... O número 227 também está explicado (inclui alguns inéditos do Anthology):
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/every-beatles-song/

Citando:
"By our calculations, the Beatles recorded 227 songs that were officially released over the years, not including BBC or live tracks.

Still, things get a little complicated in our list of All 227 Beatles Songs Ranked Worst to Best. We’ve included a handful of demo-like tracks featured on the Anthology collections that were originally intended as group songs but never fully recorded by the band at a time when the four Beatles – George HarrisonJohn LennonPaul McCartney and Ringo Starr – were working independently from one another, anyway. We also included the two newly assembled songs found on the first two Anthologys that the surviving Beatles based around a pair of Lennon demos."


2018-08: Livro de Womack fala de amuo de George Martin

... durante as gravações do White AlbumGeorge Martin Was ‘Frozen Out’ of Beatles’ White Album Sessions 

Citando:
"Womack said he’d spoken to sound engineers and tape operators for his book Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, the Later Years, 1966–2016. “I asked them what George was doing when John [Lennon] was playing a particular guitar part or when Ringo [Starr] was working on some drum part,” Womack told the Guardian. “They would say, ‘Nothing, he was in the back of the booth, reading newspapers, sharing his chocolate with us.’ He was on a kind of a chocolate-and-newspaper strike.”

The author said that, along with the Epstein tragedy, the falling-out “also had a lot to do with a Time magazine article in 1967 where George was credited with being this wunderkind and the mastermind behind Sgt Pepper. “They didn’t take very well to that and let him know,” Womack added. “I do think this was the beginning of this struggle over ‘Who’s the genius behind the Beatles?’ This was payback for taking credit for the Beatles myth. … But they coaxed him back for Abbey Road [in 1969].”
"

2018-08: Carpool karaoke extended

https://tv.avclub.com/paul-mccartney-joins-james-corden-for-a-super-sized-edi-1828400201

Citando:
"Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool (CBS, 8 p.m.): If you want to see an extended version of Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool without staying up past your Monday-night bedtime, CBS has you covered. This primetime special boasts additional footage of Late Late Show host James Corden hanging out with Sir Paul McCartney in the latter’s hometown, though as our own Myles McNutt notes in a forthcoming feature, little of that magic occurs within the confines of a Range Rover. But as we reach the dog days of summer proper, we suppose we could do worse than watch these two harmonize while going for a spin."

quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2018

2018-08-16: Beatles e Aretha Franklin

RIP Aretha Franklin. Eis o que Paul McCartney e Ringo Starr disseram:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-aretha-franklin-712134/

Citando:
"The two surviving Beatles paid tribute to Aretha Franklin today following the news of the Queen of Soul’s deathPaul McCartney and Ringo Starr issued separate statements, each praising the artist for her musical impact.

“Let’s all take a moment to give thanks for the beautiful life of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of our souls, who inspired us all for many, many years,” McCartney wrote, paired with a photo that was shot looking up at her as if in awe. “She will be missed but the memory of her greatness as a musician and a fine human being will live with us forever. Love Paul.”

Starr simply wrote, “God bless Aretha Franklin the queen of soul and peace and love to her family.” He accompanied the note with emojis for music, peace and love."

E estas são as 3 covers que Aretha fez de músicas dos Beatles, 2 delas ainda antes do grupo se separar:

https://youtu.be/2UoTvwfo_rU (Let it be)

https://youtu.be/fb_GM-ONgLo (Eleanor Rigby)

https://youtu.be/e-ExwR4Buks (The Long and Winding Road)





terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Selfie de filhos

Continuamos nas futilidades, mas em boa verdade não é mau que se dêem bem (o James já tocou em álbuns do pai e é irmão da Stella, esta famosa no campo da moda) ;)
Selfie de Sean Lennon com James McCartney:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/entertainment/sean-lennon-james-mccartney-selfie/index.html

2018-08: Julian Lennon em Lisboa

https://mag.sapo.pt/showbiz/artigos/julian-lennon-filho-de-john-lennon-esteve-em-lisboa-e-mostrou-tudo-no-instagram

Citando:
"Julian Lennon, filho de John Lennon e da artista plástica Cynthia Lennon, esteve de férias em Lisboa e aproveitou para mostrar os seus passeios pela capital portuguesa na sua conta no Instagram.

O músico britânico de 55 anos andou de tuk tuk pela cidade, filmou a vista do Miradouro de Monsanto, visitou o Mercado da Ribeira, o Terreiro do Paço e saiu à noite em Alfama."

https://www.instagram.com/julespicturepalace/



sábado, 11 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Quem escreveu o quê? (In My Life)

Matemática, dizem os autores do artigo, diz que foi Lennon que escreveu o In My Life:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=637468053
Citando:
"Mathematics professor Jason Brown spent 10 years working with statistics to solve the magical mystery. Brown's the findings were presented on Aug. 1 at the Joint Statistical Meeting in a presentation called "Assessing Authorship of Beatles Songs from Musical Content: Bayesian Classification Modeling from Bags-Of-Words Representations."

Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin breaks down how Brown figured it out. Read Devlin's edited conversation with NPR's Scott Simon below and listen at the audio link."

(...)

""Bags of words"? What are they?

It actually goes back to the 1950s. It's used by the computer scientists who created spam filters. What you do is you take a piece of text, and you ignore the grammar, you ignore the word order, and you just regard it as a collection of words. And once you've done that, you can count the frequencies of the different words in the bag of words. To do it for music, you had to get little snippets, and the way they did that was the team analyzed, I think, about 70 songs from Lennon and McCartney, and they found there were 149 very distinct transitions between notes and chords that are present in almost all Beatles songs. And those transitions will be unique to one person or the other person."


Another source is:

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/magical-mystery-song-math-solves-beatles-songwriting-puzzle/


Updated: second source. 


2018: Carpool Karaoke

... with Paul McCartney is here:
https://youtu.be/QjvzCTqkBDQ

2018-08: Livro sobre a vida de George Martin

1966 até se ter reformado (segunda parte da história já contada noutro livro desde 1926). A rejeição de trabalhar com a EMI, os estúdios que teve (AIR studios, o de Montserrat, etc.) e a forma como diplomaticamente se soube sempre mover e manter mesmo com quando os Beatles poderiam ter trabalhado com outros:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2018/08/10/beatles-producer-george-martins-lessons-on-music-business-survival-money-making/

terça-feira, 7 de agosto de 2018

2018-08: Paul is dead - o rumor revisitado

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180807-paul-is-dead-a-beatles-secret-message-in-an-album-cover

Citando:
"There’s a crazy rumour that’s persisted for over 50 years that Paul McCartney actually died in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike imposter.

It was so well-known that Life magazine referred to it in the title – Paul is still with us – of a 1969 cover story about the musician.  McCartney himself referenced the ‘Paul is dead’ myth on his 1993 album Paul Is Live. He also parodied the iconic album art of Abbey Road, which conspiracy theorists alleged contained clues suggesting McCartney’s replacement with a dead ringer."


sexta-feira, 3 de agosto de 2018

2018-07: A mulher do assassino de Lennon

Várias notícias sobre o facto da mulher do assassino de Lennon saber dos planos...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6024999/amp/The-wife-John-Lennons-assassin-Mark-Chapman-reveals-TOLD-plans.html

https://nypost.com/2018/08/04/john-lennon-assassins-wife-admits-she-knew-of-murder-plot/amp/

quarta-feira, 25 de julho de 2018

2018-07: Paul McCartney e a passadeira de Abbey Road

http://blitz.sapo.pt/principal/update/2018-07-24-Quase-50-anos-depois-da-famosa-capa-de-disco-Paul-McCartney-atravessa-Abbey-Road

Citando:
"Quase 50 anos após o lançamento de "Abbey Road", dos Beatles, Paul McCartney voltou a atravessar a estrada onde foi tirada a fotografia que deu origem à icónica capa do disco.

O músico estava a caminho dos estúdios Abbey Road, onde deu um concerto especial para alguns convidados, tendo a sua filha, Mary, filmado a ocasião."


terça-feira, 24 de julho de 2018

2018-04-14: Beatles e a Economia

Beatles and the impact in the economy?
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/plan-sort-out-mathew-street-14525141

2018-07: Join Paul for a Facebook Live Q & A | PaulMcCartney.com

Join Paul for a Facebook Live Q & A | PaulMcCartney.com

Citando:

"Paul will be returning to his old school in Liverpool, now LIPA (The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), on Wednesday 25th July for an intimate hour long Q & A and conversation session with LIPA students. The event will be streamed live on Facebook allowing fans from all over the world to tune in and watch Paul talk about his career and his forthcoming new album Egypt Station which will be released on September 7.

For those watching the event on Facebook they too have the opportunity to join in. Paul would like to ask fans from around the world to submit questions to his Facebook page in advance. A select few will be chosen to be answered as part of the event. Please click HERE if you have a question you would like to ask Paul.

LIPA was co-founded by Paul in 1996 and he remains their Lead Patron."

sábado, 21 de julho de 2018

2018-07: Julian Lennon, o pai e um livro

Baseado numa premonição do pai (in PT):
https://www.dn.pt/cultura/interior/premonicao-de-john-lennon-inspira-livro-infantil-ao-filho--9621395.html

Citando:
"O próprio Julian Lennon remete para o pai a razão de ter escrito este livro para crianças tantos anos depois da sua morte. Conta que num dos raros encontros entre ambos - Julian é filho de Chyntia, a primeira mulher do músico - o pai lhe dissera que "quando falecesse haveria uma forma de demonstrar que ia ficar bem e que todos íamos ficar bem". Segundo Julian, o pai enviar-lhe-ia uma mensagem sob a forma de uma pena branca e foi o que aconteceu anos depois: "Durante uma viagem pela Austrália [a promover um seu disco], recebi das mãos de uma anciã aborígene, do povo Mirning, que procurava ajuda para a sua tribo, uma pena branca. Fiquei sem fôlego.""

O livro:
"Uma parte das receitas da venda deste livro destinam-se à fundação de Julian Lennon, sobre quem Bono, o vocalista dos U2, já disse ser um admirador porque "as suas melodias têm um certo encanto infantil".

Vamos Ajudar a Terra

De Julian Lennon, com Bart Davis e ilustrações de Smiljana Coh"


quinta-feira, 12 de julho de 2018

2018-07: Drake bate recorde dos Beatles

https://www.dn.pt/cultura/interior/amp/drake-bate-recorde-dos-beatles-com-sete-musicas-no-top-10-da-tabela-da-billboard-9576748.html


Citando:
"A lista da Billboard reúne as canções mais ouvidas da semana nos Estados Unidos, por popularidade, compilando dados de vendas e transmissões. Em abril de 1964, os Beatles ocupavam os cinco primeiros lugares do top com os temas Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand e Please Please Me.

Mas Drake tem agora sete temas no Top 10 o que é um recorde. O cantor conta agora com 31 êxitos no Top 10, ficando empatado com Rihanna, no terceiro lugar, sendo que à sua frente se encontram os Beatles com 34 êxitos e Madonna com 38."

quarta-feira, 11 de julho de 2018

2018-07: 10 melhores álbuns a solo

http://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/10-best-beatles-solo-albums-own-vinyl/

Citando:
"After the break-up in 1970 each of the four men struggled to shake off the Beatles, to show that they were more than the band and prove to themselves and naysayers that they could do it on their own. This pressure actually proved fruitful in the early 1970s and explains why most of the albums on this list are from that time period. From endearing pop to bitter vitriol, from themes of tearing down false idols to just trying to put out enjoyable music, these 10 albums not only give us a better idea of their individual contributions to the Beatles but they also help provide insight into their state of mind. It wasn’t until one of these post-Beatles efforts that you could actually understand George’s disillusionment, John’s anger, Paul’s ambition, and Ringo’s desire to collaborate with those who take his contributions seriously. Fanatics will refuse to believe it but some of these albums sit up there with the best Beatles albums. Don’t believe me? Read on and then go listen for yourselves."

sexta-feira, 6 de julho de 2018

2018-07: Paul McCartney e o copyright na UE

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/984362/eu-news-copyright-paul-mccartney-beatles

Citando:
"The revamp is based on a proposal by the European Commission to take into account the growing role of online platforms. A key committee at the European Parliament subsequently added more muscle to the proposal to give more power to Europe's creative industries.

However, lawmakers on Thursday voted against opening talks with EU countries based on the committee's recommendation. Parliament will now have to revise the proposal for a vote in September before starting talks with EU countries that have already adopted their own position.

McCartney had written an letter to MEPs urging them to take action.

He said: “Music and culture matter. They are our heart and soul.

“The proposed copyright directive will help assure a sustainable future for the music ecosystem and its creators, fans and digital music services alike.”"

sábado, 30 de junho de 2018

Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke participation take Beatles to the top...

... again:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/paul-mccartneys-carpool-karaoke-sends-beatles-1-back-uk-top-40/

Citando:
"Paul McCartney’s appearance on the Carpool Karaoke feature on The Late Late Show With James Corden, which aired on 21 June and attracted worldwide publicity, has sent The Beatles’ retrospective back into the UK top 40. That’s the first such appearance for the album since late 2015, when the augmented 1+ version was released."

2018-06: The Sergeant Pepper's infographic


https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/sgt-pepper-numbers-infographic/

sexta-feira, 22 de junho de 2018

2018-06: PM tem novo álbum em Setembro

https://www.abola.pt/nnh/Noticias/Ver/736541

Citando:
"Paul McCartney anunciou o seu novo álbum, «Egypt Station», que será lançado no dia 7 de setembro. É o 17.º trabalho a solo do ex-Beatle, que não tinha trabalhos inéditos desde o álbum «New», de 2013.

O álbum contará com 14 faixas, duas já divulgadas: «I Don’t Know» e «Come On To Me».

A capa foi elabora a partir de pinturas de autoria do cantor."

2018-06: Paul McCartney visita bairro onde cresceu...

... Durante o programa Carpool Karaoke:

https://youtu.be/QjvzCTqkBDQ

https://www.jn.pt/pessoas/in/interior/paul-mccartney-visita-bairro-onde-cresceu-a-boleia-de-james-corden-9498915.html

https://www.metrojornal.com.br/metroamp/entretenimento/2018/06/22/voce-e-beatlemaniaco-prepare-o-lencinho-para-esse-carpool-karaoke-com-paul-mccartney-por-liverpool.html

segunda-feira, 14 de maio de 2018

2018-05-15: Primeira guitarra de GH vai a leilão

Por "apenas" 220 mil libras (cerca de 250K EUR):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/13/george-harrisons-first-electric-guitar-sale-220000/

Citando:
"Harrison once described it as "the most fantastic guitar ever", but was persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to give it away to promote their 1966 Germany tour.

His guitar was offered as the star prize for the winners of 'The Best Beat Band in Germany' organised by German music venue Star Club where the band had played in the early 60s.

The competition was won by local band The Faces and the instrument was presented to Frank Dostal, its singer and guitarist.

Dostal kept hold of it until his death last year but his widow Mary Dostal, a former member of Liverpool band the Liverbirds, has consigned it for sale with US based auction house Julien's Auctions.

Martin Nolan, auctioneer at Julien's, said: "As part of the promotion for the Germany 1966 tour the Star Club called Brian Epstein to see if he could give away a Beatles guitar as a price.

"Harrison was asked to give up this guitar, which he did, and it was signed by their road manager Neil Aspinall who forged all four of the Beatles' signatures."


sábado, 12 de maio de 2018

quarta-feira, 9 de maio de 2018

2018-04-29: Crítica da peça Lennon's banjo (Liverpool)

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-news/lennons-banjo-show-swift-need-14589767

"It wasn’t terrible, there’s a fascinating story at its heart and it has the potential to be a great caper.

But somebody needs to take a big red pen to the script of Lennon’s Banjo before it can become a staple of the city’s extra curricular Beatles offerings - and soon.

Based on the book Julia’s Banjo, this deals with the much sought-after instrument once owned by John Lennon’s mother, the one she used to teach her son the wonders that be unlocked from finding the right chords. A good job she did too. It’s still out there somewhere and worth millions to the finder."

2018-05-09: Record de Beatles batido por Post Malone

http://www.nme.com/news/music/post-malone-breaks-the-beatles-us-chart-record-2311002

Citando:
"Rapper smashes record for the most simultaneous top 20 in the Hot 100

Post Malone has broken a US chart record previously co-held by The Beatles.


In a two-star reviewNME‘s Larry Bartleet described the 22-year-old’s second album Beerbongs & Bentleys’ as “directionless”, arguing that it made “the rockstar lifestyle sound beige”.

After beating Anne-Marie and Blossoms to number one in the UK, Post Malone has now claimed his first US number one, shifting 461,000 equivalent album units.

He has also broken the record for the most simultaneous top 20 in the Hot 100. The star has nine songs in the top 20 this week, breaking The Beatles and J Cole‘s previous record of six. Post Malone has also broken the record for the most simultaneous top 40 tracks with 14 songs in the chart this week."

quarta-feira, 25 de abril de 2018

2017-10-09: Aos 77, as melhores letras de Lennon

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lennon-best-lyrics-birthday-the-beatles-a7990891.html

Citando:
"Over 40 years since the Beatles celebrated the peak of their career and changed music forever and today (9 October) would have been John Lennon’s 77th birthday. 

A singer, songwriter, and activist, Lennon’s work remains at the inspirational core of popular music and is cherished in the heart of fans across the world.


On his birthday, we look back at the seven best lyrics of his career. 


Tomorrow Never Knows, 1966


‘Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream


It is not dying, it is not dying’
"

segunda-feira, 23 de abril de 2018

2018-04-23: Auto-retrato de John Lennon vendido em leilão

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lennon-hitler-self-portrait-sold-45000-dollars-beatles-a8317726.html

Citando:
"John Lennon's self-portrait of himself as Hitler sells for $54k

There are several known self-portraits taken from Lennon's personal sketchbook which incorporate Nazi iconography


(...)

In 2007, Sir Peter Blake – who co-created the cover - revealed to The Independent that Hitler did actually make the final line-up, but is simply obscured by the Beatles themselves. ”Yes he is on there – you just can’t see him,” he said. 

He added: “If you look at photographs of the out-takes, you can see the Hitler image in the studio. With the crowd behind there was an element of chance about who you can and cannot see, and we weren’t quite sure who would be covered in the final shot. Hitler was in fact covered up behind the band.”"

sábado, 21 de abril de 2018

2018-04-22: Álbuns de maior valor de sempre

... Inclui 5 álbuns com membros de Beatles:
https://www.joe.co.uk/entertainment/record-store-day-expensive-valuable-173915

Citando:
"Setting a new record for a non-autographed, still sealed, mint condition album, Yesterday and Today by The Beatles sold for $125,000 in 2016. Released in 1966, the album instantly caused uproar because of its cover art depicting the band in butcher coats with doll parts and bloody meat scattered everywhere. Although it was intended as pop art satire, a letter was sent out by Capitol Records to various individuals, including reviewers and Beatles Chapter President, Cynthia Winter, to explain that the album was being recalled and the artwork was being changed.

Rather than throwing the album covers out though, a decision was made to cover-up the original album cover with a less controversial image applied as a sticker over the original cover. These albums are known as "second-state" Butcher covers. Therefore anyone with an original version might just be in the money."


domingo, 15 de abril de 2018

1963-04-14: Beatles conhecem Rolling Stones

https://observador.pt/2018/04/14/ha-55-anos-os-beatles-descobriam-os-rolling-stones/

Citando:
"Há precisamente 55 anos, a 14 de abril de 1963, as duas bandas inglesas que daí a uns meses começariam um longo reinado como as maiores do Reino Unido (para muitos, são as duas maiores bandas de sempre) encontravam-se pela primeira vez. O encontro aconteceu num pub londrino chamado Crawdaddy Club, que tinha como “banda da casa” o então ainda muito jovem grupo de Mick Jagger e Keith Richards.

A noite era de folga para o quarteto de Liverpool, à época já muito mediático, que acabara de atuar pela terceira vez no programa de televisão (dedicado à música) Thank Your Lucky Stars (já lá haviam estado em janeiro e fevereiro desse ano). Recém chegados a Londres, para onde se haviam mudado, os Beatles estavam curiosos, queriam conhecer a cena musical da cidade."

segunda-feira, 9 de abril de 2018

2018-04-10: Escrever com a letra de John Lennon (fonte)?

https://shifter.pt/2018/04/letra-de-kurt-cobain-fonte-john-lenon/
A fonte para John Lennon pode ser descarregada aqui:
https://www.songwritersfonts.com/s/John.zip

Citando:
"Songwriters Fonts é um projecto de Nicolas Damiens e Julien Sens. Os designers dizem na apresentação do site que esperam que escrever com a letra destes músicos inspiradores ajude os seus utilizadores a desenvolver a imaginação e a entrar no mood de quem a escreveu à mão."

sábado, 7 de abril de 2018

2013-01-26: Ghrol esquece reunião de Nirvana

... por tocar com Paul McCartney:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/dave-grohl-39-1258779

Citando:
"Dave Grohl has revealed that he, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear were so overwhelmed to be jamming with Paul McCartney that they didn’t realise it was a Nirvana reunion.


All four were in the Sound City Studio laying down their collaborative track, titled ‘Cut Me Some Slack’, to be used in Grohl’s documentary film about the infamous US recording studio, but the former Nirvana trio were too startled by their guest to realise it was the first time in 20 years that they had played together."

quarta-feira, 4 de abril de 2018

2018-04-04: Livro de Derek Taylor "As Times Goes By" reeditado

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/04/as-time-goes-by-derek-taylor-beatles-review

Citando:
"“Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and George and John and Paul are alive and well and full of hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops – that’ll be the time to worry. Not before.” So ran the press release that announced the end of the Beatles on 11 April 1970, some time after they had actually broken up. It was written by Derek Taylor, a loquacious native of the Wirral who had served as their press officer in 1964, and again from 1968 until the end, when he headed the press department of Apple, their record company and doomed experiment in “western communism” .

Alongside their manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin, Taylor – who was born in 1932 and died in 1997 – was one of the group’s inner circle whose comparatively advanced years and very English urbanity added to the sense that, however exotic their outward appearance, the Beatles kept one collective foot in a world of tea, biscuits and impeccable manners. He was working for the Daily Express when he and his wife Joan first saw the band, on a UK tour shared with Roy Orbison in 1963. “Though maybe at the ‘wrong’ end of that generation,” he later wrote, “we were nevertheless open thereafter to the possibilities of being truly young in heart.”"
(...)

"As Time Goes By is published by Faber. To order a copy for £8.49 (RRP £9.99) go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99."

sábado, 24 de março de 2018

2018-03-24: 350+ fotos dos Beatles nos EUA inéditas

Vendidas em leilão:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/24/beatles-unseen-photographs-baltimore-washington-mike-mitchell-auction

Citando:
"A teenage portfolio of more than 350 previously unseen photos of The Beatles’ early invasion of America has fetched £253,200 at auction on Merseyside.

The photographer Mike Mitchell’s images show the band arriving in 1964 for their first concerts in the States at Washington DC and Baltimore. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who was knighted this week, are also shown at pre-show press conferences and on stage.


A total lot of 413 negatives were sold with copyright for £253,200 by Omega Auctions and only 46 of these pictures had been seen before, at auction in 2011.


Mitchell, who was 18 at the time, had wanted to photograph the Fab Four after watching their famous television performance on the Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964. He said: “I was very motivated to come up with stuff that was as unique as could possibly be.”


He took shots of the band as they arrived for their first US concert at the Washington Coliseum two days later, using natural light because he could not afford a flash. He was there again when they played the Baltimore Civic Center on 13 September, even getting on to the stage to secure a better view."

2018-03-24: Paul McCartney vai a marcha contra armas


Video da CNN na ligação:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-attends-match-for-our-lives-anti-gun-john-lennon-2272644

Citando:

"One
of my best friends was killed in gun violence”

Paul McCartney attended the anti-gun ‘March For Our Lives’ in remembrance of his former Beatles bandmate, John Lennon.

The march today (March 24) will bring together hundreds of thousands of people across the US and internationally to protest the lack of stricter gun control laws following the proliferation  of mass shooting across the US and notably the Parkland school shooting where 17 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in history."

terça-feira, 20 de março de 2018

2018-03-20: Ringo Starr é cavaleiro

... 21 anos depois de Paul McCartney:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43472196

Citando:
"Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has been knighted for his services to music.

The Duke of Cambridge bestowed the honour on the Liverpool-born star at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.


"It means a lot actually," the musician told the BBC. "It means recognition for the things we've done. I was really pleased to accept this."


The honour comes 53 years after the Beatles were all awarded the MBE - and Starr said he had missed his bandmates' companionship this time round.

"I was a bit shaky today on my own," he said."

Mais fontes (e fotos):

http://people.com/royals/sir-ringo-starr-is-a-knight-see-prince-william-award-the-beatle-a-royal-title/


sábado, 17 de março de 2018

2018-03-14: PM e o neto

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5511853/Paul-McCartney-stars-grandchildren-look-just-like-them.html

Citando:
"This picture gallery of famous stars and their grandchildren shows that genes may in fact skip a generation 

It shows stars like Paul McCartney, Kirk Douglas and Grace Kelly and compares them to their grandchildren


They have a lot of shared features with their descendants, from the same eyes, to hair and the same smiles


The idea that genes skip a generation is a popular one and these revealing photos may finally be the evidence that's needed to prove the theory.


The images show famous stars and compare their likeness to their grandchildren - with stunning and surprising results.


The younger generation seem to be the spitting image of their illustrious, famous grandparents and they look almost indistinguishable in some cases. 


One set of photos show a young Paul McCartney pictured in his Beatles days in 1963 and compare him with his grandson Arthur, 18, who looks to have inherited his good looks."


sexta-feira, 16 de março de 2018

2018-03-14: Paul McCartney em segunda classe?

Parece que sim!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5509913/Sir-Paul-McCartney-stuns-commuters-choosing-SECOND-CLASS-train.html

Citando:
"Sir Paul McCartney may have an estimated fortune of £780 million but the Beatles legend is not averse to saving the odd penny here and there.

The 75-year-old was spotted rushing onto a train yesterday just before it pulled out of Charing Cross railway station.

Rather than opting for first class, down-to-earth Sir Paul settled down in second class, sitting alongside ordinary commuters and their bicycles

Dressed smartly in a suit and crisp white shirt, Britain's most famous singer songwriter kept a low profile as he sat quietly on his own in the carriage. "


2018-03-13: Viúva de George Martin assaltada

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5507031/Widow-fifth-Beatle-calls-police-burgled.html

Citando:
"The widow of ‘fifth Beatle’ Sir George Martin locked herself in the bathroom in terror as masked burglars forced their way into her home.

Judy Martin, 89, dialled 999 after discovering two intruders at her house in an Oxfordshire village. Uniformed officers arrived with sirens blaring within minutes, forcing the pair to flee empty-handed.

Despite support from a police helicopter with a thermal imaging camera, the suspects escaped and remain on the run. 

One line of inquiry is that the intruders thought priceless Beatles memorabilia was in the house."

sábado, 10 de março de 2018

2018-03-10: Beatles in Dundee photos (leilão)

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/615315/beatles-for-sale-rare-photos-of-fab-four-in-dundee-set-to-fetch-thousands/
Citando:
"Rare photographs of The Beatles performing in Dundee in 1964 are expected to sell for thousands of pounds when they go under the hammer later this month.

The photographs and negatives, which are being sold with full copyright, contain candid images of the Fab Four being before and during their October 20 gig at the Caird Hall.

The photographs were taken by Dundee based professional photographer Winnie Forbes-Cochrane.

They are up for sale alongside a black and white cine film of The Beatles during their stay at the Four Seasons Hotel in St Fillans on the banks of Loch Earn during their 1964 tour."

quarta-feira, 7 de março de 2018

2018-03-07: Livro de recepção assinado por Beatles vai a leilão

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/peterborough-hotel-directory-signed-by-beatles-up-for-auction-1-8405116
Citando:
"While Lennon wrote on the form there would 33 people staying in his room, McCartney went 15 better with 58. George Harrison said there would be two staying in his room while manager Brian Epstein and Ringo Starr wrote just one apiece. The gig in Peterborough came shortly after the release of the Fab Four’s first major hit Love Me Do. The group signed into The Bull Hotel in Peterborough on Sunday,December 2, 1962 ahead of their performance later that evening at the Embassy Cinema. Brian Epstein had managed to get The Beatles onto the bill of Frank Ifield’s two shows on the night at the Embassy."

sexta-feira, 2 de março de 2018

2018-03-03: Novo filme sobre os Beatles?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5452613/Danny-Boyle-Richard-Curtis-making-Beatles-movie.html


Citando:
"Boyle, who won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, will direct the film which has the tentative title of All You Need Is Love, although London-based studio Working Title has insisted that the secretive project is still untitled.

Curtis, responsible for British classics such as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, has written the script for All You Need Is Love, which is about a struggling musician who, for plot reasons as yet unknown, thinks he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four."

P.S.: Another source for the news:

http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/beatles/danny-boyle-for-the-beatles-musical-movie/

quarta-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2018

2018-02-21: Aniversário de GH celebrado no País de Gales

Por 30 GBP com jantar e direito a falar com a secretária do clube de fãs de 1962 a 1972, Freda Kelly:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/beatles-fans-invited-mark-george-14314161

Citando:
"[anniversary] marked in the most surprising of places.

An event celebrating the life of the former Beatle who passed away in 2001 is being held at Portmeirion in North Wales.

The Italian Renaissance-style village was the distinctive setting for the ‘60s television series The Prisoner and was also a favourite spot for The Beatles with George holding his 50th birthday party there in 1993."

domingo, 18 de fevereiro de 2018

2016-06-10: Músicas com GH em álbum de Gary Wright

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-06-10/lost-george-harrison-tracks-gary-wright-spooky-tooth-album-1972

Citando:
"10 Jun 2016

Guitar tracks recorded by George Harrison in 1972 for Spooky Tooth’s Gary White will be released next month

Lost guitar tracks recorded by late Beatle George Harrison in 1972 will be released next month.

He contributed to Spooky Tooth frontman Gary Wright’s Wonderwheel album Ring Of Changes – but the album was abandoned, with only the single I Know being heard.

Harrison is heard on Goodbye Sunday and several other tracks when Ring Of Changes is launched via Esoteric Recordings on July 29.

The label say: “Following his departure from Spooky Tooth after the Ceremony album, Wright participated in sessions for Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, and enjoyed a solo career that culminated in him forming the band Wonderwheel."

2018-02-18: As 10 melhores canções de GH nos Beatles?

http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-06-27/the-top-10-best-beatles-songs-written-by-george-harrison

sábado, 17 de fevereiro de 2018

2018-02-17: George Harrison e a irmã

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5402827/George-Harrisons-secret-trip-Beatlemania-hit.html

Citando:
"Louise, who moved to the US more than 50 years ago, says her brother's visit when he was 20 years old was very different to the lifestyle he would later have. 

'It was probably the last time in his life that George could ever go anywhere without being recognised and mobbed by fans, the last time he could feel like a normal human being,' she said.

'When he got off the plane in St Louis there wasn't a single fan waiting. 

'Nobody tore at his clothes or screamed for his autograph. No squads of police, no gangs of reporters. It was such a relief for him.

'In the middle of all that craziness George enjoyed a holiday in the US where he could feel human again.'"