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’
"

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

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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.”"

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.”"
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"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."