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/