segunda-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2019

2019-12-29: Morre Neil Innes...

... porcessado por ATV Music (que publica algumas das músicas dos Beatles nos EUA):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

Citando:
"Innes’ spoof songs were targeted by Beatles publisher ATV Music who successfully argued that Lennon and McCartney should be added to the songwriting credits, and settled out of court with Innes’ publisher. After another legal dispute, Innes was added to the credits of Oasis’s song Whatever, which was deemed to have imitated his song How Sweet to Be an Idiot. “The music business is like a school where big boys come and take your candy away,” Innes said in 2013. “No other business in the world gets away with stealing like the music business – apart from banking.”"

2019-12: Morreu Neil Innes...

... músico e comediante com ligações aos Monty Python e aos Beatles (filme dos Rutles, etc.):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-obituary

Citando:
"A singer, pianist and guitarist, Neil wrote the Bonzos’ jaunty hit single I’m the Urban Spaceman, produced by Paul McCartney, which peaked at No 5 in the UK charts in 1968 and won the composer an Ivor Novello award. He also coined the phrase Cool Britannia, which became a mantra for the Labour party when Tony Blair was prime minister, much to Neil’s mild dismay. He thought its political use was decidedly uncool.
(...)
From 1973 onwards his musical director was John Altman, who said: “He really was a very talented guy. When you heard his songs for the Rutles, you’d think ‘This is as good as the Beatles.’ George Harrison became a huge fan and was always in the studio when we were recording.” He famously said he that he liked The Rutles better than he did the Beatles.”
(...)
The Beatles connection was forged when the now professional band appeared in the film The Magical Mystery Tour (1967), for which Neil wrote the gangster themed Death Cab for Cutie.
(...)
In Idle’s song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, from Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), Neil contributed the cheery whistling, and the Rutles had their own mockumentary film, All You Need Is Cash (1978).
"
Sobre o filme a parodiar os Beatles e em que George Harrison participa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE

Magical Mystery Tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFf8FOIYdw8

Ouçam as músicas, vale bem a pena.

sexta-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2019

2019-12: Hey Jude, Rui Patrício e...

... Wolverhampton?
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/desporto/1384661/triunfo-do-wolverhampton-sobre-o-city-festejado-ao-som-de-beatles

Citando:
"Triunfo do Wolverhampton sobre o City festejado ao som de... Beatles

'Hey Jude' deu maior colorido à festa dos lobos de Nuno Espírito Santo.

27/12/19 23:43

O Triunfo do Wolverhampton diante do Manchester City (3-2), em jogo realizado esta sexta-feira e referente ao encerramento da 19.ª jornada da Premier League, contou com uma enorme festa por parte dos adeptos e jogadores após o apito final. Ao som do tema 'Hey Jude' dos Beatles, Rui Patrício e Conor Coady foram dois dos rostos de satisfação perante um triunfo que resultou de uma remontada e que deixou os adeptos eufóricos. "

quarta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2019

terça-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2019

2019-12: Abbey Road Xmas Version

Ringo Starr published a Xmas version of the Abbey Road cover:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6eMa4_pnQ9/?igshid=ugn2t1f1s0tp

2019-12: Christmas present?

Todos os álbuns para fins não comerciais?
https://www.revistabula.com/23998-a-discografia-completa-dos-beatles-para-download-gratuito/

segunda-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2019

1964: Peter & Gordon e a música de Lennon-McCartney

Boas festas.
Ainda consigo aprender qualquer coisa em 2020 sobre os Beatles. Conheciam a música escrita por Lennon e McCartney (mais por McCartney) para Peter & Gordon e que chegou ao número 1 dos tops?
- https://g.co/kgs/P9Nvna
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Without_Love

E outra (gravada poucos meses depois):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_I_Know

sexta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2019

terça-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2019

2019-12-08: 39 anos da morte de Lennon

https://blitz.pt/principal/update/2019-12-09-39-anos-depois-o-Sean-o-Julian-e-eu-ainda-sentimos-a-sua-falta.-John-Lennon-lembrado-por-Yoko-Ono

2019-11: Beatles no Barreiro?

Parece que sim, pelos 50 anos de Abbey Road, evento cultural multi-dimensional sobre os Beatles:
http://guedelhudos.blogspot.com/2019/11/beatles-no-barreiro.html

domingo, 1 de dezembro de 2019

2019-12-01: Crowded House, The Beatles, and the making of a melody [ARTICLE, BOOK]

Um artigo baseado no livro "The Song Remains the Same" recentemente saído e que deve estar repleto de referências aos Beatles, naturalmente:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/01/dont-dream-its-over-crowded-house-the-beatles-and-the-making-of-a-melody

Citando:
"“There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup …”
According to Neil Finn, you can’t put a “paper cup” in a song without it being a reference to John Lennon. So why not go the whole hog? In the Beatles’ Across the Universe, it’s words that are flowing ‘like endless rain into a paper cup’. Finn’s cup is attempting to contain a veritable flood.
The Beatles were such a monumental force in pop music that for a decade after their disbanding, other musical acts seemed consciously to avoid their influence. In Split Enz, however, New Zealand’s Finn brothers, Tim and Neil, embraced it wholeheartedly (this was long before 1990s Britpop, when everyone was at it), and the influence carried over to Neil’s Australian band, Crowded House. In general, perhaps too much has been made of the Beatles–Crowded House connection, but it’s there for all to hear in Don’t Dream It’s Over, where the narrow melody of the verse, all stepwise intervals, might easily have been written by Lennon. There is, however, nothing of Lennon in the famous chorus."

sábado, 16 de novembro de 2019

2019-11: Paul McCartney na capa da Billboard

125° aniversário:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B44-D8rnmpO/?igshid=1e3dvy8uqh6sp

2019-11: A capa do Sgt. Pepper's reimaginada?

Modernices. Quantos conhecem?
https://www.nme.com/news/music/beatles-sgt-peppers-artwork-reimagined-21st-century-celebrities-2568596

PS: Uma boa ideia seria pedir aos Beatles vivos para o fazer. Seria un exercício interessante.

quinta-feira, 14 de novembro de 2019

1971: John Lennon e Zappa em palco...

Para jams e gritos de Ono:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-frank-zappa-yoko-ono-1971-fillmore-east/

Citando:
"Watch below as Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention are joined on stage by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a very special performance from back in 1971."

https://youtu.be/G18aGDMy5Y4

terça-feira, 12 de novembro de 2019

2019-11: O Washington Post sobre Morgan Freeman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-freeman-photographer-who-helped-define-the-image-of-the-beatles-dies-at-82/2019/11/09/29108e96-0308-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Citando:
"“Freeman was living in Hong Kong when Lennon was assassinated in 1980,” Prem told CNN in 2013, “and he told me that he had a photo of Lennon on his wall and it fell down at exactly the same time.”"

2019-11: Morreu Robert Freeman aos 82 anos

https://www.publico.pt/2019/11/10/culturaipsilon/noticia/so-beatles-camara-morreu-fotografo-capas-emblematicas-fab-four-1893189

Citando:
"Embora tenha sido também o autor do primeiro calendário Pirelli e tenha realizado o filme The Touchables, um estudo sobre a Londres dos anos 60 em plena revolução juvenil, é então o seu trabalho com os Beatles que define a sua carreira. “Além de ser um óptimo profissional, ele era imaginativo e um verdadeiro pensador original. As pessoas pensam muitas vezes que a capa de Meet The Beatles com as nossas testas meio na sombra foi uma imagem cuidadosamente orquestrada num estúdio. Na verdade, foi feita muito rapidamente no corredor de um hotel em que estávamos [em Bournemouth], com a luz natural a entrar pelas janelas no fundo do corredor”, conta Paul McCartney num testemunho publicado no seu site."

O The Guardian sobre a Capa do A Hard Day's Night: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/10/paul-mccartney-tribute-beatles-photographer-robert-freeman

O comunicado de PM:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-on-robert-freeman

segunda-feira, 11 de novembro de 2019

1dd vou afinar

https://tune-bot.com/tuning-guide/
PDF:
https://21zqtc25oq8i3ggs8uxwf23w-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/tunebottuningguide.pdf

App for Android, look at peak values when hitting the drum head:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stonekick.tuner

domingo, 10 de novembro de 2019

2018-09: Egypt Station chegou a número 1 nos EUA

... sabiam? Foi o ano passado. Not me
https://news.sky.com/story/paul-mccartney-scores-first-number-one-album-in-united-states-in-36-years-11500498

Citando:
"Sir Paul McCartney has achieved his first solo number one album in the United States in 36 years.

The former Beatle is back on top of the charts after selling the equivalent of 153,000 copies of his 18th solo studio album Egypt Station, since its release on 7 September."


2019-11: A devolução da condecoração MBE de John Lennon

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1166366/Queen-news-Elizabeth-II-latest-royal-family-updates-John-Lennon-Beatles-MBE-royal
Um dos motivos era o apoio do Eu à guerra do Vietname, outro foi a guerra do Biafra em que Portugal apoiava a parte que perdeu (o Biafra).
Citando:
"Britain supported Nigeria as did the US, USSR, Canada, Israel (until 1968) and several other states in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Biafra was supported by France, China, West Germany, Israel (after 1968), Portugal, Spain, the Vatican, South Africa and Rhodesia amongst others.

The conflict ended in 1970 with a Nigerian victory.

A blockade resulted in the deaths of 2 million civilians to famine and some sources estimate 4.5 million people were displaced."

2019-11: Ringo Starr fala da morte de Lennon

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1198110/John-Lennon-death-The-Beatles-drummer-Ringo-Starr-Paul-McCartney

Citando:
"“But I just said, ‘We’ve got to get a plane.’

“We got a plane to New York, and you don’t know what you can do.

“We went to the apartment. ‘Anything we can do?’”

Starr added: “And Yoko just said, ‘Well, you just play with Sean. Keep Sean busy.’

“And that’s what we did. That’s what you think: ‘What do you do now?’

Barry Miles, McCartney’s friend since 1965, said: “The songwriting relationship and friendship was so deep that it transcended any bickering over money or management."


2019-11: E a música de Paul mais detestada por John Lennon é...

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, a melhor música pop de sempre de acordo com o estudo do artigo anterior:
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1201972/beatles-news-john-lennon-paul-mccartney-openly-detested-ob-la-di-ob-la-da-spt

Citando:
"Lennon reportedly dubbed McCartney’s song as “more of Paul’s granny music”.

Modern Scientists on the other hand have recently analysed the song and agreed it is close to being the perfect pop song, along with two others: Invisible Touchy by Genesis and Hooked on a Feeling by BJ Thomas.


However, Lennon was also angered by his former bandmate’s song ‘Too Many People’. Reportedly, Lennon thought it was a dig at him and his wife, Yoko Ono.


It is well known that his wife was a controversial figure, and some thought the lyric – “That was your first mistake, you took your lucky break and broke it in two” – was McCartney’s way of reflecting that."


2019-11: A canção de Pop perfeita é dos Beatles...

E de acordo com o estudo é o... ob-la-di ob-la-da!
https://blitz.pt/principal/update/2019-11-09-A-ciencia-descobriu-a-cancao-pop-perfeita.-E-dos-Beatles

Citando:
"Os cientistas responsáveis pelo estudo analisaram 700 canções gravadas entre 1958 e 1991, avaliando cada acorde com base no efeito de "surpresa" que este tinha após outro acorde.

As sequências de acordes foram depois mostradas a 39 voluntários, sem as letras e melodias, de forma a que o original fosse irreconhecível.


A estes, foi-lhes pedido que avaliassem cada sequência de acordo com o prazer que retiravam de cada.


O estudo demonstrou que os voluntários preferiam precisamente o efeito surpresa, por oposição aos momentos em que calculavam exatamente o acorde que se seguiria a outro."


domingo, 27 de outubro de 2019

2019-10: Novo álbum de Ringo com convidados...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7610757/Ringos-Beatles-reunion-album-sort-ADRIAN-THRILLS-reviews-Whats-Name.html

Citando:
"Ringo, 79, gets by with a little help from his friends: good old boys like Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and Toto’s Steve Lukather.

There’s even a Beatles reunion of sorts. Grow Old With Me was one of the last songs written by John Lennon, with the original only emerging four years after his death. 


Starr covers it with help from McCartney, who plays bass, and Jack Douglas, whose string arrangement contains a line from George Harrison’s Here Comes The Sun.


You do, admittedly, have to listen hard to hear Harrison’s familiar melodic refrain, but it is in there, giving the album its nostalgic centrepiece.


‘It’s not a publicity stunt,’ Ringo insists. ‘It’s what I wanted. So, in a way, it’s the four of us on there.’ His vocal range is limited, but the song is a tenderly sung highlight."


domingo, 20 de outubro de 2019

2019-10: The Bootleg Beatles...

... no Royal Albert Hall (!!!):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/end-review-bootleg-beatles-royal-liverpool-philharmonic-orchestra/
Citando:
"And In The End … was billed as a 50th-anniversary celebration of the final Beatles albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be. But the title (a quote from Abbey Road) is a misnomer. There is no end to the Beatles in sight. Earlier this month, Abbey Road itself returned to the top of the British charts, a demonstration of the apparently bottomless appetite for anything to do with the Sixties superstars."

sábado, 19 de outubro de 2019

2019-10: Jorge Jesus e Beatles?

Jorge Jesus é um treinador de futebol que está no Brasil e está a ter muito sucesso por lá. Jorge Jesus e Beatles? Parece que sim:
https://www.abola.pt/Nnh/Noticias/Ver/810655

quinta-feira, 17 de outubro de 2019

2019-10: The singles collection?

Limited edition e tudo:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-beatles-the-singles-collection-vinyl-box-set-2557698

sábado, 12 de outubro de 2019

2019-09: Lennon house in AirBnb

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/inside-john-lennons-childhood-home-17071664

2019-09: Novo álbum e novo livro de Ringo

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49991164
Citando:
"The star was speaking ahead of the release of his latest book, Another Day In The Life, which is the third in a series of collections of his own photographs - charting his life from childhood up to recent tours with his current group The All-Starr Band.

The band also play alongside Ringo on his new album, his twentieth, entitled What's My Name?

It sees the drummer working with a huge cast of collaborators including The Eagles' Joe Walsh, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' keyboardist Benmont Tench and, on the song Grow Old With Me, his former bandmate Sir Paul McCartney.

"It's the best. I love playing with him," Ringo says of teaming up with his old friend. "We played a lot together in 'that band' and he's still in the most melodic player. He's still incredible, for me, I feel the emotion when plays.""

sábado, 5 de outubro de 2019

2019-10: Mais um recorde dos Beatles

... do Guiness. E álbum destrona álbum de Liam Gallagher (vingançazinha):
https://www.dn.pt/cultura/the-beatles-50-anos-depois-abbey-road-volta-ao-n-1-dos-tops-britanicos-11372286.html

Citando:
"Agora, uma reedição de luxo do álbum foi lançada para marcar seu 50º aniversário, levando "Abbey Road" de volta ao número 1 das tabelas de vendas 49 anos e 252 dias depois, num feito certificado já como um recorde de Guinness.


O álbum dos Beatles desalojou no topo Liam Gallagher, o ex-Oasis influenciado fortemente pela herança do famoso grupo de Liverpool e que lançou recentemente o segundo álbum a solo: "Why me? Why not"."

2019-10: Abbey Road em número 1 no RU

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3NlvQBglM_/?igshid=olmq0jloekp4

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3NNTVapMEX/?igshid=rs6pzfn84dcx

quinta-feira, 3 de outubro de 2019

2019-09: About Sun King

Some interesting comments of Lennon on Sun King. The song has one word of Portuguese (which John Lennon didn't knew of, but Paul McCartney knew - because he was in Algarve in vacations and wrote the words for Yesterday there during the trip from Lisbon):
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3H35TehtO2/?igshid=c6c5fqh8svmm

domingo, 29 de setembro de 2019

2010-12: Roger Hodgson cover of AtU

Vídeo da versão de RH (Supertramp) de Across The Universe:

Published on 9 Dec 2010 Roger Hodgson's stunningly beautiful tribute to John Lennon. Performed during a live radio interview in November 2010 with Kim Mitchell from Toronto's Classic Rock Q107:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xuE6oHhwV5I

1980: A canção que Lennon queria ter cantado

Era do Abbey Road e era...
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-beatles-song-john-lennon-said-he-couldve-sung-better-than-paul-mccartney.html/

Citando:
"John followed that by saying “Oh! Darling” was more in his style than Paul’s. But he acknowledged that they didn’t operate that way (i.e., taking one another’s songs to sing). “He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it,” John said.

He then offered up another line that makes his 1980 Playboy interviews must-read material. “If he’d had any sense, he should have let me sing it,” John said."


sábado, 28 de setembro de 2019

sexta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: Paul McCartney em novo álbum de Ringo

Toca em "What's my Name" e uma cover the "Grow Old With Me":
https://www.nme.com/news/music/ringo-starrs-upcoming-new-album-will-feature-cover-john-lennon-song-2547930

Citando:
"Ringo said: “Jack [Douglas, produtor do Double Fantasy de John Lennon] asked if I ever heard The Bermuda Tapes, John’s demos from that time…And I had never heard all this. The idea that John was talking about me in that time before he died, well, I’m an emotional person. And I just loved this song. I sang it the best that I could. I do well up when I think of John this deeply. And I’ve done my best. We’ve done our best."

Vídeo:
"What's my Name":
https://youtu.be/81f-3Shj0ng

2019-09: 50 anos de Abbey Road

E Ringo e Paul estiveram em Abbey Road (Foto):
https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-reunite-abbey-road-celebrate-50th-anniversary-2551762

O álbum tem uma reedição remasterizada pelo filho de George Martin, e um vídeo oficial para o Here Comes the Sun:
https://youtu.be/KQetemT1sWc

sábado, 21 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: Insta video Let it A?

Oh my, never seen that. Look at these lyrics (see the 2/2 part, scroll left):
Let it A
Let it B
Let it C
Let it D
...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rIj3ahJ4k/?igshid=ksm45crrekao

sexta-feira, 20 de setembro de 2019

terça-feira, 17 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: The demo version of...

... Something is... SOMETHING! 27 Setembro sai a versão de Abbey Road comemorativa dos 50 anos:
https://youtu.be/m0yJipVqktI

2019-09: Conspiração Beatles? (Brasil)

Os Beatles eram analfabetos musicais, diz o senhor:
https://youtu.be/H8OK-bRwots

2019-09: Paul no Brasil

https://entretenimento.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2019/03/26/por-que-o-show-de-paul-mccartney-ainda-e-imperdivel-mesmo-apos-9-vezes-no-brasil.htm

Citando:
"McCartney abriu o primeiro show da turnê brasileira Freshen Up às 20h45 e entregou 37 músicas em 2h40 de espetáculo, que passearam pelos quase 60 anos de sua carreira, alternando hits do mais recente disco "Egypt Station", o 25º álbum pós-Beatles.
(...)
integrantes da banda que o acompanha há mais de dez anos, formada por Rusty Anderson (guitarra), Brian Ray (guitarra), Paul Wickens (teclado) e Abe Laboriel Jr. (bateria)... "

sábado, 14 de setembro de 2019

2019-98: Fretless Hey Jude?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XntdegEmc/?igshid=1xamygiq08x5u

2019-09: John Lennon e... Gatos?

Parece que sim. Elvis Presley (female), salt and Pepper, Major, Minor, Jesus:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XdKu-BJlN/?igshid=350b055ja221

sexta-feira, 13 de setembro de 2019

quinta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: Paul McCartney sobre o trabalho de Linda

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/26/paul-mccartney-on-lindas-best-photos-seeing-the-joy-between-me-and-john-really-helped-me

Citando:
"‘I always used to joke that I ruined Linda’s career,” says Paul McCartney, sitting on a sofa in his office in Soho, London, with a selection of his late wife’s photographs spread on the table before him. “She became known as ‘Paul’s wife’, instead of the focus being on her photography. But, as time went on, people started to realise that she was the real thing. So, yeah, she eventually did get the correct reputation, but at first it was just blown out of the water by the headline-grabbing marriage.”"


2019-09: Lista de artigos do Guardian

Uma boa fonte de notícias ou artigos de investigação sobre os Beatles (recordem-se de suportar o bom jornalismo aonde possível):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/thebeatles

2019-09: Ethan Russel e a última sessão de fotos dos Beatles?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who

Citando:
" Harrison was miserable from frame one to frame 500,” says Ethan Russell. “He was so over it. I don’t think he did anything but scowl for three hours.” The photographer is recalling the day he unknowingly took the last ever shot of the Beatles together. It was 22 August 1969, and they were all at John Lennon’s countryside estate near Ascot."

E a foto famosa em Saville Road Nas sessões de Let it Be:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who#img-3

2019-09: The taped conversation at September 8th, 1969

Grandes novidades gravadas? Ao estilo de fly on the wall do Let it Be naked?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/11/the-beatles-break-up-mark-lewisohn-abbey-road-hornsey-road

Citando (um exemplo super interessante de coisas que dizemos quando ninguém está a ouvir):
"Then Paul – sounding, shall we say, relaxed – responds to the news that George now has equal standing as a composer with John and himself by muttering something mildly provocative. “I thought until this album that George’s songs weren’t that good,” he says, which is a pretty double-edged compliment since the earlier compositions he’s implicitly disparaging include Taxman and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.”"

2019-09: Gravação fala de novo álbum depois de Abbey Road?

https://rollingstone.uol.com.br/noticia/os-beatles-consideraram-lancar-um-disco-depois-de-abbey-road-revela-fita-gravada-ha-50-anos/

https://www.dn.pt/cultura/interior/amp/beatles-terao-planeado-um-ultimo-album-antes-de-se-separarem-11291419.html
Citando:
""Os livros sempre nos disseram que o Abbey Road seria o último álbum e que os Beatles queriam sair de cena por cima. Mas não. Ali [na gravação] eles discutem o álbum seguinte. E sempre se achou que John [Lennon] foi quem quis a separação, mas quando se ouve a gravação, percebe-se que não", diz Mark Lewisohn, considerado uma das principais autoridades no que diz respeito à vida dos Beatles.

A composição do disco que nunca chegou a ser gravado teria quatro músicas de Paul, George e John e duas de Ringo. E ainda existiria a possibilidade de gravarem um single de natal."


quarta-feira, 11 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: O Flamengo e os Beatles?

Parece que sim (o clube do Brasileirão é agora treinado pelo Português Jorge Jesus):
https://www.ojogo.pt/internacional/noticias/interior/se-o-flamengo-fosse-uma-banda-seria-os-beatles-11287358.html

Citando:
"Convidado do programa "Fala, Casão", o lateral do Flamengo, Filipe Luís, colocou a pergunta a Casagrande: que banda seria o Flamengo? O antigo jogador aceitou a proposta e respondeu.
"Se fosse uma banda de rock, pelo estilo de o Flamengo jogar, seria os Beatles. Toca fácil, é gostoso de ouvir, alegre de se ver. Não estou a comparando uma coisa com a outra. Mas como a pergunta foi essa, acho que o Flamengo tem mais cara de Beatles. Se fosse mais agressivo, seria os Rolling Stones. Mas é uma boa equipa de toque na bola, é agradável de ver", afirmou."

segunda-feira, 9 de setembro de 2019

sexta-feira, 6 de setembro de 2019

1967: Alternate video of Hello Goodbye

The other version has them dressing the Sgt. Pepper's suits:
https://www.facebook.com/717177335061272/posts/2164129867032671/

quinta-feira, 5 de setembro de 2019

terça-feira, 3 de setembro de 2019

2019-09: Billy Preston novinho

... Novinho, novinho (11 anos, nascido hoje em 1946) com nada menos que Nat King Cole:
https://www.facebook.com/67832780820/posts/10157356302695821/

Citando:
"Nat King Cole performing "Blueberry Hill" with a young Billy Preston in 1957."

Sobre Billy Preston:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Preston

2019-08: Foto recriada

Fun, coming from the Ringo Starr photo book:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B16hadNHgLH/?igshid=8kcpny1ovj0q

segunda-feira, 2 de setembro de 2019

2004: Hey Jude version

A nice version of Hey Jude in Glastonbury 2004 festival:
https://www.facebook.com/SargentLonely/videos/2302899016443409/

domingo, 1 de setembro de 2019

domingo, 18 de agosto de 2019

1964: Lista de músicas...

... Do primeiro concerto dos Beatles nos EUA, escrita à mão por John Lennon numa folha de hotel (foto):
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RbVCEHbp7/?igshid=1s6xk92fai2pg

terça-feira, 13 de agosto de 2019

2019-08: Ringo having fun with "I need you"...

... a música de GH em Help!:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HkLB9n28V/?igshid=duiow74os5dt

2019-08: Prolongamento de capas?

Artista Russo modifica (prolonga) capas. No artigo Abbey Road e Double Fantasy modificados podem ser vistos:
https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/vida-e-carreira/noticias-vida-e-carreira/artigos/vive-na-russia-e-diverte-se-a-gozar-com-as-capas-dos-discos-dos-seus-artistas-favoritos

2019-08: Drake e a tatuagem de Abbey Road

https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/fama/noticias-fama/artigos/fas-consideram-nova-tatuagem-de-drake-uma-ofensa-aos-beatles

Citando:
"Para além disso, um dos motivos que mais está a deixar os fãs irritados é porque se pensa que a tatuagem está associada à mais recente conquista de Drake: um recorde do número de canções que chegaram ao top 10 da Billboard Hot 100. Enquanto que o rapper conseguiu 35, os Beatles ficaram-se pelas 34 músicas."

domingo, 11 de agosto de 2019

2017-08: Julian Lennon entrevistado pela Visão

... fala do pai (um pouco a contragosto) e não :
http://visao.sapo.pt/actualidade/sociedade/2019-08-11-Julian-Lennon-filho-de-John-Lennon-fala-sobre-ambiente-pobreza-igualdade-musica.-E-a-contragosto-do-pai

sexta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2019

quarta-feira, 19 de junho de 2019

2019-06: Ed Sheeran e o Hey Dude (Vídeo)

https://blitz.pt/principal/update/2019-06-19-Hey-Dude.-O-hilariante-conselho-de-Ed-Sheeran-no-filme-sobre-o-mundo-onde-os-Beatles-nunca-existiram

Citando:
""Yesterday" conta com uma participação especial de Ed Sheeran, que dá um conselho precioso - e hilariante - a Jack: trocar o título de 'Hey Jude', por 'Hey Dude'."

terça-feira, 18 de junho de 2019

2019-06: Manchester city e Hey Jude?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/why-city-sing-hey-jude-16448998

Citando:
"With another epic season in store the rivalry is set to become even more important, so it is a little peculiar as to why a City anthem comes from a band that is Liverpool's most famous export.

Well according to Goal the chant originated in 1968 when City won their second first division title. 'Hey Jude' was also released that year and it soon became associated with City's most successful era at the time and it has stuck around since.


The chant then came back into fashion when Sergio Aguero clinched the title for City in 2012."


domingo, 16 de junho de 2019

2019-06: John Lennon e a Escócia...

O acidente de Lennon em 1969 foi lá. O carro foi levado para a casa de Lennon para ele se lembrar. E nunca mais terá conduzido depois disso:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1141020/john-lennon-scotland-car-crash-wife-yoko-autograph-memorial-garden

Citando:
"While Sir Paul McCartney’s links to Kintyre are well-documented, his fellow Beatle John Lennon also loved Scotland after spending many blissful summers north of the Border as a child. From the age of nine Lennon spent his summer holidays with his Aunt ‘Mater’ who had remarried and moved to Edinburgh. He would travel alone by bus to visit his aunt and his cousin Stanley Parkes in the capital and also at their family croft in Durness, Sutherland."

sexta-feira, 14 de junho de 2019

2019-06: Primeiro contrato com Epstein vai a leilão

Contrato ainda com Pete Best:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-48635808

Citando:
"The document, said to have been signed by the band in the front room of Best's mother's house, was the first of two contracts drawn up between Epstein and The Beatles.

It gave Epstein responsibility for finding the band work, and managing their schedule and publicity.

He was also to oversee "all matters concerning clothes, make-up and the presentation and construction of the artists' acts and also on all music to be performed".

Mr Heaton said: "He was just blown away by the passion, the energy, the charisma, the raw sexuality on stage."

quinta-feira, 13 de junho de 2019

2019-06: Aonde é que está o Panda agora?

Como fãs conheceram os Beatles por causa de um panda e a página "Where is Panda now?" no FB (@TheBeatlesPanda):
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1105593/The-Beatles-meeting-fans-panda-Manchester-Apollo-John-Lennon-Ringo-Starr-People-s-Beatles

2019-06: Ringo Starr acerca do medo do palco

E o ritual que faz antes de ir para palco:

https://www.today.com/video/ringo-starr-talks-to-al-roker-about-beatles-touring-and-aging-61768261724 (vídeo de 12 junho 2019)

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1139718/The-Beatles-drummer-Ringo-Starr-stage-fright-Paul-McCartney

Citando:
"Ringo continued: “I do one ritual while I’m touring.

“That is an hour and half every night before I go on stage.


“I have a baked potato, some vegetables and a vegetable drink. And that keeps me settled.”


Last Christmas, Ringo joined Sir Paul McCartney for a Beatles reunion at the latter’s final O2 Arena performance."


2019-06: Paul McCartney sobre elogios

Paul McCartney no 60 Minutes:
Elogios a Lennon? E vice-versa?

https://www.facebook.com/60minutes/videos/545199205925880/?app=fbl

2019-06: Yes homenageia John Lennon

Yes tocaram este mês ao vivo o Imagine.
Interessante relembrar que Alan White (que está nas últimas, ultimamente é provavelmente definitivamente) foi quem tocou a bateria do original com Lennon no disco dos anos 70:
https://youtu.be/9jf7kPU6m8Q

quarta-feira, 5 de junho de 2019

2019-06: A canção que os Beatles deram aos...

... Rolling Stones? Editada mais tarde no With the Beatles:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-beatles-the-rolling-stones-i-wanna-be-your-man-story/

Citando:
"McCartney had originally penned the song before Lennon took over and finished the track while Macca was supposedly in the corner of a room talking to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Stones historian, Bill Janowitz, claimed that Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham “had almost literally bumped into Lennon and McCartney as they stepped out of a cab” and ushered them into the studio with Jagger and Richards.

Apparently, after having lunch together, the topic of the Stones lack of material for a new single had arisen and, by sheer coincidence, Lennon and McCartney had just finished up completing ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ earlier that day at De Lane Lea Studio."


terça-feira, 4 de junho de 2019

2019-06: The Korean Beatles?

2 Wembleys cheios com uma banda da... Coreia?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/behind-scenes-bts-korean-beatles-defy-boy-band-tradition-demand/

Citando:
"

all BTS the new John, Paul, George and Ringo and they will be polite if dismissive. “It is a bit of a burden to be called The Beatles of the 21st century,” 26-year-old band member Suga told journalists at a pre-concert press conference this weekend. “We want to be the BTS of the 21st century.” But the parallels are certainly valid.


Not only the most successful boy band in the world but the recipients of previously unthinkable international admiration akin to four boys from Liverpool unexpectedly becoming world-famous icons, BTS are a South Korean pop group of singers, dancers, lyricists and record producers, all in their early to mid-twenties and as surreally handsome as they are quick-footed on stage."

quinta-feira, 30 de maio de 2019

2019-05: Top of the Pops, completo!

92 em vez dos 11 segundos encontrados no México. E esses 92 são a performance completa, aparentemente:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/full-tape-beatles-only-top-of-the-pops-performance-found-attic-2503011

Citando:
"David Chandler used a wind-up camera to record the band’s performance of ‘Paperback Writer’ when it aired and was compelled to try and find it after hearing about the discovery of a short 11-second clip of the appearance in Mexico last month. The footage lasts for 92 seconds and has been donated to Kaleidoscope, an organisation who specialise in locating missing TV footage."

2018-05: Fato de Lennon em leilão

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7082079/John-Lennons-tracksuit-worn-1970-trip-Denmark-sale-35-000.html
Citando:
"John Lennon's tracksuit worn during a trip to Denmark in 1970 is going up for sale

The Beatle and wife Yoko Ono wore the matching outfits to visit her ex-husband


Now the tracksuit, from Tony Cox's collection is going up for sale for $35,000


Cox and Ono were locked in a legal battle over custody of their daughter in 1970"


quarta-feira, 29 de maio de 2019

2019-05: Mais Top of the Pops

Outra gravação do Top of the Pops encontrada:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-48450810/footage-of-beatles-only-top-of-the-pops-live-show-found

Citando:
"Footage of Beatles' only Top of the Pops live show found

Footage of The Beatles' only live appearance on Top of the Pops has been discovered in an attic.


David Chandler was a teenager when he used a wind-up camera to record the performance on the long-running BBC music show in June 1966.

He dug out the 92-second clip, recorded weeks before the Fab Four's last-ever gig, after hearing about a shorter snippet found in Mexico last month."

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2019-06: The "mentrification" of The Beatles?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/29/mentrification-how-men-appropriated-computers-beer-and-the-beatles

Citando:
"A reply repeated the question, but in regards to the Beatles. When did the group “start to be remembered as rock legends, rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?” Another user answered: “when men decided they liked them”."

segunda-feira, 27 de maio de 2019

1967-06: A cover de Hendrix a Sgt. Pepper's...

... com PM e GH na audiência, apenas 3 dias depois do disco ter saído:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jimi-hendrix-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-footage/

Citando:
"Jimi Hendrix was never shy to hide his admiration for The Beatles and, back in 1967, the iconic guitarist took things to the next level.

The night was June 4, 1967, Hendrix was stepping out on stage for his headline show at the Saville Theatre in London and, knowing that both Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in the audience, Hendrix decided to open the show with his rendition of Sgt. Pepper‘s title song."

https://youtu.be/NHI6mmcr0zI


sexta-feira, 24 de maio de 2019

2019-05: Unseen Beatles (livro com fotos)

Algumas das fotos do novo livro:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7064289/Hundreds-images-revealed-charting-Beatles-rise-fame-worldwide-hunt-footage.html

Citando:
"Unseen Beatles: Hundreds of images are revealed charting the band’s rise to fame after worldwide hunt for footage of the Fab Four that has gathered dust in home drawers for decades"

segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019

sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019

2019-05: Sítio do Ashram dos Beatles

... pode agora ser visitado por 7 EUR:
https://nit.pt/out-of-town/viagens/ashram-dos-beatles-na-india-esteve-abandonado-agora-atracao-turistica

Citando:
"O grupo passava a maioria do tempo nas cabanas de pedra Chaurasi Kutia, as mesmas que são agora o principal foco de atenção dos visitantes. Não se sabe muito sobre o período que lá passaram, apenas que ficaram numas instalações de luxo comparando com os restantes estudantes de meditação. O grupo terá conseguido meditar, compor e até certo ponto descansar — só que a coisa não acabou bem. Ringo Starr aguentou apenas dez dias, Paul McCartney quis voltar para Londres ao fim de menos de cinco semanas, os restantes ficaram pouco menos de dois meses e quando saíram já havia rumores de conflitos e de tensão, sobretudo com o guru Yogi, que lhes terá pedido royalties das músicas lá compostas. O grupo também foi citado a dizer que não aguentava mais a comida.

Nada disto impediu o sucesso imediato do Ashram e do próprio guru, que se tornou uma personalidade mundial.
"

A parte:

"O ano era 1968, The Beatles já eram a maior banda do mundo e “Help!”, “Revolver” e “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” tinham acabado de ser editados em anos sucessivos: 1966, 67 e 68, respetivamente. " 

... Está incorrecta. 



quinta-feira, 25 de abril de 2019

Which Beatles songs have the best harmonies?

Gostamos de Beatles também pelas harmonias vocais. Quase sempre elas estão lá (ainda que apenas em partes da música). No mínimo quase sempre são 3 mas há músicas em que há 9 linhas vocais (Because). Algumas das melhores são de facto estas:

Which Beatles songs have the best harmonies? - Quora


quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019

2019-04: Nomes de bandas como passwords?

Parece que sim. Liverpool também aparece na lista e os Beatles não serão alheios a isso, pois não?
https://www.nme.com/news/music/blink-182-foo-fighters-and-metallica-are-among-the-internets-most-vulnerable-passwords-2479515

Citando:
"Music fans have been warned to stay vigilant after it emerged that Blink 182, Foo Fighters and Metallica have inspired some of the world’s most commonly hacked passwords.

All three bands featured in the  “global password risk list,”  which was compiled by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre to reveal the 100,000 most vulnerable passwords in operation."


segunda-feira, 22 de abril de 2019

2019-04: The People's Beatles project

Vamos ajudar os senhores? Vamos (não estivera fora do prazo de envio)! É só enviar as fotos dos papás e avós:
https://photobox.co.uk/peoplesbeatles/services.html

Citando:
"Commissioned by Photobox, The People's Beatles is a groundbreaking global project that aims to crowdsource, edit and publish a unique photographic biography and picture archive of The Beatles - as seen exclusively through the eyes and camera lenses of the fans who were there."
(...)
"The People's Beatles will be published in May 2019 featuring over 500 unseen photographs - and their accompanying anecdotes - with a written narrative from Barry Miles."

2019-04: Paul McCartney e o preço do Whisky

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1080758/The-Beatles-Paul-McCartney-whisky-whiskey-John-Lennon

Citando:
"Sir Paul has been famous since he was a teenager, so has hardly had an ordinary life. Nevertheless, his official biographer Barry Miles – who is working on The People’s Beatles Project, which aims to crowdsource an archive of Beatles’ fan pictures – claims “He desperately wanted to be a normal person. Wherever possible he would take a bus somewhere…and was very anxious to stay in touch with what he regarded as ordinary people.” The writer and friend of the Beatle even recounted an incident just a couple of years ago when Sir Paul thought you could still buy a bottle of whisky for two quid."

2019-04: Modest Paul?

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1116785/paul-mccartney-beatles-success-new-us-tour-freshen-up

Citando:
"“I do think of a 24-year-old kid and I think, ‘The kid is good’ – but the kid is me. I have to pinch myself and go, ‘This is still you’.”

Reflecting on his writing partnership with Lennon, Macca said: “I would go to his house, he would come to mine and every single time we sat down, we came away with a song. The closest to failure was Drive My Car but we pulled it out."


sexta-feira, 19 de abril de 2019

2019-04: Astrid Kirchherr e os Beatles (Livro)

https://blitz.pt/fotos/2019-04-19-Beatles-em-Hamburgo-1960-62.-As-fotos-da-jovem-alema-que-captou-os-cinco--sim-cinco--de-Liverpool-na-flor-da-idade-e-viu-morrer-um-deles

Citando:
"O portefólio dos Beatles de Astrid Kirchherr, que prosseguiu carreira e conta hoje 80 anos, está reunido em "Astrid Kirchherr With The Beatles", composto por mais de 70 fotos a preto e branco e a cores que se juntam a materiais diversos que ajudam a contar a relação íntima estabelecida entre banda e fotógrafa nesses três anos. É uma edição da inglesa Snap Galleries, que também comercializa impressões de algumas das fotos mais emblemáticas."

domingo, 14 de abril de 2019

2019-04: Conhecer o Ringo Starr?

Concurso para conhecer Ringo Starr nos seus 79 anos:
https://www.omaze.com/experiences/ringo-starr-79th-birthday?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=paid&utm_content=RingoStarr&utm_campaign=experiences.ringo-starr-79th-birthday&utm_term=Ringo_RingoFans&oa_h=r1top7&fbclid=IwAR11rz0UdzB88L-cA2S-0rNaLabWhfkAqleSyZ7eYJnEPc3D8qr1ONZeIKU

quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2019

2019-04: Leilão com itens dos Beatles

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6907107/Rare-Beatles-memorabilia-goes-auction-fetch-1-5-MILLION.html

Citando:
"The Gotta Have Rock and Roll auction selling Fab Four memorabilia began today on the company's website 

It features John Lennon's piano used to compose songs for the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album


Other items include Paul and Linda McCartney's matching pink tuxedos and polaroids of all four Beatles  


The Beatles' instruments including John Lennon's 'Sgt. Peppers' piano and Paul McCartney's signed Ed Sullivan Show guitar could fetch up to $1.5 million at auction.


Many are hoping for a piece of Fab Four memorabilia at the Gotta Have Rock and Roll auction, which began today on the company's website. "


segunda-feira, 8 de abril de 2019

2019-04: My Love (review)

https://www.stereogum.com/2037458/the-number-ones-paul-mccartney-wings-my-love/franchises/the-number-ones/

Citando:
"“My Love” does have a sense of majesty, almost despite itself. It chugs and twinkles with the slow confidence of an old torch song, while the orchestra, arranged by McCartney’s old Beatles collaborator George Martin, swells and contracts. Wings guitarist Henry McCollough, late of Spooky Tooth and the Grease Band, plays a nicely twangy solo. (He improvised it on the spot because he didn’t like the solo that McCartney had written for him, and McCartney ended up loving what he did with it. Later in 1973, McCollough would end up quitting Wings the day they were supposed to go to Nigeria to record Band On The Run.)"

2019-04: Video perdido de Beatles no Top of the Pops...

... aparece, filmado por uma 8mm:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47854806

Citando:
"An 11-second clip of the Beatles' only live appearance on the Top of the Pops, which was thought to have been be lost, has been unearthed in Mexico.

The silent snippet is all that exists of the Fab Four miming to Paperback Writer on the BBC pop show in 1966.

The original tapes were not kept, but it was recorded by a viewer filming their TV set with an 8mm camera.

The footage was shot by a family in Liverpool and eventually fell into the hands of a collector in Mexico.

The collector contacted Kaleidoscope, a Birmingham-based organisation specialising in locating previously missing TV footage.

"I think if you're a Beatles fans, it's the holy grail," Kaleidoscope's Chris Perry told BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson.

"People thought it was gone forever because videotape wasn't kept in 1966. To find it all these years later was stunning.""

Outra notícia em PT: https://www.jn.pt/artes/interior/amp/descobertas-imagens-perdidas-de-atuacao-dos-the-beatles-10785059.html

sábado, 6 de abril de 2019

2019-04: Porto em Liverpool e os clubes dos Beatles

Agora em Português (os clubes de cada um dos Beatles, tanto quanto se sabe):
https://maisfutebol.iol.pt/reportagem/the-beatles/fc-porto-na-terra-dos-beatles-nenhum-era-adepto-do-liverpool

Citando:
"«O Paul [McCartney] admitiu há poucos anos que é adepto do Everton»

Estudioso, homem dos livros, Ray O’Brien é um contador de histórias experimentado. Sabe o que o jornalista procura, percebe o objetivo da reportagem.


«Fui colega de escola do Paul e do George. Andámos no Liverpool Institute. O Paul esteve comigo de 1958 a 1960 e o George saiu em 1959. Sei que é estranho, mas nenhum deles - principalmente o George - mostrava qualquer interesse por futebol, ao contrário de todos os outros rapazes», conta Ray O’Brien.


«Liverpool é uma cidade louca por futebol, todos têm afeição por um dos clubes locais. Eles preferiam andar com a guitarra e papéis na mão. Não davam um pontapé na bola durante os intervalos.»"


segunda-feira, 1 de abril de 2019

2019-03: Segunda parte de documentário apareceu (Bed in)

https://mag.sapo.pt/showbiz/artigos/imagens-de-john-lennon-e-yoko-ono-na-cama-reaparecem-ao-fim-de-50-anos

In English:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/music/1654836/unknown-footage-of-john-lennon-yoko-ono-resurfaces

Citando:
"Trata-se da segunda parte, a cores, de um documentário feito em 1969 sobre as viagens de John Lennon e Yoko Ono por Amesterdão e Viena. Nele, o famoso músico e a mulher são vistos deitados, a tomar o pequeno-almoço e a fumar enquanto davam entrevistas.

O filme, de 30 minutos, reapareceu durante as comemorações do 50º aniversário deste famoso "bed-in" do casal na Holanda.


Para a ocasião, o hotel Hilton organizou visitas durante 10 dias à suíte, que atraíram milhares de seguidores.


Na década de 1980, a bobina do filme foi quase destruída quando limparam os arquivos da televisão pública holandesa KRO. Um empregado, Jan Hovers, salvou as imagens in extremis.


"Havia uma caixa onde estava escrito em letras grandes: 'Lua de mel de John Lennon, parte dois'", explicou Hovers no programa de televisão Nieuwsuur. Intrigado, levou-a para casa e guardou-a no porão.


Hovers pensava que se tratava de uma cópia e desconhecia totalmente de que tinha imagens únicas nas mãos.


"Aparentemente mantive um tesouro histórico na minha casa durante décadas", disse ele.


Trata-se do "documentário desaparecido", assegurou Mark Lewisohn, historiador dos Beatles, em Nieuwsuur."


domingo, 17 de março de 2019

2019-03: O Rolls Royce de John Lennon

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/john-lennon-rolls-royce-phantom-v

Citando:
"When Lennon, fresh from the band’s chart-topping success in the States, first decided to splash out on the exclusive motor in 1964, he went for a pretty subtle scheme: Valentine Black with black wheels and a black interior. Apparently he wanted a black grille as well, but that was too far for Rolls, even for a Beatle. Perhaps for a Stone they’d have painted it.

Shipped off to celebrated coachbuilder Mulliner Park Ward, the custom job took several months to complete – enough time for Lennon to pass his driving test and the band to release another album. When it was finished in June 1965, it was pretty extravagant."

(...)

"upgrades.

And we’re not talking new alloys. We’re talking a double bed instead of a back seat; a radio telephone that occupied most of the boot; built-in record and tape players; hidden loudspeakers that could startle wildlife and Surrey residents alike. All very rock'n'roll – Keith Richards pulled a similar loudspeaker trick with his Bentley – and, in that finest British tradition, rather cheeky."


2019-03: The red nose Paul McCartney

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvDB28ZnFoc/

And some comments on rehearsals:
https://www.alternativenation.net/paul-mccartney-nose-looks-scary-new-photo/

Citando:
"The most striking moment of the afternoon comes, though, when they rehearse “A Hard Day’s Night.” They breeze through a version of the song, and then McCartney has a question, a surprising one given that he has played this song live in public at least 205 times.20 It is about what happens at the end of the first verse. McCartney, who is playing his famous Höfner bass, wonders whether he is supposed to stay on the G or move up to the D. The band debate it back and forth without coming to a firm conclusion. When McCartney says, “What did I do?” Brian Ray, one of the band’s guitarists, suggests that they listen."

sexta-feira, 15 de março de 2019

2019-03: Carta de Lennon sobre 2 Virgins vai a leilão

Lennon furioso com o tratamento do álbum com capa "supostamente ofensiva" (como ele próprio diz):
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lennon-letter-yoko-ono-two-virgins-album-apple-emi-record-label-a8822261.html

Citando:
"Addressed to “Martin George of Rock Ink”, the auction house cites “noted Beatles expert” Perry Cox in affirming that the letter was sent to the late Beatles producer George Martin.

However, author Mark Lewisohn told The Times that he believes that Lennon was actually responding to the journalist Martin George, who wrote for “a magazine or a weekly underground newspaper called Ink”.


Referring to his and Ono’s 1968 album Two Virgins, Lennon writes: “Yoko and I got ‘Two Virgins’ out in spite of [which is underlined] being past owners of Apple. We made it in May and they f***ed us about till November! Then E. M. I. (who have the real control) wrote warning letters to all their puppets around the world telling them not handle it in any way (this after Sir Joe [Lockwood, chairman of EMI] had told us face to face that he would do ‘everything he could’ to help us with it – and asking us for autographed copies!!).

"

quinta-feira, 14 de março de 2019

2019-03: John Lennon capa da Uncut

... com realce para o abandono do Rock e o início do investimento nao muito bem compreendido na arte como arte e outros tipos de música (como a improvisada):
https://www.uncut.co.uk/publication/uncut/uncut-april-2019-issue

Quoting:
"John Lennon, Keith Richards, Anne Briggs and Jenny Lewis all appear in the new issue of Uncut, out on February 21.
Lennon is on the cover, and inside we look at his revolutionary, pivotal 1969: from bed-ins and radical, experimental films to free jazz and acorns.
“He never said to me, ‘I’m doing this to blow up The Beatles,’” says one confidant, “but I felt that was what was happening.”
Keith Richards revisits his solo debut Talk Is Cheap, recorded during that long ’80s hiatus when the Stones’ future looked uncertain to many. Not Richards, of course: “I had no doubt the Stones would regroup,” he says. “They’ve got nowhere else to go!”
Uncut also meets the elusive folk singer Anne Briggs for a very rare and frank discussion of her life and talents. “I don’t know who I am, I don’t know what I am,” she tells us, “but I am.”
Jenny Lewis takes us through her finest albums to date, from Rilo Kiley’s debut Take Offs And Landings to her new solo album On The Line, while Edwyn Collins invites us up to his home in the remote north of Scotland to discuss the local herring industry, beachside epiphanies and his new album, Badbea. “It does look back a little more than I’m used to,” admits Collins.
In our An Audience With feature, Robert Forster answers your questions on The Go-Betweens’ legacy, bunking up with The Birthday Party and his close shave with hairdressing.
Steve Marriott’s ex-bandmates reveal the full story of Humble Pie, from the bad decisions to bad behaviour of this heavy ’70s supergroup."

Read more at https://www.uncut.co.uk/publication/uncut/uncut-april-2019-issue#ohQZkCqieg9mhL8O.99

quarta-feira, 13 de março de 2019

2019-03: Morre baterista Hal Blaine

... que tocou com John Lennon (entre outros):
https://www.jn.pt/cultura/interior/morreu-o-baterista-hal-blaine-tocou-com-sinatra-elvis-e-lennon-10670252.html
Citando:
"O baterista Hal Blaine, membro do grupo de Los Angeles Wrecking Crew e conhecido por tocar em clássicos de Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys e John Lennon, morreu na segunda-feira aos 90 anos, na Califórnia."

sexta-feira, 1 de março de 2019

2019-02: The football teams!!!

https://www.goal.com/en/news/the-beatles-the-football-teams-paul-mccartney-john-lennon/1lf5q2t2ba4t11uk82qbesxil1

Citando:
""Paul was (and maybe still is) definitely an Evertonian, as was his dad. He attended the 1968 FA Cup final - there is a photo of him outside Wembley," he wrote in the Guardian.

"His brother Mike is a massive Red - and part of his band The Scaffold's promo film for 'Thank You Very Much' was filmed in front of a packed Spion Kop at his behest."


John Lennon wasn't a football fan at all or into sports, according to Beatles historian Ray O'Brien. His dad, however, was a Liverpool supporter and it was on his suggestion that they include former Reds great Albert Stubbins on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper as the only football figure.


Moreover, another ex-Liverpool footballer Sir Matt Busby – who spent five years at Anfield before becoming Manchester United manager –  is name-checked by Lennon on the Beatles’ song "Dig It"."


quinta-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: Sobre Pepperland...

... Um espectáculo inspirado nos Beatles e no Sgt. Pepper's:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/feb/27/pepperland-beatles-sgt-pepper-dance-mark-morris-ethan-iverson-uk-tour-interview

Citando:
"Pepperland, which premiered at Liverpool’s Sgt Pepper at 50 festival in 2017, is a collaboration between choreographer Mark Morris and composer Ethan Iverson – and one of many productions to have been inspired by the Fab Four. When I meet the pair, on the eve of the show’s UK and Ireland tour, I ask if they ever saw the 1978 Sgt Pepper film starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton as the one and only Mr Billy Shears. “Oh my God, that’s the worst thing in the world,” says Morris with mock horror. How about Julie Taymor’s Beatles fantasia Across the Universe? “It. Is. A. Nightmare,” he declares, drawing out the last word. Then, of course, there’s the hit Vegas show Love, created – Morris grimaces – by “Cirque du fucking Soleil”."

terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: O aniversário de GH no twitter

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2019/02/25/news/paul-mccartney-remembers-beatles-bandmate-george-harrison-on-his-birthday-1560042/

Citando:
"Marking his birthday on February 25, Sir Paul shared a black and white photograph on Twitter showing the pair performing together.

“Happy birthday forever George, we love ya!” said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter"


sexta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2019

1971-10: John Lennon e Yoko Ono na TV

The TV show:

https://youtu.be/cbb-j03ByOY

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/remembering-john-lennon-and-yoko-onos-on-tv-show-free-time-from-1971/

Citando:
"

John Lennon and Yoko Ono found themselves in some curious positions with the pursuit of their art. Whether it’s in front of the world’s news naked in their bed or screaming into microphones to try and make music, the pair weren’t shy about sharing. So when they were offered the opportunity to take over an hour of television on TV station WNET they jumped at the chance.

The station opened its doors on October 14, 1971 to John and Yoko and gave it’s broadcast to Yoko Ono, John Lennon, and Jonas Mekas’ performance of excerpts from Ono’s “Of a Grapefruit in the World of Park.” The curious performance offers a glimpse into the working mind of John and Yoko. It’s a strange and liberating place to be."

segunda-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: Bayern de Munique, futebol e Abbey Road?

Parece que sim:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6716579/Bayern-Munich-brilliantly-channel-Beatles-funny-mock-iconic-Abbey-Road-album-cover.html

Citando:
"Bayern Munich got into the spirit ahead of their match with Liverpool this week

Mats Hummels, Thomas Muller, Robert Lewandowski and Manuel Neuer recreated the iconic Abbey Road album cover by The Beatles


Bayern's 'Fab Four' sported Sixties-style hair dos for the Instagram post


German club will be hoping to take a positive result away from Anfield first leg "


sexta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: Liverpool, Dilma Rousseff e Elvis? (Fake news)

Não, são "fake news". Mas mesmo assim é interessante o John Lennon aparecer "ao barulho":
https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/fact-check/dilma-rousseff-confundiu-john-lennon-com-elvis-no-instagram

quinta-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: Os posts de PM e JL...

... no dia de S. Valentim, 2019-02-14:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt2spP2nNSI/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1pi0v5dh820m4

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt11k7xAcHX/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=mz6tq4vhj7w7

2019-02: Um filme sobre o mundo sem os Beatles?

Não. Um filme com o Ed Sheeran em Liverpool, parece-me:
https://mag.sapo.pt/cinema/atualidade-cinema/artigos/e-se-os-beatles-nunca-tivessem-existido-essa-realidade-alternativa-vai-chegar-ao-cinema

Citando:
"Novo filme de Danny Boyle, realizador de "Quem Quer Ser Bilionário", é sobre um mundo onde apenas uma pessoa sabe quem é o grupo de Liverpool. Ed Sheeran é um dos atores, com um papel relevante como si próprio."

Trailer:
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBZJ8IgV8N_sMjXkL49BicIqFggEKg4IACoGCAow_598MLC1CTChqAY?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2019

Band on the Run ao vivo (YouTube)

Paul McCartney ao vivo (com os Wings) a tocar de forma convincente Band on the Run:
https://youtu.be/t8dQwP80uNQ

2019-02: Baixo oferecido a Paul McCartney

https://youtu.be/hTOiW65MBLM

2019-02: Mercedes de George Harrison...

... vai a leilão no Catawiki:
https://www.motor24.pt/sites/jornal-dos-classicos/o-mercedes-benz-de-george-harrison-dos-beatles/

Citando:
"O coupé vermelho metalizado esteve em posse da família Harrison durante quase duas décadas, primeiro registado no nome de Harold Heargraves Harrison, pai de George. Em 1979 passou para as mãos do guitarrista dos The Beatles que o manteve em sua posse até 1981 e por fim foi propriedade do seu primo Paul Harrison.

Em Agosto de 1989, a Christie’s levou o Mercedes-Benz a leilão e mesmo foi adquirido a um empresário discográfico de Londres. Passado apenas um ano o automóvel chegou a Barcelona para ser leiloado de novo na Feria del Disco del Coleccionista. Durante o leilão não recebeu qualquer licitação e o dono de uma importante loja de discos pagou o valor mínimo de reserva e juntou-o à sua colecção particular, na qual permaneceu quase trinta anos."


sábado, 9 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: Paul McCartney and Portugal

Há uma longa história de PM e Portugal. E há esta foto de 1968:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtliJ3XHH-Z/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=8gh71jazpliq

sábado, 2 de fevereiro de 2019

2019-02: As discussões em Let it be

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6658955/Beatles-war-truth-explosive-rivalries-tore-band-apart.html

Citando:
"We'll be faced with a crisis,' Paul frets.

'When I'm up against the wall, Paul, you'll find me at my best. I think I've got Sunday off,' says John.


'I hope you can deliver.'


'I hope was a little rock and roller, Sammy with his mammy,' mocks John, falling into word play.


There was nothing more that Paul could say.


'I think we've been very negative since Mr Epstein passed away,' Paul reflected, probably to director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, unaware that he was being recorded. 'We probably do need a central daddy figure to say, 'Come on. It's nine o'clock. Leave the girls at home.' '


But John wasn't going to leave his new girl at home. So, Paul was walking on eggshells, acutely aware of what might happen if he, or the others, complained too loudly.


'There are only two things to do,' we hear him reasoning. 'One is to fight and to get The Beatles back to being four people without Yoko, and to ask her to sit down at board meetings. The other is just to accept that she's there, because there is no way that John is going to split with Yoko for our sakes. He's going overboard. He always goes overboard.


'If it came to the push between Yoko and The Beatles it would be John for Yoko. John would just say to us: 'Okay. I'll see you then.' And we're not wanting that to happen.'"


quarta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: Senhor dos anéis e Let it Be?

... Mais ou menos. Gravações de Letras it Be vão dar origem a um novo filme (e nova versão do já existente em 2020):
https://www.publico.pt/2019/01/30/culturaipsilon/noticia/peter-jackson-vai-reconstruir-beatles-50-anos-1860059

No Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQZnWCnjgG/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=kg0syz515bgr
Citando:
Peter Jackson, o realizador neo-zelandês da saga Senhor dos Anéis, terá em mãos um espólio gigantesco: 55 horas de filme não utilizado no Let it Be original e 140 horas de gravações áudio. O objectivo? Criar um novo Let it Be, ou, como afirmou Peter Jackson em comunicado: “a experiência ‘mosca na parede’ definitiva com que os fãs dos Beatles sonham há muito – é como se uma máquina do tempo nos transportasse para 1969, e nos sentássemos no estúdio a ver aqueles quatro amigos a fazerem óptima música juntos”"

2019-01: The People's Beatles Photobox project

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1079983/The-Beatles-Paul-McCartney-biography-Barry-Miles-The-People-s-Beatles

Citando:
"On The People’s Beatles Photobox project, Miles said: “The only real aspect of their history that hasn’t really been covered is their interaction with their fans.

“And I remember from that period there were just fans everywhere with cameras. But you never see those photos.


“There must be tens of thousands of pictures taken by fans out there. So this is an archival project really. The people who took them must be in their seventies by now.


“It’s a chance to finally get all these pictures and document a very interesting period of British history quite honestly.”"


2019-01-30: 50 anos do "concerto no telhado"

50 anos do concerto no telhado (1969-01-30):
https://24.sapo.pt/vida/artigos/porque-nao-faze-lo-no-telhado-o-ultimo-concerto-dos-beatles-foi-ha-50-anos

Citando:
"Quinta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 1969. Quatro horas da manhã. Dave Harris e Keith Slaughter, técnicos de som, entram num veículo da gigante EMI carregado de amplificadores e material diverso e seguem rumo a Savile Row, rua localizada no centro de Londres e sobretudo conhecida pelos seus muitos alfaiates, que deram origem a um termo próprio no mundo da moda e do bem-vestir: Savile Row tailoring.


Mas Harris e Slaughter não estão a caminho de comprar um fato vistoso e atraente, e sim a caminho dos escritórios da Apple Corps, empresa fundada pelos Beatles nos anos 60 com o objetivo de financiar artistas, designers, estilistas, e o que mais fosse. A história da Apple daria – e deu, por diversas vezes – toda uma outra história, passe a redundância, que pode ser resumida pelas palavras de John Lennon em 1968: «O nosso contabilista veio falar connosco e disse: 'Temos este dinheiro. Querem dá-lo ao governo ou fazer algo com ele?'»."

quarta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: O buraco na estrada e a parecença com PM

... depois de fumar "umas coisas":
https://www.nme.com/news/music/people-think-this-pothole-looks-like-paul-mccartney-2431711

segunda-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: Filho de Ringo Starr com Who

The Who vão ter novo álbum 13 anos depois e tournée (provavelmente) final com filho deRingo Starr:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/14/the-who-confirm-first-new-studio-album-in-13-years-tour

Citando:
"Townshend and Daltrey are the only remaining full-time members of the Who. Drummer Keith Moon died in 1978; replacement drummer Kenney Jones left the band in 1988, and bassist John Entwistle died in 2002. Their current touring band includes Zak Starkey, son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, and Simon Townshend, younger brother of Pete."

2019-01: Duetos de Paul McCartney...

... com Michael Jackson usados como argumento para não se detestar... Phil Collins!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/14/in-defence-of-phil-collins-what-is-the-genesis-of-all-the-hatred

Citando:
"Here’s the thing though: he didn’t force millions of us to buy his records. He didn’t demand we love him and his funny comb-forward.

You might argue he actively worked against the notion, what with his film clips (don’t, I beg you, look up Two Hearts – no, I mean it, don’t), his feature films, his suits, his songs …


Anyway, remember: Collins didn’t release anything as bad as Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’s atrocious duets, and their musical reputations were eventually redeemed. Give the bloke a chance."


2019-01: Estrelas de rock em cuecas

Paul McCartney em cuecas? Sim.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/rock-stars-in-their-underpants-david-bowie-debbie-harry-paul-mccartney-and-more/

Citando:
"In her twenties, Yates released a fantastically cheeky book entitled Rock Stars in Their Underpants which perfectly sums up her desire to not take life too seriously. At one point, Andy Warhol comically dubbed the book as ‘the greatest work of art in the last decade.’‘

With David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Debbie Harry and more all present, here’s a sneak peak inside."


sexta-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: Filme de McCartney nunca visto?

https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartneys-previously-unseen-movie-the-bruce-mcmouse-show-to-be-shown-in-cinemas-2429362

Citando:
"Featuring a family of mice living beneath Macca's stage...

Paul McCartney‘s previously unseen movie The Bruce McMouse show is to receive a cinema release later this month.


The new offering from the Beatles icon is part concert film, part animated feature and tells the story of how Paul McCartney and Wings initially met Bruce McMouse – the film’s animated protagonist."

quinta-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: Helter Skelter mais pesado?

Dizem eles:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/marilyn-manson-nikki-sixx-rob-zombie-cover-beatles-2425997

No YouTube (ao vivo):

https://youtu.be/o_pw1JS95xU

Citando:
"Marilyn MansonMötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx and Rob Zombie teamed up to cover The Beatles‘ ‘Helter Skelter’.

The performance took place at a New Year’s Eve Ozzfest event, hosted by Ozzy Osbourne at The Forum in Los Angeles."


terça-feira, 1 de janeiro de 2019

2019-01: A utopia de John Lennon seria um pesadelo

Imagine foi tocado na passagem de ano cumprindo a tradição mais uma vez. Como seria um mundo como a canção? Um pesadelo de acordo com este artigo do NYT:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lennon-s-utopia-is-no-dream-it-s-a-nightmare-hddst53sd

Citando:
"John Lennon’s utopia is no dream, it’s a nightmare

Trying to live by the platitudes of Imagine would destroy all our bonds of nation and culture"

(...)

" song is chosen for this sacred annual spot because it is regarded by many as a hymn to a better world. “Imagine there’s no countries,” sang Lennon, “It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too/ Imagine all the people living life in peace/ You may say I’m a dreamer/ But I’m not the only one/ I hope some day you’ll join us/ And the world will be as one.”"