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."

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."

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

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."