2022-07: Julian is at Portugal with Nuno

Hum. Julian has been in Portugal recently so I find it funny now that he went to the islands and found one top-notch world class musician (with some Portuguese roots): Nuno Bettencourt

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgO3ZtXMCNf/

2011: The Stu Sutcliffe version of...

Love me Tender?

No-one knows

https://daytrippin.com/2011/10/31/the-case-for-authenticity-love-me-tender-by-stuart-sutcliffe/

The song:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005XLZTAC/daytrippinmagazi

Quoting:

"That’s why the digital release of “Love Me Tender“, sung by Stuart himself, is an astonishing event generating stunned excitement and questions about the song’s origin and authenticity.

“Love Me Tender” was Stuart’s signature song; a ballad he performed so well in Hamburg it received the best applause during the Beatles’ sets at the Kaiserkeller and Star Club. Sutcliffe also performed Carl Perkins’ “Matchbox” and Elvis Presley’s “Wooden Heart”. But “Love Me Tender” is the song most associated with his name."

1969-09: George Harrison talks about Abbey Road...

... the day it was out:

"George Harrison Breaks Down Abbey Road Track-By-Track on the Day of Its Release (September 26, 1969)":

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/george-harrison-breaks-down-abbey-road-track-by-track-on-the-day-of-its-release-september-26-1969.html

And in Youtube:

https://youtu.be/XobX0zcQ7zQ

2022-05: Mr. Yorke, the music critic...

... that worked for Lennon:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/music-critic-ritchie-yorke-had-links-to-rock-royalty/article34099687/

Quoting:

""I think ethics are a personal thing," he told the Toronto Star in 1972. "It's the end result that counts. I think the end justifies the means."

In 1969, his editor at The Globe told him he couldn't work for John Lennon and the newspaper at the same time, and that he had to make a choice. He chose the Beatle.

Mr. Yorke, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 73 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, was undoubtedly one of a kind."

2022-06: Hunter Davies on Sir PM

Interesting words from the biographer:

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1627325/paul-mccartney-eightieth-birthday-the-beatles-hunter-davies-beatles-fab-four

1965: 3 hour interview at Abbey Road?

Seems like. 

https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00378/

The cover of the 200000 copies sold-out magazine (Source: original article):

Quoting:

"I met the Beatles in June 1965. I boarded a plane for the first time in my life and flew to London for an exclusive interview with John, Paul, George, and Ringo at EMI’s legendary Abbey Road studios. A year later, the Beatles came to perform in Japan, at the Nippon Budōkan. Following that original interview in 1965, I was able to meet and interview the Beatles every year until the band split in 1970. This wonderful opportunity gave me a precious glimpse of the personalities beyond these icons of my generation. (I was born the same year as John Lennon.) As 2016 marks 50 years since Beatlemania hit Japan, in this article, I look back on my meetings with the four men at the heart of a musical revolution and their impact on mid-1960s Japan."

2022-06: A lost weekend documentary by...

... May Pang, who else?

https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/the-lost-weekend-review-may-pang-john-lennon-1235290486/

Quoting:

"The so-called Lost Weekend, when John Lennon, from late 1973 through ’74, separated from Yoko Ono and relocated to Los Angeles, where he became a hard-drinking rock-club night owl while carrying on an affair with the 22-year-old May Pang (who had been John and Yoko’s assistant), has long been part of rock mythology. It’s been covered by everything from E! documentaries to Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon.” Like many Lennon observers, I’ve always felt like I knew the basic bones of it."