1969: Radio Peace song from Lennon...

... goes for auction:

Quoting:

"(...) The duo also performed a short tune called Radio Peace. It was written as a theme song for a radio station, Mr Hoejen tells the BBC.

"The radio station was never opened and the song was never released," he adds. "To our knowledge the only place where this song exists is on our tape."

'A recording like this is rare'

The recording was made just months before The Beatles announced their break up.

Decades later Mr Hoejen realised he was sitting on a valuable item and put the tape in a bank vault.

Now the old-fashioned cassette is on sale at Denmark's main auction house, Bruun Rasmussen in Copenhagen, together with an original copy of the school newspaper and 23 photographs."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58710135

1969: The Beatles - Get Back Sessions (1969) - YouTube

A triple album with a summary of rehearsals for the "Let it be" film which I didn't know, as a triple album with 39 songs: 

The Beatles - Get Back Sessions (1969) - YouTube

The sound via YT is not top but the versions are... refreshing. Great!

Interesting bits: 

- The zone near the Dig it mini abstract included in the Let it Be album: https://youtu.be/4_sCVEEJGno?t=2427

- Love me do (69) and... Satisfaction. 

1970: Interviews (The Beatles - Discuss Abbey Road, Let It Be, and the Future of The Beatles)

Found this interesting set of interviews, generally positive about the Beatles by all the members, in the all-mighty YoutTube: 

Quoting: 

"An edit of Beatles interviews from 1969 to 1970. There have been a lot of articles recently about the recording of the 1969 Beatles business meeting that Mark Lewisohn has in his possession, but so far has not been shared. Until then, check out these interviews that cover a lot of the same topics and are also as "game changing" as the reported recording.

Each Beatle generally sounds positive and supportive of each others songs and solo projects, but also realistic about the business issues they had been going through. They also seem surprisingly open to making more Beatles songs and albums in 1970 and beyond.. 01 John Lennon (Everett Is Here, September 1969) 0:00 02 Paul McCartney (Scene And Heard, September 1969) 0:31 03 George Harrison (Scene And Heard, October 1969) 11:42 04 John Lennon (Scene And Heard, October 1969) 22:23 05 John Lennon (Scene And Heard, February 1970) 26:55 05 George Harrison (Scene And Heard, March 1970) 30:31 06 Ringo Starr (Scene And Heard, March 1970) 36:23 07 George Harrison (The Beatles Today, March 1970) 38:33"

1969: Isolated tracks from Abbey Road

... apparently by Giles Martin for the game:

https://youtu.be/w8YwV4v1aQE

1969: The Golden Slumbers rip-off from Paul McCartney...

Didn't know it was a ripoff until recently.

Here the inspiration from the 17th century:

https://youtu.be/SGG3zoKVHNo

And here, Paul McCartney explanation on how it appeared (near minute 3):

https://youtu.be/eEFbLgzn7VE

1969: Hendrix invited Paul McCartney to play...

... with Miles Davis and more? 

Aparentemente sim, por telegrama, mas o rapaz estava fora de Londres naquele dia:

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-jimi-hendrix-asked-paul-mccartney-to-play-with-him-in-the-late-beatles-years.html/

Sempre a aprender.

1969: My Dark Hour by Steve Miller

... with Paul McCartney on drums, bass and vocals. The story is here:

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/my-dark-hour/

You can hear it here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/46n3NBM4nTfJ403DJk15tB?si=EO_obPUZS8y_MnrhVea2pQ

Like it. ;)

1969: A bateria isolada de Ringo

... em Something: https://youtu.be/VNLXLWTPlL8

É qualquer coisa, não? O prato choque entra no final só, nunca tinha reparado (e na bridge).

1969-03-19: John Lennon na capa da Look Magazine

Partes da entrevista e fotos da revista:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B92y-w0gBXt/?igshid=1fv8j3wgtceoo

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."

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."

2016-12-15: O piano de Lennon oferecido pela Capitol (1969)

Num bar em Portrush (Kiwi) um piano desafinado está a fazer sensação:
http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/john-lennons-piano-hitting-right-notes-in-portrush-35290746.html

2016-08-25: Sobre a saída de JL dos Beatles em 1969 e o fim dos Beatles (Ray Connoly, jornalista)

... Contadas por um jornalista que soube guardar o segredo de JL, contado por JL e que afinal não era para ser guardado:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3759115/John-Lennon-handed-biggest-scoop-pop-history-blew-writer-closest-Beatles-confession-make.html


Citando:
"We were in Canada when John Lennon told me he’d left The Beatles. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
It was just before Christmas 1969, and a few nights earlier, while discussing his Beatles’ song lyrics on the phone, he’d suddenly invited me to join him and Yoko in Toronto, where he was going to meet Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
So, there I soon was being driven through snow-covered Canadian fields to the home of rock singer Ronnie Hawkins, where John and Yoko were staying."
(A dapted from The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive, now available in paperback from Plumray Books. )

2015-02-17: Jonny Teupen e a sua versão

Jonny Teupen e a sua versão irreconhecível do Fool on the Hill é intrigante. Na FNAC Coimbra por 10,99€.

Harpadelic - Jonny Teupen (harp), (P) 1969 MPS Records, (c) 2014 Edel Germany Gmbh, CD: 0027935 MSW; cheesy but different; includes a version of The Fool on the Hill (Lennon-McCartney).