2017-04-01: Lovely Rita sem voz e baixo

Uou, isto é qualquer coisa (a versão limpa):
https://youtu.be/Ixrf41uy8Lg

Ver os comentários, alguns indiciam punch in de bateria p.e. que se ouve melhor nesta versão. E.g. 1:11.

2012-04-30: Ken Scott fala de gravações com os Beatles (White Album)

http://www.guitarworld.com/interviews/abbey-road-engineer-ken-scott-beatles-white-album-sessions-were-blast/15536

Citando:
"What can you tell me about the session for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," when Eric Clapton came in to play the guitar solo?
That's a question I'm asked so frequently, and I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. For the book, I wanted to try and get back to that session because I know it's a very important session and a lot of people are interested in it. I actually tried regression therapy to take me back, and, unfortunately, it didn't work [laughs]. I still have no memory of that session.

Given the song's heaviness, was there anything special about the “Helter Skelter” session?
Not much different—they just played a lot louder than usual."

2016-08-11: Clapton e os Beatles

Diversas colaborações de Clapton com os Beatles, algumas pouco conhecidas / não creditadas (com vídeo; listagem não extensiva):
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/exploring-eric-claptons-collaborations-george-harrison-and-beatles/29940

2016-11-21: A guitarra isolada de Clapton no WMGGW

http://www.guitarworld.com/features-blogs/hear-eric-claptons-isolated-guitar-track-beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/14575

2017-03: Review do reissue de FITD (PM)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/paul-mccartney-flowers-in-the-dirt-reissue-review.html

2017-03-29: Fato de Lennon (1964) vai a leilão

http://nypost.com/2017/03/28/john-lennons-suit-headed-to-the-auction-block/

Citação:
"Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein hired Millings to design the majority of the singers’ stage-worn outfits during the early to mid-1960s.

The suit has two D.A. Millings & Son labels sewn into the interior of the jacket. One label features the handwritten word “John” so the jacket could easily be identified when making costume changes during performances.

“John” also is handwritten in red ink on the pants below the fly zipper.

The auction lot includes a glossy photo of Lennon clad in the suit, along with a letter of authenticity from Madame Tussauds, where the suit was displayed."

2017-03-29: Guia completo para todas as canções que PM e Costello escreveram

http://people.com/music/paul-mccartney-elvis-costello-song-collaboration-guide/

2017-03-27: Animador Ian Emes e Wings (PM)?

O animador que trabalhou para os Pink Floyd (projecções no Dark Side of the Moon e mais) trabalhou para os Wings:
https://boingboing.net/2017/03/27/trip-out-on-pink-floyds-da.html

Citando:
"As a result of his work for Pink Floyd, Linda McCartney asked Emes to animate Wings' "Oriental Nightfish". He has also made animations for concerts by Mike Oldfield, and directed The Chauffeur for Duran Duran."

Google says:
https://www.google.pt/search?hl=en-US&source=android-browser&ei=RJ_ZWOeAIcv4UInXu-AJ&q=Wings%27+%22Oriental+Nightfish%22&oq=Wings%27+%22Oriental+Nightfish%22&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3..41.127263.127683.0.128567.3.3.0.0.0.0.429.1157.3-1j2.3.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..2.1.428.vX9e16yrOAE

Wikipedia says:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oriental_Nightfish

2017-03-27: Algumas palavras sobre Pete Shotton (JL friend)

https://scholarsandrogues.com/2017/03/26/a-few-words-about-pete-shotton/

2016-10-09: Frases famosas de JL

JL e algumas das suas frases famosas:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/happy-birthday-john-lennon-14-11980664

2017-03-27: 50 factos sobre Sgt. Pepper's

Os números são impressionantes mesmo 50 anos depois:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/sgt-pepper-50-facts-iconic-12790884

2017-03-26: PM em gravações de novo álbum

Notícias derivadas da entrevista à BBC 6 (já aqui partilhada, com áudio):
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7736643/paul-mccartney-beatles-confirms-hes-working-on-a-new-album

2013-03-22: As férias de JL na Escócia (e o acidente de carro)

... antes do início da gravação do Abbey Road:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/john-lennon-s-high-jinks-in-the-highlands-1-4401009

Citando:
"It was a place where John Lennon was to bring his own children to share his love of long summers in the Highlands. The ex-Beatle was to be a regular visitor to Durness in Sutherland during his younger years after his dear Aunt Mater remarried a dentist called Bert who owned a home that overlooked Sango Bay."

2017-03-22: Capa de jornal brasileiro usa Help!

http://meiahora.ig.com.br/capas/?dia=22/03/2017

2017-02-26: Fato de GH foi exposto pela primeira vez (The Bag O'Nails club)

Emprestado pela viúva. Também lá vai estar o de JL e o fato usado por um astronauta americano nas grandes produções de Hollywood da ida à Lua :)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35670044

Citando:
"Harrison's suit is being loaned by his widow, Olivia, along with the musician's sitar, letters and a diary about the recording of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, which was released in 1967."
(...)
"Other Beatles items on display include John Lennon's lime green Sgt Pepper outfit - which has been on display previously - and handwritten lyrics for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

The exhibition's launch event took place at The Bag O'Nails club in London's Soho where The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience played, and where Sir Paul McCartney met his future wife Linda Eastman in 1967."

2017-03-16: PM tem de esperar por resultados do processo dos Duran Duran

PM tem de esperar por resultados do processo dos Duran Duran:

Paul McCartney, Denied Control Over Beatles Hits For Decades, Is Told To Wait : The Record : NPR

Citando:

"First, the fine print. In the U.S., authors are allowed to regain copyrights they had previously assigned to other parties, such as a music publishing company, after 56 years, a feature of stateside copyright law designed to give late-in-life artists and their families a financial silver lining (not that McCartney needs it). McCartney is extremely keen, after the previously mentioned burns he sustained, to regain control of his Beatles work — so much so that he filed termination notices, the legal mechanism for him to regain his copyrights, on The Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," about 10 years ahead of schedule. (They turn 56 years old in October, 2018.)

Despite that due diligence, McCartney is understandably skittish given his track record of failure in this particular area of his business. The pop genius filed suit, in fact, this past January against Sony/ATV — the world's largest music publisher, which controls much of the Lennon/McCartney songbook — based essentially on a conversation, shared in court documents, in late 2016 during a Billy Joel concert between his lawyer and Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Martin Bandier. The talk seemed to indicate that McCartney's reclamations, which should be protected by U.S. law, may not go as smoothly as he'd hoped."

2017-03-23: Mais uma entrevista de PM (BBC6, Áudio)

Por ocasião do Flowers in the Dirt reissue, que desta vez vai valer a pena (as versões acústicas das músicas de Costello-McCartney parecem valer a pena):
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39351710

2017-03-23: Chuck Berry e JL

A história de Chuck Berry, um condenado que tocava sem afinar em todo o lado viajando com a sua guitarra, a sua arma no seu Cadillac com sacos de 💰... E a partida que pregou a JL na TV:

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a53952/chuck-berry-obituary/

Citando:
"He drove himself from show to show in his Cadillac, carrying with him only his guitar, some clothes and a gun, demanding brown paper bags full of cash from terrified promoters and fronting pick-up bands made of local musicians without even bothering to tune his guitar. He played anywhere from state fairs and small town theaters to the Tonight Show and Mike Douglas Show, where I–and so many second generation fans–first saw him performing with John Lennon and found myself in thrall of his remarkable magnetism.

But like seemingly everything in Berry's life, there was a colorful story attached to the 1972 Mike Douglas appearance. Backstage before the show, Berry had pressed Lennon for unpaid royalties he felt due as a result of The Beatles' recordings of his songs. Then, after convincing Lennon to take the solo on "Johnny B. Goode," he proceeded to change they key just as they went on the air, resulting in a ramshackle performance, and a moment of embarrassment Lennon never forgot, that still tore the roof off of Douglas's Philadelphia studio."

Há vídeos disto no YouTube. É só procurar. Ou então clicar:
https://youtu.be/ULJZbNQRNgU

2017-03-22: PM fala de influência de Chuck Berry

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a53990/paul-mccartney-chuck-berry-the-beatles-tribute/

https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-on-chuck-berry

2017-03-22: Elvis Costello fala da colaboração com PM

O álbum conjunto dos dois nunca saiu, mas a reedição do Flowers in the Dirt traz 9 versões acústicas usadas por um ou por outro a solo e duas músicas não utilizadas:
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a54015/elvis-costello-interview-paul-mccartney-flowers-in-the-dirt/

Citação:
"But this week's reissue of McCartney's 1989 return-to-form Flowers in the Dirt, in pricey but spectacular deluxe and expanded form, includes a bonus disc of acoustic demos of nine songs by the pair, another disc of fully realized studio recordings amounting to the album that never was, and bonus downloads of an additional track, plus three rough and ready cassette recordings made in 1987—which will also be released for Record Store Day as a three-song cassette—in essence rewrites history.

"As to whether a record should come out, it has," Costello tells me, in his first ever in-depth interview about his songwriting partnership with McCartney. "This is it.""