2018-11: Paul McCartney partilha fotos do início dos Wings

... por altura de mais um reissue (edições expandidas) a 7 de Dezembro:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/paul-mccartney-wings-reissue-wild-life-album-tracklist-linda-photos-a8660766.html

Citando:
"He explains that he had songs "knocking around" that would eventually end up on the Wild Life album. "What happens for me is that I write all the time and then suddenly I think: 'Oh god, I've got too many. I've got to record them to get them out of the way."

Addressing the backlash to the band and the album's lukewarm reception, McCartney says: "I'm not saying, 'yes, I'll do what you want. I'm saying, 'I'll do what I want.' People don't always like that."

The reissues of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway are released on 7 December via MPL/Capitol/UMe."

2018-11: Beatles e os millennials?

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/beatles-songs-get-millennial-treatment-2413953

2018-11: Documentário sobre o Imagine

Sobre o recente documentário sobre o Imagine:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/11/24/john-yoko-us-sky-review-lennons-message-peace-love-people-power/

Citando:
"The spirit of revolution was alive and well in John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (Channel 4), a documentary celebrating John Lennon’s peace, love and occasionally anger-laden album Imagine and, in particular, the much-admired title track.

This wasn’t so much the untold story of the making of a classic album as a fascinating addendum to an iconic story which had already been told in the companion film released by Lennon, Yoko Ono and director Steve Gebhardt in 1972, and fleshed out even more in Andrew Solt’s tribute Gimme Some Truth."

2018-11: Um relato dos Beatles na India

Em primeira mão... As cerca de 40 canções compostas lá deram origem ao White Album (e a muitas canções editadas mais tarde a solo por cada um dos Beatles - Jealous Guy, Not Guilty, etc.):
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1046990/the-beatles-visited-ashram-india-Susan-Shumsky

Citando:
"IN 1968 the shockwaves from the Beatles trip to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of transcendental meditation, reverberated around the world. The Fab Four were not the only celebrities to make the trip to the sparsely constructed ashram overlooking the River Ganges. Actress Mia Farrow, Beach Boy Mike Love and folk singer Donovan also attended but the Beatles were far and away the most famous."
(...)
"Maharishi asked George to tell Deepak the real story and he revealed the Beatles were asked to leave because members of their party were using drugs and alcohol.

The topic turned to the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance, during which no crime was reported in the USA.

Maharishi exclaimed, "When I heard this, I knew the Beatles were angels on Earth... It doesn't matter what John said or did, I could never be upset with angels." George then broke down and wept.

Later, George phoned Deepak and said: "A huge karmic baggage has been lifted from me, because I didn't want to lie.""

2018-11: Beatles e RS, o veredicto (no RU)?

Beatles!

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1045916/The-Beatles-or-The-Rolling-Stones-UK-poll-Queen-Freddie-Mercury-Bohemian-Rhapsody-ABBA

Citando:
"It’s The Beatles! According to YouGov, 73% of the UK public has a positive opinion of the Fab Four, while 61% favour The Rolling Stones.

Meanwhile, both bands had very low negativity with the British public, with just 10% and 12% disliking the bands."

2018-11: A vergonha do assassino?

A transcrição da audiência para a liberdade condicional (entretanto negada mais uma vez) do "senhor" foi publicada:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/15/mark-david-chapman-john-lennon-killer-parole-hearing-transcript-shame

Citando:

"“I was too far in,” Chapman told the board. “I do remember having the thought of, ‘Hey, you have got the album now. Look at this, he signed it, just go home.’ But there was no way I was just going to go home.”

As in previous parole hearings, Chapman went into detail about the shooting and his regret over the “senseless” act. Chapman claimed he sought notoriety and felt no animosity for Lennon, even though he loaded his gun with more lethal hollow-point bullets.

“I secured those bullets to make sure he would be dead,” he said. “It was immediately after the crime that I was concerned that he did not suffer.”"

2018-11: O White Album reeditado (Público)

https://www.publico.pt/2018/11/09/culturaipsilon/noticia/white-album-disco-parecia-possivel-1849966

Citando:
"White Album, o disco em que tudo parecia possível

Faz 50 anos o álbum menos ordeiro dos Beatles. É reeditado esta sexta-feira e volta a colocar-nos diante de um disco que pode salvar músicos – que o digam Joana Barra Vaz, Miguel Araújo, Domingos Coimbra ou Nuno Rodrigues"

2018-11: Beatles e Hendrix e os álbuns de 68

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=665972702

Citando:
""The White Album" and Electric Ladyland also came after periods of personal upheaval. Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, died in August 1967. Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, quit during the recording of Electric Ladyland, frustrated by the long and freeform sessions. But the loss of Epstein (and The Beatles' four-year run at the top of the charts) allowed them to take more control of the recording process. Hendrix, meanwhile, was able to produce and "direct" his own work, in close collaboration with his engineer Eddie Kramer. Loss turned to almost unchecked creative abandon."

2018-11: White Album reissue (Rolling Stone)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/beatles-white-album-super-deluxe-is-a-revelatory-dive-into-their-frayed-late-sixties-drama-753695/

Citando:
"The outtakes vary in impact. A 12-minute “Helter Skelter” is not the noise fest I hoped but a solid groove, McCartney leading a blues-jam Beatles. The minute differences in Lennon’s two takes of longing for his mother, “Julia,” are telling; his vocal falls more naturally over the guitar in the second pass. An alternate down-home “Good Night” is a marvelous shock, Ringo Starr’s homely vocal gilded with earthy harmonies closer to the Band, moving in Byrds-like formation. And do not fear for the original album: Giles’ remix adds depth and detail without betraying the ’68 balance as in the new, striking contrast between the doldrums and tumult in Harrison’s “Long, Long, Long.”

The Beatles is now seen as the album on which they started to break up. But it was wisely titled: a self portrait of the band at odds but pulling together behind each writer, playing as they always did: in service to the song."

2018-11: Jack White and the Beatles lesbian kiss?

Seems so:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3MGHcgplZ/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1takfd57moc3g