Is it normal that a band that ended on 1970 still gets radio airplay and frequent references in the social media almost every day here in Europe? This is a very personal and somewhat infomal logbook of some of these references to The Beatles as a proof of their everlasting relevance and continuing influence over the years. As if they needed. Also includes highlights of promotions and some additional info on the band. Mainly in Portuguese (sorry guys).
quinta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2021
2021-11: Filme sobre Brian Epstein...
segunda-feira, 9 de novembro de 2020
1961-11: Brian Epstein sees the Beatles live...
sexta-feira, 2 de outubro de 2020
1964-10: A Cellarful of Noise (Book)
domingo, 10 de setembro de 2017
1967-08-25: Beatles chegam a Bangor
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-41044309
Citando:
"It was not just the press who came - the fans flocked too.
The Beatles stayed in the Normal College, now the university's Management Centre.
Len Jones was one of the gardeners there at the time and said they caused quite a stir.
"I came here at eight o'clock in the morning to start work and there were hundreds of people here. They were singing and they were meditating," he had said previously .
"The Beatles came then, you couldn't move with hundreds of people, especially the girls. And they were all screaming 'Beeeeatles, where are yooooooouuu'?
"The whole college, everybody stopped work for a day or two. It was heaven and it really put Bangor on the map."
But The Beatles would not be in Bangor for long. They arrived on Friday - and on Sunday, the payphone rang in the corridor of the university halls where they were staying.
Eventually, someone answered the phone and Paul McCartney received the news that their manager Brian Epstein had been found dead."
domingo, 27 de agosto de 2017
2017-08-27: Sobre Brian Epstein
terça-feira, 16 de maio de 2017
2017-05-16: Filme sobre época do Sgt. Pepper's (Crítica)
Citando:
"In fairness, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! is not wholly devoid of interest, especially for forensic Fab Four fans. Lengthy archive newsreel clips give an intriguing sense of life inside the Beatlemania bubble just as the band were in transition from moptop pop minstrels to planet-shaking rock aristocrats. The chapter on Epstein's death also has a pleasing journalistic rigor that is lacking elsewhere. Yanked out of a meditation retreat with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to hear the news, Lennon's shell-shocked reaction still feels raw five decades later. "There's no such thing as death anyway," George Harrison argues. "There's death on a physical level, but life goes on everywhere."
More earthly insights into Epstein's death come in a contemporary interview with Simon Napier-Bell, a budding pop impresario in Sixties London who later went on to manage Wham! and many other artists. After spurning repeated sexual advances from Epstein, Napier-Bell came home from a weekend in Dublin to find several bleary messages that the tormented Beatles manager had left on his prototype answerphone machine the very night he died. "I did the stupid, British, correct thing and immediately erased the tape," Napier-Bell says ruefully.
In visual terms, Parker tries to compensate for a dearth of fresh Beatles material with small stylistic flourishes. Trippy animated credits invoke the surreal look of Yellow Submarine (...)"
quinta-feira, 11 de maio de 2017
2017-05-11: Apartamento usado por GH e RS (tour de 1964) para arrendar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4495294/Ringo-Starr-George-Harrison-s-former-flat-rent.html
Citando:
"Apartment in Knightsbridge was home to the legendary music stars during their first world tour in 1964
It is where the Beatles met for a cup of tea before travelling to Buckingham Palace to receive their MBEs
The pair, who shared the Whaddon House flat with George’s future wife, Pattie Boyd, moved into the property after it was recommended to them by their manager, Brian Epstein, who lived upstairs to keep an eye on them."
segunda-feira, 6 de março de 2017
2017-03-06: Hotel comemora 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's com visita
... A local aonde Brian Epstein ficava, e onde GH esteve para comemorar os seus 50 anos:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/its-no-mystery-portmeirion-mark-12689505
Citando:
"Portmeirion is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with its first-ever tour highlighting links to the Beatles - without needing a reservation.
Until now only guests booking a cottage could get to see up close some of the rooms in architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate village that had connections with the Fab Four."
sábado, 2 de abril de 2016
2016-03-31: Sobre a audição falhada dos Beatles na Decca
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/05/29/the-beatles-love-of-the-loved-deep-beatles/
quarta-feira, 23 de março de 2016
2016-03-23: Rare Beatles demo disc raises $110,180 at auction sale
Rare Beatles demo disc raises $110,180 at auction sale
Este leilão tinha sido anunciado recentemente por estas bandas.
sexta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2016
2016-02-26: Primeira gravação dos Beatles vai a leilão
domingo, 25 de outubro de 2015
2015-10-24: Beatles referidos no A Contar (Antena 1)
Este programa de fim de semana na Antena 1 repetiu o programa diário que já tinha passado à semana (mais curto).