2020-05: Beatles na capa da Uncut em 2020

Pelos 50 anos do Let it Be:

Louder: The Beatles: celebrating 50 years of Let It Be in Classic Rock - out now.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-beatles-celebrating-50-years-of-let-it-be-in-classic-rock-out-now

2020-05: A foto da capa do álbum Get Back...

... que não chegou a ser álbum com esse nome:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-get-back-album-cover/

Citando:

""When I got there, I couldn’t retake the shot," McBean later recalled. "A new porch had been built and I couldn’t get into the same position. However, EMI asked if I could come back in a week. Meanwhile, the whole new porch was pulled down and we tried again.”

They regrouped on May 13, four days after they thought they'd completed mixing of the record, and got the picture they wanted. "Ringo Starr was so late that the staff of EMI was streaming down the stairs," McBean noted. "I got the camera fixed up, and John, fascinated by photography, came and lay down beside me to look at my viewfinder. I can still hear the screams of the EMI girls as the realized who they were stepping over to get out the door!""

2014-10: Fotos da capa do Abbey Road leiloadas

Artigo sobre o leilão em 2014:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/15/beatles-abbey-road-photographs-set-six-auction

E o VW branco sabem aonde foi parar? Ao museu! 

Citando:

"The shots were taken by the photographer Iain Macmillan, a friend of Lennon and Yoko Ono, on 8 August 1969. He had his Hasselblad, a stepladder and 10 minutes.

It was the fifth of the six shots that was chosen by McCartney for the album and it’s easy to see why as all four men are in step and nicely spaced." (...)

"The collection will be sold at Bloomsbury’s photographs and photobooks sale on 21 November and has an estimate of £50,000-70,000.

Almost everything about the Abbey Road shoot has become famous, including the three decorators in the background and the white VW Beetle, which has ended up in the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg, Germany."

1966: Rough draft of Revolver's cover (Estudo da capa)

Um estudo da capa do álbum Revolver, pelo autor da capa (e amigo dos Beatles em Hamburgo, baixista também), Klaus Voorman, pode ser vista neste post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nt5ppgSuj/?igshid=1ry7bhmmzecfw

Em 1966, nesta data começou a ser gravada a Tomorrow Never Knows. Detalhes no post referido 

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

2019-11: Faz anos que Paul McCartney imaginou Sgt

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5B5tjYAVIW/?igshid=il4wxzo4q75r

2019-11: A capa do Sgt. Pepper's reimaginada?

Modernices. Quantos conhecem?
https://www.nme.com/news/music/beatles-sgt-peppers-artwork-reimagined-21st-century-celebrities-2568596

PS: Uma boa ideia seria pedir aos Beatles vivos para o fazer. Seria un exercício interessante.

2019-08: Prolongamento de capas?

Artista Russo modifica (prolonga) capas. No artigo Abbey Road e Double Fantasy modificados podem ser vistos:
https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/vida-e-carreira/noticias-vida-e-carreira/artigos/vive-na-russia-e-diverte-se-a-gozar-com-as-capas-dos-discos-dos-seus-artistas-favoritos

2018-08: Várias versões da capa do Abbey Road

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/abbey-road-album-cover-tributes/

Citando:
"The Beatles once planned to call their second 1969 album Everest, after their engineer’s favorite brand of cigarettes. In a logical, if expensive and time-consuming move, they originally intended to travel to the Himalayas to shoot the cover photo. But with the increasingly fractured group unwilling to make that voyage together, McCartney instead sketched out a much easier concept. The album’s title was also changed to the name of the street that was home to their long-time recording studio.

The simplicity of the photograph’s set-up is obviously a major reason such a large number of artists have used Abbey Road homages as their own cover art. Not everybody can commission Klaus Voormann to create an incredible collage of line drawings, or arrange for a room full of life-sized cut-outs of various historical figures. But to recreate Abbey Road, all you really need is a street with a white-striped crosswalk – and as you can see below, even that’s negotiable."

Read More: 50 Years of 'Abbey Road' Album Cover Tributes and Parodies | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/abbey-road-album-cover-tributes/?trackback=tsmclip

2018-08: Paul is dead - o rumor revisitado

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180807-paul-is-dead-a-beatles-secret-message-in-an-album-cover

Citando:
"There’s a crazy rumour that’s persisted for over 50 years that Paul McCartney actually died in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike imposter.

It was so well-known that Life magazine referred to it in the title – Paul is still with us – of a 1969 cover story about the musician.  McCartney himself referenced the ‘Paul is dead’ myth on his 1993 album Paul Is Live. He also parodied the iconic album art of Abbey Road, which conspiracy theorists alleged contained clues suggesting McCartney’s replacement with a dead ringer."

2018-04-23: Auto-retrato de John Lennon vendido em leilão

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lennon-hitler-self-portrait-sold-45000-dollars-beatles-a8317726.html

Citando:
"John Lennon's self-portrait of himself as Hitler sells for $54k

There are several known self-portraits taken from Lennon's personal sketchbook which incorporate Nazi iconography

(...)

In 2007, Sir Peter Blake – who co-created the cover - revealed to The Independent that Hitler did actually make the final line-up, but is simply obscured by the Beatles themselves. ”Yes he is on there – you just can’t see him,” he said. 

He added: “If you look at photographs of the out-takes, you can see the Hitler image in the studio. With the crowd behind there was an element of chance about who you can and cannot see, and we weren’t quite sure who would be covered in the final shot. Hitler was in fact covered up behind the band.”"

2017-05-31: Beatles na capa de Les Inrockuptibles No.1122 (revista francesa)

Beatles na capa de Les Inrockuptibles No.1122 (revista francesa) com artigo de diversas páginas por ocasião dos 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's.

2017-05-02: Rascunho da capa de Sgt. Pepper's por JL vai a leilão

http://nerdist.com/john-lennon-sketch-beatles-sgt-peppers-album-cover-auction/

Citando:
"The auction site notes that “it is unknown how this undated drawing figures into the history of the album cover and Lennon’s involvement.” That said, this drawing does look a lot like what the final album art ended up as, so perhaps this was a final stage of the band deciding on the layout with each other, or perhaps he was just quickly showing a confidante what his band’s next album would look like. Whatever the case, the illustration was found in a sketchbook by the owners of Lennon’s former home in Surrey, England, and it’s a pretty neat piece of newly discovered music history."

2017-04-04: As melhores capas de sempre

Na lista, 2 capas dos Beatles (#2 e #11 em 50), adivinham quais?
http://www.billboard.com/photos/6715351/best-album-covers-of-all-time

2017-02-01: Réplica de fatos do Sgt. Pepper's e capa alternativa em exposição

Comemorando os 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's, réplicas fiéis dos fatos feitas por Noel Howard na mesma casa que as fez em 1967 e uma réplica de uma capa alternativa do álbum (oferecida anos mais tarde a membros da EMI) vão estar em exposição:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/sgt-peppers-suits-go-display-12533577
Os originais dos fatos estão com os Beatles ou os herdeiros (um pouco como os primeiros 4 álbuns brancos numerados que ficaram para cada um deles).

2016-11-14: Capa dos Beatles inspira nova capa (Sgt. Pepper's)

... Com artistas falecidos este ano:
https://startsat60.com/stories/fun/beatles-inspired-photo-pays-tribute-to-stars-who-passed-this-year

2016-08-23: Beatles na capa da Mojo

Especial de 20 páginas Beatles Live! na Mojo deste mês, com entrevista a PM e RS (em conjunto):
http://www.mojo4music.com/24527/beatles-toured-say-paul-ringo/


Citando:
"The cover story is part of a deluxe MOJO package that includes a CD of songs the Beatles played in their formative shows and two art prints that reproduce classic Beatles gig posters, all housed in a card sleeve.
Other unmissable Beatle elements include: Mark Lewisohn and Klaus Voormann on the Beatles’ Hamburg live onslaught; Giles Martin on the restoration of The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl album; Larry Kane risking life and limb in the Fabs’ cavalcade of chaos in 1964 and 1965; Jon Savage revisits the band’s underexplored farewell to UK stages; plus insiders recall the strong weed and lethal stages of the Beatles’ US 1966 swansong."

2016-08-19: Paul McCartney Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview - Rolling Stone

PM é capa da RS, de novo:

Paul McCartney Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview - Rolling Stone

Citando:
Paul McCartney Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview
Ex-Beatle reflects on Yoko, Kanye and why no one could replace John Lennon

2016-07-26: Beatles capa da Classic Rock (Revolver at 50)

Beatles na capa da revista Classic Rock. O motivo é o aniversário dos 50 anos do Revolver:
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-07-13/beatles-classic-rock-226

2016-07-24: Klaus Voorman fala da capa dos Beatles

Com o Revolver a fazer 50 anos (a 6 de Agosto) as notícias e entrevistas sucedem-se:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/23/beatles-revolver-cover-klaus-voormann


KV (que foi pago 50 GBP pelo trabalho que rendeu mais um Grammy aos Beatles!) editou um livro que pode ser comprado por aqui:
"Birth of an Icon: Revolver 50" can be bought via www.voormann.com


(2016-07-25: Detalhes preço e Grammy)