2022-06: A lost weekend documentary by...

... May Pang, who else?

https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/the-lost-weekend-review-may-pang-john-lennon-1235290486/

Quoting:

"The so-called Lost Weekend, when John Lennon, from late 1973 through ’74, separated from Yoko Ono and relocated to Los Angeles, where he became a hard-drinking rock-club night owl while carrying on an affair with the 22-year-old May Pang (who had been John and Yoko’s assistant), has long been part of rock mythology. It’s been covered by everything from E! documentaries to Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon.” Like many Lennon observers, I’ve always felt like I knew the basic bones of it."

2021-12: Sobre o documentário Get Back...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-close-read-of-the-beatles-in-get-back/amp

2021-11: The ostracized George?

 ... Hum... Yes.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/peter-jacksons-the-beatles-get-back-will-show-ostracized-george-harrison.html/

Quoting:

"“The strain of ‘Let It Be’ was actually the strain that [John and Paul] put on George and Ringo by trying to force themselves together, and the strain of doing a live show with no songs in two-and-a-half weeks’ time. What I can get [from the outtakes] is that George was being ostracised slightly during ‘Let It Be.’

“Because he had all these songs [which eventually became his sprawling 1970 solo album ‘All Things Must Pass’] but you hear John refer to him as ‘Harrisongs’ – he’s got his own publishing deal and he’s come as a songwriter. It’s like, ‘Oh – we should give George a song.’

“At this stage, George was writing way more than John was. I think John had some sort of writers’ block – he doesn’t have a huge amount of songs on ‘Let It Be.’ I think the attention [John and Paul] were giving one another – almost like they were trying to rekindle their relationship – ostracised George, to a certain degree.”"

2021-08: McCartney 3, 2, 1 revisto

Rick Rubin, o famoso produtor entrevista McCartney. 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/25/mccartney-3-2-1-review-paul-mccartney-rick-rubin-the-fab-four-as-you-ve-never-heard-them-before

Quoting:

"Paul, being the sensible one, had packed a camping stove and a can of rice pudding. “Ambrosia,” confided McCartney to his interviewer, music producer and Beatles superfan Rick Rubin, who, being American, hid bewilderment at this dismal 63-year-old English tragical mystery tour behind a polite rictus."

2021-07: Como ver o novo documentário dos Beatles

Via streaming?

https://money.yahoo.com/documentary-series-covers-final-days-175243291.html

2020-12: Documentário de Paul McCartney com Rick Rubin?

Parece que sim. Rick Rubin é um produtor muito conhecido (RHCP, U2, etc.):

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CI3puzJH5xk

Sobre o Rick Rubin:

- https://www.loudersound.com/features/rick-rubin-a-guide-to-his-best-albums

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discography

2020-09: John Lennon at 80...

... A BBC2 Radio documentary:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFd92XjoPQ1/?igshid=qu338kq558mi

More sources:

Rolling Stone: Sean Lennon to Interview Paul McCartney, Elton John for ‘John Lennon at 80’ Special.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sean-lennon-john-lennon-elton-john-paul-mccartney-radio-special-1065304/

2020-03:O novo documentário de Peter Jackson...

... E a opinião de Paul McCartney e Ringo Starr, em que o filme/doc mostrará mais o verdadeiro espírito das sessões de Let it Be em 1969 (não apenas os conflitos mas muita diversão como sempre foi):

Why Paul McCartney and Ringo Said the New Beatles Doc Will Be So Different From 'Let It Be'.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-said-the-new-beatles-doc-will-be-so-different-from-let-it-be.html/

2020-03: Documentário sobre os Beatles de Peter Jackson

Documentário sobre os Beatles de Peter Jackson estreia este ano:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9mYEuVlD32/?igshid=1hyk09jcpjvv3

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."

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."

2018-01-19: Pattie Boyd about George Harrison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sixties-model-pattie-boyd-says-11886779
Citação:
"In an interview with The Times magazine today Pattie, now 73 and married to her third husband Rod Weston, is asked who was the love of her life.

She replied: “I think George. He was always very loving.”

“Even after we split he was always my friend. We’d still speak on the phone.

“And he came to see me before he died. If you love somebody you do that. And I think he always loved me.”"

2013-11-17: The story of Freda Kelly (by The Guardian)

... Beatles' secretary for around 10 years:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/17/beatles-secretary-freda-kelly-story

Citando:
""Paul, you could always rely on. He was the good one. George was very thoughtful – he would always say 'What have you got in your cupboard for me to sign?' Ritchie [Ringo, real name Richard] was always laughing. He was Mr Happy. John was a man of many moods. People think John Lennon was a big, hard man. He had his moments but there was a caring side to him."

By her own admission, Kelly was something of "an innocent" when she started working for the Beatles. "I was Miss Gullible. I was an Irish Catholic who went straight from the Girl Guides into the music business. I didn't know anything about anything."

It was Lennon who explained to her that her boss Epstein was gay – at the time, homosexuality was still illegal. "I remember saying to John: 'I can't make him out. There's something about him.' And he started laughing. He explained it to me in really simple terms. He said: 'Put it this way, if you and he were the last people on a desert island, you'd be safe.'""

E sobre o DVD:
"Good Ol' Freda will be shown on More4 on 10 December, 9pm. It is also available to buy on DVD from 4 December at amazon.co.uk"

2017-11-02: PM revela que foto da NG inspirou Lady Madonna

A foto que inspirou LM. E um novo documentário no YouTube, em breve:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5041245/Paul-McCartney-reveals-inspiration-Lady-Madonna.html

Citando:
"National Geographic's January 1965 issue published a photograph entitled Mountain Madonna, of a woman whose way of life was threatened, with one child at her breast and another laughing up at her. "
(...)
"Speaking on documentary film One Day A Week, the 75-year-old confessed he was inspired to write the song after seeing an image of a woman in National Geographic magazine in the 1960s.

He explained that the maternal bond in the photo, which saw a vulnerable woman breastfeeding with another child close by, had really 'affected' him - leading him to write the number one single."

2017-08-23: Documentário de 1982 sobre os Beatles?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-compleat-beatles-10-takeaways-from-1982-fab-four-doc-w498816

Citando:
"But one Beatles doc you might not know – and its cause has not been helped by not having an authorized DVD release yet – is 1982's The Compleat Beatles, written by David Silver, directed by Patrick Montgomery, and narrated by Malcolm McDowell, chief droog from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Clocking in at two hours – and titled in the spirit of The Compleat Angler, England's definitive book on fishing, from 1653 – The Compleat Beatles tells the band's entire story, from pre-fame days, with checkpoints at each album, right up through the breakup. It's brimming with keen musical analysis, and a coterie of voices you normally don't get with a Beatles documentary.

For a long time, in the VHS era, it was a staple of high-school music teachers, starting 35 years ago in the summer and fall of '82. If you were lucky enough to have had the TV set wheeled in by a Beatles-mad instructor, you know this is a special film."

2017-06-05: Sgt Pepper’s Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall review

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/05/sgt-peppers-musical-revolution-howard-goodall-review-untold-treasures

2017-05-16: Filme sobre época do Sgt. Pepper's (Crítica)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/was-fifty-years-today-beatles-sgt-pepper-beyond-review-1003725

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 (...)"

2017-04-19: Documentário BBC sobre o Sgt. Pepper's

http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/new-bbc-documentary-to-mark-50-years-since-beatles-sgt-pepper-s-lonely-hearts-club-band-a3524116.html

Citando:
"Out-takes and previously unheard material from the recording of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will feature in a new documentary marking 50 years since the Beatles’ landmark album was released.

The documentary, presented by composer Howard Goodall, will show how the band made one of the most influential albums of all time and include alternative versions of its famous songs.

It is part of a new season of programmes on BBC2 "

2017-03-14: Finalmente percebi porque soa tão bem...

... o remaster para o documentário Eight Days a Week e o CD correspondente (que é baseado em dois concertos numa sala americana de nome Hollywood Bowl). Recordo-me claramente de como soava o vinil de 1977 que uma prima minha tinha e ao voltar a ouvir o remaster cheguei a pensar que o GH era um picuinhas ao dizer (na Anthology) que não se conseguia ouvir a tocar e que toda aquela histeria e gritaria eram insuportáveis. Mas não. A questão é que os concertos são os mesmos mas o som foi todo "reconstruído" (para remover o barulho do público). 

Para saber como leiam o artigo seguinte todo, vale definitivamente a pena:
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/remastering-one-beatles-live-album-finally-made-great/

Citando:
"THE BEATLES’ REMARKABLE catalog includes just one official live album, and the group’s immense popularity made it unlistenable. The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, recorded in 1964 and 1965 but not released until 1977, was always a frustrating listen. Try as you might, you simply cannot hear much music above the fan-belt squeal of 10,000 Beatlemaniacs.

You can’t blame the Fab Four, nor their legendary producer George Martin. Martin did what he could with the three-track tapes, but the limitations of 1970s technology did little to elevate the music above the din. Boosting the high frequencies—the snap of Ringo Starr’s hi-hat, the shimmer and chime of George Harrison’s guitar—only made the racket made by all those fans even louder.

All of which makes the remastered version of Live at the Hollywood Bowl especially impressive. The do-over, which coincided with the August release of Ron Howard’s documentary film Eight Days a Week, squeezes astonishing clarity out of the source tapes. You can finally hear an exceptionally tight band grinding out infectious blues-based rock propelled by a driving beat, wailing guitars, and raspy vocals. This album never sounded so lucid, present, or weighty."

2016-09-16: Ron Howard e os 2 Beatles vivos Q&A (Video)

Ron Howard (director do documentário sobre os Beatles ao vivo, projectobquebo ocupou por 2 anos) e os 2 Beatles vivos responderam a perguntas (Q&A) em Abbey Road (Notícia e vídeo):
http://www.noise11.com/news/paul-mccartney-liked-ron-howard-as-richie-in-happy-days-20160918