2022-06: Hunter Davies on Sir PM

Interesting words from the biographer:

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1627325/paul-mccartney-eightieth-birthday-the-beatles-hunter-davies-beatles-fab-four

2021-11: participação de membros dos Beatles em música redescoberta

Citando:

"Beginning with a pealing riff from Harrison and underpinned by a steady backbeat from Starr, the song features Hindi-language vocals by singer Aashish Khan, but gives plenty of space for both Beatles to add highly distinctive playing. Harrison delivers a long, searching and joyous guitar solo, while Starr adds his characteristic drum rolls and fills.

Joshi rediscovered the recording at his home during lockdown. “It was lost and found many times … suddenly the lockdown was a blessing in disguise,” he told BBC Merseyside, where the song received its first play.

Joshi said he met Harrison at the studio because, as an Indian, “I stood out like a sore thumb … we started talking about philosophy in general.” Harrison’s interest in Indian culture had been deepened by the Beatles’ trip to Rishikesh earlier in 1968, where, led by Harrison, they studied transcendental meditation.

Harrison divulged to Joshi the friction that was already appearing in the band ahead of their 1969 split: “He said he was the underdog … that he had lost his confidence.”"

Source:

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/10/lost-psychedelic-pop-song-with-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-unearthed

Entrevista com Ken Scott...

... que foi engenheiro de som de algumas gravações dos Beatles:

https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/the-interview-series/the-interview-series-ken-scott-r936/

2020-11: Paul McCartney reissue of We All Stand Together?

Yes, on November 9th, 2020.

There's no area where this man has not been successful, or is there?

The song is here: 

https://youtu.be/yZQ6UxK9nhs

More info:

Paul McCartney to Reissue ‘Rupert and the Frog Song’ | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mccartney-rupert-and-the-frog-song/?utm_source=tsmclip

Quoting:

"Paul McCartney announced plans to rerelease his 1984 animated short Rupert and the Frog Song to mark lead character Rupert Bear’s centenary.

He wrote and produced the 13-minute movie, which was directed by Geoff Dunbar, and accompanied the original release with the single “We All Stand Together,” which reached No. 3 in the U.K. chart.

“I’ve always loved animation,” McCartney said in a statement. “It started with the Disney cartoons and went on from there. As a kid I would always get the Rupert Annual at Christmas. I remember getting the idea for a film project when looking through one of them. There was a standout image in color, and when I saw it I could imagine a concert of frogs with them all doing different parts, a choir and an orchestra, and I could almost hear the music.

1969-09: Entrevista de Paul McCartney...

... para promoção do Abbey Road (áudio)1969-09-19. Com os Beatles na iminência de se separarem, Paul fez de conta que nada se passava e promoveu o que tinha de promover:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFTJsjrgvlj/?igshid=1czdpdtfrcwb1

2020-04: Temporary Secretary? McCartney II visto pelo NME

Alguma informação interessante sobre o McCartney II que marcou a entrada de McCartney nos anos 80 (e que faz 40 anos, não 35):

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/paul-mccartneys-mccartney-ii-turns-35-years-old-how-it-foretold-the-sound-of-1980s-pop-17280

2020-01: Paul não ouve os Beatles

Diz ele:
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1223210/Paul-McCartney-book-The-Beatles-music-John-Lennon

2019-12-01: Crowded House, The Beatles, and the making of a melody [ARTICLE, BOOK]

Um artigo baseado no livro "The Song Remains the Same" recentemente saído e que deve estar repleto de referências aos Beatles, naturalmente:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/01/dont-dream-its-over-crowded-house-the-beatles-and-the-making-of-a-melody

Citando:
"“There is freedom within, there is freedom without

Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup …”

According to Neil Finn, you can’t put a “paper cup” in a song without it being a reference to John Lennon. So why not go the whole hog? In the Beatles’ Across the Universe, it’s words that are flowing ‘like endless rain into a paper cup’. Finn’s cup is attempting to contain a veritable flood.

The Beatles were such a monumental force in pop music that for a decade after their disbanding, other musical acts seemed consciously to avoid their influence. In Split Enz, however, New Zealand’s Finn brothers, Tim and Neil, embraced it wholeheartedly (this was long before 1990s Britpop, when everyone was at it), and the influence carried over to Neil’s Australian band, Crowded House. In general, perhaps too much has been made of the Beatles–Crowded House connection, but it’s there for all to hear in Don’t Dream It’s Over, where the narrow melody of the verse, all stepwise intervals, might easily have been written by Lennon. There is, however, nothing of Lennon in the famous chorus."

2019-11: O Washington Post sobre Morgan Freeman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-freeman-photographer-who-helped-define-the-image-of-the-beatles-dies-at-82/2019/11/09/29108e96-0308-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Citando:
"“Freeman was living in Hong Kong when Lennon was assassinated in 1980,” Prem told CNN in 2013, “and he told me that he had a photo of Lennon on his wall and it fell down at exactly the same time.”"

2018-09: Egypt Station chegou a número 1 nos EUA

... sabiam? Foi o ano passado. Not me
https://news.sky.com/story/paul-mccartney-scores-first-number-one-album-in-united-states-in-36-years-11500498

Citando:
"Sir Paul McCartney has achieved his first solo number one album in the United States in 36 years.

The former Beatle is back on top of the charts after selling the equivalent of 153,000 copies of his 18th solo studio album Egypt Station, since its release on 7 September."

2019-09: Ethan Russel e a última sessão de fotos dos Beatles?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who

Citando:
" Harrison was miserable from frame one to frame 500,” says Ethan Russell. “He was so over it. I don’t think he did anything but scowl for three hours.” The photographer is recalling the day he unknowingly took the last ever shot of the Beatles together. It was 22 August 1969, and they were all at John Lennon’s countryside estate near Ascot."

E a foto famosa em Saville Road Nas sessões de Let it Be:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who#img-3

2019-06: John Lennon e a Escócia...

O acidente de Lennon em 1969 foi lá. O carro foi levado para a casa de Lennon para ele se lembrar. E nunca mais terá conduzido depois disso:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1141020/john-lennon-scotland-car-crash-wife-yoko-autograph-memorial-garden

Citando:
"While Sir Paul McCartney’s links to Kintyre are well-documented, his fellow Beatle John Lennon also loved Scotland after spending many blissful summers north of the Border as a child. From the age of nine Lennon spent his summer holidays with his Aunt ‘Mater’ who had remarried and moved to Edinburgh. He would travel alone by bus to visit his aunt and his cousin Stanley Parkes in the capital and also at their family croft in Durness, Sutherland."

2019-06: Primeiro contrato com Epstein vai a leilão

Contrato ainda com Pete Best:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-48635808

Citando:
"The document, said to have been signed by the band in the front room of Best's mother's house, was the first of two contracts drawn up between Epstein and The Beatles.

It gave Epstein responsibility for finding the band work, and managing their schedule and publicity.

He was also to oversee "all matters concerning clothes, make-up and the presentation and construction of the artists' acts and also on all music to be performed".

Mr Heaton said: "He was just blown away by the passion, the energy, the charisma, the raw sexuality on stage."

2019-06: Ringo Starr acerca do medo do palco

E o ritual que faz antes de ir para palco:

https://www.today.com/video/ringo-starr-talks-to-al-roker-about-beatles-touring-and-aging-61768261724 (vídeo de 12 junho 2019)

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1139718/The-Beatles-drummer-Ringo-Starr-stage-fright-Paul-McCartney

Citando:
"Ringo continued: “I do one ritual while I’m touring.

“That is an hour and half every night before I go on stage.

“I have a baked potato, some vegetables and a vegetable drink. And that keeps me settled.”

Last Christmas, Ringo joined Sir Paul McCartney for a Beatles reunion at the latter’s final O2 Arena performance."

2019-05: Top of the Pops, completo!

92 em vez dos 11 segundos encontrados no México. E esses 92 são a performance completa, aparentemente:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/full-tape-beatles-only-top-of-the-pops-performance-found-attic-2503011

Citando:
"David Chandler used a wind-up camera to record the band’s performance of ‘Paperback Writer’ when it aired and was compelled to try and find it after hearing about the discovery of a short 11-second clip of the appearance in Mexico last month. The footage lasts for 92 seconds and has been donated to Kaleidoscope, an organisation who specialise in locating missing TV footage."

2018-05: Fato de Lennon em leilão

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7082079/John-Lennons-tracksuit-worn-1970-trip-Denmark-sale-35-000.html
Citando:
"John Lennon's tracksuit worn during a trip to Denmark in 1970 is going up for sale

The Beatle and wife Yoko Ono wore the matching outfits to visit her ex-husband

Now the tracksuit, from Tony Cox's collection is going up for sale for $35,000

Cox and Ono were locked in a legal battle over custody of their daughter in 1970"

2019-06: The "mentrification" of The Beatles?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/29/mentrification-how-men-appropriated-computers-beer-and-the-beatles

Citando:
"A reply repeated the question, but in regards to the Beatles. When did the group “start to be remembered as rock legends, rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?” Another user answered: “when men decided they liked them”."

1967-06: A cover de Hendrix a Sgt. Pepper's...

... com PM e GH na audiência, apenas 3 dias depois do disco ter saído:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jimi-hendrix-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-footage/

Citando:
"Jimi Hendrix was never shy to hide his admiration for The Beatles and, back in 1967, the iconic guitarist took things to the next level.

The night was June 4, 1967, Hendrix was stepping out on stage for his headline show at the Saville Theatre in London and, knowing that both Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in the audience, Hendrix decided to open the show with his rendition of Sgt. Pepper‘s title song."

https://youtu.be/NHI6mmcr0zI

2019-05: Unseen Beatles (livro com fotos)

Algumas das fotos do novo livro:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7064289/Hundreds-images-revealed-charting-Beatles-rise-fame-worldwide-hunt-footage.html

Citando:
"Unseen Beatles: Hundreds of images are revealed charting the band’s rise to fame after worldwide hunt for footage of the Fab Four that has gathered dust in home drawers for decades"

Which Beatles songs have the best harmonies?

Gostamos de Beatles também pelas harmonias vocais. Quase sempre elas estão lá (ainda que apenas em partes da música). No mínimo quase sempre são 3 mas há músicas em que há 9 linhas vocais (Because). Algumas das melhores são de facto estas:

Which Beatles songs have the best harmonies? - Quora