2021-04: Cinema salvo?

Classificação de edifício salva cinema que George Harrison e John Lennon frequentavam:

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-56832865.amp

Citando:

"The cinema was designed by renowned architect and Liverpool City Council leader Sir Alfred Ernest Shennan and opened in 1939.

Harrison and Lennon, who lived nearby, visited as teenagers and it featured in both The Beatles' personal writings and the original lyrics of the band's 1966 song In My Life.

It closed in 1979 and was later used as a bingo hall, snooker club and, most recently, a supermarket."

2018-09: Video de John Lennon e George Harrison a tocar "How do You Sleep"

How do You Sleep é uma música (de JL sobre PM) que faz parte de uma sequência de "troca de mimos" entre JL e PM com músicas editadas em álbuns de um e de outro motivada pelo mau estar que se gerou entre os Beatles com o anúncio de PM sobre o fim dos Beatles (e processo judicial que se seguiu) ao mesmo tempo que lançava o seu primeiro álbum a solo.

Vídeo de JL e GH que vai ser brevemente editado numa nova compilação (detalhes no artigo):
https://www.jambase.com/article/the-beatles-john-lennon-george-harrison-in-newly-surfaced-video

O vídeo no YouTube (How do You Sleep, John Lennon, takes 5 e 6) com Alan White (que integrou os Yes mais tarde):
https://youtu.be/FoJQAyrUHh

Citando:

"The Beatles’ co-founders John Lennon and George Harrison appear together in a newly surfaced video. The previously unseen footage features the pair recording “How Do You Sleep” for Lennon’s 1971 solo album Imagine.

Lennon plays guitar in the footage from Ascot Sound Studios, the recording facility he built with his wife Yoko Ono in Berkshire County, England. Harrison can be seen playing slide guitar alongside keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, drummer Alan White and bassist Klaus Voormann. According to NPR, Lennon described Harrison’s playing on “How Do You Sleep? (Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take)” as George’s “best guitar solo to date on this cut, as good as anything I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere.”"

2018-09: Mais detalhes da entrevista de PM à GQ

Mais umas quantas histórias de Las Vegas e de GH perder a virgindade:
https://observador.pt/2018/09/13/prostitutas-alguns-mitos-e-aquele-momento-com-lennon-paul-mccartney-abre-o-livro-sexual-dos-beatles/

Citando:
"Por alguma razão que ainda não é totalmente clara, aos 76 anos de idade, Paul McCartney aceitou dar uma entrevista à edição britânica da revista GQ para falar sobre as suas aventuras sexuais. Nessa conversa, o cantor, autor, figura incontornável de uma das maiores bandas do século XX arrasta consigo um antigo companheiro de banda de que já se terá ouvido falar: John Lennon. Precisava de fazê-lo? Pode fazê-lo? Há quem diga que sim.

“As histórias nunca contadas de Paul McCartney” foi o título com que a revista embrulhou a conversa. Um dos episódios recordados pelo ex-Beatle — precisamente um que Lennon também protagoniza — é contado assim: “Estávamos em casa do John, éramos uns quantos. E, em vez de nos embebedarmos e de perdermos o controlo, sentámo-nos numa cadeira. Não havia luz e alguém começou a masturbar-se. E começámos todos a fazer o mesmo.”"

2018-02-21: Aniversário de GH celebrado no País de Gales

Por 30 GBP com jantar e direito a falar com a secretária do clube de fãs de 1962 a 1972, Freda Kelly:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/beatles-fans-invited-mark-george-14314161

Citando:
"[anniversary] marked in the most surprising of places.

An event celebrating the life of the former Beatle who passed away in 2001 is being held at Portmeirion in North Wales.

The Italian Renaissance-style village was the distinctive setting for the ‘60s television series The Prisoner and was also a favourite spot for The Beatles with George holding his 50th birthday party there in 1993."

2018-02-18: As 10 melhores canções de GH nos Beatles?

http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-06-27/the-top-10-best-beatles-songs-written-by-george-harrison

2018-02-17: George Harrison e a irmã

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5402827/George-Harrisons-secret-trip-Beatlemania-hit.html

Citando:
"Louise, who moved to the US more than 50 years ago, says her brother's visit when he was 20 years old was very different to the lifestyle he would later have. 

'It was probably the last time in his life that George could ever go anywhere without being recognised and mobbed by fans, the last time he could feel like a normal human being,' she said.

'When he got off the plane in St Louis there wasn't a single fan waiting. 

'Nobody tore at his clothes or screamed for his autograph. No squads of police, no gangs of reporters. It was such a relief for him.

'In the middle of all that craziness George enjoyed a holiday in the US where he could feel human again.'"

2017-11-11: Tom Petty e o dia em que conheceu RS e GH

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-musicares-benefit/

Citando:
"Last night, Tom Petty was given the MusiCares Person of the Year Award at the organization’s annual benefit in Los Angeles. During his acceptance speech, he told a story about the night he met George Harrison and Ringo Starr, which ended up with him getting a lesson in paying your dues."
(...)
"You can watch the whole speech above, with this story beginning at the 7:40 mark. Petty recalled that he moved to Los Angeles in 1974, when he was signed to Leon Russell‘s Shelter Records by Denny Cordell. Shortly thereafter, he was hired by Russell to hang out at his home studio to provide lyrics in case the musicians came up with some worthwhile music.

“The first session, in comes George Harrison and Ringo, [legendary session drummer] Jim Keltner,” he began. “They didn’t need any words, but those cats were so cool, you know. And I found myself, after the session when we were hanging out, I found myself slipping my sunglasses on. Leon said, ‘What the hell are you doing with the dark glasses, man?’ I said, ‘It feels cool, you know, like Jimmy Keltner — he’s got his on."

2017-101-02: Gravação de Something no último concerto completo de GH

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/george-harrison-plays-a-sublime-something-at-last-concert-w510664

O vídeo ("pirata"):
https://youtu.be/qwn0qY2qY_s

Citando:
"For reasons he never quite articulated, Harrison left a fortune on the table and didn't agree to any more dates after Japan [12 dates]. The only exception was an April 6th, 1992 show at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was a benefit concert for the National Law Party days before the British General Election. Clapton wasn't around for this one, but he used many members of his touring band along with Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers on lead guitar. Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Gary Moore and his son Dhani Harrison came out for the encores of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Roll Over Beethoven."

Harrison didn't let professional camera film the show, but here's decent amateur footage of "Something." Many fans felt it was vastly superior to the Japanese shows with Harrison in better vocal shape and seemingly a bit more relaxed. He largely disappeared for the rest of the decade, popping up only for the Beatles anthology project and to label Oasis "rubbish" after Liam Gallagher had the tenacity to call him a "fucking nipple.""
(...)
"The Royal Albert Hall marked the last time that George Harrison played a full concert, though months later he did play a handful of songs at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert and in 1997 John Fugelsang cajoled him into playing "All Things Must Pass" and a few other tunes at a TV taping. He also played at song at Carl Perkins' funeral in 1998. Right around that time, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. He'd spend the remaining years of his life battling the disease while recording Brainwashed, his final album."

2017-09-29: Cítara vendida em leilão por ~50K GBP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4935284/Sitar-played-George-Harrison-sells-47-000.html

Citando:
"In the Beatles Anthologies, he said: ‘We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something.

‘We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the sitar up - it was just lying around.

‘I hadn’t really figured out what to do with it. It was quite spontaneous: I found the notes that played the lick. It fitted and it worked.’

Norwegian Wood was recorded in October 1965, and has noted to kick-start the ‘Great Sitar Explosion’ in rock and roll.

However, this lead to Harrison generating his lifelong passion for Indian music and learning the sitar and growing his interest Hinduism and Indian culture, all occurring after the string broke on his personal instrument while recording.

He became the first Beatle to visit India and travelled to Mumbai to study the sitar with Ravi Shankar in 1966 following the band’s final live concert in San Francisco.

Over the next several months Harrison continued to play the sitar and decided to exchange his older-style ‘crummy-quality one’ with a more sophisticated style designed to play better into microphones.

It was a lifelong passion for the star, since his marriage to first wife Pattie Boyd in January 1966. 

Harrison reportedly gave the sitar to Miss Boyd’s friend George Drummond who hosted them in Barbados for the wedding, while getting a better sitar flown to the island for him."

2017-09-15: Cítara de George Harrison vai a leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41276669

Citando:
"A sitar owned and played by George Harrison is going to be auctioned in the United States.

The instrument, purchased from a shop on London's Oxford Street in 1965, was used by Harrison during the recording of the Beatles song Norwegian Wood.

The Indian string instrument, crafted by a well-known music shop in Kolkata, was later gifted to a friend of Harrison's first wife, Patti Boyd.

Bidding for the sitar will begin on 28 September at $50,000 (£37,327).

Harrison had discovered the sitar in 1965, on the set of the Beatles' second film, Help.

His love affair with oriental mysticism first made itself known in Norwegian Wood, John Lennon's tale of an extra-marital fling. Acoustic guitar and muted bass were augmented by the Indian instrument."

2017-07-24: Última aparição de George Harrison na TV (VH1)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-harrison-last-tv-interview/

Citando:
"When George Harrison stopped by to plug a new project for his old friend Ravi Shankar on July 24, 1997, it was almost as if he somehow knew this would be his last TV appearance. Sparked by an intuitive line of questioning by VH1’s John Fugelsang, Harrison turned expansive on his faith and what happens when we die.

Most of that, as you’d expect, was initially left on the cutting-room floor, as VH1 chose to focus instead on the musical portion of their conversation. Harrison was diagnosed with throat cancer later that year, and during the period before he died, the network reedited the former Beatles star’s segment to include his meditation on death.

VH1 then aired the expanded version on the day Harrison died, finally giving full voice to a remarkably deep conversation on the nature of death and salvation. Song performances included “Any Road,” a previously unheard number that later appeared on 2002’s Brainwashed; “If You Belonged to Me,” from the Traveling Wilburys‘ 1990 album, Vol. 3; and, most touchingly, the title track from All Things Must Pass."

2017-07-16: Fotos de JL e GH vão a leilão dia 16

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4674450/Unseen-photos-John-Lennon-George-Harrison.html
Citando:
"Pictures taken in July 1971, a month before New York Concert for Bangladesh 
The intimate pictures are expected to fetch more than £3,000 at an auction 

Candid photographs showing John Lennon and George Harrison reuniting a year after the Beatles split are set to go under the hammer. 

The intimate photos were taken by a music executive in a New York apartment where Harrison asked his former bandmate to perform in a landmark charity concert he was putting on for refugees in Bangladesh.

But soon after the pictures were taken things turned sour between the pair, as the meeting sparked a row between Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono."

2017-06-16: Letra de canção de GH sobre Starr encontrada por viúva

Olivia Harrison, espera que PM e RD gravem a música. Sentada?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3818336/george-harrisons-widow-lost-beatles-song-ringo-starr/

Citando:
"George is thought to have written it as a plea for the band to stay together around the time of their 1970 split.

She told of Ringo’s shock — and said she hopes the star, 76, and fellow surviving Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, 74, put it to music.

She said: “He’d never seen this song before. He was so surprised. There was a folder in George’s piano bench."

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."

2002-11-29: Something no concerto de homenagem a GH (Vídeo)

http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/watch-eric-clapton-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-perform-something/31094

Citando:
"On November 29, 2002, the first anniversary of George Harrison's death, an impressive assemblage of the former Beatle's band mates, family members and buddies gathered at London's Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute to his life and music.

That event—which was released in 2003 as The Concert for George—featured performances by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and many others."

2017-04-14: A história de "In Spite of All Danger"

Uma canção McCartney-Harrison (autoria que nunca se iria repetir mais) e que pode ser ouvida no Anthology 1:
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2017/04/14/beatles-in-spite-of-all-the-danger/

Citando:
"Today, critics often dismiss “In Spite of All the Danger,” with Unterberger calling it “not that much” and “a routine doo wop-like early rock ‘n’ roll ballad.” In his review of Anthology 1, Mojo‘s Mat Snow writes that the song “gives no inkling of the band who would cut ‘Love Me Do’, never mind ‘A Day In The Life.'”

Clearly, McCartney retains affection for the track: He occasionally performs it livein concert, particularly during his 2005 world tour and the television special Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road.

Just four years after the primitive recording of “In Spite of All the Danger,” the renamed Beatles would record “Love Me Do” at Abbey Road Studios and launch their career. Their artistic growth developed rapidly, and this 1958 song is a baby step in their journey."

2011-06-17: Entrevista de PM à RS (2011)

Entrevista de PM sobre o sucesso de Beatles 1, Linda, GH e a namorada de então (H. Mills):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-on-beatles-1-losing-linda-and-being-in-new-york-on-september-11th-20110617

2017-04-11: As 20 melhores canções de GH (com vídeo)

Estas listas são sempre listas... Conhecem todas?
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/the-20-best-george-harrison-songs.html?a=1

2002: Os 100 maiores Bretões listam 3 Beatles

Na lista dos 100 maiores Bretões (um programa que quando feito em Portugal deu a vitória a... Salazar, se bem se lembram) lista 3 dos Beatles!  JL está no top 10 (#8). Sabem quem ficou de fora?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons

2016-06-10: Músicas com GH em álbum (não editado) de Gary Wright?

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-06-10/lost-george-harrison-tracks-gary-wright-spooky-tooth-album-1972

Citando:
"Harrison is heard on Goodbye Sunday and several other tracks when Ring Of Changes is launched via Esoteric Recordings on July 29.

The label say: “Following his departure from Spooky Tooth after the Ceremony album, Wright participated in sessions for Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, and enjoyed a solo career that culminated in him forming the band Wonderwheel.

“Originally featuring Mick Jones, Bryson Graham and Archie Leggett, the group participated on his second solo album Footprint. In 1972 they recorded Ring Of Changes, with Tom Duffey replacing Leggett on bass.

“The album was a fine effort, and arguably featured some of the finest material written and recorded by Wright to that date. For reasons unclear, the release was shelved, leading Wright to participate in the recording of Harrison’s Living In The Material World, and to reform Spooky Tooth soon after.”"