2022-05: Superfan talks...

Interesting article by a person mentioned in a BBC recordings sleeve notes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10816621/Beatles-superfan-bedroom-recordings-bands-hits-thanked-album-32-years-later.html

Quoting:

"On the last page of the booklet that came with the 1994 Beatles double CD, Live At The BBC, in very small print, are the credits. 

Mentioned first is 'Executive Producer: George Martin.' 

Then it reads: 'Thanks to Margaret Ashworth' and then the names of six others. "

2022-04: Liverpool and Benfica in the sports cover today...

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: 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

2021-04: Sobre o McCartney III Reimagined

2 reviews positivas. E uma versão de Khruangbin! 

https://www-guitarworld-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.guitarworld.com/amp/news/hear-st-vincent-josh-homme-phoebe-bridgers-khruangbin-radically-rework-paul-mccartney-tracks

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/paul-mccartney-mccartney-iii-imagined/

1880: Paul McCartney e o cobertor?

https://www-standard-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/paul-mccartney-north-wales-george-harrison-beatles-ringo-starr-b926744.html

Quoting:

"McCartney responded graciously as he wrote back: “Dear Mrs Brierley (Irene), Your letter reached me eventually and I was sorry to hear about my ‘debt’.

“I remember well the fun we had in Harlech and hope the enclosed cheque will settle our money differences!"

2021-03: Beatles e familiares em fotos raras

Mães, tias, etc.:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9357941/amp/Candid-black-white-photographs-Beatles-dancing-mothers-1964.html

2021-01: Casa de capa de Sgt. Pepper's à venda...

... convertida em residência, baratinha:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9219731/amp/Apartment-Beatles-shot-Sgt-Peppers-Lonely-Hearts-Club-Band-album-cover-sale-1-15m.html

Citando:

"The former artist's studio located on Flood Street in London has been converted into a modern plan residence consisting of two bedrooms, a bathroom, an open plan kitchen and reception room set over two floors.

Chelsea Manor Studios opened in 1902 and has been used by several artists, photographers and writers including Norman Parkinson and Graham Sutherland.

The most famous photo session to take place in Chelsea Manor Studios was on March 30, 1967, when the Beatles had their picture taken for the ground-breaking album cover of 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by photographer Michael Cooper."

2021-02: Fotos inéditas dos Beatles encontradas (do período inicial)...

... em negativos de casal que fotografava bandas perto de Exeter (RU):

https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9263001/amp/Rarely-seen-photos-Beatles-Rolling-Stones-discovered-photographers-box.html

Citando:

"The Beatles are pictured performing in Exeter. The Liverpudlian band first performed at the ABC as the support act to Tommy Roe and Chris Montez on March 28, 1963, when they performed Love Me Do, Do You Want to Know A Secret, Please, Please Me, I Saw Her Standing There and Taste of Honey. Part of this show was recorded for BBC 2's 'On the Scene'. As they quickly became popular they performed in Exeter again on November 14, 1963. It is not known if this picture was March or November"

Yesterday side effects?

Beatles music is being used to prevent video sharing (by activating the copyright filters on social networks): 

https://www-vice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/bvxa7q/new-video-shows-beverly-hills-cops-playing-beatles-to-trigger-instagram-copyright-filter

Quoting:

"(...), then walks up to Reyes, who is still playing music, and tries to ask him a question. But the officer doesn’t answer—he simply stares straight ahead and holds his cell phone pointed towards Devermont, as the Beatles’ “Yesterday” moves into the second verse."

2021-01: McCartney and tik tok?

Photobomb as they say:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/13845217/woman-freaks-out-paul-mccartney-photobomb-new-york/

2020-11: Como George Harrison salvou o cinema Inglês?

Parece que sim. E aparece no filme Life of Brian dos Monty Python e tudo (assim como aparece no filme inicial dos Rutles, com música de Neil Innes):

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/03/george-harrison-beatle-monty-python-life-of-brian-handmade-studios

Citando:

"How George Harrison – and a very naughty boy – saved British cinema

The Beatle loved Monty Python so much, he set up HandMade Films to make Life of Brian – and rehabilitated the UK movie industry. But the studio’s fun couldn’t last"

2020-08: Recusada liberdade condicional

... a assassino de John Lennon. Pela 11.a vez:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/27/mark-chapman-john-lennon-killer-parole-denied-yoko-ono

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

2019-09: Lista de artigos do Guardian

Uma boa fonte de notícias ou artigos de investigação sobre os Beatles (recordem-se de suportar o bom jornalismo aonde possível):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/thebeatles

2019-09: O Flamengo e os Beatles?

Parece que sim (o clube do Brasileirão é agora treinado pelo Português Jorge Jesus):
https://www.ojogo.pt/internacional/noticias/interior/se-o-flamengo-fosse-uma-banda-seria-os-beatles-11287358.html

Citando:
"Convidado do programa "Fala, Casão", o lateral do Flamengo, Filipe Luís, colocou a pergunta a Casagrande: que banda seria o Flamengo? O antigo jogador aceitou a proposta e respondeu.
"Se fosse uma banda de rock, pelo estilo de o Flamengo jogar, seria os Beatles. Toca fácil, é gostoso de ouvir, alegre de se ver. Não estou a comparando uma coisa com a outra. Mas como a pergunta foi essa, acho que o Flamengo tem mais cara de Beatles. Se fosse mais agressivo, seria os Rolling Stones. Mas é uma boa equipa de toque na bola, é agradável de ver", afirmou."

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: The Korean Beatles?

2 Wembleys cheios com uma banda da... Coreia?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/behind-scenes-bts-korean-beatles-defy-boy-band-tradition-demand/

Citando:
"

all BTS the new John, Paul, George and Ringo and they will be polite if dismissive. “It is a bit of a burden to be called The Beatles of the 21st century,” 26-year-old band member Suga told journalists at a pre-concert press conference this weekend. “We want to be the BTS of the 21st century.” But the parallels are certainly valid.

Not only the most successful boy band in the world but the recipients of previously unthinkable international admiration akin to four boys from Liverpool unexpectedly becoming world-famous icons, BTS are a South Korean pop group of singers, dancers, lyricists and record producers, all in their early to mid-twenties and as surreally handsome as they are quick-footed on stage."

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”."

2019-02: Liverpool, Dilma Rousseff e Elvis? (Fake news)

Não, são "fake news". Mas mesmo assim é interessante o John Lennon aparecer "ao barulho":
https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/fact-check/dilma-rousseff-confundiu-john-lennon-com-elvis-no-instagram