2019-03: O Rolls Royce de John Lennon

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/john-lennon-rolls-royce-phantom-v

Citando:
"When Lennon, fresh from the band’s chart-topping success in the States, first decided to splash out on the exclusive motor in 1964, he went for a pretty subtle scheme: Valentine Black with black wheels and a black interior. Apparently he wanted a black grille as well, but that was too far for Rolls, even for a Beatle. Perhaps for a Stone they’d have painted it.

Shipped off to celebrated coachbuilder Mulliner Park Ward, the custom job took several months to complete – enough time for Lennon to pass his driving test and the band to release another album. When it was finished in June 1965, it was pretty extravagant."

(...)

"upgrades.

And we’re not talking new alloys. We’re talking a double bed instead of a back seat; a radio telephone that occupied most of the boot; built-in record and tape players; hidden loudspeakers that could startle wildlife and Surrey residents alike. All very rock'n'roll – Keith Richards pulled a similar loudspeaker trick with his Bentley – and, in that finest British tradition, rather cheeky."

2017-08-08: Mais sobre o Rolls de John Lennon

https://arstechnica.co.uk/cars/2017/08/picture-yourself-in-john-lennons-psychedelic-rolls/

Citando:
"Lennon had the Phantom V customized in true rock-star style. The rear seat was converted to a double bed, a television, telephone, and refrigerator were installed, along with a 'floating' record player and a custom sound system (which included an external loud hailer). Then, in April 1967, just as the recording of the game-changing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was finishing, Lennon asked Surrey coachbuilders, JP Fallon, to give the Phantom a new paint job. The freshly-painted Phantom was unveiled days before the worldwide release of Sgt. Pepper's on 1 June, and it seemed part of the overall concept of the album.

The new color scheme is often described as 'psychedelic' and certainly the colors, particularly the dominant yellow, reflected the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But look carefully and you will see it is no random swirl, but a floral Romany scroll design, as used on gypsy caravans and canal barges, with a zodiac symbol on the roof."

2017-07-28: A história do Rolls Royce de John Lennon

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/john-lennons-phantom-v-the-psychedelic-beatle-mobile-w494054

Citação:
""You swine! How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!" So screamed an outraged Englishwoman as John Lennon's Phantom V cruised past on London's posh Piccadilly promenade in the summer of 1967. The ornately decorated limousine, sprayed an electric yellow and bedecked with colorful floral tendrils, Romany scrolls and zodiac symbols like a hallucinatory gypsy caravan, so offended her sensibilities that she briefly attacked it with an umbrella – or at least that's the way Lennon always told the story."

2017-07-14: Rolls Royce de John Lennon volta a Londres

... Para o aniversário de Sgt. Pepper's:
http://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lennon-rolls-royce-london-display-psychedelic-2110104

Citando:
"Lennon’s vehicle will return to the UK later this month for a new exhibition in London. The Great Eight Phantoms exhibition will run from 29 July to 2 August at Bonhams on 101 New Bond Street – more information about the exhibition can be found here."