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sexta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2020

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
George Harrison cameos in Life of Brian, with Eric Idle and John Cleese.

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"

domingo, 1 de dezembro de 2019

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."

quinta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2019

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: 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

segunda-feira, 15 de agosto de 2016

1966-08-15: The Beatles release Revolver – archive, 15 August 1966 | Music | The Guardian

O artigo original do Guardian por altura da edição do "novo" álbum dos Beatles em 1966 (com imagem do aspecto do artigo original e tudo):

The Beatles release Revolver – archive, 15 August 1966 | Music | The Guardian

2016-08-15: The Guardian edita E-book com noticias dos Beatles (Amazon)

O "The Guardian" editou E-book com noticias dos Beatles (disponível Amazon). Interessante, detalhes completos na ligação abaixo: 

Citando o The Guardian (EN, RU) e a Amazon: 
  • The Beatles: A Band Reviewed - a selection of the Guardian and Observer’s reporting on the Beatles from the last 50 years - is now available as an ebook.
  • In 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best first played together as The Beatles. On 5 October 1962, The Beatles – with Sutcliffe and Best out and Ringo Starr in – released their debut single, ‘Love Me Do’. The subsequent seven years saw them revolutionise Sixties music and leave their mark indelibly stamped right through pop culture. 
  • ‘The Beatles: A Band Reviewed’ tells the story of The Beatles through the news items, reviews and interviews that appeared in two of Britain’s most respected newspapers. From the heyday of Beatlemania and the groundbreaking albums to the mixed successes of the solo years, it covers the key events. It also includes lesser well-known stories, such as that of Victor Keegan, a Guardian reporter, who received hundreds of phone calls, night and day, from people asking if they could speak to “Sgt J Pepper”. As fresh and revolutionary as the time in which they were written, this unique writing from the actual gigs and events that defined The Beatles is a unique and poignant history.