2021-04: 50 coisas sobre o White Album

https://www.loudersound.com/amp/features/50-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-beatles-white-album

2018-12: Curiosidades sobre o álbum branco

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6415977/Fifty-years-release-Beatles-White-Album-tantalising-secrets-record-changed-pop.html

2018-12: 5 estrelas 50 anos depois (Express.co.uk)

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1047218/Review-new-rock-albums-releases-The-Beatles-Rolling-Stones-Jethro-Tull-Pretty-Things

2018-11: Um relato dos Beatles na India

Em primeira mão... As cerca de 40 canções compostas lá deram origem ao White Album (e a muitas canções editadas mais tarde a solo por cada um dos Beatles - Jealous Guy, Not Guilty, etc.):
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1046990/the-beatles-visited-ashram-india-Susan-Shumsky

Citando:
"IN 1968 the shockwaves from the Beatles trip to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of transcendental meditation, reverberated around the world. The Fab Four were not the only celebrities to make the trip to the sparsely constructed ashram overlooking the River Ganges. Actress Mia Farrow, Beach Boy Mike Love and folk singer Donovan also attended but the Beatles were far and away the most famous."
(...)
"Maharishi asked George to tell Deepak the real story and he revealed the Beatles were asked to leave because members of their party were using drugs and alcohol.

The topic turned to the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance, during which no crime was reported in the USA.

Maharishi exclaimed, "When I heard this, I knew the Beatles were angels on Earth... It doesn't matter what John said or did, I could never be upset with angels." George then broke down and wept.

Later, George phoned Deepak and said: "A huge karmic baggage has been lifted from me, because I didn't want to lie.""

2018-11: O White Album reeditado (Público)

https://www.publico.pt/2018/11/09/culturaipsilon/noticia/white-album-disco-parecia-possivel-1849966

Citando:
"White Album, o disco em que tudo parecia possível

Faz 50 anos o álbum menos ordeiro dos Beatles. É reeditado esta sexta-feira e volta a colocar-nos diante de um disco que pode salvar músicos – que o digam Joana Barra Vaz, Miguel Araújo, Domingos Coimbra ou Nuno Rodrigues"

2018-11: Beatles e Hendrix e os álbuns de 68

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=665972702

Citando:
""The White Album" and Electric Ladyland also came after periods of personal upheaval. Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, died in August 1967. Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, quit during the recording of Electric Ladyland, frustrated by the long and freeform sessions. But the loss of Epstein (and The Beatles' four-year run at the top of the charts) allowed them to take more control of the recording process. Hendrix, meanwhile, was able to produce and "direct" his own work, in close collaboration with his engineer Eddie Kramer. Loss turned to almost unchecked creative abandon."

2018-11: White Album reissue (Rolling Stone)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/beatles-white-album-super-deluxe-is-a-revelatory-dive-into-their-frayed-late-sixties-drama-753695/

Citando:
"The outtakes vary in impact. A 12-minute “Helter Skelter” is not the noise fest I hoped but a solid groove, McCartney leading a blues-jam Beatles. The minute differences in Lennon’s two takes of longing for his mother, “Julia,” are telling; his vocal falls more naturally over the guitar in the second pass. An alternate down-home “Good Night” is a marvelous shock, Ringo Starr’s homely vocal gilded with earthy harmonies closer to the Band, moving in Byrds-like formation. And do not fear for the original album: Giles’ remix adds depth and detail without betraying the ’68 balance as in the new, striking contrast between the doldrums and tumult in Harrison’s “Long, Long, Long.”

The Beatles is now seen as the album on which they started to break up. But it was wisely titled: a self portrait of the band at odds but pulling together behind each writer, playing as they always did: in service to the song."

2018-10: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take acústico)

Descoberto durante a pesquisa para a versão expandida (?!):
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-739393/

Citando:
"“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Acoustic Version, Take 2) was recorded on July 25th, 1968, with just George on guitar and Paul on harmonium. It’s a dark and meditative draft of a still-evolving song, as Paul follows along, learning the chords. George tells the Abbey Road crew, “Maybe you’d have to give him his own mike.” (A previous run-through from the same day was on Anthology 3, but this take was just discovered during the research for this project.) George sings original lines he ended up discarding: “I look from the wings at the play you are staging / As I’m sitting here doing nothing but aging.”"
(...)
"The Deluxe Edition has new mixes in stereo and 5.1 surround from Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus one of the Beatles’ most legendary grails: the 27-song Esher demos, which they taped in May 1968. The Super Deluxe Edition adds 50 new tracks from the sessions, most unheard (or even rumored) until now."

2018-10: Paul McCartney interview

Entrevista disponível por Podcast:
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/paul-mccartney-climate-change-egypt-station-beatles-white-album-1202983261/

Citando:
"In the latest episode of iHeartRadio’s podcast “Inside the Studio,” released Monday, guest Paul McCartney opened up about topics both present and past with host Joe Levy."

2018-09: Evento de Apresentação da Edição do 50° Aniversário do White Album

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/beatles-white-album-deluxe-giles-martin-1202962127/
Citando:
"The White Album's rep as a contentious project is overblown, said remixer/archivist Martin (son of George), who told the crowd, "I was looking for the arguments and the tension on the tapes, and it was very hard to find."

Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin, previewed his 50th anniversary remix of “The Beatles,” the two-LP opus better known as the White Album, at an invitational event at Capitol Records’ Studio A in Hollywood on Friday.

Unlike last year’s private playback of the younger Martin’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” remix, in which the entire album was unveiled, the White Album session necessarily offered just a sampling of the voluminous seven-disc Super Deluxe package, which will see release Nov. 9, 13 days shy of the collection’s 1968 U.K. release date.

Following brief opening remarks by Capitol Records Group chairman/CEO Steve Barnett and Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones, Martin presented an overview of the 107-track box – which will contain the 27 so-called “Esher demos” recorded at George Harrison’s home, remixes of the 30 original songs and 50 outtakes from the recording sessions, which stretched across five months and hundreds of hours of studio time."

2018-09: As músicas do White Album ordenadas da pior para a melhor...

... na opinião de alguém, claro:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-white-album-songs/

2018-09: Reedição do White Album a caminho!

Grandes notícias, com disponibilização de material finalmente tratado devidamente (Giles Martin):
https://nit.pt/opiniao/opiniao-opiniao/vem-ai-reedicao-do-white-album-maior-album-sempre-vai-ficar-ainda-maior

Citando:

"The Beatles Super Deluxe — O maior álbum de sempre vai ficar ainda maior

(...) A reedição do White Album chega a 9 de novembro e vai trazer duas novíssimas remisturas do álbum em Stereo e em Surround, ambas produzidas por Giles Martin — filho de George Martin, produtor dos álbuns originais dos Beatles. Ambas as remisturas, mais a mistura Mono original, vão aparecer na caixa Super Deluxe do White Album, que para além disto ainda oferece um CD das demos gravadas em Maio de 1968, na casa de George em Esher (pequena cidade em Surrey, onde este que vos escreve hoje trabalha) e mais 3 CDs de gravações das sessões do White Album em Abbey Road. Entre estas gravações, vamos poder ouvir uma primeira versão de “Let It Be”, dois anos antes do seu lançamento em 1970. A minha cabeça está a andar à roda.

A reedição do White Album será feita em 5 formatos diferentes."

2018-09: Quão difícil foi terminar o White Album?

Bastante, aparentemente, pelo relato do livro de George Martin (parte 2):
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/09/the-beatles-struggle-to-finish-the-white-album-how-bad-did-it-get/

Citando:
"And that’s when George chimed in, offering advice to the Beatle about rephrasing his vocals. “Paul, can you try rephrasing the last line of each verse?” George asked. To Geoff’s ears, the Beatles’ producer was adopting the same “gentle, slightly aristocratic voice” that he had always deployed in his dealings with the Beatles. Geoff couldn’t help admiring the older man, later lauding him for “still trying to do his job, still trying to steer his charges toward increased musical sophistication and help push them to their best performances.” But Emerick wasn’t prepared for McCartney’s curt response: “If you think you can do it better, why don’t you fucking come down here and sing it yourself?” The engineer sat there in the booth, dumbstruck by Paul’s tone. “What happened next shocked me to the core,” Emerick later wrote. “In sheer frustration, quiet, low-key George Martin actually began shouting back at Paul. ‘Then bloody sing it again!’ he yelled over the talkback, causing me to wince. ‘I give up. I just don’t know any better how to help you.’ It was the first time I had ever heard George Martin raise his voice in a session. The silence following the outburst was equally deafening.”"

2018-08: Livro de Womack fala de amuo de George Martin

... durante as gravações do White AlbumGeorge Martin Was ‘Frozen Out’ of Beatles’ White Album Sessions 

Citando:
"Womack said he’d spoken to sound engineers and tape operators for his book Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, the Later Years, 1966–2016. “I asked them what George was doing when John [Lennon] was playing a particular guitar part or when Ringo [Starr] was working on some drum part,” Womack told the Guardian. “They would say, ‘Nothing, he was in the back of the booth, reading newspapers, sharing his chocolate with us.’ He was on a kind of a chocolate-and-newspaper strike.”

The author said that, along with the Epstein tragedy, the falling-out “also had a lot to do with a Time magazine article in 1967 where George was credited with being this wunderkind and the mastermind behind Sgt Pepper. “They didn’t take very well to that and let him know,” Womack added. “I do think this was the beginning of this struggle over ‘Who’s the genius behind the Beatles?’ This was payback for taking credit for the Beatles myth. … But they coaxed him back for Abbey Road [in 1969].”
"

2012-04-30: Ken Scott fala de gravações com os Beatles (White Album)

http://www.guitarworld.com/interviews/abbey-road-engineer-ken-scott-beatles-white-album-sessions-were-blast/15536

Citando:
"What can you tell me about the session for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," when Eric Clapton came in to play the guitar solo?
That's a question I'm asked so frequently, and I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. For the book, I wanted to try and get back to that session because I know it's a very important session and a lot of people are interested in it. I actually tried regression therapy to take me back, and, unfortunately, it didn't work [laughs]. I still have no memory of that session.

Given the song's heaviness, was there anything special about the “Helter Skelter” session?
Not much different—they just played a lot louder than usual."

2016-11-21: A guitarra isolada de Clapton no WMGGW

http://www.guitarworld.com/features-blogs/hear-eric-claptons-isolated-guitar-track-beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/14575

2017-03-20: Charles Manson e os Beatles

http://www.abc10.com/mb/news/local/charles-manson-and-his-ties-to-the-beach-boys-the-beatles/423457854

Citando:
"Manson and The Beatles

While it's not fair to blame The Beatles for the horrible crimes committed by the Manson Family, their music played a major role in the Tate-LaBianca murders in the twisted minds of the group.

Manson was a fan of the Beatles, even referring to one of the temporary homes he and his followers lived in as the Yellow Submarine, according to Raw Story.

Manson believed the 1968 self-titled album, known as 'The White Album', was embedded with messages that he thought were speaking directly to The Family. He became convinced the album carried warnings of a race revolt pitting African-Americans against the white establishment. Manson believed the violence and race war would lead to Armageddon."

1968-12-01: WA chega a número 1

... e fica lá por semanas:
http://www.beatlesbyday.com/photo/2016/12/1/chart-position-the-white-album
Interessante o link para o vídeo do making of do White Album (WA):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnwlZsuS2Q&ebc=ANyPxKojyzH5h0Cm7iu4_aBLWqFdhmhPyLLtnsfrVg7cTChANkSghPAFb2LlRlePn2lwmXEssATqaHf1tIE_YYFwaKKusyfTiA

2016-09-02: White Album de RS é o álbum de vinil mais caro de sempre

... Em segunda-mão. Os primeiros 4 da edição numerada foram para adivinhem quem? E RS encontrou o dele 35 anos depois fechado.
http://m.themalaymailonline.com/showbiz/article/ringo-starrs-beatles-album-becomes-the-most-expensive-vinyl-in-history

2015-11-25: Ringo Starr leiloa o White Album #1 (e mais) | The Guardian

... Para a sua fundação:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/25/ringo-starr-auction-beatles-white-album-no0000001
O leilão:
http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/159/


E o número 5 (de uma edição limitada de... 5 milhões)?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/25/beatles-white-album