2017-03-10: Sgt. Pepper's vai ter mais duas músicas

... quando for reeditado nos 50 anos. É fácil de adivinhar quais:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-iconic-beatles-songs-finally-9970665

2017-03-10: Vídeo do primeiro encontro dos Beatles

... encontrado por historiador?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beatles-fan-historian-uncovers-first-9996208

Citando:
""The McCartneys’ then home, in Forthlin Road, backed onto the police training centre – and the centre’s annual summer show is featured on the film.

“You can see four or five people in the distance watching the action from on top of the concrete shed in the back garden of 20 Forthlin Road, where Paul and Mike lived.”

In the biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Barry Miles writes: “The back of the house overlooked the grounds of the Police Training College, headquarters of the Liverpool Mounted Police."

2017-03-10: Joe Satriani cites GH as the most underrated guitarist of all times

E este elogio vem de um dos meus guitarristas favorito:

http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news-interviews/joe-satriani-names-most-underrated-guitarist—plus-five-personal-revelations

Citação:
"The most underrated guitarist in history? “George Harrison, without a doubt. Just think about this, here’s a young kid at the start of a movement. Not someone who ever thought he’d be a virtuoso on the instrument, he was an all-round musician, and he was destined to write two of the most popular Beatles songs of all time, ‘Something’ and ‘Here Comes the Sun.’ His guitar playing just got better and better, right up to his untimely death…

“I want to shout this, I want to put this in capital letters—HE WAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS MUSICAL! Most people can get good physically on the guitar, it’s not really that hard, but to be musical? That’s the real trick. There are a thousand other guitar players that could play rings around George, but what have they played that you really keep in your heart?”"

2017-03-07: Os Beatles ainda com recordes nos Billboard Charts (EUA)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7710336/future-beatles-simon-garfunkel-replaced-themselves-billboard-200-chart

E outro top, primeiros e segundos lugares do top (citação):
"Future — HNDRXX and Future (March 18, 2017)
Prince — The Very Best of Prince and Purple Rain (Soundtrack) (May 7, 2016)
Nelly — Suit and Sweat (Oct. 2, 2004)
Guns N’ Roses — Use Your Illusion II and Use Your Illusion I (Oct 5-12, 1991)
Jim Croce — You Don’t Mess Around With Jimand I Got a Name (Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 1974)
The Beatles — The Beatles (White Album) and Yellow Submarine (Soundtrack) (March 1, 1969)
Simon & Garfunkel — The Graduate and Bookends (the titles took turns at No. 1 multiple times; May 11-July 6, 1968)
The Monkees — More of the Monkees and The Monkees (Feb. 11-March 4, 1967)
Herb Alpert — Going Places and Whipped Cream & Other Delights (March 5, 1966; April 30-May 14, 1966)
The Beatles — A Hard Day’s Night (Soundtrack) and Something New (Aug. 22-Oct. 17, 1964)
The Beatles — Meet the Beatles! and Introducing… The Beatles (Feb. 29-May 9, 1964)
Peter, Paul & Mary — In the Wind and Peter, Paul & Mary (Nov. 2, 1963)"

2017-03-06: Hotel comemora 50 anos de Sgt. Pepper's com visita

... A local aonde Brian Epstein ficava, e onde GH esteve para comemorar os seus 50 anos:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/its-no-mystery-portmeirion-mark-12689505

Citando:
"Portmeirion is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with its first-ever tour highlighting links to the Beatles - without needing a reservation.

Until now only guests booking a cottage could get to see up close some of the rooms in architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate village that had connections with the Fab Four."

2017-03-02: Filme a cores dos Beatles semanas antes da viagem aos EUA

"The Beatles Come to Town" color film:
http://www.guitarplayer.com/artist-videos/1436/watch-the-beatles-in-rare-1963-color-clip-from-before-their-us-arrival/62010

Citando:
"High-quality color footage of the group from before its February 1964 arrival in the U.S. is hard to come by. What’s readily available is mostly in black and white and often has poor audio quality.

The Manchester clip is an exception. It was created by Pathé News for the short feature The Beatles Come to Town and features performances of “She Loves You” and “Twist and Shout.” The film was shot in Technicolor and Techniscope (a budget widescreen process from the period) and features good-quality audio. Even without the benefit of modern restoration, it makes for enjoyable viewing. The film was originally shown in British theaters during the week of December 22, 1963 as a preview to the daily feature."
(...)
"While it’s great to see the ABC Theater footage restored and included in Howard’s film, the performance of  “She Loves You” is broken up with additional documentary clips that obscure the song’s final verse and chorus. Eight Days a Week also omits the additional footage from the original six-and-a-half-minute newsreel, including the theater preparations and the Beatles chatting with photographers. Fortunately,The Beatles Come to Town is available in its entirety on YouTube."

2017-03-02: Leilão de single (45rpm) autografado

Ask Me Why / Please, Please Me autografado vai a leilão e pode chegar aos 40K USD na Heritage Auctions:
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/02/autographed-45-of-the-beatles-please-please-me-may-bring-40000-at-heritage-auctions.phtml

Citando:
"The record includes recordings of Ask Me Why and Please Please Me (est. $40,000). John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all signed the Ask Me Why B-side of the record; McCartney and Harrison also signed the reverse side, which features an A-side recording of Please Please Me. Given to its original owner at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the single was released Jan. 11, 1963, 13 days before a signing session at the NEMS record shop, where the signatures likely were acquired.

A photo of the Fab Four signed by all four members of the band (est. $18,000) also is expected to draw heavy interest at the auction. The 8-by-10 glossy black-and-white picture, taken in early 1965 in the Bahamas, is signed with a felt-tip pen and includes a certificate of authenticity from Heritage Auctions and Tracks LTD.

An original pressing of the Help! Album Signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison of the Beatles (Capitol MAS 2386, 1965), (est. $12,000) will be available to collectors in the auction. The Gatefold Mono LP was the band’s eighth album for Capitol and the soundtrack for the band’s second major motion picture. It contains seven Beatles songs from the film with six instrumental pieces interspersed.

Savvy collectors and Beatles fans alike are expected to clamor for an extremely rare piece of memorabilia: a Postcard Signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Substitute Drummer Jimmie Nicol (est. $10,000). In addition to the band members’ signatures, this 3.5-by-5.5-inch postcard includes the inscription: “To Judy / Best Wishes / Jimmie Nicol” that was written by Nicol, who was filling in on the band’s Australian tour for regular drummer Ringo Starr, who was ill with tonsillitis and stayed home during much of the tour. According to the accompanying letter of provenance, the signatures were acquired by a 24-year-old steward who remembers serving Lennon two boiled eggs for breakfast aboard the plane to Sydney."