quinta-feira, 16 de junho de 2022

1965: 3 hour interview at Abbey Road?

Seems like. 
https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00378/
The cover of the 200000 copies sold-out magazine (Source: original article):
Quoting:
"I met the Beatles in June 1965. I boarded a plane for the first time in my life and flew to London for an exclusive interview with John, Paul, George, and Ringo at EMI’s legendary Abbey Road studios. A year later, the Beatles came to perform in Japan, at the Nippon Budōkan. Following that original interview in 1965, I was able to meet and interview the Beatles every year until the band split in 1970. This wonderful opportunity gave me a precious glimpse of the personalities beyond these icons of my generation. (I was born the same year as John Lennon.) As 2016 marks 50 years since Beatlemania hit Japan, in this article, I look back on my meetings with the four men at the heart of a musical revolution and their impact on mid-1960s Japan."

segunda-feira, 13 de junho de 2022

2022-06: A lost weekend documentary by...

... May Pang, who else?

https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/the-lost-weekend-review-may-pang-john-lennon-1235290486/

Quoting:
"The so-called Lost Weekend, when John Lennon, from late 1973 through ’74, separated from Yoko Ono and relocated to Los Angeles, where he became a hard-drinking rock-club night owl while carrying on an affair with the 22-year-old May Pang (who had been John and Yoko’s assistant), has long been part of rock mythology. It’s been covered by everything from E! documentaries to Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon.” Like many Lennon observers, I’ve always felt like I knew the basic bones of it."

domingo, 12 de junho de 2022

2022-06-09: RS tocam I Wanna be Your Man em...

... Liverpool? 

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/rolling-stones-beatles-liverpool-concert-cover-i-wanna-be-your-man/

Citando:
"However, the Stones decided to change things up by covering I Wanna Be Your Man from 1963’s With The Beatles.

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“We decided instead to do a cover of a song written by some other local lads,” Jagger told the audience. “So we’re doing this especially for you Liverpool, okay?”

Watch the performance, courtesy of YouTuber Matt Lee."

quarta-feira, 1 de junho de 2022

1962: Pete Best exit on John Lennon's word



https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-john-lennon-sick-of-pete-best/

Citando:
"Epstein broke the news as delicately as possible, and that was that. Best performed two final shows with The Beatles in the Cavern Club before being replaced by Ringo Starr. Years later, Lennon did his best to explain how things had turned so sour. “By then we were pretty sick of Pete Best too because he was a lousy drummer, you know? He never improved and there was always this myth being built up over the years that he was great and Paul was jealous of him because he was pretty and all that crap. The only reason he got in the group in the first place was because the only way we could get to Hamberg was he had to have a drummer. We knew of this guy. He was living in his mother’s house that had a club in it, and he had a drum kit so we dragged him, auditioned him, and he could keep one beat going for long enough so we took him to Germany."

domingo, 29 de maio de 2022

2013: O iate dos Beatles afundou...

O iate dos Beatles (comprado em 1966) na Madeira, como restaurante, afundou em 2013...
Sempre a aprender.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM66YD_The_Beatles_Vagrant_Funchal_Madeira_Portugal
Citando:
"Long Description:
The Vagrant is the ex-Beatles yach now turned in a bar/restaurant in downtown Funchal in Madeira island.
The Beatles bought it in 1966 and used it to get away from all the craziness of super-stardom. The story goes that after Apple sold it in the early 70s, it hung out in Morocco, and was finally squodged by a storm in the Canaries.

It´s main characteristics are:
Lenght - 38.6 m
Width - 8.25 m
Draft - 3.4 m
Gross Tonnage 238 Tons
Engine - 600 h.p
Electric generators, radar, nautical equipment and a speed boat.

The Vagrant was built in 1941 at the "Bath of Iron Works" shipyard in Maine, USA for the Multimillionaire Horace P. Vanderbuilt.

It was considered one of the most luxurious yaches in the world at the time (it´s portholes were painted in Gold).

However, it was it´s acquisition by "The Beatles" in 1966 that gave the "Vagrant" worldwide notoriety."

terça-feira, 24 de maio de 2022

1968-05: Apple Tailoring...

... and an incredible article on the 1968-05-22 day in their life:
http://webgrafikk.com/blog/john-and-yoko/apple-tailoring-a-day-in-the-life/

Quoting:
"On Wednesday 22 May 1968, eighteen months after they first met at the Indica Gallery and nineteen days after they consummated their new relationship, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made their first joint public appearance in London. The occasion? The Beatles company Apple were celebrating the opening of their second clothing shop with a press party and fashion show at the trendy Club Dell’Aretusa, 107 King’s Road, Chelsea. The Apple Boutique had already opened its doors to the public on 7 December the previous year, and now Apple Tailoring was to mark Apple’s second foray into the business of clothing retail. To do this, Apple had turned the popular Dandie Fashions store at 161 King’s Road into their own storefront under the management of Australian designer Kenneth Malcolm John Crittle. In his vision, ‘civic and theatrical’ men and women’s clothing would be the main feature. The store had been ‘completely redecorated in white and apple green.’"

2022-05: Yet another Beatles podcast?

... Yes, maybe:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2MsmwKTAZljEiXbiEqq0LK?si=Z0OWuwX7RLy3yuapqCYYZg