McCartney, Starr reunite on blue carpet for Beatles documentaryPa

Former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a walk down memory lane on Thursday for the premiere of a documentary by Oscar winner Ron Howard about the Fab Four as they toured the world in the 1960s.

The singer-songwriter and drummer posed for photographs on a blue carpet in London's Leicester Square for the "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years" premiere, which drew hundreds of cheering fans as well as celebrities such as Madonna, Eric Clapton, Bob Geldof and Liam Gallagher.

The documentary traces the band's touring years as McCartney, Starr along with the late John Lennon and George Harrison won legions of adoring fans across continents. It features footage of early performances at the Cavern Club in their native Liverpool, packed shows around the globe and their final tour concert in 1966 in San Francisco.

"We're all excited, it is the first time for us too," Starr told the crowd about seeing the documentary.

The film makes use of a rich archive of old footage - pictures, videos and audio recordings - of the band at the height of Beatlemania, with screaming fans, snippets of the cheekiness of the then young men and the group at work in the studio. Celebrities recalling seeing them perform also add their voices.

"We started off as four mates in a great little band and we kept playing and playing and all this stuff happened," McCartney said.

Howard said that as well as receiving help from McCartney and Starr for the film, Lennon's and Harrison's widows, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, who attended the premiere, had also contributed to the project.

The director, known for films such as "The Da Vinci Code", "A Beautiful Mind" and "Apollo 13", said directing the documentary had been "a great experience".

"It first began as just a fun, cool, creative adventure, then I became very intimidated by it when I realized how important it was to fans," he told reporters.

"Now it's just proved to be a very gratifying experience, and I'm already nostalgic for it ... After two years of working with it, I'm a little sad to let it go."

"The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years" hit cinemas worldwide on Thursday.

Source: Reuters

V&A to display George Harrison's Sgt Pepper suit

The peach outfit will form part of the V&A's You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70 exhibition.

Opening in September, it aims to explore the impact of the late 1960s counterculture upon the present day.

Other items in the show include a piece of moon rock, a rare Apple 1 computer and shards from Jimi Hendrix's guitar.

The exhibition has been put together by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, who also co-curated the V&A's blockbuster David Bowie exhibition in 2013.

It will focus on the places and events - such as London's Carnaby Street and UFO Club, the Paris protests of May 1968 and the Woodstock Festival of 1969 - that helped define the period.

Harrison's suit is being loaned by his widow, Olivia, along with the musician's sitar, letters and a diary about the recording of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, which was released in 1967.

Ms Broackes recalled the moment she was shown the suit for the first time. "It was put on a table and looked beautiful - it had a hat with a feather and special cuffs. To see the whole thing laid out together is incredibly exciting."

Other Beatles items on display include John Lennon's lime green Sgt Pepper outfit - which has been on display previously - and handwritten lyrics for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

The exhibition's launch event took place at The Bag O'Nails club in London's Soho where The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience played, and where Sir Paul McCartney met his future wife Linda Eastman in 1967.

Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said: "There is nothing about our lives today that wasn't affected by the political and social changes that happened then."

Among the 350 objects on show will be:

A dress from the boutique of 1960s model Twiggy

Costumes designed for Mick Jagger and Sandie Shaw

A native American-style suit worn by The Who's Roger Daltry at Woodstock

A kaftan worn at Woodstock by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane

Underground magazines such as Oz and the International Times

A shopping list written behind barricades during the 1968 Paris student riots

The space suit worn by William Anders, who took the famous "Earthrise" photograph on the Apollo 8 mission

The V&A is also borrowing more than 200 LPs from the collection of the late BBC broadcaster John Peel which will "form the spine of the exhibition".

Special headsets worn by visitors will provide an audio guide which changes the sound according to the visitor's position in the gallery.

"The exhibition is about much more than music but it is music that carries the story," Ms Broackes said.

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70 is at the V&A 10 September 2016 - 26 February 2017.

Source: BBC

The Beatles chegará ao Spotify e à Apple ainda em 2015

Os álbuns de estúdio da banda The Beatles finalmente chegarão às plataformas de streaming de música ainda neste ano, segundo a Billboard.

Não se sabe por ora quais serviços receberão o catálogo, mas a revista afirma que quase todos, "se não todos" – como Spotify, Apple e Deezer –, terão os discos da banda.

Nenhuma das marcas confirmou, mas as fontes da Billboard indicam que o primeiro trabalho dos Beatles a chegar ao streaming será a música Hey Jude – clássico lançado em 1968 –, na véspera de Natal.

Este esperado acontecimento para os fãs dos quatro garotos de Liverpool vai se concretizar após Rob Wells, ex-executivo digital da Universal Music, ter assinado contratos em setembro.

Lentidão

Os Beatles são conhecidos pela demora para aderir às novidades tecnológicas, explica a Billboard.

O catálogo da banda chegou à loja iTunes, da Apple, depois de seis anos da estreia. Vendeu dois milhões de músicas na primeira semana.

Em 1987, eles lançaram CDs, mas a versão remasterizada de seus trabalhos veio 22 anos depois disso.

O primeiro game dos Beatles veio apenas em 2009, com The Beatles: Rock Band, lançado pela EA Games.

Fonte:Exame/Abril

Ringo Starr exibe suas fotos na National Portrait Gallery

Ringo Starr: "Estas são as fotos que ninguém mais poderia ter tirado. Levava a câmera comigo grande parte do tempo"

O baterista dos Beatles, Ringo Starr exibirá a partir desta quarta-feira uma série de fotos exclusivas na National Portrait Gallery, em Londres, feitas pelo próprio artista e que vão desde sua infância até sua relação com os outros membros da banda.

"Estas são as fotos que ninguém mais poderia ter tirado. Levava a câmera comigo grande parte do tempo", comentou hoje o músico, que abre pela primeira vez seu arquivo pessoal. Ele lança dia 21 o livro "Photograph by Ringo Starr", pela Genesis Publications, no Reino Unido.

A mostra dá uma visão sem precedentes da vida de um dos maiores músicos do mundo, que com sua câmera registrou a história de quatro meninos de Liverpool "tentando viver uma vida normal no meio do frenesi que nos rodeava".

"Sempre adorei tirar fotos. Todos os beatles tinham câmeras - acho que compramos tudo em nossa primeira tour pelo Japão - mas eu já fazia fotos algum tempo antes disso", comentou.

Ringo Starr relatou que o grupo sempre teve algum fotógrafo os acompanhando, como Dezo Hoffman e Bob Freeman, que fizeram várias fotos dos Beatles para as capas de seus discos.

No entanto, Ringo teve a oportunidade de fotografá-los fazendo seu trabalho, assim como registrar momentos em originais e inéditas que apresentam "uma perspectiva única desse incrível período" de suas vidas.

"Espero que desfrutem de algumas lembranças únicas dos Beatles comigo", exclamou sobre as imagens, que estarão expostas durante quatro semanas.

A National Portrait Gallery informou que 20 dos retratos poderão ser comprados, como parte de uma edição limitada, por 1.900 libras cada (R$ 11.500).

O novo livro de fotografia "Photograph by Ringo Starr" estará também disponível para venda, exclusivamente na galeria londrina, duas semanas antes de sua publicação.

"O livro e as impressões são um fantástico registro dos primeiros anos de Ringo e de sua estreita relação com Paul, John e George, concluiu Perry Bushell, da National Portrait Gallery.

Fonte: http://exame.abril.com.br/estilo-de-vida/noticias/ringo-starr-exibe-suas-fotos-na-national-portrait-gallery