Consumos web. 12/14/2021

• Cop who silenced Beatles last gig speaks for first time

  “If that’s my lasting image of life, if that’s what people remember me for, that’s not bad. Thousands, millions of people don’t get remembered at all.”

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatlehistory beatlealbums

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Consumos web. 12/08/2021

• Let him be: how McCartney saved roadie from arrest after Beatles final concert | The Beatles | The Guardian

  “The police demand that they turn down the sound or stop the concert. They tell Mal they intend to arrest the Beatles. At that point, Mal turns off George Harrison’s amplifier. Of course, George is very unhappy with that and barks at Mal.

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums MalEvans beatlepeople beatlehistory

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Consumos web. 11/20/2021

• Klaus Voormann: “John Lennon gave me all the freedom in the world... The Plastic Ono Band lineup of Ringo, John and me is my favorite of all time” | Guitar World

  Voormann briefly played bass with the Fab Four while their original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe took a break, and went on to join John, Paul, George, and Ringo on a variety of post-Beatles projects – including Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album

  tags: KlausVoorman Beatles beatlegear beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 11/09/2021

• Piden que sea ilegal fotografiar a una mujer mientras da el pecho en público | PHOTOLARI

  “Me niego a ceder ante un hombre que se fue a casa con fotos mías y de mi bebé”, explica la madre en la recogida de firmas que ha organizado en Change.org y que ya suma casi 30.000.

  tags: fotografía mojigatería mundial excesos antiacoso

• Chaco: empresarios rurales fumigan sobre dos pueblos y 700 personas tuvieron que ser hospitalizadas - Indymedia Argentina Centro de Medios Independientes (( i ))

  la antropóloga Malena Castilla destacó: “gran parte es población rural dispersa, en zonas que bordean los campos de los empresarios sojeros que se establecieron sobre territorios indígenas ancestrales y de pequeños productores del Chaco”.

  tags: agrotóxicos

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Consumos web. 10/26/2021

• La extraordinaria historia de la primera traducción al mandarín de "Don Quijote de la Mancha"

  "Es una forma de domesticar la historia que sigue siendo la del Quijote, y que nos permite entender la China de ese momento", asegura Relinque.

  tags: traducción libros

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Consumos web. 10/19/2021

• Giles Martin on the Beatles' 'Let It Be' -- and Deluxe Editions' Future - Variety

  We mix these things, and people don’t really care. Fans don’t really care when things were done or how they were done. They just want to listen to some music, to try to unify everything together.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlealbums beatlesongs GilesMartin

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Consumos web. 10/16/2021

• The Beatles 'Let It Be' Box Set: 10 Revelatory Moments | PEOPLE.com

  For Martin, Let It Be is a play in three acts. First, the emotionally fraught dates at the Twickenham soundstage, culminating in Harrison's angry departure. Then the happy reunion at the newly constructed studio in the basement of the Beatles' Apple Records headquarters. And finally, the grand finale on the Apple rooftop

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Consumos web. 10/14/2021

• Bright Sheng: Apartado un profesor por mostrar en clase el Otelo del actor blanco Laurence Olivier en EE UU | Cultura | EL PAÍS

  “Bright Sheng sobrevivió a la Revolución Cultural de Mao, pero es posible que no sobreviva a un par de estudiantes de Michigan quejumbrosos a los que se les muestra una versión cinematográfica de Otelo”

  tags: decadencia cultural mojigatería mundial excesos antidiscriminación

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Consumos web. 10/12/2021

• James Taylor talks auditioning for Paul McCartney and George Harrison

  “It was just otherworldly, because I was a huge Beatles fan. And they were at the very height of their powers. They just kept going, kept growing. So, to be in London, the first person signed to their label in 1968, was really like catching the big wave. It was unbelievable,”

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 10/09/2021

• The Beatles almost reunited in Syracuse, and it started on John Lennon’s birthday 50 years ago - syracuse.com

  Harrison was supposed to fly out, but ended up stuck in England. Producer Phil Spector, beat poet Allen Ginsberg and guitar legend Eric Clapton — who played with Voormann on the Plastic Ono Band’s live 1969 album — were in town, too.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlepeople YokoOno

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Consumos web. 10/07/2021

• Lizzie Bravo, Teenager Who Sang on Beatles Recording, Dies | Best Classic Bands

  A Best Classic Bands reader, James H., did some detective work and shared a clue that the former Gayleen Pease died earlier this year, also at the age of 70, in her native U.K. We’ve discovered her death notice from June 24, 2021.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs beatlepeople beatlegear

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Consumos web. 10/02/2021

• How George Harrison’s Wife Olivia Helped Him in the Songwriting Process

  It was Olivia’s job to keep a hold of these strange notes. They were the precious musings of her husband. Now she probably wishes she could find more hanging about the place.

  tags: Beatles GeorgeHarrison beatlepeople

• Frida Kahlo Trademark Dispute Is Dismissed in Florida Court – ARTnews.com

  In 2018, the Frida Kahlo Corporation filed a complaint in a U.S. District Court for Southern Florida against Kahlo’s great-niece, Maria Cristina Romeo Pinedo and her daughter, Mara de Anda Romeo, accusing the two of trademark infringement.

  tags: FridaKahlo excesos antipiratería propiedad intelectual decadencia cultural

• Malcolm McDowell talks 'A Clockwork Orange' at 50: "It was torture"

  ‘You can exude intelligence on the screen.’ Alex is a thug, but he’s not just a thug. Anyone that loves classical music can’t be all that bad, let’s face it. So that was what he was looking for.

  tags: cine historia de el cine StanleyKubrick

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Consumos web. 09/28/2021

• Beatles on the brink: how Peter Jackson pieced together the Fab Four’s last days | The Beatles | The Guardian

  They didn’t make it to Sabratha, or the Royal Albert Hall, or the Tate Gallery, but when they played on top of the Apple offices, the music and the spectacle they created made it a triumph. Glances passed between them, seemingly in recognition of how great it all felt and sounded – and amid the mayhem on the street below, when two Metropolitan police officers tried to shut everything down, the episode was injected with a lovely rebellious romance. “They rocked and rolled and connected as they had in years gone by, friends again,” Lindsay-Hogg later wrote. “It was beautiful to see.”

  tags: Beatles beatlemovies beatlehistory beatlealbums beatlepeople

• Fritillaria delavay: la planta que se escondía de los humanos

  El profesor Hang Sun añade: "la recolección comercial puede llegar a ser una presión selectiva mucho más potente que la propia naturaleza. Los seres humanos estamos modelando el planeta de las maneras más diversas,

  tags: evolución ecosistemas alternativos

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Consumos web. 09/24/2021

• Mapping words to color | Penn Today

  Cultures that shared similar ecoregions were more similar in their communicative needs around colors, perhaps owing to plants or animals in that region that were important for food or other uses.

  tags: color antropología sociología lingüística

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Consumos web. 09/22/2021

• Harpist Sheila Bromberg, first woman to play on a Beatles song, dead at 92 | The Times of Israel

  she recalled Paul McCartney asking her that night early in 1967. McCartney, who could not read music, wanted to hear her play the score he had dictated to Mike Leander, a music arranger.

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatlehistory beatlesongs beatlegear

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Consumos web. 09/09/2021

• ‘I was a hypocrite on the make’: unheard John Lennon interviews up for auction | John Lennon | The Guardian

  He longs to die at “exactly the same minute” as her, “otherwise, even if it’s three minutes later, it’s gonna be hell. I couldn’t bear three minutes of it.”

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory JohnLennon YokoOno

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Consumos web. 08/29/2021

• Cómo una broma sobre discapacidad acabó ante la Corte Suprema de Canadá

  Además de los espinosos temas sobre raza y religión, se centró en las "vacas sagradas", dijo, del sistema de celebridades de la provincia, personas que, en su opinión, eran por diversas razones demasiado ricas o demasiado poderosas, lo que las dejaba fuera de los límites del humor.

  tags: mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural excesos antidiscriminación

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Consumos web. 08/24/2021

• She's leaving home: The Beatles' harpist has died - Slipped DiscSlipped Disc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht

  We have been notified of the death of Sheila Bromberg, the London orchestral musician who play harp on ‘She’s Leaving Home’.

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums beatlesongs beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 08/16/2021

• "Somos una especie infantil, infantilizada, y cada vez más"

  Nosotros seríamos más infantiles, porque la clave para domesticar una especie es evitar que se convierta en un adulto, mantenerla en un estado de minoría de edad.

  tags: neotenia

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Consumos web. 08/12/2021

• Encuentran la pintura rupestre de un animal más antigua del mundo

  La imagen representa un cerdo salvaje que se cree que fue dibujado hace 45.500 años. Está pintada con pigmento ocre rojo oscuro a tamaño natural y parece ser parte de una escena narrativa mucho mayor.

  tags: historia de el arte

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Consumos web. 08/04/2021

• Greeting Card Appropriates Painful Frida Kahlo Painting

  Based on her 1946 work “The Wounded Deer,” this bastardization is missing all context.

  tags: FridaKahlo censura social excesos antidiscriminación decadencia cultural mojigatería mundial

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Consumos web. 07/31/2021

• George Harrison's New 'All Things Must Pass' Box set: An Exclusive Guide - Rolling Stone

  All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary. The Super Deluxe version has five CDs, including two of demos and another of studio outtakes. The original album has been remastered, thanks to executive producer Dhani Harrison and engineer Paul Hicks.

  tags: GeorgeHarrison beatlealbums DhaniHarrison

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Consumos web. 07/30/2021

• The Beatles in Spatial Audio: Giles Martin on How It All Works - Rolling Stone

  Sgt. Pepper’s was the first Atmos mix you did. What was that process like?

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums GillesMartin

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Consumos web. 07/27/2021

• Mind Set On You: Mercedes 600 Once Owned By George Harrison To Go Under The Hammer | Carscoops

  George Harrison’s Mercedes 600 is up for sale. Launched in September of 1963, the Mercedes-Benz 600 has become one of the most renowned automobiles to ever exist and been a favorite of celebrities, heads of state and dictators around the world.

  tags: Beatles beatlecars GeorgeHarrison

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Consumos web. 07/13/2021

• Multa de 25.300 euros para Universal Studios por el gesto racista de un empleado en su posado con dos niñas

  sufren "angustia mental, pérdida de dignidad, pérdida de inocencia, angustia emocional, humillación, vergüenza y pérdida del disfrute de la vida". Asimismo, el parque también es acusado de violar la Ley de Derechos Civiles de Florida de 1992,

  tags: mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural excesos antidiscriminación

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Consumos web. 02/13/2021

• El despido de la actriz Gina Carano o la cultura de la cancelación: cuando competimos en nuestras ofensas - Opinión en RT

  Lo cierto es que una vez que alguien prueba el sabor del mando y la venganza, una sin más reglas que el éxito de la cancelación, todo empieza a resultar bastante desconcertante.

  tags: mojigatería mundial censura social decadencia cultural

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Consumos web. 01/28/2021

• Coronavirus | La carrera por la compra de vacunas hace que Sudáfrica pague el doble por dosis que los países europeos - El Salto - Edición General

  Necesitamos con urgencia que la tecnología y las patentes estén en manos públicas, para que podamos compartir este conocimiento y producir más vacunas ahora.

  tags: industria farmacéutica propiedad intelectual

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