| Thursday, February 2, 2012 |
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| Lennon's other artistry on display in Tampa |
Starting today, fans can see some of Lennon's art work at an exhibit called "Gimme Some Truth: The Artwork of John Lennon," which runs today through Sunday in Tampa, Florida.
Source: Tampa Bay Online |
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| Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
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| 4-book set on Lennon and Yoko's solo careers, new site launched |
A new website has been launched by author Chip Madinger, devoted to his upcoming 4-book project called Lennonology. The set will cover every aspect of Lennon's solo life, from live performances and interviews, the details of his recording sessions, and John and Yoko's independent films and home recordings.
Source: John Lennon Examiner |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
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| Reggae superstar joins John Lennon tribute |
British reggae singer will be lending his voice to the upcoming John Lennon tribute CD being released to mark the former Beatle's creative resurgence on the island of Bermuda. The tribute's producer says is currently deciding on what song he wants to record for the CD, suggesting he may opt for Imagine.
Source: Bernews, Bermuda |
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| Monday, January 16, 2012 |
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| Yoko says she didn't break up the Beatles |
It is often alleged that Yoko Ono was responsible for the break-up of The Beatles. However, Ono negated such claims and said that she was made a scapegoat. "I do not know, but they (The Beatles members) did not have anybody to put the blame. I was the easy target...yes, scapegoat...being an Asian is one and being a woman," Ono told NDTV.
Source: India Blooms |
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| Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
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| CD Review: Everything Changes by Julian Lennon |
I was pleased to learn that Julian Lennon had returned to the recording studio after an extended absence. I recall my first listen to a Julian Lennon song in 1984. Putting on the headphones, I closed my eyes and felt that his father John had returned to earth. The new music has much less vocal similarity between Julian and John.
Source: Blogger News |
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| Julian Lennon donates song to help children in Japan |
Julian Lennon's song "Children of the World" was initially created back in 2007 for a Japanese anime movie. He has now decided to donate the song to help children in Japan. He said, "Japan has always been close to my heart. It's a wonderful country with wonderful people and I have been there many times over the past 20 to 30 years."
Source: Chicago Music Examiner |
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| Yoko says visiting India will be learning experience |
Yoko Ono is showcasing in India a new special project that pays tribute to Indian women. "I did not bring anything to India apart from myself. This visit will be a great learning experience. This beautiful very very grand land will teach me. I have to learn a lot from them about what is happening in India," said Ono in India today.
Source: Outlook India |
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| Friday, January 6, 2012 |
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| Author announces secret letters of John Lennon to be published at last |
Yoko Ono has given Beatles biographer Hunter Davies exclusive access to John Lennon's previously unseen letters. Davies is in the process collating the letters for a release later this year in October. Davies said, "John wrote the most witty, funny, mad, passionate, lovely letters, which you've never seen."
Source: Click Liverpool |
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| Monday, January 2, 2012 |
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| Rapper angers fans by imagining different John Lennon lyrics |
Cee Lo Green is known for doing his own thing, but when the singer changed lyrics to John Lennon's legendary song Imagine on New Year's Eve, fans felt like it was an insult to Lennon's message. It still rhymed, so viewers and listeners who weren't paying close attention may have missed it, but it did appear to go against Lennon's lines of peace.
Source: Ultimate Classic Rock |
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| Tuesday, December 27, 2011 |
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| The summer Michael Crawford became the fifth Beatle |
Michael Crawford became an honorary Beatle during one magical summer sharing a house in Spain with John Lennon. The Phantom of the Opera star became friends with Lennon on the set of How I Won The War and when the production moved from Germany to the south of Spain, Crawford took Lennon up on his offer to live with him.
Source: Contact Music |
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| Monday, December 26, 2011 |
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| Yoko Ono returns to India |
The last time Yoko Ono visited India, she says, it was with John Lennon. She'll soon be back, this time with an exhibition. Next month, visitors in India will have a chance to see a non-John side of Ms. Ono for themselves, as the Japanese artist prepares to bring her first show to the country, "Our Beautiful Daughters," a homage to India's women.
Source: Wall Street Journal |
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| Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
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| Yoko Ono to be awarded Austrian Kokoschka art prize |
Yoko Ono has been chosen as 2012's winner of Austria's Oskar Kokoschka art prize. The jury chose Ono for her "artistic body of work and the dedicated socio-political positioning" and her "outstanding artistic personality" associated with the Fluxus movement in the '60s. Ono will pick up her prize during a ceremony in March next year.
Source: Noise 11, Australia |
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| Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
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| Auditions for Lennon tribute CD in Bermuda on Saturday |
Bermuda's singers are being invited to audition on Saturday, Dec. 17, for a tribute album being released to commemorate John Lennon, who composed his final songs on the island. The tribute CD will be released next June in conjunction with the unveiling of a John Lennon sculpture at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
Source: Bernews, Bermuda |
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| Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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| Yoko Ono to be part of Olympic festival exhibition |
Yoko Ono is preparing for her first show in the UK in over a decade. The exhibition, featuring new and rarely seen works, will take place at the prestigious Serpentine Gallery in London. It coincides with the London 2012 Festival, a 12-week celebration spanning the UK that will showcase leading artists from around the world.
Source: Huffington Post |
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| Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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| Liverpool commemorates John Lennon at European Peace Monument |
Fans of the late Beatle John Lennon came together last night in Liverpool to pay their respects to the music legend as the world marked the 31st anniversary. Crowds of people from all over the world gathered at the "Peace & Harmony" monument dedicated to John in its new location at Kings Dock outside of ACC Liverpool.
Source: Beatles News |
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| Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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| In Photos: John Lennon commemorated around the world |
On Dec. 8, 1980 the world of music was changed forever. Since that day 31 years ago, fans gather on Dec. 8 annually at Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park and at other memorial locations around the globe. Liverpool, the birthplace of Lennon and the Beatles, has an especially large memorial.
Source: Global Post |
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| Ringo pleas for tougher gun laws |
Ringo Starr called for harsher sentences on the anniversary of John Lennon today. He asked for "peace and love" at a event. He also spoke of his shock at hearing of Lennon's death, which happened 31 years ago today.
Source: Breaking News, Ireland |
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| For Yoko Ono, John Lennon's spirit still soars |
John Lennon left this earth on Dec. 8, 1980. But the way Yoko Ono sees it, the Beatle's joyously populist specter has never been busier. "Now that John's a spirit, he has a different effect on people than when he was alive. Of course, it would still be better if John was around," Ono said from Tokyo, to attend a concert of Japanese musicians performing John's works.
Source: USA Today |
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| Never before seen pics of the John and Yoko bed-in |
In 1969, Stephen Sammons was a 20-year-old aspiring photographer living in Montreal. A friend of his worked at an avant-garde film magazine and had scheduled an interview with the artist Yoko Ono, who was in town with her husband John Lennon to host a "bed-in" for peace. Sammons was invited to come along and take photos.
Source: Time Magazine |
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| Book Review: The Lennon-Bronte Connection |
The Lennon-Bronte Connection, a new book by Jewelle St. James, investigates clues that in a past life, John Lennon was the reincarnation of tragic poet Branwell Bronte. This is the sequel to her first book, All You Need is Love, in which Jewelle discovers and documents her own past-life romance with Lennon in 17th century England.
Source: John Lennon Examiner |
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| Ten story love song: John Lennon's top ten |
What John Lennon was and what he did is irrelevant. His music however will never be such. Lennon was in a different league completely because he was cursed. He possessed an internal honesty that McCartney and Harrison could never quite aspire to. He was always thought provoking, and has remained perpetually relevant.
Source: Dinosaur Album Guides |
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| Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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| Book Review: Strawberry Fields memorial a beautiful tribute |
The new book, Strawberry Fields: Central Park's Memorial to John Lennon, by Sara Cedar Miller is a must-have for fans who would love to know more about the entire section of Central Park dedicated to Lennon's memory. An extensive essay of its history is presented, detailing how the 5.3 acre memorial to John came to be.
Source: John Lennon Examiner |
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| Tuesday, December 6, 2011 |
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| John Waters' John Lennon play to be performed in Sydney |
John Waters is bringing his show "Looking Through a Glass Onion" to the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday. The John Lennon-inspired show began at the Tilbury Hotel in Woolloomooloo in 1992 and went on to spend three months in London's West End. Now, every seven years or so, the show resurfaces and tours again to new acclaim.
Source: Where I Live, Australia |
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| Book Review: John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth |
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, by Elizabeth Partridge, was described to me as "a book about John Lennon for teenagers". Some of the facts about John that seem to be wrong are the usual ones, but those are few and far between, and the book is a very easy read with great detail mixed with the gorgeous pictures on every page.
Source: Beatles Freak |
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| Monday, December 5, 2011 |
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| Julian Lennon blames John for his lack of children |
Julian Lennon has revealed that his difficult relationship with his famous father has discouraged him from starting a family. He said, "He was young and didn't know what he was doing. That's the reason I haven't had children yet. I didn't want to do the same thing. No, I'm not ready. I want to know who I am first."
Source: The Telegraph, UK |
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| Friday, December 2, 2011 |
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| Yoko Ono to exhibit her art at show in India |
John Lennon once described his wife as the "world's most famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name but no one knows what she actually does". Yoko Ono has visited India with Lennon before but has never exhibited in the country. Now her upcoming show is being billed as one of the hottest events to hit New Delhi's art circuit.
Source: Times of India |
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| Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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| The Queen meets Yoko Ono at Museum of Liverpool opening |
The Queen travelled to Liverpool today where she was greeted by Yoko Ono as she officially opened a new museum about life in the city. The Museum of Liverpool boasts many exhibits dedicated to The Beatles and Ono flew in especially from New York for the launch, where she said she was struck by how youthful the Queen was looking.
Source: The Mirror |
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| FBI files reveal John Lennon was threatened in extortion plot |
FBI files released today reveal that John Lennon and his family were targeted in a $100,000 extortion plot in 1977. A letter threatened his life and demanded that Lennon leave $100,000 in "a strong package" with the clerk by the front entrance of the Dakota in New York City where the Lennons lived.
Source: ABC News |
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| Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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| John Lennon to-do list up for auction |
A most revealing item, the to-do list belonging to John Lennon, is up for auction on Gotta Have Rock and Roll, a site devoted to the sale of rock and roll memorabilia that previously sold Lennon's Talisman necklace for $528,000. The minimum bid for the list is $3,000, and it's estimated to go for $4,000 to $5,000.
Source: Huffington Post |
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| Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
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| The top 10 most expensive items of John Lennon memorabilia |
As the "Bed Peace" placard from John and Yoko's famous Montreal Bed-In in 1969 sells for ?97,250, Wikicollecting presents a list of the ten most expensive items of John Lennon memorabilia ever sold. The list includes the Imagine piano, the A Day in The Life handwritten lyrics and John's Rolls Royce Phantom V.
Source: News-Antique.com |
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