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Photos showing John Lennon during his famous bed-in with Yoko Ono in Montreal in 1969 have been unearthed. They made me sad. The pictures show Lennon stroking a guitar as Yoko Ono chats to 16 year old Gail Reynard, who had scaled the fire escape and begged to stay and watch proceedings. Today, security would have had her arrested.
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| New photos of John Lennon appear after 40 years |
Candid pictures of John Lennon which have never been seen in public have been found after being kept hidden in a photographer's drawer for more than 40 years. The extraordinary photos were snapped by Life photographer Gerry Deiter, the only photojournalist allowed to witness and document the Montreal bed-in for the full eight days.
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
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| Michigan Beatle fans show off their artwork |
"The Beatles Show!" is an exhibit that contains 30 original Beatle-themed pieces created by local Michigan artists. Beatle memorabilia was also on display and included rare photos of John Lennon, rare concert posters and album cover art. The Beatles Show! will run until March 20 and is free to the public.
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| Interview: Yoko Ono opens up the Ono family album |
She may not look it, but Yoko Ono is now 77 years old. For many of those years, she has been blamed, perhaps unfairly, for the break-up of the Beatles. Now, Yoko is back in Japan for a three-week trip and, for the first time, has agreed to a journalist accompanying her to write about this side of her multi-faceted life.
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| Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
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| Nowhere Boy kicking off Nashville Film Festival in April |
The Nashville Film Festival has always had an eye, and ear, for music-related flicks, and they'll be starting this year's festivities with a doozy, a film about one of the greatest popular musicians of all time. Nowhere Boy, the buzzed-about biopic depicting John Lennon's teenage years, will kick off the 41st annual fest on April 15.
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| U.S. release date Nowhere Boy still uncertain |
Beatle fans anticipating the release of "Nowhere Boy" in the U.S. will have to sit tight. It's coming, a spokeswoman for Weinstein Co., who will distribute the film in America, told us today, but right now they can't say when it will happen. "We actually don't have a date at this point," she said in a phone interview.
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| Annie Leibovitz agrees to loan deal to save her photos |
Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm to sort out her debts, and allow Leibovitz to hold onto the rights of more than 100,000 photographs. Leibovitz is perhaps best known for a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken on the same day the former Beatle.
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 |
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| Nowhere Boy coming out on DVD, but only in the UK |
John Lennon early years biopic Nowhere Boy will be released on DVD and Blu-ray DVD in the UK May 10, it was announced today. No release, either in theaters or on DVD, has been announced for the U.S. Bonus features on the DVD and Blu-ray releases will include director's audio commentary and deleted scenes.
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| Friday, March 5, 2010 |
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| Ozzy Osbourne to visit Liverpool for John Lennon's 70th birthday |
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are planning to go to Liverpool to mark former Beatle John Lennon's 70th birthday. The Black Sabbath frontman is a massive Beatles fan and received an invitation from Liverpool's Lord Mayor. Sharon said, "He will want to see all the sights and maybe stay in the John Lennon suite at the Hard Days Night Hotel."
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| Anniversary of Please Please Me in America |
Forty seven years ago this month, Please Please Me became the first Beatles single released in the U.S. and also became the title track to the Beatles first LP in the UK. Written solely by John Lennon, John recalled in the 1980 Playboy interview that "it was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it?"
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| Thursday, March 4, 2010 |
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| Interview: May Pang setting the record straight |
May Pang, about her first book Loving John, says, "The reason I agreed to write the book was simply to set the record straight. I understood the need for John to diplomatically refer to our time together as a 'lost weekend' and to imply it wasn't a good time for him. People who were not even around us would say things that were so out there. That was hurtful."
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| Sean Lennon defends Yoko on Twitter |
Sean Lennon said his mom Yoko Ono did not allow the images of Lennon to appear in the car ad in the U.K. for money reasons. He tweeted, "She did not do it for money. Has to do w hoping to keep dad in public consciousness. It's just hard to find new ways to keep dad in the new world. Not many things as effective as TV."
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| John Lennon U.K. car commercial reignites rock in ads debate |
Whenever rock & roll appears in ads, some fans protest. The debate rages every time Dr. Dre teases Detox for Dr. Pepper, or Bob Dylan promotes Pepsi. But in truth, rock stars have appeared in dozens of Super Bowl commercials. Now new car commercial featuring archival footage of John Lennon is currently causing a bit of an uproar in the U.K.
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| John's Nutopian Embassy for sale |
1 White Street in New York City is for sale. In 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono claimed this was the address of their Nutopian Embassy in their bid with the U.N. to avoid deportation from the U.S. Its current owner still receive letters of sympathy intended for Yoko Ono, and the house is occasionally photographed by John Lennon fans.
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| Tuesday, March 2, 2010 |
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| Seattle's Hard Rock Cafe has a piece of John Lennon history |
The Pacific Northwest, birthplace of legends like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Heart, Queensryche and Pearl Jam, finally has its own Hard Rock Cafe. Besides their focus on Seattle heroes, there is a Beatles section upstairs which includes a fascinating piece of John Lennon history from his "lost weekend" in L.A with May Pang in 1974.
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| Friday, February 26, 2010 |
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| John Lennon: Behind the Music Remastered this weekend |
John Lennon is the focus of VH1 Classic's "Behind the Music Remastered", airing this Saturday at 10PM ET. Picking up where the original "Behind the Music" episodes left off, VH1 Classic airs new interviews, footage, and video clips that update the stories of several classic artists over the last 10 to 15 years.
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| Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
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| Nowhere Boy sparks huge rise in visitors to Beatles' Liverpool homes |
The massive success of Nowhere Boy has led to a huge increase in visitor numbers to two Beatles' former homes. Since the launch of the film, pre-bookings to his Mendips home have doubled. The success of the film and legacy of Capital of Culture also comes in the same year that John would have celebrated his 70th birthday.
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| Sean Lennon hits back in row over Lennon TV ad |
John Lennon's son has launched a furious attack on fans who have condemned Yoko Ono for using John's image to sell Citroen cars, after one disgusted fan taunted him on Twitter. Sean replied, "Lennon fans don't ATTACK his widowed family. How offensive is it to REAL fans, to publicly attack his wife and child? It is you who show him no respect."
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| Yoko praises Courtney Love's lyrics |
As part of the spread Courtney Love, Clash Music asked some other notable musicians, including Yoko Ono, to put their questions to Courtney. Yoko said Courtney is "an incredibly complex woman and she has incredible vulnerability as well," and Courtney speaks about her lyrics that address John.
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| 'John Lennon' to tour with the Black Eyed Peas |
The Black Eyed Peas have revealed that the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus will accompany them on their upcoming US tour dates. Aside from acting as a studio facility for the group, the non-profit mobile recording and multimedia studio will also call at educational projects in each city. The John Lennon Education Bus was launched in January 2008 by Yoko Ono.
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| Don't Let Me Down: Rise of the rock biopics |
Nowhere Boy portrayed the precocious teenage John Lennon before the Beatles and his complex relationship with his domineering aunt and free-spirited mother. Now, Lennon will be the second film of the past 12 months to tackle the subject of one of British music's most enduring and enigmatic icons.
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| Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
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| Review: Yoko Ono at Noise Pop |
Yoko Ono, who turned 77 last week, was the perfect choice to open the 2010 Noise Pop festival on Tuesday night at the Fox Theater in Oakland. This homegrown fest, now in its 18th year, is all about celebrating music that resides far left of the mainstream. And it doesn't get any less mainstream than Yoko Ono.
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| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
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| Yoko Ono outrages Beatle fans with car ad |
Fans are outraged that John Lennon's image, with dubbed words by an actor, has been used to promote a Citroen Car in a series of television advertisements in the UK and are calling for a boycott of the cars. Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry said, "This is totally out of order and will be depressing millions and millions of Lennon fans."
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| Friday, February 19, 2010 |
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| Former Lennon/Ono publicist handling sale of John Lennon bronze |
Back in 1979, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hired Bruce Replogle as publicist for Lennon's comeback album, "Double Fantasy." Now, the veteran rock band manager and promoter is representing the former Beatle in a very different way, he's handling the sale of a life-size bronze statue of Lennon.
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| Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
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| Clapton, Paul Simon honor Yoko at New York City gig |
Some of rock and roll's biggest names turned up at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music to pay tribute to Yoko Ono on Tuesday. The show, which was billed under the name of Ono's 1970s supergroup, Plastic Ono Band, featured performances by Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Bette Midler and Ono's son, Sean Lennon.
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| Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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| Interview: Yoko Ono, her music, the internet, working for peace |
In a new interview conducted via email, Yoko comments about her participation on the internet and on Twitter, reviving the Plastic Ono Band and working with Sean compared to John. Asked if their musical approaches were similar, Yoko said, "No, not similar. But the passion is the same. They are both passionate musicians."
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| Monday, February 8, 2010 |
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| Sundance Movie Review: Nowhere Boy |
Nowhere Boy is probably one of the best biopic you will ever see. It follows the life of John Lennon as he grows up in Liverpool in 1955 being raised by his aunt Mimi. Aaron Johnson is so unbelievably good as a young John Lennon. This is a must-see movie and I'll go as far as saying that this is probably one of the best movies that you will see this year.
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| Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
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| Lennon Museum in Tokyo to close |
The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September, the operator said on Thursday. "After 10 years here, John's spirit is now moving on, looking onward to the next journey," said Yoko Ono. "Thanks to your love for the museum, what we'd thought would be five years became 10."
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| John said he was ashamed of 'racist Britain' |
John Lennon felt "ashamed" of his native U.K., according to a newly discovered essay by the late Beatle. Lennon and Yoko Ono met in London and wed in 1969 before moving to New York City two years later, and Lennon admits he struggled to settle with his new partner in his homeland because of the racial abuse aimed at his Japanese wife.
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 |
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| Ringo Starr to get his star in Hollywood next Monday |
Ringo Starr will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next Monday. Starr is scheduled to speak at the honors ceremony. His star will be located in front of the Capitol Record building not far from stars of his late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison.
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