Beatles fans call on Buckingham Palace to release Lennon MBE  |
The MBE medal that John Lennon famously rejected has been unearthed in a royal vault. Now, 40 years after Lennon sent the award back to The Queen, Beatles historians are calling for it to be dusted off and put on public display. A Buckingham Palace spokesman confirmed that the MBE has been located and that it remains the property of John Lennon's estate. [more...]
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| Friday, January 2, 2009 |
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| Fidel Castro regrets Cuba's ban on the Beatles |
Until eight years ago Beatles songs were forbidden in Cuba, but times have changed and even Fidel Castro regrets that he got to know the British band too late. Considered to be against the party's ideology, Beatles songs were banned in the sixties. John Lennon was viewed as a decadent foreigner and a harmful influence on the youth. [more...]
Source: Russia Today |
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| Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
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| Fans speak out about putting words in John Lennon's mouth |
Yesterday it was announced that there would be a new public service ad using a voice that sounds like John Lennon, which is presented as if it is John Lennon speaking. Many Beatles and John Lennon fans have emailed Beatles News to say how they feel about this, and most of them don't like it. [more...]
Source: Beatles News |
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| Friday, December 26, 2008 |
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| New book documents Iceland's Imagine Peace Tower |
The Iceland Post Company has now released pictures of spreads from its recently-published Imagine Peace Tower book, written in cooperation with Yoko Ono on the eponymous art project that she unveiled in Iceland in 2007 in the memory of her late husband, Beatle John Lennon. Photographs from Ono's private collection are also included in the book. [more...]
Source: Iceland Review Online |
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| Monday, December 22, 2008 |
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| Rude John Lennon recording sells for $30,000 at auction |
A rare recording of a drunken John Lennon has raised $30,000 at an auction. The recording has never before been heard in public. A spokesperson for the auction house, said, "It was six minutes, 16 seconds, and John singing very drunk and with John ad-libbing his own lyrics into the song. It's actually a fun song to listen to." [more...]
Source: All Headline News |
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| Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
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| Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford |
Avant-garde artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono will be visiting the Stanford campus Jan. 14 to give a lecture, "Passages for Light." The lecture is open and free to Stanford students, faculty and staff with a current Stanford ID. A panel discussion on Ono's body of work, featuring Stanford faculty, will be held Jan. 12. [more...]
Source: Stanford News Service |
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| Monday, December 15, 2008 |
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| Opinion: Lennon forgiven by the Vatican, would he care? |
Forty-two years after John Lennon made his infamous remark about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus, the Vatican has finally forgiven Lennon for his slip of the tongue in 1966. Although this news story began over 40 years ago, controversy still surrounds the issue to this day. [more...]
Source: Dublin City University |
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| Yoko Ono launches new exhibition in the UK |
Yoko Ono paid a visit to Tyneside to personally launch her biggest ever UK exhibition at the Baltic. Ono's appearance was a rare chance for fans of the artist, who was famously married to John Lennon, to hear her talk about her extensive career spanning more than 50 years. Between the Sky and My Head is at The Baltic until March 15. [more...]
Source: The Chronicle Live, UK |
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| Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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| Opinion: John Lennon said it best |
During this crazy, commercially driven holiday frenzy we all could use a little less frenzy. John Lennon's "Imagine" is so brilliantly simplistic in its writing but the message is as deep as songs go. The song is a universal plea to the world to just slow down and hug it out. What if we could stop judging and blaming and just love one another? [more...]
Source: The Oregonian |
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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| Rare photos of John Lennon to be seen in Australia |
An exhibition of more than 60 rare images of John Lennon by world-class photographers including, Dixie Dean and Tom Hanley, is coming to Ballarat, Australia, next year. They date from Lennon's childhood through to his early career with The Beatles. The exhibition will be on display from February 21 until Monday, April 13. [more...]
Source: The Courier, Australia |
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| Cuban artists dedicate exhibition to John Lennon |
Cuban Artists inaugurated an exhibition of paintings dedicated to singer and peace activist John Lennon on the occasion of the 28th anniversary. The exhibition, named "Project of Freedom" includes paintings by some ten artists with different aesthetic proposals, but all of them share the same content. [more...]
Source: Cuba Headlines |
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2008 |
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| Nixon was relentless in trying to neutralize Lennon |
The relentless harassment and government stalking of John Lennon is not only a chilling tale of paranoia and abuse of power, it is also a lesson for our times. It was in large part based on the misperception that Lennon was planning to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. The government's paranoia, however, was misplaced. [more...]
Source: Tucson Citizen |
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| Monday, December 8, 2008 |
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| John Lennon fans gather at Strawberry Fields in Central Park |
Every year since Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon fans have gathered to pay tribute to the gifted musician near the site. Despite the bitter temperatures, hundreds of people are expected to gather later today at Strawberry Fields, the memorial garden in Central Park that was created as a tribute to John in 1985. [more...]
Source: NY Daily News |
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| Video: Yoko's Lennon memorial concert in Tokyo |
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is marking the anniversary with a memorial concert in Tokyo. The Beatles played in Japan's Budokan Arena in the summer of 1966, each of the five shows lasted 30 minutes. Yokow tells the BBC's Duncan Bartlett why she is back in her homeland to play at the same venue. [more...]
Source: BBC News |
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| Japan keeps Lennon's memory alive |
Japan is one country where John Lennon's memory is kept very much alive. Every night in Tokyo, bands dressed as John, Paul, George and Ringo faithfully reproduce their sound. Even though many of the musicians would struggle to hold a conversation in English, they know every word of the entire Beatles songbook. [more...]
Source: BBC News |
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| The keeper of John Lennon's artistic flame |
Yoko Ono is the keeper of John Lennon's flame, the one who believes in Lennon's genius as much as he did, and is determined to have others acknowledge it too. She ensures his name, art and political beliefs are kept alive, and with equal energy pursues her own art career. As an associate observed recently, Ono is "not at all a lady of leisure". [more...]
Source: The New Zealand Herald |
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| Friday, December 5, 2008 |
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| Norman's Lennon biography best in last 20 years |
"John Lennon: The Life" is the first major biography of Lennon in 20 years and, for now at least, is the best. Even though it sheds little new light on Lennon in the Beatles and in his solo years, it offers the best glimpse yet of Lennon's childhood and teenage years, and is takes a clear-eyed, balanced look at his virtues and vices. [more...]
Source: Observer Reporter, PA |
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
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| Australian musician admits to being a Yoko admirer |
Ben Lee's next album features a song in praise of Yoko Ono. He says, "Sadly, if you say Yoko Ono to most people they would say, Oh yeah, John Lennon, she broke up The Beatles. I'm like, Dude, get her book Grapefruit. Get one of her books, open it up and you'll have your mind blown". [more...]
Source: The Courier Mail, Australia |
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| Tuesday, December 2, 2008 |
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| Listen to Lennon's vision of heaven |
John Lennon is long gone now, though his knowing smile is still remembered by older men and women. They had admired him so much when they were all young – many wars ago. But the messenger is still here, a spry figure looking up at the photograph of the famous man, who entrusted him with his words. [more...]
Source: Liverpool Daily Post |
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| Monday, December 1, 2008 |
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| Organizer promises Lennon Tribute will go on |
Joe Raiola's long-running annual remembrance of John Lennon, one of the many for the Beatle, is called the Lennon Tribute. Pitting a fundraiser against the current economic climate, Raiola has been faced with suggestions to cancel the show this year. But Railoa promises the show will go on. [more...]
Source: The Gothamist, NY |
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| We all shine on: the enduring resonance of John Lennon |
On December 8th, First Avenue will host the 29th Annual John Lennon Tribute, performed by locally renowned musician, Curtiss A and his exceptional supporting band. Rather than impersonating the original records, they inhabit the spirit, bringing forth the music's vitality with conviction and abandon. [more...]
Source: The Examiner |
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| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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| Opinion: Paul is Dead and Elvis is Alive |
The legend of Faust has existed for hundreds of years. But now, Joseph Niezgoda, whose new book on John Lennon, The Lennon Prophecy, asserts that twenty-year-old John Lennon sold his soul to the Devil in 1960 in exchange for success. I feel compelled to rebut this flimsy "theory," this latest rock 'n' roll oddity. [more...]
Source: Beatles News |
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| Author says The Beatles were a spiritual force |
When John Lennon said that the Beatles were then "more popular" his comments prompted outrage in the U.S. This weekend the Vatican's newspaper paid tribute to the band. Steve Turner, author "The Gospel According To The Beatles," talks about the controversy that helped to end the Beatles' touring career. [more...]
Source: CNN |
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| Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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| The Vatican forgives John Lennon |
The Vatican has appeared to bury the hatchet on John Lennnon's infamous "more famous" remark. Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said Lennon's comment "today just sounds like a quip from an English working-class lad struggling to cope with unexpected success after growing up with the Elvis myth". [more...]
Source: ANSA, Italy |
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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| Did John Lennon sell his soul? |
Did John Lennon sell his soul in exchange for his worldly musical success with The Beatles and beyond? That's the theory set forth by Joseph Niezgoda in his soon-to-be released book The Lennon Prophecy, A New Examination of the Clues of the Beatles. The book will be available for purchase in December. [more...]
Source: Jazz News |
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| Friday, November 14, 2008 |
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| Lennon tribute concert planned in New York City |
A free tribute gig to John Lennon will take place in New York's Central Park next month. For The Love Of Lennon, organised by New Arts NYC, will commemorate the life of the music legend on December 7, the eve of the 28th anniversary. The concert willl be held at the Central Park Bandshell. [more...]
Source: Virgin Media |
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| Burglars loot shop but miss Lennon gem |
His eyewear store in the Northgate mall in San Rafael, California, was ransacked and some $200,000 in cash and merchandise stolen. But optometrist Hermann Dungs was upbeat, because Burglars missed his most valuable item, a pair of John Lennon's eyeglasses. Dungs said the glasses are worth about $300,000. [more...]
Source: Marin Independent Journal |
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| Saturday, November 8, 2008 |
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| Music journalist remembers Lennon and McCartney |
Ray Connolly has a test copy of Imagine that John Lennon gave him in 1971, including typed song lyrics and then crossing out and scribbling over the lines he'd changed during recording. He remembers John told him about his next single called Gimme Some Truth. 'What's on the other side?' he asked. Then John played Imagine. [more...]
Source: The Daily Mail, UK |
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| Wednesday, November 5, 2008 |
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| Yoko speaks about new Beatles video game |
Yoko Ono says that the new Beatles video game makes perfect sense. "All of us are actually pretty hip, so we said yes. I'm personally very excited. [The game] lets you participate in a way where you're really [immersed in] the music. With so many young kids into the Beatles, it's a start to a beautiful new page in [the band's] history. [more...]
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| Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
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| Liam Gallagher on discovering the Beatles |
Liam Gallagher says his new album is a nod to John Lennon. "I was eight. Imagine is the song for me, because I was putting the TV on and I remember that song being on all the time and just thinking, 'Who's this guy?' and all that and then obviously you forget about it and go to school. Later on in life I got into the Beatles, the whole band and stuff." [more...]
Source: Rolling Stone |
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