One of John Lennon's guitars from the early years of his Beatles career sold for £205,250 ($335,430 US dollars) at auction yesterday, almost doubling its £100,000 - 150,000 estimate.Lennon bought the 1958 Hofner Senator guitar from Hessy's Music store in Liverpool and auctioneers believe he kept it at home for song-writing purposes.It was accompanied by a fax of a 1982 letter from George Harris...
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A federal judge has ruled that Yoko Ono is the copyright holder of rare footage of John Lennon and his family in London c.1970. The judge refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought by World Wide Video LLC in March of 2008 that alleged Ono had interfered with a planned film they were making by blocking the use of the film.The original footage was shot by Anthony Cox, Ono's husband at the time and ...
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A new John Lennon exhibit is particularly emotional for his widow, Yoko Ono. Besides Lennon's guitars, letters and other personal effects, it also includes a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was shot to death. Ono received the items from the medical examiner in December 1980, when the former Beatle was gunned [...]
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John Lennon is to be honored with an exhibition about his life in New York.Items such as handwritten lyrics and instruments belonging to the late former Beatle will go on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York later this month. John Lennon: The New York City Years will also show personal photographs and one of his self-portraits. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition...
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A few months back, our very own Ryan Dembinsky headed over to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame’s New York City Annex for a great profile on the relatively new outpost. On May 12 the Annex will debut its second feature exhibit - John Lennon: The New York City Years, which will focus on [...]by Jeffrey Greenblatt Leave A Comment
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I watched ??Imagine?? again a couple months ago, and I came away with a couple insights that I wouldn't have had when I watched it as a teenager. 1. John Lennon was the first "Reality Star" of any merit.* 2. John had worked his thinking pattern into his own frenzied logic that wasn't really as deep as we often believe him to be. He often uses a "it means everything, it means nothing" argu...
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"If you had the luck of the IrishYou'd be sorry and wish you were deadYou should have the luck of the IrishAnd you'd wish you was English instead!A thousand years of torture and hungerDrove the people away from their landA land full of beauty and wonderWas raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!If you could keep voices like flowersThere'd be shamrock all over the worldIf you could drin...
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From the Amnesty International web site:More than 50 musical artists (names to be announced) have joined this international effort that combines John Lennon music, technology, and human rights activism. The CD, "Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur," will be released by Warner Brothers Records and arrive in stores the week of June 12th. Additional singles from the album will be released l...
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After watching the movie "The U.S. vs. John Lennon", I realized how crazy our government was...and still is..I just dont understand how cops and "the man" could look at the peacenicks and go "Wow, they are a threat to the US! We better bring them down" So they attack the people minding their own business and singing All you need is love, and Give peace a chance and injure many of them for no re...
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The moumental song 'Peace' written by John Lennon fetched nearly $850k at an auction at the Christie Auctionhouse in New York City.Written in 1969 Bed-in protest for peace at the Queens Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the tune was originally credited to Lennon/McCartney (John Lennon and Paul McCartney). However, when Lennon's posthumous live album with Elephant's Memory, Live in New York City (rec...
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In 1971 about a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York threw a kanipshit over the crappy living conditions of the lockdown they called home. Originally built to hold some 1,200 inmates, the Attica prison at the time was housing more than 2,200 convicts. Add to it torture from the corrections officers and you are looking at one angry mob of crazy people.Begin...
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Found another sign of the impending Apocalypse, to go along with war (take your pick), pestilence (the Notorious P.I.G. F.L.U.) and "American Idol." A cover of "Instant Karma," a much revered song from the late John Lennon's post-Beatles solo career, is the soundtrack for a current TV commercial touting the arrival of Chase Bank in California - the latter made possible by Chase's takeover of th...
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The Lennon heirs and Yoko Ono have a lot of copyright problems on their hands right now. Reports are popping up on numerous news sites of a controversial "drug tape" starring John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1970 and a documentary critiquing "Imagine" without permission.Rolling Stone Magazine labeled the drug tape "awesome John Lennon footage you might never see," as it reportedly depicts Lennon co...
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Cold Turkey stands out in The RocknRoll canon as a hair-raising testament to the agony of heroin addiction. In my mind this song, more than any other, finally shatters the illusion of the Mop Tops. For three plus minutes John Lennon is in your face and under your skin with a sharp, jagged & nervous cry of pain, need & determination. His sweat is palpable, you can almost smell the junkie ...
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