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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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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Christie's are auctioning off John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for "Give Peace A Chance." Reportedly they were given to a 16-year old Gail Renard by the singer himself during a protest for peace in Montreal in 1969. John and Yoko were holding the "bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel when he gave Renard a few mementos, including the lyrics. This is the same event where the now-legendary son...
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A happy ending for the idiot documentary filmmakers behind Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. (Oh, the irony!) The film, which takes a look at the teachers and scientists who believe intelligent design is an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution, used a 15 second clip of John Lennon's "Imagine" without the "OK" from neither the Lennon camp (i.e. Yoko Ono) or label (EMI.) Ono and EMI didn'...
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Today apple debuted sixteen Lennon albums from the former Beatles EMI catalog via iTunes. Along with the Lennon's previous recordings two new albums Lennon Legend featuring classic Lennon tunes like "Jealous Guy" and "Instant Karma" and Acoustic, an acoustic compilation of Lennon tracks like "Dear Yoko" and "Imagine", will also be available.For the next 30 days extra video content will also be ...
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Setting aside whether the film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is good or bad, we have this (from 21 May):Yoko Ono tries to block use of `Imagine' in film By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Yoko Ono wants a judge to imagine a movie challenging the theory of evolution — but without John Lennon's song "Imagine" in it.The film's distributors are fighting to keep it in — a
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John Lennon is back on tour. Well, not quite, but his piano is. The instrument which he wrote his classic "Imagine" is going on tour to locations of past violence to promote peace. The piano made an appearance last year in November, during a peace protest on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This year the famous ivory keys will make an appearance tomor...
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George Michael has donated John Lennon's piano to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, according to Yahoo News.It was confirmed today after Michael brought the piano to the site of worst killing spree in modern US history, where 33 people died in April from the hands of a very troubled young man by the name of Seung-Hui Cho.Michael, who purchased the Steinway upright piano at auction, is ...
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The former Beatle's instrument is on peace missionJohn Lennon's piano is set to tour sites of past violence to promote peace.Lennon wrote his classic song 'Imagine' on the upright piano, which is now owned by George Michael.As previously reported the piano made an appearance on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas where President John F Kennedy was assassinated in November last year, in a peace protest.T...
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The world premiere of a documentary on the late John Lennon, "Three Days in the Life," hass been cancelled. Lawyers representing Yoko Ono, wife of the former Beatle, warned the Berwick Academy, a private school in southern Maine where the film was to be shown this past Tuesday night, that Ono had not authorized any public screenings.The footage was shot inside Lennon's apartment by Ono's former...
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A drawing created by the late John Lennon will be used for a new Christmas card, forty two years after it was originally printed. The proceeds from the card's sale will be towards an international charity fund. Yoko Ono approved Lennon's Fat Budgie" drawing to be used by to be used by the famine relief organization. Yoko ordereed 200 cards to be used for herself and thought John would approve o...
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Yoko Ono has taken up yet another cause in the name of her late hubby, John Lennon. The former musical muse has filed a lawsuit against Orlando, Fla.-based heavy-metal singer-slash-songwriter Lennon Murphy for naming her band after herself. As in Lennon. Ono, according to TMZ, alleges the use of Lennon is a "tarnishment" of the late Beatle’s name and is claiming Murphy "fraudulently" registe.
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john lennon: electric guitarklaus voormann: bassjim keltner: drumsbobby keyes: saxophone Apparently prior to the King Curtis sax overdubs and if I'm not mistaken sans George's slide.At any rate, feeling the funk with a message.
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I hope everyone is preparing for a grand Labor Day weekend; with classes just starting and summer sadly ending, I am definitely looking forward to the long weekend. Before you enjoy your holiday not doing laborious tasks, two tidbits of John Lennon-related information happened to land in my lap within minutes of each other this afternoon that you may find interesting. The first was the ann...
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