“John Lennon’s death had a huge effect on me”: How Foreigner’s Mick Jones connected with a hero
On December 8, 1980, the day John Lennon was shot dead outside the Dakota, Mick was just a short distance away, recording ...
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The Story Behind “Dear Yoko” by John Lennon and How David Geffen Landed a Recording Contract with the Ex-Beatle
After John Lennon released Rock ‘N’ Roll in 1975, he took a five-year break from recording. His son Sean was born in October ...
John Lennon Reportedly Told Disney to ‘F*** Off’ and ‘Get Elvis Off His Fat Arse’ When Asked to Appear in a Film
Disney wanted the Beatles to voice characters in a film, which John Lennon rejected. Here's why he suggested they hire Elvis instead.
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John Lennon’s 84th Birthday Honored With Various Celebrations
John Lennon is being celebrated on what would have been his 84th birthday with a number of different celebrations.
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Inside John Lennon's Last Birthday and the Strange Saga of His Lost Gift from Yoko Ono
A rare watch given to the music icon on his 40th birthday is now at the center of a bizarre international legal dispute. In the summer of 1980, John Lennon recorded a demo of a new song he’d ...
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When John Lennon thought he was Robin Hood
A new documentary sheds light on the 18 months that the former Beatle and Yoko Ono spent in a small New York apartment, becoming standard-bearers for leftist movements ...
In 1972, for five weeks, John Lennon and Yoko Ono came to Philly every Thursday. Here’s why.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono cohosted a full week of The Mike Douglas Show, the afternoon talk show that reached a nationwide audience of 40 million. And they didn’t come alone to the KYW television ...
What is John Lennon singing backwards at the end of The Beatles song ‘Rain’?
The John Lennon composition 'Rain' is one of the most innovative recordings The Beatles ever made. But what is Lennon singing backwards at the end of the song?
Songwriters Have Long Revealed The Ugly Side Of 'Love' From John Lennon To Mariah Carey
Elsewhere, alt-rock band Weezer's song No One Else is described by its songwriter Rivers Cuomo as being “about the ...
"Daytime Revolution": How John and Yoko brought counterculture to America’s living rooms
Documentary director Erik Nelson shows how John Lennon and Yoko Ono transformed daytime TV into a platform for change.
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Revelatory Inside Look at John Lennon, in Concert and in the World
which has never been widely talked about outside of Albert Goldman’s scandalous deep-dive biography “The Lives of John Lennon”). “One to One” deals with the period just before the Lost ...
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Revelatory Inside Look at John Lennon, in Concert and in the World
Director Kevin Macdonald channel surfs through the early '70s, luring us into John and Yoko's lives — and the entire period — in an uncanny way. The film takes off from something that Lennon ...