FOXNews.com reports that Yoko Ono recently sold John Lennon’s rare home recording of “Real Love” to JCPenney for a commercial. The spot began airing on Sunday night during ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters” before JCPenney could even make the announcement.
The Beatles have had their songs licensed for commercials in the past, but with the rare exception […]
The Houston Chronicle reports that more than 100 pieces, a few of which were only recently unearthed, will be included in Come Together: The Artwork of John Lennon, a three-day exhibit at the Houston Galleria starting tomorrow (October 26th)
The pieces will mostly include Lennon’s iconic pen and ink drawings, sometimes with dappled spots of color; […]
Tuesday, 9th October, 1962
With no engagements booked, The Beatles celebrated John Lennon’s 22nd Birthday by staying over in London visiting freelance music journalists and several pop music papers to promote teh release of Love Me Do.
The BBC reports that a photograph of a teenage John Lennon has been unearthed after being locked in a cupboard for 50 years.
The 1958 picture of the 17-year-old Beatles legend wearing a camel hair coat and with a quiff was uncovered by the BBC’s Inside Out North West. Lennon was pictured on Liverpool’s Lime Street […]
According to a report in the Iceland Review, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will arrive in Iceland October 5 and are scheduled to attend the Unveiling of Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island off Reykjavík October 9, on her late husband’s John Lennon’s birthday.The Imagine Peace Tower is a powerful beacon of light representing […]
Beatles legend John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono have topped a poll of rock couples conducted by Rolling Stone magazine.
Lennon and his avant-garde artist wife were followed by country music couple Johnny Cash and June Carter, at the second spot.
Sir Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda McCartney rounded-off the top five, at the fifth […]
According to a report in my old home town paper, the Manchester Evening News, it appears that there is a new John Lennon biopic in production.
The piece about local screen writer Matt Greenhalgh mentions that he is currently writing a film about The Beatles legend John Lennon.
“The film is called Lennon and details John’s adolescent years, pre- […]
Thursday, 23rd August, 1962
John Lennon spent the morning getting married to his long time, and newly pregnant, girlfriend Cynthia Powell. The ceremony took place at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in central Liverpool with Paul McCartney as the best man. The wedding “reception” is lunch at the nearby crowded Reeces Cafe, where the couple are […]
EMI and iTunes have announced that they started offering didgital downloads of John Lennon’s solo albums earlier this week.
The digital retailer is offering the eight albums Lennon recorded between 1969 and his murder in 1980 in addition to collections such as “Anthology,” “Milk and Honey” and “Working Class Hero.” For the first 30 days, exclusive […]
According to this article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph, a pair of John Lennon’s trademark “granny” glasses for sale in an online auction could make up to £1million.
The gold-rimmed spectacles were given by the former Beatle to his Japanese translator Junishi Yore in 1966 during the band’s tour of Japan. Their dark lenses are missing as […]
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
