Wednesday, 11th April, 1962 John, Paul and Pete fly from Liverpool to Hamburg to begin a seven week engagement at the Star-Club. The still sick George is scheduled to fly out the following day. It is the first time any of them have flown and are in a state of excitement when they arrive at [...]
The BBC reports that a centre named after John Lennon is to be created at a children’s hospital in his home city of Liverpool. Plans for the John Lennon Foundation for Children’s Health at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital will be launched by the ex-Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono.Ono will unveil an outline for the foundation, to [...]
The Starpulse News Blog reports that Yoko Ono has donated the publishing royalties to the entire John Lennon back catalogue in an effort to make sure a new all-star tribute to her husband is a true charity event. R.E.M, Christina Aguilera and Green Day are among the acts who have recorded Lennon classics for new [...]
“The Liverpool Lennons” an official Lennon family website celebrating the lives of John Lennon, Julian Lennon and Cynthia Powell Lennon is now operating at lennon.net The well designed site includes biographies, timelines, discographies a family tree and lots more for any Lennon fan.
Although there is nothing posted on the movie’s official website, according to a short release on the website for Berwick Academy, the planned venue for the public premiere of the John Lennon documentary “3 Days in the Life“, it seems that there is some dispute over rights ownership that has resulted in the previously announced showing [...]
Several on-line sources are reporting that A new two-hour movie edited from footage shot by John Lennon and his widow Yoko Ono’s first husband Tony Cox in 1970 is to premiere in Maine next month. 3 Days in the Life was filmed at various locations including the late Beatle’s country estate in England and at [...]
According to a report in the UK’s Daily Express, Yoko Ono has given the green light for Paul McCartney and fellow surviving Beatle Ringo Starr to work on John Lennon’s unfinished song Now And Then.
Monday, 12th February, 1962 The Beatles travelled to Broadcasting House in Piccadilly, Manchester to audition for the local BBC radio station. The audition came as a result of Brian Epstein’s application to the Variety Department on January 10th. The audition was to be held for Peter Pilbeam, producer of “teen” radio prgrammes for the North-West [...]
Monday, 12th February, 1962 The Beatles travelled to Broadcasting House in Piccadilly, Manchester to audition for the local BBC radio station. The audition came as a result of Brian Epstein’s application to the Variety Department on January 10th. The audition was to be held for Peter Pilbeam, producer of “teen” radio prgrammes for the North-West [...]
It’s often been quoted that Paul Goresh the fan who famously took photos of John Lennon as he left the Dakota building on that infamous day of December 8th, 1980 had taken one last photograph but the flash had failed to go off. Now, according to the fine folks at the Beatles Photo Blog that lost photograph has [...]
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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.
