According to a report posted on Bloomberg.com John Lennon’s former home in the U.K., where he lived as the Beatles rose to fame and his first marriage crumbled, is up for sale for 5.95 million pounds ($11.1 million). The six-bedroom house, known as Kenwood, outside Weybridge, Surrey, is 24 miles southwest of London and has six [...]
To mark what would have been John Lennon’s 66th Birthday fans gathered at the “Imagine” memorial in New York’s Central Park’s Strawberry Fields.   Yoko Ono marked the day by presenting two $50,000 grants to organizations to further world peace.Â
Sunday, 1st October, 1961 John Lennon and Paul McCartney take a two-week vacation in Paris, France, funded with 100 pounds that John had received from his Aunt Elizabeth two weeks before his 21st birthday. While in Paris, they meet with their friend Jurgen Vollmer, from Hamburg. He persuades John and Paul to permanently style their [...]
Strange as it may seem each member of the Fab Four is featured on seperate new CD releases that all hit stores this week. As we mentioned before, the soundtrack to “The US vs John Lennon” is released today as is the Tony Bennet “Duets: An American Classic” featuring a contribution from Paul. Ringo makes [...]
 The release of the soundtrack CD for “The US vs John Lennon” is scheduled for next Tuesday, 26th September and as part of the promotional push for it Amazon.com have posted a video clip of John singing “John Sinclair” at Ann Arbor MI in 1971. You can see the video clip and read a [...]
Thursday, 14th September, 1961 The Beatles perform at the Town Hall in Litherland. The gig is also announced in today’s issue of Mersey Beat which proclaims that The Beatles will perfom at the venue “every Thursday.” This week’s issue of Mersey Beat (cover dated September 14-28) also includes a column entitled “Around and About” written [...]
As the opening of “The US vs John Lennon” gets closer the movie and its subject is starting to get a lot of press coverage. Here’s a round up of some of the more recent on-line articles. ABC News – Yoko Ono on John Lennon and the FBI The Age – Lennon documentary a hit [...]
Boxoffice.com offers the first on-line review for “The US vs John Lennon” and is less than positive about the movie, calling it “an airless nostalgia piece,” and concluding with “the songs are still good enough to warrant the additional attention, but the scale of the narcissistic self- delusion is staggering. “ The full review can [...]
In this extensive review and article The Hollywood Reporter argues that the upcoming “The US vs John Lennon” is worthy of an Oscar nomination in the “Best Documentary Feature” catergory.   The movie opens September 15th in New York and Los Angeles and expands nationwide September 29th. You can view the trailer HERE
Thursday 17th August, 1961 The first Beatles fan letters appeared in today’s issue of Mersey Beat which also included a poem by John Lennon entitled “I Remember Arnold.” The boys themselves played an evening gig at the St. John’s Hall in Tuebrook, also on the bill were the Big Three. For this night only The [...]
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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.
