Christie's auction house has sold John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" for $833,654. The lyrics were written during Lennon's 1969 Bed-in protest for...
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The hand-painted drum skin that appeared on the sleeve of the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.1 million...
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HAVANA (AP) — All he needs is love — and someone to keep an eye on his glasses. Ever since thieves twice swiped the iconic round-rimmed spectacles from Havana's...
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Yoko Ono lost her legal bid Monday to stop the playing of a 15-second excerpt of John Lennon's song "Imagine" in a film challenging the theory of evolution. Lennon's widow...
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A document containing John Lennon's lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance," written during the legendary 1969 Bed-in protest for peace, will be auctioned in London this summer. In...
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Nobody told her there'd be days like these.
Lennon Murphy—a little-known singer-songwriter who was named after John Lennon—has found herself at odds with...
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Imagine that. A lock of John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000 Wednesday in an auction of Beatles' memorabilia collected by the band's hairdresser.
The hair — inside an...
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They worked it out. Months after the owner of an Elvis Shop in London took the owner of a Beatles shop to court, the two parties settled their troubles without a trial...
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With a little help from his friends, John Lennon remains a shining example of the beauty that can arise from giving peace a chance.
On what would have been her late...
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The clock on Rascal Flatts' Web
site counts down the days, hours, minutes and even seconds
until the September 25 release of the superstar band's fifth
studio album,...
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So, it turns out the Phil Spector jury had not heard everything yet.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler cleared the jury from the courtroom Wednesday after...
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Half brothers Julian and Sean Lennon have begun speaking to each other again.
Their reconciliation follows Julian's eight-year feud with Sean and Sean's mother, Yoko Ono,...
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The piano on which John Lennon composed his hit song "Imagine" in 1971 has been brought to New Orleans for a photograph session that the piano's new owner hopes will bring...
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John Lennon's piano, on tour as a symbol of peace, was to arrive Friday to commemorate the anniversary of the death of civil-rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King...
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John 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...
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The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.
The 10...
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The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.
The 10...
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Yoko Ono has appealed to people across the world to mark the anniversary of John Lennon's assassination today by healing the world.
The widow of the former Beatle has...
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John Lennon had a secret affair while married to his first wife Cynthia, according to new revelations made today.
The Beatles star apparently had a fling with '60s pop...
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Sean Lennon, son of the late Beatle
John Lennon, will launch a 14-date tour in New York City later
this month in support of "Friendly Fire," his first solo album
in eight...
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During a séance that aired last night on the pay-TV service In Demand, psychic Joe Power attempted to communicate with late Beatle John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980. And...
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The Beatles, "The Beatles: The Capitol Albums Vol. 2" (Capitol)
In 1965, a year after Beatlemania blasted through America, Capitol Records made sure to saturate the market...
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Etta James, "All the Way" (RCA Victor)
Etta James' latest album is a curious collection of songs, all covers by artists ranging from John Lennon to Leonard Bernstein to R....
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If Willy Chirino wins his first Grammy, the award will probably go right next to the concrete block the Latin-music singer keeps in his home to remind him of another...
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When teen actress Lindsay Lohan decided to become known as teen singer Lindsay Lohan, she followed a tried-and-true formula for the under 21-pop set: an album dominated by...
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The song was only six years old, but might just as well have been 60.
Walking out of a college dormitory after visiting a friend one December night 25 years ago, I heard...
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In an elevator at the Sony Music offices, two suited men breezily assess a fledgling artist's demo.
"How did you feel?" one asks.
"I found it to be, well, rather...
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Although the CMA Awards' first soiree in New York will be peppered with cameos by Elton John, Billy Joel, Donald Trump, James Gandolfini and Bon Jovi, don't expect...
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It's been a long time — maybe forever — since an American band has rocked the Havana waterfront, where crowds are more used to denouncing the United States than...
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Abbey Road studio, where the
Beatles recorded almost all their music, attracts tens of
thousands of fans each year.
They come from across the world to worship at the...
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Veteran TV
producer-director Ken Ehrlich's got a hit -- and, despite his
long history in the music business, it's no run-of-the-mill
event.
"I've spent my life promoting...
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The Recording Academy is
hosting flashbacks to previous years' Grammy Awards ceremonies,
letting music fans relive the event in three-minute montages.
The shorts are among...
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The studio that churned out hits from Michael Jackson , Bruce Springsteen , Stevie Wonder and many more, is closing shop.
The legendary Hit Factory will close its New York...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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The Rolling Stones recently
concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with
producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous
studio releases.
The...
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Woody Guthrie was a dust bowl drifter, a guitar strummer and a proto-folkie who wrote enduring songs about America's workers and underdogs. He also was a longtime New York...
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Although it's been played many times, many ways, Nat "King" Cole's "The Christmas Song" rates as the most popular Christmas song in a survey of women ages 30-49.
Following...
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets
can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly
known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was
its...
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Rolling Stone magazine has named the top 500 songs of all-time, and, well, the No. 1 song isn't exactly a complete unknown.
Bob Dylan 's "Like a Rolling Stone" tops the...
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Rolling Stone magazine has named the top 500 songs of all time in its new issue, and, well, the No. 1 song isn't exactly a complete unknown.
Bob Dylan 's "Like A Rolling...
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How many times during the '60s
did you hear the phrase, "the Beatles and the Stones?" Four
decades after those two acts made their original chart impact,
"the Beatles and...
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It's no coincidence that two new
John Lennon albums, "Acoustic" and "Rock 'N' Roll," were
released simultaneously earlier this week via Capitol.
As its name implies,...
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Admitting to being intimidated in
the presence of a former Beatle, Neil Young joined forces with
Paul McCartney on Thursday to perform at a $500-per-seat
fundraiser to...
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Mark David Chapman felt like a nobody and wanted to "steal John Lennon's fame" when he shot the former Beatle outside his New York City apartment in 1980, according to a...
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Capitol Records will
issue the first four U.S. albums by the Beatles as a boxed set,
"The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," on Nov. 16.
The release marks the first time the Fab...
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Forty years later, Carrie Mae Snapp is still aglow over her brush with The Beatles. Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' improbable, clandestine arrival in...
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Comedian Chris Rock is preparing to
release his first album in five years, "Never Scared,"
featuring a parody of OutKast's Grammy-winning anthem "Hey Ya!"
Due Aug. 31 via...
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Yoko Ono has joined the chorus in support of gay marriage by recording "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him," a gay-friendly version of a song she wrote nearly a...
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An auction of rock 'n' roll memorabilia sold an original Jimi Hendrix studio recording and some copyrights to his artwork Wednesday, but bidders found prices for John...
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Fans couldn't help but be curious last fall when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel strode onstage to open their reunion concerts with the song "Old Friends."
Old friends,...
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Paul McCartney says he got no thrill from heroin, but found cocaine more to his liking for a time.
"I tried heroin just the once," McCartney said in interview published...
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Paul McCartney returned to Madrid for the first time in 15 years and wowed a crowd of 30,000 fans with 33 songs, all but ten of them Beatles' tunes.
McCartney and his...
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In 1985, Yoko Ono released "Hell in
Paradise." The disco/rock jam, which appeared on the artist's
Bill Laswell -produced album "Starpeace," peaked at No. 12 on
the...
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Hip-hop singer Frankee has knocked Eamon
off top spot in the U.K. pop charts with a song that is
believed to be a response to his expletive-filled lament about
his...
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John Lennon memorabilia, including a leather collar he wore during the 1960s, was auctioned by Christie's for a total of $400,500.
The auction house called it the...
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A cottage industry within the
multibillion-dollar music products category, handmade guitars
and amplifiers are answering a rising demand for high-quality
gear.
Unit...
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A gallery owner who got into trouble in 1970 for selling sexually explicit lithographs by John Lennon may have escaped conviction because of concerns expressed by the art...
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Prince was crowned as musical royalty
on Monday as he joined the late George Harrison among eight
inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Also honored at the 19th...
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The forecast called for purple rain at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Monday, where inductee Prince's
electrifying performance was a highlight of the ceremony that...
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Alf Bicknell, chauffeur to the Beatles at the height of their fame and inspiration for the song, "Drive My Car," has died at the age of 75, the band's former promoter said...
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The Faces, a band known as much for
its excess as for its music, will return for one more round
with the four-disc box set "Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a
Bar..."
Due May 25...
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Janet didn't show. Justin did. Beyonc won--a lot.
The
46th
Annual Grammy Awards, irrevocably shaped by last weekend's 38th
annual Super Bowl, played it safe with a...
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Sting, Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and
the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams have signed on for a Grammy
tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S.
television...
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It may seem like only yesterday but
the Beatles' much-heralded first visit to America was 40 years
ago, and a group of die-hard fans wants to mark the occasion
for Beatles...
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George
Harrison's doctor is in trouble for doing too much talking about the
Quiet Beatle.
The New York State Health Department has
censured Dr. Gilbert Lederman for...
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More than 100 paintings, doodles, caricatures and drawings by slain Beatle John Lennon were on display for a three-day show, wrapping up on Sunday.
Lennon's artwork...
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George Harrison 's first guitar — "a real cheapo" his parents gave him — has sold at auction for more than $469,200.
The guitar was part of an annual Beatles...
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The quiet Beatle's voice hasn't been forgotten.
Two years after his death,
George
Harrison will become the third Beatle enshrined in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a...
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John Lennon 's handwritten lyrics to the song "Nowhere Man" sold for $455,000 at an entertainment memorabilia sale at Christie's auction house.
The lyrics to the...
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Two Beatles-oriented DVD
projects that are being released Nov. 18 pay tribute to the
departed members of the Fab Four.
George Harrison and John Lennon are remembered in...
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The world premiere of the George Harrison documentary concert film, Concert For George, was held Wednesday night (September 24) in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio....
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The sister of one-time Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe is claiming that John Lennon was responsible for her brother's death. Sutcliffe joined the Beatles in January 1960 at...
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Songs by John Lennon, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle appear on Songs For Life, a new AIDS benefit CD released on Tuesday (June 24) by Capitol...
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The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's...
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Singers from Cheap Trick and the B-52s are taking part in a new covers album titled From A Window: Lost Songs Of Lennon & McCartney. The 17-track album includes songs that...
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A rare recording featuring Mick Jagger on vocals and John Lennon on guitar will go up for auction on February 20 by London-based auction house CooperOwen.
A "rare and...
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Some 500 Beatles recording session tapes stolen in the 1970s were recovered on Friday (January 10) by police in England and the Netherlands, many including never-released...
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The man who murdered John Lennon nearly 22 years ago has been denied parole in his second hearing before the board. On Wednesday (October 9), which would have been Lennon's...
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Yoko Ono testified in New York's federal court Monday (September 23) against a former assistant of her late husband, John Lennon. Ono, 69, accompanied by son Sean, 27,...
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A lawsuit filed three years ago by Yoko Ono against John Lennon's former aide is being heard in New York's federal court this week. Ono sued Frederic Seaman in 1999,...
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Mind Games, John Lennon's seminal 1973 solo album, has been remixed, remastered, and augmented by three bonus tracks, for a reissue due October 8 in North America.
The...
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon are among the artists featured on A Tribute To The King, an Elvis Presley covers collection due out October 22.
Drawn from the EMI Records...
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Echoing the words of her late husband John Lennon, Yoko Ono offered the plea "Give Peace A Chance" in a short film aired by MTV in Europe on Wednesday (September 11), the...
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John Lennon's "Oh My Love," Joey Ramone's version of "What A Wonderful World," and PJ Harvey's "One Line" are among the songs to appear on the eclectic soundtrack to the...
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Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon in 1980, is up for parole for a second time in October. Chapman, who is serving 20 years to life for Lennon's murder in...
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New John Lennon Statue Unveiled To Mark Renamed Liverpool Airport
(3/16/02, 7 a.m. ET) -
Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband John Lennon to complete the...
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Declaring that it's "a very important time to remind people of this message," John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has rented a London billboard to deliver a message of peace. The...
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On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was gunned down in front of his New York City apartment building. Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono had just left a recording studio in New York...
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Music from John Lennon, Joe Cocker, the Beach Boys, and others will be featured on United We Stand, a new September 11 benefit collection that comes out November 6 on...
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A new version of the 1984 John Lennon & Yoko Ono album Milk And Honey comes out today (October 23). The digitally remastered edition features the original album's 12 songs...
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An angry letter that John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney at the time of the Beatles breakup was finally sold Wednesday (October 10) at Christie's in London. The letter was...
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Actor Kevin Spacey stunned a national TV audience and the patrons at New York City's Radio City Music Hall by performing John Lennon's "Mind Games" during Tuesday night's...
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Stone Temple Pilots' performance of the Beatles' "Revolution" was one of the highlights of Come Together: A Night For John Lennon's Words & Music Tuesday night (October 2)...
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A new version of John Lennon's classic, "Imagine," featuring Hanson, Squeeze's Glen Tilbrook, and Irish folk rockers Hothouse Flowers, is currently in the works in order to...
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A full-page ad with a simple message in the words of John Lennon--"Imagine all the people living life in peace"--ran in Sunday's (September 23) edition of The New York...
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TNT has postponed its all-star tribute to John Lennon, scheduled for Thursday (September 20) at New York's Radio City Music Hall, because of last week's tragic events. The...
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John Lennon will be the subject of the next TNT all-star tribute. The cable network, along with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, is putting together a concert special at New York's...
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The Girls Of The Beatles, a play based on several characters from Beatles songs, is continuing to wow Moscow audiences, according to the BBC. The play features the...
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A private sale is likely for John Lennon's Steinway piano and his custom-made Mercedes Benz limousine that failed to meet reserve prices at a London auction on Tuesday...
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A limousine and piano once belonging to John Lennon failed to reach their minimum bids at yesterday's (March 27) much-ballyhooed rock auction in London. The event, held by...
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Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood announced the upcoming auction of the last piano owned by John Lennon at a press conference yesterday (January 10) at Steinway Hall in New...
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John Lennon is missing his glasses; not the man, of course, but the statue of the late rock hero and former Beatle that was unveiled recently in Havana, Cuba. The theft...
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Perhaps no one had a better view of John Lennon than the woman he loved, Yoko Ono. History has held Ono in a bad light as being one of the major factors in the breakup of...
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Among those most affected by the December 8, 1980, shooting death of John Lennon was James Taylor, who shared history with Lennon. The Beatles signed Taylor to Apple...
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Like much of the world, Louise (Lou) Harrison, sister of former Beatle George Harrison, will be remembering the life of the late John Lennon today (December 8), the...
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On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his New York City apartment building. For today--the 20th anniversary of his...
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To mark the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's death tomorrow (December 8), his widow Yoko Ono has erected billboards supporting gun control in three major U.S. cities--New...
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If you can't get enough of the Beatles--specifically John Lennon--you now have a chance to own a solid piece of their history. Now up for auction are 150 bricks from the...
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The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum opened the nation's first major John Lennon retrospective Thursday (October 19) with a gala party attended by his widow Yoko Ono,...
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Pop singer George Michael has been identified as the winning bidder for the piano on which the late John Lennon composed his 1971 hit "Imagine." According to...
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Today (October 9) marks what would have been John Lennon's 60th birthday. In the years between his 1940 birth and his death in 1980, Lennon became an icon not only in music...
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The man who killed former Beatle John Lennon was denied parole today (October 3) upon his first request for release from prison.
Mark David Chapman, 45, is serving a life...
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The man convicted of killing former Beatle John Lennon is continuing his media campaign to win parole, and in his latest interview he's blaming his problems on that most...
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In an interview with a British newspaper from his New York prison, John Lennon's killer said he should have been executed after he was sentenced to life in prison but that...
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An exhibit commemorating the life of John Lennon is scheduled to open at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland next month. The exhibit opens on October 19,...
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Remastered versions of the John Lennon albums ^^John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band^^ and Double Fantasy are slated for release on October 10, commemorating what would have been...
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There's a new John Lennon biography out, and it paints a less-than-flattering portrait of the former Beatle.
Lennon In America was written by Geoffrey Giuliano, and the...
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Ringo Starr will record a song penned by his old bandmate
John Lennon for the soundtrack to Steal This Movie, a biopic about '60s civil-rights activist Abbie Hoffman due...
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The Steinway piano which John Lennon composed his timeless song "Imagine" on is to be sold at auction on the Internet in July.
The 30-year-old upright walnut-finished...
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Two Of Us, the movie about a fictional relationship between Beatles
John Lennon
and Paul McCartney
premieres tonight (Feb. 1). Actor Aidan Quinn portrays McCartney...
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John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, will be eligible for parole on Dec. 4, 2000, just four days before the twentieth anniversary of Lennon's death. Convicted of...
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As has been the ritual since his murder in 1980, fans of the late John Lennon have congregated on the anniversary of his Dec. 8 death at Strawberry Fields in New York...
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Tomorrow marks 19 years since John Lennon was gunned down in front of his New York city apartment. Lennon and wife Yoko Ono had just left a recording studio in New York at...
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After its initial release 24 years ago in Britain, John Lennon's single "Imagine" will soon find itself back on store shelves in the U.K.
"Imagine" was originally included...
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Previously unreleased footage of John Lennon working in a recording studio will soon be available to television and on DVD late next year.
Culled from hundreds of hours of...
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The hand-scrawled lyrics to "I Am The Walrus," the John Lennon-penned Beatles song which has drawn comparisons to the work of such lauded literary figures as Lewis Carroll...
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Doing their part to aid the children of war-torn Kosovo, the John Lennon Songwriting Contest will sponsor the recording of the song "Message To The World" to benefit...
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A recently conducted British poll has named John Lennon the greatest pop singer ever, while an American survey named Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand the best male and...
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With the 18th anniversary of his death approaching on Tuesday (Dec. 8), the legacy of John Lennon's post-Beatles career continues to live on. Last month, Capitol Records...
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The John Lennon Anthology, a four-CD compilation released earlier this month by Capitol Records and consisting of Lennon studio outtakes, live recordings, and home demos...
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Capitol Records has unveiled more details on the forthcoming four-CD John Lennon Anthology, due Nov. 3 (myLAUNCH, 9/4), and has released comments from Lennon's widow, the...
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Capitol Records has confirmed the planned release of The John Lennon Anthology, a four-CD boxed set, which is due Nov. 3
.The box will feature 100 previously unreleased...
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As the two sons of the late Beatle John Lennon released separate albums Monday, the elder child of the famed rock star denied the existence of a much-hyped rivalry with his...
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Julian Lennon has blasted recent comments by his half-brother,
Sean Lennon, suggesting that a U.S. government conspiracy led to father John Lennon's murder in...
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Sean Lennon has accused the U.S. government of conspiring to murder his outspoken father, John Lennon.
In The New Yorker magazine, John Lennon's 22-year old son Sean,...
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First came the government files on John Lennon and Elvis Presley. Now, secret investigative reports on 20,000 Californians alive and dead may be made public soon.
About 80...
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Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko and brother of Julian, joins the family business May 5th with his first album, Into The Sun.
The Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label will...
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Four new songs by John
Lennon have been discovered by archivists and will be released in early next year.
The archivists, working for Lennon widow Yoko Ono, found the...
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It's finally been confirmed that Ewan MacGregor, the dashing young star of Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary, will play John
Lennon in the film Yoko Ono is...
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Two local actors, Amana Fisher and Kioko Lawx, reenacted John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 anti-war publicity stunt, the "Bed-In," at the pricey Alexis Hotel in Seattle...
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John Lennon's nagging suspicions that he was being followed by government agents in the '70s were confirmed September 25th, when the FBI publicly released censored files...
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To mark the 30th anniversary of the "Summer Of Love" and raise funds for various charities in San Francisco, where the famous counterculture movement originated with...
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According to the New York Times, unauthorized photocopies of the personal diaries of John Lennon are being offered to a London publisher. The diaries, which span the last...
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