Just hours before his death, John Lennon talked at length with radio personality Dave Sholin about his work and his hopes future “While there’s life there’s hope” “Lennon said during the three-hour final interview in his New York apartment. His wife, Yoko Ono, also took part. Sholin, 34 executive producer …
Read More »December 8 1980 – Murder Was Also a Fan
John Lennon’s accused murderer sat quietly in a hospital prison ward Wednesday as officials tried to piece together the conflicting identities of drug-user “born-again” Christian, jilted lover and child of a broken home that apparently drove him to kill the man he most admired. Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old unemployed …
Read More »Beatles and Beyond
Beatles won a new audience for mass music and left the hit parade with a musical example that will be hard to forget. “The Beatles have done it again” rings the cry after each new hit. What the Beatles do agin and again is show that pop music can be …
Read More »September 4th 1964 – It’s Cowboy Ringo
Drummer Ringo Starr of the mop-haired Beatles gocs Western with a big black hat, a cigar and toy six-shooter as he poses for photographer Larry Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times at the plush mansion in suburhan Bel-Air where the British singers are hiding out from their admiring fans. Ringo …
Read More »September 19 1964 – Rino Starr Worrys About Grass Eating Girls
Ringo Starr of Liverpool said he was worried about the girls who tend to munch on the grass he has walked on. “I just hope they don’t get indigestion” he said Since there is more pavement than grass around Dallas Memorial Auditorium, the first teen-agers who turned out 10-000 strong …
Read More »Meet The Beatles
Informations about The Beatles Band Members Meet John Lennon John Winston Lennon was Born October 9 1940. He founded the Original Group in 1956. Deserted by Father in Childhood. Mother killed in traffic Accident When John was 14 spent teen years with his aunt Mimi. Married fellow art student Cynthia …
Read More »The Beatles in Australia Sydney
Hotels in Australia Turn Down Beatles Four of Sydney’s leading hotels have turned down the Beatles as guests, it was learned Monday. The British singing quartet will come here in june for three days of appearances. The hotels afraid fans will mob them “We’re insured against damages but not insured …
Read More »To Girl , 13 , Beatles are Teen- Age Dream
It’s hard to explain what makes the Beatles so wonderful because I don’t completely understand why I think they are. Anti- Beatleites (they are a few) simply cannot understand why other people are crazy about the Beatles who arrived here from London Friday. “Good heavens!” they exclaim. “They’re not even …
Read More »February 15th 1964 – Beatles Fleeing Fans
The Beatles Britain’s mop – topped quartet, apparently at a loss to find a new encore, planned more of the same today for their swooning, bouffant-mopped teen-age admirers rehearse and then play hide and seek with fans. Rehearsals give Beatles a change of pace , it seems. Friday they squeezed …
Read More »Beatle Lennon Breaks in to Literary World
A zany little volume by John Lennon. called “In His Own Write” makes no sense as literature, but is making the kind of dollars and cents everyone understands at the cash register. The publishers is has sold more than 70.000 copies at $2.50 cach. By way of introduction and other …
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