He was born on an autumn day under the shadows of the bombardment. He dragged millions after him with his music and anti-war discourse and he left this life tragically with a bullet from an insane fan’s gun. John Lennon born on 09 October 1940 in Liverpool was the legendary solo signer of the Beatles…
9:00 A. M… Dakota Building… New York City…John Lennon, celebrate his last birthday in life…His 40 years, along with Sean, that day he turned 5 years old…For such an occasion Yoko Ono hired a pilot of a plane to fly over Central Park and the Dakota building with a message saying, ′′ Happy Birthday John…
SEPTEMBER 13, 1965 – The Beatles released the Paul McCartney ballad “Yesterday” (credited to Lennon & McCartney on the group’s 1965 “Help!” album). According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher…
JULY 13, 1965 – Paul McCartney was presented with five Ivor Novello Awards at a lunch party at The Savoy Hotel on the Strand in London. Paul was 40 minutes late after he had forgotten about the engagement. The ceremony was presented by David Frost, and the awards were given to McCartney by Sir Billy…
JULY 14, 1962 – The Beatles’ first performance in Wales took place at the Regent Dansette Ballroom in Rhyl. Admission cost just five shillings (then 60 pence), and the night lasted from 8 pm to 11.30 pm. The Beatles were paid £4 for their performance, and shared the bill with a local group called The…
APRIL 14, 1969 – The recording of “The Ballad Of John and Yoko” took place, with just two Beatles, Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Paul played bass, drums and piano with John on guitars and lead vocals. The song was banned from many radio stations as being blasphemous. On some stations, the word “Christ” was…
APRIL 11, 1967 – While flying back to England after participating in the Beach Boys’ aborted “Smile” sessions, Paul McCartney came up with the idea for the Beatles film and album “Magical Mystery Tour.” Inspired by the tradition of London’s “Mystery Tours” of the city for tourists, and an LSD-drenched real life cross-country (in the…
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 of RKO Radio specials and…
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 security guard and obsessive Beatles…
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 alive, inventive and unrepetitious, even…