NOVEMBER 13, 2005 – Space workers on at the US space station in orbit around the Earth awoke to the sound of Paul McCartney singing “Good Day Sunshine” live from his concert in Anaheim, California.Flying 220 miles above the Earth, Astronauts Bill McArthur and Russian Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to the wake up call in…
NOVEMBER 13, 2012 – The original collage that was photographed for the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 classic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album (taken on March 30, 1967 by Michael Cooper at Chelsea manor Photo Studios) sold for $87,720. The piece, which was designed by Peter Blake, was sold to an unnamed bidder as…
NOVEMBER 21, 2003 – An acoustic guitar on which the late Beatle George Harrison learned to play fetched £276,000 at an auction sale at London’s Hard Rock Cafe by auctioneers Cooper Owen.In one account, Harrison bought this “Beginner’s Guitar,” a 1956 Rosetti 276 – Egmond 105 which was made in Holland by Egmond and distributed by…
“That necklace has a story. My auntie bought it for me but when we were in New York, kids jumped on our backs and stole it. I went on Cousin Brucie’s radio show and said, ‘I’ll give you a kiss if you bring me back my necklace’. A girl turned up with the necklace, so…
“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”…
June 1977. Lennon was in Hong Kong during a trip to Japan – and Bowie was in town on tour with his band. They met up in Hong Kong (where Bowie was touring along with Iggy Pop). While there, a tourist approached John and said, “Aren’t you John Lennon?” John replied, “No, but I wish…
The sea was in John’s blood. Not one for pools, he preferred an open body of salt water; he would swim every day if he could. At the sea, he found peace of mind and recharged his creativity – May Pang
OCTOBER 6, 2010 – A set of John Lennon’s fingerprints were seized by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer who intended to sell them for $100,000 (£62,621) minimum bid. The prints were taken at a New York police station in 1976 when Lennon applied for permanent US residence. The bureau claimed the card was…