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 13, 1967 – John Lennon purchased islands off the Ireland coast for £1,700 and invited any hippie who wished to live there. Lennon bought Dorninish (twin green mounds linked by a natural causeway), lying just 15 minutes from the west coast of Ireland and got planning permission, although he never got as far as building….
NOVEMBER 17, 1963 – John Weightman, the UK Headmaster of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all pupils from having Beatle haircuts saying, “this ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons.”
In 1958, Bill May, Australian guitar builder and founder of Maton guitars, introduced the MS500 Mastersound series. The MS500 is a 6-string solid body guitar with two pickups, two volume and two tone controls and a three-way pick up selector switch. The original 1950’s MS500 models feature a 24.5” scale unlike the modern models 25.5”…
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…
The last photo of John Lennon, the legendary member of The Beatles and his murdered Mark David Chapman is released. On 08 December 1980, John Lennon was stopped by 25-year-old ex-security officer Mark David Chapman with no previous criminal records when he was about to leave his house in Central Park West to give an…
Did you know that Erkin Koray, one of the legends of Anatolian Rock and famous John Lennon met in the 70s? The meeting of Erkin Koray who is an important figure for psychedelic rock movement that will spread to Anatolia and Lennon happened in the hotel Lennon started and it is stated that Lennon was…
He saw them. The got from behind. He shot for five times; four bullets hit the target. The legendary singer who said “Imagine” to the whole world was on the ground. His wife was holding her head in this hand. The shooter would say, “someone in my head said, “do it, do it”.” After killing him, he…
John Lennon was born on 9 September in Liverpool. He wanted to be famous but he had no idea how it was to be famous. He didn’t have any special efforts to be a “good person”. Imagine all the people, living for today Paul McCartney says that when people whom he meets ask “What do…
John Lennon spends most of his life by asking for help. “Help!” song released in the 60s is one of the best examples. “Help Me to Help Myself” that he made in the last period of his life was another Lennon song with the same theme. The most striking, idealist and inspiring member of the Beatles had…