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 »April 19th 1978 – Donahue Show – Ringo Starr
Reflecting upın his years with The Beatles, rock star/actor Ringo Starr Tells tv host Phil Donahue, “We changed society in its outlook and dress; We Weren’t just some little rock group” Starr also reaffirm that he and his former Beatle partners are not planing a concert reunion and that those …
Read More »November 29 2001 We Lost George Harrison
On Thursday November 29 the music industry lost an other legend George Harrison guitarist and vocalist for the legendary Beatles fell victim to cancer in his home New York City. Harrison’s career started with a long stint with the Beatles, which led to moderately successful solo career, movie production career …
Read More »March 19 1969 – George Harrison
Beatle George Harrison and his wife Patti make a brief appearance at the court in Esher and Walton, England, Tuesday. They are charged with possession of marijuana on March 12. They were remanded until March 32 on bail of $240 each.
Read More »March 25 1971 – Paul McCartney
London March 25 1971 – Beatle Paul McCartney now cleanshaven carries his two yeas old daughter Marry and walks with wife Linda at Heatrow Airport in London on their arrival home from Los Angeles. At right is Heater Mrs. McCartney’s nine-year-old daughter by a previous marriage
Read More »The Beatles – The Montreal Gazette (Canada) August 21 1965
The sons of Astronaut Charles Conrad register Beatles in Houston, Texas. Pete 10 left appears awed while Tommy, 8 covers his ears. Their father makes another try to ride aloft in Gemini 5 with his space partner, Gordon Cooper. “Once you get Beatlemania you can’t do without it” says 17-year-old …
Read More »The Beatles – The Salem College Salemite (NC) February 14 1964
A group of droopy looking seniors are sitting around the living room discussing a word they picked up from underclassmen. The conversation goes something like this “Beatles, what is it?” “Whoever heard of a Beatle?” “It’s a singing group from England!” “What do they sing?” These students are obviously members …
Read More »August 19 1964 – Beatles
San Francisco ,John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCarney, England’s four young men known as the Beatles have a Yeah, yeah, yeah, for some 10.000 fans who turned out to greet their idols at San Francisco International Airport. The screaming, showing multitude of fans were inside a fence …
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