About John Lennon and His Music
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John Lennon was an iconic 20th century English rock and roll songwriter and singer, who gained worldwide fame as founder of The Beatles. Lennon's songwriting was often full of pain and hope. His melodies were at times beautiful and at times dark. His lyrics reflected his personal and career demands, philosophical outlook, his unease with his fame, and current events.
~~StateMaster.com Encyclopedia
John Lennon 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980
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The Day The Music Died
8 December 1980
The Day the Music Died
John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered outside of his New York apartment building by a deranged fan. Three days before John Lennon was killed, Jonathan Cott spent hours interviewing him for a planned cover story. ~~Rolling Stone
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| John Lennon: The Final Interview - Segment 1 | John Lennon | John Lennon - The Final Interview Radio Special | |
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| John Lennon: The Final Interview - Segment 6 | John Lennon | John Lennon - The Final Interview Radio Special |
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music
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In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.
Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naiveté of "Love Me Do" to the soaring ambivalence of "Don't Let Me Down"; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock 'n' roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone.
In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.
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News about John Lennon
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- Liverpool John Lennon Airport hailed as most 'family-friendly' in England
- Published Wed 15 Feb 2012 12:57 Liverpool families jetting off this half term may be pleased to learn that John Lennon Airport has been voted the most 'family friendly' airport in England. In a recent poll conducted by Skyscanner, a travel internet ...
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- John Lennon, pictured on Front Street with his son Sean, in June 1980. A celebration of the musician?s time on the Island is being held this June in the Botanical Gardens. Event organisers are calling for anyone who met the star, or remembers seeing ...
- Readers Guide: 'Lennon: The Man, the Myth and the Music' by Tim Riley
- By Susie Stooksbury Since he is already the subject of several massive biographies and numerous magazine articles, is there really anything more that can be said about John Lennon? NPR music critic Tim Riley talked to Lennon's friends and enemies as ...
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John Lennon Webpages
- The Official Home of The Liverpool Lennons
- The Official site of the Liverpool Lennons :: The Latest Information On John Lennon, Julian Lennon and Cynthia Lennon
- John Lennon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- John Lennon - Official Website
- The official John Lennon website, courtesy of Yoko Ono, featuring the latest news, downloads, videos, and more.
- John Lennon Museum
- The John Lennon Museum opened to the public on October 9, 2000, the 60th anniversary of John Lennon's birth.
Remember John Lennon
By 1980, former Beatle John Lennon had become an icon for the anti-war movements of the 1970s. His music embodied the struggle for peace and love amidst the horrors of war and destruction.
On December 8, 1980, Lennon emerged from his Manhattan apartment after five years of living in seclusion with his family. A fanatical fan, Mark David Chapman, obtained Lennon's autograph outside his apartment and then shot him dead.
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| Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band | Power to the People - The Hits (Remastered) | |
| Woman | John Lennon | Power to the People - The Hits (Remastered) | |
| Stand By Me | John Lennon | Power to the People - The Hits (Remastered) | |
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"The time has come,"
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"To talk of many things . . ."
-- Lewis Carroll
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John & Yoko Imagine
A live 1972 performance by John Lennon and Yoko Ono of Imagine done on the old Mike Douglas show in 1972. John Lennon Imagine Live on the Mike Douglas Show
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Imagine Lyrics
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Writen by: John Lennon
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon
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The Beatles Once Upon a Time
An Audio Interview on NPR
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- Hamburg-born Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist, before he died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Documentary, Politics/Religion and War
The story traces John Lennon's life from the period 1966 to 1976, where Lennon transforms into an antiwar activist, one in constant conflict with the U.S. government and its views."The mild fascination of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is that it puts Lennon together as a political animal, examining how his iconoclastic wit and anger turned into conceptual protest when he fused it with the avant-garde theatrics of Yoko Ono." ~~ Owen Gleiberman
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date: September 15th, 2006 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some strong language, violent images and drug references.
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FBI releases final John Lennon files
Wed Dec 20, 4:24 PM ET
The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday's editions.
"Today, we can see that the national security claims that the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning."
Wiener first requested the documents in 1981, several months after he decided to write a book about Lennon following the singer's murder.
The previously released files showed that the FBI closely monitored Lennon from 1971 to 1972.
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John Lennon was 15 years old when Steve Jobs was born. Two rebels that changed the world. Suppose that John was sitting there eagerly waiting to welcome Steve on the other side. What do you think these two would be cooking up together?
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-- Lewis Carroll
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MusicFan57
Nov 18, 2011 @ 11:56 am | delete
- Great lens on John. The Beatles are the best and John was always my favorite.
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traveller27
Nov 5, 2011 @ 11:53 am | delete
- Nice tribute to a great artist. Blessed by a travelling angel.
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CardLady
Nov 7, 2011 @ 12:27 am | delete
- Thank You!
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Ladymermaid
Oct 29, 2011 @ 9:40 am | delete
- I think that so very many people cried the day John Lennon died. It was such a tragic unnecessary crime.
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poddys
Oct 25, 2011 @ 12:50 am | delete
- Wonderful lens, and a tribute to one of the greatest singer/sonwriters of our time. I wonder what John would have written in the last 30 years if he had still been alive. I am sure there would be many more classic songs for us to remember. Nicely done, blessed.
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