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... tour will also visit Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Hull and more, with the run of shows coming to an end at London O2 Academy Brixton on October 11. Tickets go on general sale May 31 at 9am (BST). The dates will support Kane's forthcoming new album, 'Don't Forget Who You Are', which will be released on June 3. It was produced by The Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie, who has previously worked with The Zutons and Echo And The Bunnymen. The album is currently streaming exclusively at NME.COM. Click here to listen to the album. Miles Kane: 'I turned down
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[ read more ]John Lennon's guitar fetches $408,000 at auction
... A custom-made electric guitar played by
John Lennon and George Harrison has fetched $408,000 (£265,000) at an auction in New York. The semi-hollow-body instrument, manufactured by VOX, was sold to an unnamed US buyer. It had been expected to fetch $200,000 to $300,000. Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, with the VOX guitar. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Harrison played the instrument, distinguished by symmetrical flared shoulders on the upper body, while practising I Am The Walrus;
Lennon used it in a video for the song Hello, Goodbye, according to Julien's Auctions. Both songs were on the Beatles' 1967 album Magical Mystery Tour. The VOX guitar was a prototype custom-built for
Lennon in 1966, said Martin Nolan, executive director of the auction house.
Lennon gave the instrument as a gift in 1967 to Yanni "Magic Alex" Mardas, the electronics engineer for the band's Apple Records label, he added. The guitar, displayed in recent weeks at a museum in Ireland before the sale, was sold a few years ago by Christie's for a little over $100,000.
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[ read more ]John Lennon wanted to return to the UK before he was shot, says singer's friend
... explain. John launched into a diatribe against the former president. He was convinced that evern out of office Nixon carried power and wanted him dead. He felt some kind of curse was hanging over him." Flannery's comments relate to an attempt by then US President Richard Nixon's attempts to have
Lennon deported following the anti-war sentiment expressed in his songs 'Give Peace A Chance' and 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'. In 1973 he was ordered to leave the US within 60 days, but the deportation order would eventually be overturned in 1975 following Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal. Flannery also claimed that
Lennon had asked him to arrange a way in which he could return to the UK in a "blaze of glory", but concluded: "As one might imagine I was buzzing after this wonderful conversation with my old friend. Of course it was not to be and I was soon to lose another friend pointlessly."
Lennon, who was murdered in December 1980, was named as NME's Ultimate Musical Icon of the last 60 years in September last year. The Beatles' co-frontman topped the poll, which began with 60 nominees in March of this year, beating out the likes of David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, Morrissey, ...
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John Lennon
(Oct. 9, 1940-Dec. 8,1980)
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Lennon was born October 9, 1940, at a time when World War II was raging in Europe. A lot of people thought that Liverpool was under attack by Nazi Germany when John was born, but he was actually born during a lull in the bombing.
His parents separated when he was 3. He was raised by his aunt Mimi from the age of 5.
His mother Julia was killed by a drunk driver when John was 18.
His son Julian was from his first wife, Cynthia. He had his son Sean with Yoko.
He and Yoko hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week in February, 1972.
He and Yoko appeared naked on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1981. Lennon was on the first cover when the magazine launched in 1967 - they used a still from his movie How I Won The War.
He had a cat named Jesus.
Yoko donated many of his belongings for an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Among the items are the bloodstained glasses he was wearing when he was shot.
Yoko still owns the New York City apartment she and John used to live in. He was shot outside the building on December 8, 1980.
He was named Rolling Stone magazine's first "Man Of The Year" in 1969. That same year he was named "Man Of The Decade" by the British media and was filmed by ATV.
John Winston Lennon was his birth name - after Winston Churchill. He later had "Ono" added to his middle name, although he never dropped "Winston," as the law wouldn't allow it. He became John Winston Ono Lennon, but only referred to himself as John Ono Lennon.
He was involved in so much radical activity that the FBI had 216 pounds worth of files about him. These are all available to the public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act.
While Lennon was served a deportation order from the US in 1972, he stayed and eventually got a green card (signifying a US residency) in 1976.
Lennon once returned a "Member British Empire" medal to Queen Elizabeth, citing Britain's support of US troops in Vietnam and its own involvement in Biafra.
Lennon died on Jim Morrison's Birthday. (thanks, rikki - Rochester, MI)
When he was in art college, he dated a girl named Thelma Pickles. (thanks, Adam - Wrexham, Wales)
He appeared as Winston Legthigh in
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus in 1968 with a band that was put up especially for the show, The Dirty Mac. It consisted of Lennon on vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Mitch Mitchell on drums, and Keith Richards on bass. They sang "
Yer Blues", originally done by The Beatles. (thanks, Patrickman - Makati City)
Without his glasses on, Lennon was legally blind. (thanks, Sarah - London, England)
The number 9 appeared many times in his music and life. He was born on the 9th. Although he died on the 8th in the US, it was the 9th in his home country. He had songs titled "#9 Dream" and "Revolution 9." (thanks, John - Flint, MI)
In 2006, the film The US vs. John Lennon was released. The movie documents Lennon's evolution, between 1966 and 1976, from Beatle to solo artist to social activist. As the film documents, Lennon's antiwar activism brought him under the scrutiny of the Nixon administration and the FBI. In the liner notes to the CD that comes along with the film, Yoko Ono wrote: "Never in a million years, did we think that promoting world peace could be dangerous. Were we naive? Yes, on that account, we were. John sings: 'Nobody told me there'd be days like these.' That was his true confession. These songs have become relevant all over again. It's almost as if John wrote these songs for what we are going through now." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
In his later life, Lennon was affected by unusual eating disorders brought on by his anxiety that he was overweight. He probably weighed about or under 135 pounds for the last 10 years of his life, and he often looks emaciated in photographs.
In 2002, Lennon was voted into eight place on the 100 Greatest Britons list. Winston Churchill, whom John expressed a particular dislike for, so much so that he had his middle name changed from Winston to Ono after he married Yoko, was voted into first place. (thanks, Jonathon - Clermont, FL, for above 2)
May Pang became Lennon's personal assistant when he and Yoko Ono moved to New York City, and she became his lover when John and Yoko were having marital problems in 1973. In his 2005 book
Lennon Revealed, Larry Kane states: "This friendship and romance lasted 10 years. To ignore that friendship and their time together would be a gross attempt at revising history."
Lennon was 17 when he formed his first band, The Black Jacks. They were made up entirely of classmates at Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool, and almost immediately after they started, they changed their name to The Quarrymen, the group that would eventually become The Beatles. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)
When the actor Peter Boyle got married in 1977, Lennon was his best man. (thanks, Jason Kouns - Peoria, IL)
May Pang (who was John Lennon's live-in lover in the mid-1970s when Lennon took a break from his marriage to Yoko Ono), published a book of photos in 2008 called
Instamatic Karma. She took the pictures during Lennon's "Lost Weekend" (which lasted 18 months) with her.
His last TV interview was on The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder in 1975. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)
Yoko refused to hold a funeral for Lennon, as she felt "his spirit would live forever."
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"You yanks crack me up, you give us musicians such as Springsteen, Elvis and Frank Sinatra, so we treasure them, we give you John Lennon and you shoot him!
- Jessica, London, England"
lol :D
he is part of history and will never be forgotten just like beethoven or mozart
You are *SO* right about what you said about John Lennon and Paul McCartney being the greatest song writers of the 20th century! Even Brian Wilson said on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show, after he plated With A Little Help From My Friends on the piano,and said he just loves this song,and that he feels Sgt.Pepper is the greatest album he ever heard over his own Pet Sounds album,that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the 2 greatest song writers of the 20th century! Brilliant clasical composer and conducter Leonard Bernstein said this about them also!
On a 1991 CBS morning news show Elton John was interviewed and he was asked who he musically admires,and he said you can talk about your Rogers and Hammerstein but for the quanity of quality songs that Lennon and McCartney did in such a short period of time,they were the 2 greatest song composers of the 20th century! The All Music Guide says this about them too as well and also they say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and expressive in rock!
And John Lennon had such a unique beautiful strong singing voice! Just listen to This Boy especially the middle part for ultimate proof,but also I'll Be Back,If I Fell,Ticket To Ride,In My Life etc etc! And to give just a few of the many examples of his great rock voice,The Beatles cover of Money,and of course Twist and Shout which he amazingly did in just 1 take,Rock and Roll Music,and his own great rockers,Come Together,Revolution,Happiness is A Warm Gun, etc and many more and many of his very good solo songs!
Also,Eric Clapton said John was a pretty good guitar player and he would have known because he was a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band and he played with him in concert. Also there is a guy who has a Rolling Stones and John Lennon fan site,and he also has Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Web Site and he has top 10 lists of classic artists and he also has what the fans voted next to them,he and the fans voted John Lennon # 1 Greatest Male Rock Singer and he voted Paul # 7 and the fans voted Paul # 8 and he and the fans both voted John # 8 Greatest Rock Harmonica Players. He voted John Lennon and Paul McCartney # 2 Greatest Rock Song Writers after Bob Dylan as # 1 but the fans voted John and Paul tied at # 1! When he reviewed The Beatles Let it Be album he says the song Get Back shows why John should have played lead guitar more often because he did a very fine job! He also says that John played slide guitar pretty good in George's For Your Blue,and he also said John played one of the first and best acid guitar parts on Revolution.
If people want to really know the real John Lennon they should read a wonderful very accurate thorough biography called,Lennon by Ray Coleman. He was an award winning music journalist and editor of The Melody Maker British music Magazine,and he was first introduced to The Beatles by Brian Epstein in 1962 and he became a good friend of John's from then on for 18 years until John's death. He also interviwed so many people that really knew and loved John even people from his art college days,his Aunt Mimi,his first wife Cynthia,Yoko,etc.
"Your Majesty,
I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in this Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts.
With love,
John Lennon of Bag."
Man, I love John so much. (:
Just kidding...or am I...