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Weinstein Company Aaron Johnson as a young John Lennon in “Nowhere Boy,” directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. Lennon’s Teenage Years: Rocking and Roiling At its most obvious, the title of “Nowhere Boy,” a prettily photographed melodrama about a tumultuous period in John Lennon’s adolescence, is a reference to his song “Nowhere Man.” Included in the Beatles’ 1965 album “Rubber Soul,” the masterwork that pointed to new horizons (“This was the departure record,” Ringo Starr said), it has lyrics worthy of Samuel Beckett (“He’s a real nowhere man/Sitting in his nowhere land”) and a strong melancholic undertow. The song is often seen as autobiographical and, somewhat repellently, its title has been used to describe both Lennon and his killer, Mark David Chapman. Lennon would have been 70 on Saturday, which partly explains the release of “Nowhere Boy,” if not its existence. Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, the film opens with a 15-year-old John (the older-looking, appealing Aaron Johnson) gl...

Photo: PA A cowboy hat and a pair of sunglasses owned and worn by John Lennon during his years in The Beatles in the mid-1960s are set to go up for auction next week. The cowboy hat, which was worn by Lennon during The Beatles' 1965 North American tour and black Italian sunglasses, worn by Lennon in 1967, were both owned by his late uncle Charlie and are currently in the possession of Liverpool based American Larry Warren.

Photo: PA A collection ofJohn Lennon's letters are to be published next year. Lennon was a profilic letter writer and the collection includes hundreds of letters he wrote throughout his life. The letters were sold by the late Beatle's widow Yoko Ono for a reported fee of over £500,000 and have been bought by London-based publishing house Orion Books. The physical copies of the letters were in the possession of The Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, but the intellectual property rights were owned by Ono - it is these that Orion have bought, reports The Guardian. Alan Samson of Orion Books said: “These letters have never been collected in one place before, and for the most part they have never been seen before." He added that the letters are "full of wonderful drawings. They are funny, sad and very human letters". The collection is scheduled to be published in October 2012.

Este Blog Link daqui Este Blog         Link daqui         segunda-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2012 John Lennon - Madison Square Garden (repost)   John Lennon - Madison Square Garden - 30-Aug-1972 In September of 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City and found themselves at the epicenter of political activism. They soon became friends with high profile activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and began making public appearances protesting the Vietnam War and the imprisonment of Angela Davis and John Sinclair. Fearing Lennon's influence and more specifically, that he had the ability to humiliate President Richard Nixon, the FBI began investigating, documenting John and Yoko's every move in an effort to find grounds on which to deport him. It was again...

Someone who is writing a book on John Lennon's death asked me to post this call for entries: For those interested in possible publication in a book about John Lennon’s death, please email your personal experiences to lennonbook80@yahoo.com. Of particular interest are answers to the following questions: What were you doing the day John Lennon died? Did anything unusual or out of the ordinary happen to you on that day? Did you have any striking dreams prior to or immediately following John’s death? I am also interested in receiving any dreams you have had about the Beatles. All submissions will receive a response from the author.

If you’re a collector, the Lennon compilations that have appeared in recent years have been pretty disappointing. The 90s’ Lennon Legend rode on the back of Oasis’ success and the 00s Working Class Hero claimed to be “definitive.” They added nothing to the early 80s John Lennon Collection or even the original and best compilation – the only one the man himself had a hand in – Shaved Fish. What’s surprising is that Lennon Legend and Working Class Hero are both available for doewnload when all they do is repeat tracks available elsewhere. Sure, they make good intros to new fans, but that’s what iTunes playlists are for!

Most of the solo Lennon albums are £9.99 to download with some obvious cut-price tactics for ‘tier two’ LPs like Live in New York City, Live in Toronto and Acoustic (all of which come in at £7.99). But making the entire 1998 Anthology box set available to download for just £9.99 has to be the bargain of the century. It has 94 tracks in total, although admittedly many of them are short spoken word extracts, either from interviews or the studio. Either way, you’d be mad to spend £7.99 to download the 21-track Wonsuponatime sampler when you could get another sixty tracks from the Lennon archives for just two pounds more. One again the iTunes marketing team have let themselves down though – look carefully at the Anthology sleeve shot and what do you see? A sticker proclaiming “Property of EMI Music A&R Department”!

Two posthumous albums that have been preserved well - that might easily have fallen by the wayside (as Heart Play has) - are Milk and Honey and Menlove Avenue, Yoko’s attempts to make ‘new’ Lennon albums in the early and mid-eighties based on reels of outtakes and works-in-progress. The former still makes a nice companion piece to Double Fantasy (and includes an exclusive video download of Nobody Told Me) but the latter is more of a worry: no extra tracks and surprisingly low-volume previews which doesn’t bode well for the quality of the full-length downloads

Discos: New values (Iggy Pop, 1979)   Uno Ya habían pasado los años berlineses de excesos, locura y colaboración con David Bowie : para 1979 Iggy Pop parecía romper el cascarón protector del Duque para empezar otra historia. Para ello se alió nuevamente con el ex guitarrista Stooge James Williamson (con quien no colaboraba desde el álbum "Kill City") y el multiinstrumentista Scott Thurston, ex tecladista de los de Detroit entre 1973 y 1974.  Con esta plantilla (más el agregado de Klaus Kruger en batería y Jackie Clark en bajo) la Iguana entró a los estudios Paramount, en Hollywood , para grabar su primer disco en el sello Arista.  Dos   New values no estará entre los discos más cotizados de Iggy (no al menos para los consumidores superficiales o poco curiosos de rock) pero tiene sus momentos. El arranque es algo tímido con "Tell me a story", un tema...

  Retro Events For The Decade 1980 1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps 1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston 1988 Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon 1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214 1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 1986 A’s Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run 1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d) 1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1985 STS-51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem 1984 French airship capsizes 1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1983 Triple A baseball’s Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark 1983 U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign $10 billion grain pact 1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (26...

  Género: "¿Qué pasa New York?" Firmado como John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band/ Elephant´s Memory , "Some time in New York City" capturó como una foto el compromiso político de Lennon a su paso por Estados Unidos. Todo eso que tan bien contado está en el documental "The US vs. John Lennon" y que incluyó- entre otros ribetes- la "persecución" de John a manos del FBI por su supuesta "desestabilización" de la gestión Nixon.  Fue además, el tercer disco solista de Lennon y el que sucedió a "Imagine" , lo que supuso una decepción para cierto sector de los fans. La crítica tampoco fue benévola con el nuevo material y el disco apenas alcanzó el puesto 48 en E.U, lo que desmoralizó a John alejándolo de los estudios durante el siguiente año. Producido por Phil Spector , "Sometime in New York City" encuentra su valor en el feeling "en vivo...

  Este libro me lo regalaron Mar López y Álex Portero. Y me ha deparado una agradable lectura. Aunque su título así lo indique, no se recopilan aquí las crónicas que el afamado Hilburn escribió: es un recorrido por los momentos más importantes y los encuentros más interesantes del autor con las estrellas del pop y del rock; es decir, más bien estamos ante el “cómo se hizo” o “making of”, lo cual lo convierte en el doble de interesante. Los ojos de Robert Hilburn han sido testigos de algunos de los instantes más legendarios de la historia de la música del siglo XX (y también del XXI): acudió al concierto de Johnny

    El prestigioso guitarrista de jazz ,Bill Frisell ha publicado este año un disco tributo a una de sus mayores influencias ,el beatle John Lennon .Después de haber hecho lo mismo en trabajos anteriores con Dylan y Madonna ,este 2011 lo encontramos con 16 canciones ,algunas conocidas y otras no tanto del creador de "Across the Universe" .Esta ves contó con la colaboración de su grupo de confianza (Jenny Scheinman , Tony Scherr, Greg Leisz y Kenny Wollesen) y la idea la tuvo en su cabeza desde la temprana edad de 13 años en su Colorado natal .  "La música de John Lennon ha estado conmigo desde siempre, las canciones son parte de nosotros ,esta  en nuestra gen , nos hemos estado preparando toda la vida para esto ". Y ha decir verdad tiene mucha razón ,seguramente este trabajo no sera el ultimo en homenajear a Sir John .

 

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1970. Photograph: Rex Features John Harris, arguing for John Lennon in Great Lives (Radio 4), remembered the first time he encountered The Beatles. He was five, and a babysitter put Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club on ("to shut me up"). Harris sat there, entranced, for 20 minutes. "That was when I first understood," he recalled, "that pop music was this huge, fascinating and enticing universe." A lively on-air discussion ensued, with Harris volunteering pithy comments about Lennon's less glorious moments, mostly in the Yoko era. "He gets co-opted into the more moronic aspects of the avant-garde," he suggested, dismissing the political Lennon ("pretty abjectly awful") and countering any notion that he eschewed pretention: "He became one of the most self-indulgent and pretentious musicians the world has ever seen." Host Matthe...

  Double Fantasy was released November 17, 1980, just 3 weeks before John Lennon was murdered. Although some initial reviews regarded the album as rather self-indulgent, as Lennon's final musical statement, it was critic-proof, becoming a major hit album and winner of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. As its title suggests, Double Fantasy is a double album of sorts, an apparent collaboration between husband and wife, although they never perform together on any song--half the songs are written and performed by him and the other half by her, with the tracks generally alternating between them. Thus, they form a sort of "call and response," most evident on Lennon's "I'm Losing You" followed by Ono's "I'm Moving On," as well as "Beautiful Boy" (Lennon) and "Beautiful Boys" (Ono).

 The Ghost of John Lennon presents a review of the J.D. Salinger classic, "Catcher in the Rye". From the celebrity Book Report series, part of "Joey Devine Is A Superstar".