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Hulton Archives, Getty Images It’s unfortunate, but the name of Mark David Chapman will continually be mentioned in the same breath of John Lennon , as the man who shot and killed the Beatles legend returns to the headlines every few years when his parole hearing comes up. Chapman will go before the parole board for the seventh time this week at New York State’s Department of Corrections. Department spokesperson Linda Foglia revealed that a decision on whether or not to grant his release will be made public by the end of the week. Chapman, who is now 57, is serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life for shooting the singer four times in the back outside of his New York apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The inmate’s interview will take place before the parole board at Wende Correction Facility, a maximum-security prison in Alden, N.Y. where Chapman is being held. According to Reuters, the three-member paro...

  John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In June 1980, John Lennon planned to sail from Rhode Island to Bermuda. Yoko Ono checked the routes with the ancient Japanese practice of katatagae, which seeks to avoid unlucky directions in travel, and Lennon embarked on the Megan Jaye , a 43-foot Hinckley centerboard sloop. Apparently the katatagae wasn't working, because the yacht sailed right into a massive storm. The rest of the crew was wiped out by seasickness. But to Lennon's surprise and pride, he realized all his time spent in the junkie trenches had made him immune to seasickness. He ended up taking the wheel by himself throughout the night, howling old sea shanties into the wind and spray as he imagined his sailor father and father's father had done. Staring into the abyss of the blackest ocean in the throes of a storm was a mental jolt as heavy as the drugs he'd h...

ALDEN, N.Y. -- Officials say John Lennon's killer, who is up for parole for the seventh time, could have a parole hearing as early as Tuesday. New York Department of Corrections spokeswoman Linda Foglia says Mark David Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed by members of the parole board this week. She says they could make a decision by Thursday or Friday. Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Chapman was transferred in May from the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York to the nearby Wende (WEH...

  Last night, watching the Olympic closing ceremony, like millions of others , I heard a digitally remastered John Lennon singing Imagine. The song was familiar, but the words took me by surprise.  These words encapsulate so many of the modern objections to religion and faith, that it seems a good idea to present a few counter-arguments. To “live for today” is precisely what we all do, all of us, believers and not. Christians do not neglect present exigencies just because they believe there is a afterlife. Rather, the call of eternal life makes this world more, not less important. To claim that Christians do not care about today, so wrapped up are they in what is to come, is to confuse Christianity with millenarian cultists, which is what we are not. Heaven and hell, by the way, are not places – they are states. Heaven is the state of seeing the Beatific vision; hell is the state of being utterly cut off from God. The idea of these being places eith...

Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon , was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said. Chapman, 57, was denied parole by a three-member board after a hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday. The transcript of his latest hearing wasn't immediately released. Billboard Magazine Covers the Impact of John Lennon 's Death READ THE DEC. 20, 1980 ISSUE Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The musician, singer and songwriter was 40. "Despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calcula...

  Today is the birthday of Beatle John Lennon. In honor of the man and his wonderful music NewsHawk Inc. has decided to take a look at what was going on "behind the scenes" of the 1960's "countercultural revolution"; to explore a bit how the world's most popular and undeniably talented rock band was without ANY doubt "used" by New World Order social manipulators (as were MANY other pop music groups) in an ongoing project designed to control the development of human society in the most fundamental ways. There are direct links which tie these activities to certain covert scientific projects of an extremely advanced, esoteric nature which were exploring the realms of (manipulation of) consciousness, time, thought and indeed "reality" itself, which were being conducted during the same period of time on Long Island, N.Y.: activities which were part of the Phoenix/Montauk Project. In fact we are talking about two sides of the same co...

  Copyright � 1980 Playboy Press PLAYBOY: "The word is out: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are back in the studio, recording again for the first time since 1975, when they vanished from public view. Let's start with you, John. What have you been doing?" LENNON: "I've been baking bread and looking after the baby." PLAYBOY: "With what secret projects going on in the basement?" LENNON: "That's like what everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves, I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?" PLAYBOY: "Why did you become a househusband?" LENNON: "There were many reasons. I had bee...