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John Lennon's house for sale 1970-01-01 00:59:59 THE Surrey mansion Lennon
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shared with first wife Cynthia is up for sale.But anyone interested in owning a slice of Beatle history will need a cool £6m in their pocket.The Lennons lived at Kenwood in Wey-bridge with young son Julian for four years during the height of Beatlemania.Neighbours on the exclusive St George's Hill estate included Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen who lived in a house called Sunny Heights, while George Harrison lived in nearby Esher.Lennon would work on his songs in the attic using a system of tape recorders.He would also often be found sitting in a chair, reading the papers and watching TV, which led to the 1966 Revolver track I'm Only Sleeping.The house was sold in 1968 after Lennon started his affair with artist Yoko Ono.The 17-room mock Tudor home, which cost £20,000 in 1964, is on the market for £5.95m.It has seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, sauna and swimming pool.
Lennon piano will be part of peace exhibit 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The piano
John Lennon
used to compose his 1971 song Imagine will be part of an anti-war photographic exhibition in Dallas, Tex.The simple upright model is owned by British pop singer George Michael, who is lending it to the exhibition at the Goss Gallery. The showing, which focuses on three war-torn regions — Vietnam, Beirut and Afghanistan — features the work of renowned war photographer Don McCullin.The gallery is owned by the Michael's partner, Kenny Goss. "What better place is there to reiterate how important peace is?" said Goss, who has been with the former frontman for 1980s band Wham! for 11 years. "Dallas is President George Bush's home. It's a great place to remind people how important it is that we find peace" Michael bought the piano for more than $2 million at an auction in 2000. It has never left the United Kingdom.Imagine has been adopted as an anthem for peace and was included in Lennon's 1971 album bearing the same name. The song has been descri
Fab tour booking now online 1970-01-01 00:59:59 AN online
booking system is being launched for people wanting to tour Lennon and McCartney's childhood homes.The National Trust opened the McCartney home at 20 Forthlin Road in 1998, and Mendips in Menlove Avenue, where John Lennon lived with his aunt, in 2003.But this is the first time visitors have been able to book via the internet rather than by telephone.Simon Osborne, the National Trust's Liverpool properties' manager, said: "It will be much easier for overseas visitors to book tours in advance, rather than having to rely on our current manual reservation system."The homes are now closed until March 21, 2007, but online booking for trips for next season can be made by visiting www. nationaltrust.org.uk/beatles
The Beatles Love - Nothing Is Real 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Beatles
predicted it when they ventured into Pepperland in 1968, and now it has come true. Nothing
Is Real, and you'll never hear the Beatles the same again.Four tracks from the new Beatles Love album, songs from the soundtrack of the Beatles Love show in Las Vegas, are now available to hear at the official Beatles web site, beatles.com, and they're guaranteed to raise a smile.Strawberry Fields, the first track in the preview, starts off with John Lennon's early voice and guitar demo for the song (with a John count-in I've never heard before). At the first chorus, it transitions to the beautiful and haunting Strawberry Fields studio take one, but to my ears the vocal continues to be the earlier demo, and it's wonderful to hear take one of the song married to this different vocal. As the song transitions to the more raucous take 2, the demo vocal continues throughout. As the songs gets into the loud rhythmic drumming section, it seamlessly transitions into many different tracks
Playboy Releases New Volume of Interviews 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Playboy dips into the vault and comes out with some gems from past issues--a new book of interviews, entitled Larger than Life. Actually, it's the 40th anniversary of the Playboy interview, and FBLA chatted with editor Stephen Randall about the book. Randall won't admit to having a favorite in this volume, which includes interviews with the Beatles, two with Bob Dylan, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and some other legends. (We got him to confess a fascination with Sinatra.) He's not worried about leaving anyone out, as he's got more planned--Movers and Shakers and The Comedians are coming up next. Playboy has a unique niche in the world of celebrity journalism--they can get virtually anyone the editors want, and they ask for a sizeable commitment of time--7 to 8 hours, according to Randall, as well follow-ups. Randall claims to not want to do the interviewing himself, saying "If journalists live vicariously through the people they meet and cover, then I live vicariously through the Read more:Interviews
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Fire damages Beatles-theme restaurant at Oceanfront 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Abbey Road Pub & Restaurant at the Oceanfront was damaged in an electrical fire that started about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.VIRGINIA BEACH - An electrical fire Tuesday afternoon damaged a popular Oceanfront restaurant
known for its extensive collection of Beatles
memorabilia.The fire started about 2:30 p.m. at Abbey Road Pub & Restaurant at 203 22nd St. Fire Battalion Chief David Hutcheson said the blaze started while a worker with Dominion Virginia Power was installing a new electrical meter near the front entrance.The blaze sparked when the worker dropped a bolt into the meter box, sending an electrical current up the building's front wall, Hutcheson said.Restaurant owner Bill Dillon was standing near the meter when, he said, it "exploded.""Within 30 seconds, fire was going up the wall," Dillon said. "Black smoke was pouring out the back door. It looked like a kitchen fire."About 10 to 12 people were in the restaurant at the time.Chuck Penn, a spokesman with Dominion Virginia Power, sa Read more:damages
Sir Paul stopped his daughter from 'attacking Heather Mills' 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Sir Paul McCartney reportedly stopped his daughter Stella from attacking HeatherMills
after she claimed Paul had been violent to his late wife Linda.Stella, 35, who is eight-months pregnant with her second child, was allegedly so furious about Heather's slurs that she was determined to have a face-to-face confrontation with her soon to be ex step-mother.A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Stella was hell-bent on a face- to-face with Heather. But Paul urged her to keep her dignity."He said he wanted to have his day in court, and was doing his uppermost to stop the mud-slinging."Stella is still fuming but has had no contact with Heather after her dad's advice."Heather's allegations emerged amid her £1 billion divorce battle with the former Beatle, the father of her two-year-old daughter, Bea.To make matters worse for Stella, Heather, 38, was pictured wearing Stella McCartney designer boots at the weekend.Friends and family of Paul, 64, have rubbished Heathers claims of abus
Ex-Beatle's been marching to his own drum 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Pete Best never completely shed the job he lost in 1962. That's what happens when you're history's only living ex-Beatle.''Liverpool is my hometown,'' he said recently. ``The people of my generation were aware of all that happened -- the subterfuge, the heartache. It was all well-chronicled.''What happened was that in August 1962, the Beatles unceremoniously sacked Best and replaced him with drummer Ringo Starr. Two months later, Love Me Do hit the Top 20 in Britain, and the Beatles were off on their mind-blowing voyage.And Best, who was part of the band's founding years (including its infamous tours in Hamburg, Germany), became a tragic bystander to it all.''The hardest part was when Love Me Do went into the English charts,'' he said. ``We always knew once we had success on the English charts, we were on our way.''More than 44 years later, Best insists that things worked out just fine. He got married, raised a family, earned his pension after 20 years in the civil serv Read more:marching
Olivia Harrison feeling the 'Love' 1970-01-01 00:59:59 VANCOUVER -- This time of year is tough on OliviaHarrison
. Her husband, former Beatle George Harrison, passed away on Nov. 29 five years ago, and Dec. 8 will mark the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's death."You can't avoid those dates, you just can't," she says, her voice quiet on the other end of the phone. "I'm getting ready for that again."But this year, Harrison has a magic antidote up her sleeve -- the release of Love, an album of newly remixed Beatles songs, created for a Cirque du Soleil production with the same name."I love the fact there's billboards all over the world with Love on them. I think that's the biggest coup of all," she says, her pleasure bubbling over into full-throated laughter."As George said, everything they sang about, you know, the main theme was love," she adds, launching into a quote of George's song "Within You Without You": "With our love we can change the world, if they only knew."The Love album was produced by the Beatles' original producer Ge
The Beatles hit No. 1 on charts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It seems Beatlemania is still alive and well in Canada, as the Fab Four's latest compilation "LOVE" hit the top spot in the land this week."LOVE," which remixes and remasters 26 of the group's songs, debuted at No. 1 on sales of 34,000 copies, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.It marks the second first-place debut for the Liverpool legends in the SoundScan era. The compilation "Beatles
1" checked in at No. 1 back in November of 2000 with sales of 54,000.The group's achievement is even more impressive when you consider that the week's album chart includes six other debuts in the Canadian top 10 -- including four new entries landing in the first four chart positions.Aside from The Beatles' debut at No. 1, Il Divo's third album "Siempre" premiered at No. 2 on sales of 32,000. U2's latest hits package "U218 Singles" (19,000) finished its first week of release at No. 3, followed by Rock Star Supernova's self-titled debut at No. 4.The movement up top forced Josh Grob
Lennon piano makes appearance at JFK site 1970-01-01 00:59:59 DALLAS (Reuters) - The piano
on which the late John Lennon
composed his famous anti-war song "Imagine" made an odd appearance
on Wednesday at the site where President John F. Kennedy was gunned down, competing for attention with conspiracy buffs on the 43rd anniversary of the assassination.The plain-looking brown piano has been brought to America for exhibits by British pop star George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss. Michael bought it in 2000 at an auction for 1.45 million British pounds, which is today worth $2.78 million."George and Kenny are very focused on world peace and they wanted to bring the piano here as a message of peace at this iconic site," said Barbara Buzzell, spokeswoman for the Goss Gallery in Dallas, where the piano goes on display next month.The piano spent the morning covered in canvas at the so-called "grassy knoll," where many conspiracy theorists are convinced at least one unknown shooter fired the shots that killed Kennedy as his motorcade swept past. Inves Read more:makes
April 1962: Stuart Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Sometime during April
Polydor released a Tony Sheridan EP in France called Mr. Twist containing the songs 'My Bonnie', 'The Saints', 'Why' and 'Cry For A Shadow'. John and George thus became the first two members to get one of their own compositions in the shops.10th: Stuart
Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage. Astrid found him on the stairs and rushed him to hospital, but he passed away in the ambulance. He was just twenty-two years old. She said: "He'd been having painful headaches for weeks and several top specialists examined him, but the answer always came back the same, 'We can find nothing wrong.' A brain tumour was suspected, but a long series of X-ray tests showed nothing. The stabbing pains got so bad that he had to have morphine to deaden the pain. Sometimes he'd get up and be walking around, laughing and talking as though nothing was wrong. Then he'd suddenly clutch his head and groan with pain. I found him on the bed, unconscious, deadly white, and breathi
Love preview tracks now available in stereo 1970-01-01 00:59:59 After releasing three tracks
from the new album streaming in mono on beatles.com last week, What Goes On is now excited to bring you links to higher-quality, stereo streams of the tracks!Lady Madonna (LOVE Version) Octopus's Garden (LOVE Version) Strawberry Fields Forever (LOVE Version) Enjoy! Apple Corps Ltd and Capitol Records will release The Beatles "LOVE" album in stereo and for the first time ever in 5.1., one week from today on November 21, 2006. Read more:available
Yoko Ono's famous works to go on display in Vietnam 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yoko Ono, the widow of famous British singer John Lennon, will join an international art exhibition named "Liberation" in four museums in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.Ono will display four works, including "Bed In" and "War is Over", which were created by her and John Lennon and communicated the message of protests against the US war in Vietnam
"Bed In" or "Peace Bed", a camera film, was made in their honeymoon in Amsterdam in 1969.It goes along with a well-known antiwar song "Give Peace a Chance" composed by John. The film will be shown on the wall.Her two new works, "Onochord" and "Imagine Peace", will also be displayed this time.In general, the four works demonstrate the style of conceptual art; the viewers will sing Ono's chord together or stamp peace marks on some places on a big map where they think about peace.The exhibition will be held in Arts Ton Duc Thang, War Remnants Museum, and the Southern Women's Museum with the participation of more th Read more:Yoko Ono
Ono does not forgive Lennon's killer 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yoko Ono has appealed to people across the world to mark the anniversary of John Lennon
's assassination today by healing the world.The widow of the former Beatle has issued a lengthy statement calling for peace and forgive
ness for all, 26 years after Lennon was shot dead in New York.Ono, who admits she still cannot forgive Mark David Chapman for killing her husband, tells victims of violence across the world that "your loss is our loss."The statement includes the following excerpts: "Every year on this day I hear from many from all over the world who remember my husband, John Lennon, and his message of peace. They tell me they are thinking of John on this day and how he was shot and killed at the prime of life, at age 40, when he had so much life ahead of him. Thank you for your undying love for John and also for your concern for me on this tragic anniversary."This year, though, on December 8th, while we remember John, I would also like us to focus on sending the following messages to
McCartney To Give Mills 'A $235 Million Divorce Package' 1970-01-01 00:59:59 McCartney To Give Mills
'A $235 Million Divorce Package'.Sir PAUL McCARTNEY will give his estranged wife HEATHER MILLS a $235 million (£120 million) divorce package to safeguard his health, according to a British newspaper.The News Of The World reports the former BEATLE was urged to agree the deal by his daughters STELLA and MARY because they are concerned the bitter divorce battle is affecting his well being. Read more:McCartney
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