The death of John Lennon is a tragic chapter in the story of The Beatles. On December 8 1980, the 40-year-old was gunned down in the archway of his Manhattan home. Crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times from close range and despite being rushed to hospital, the former Be...
Dec. 8, 2020, marks the 40th anniversary of thedeathofJohn Lennon. In honor of the somber occasion, Lennon’s family members and formerBeatlesbandmates took to social media to share their memories of the departed rocker. “A sad sad day but remembering my friend John with the great joy h...
The deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison are still bitter pills to swallow, Paul McCartney has said, as he marks the release of the “last” Beatles song. “Now and Then”, released with the help of AI technology from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, arrived on Thursday...
The world reaction was like ‘The Beatles Have Broken Up – It’s Official’ – we’d known it for months. So that was that, really. I think it was the press who misunderstood. The record had come with this weird explanation on a questionnaire of what I was doing. It was...
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; they watch television till it goes off, often playing records at the same time. They while away the small hours of the morning making mad tapes. Bedtimes and mealtimes have no meaning as such. ‘We’ve never had time before to do anything but just be Beatles,’ John Lennon said....
I don’t know about the Bed-In. We got reaction to sending acorns – different heads of state actually planted their acorns, lots of them wrote to us answering about the acorns. We sent acorns to practically everybody in the world. ...
Beatles fan pays homage in Liverpool; On the 25th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, a longtime Beatlemaniac recalls her own trip down memory lane - and Penny Lane.(TRAVEL)Maynard, Kelly
"So, often, John or George will be in there. And the good thing is you don't really think anything of it, it's just normal, like, 'Oh, yeah?' and you're just chatting away, talking about what we're going to do, as in making a record or something. ...
On December 8, 1980, the world of music (and beyond) was devastated by the sudden and violent death of the Beatles icon John Lennon, per the BBC. Lennon, reportedly, was returning to his Manhattan apartment with wife Yoko Ono that night, when assailant Mark Chapman shot him from behind....