In June 1974, John Lennon's life was in disarray. Not only was he battling a deportation order by the US government on the grounds of a 1968 UK drug bust, and embroiled in litigation over the legal dissolution of the Beatles, but publisher Morris Levy was alleging copyright infringement of...
Pet Sounds,” which had just been released in the US. During his trip, he met Keith Moon from The Who and together, they went to the Scotch of St. James club where Johnson was introduced to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. On May 19, Johnson invited the two Beatles to his hotel...
'The Recording Studio As Instrument' has many fathers (don’t forget Les Paul) but the challenges Lennon set The Beatles’ Abbey Road recording team in the latter ’60s, met ever more ingeniously with bravura tape editing, ADT and the like, make Lennon a prime mover. Each innovation drew ...
John Winston Lennon, better known asJohn Lennon, was an English musician and activist, recognized as a member of the band The Beatles.He was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on October 9, 1940. His father, Fred Lennon, was a deserter in World War II and escaped as a ship’s crew ...
Lennon’s angry chords and accompanying death scream. The contrast between Lennon’s vocal surety of a necessary paradigm shift and the song’s indecisiveness on how to create it makes it one of Lennon’s most well-conceived songs, and arguably the toughest, ballsiest Beatles record of all ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono Writing Credits: Various Synopsis: "John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band" was John Lennon's first solo studio album after the break up of The Beatles. Both John & Yoko had been undergoing primal scream therapy in the lead up to the recording of the album and both this ...
Chuck Berry's army of lawyers turned their attentions to the Beatles when "Come Together" – which opens with the phrase "Here come ol' flattop," from Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" – shot to the top of the charts. Lennon settled, with the stipulation he record other songs owned by...
America – and it did. So, Lennon joined Elton at MSG, performing three songs: "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night," plus theBeatlesclassics “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and “I Saw Her Standing There.” Sadly, this would prove to be thefinal concert performanceof Lennon’s lifetime...
Lenn gives tribute to John Lennon with his CDVillage Idiom:original songs, poems, stories and illustrations capturing the irreverent, absurd, and witty spirit of John Lennon. With bandmates and solo, he performs the Beatles/Lennon repertoire and original Lennonesque poems. Among his memorable appea...
Those sessions were much happier ones. Stuart got on with Paul really well. Once again, I got to work with a former Beatles engineer, this time Phil McDonald, who’d worked on ‘The White Album’, Lennon’s ‘Instant Karma’ and the ‘Imagine’ album. ...