“Happy Xmas(War is Over)” was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and it was released in 1972. John decided to make the song into a Christmas record with an anti-war message. The anti-war message is the slogan in the song, “War is over! If you want it.” This slogan is the...
Some of the most memorable songs from this period include the ballads “Little Jeannie” and “Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny),” the latter written as a tribute to his late friend John Lennon of the Beatles who had been killed in 1980. The decade also saw John win his first Grammy ...
My other point is the Atheists wrong-headed use of John Lennon as a visual icon of atheism. Every year a large image of John Lennon with the lyrics “Imagine there’s no heaven…” is erected on the courthouse lawn promoting their tenet of “No God.” Admittedly, John questioned many ...
May Pang had intimate insights into John Lennon that few people experienced. She was Lennon’s lover during what has become known as the infamous “Lost Weekend” lasting 18 months from late 1973 through 1975. In the exclusive interview this week with her on The Motivation Show podcast, we d...
I lost my real father on November 7, 1970. But I don't think I really felt that pain until Dec. 8, 1980. I guess that is because, when all is said and done, John Lennon raised me as much as my real father did. And all in all, I think he did a pretty good job. Thanks, ...
associate relationship with Lennon, John (born 9 October 1940). Notes: 1974 song collaboration, "Whatever Gets You thru the Night"associate relationship with Lipa, Dua (born 22 August 1995)associate relationship with Michael, George (born 25 June 1963). Notes: Sang a duet, "Don't Let the ...
, and corrupted industrial and Gothic pop-synth duets of a very removed kind, or swell into crescendos of the tortured, the sonic howled and distorting unsettling blocks of corrosive scuzz. During these moments Kaswalder’s voice sounds either like Jarboe or peculiarly like a haunted Lennon!
…the distributors of French champagne rang in the New Year by suggesting that Doyen was worth your very last cent… …we kick off our cartoons by welcoming the New Year withGeorge Price… …Robert Daycontributed a spot drawing that offered a new twist to ice hockey… ...
RIP John Lennon. We love you! Dec 7, 2001LaurenSyracuse, NYI'm sorry I couldn't make it to Strawerry Fields. I'm not old enough, yet. But your music is making me grow and learn, just like it always has. I miss you, but not just the day you left. I miss you every moment...
from half-heartedly trying to drown himself in his LA swimming pool to disco-dancing with Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth; from friendships with John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, and George Michael to setting up his AIDS Foundation to conquering Broadway with Aida, The Lion King, and Billy Elliot...