“Welcome to the inner sanctum!” says John Lennon, greeting me with high-spirited, mock ceremoniousness in Yoko Ono’s beautiful cloud-ceilinged office in their Dakota apartment. It’s Friday evening, December 5, and Yoko has been telling me how their collaborative new album, Double Fantasy,...
re normal plastic blue-frame glasses. Nothing like the famous wire-rimmed Lennon glasses that he stopped using in 1973. He’s wearing needle-cord pants, the same black cowboy boots he’d had made in Nudie’s in 1973, a Calvin Klein sweater and a torn Mick Jagger T-shirt that he got...
The piece was headlined “How does a Beatle live? John Lennon lives like this”. It grew notorious in later months when Lennon’s comments about Christianity –“We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity” – were republishe...
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The influence of the German Dada movement on Modern Art and Modern Culture is enormous. One only has to think of Picasso's Cubism or the lyrics of John Lennon. "Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye. Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday, man, you should have see...
He remained with the group, along with original members Donny York and Jocko Marcellino, until it disbanded in 2022. He played piano — banging out energetic covers of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,”“At the Hop” and others — and was known for his signature shirt whose sleeves bore...
The birthday messages were placed on Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in New York's Central Park. Many thanks to Sparky for dropping off the messages and for providing some photos of his visit. click the images for larger versions Oct 8, 1997Leslie (lennonsgirl@hotmail.com)...
On the evening of Friday, December 5th, 1980,John Lennonspoke to Rolling Stone editor Jonathan Cott for more than nine hours at his apartment on New York’s Upper West Side and at the Record Plant recording studio. Three nights later, Lennon would be murdered as he was returning home from...
She had struck a similar note during her press conference following the UN ceremony. “I think John’s spirit is alive today,” Yoko answered when she was asked what sort of things Lennon might be doing on this day if he were still alive. “And I think this celebration is a proof of ...
Here isJohn Lennon: thin bare arms, a rumpled T-shirt, bare feet, delicate fingers curled around a brown-papered cigarette, reaching for a cup of steaming coffee. A pale winter sun streams into the seventh-floor apartment in the Dakota, an expensive apartment house that stands like a pile...