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251 Menlove Avenue
251 Menlove Avenue, named Mendips, was the childhood home of John Lennon, singer and songwriter with The Beatles, and is now preserved by the National Trust.
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Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio located at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by a predecessor of British music company EMI, its present owner. Apart from the facility's use as a recording studio, the premises have also been used to remaster many of the classical music recordings made at Kingsway Hall. It is most notable for being the venue in the 1960s for innovative recording techniques adopted by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and others.
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Ann Arbor
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Beatles-Platz
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Bermuda
Bermuda (; officially, the Bermudas or Somers Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida. Its capital city is Hamilton but the largest municipality is the town of Saint George's.
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Cavern Club
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Death of John Lennon
John Lennon was an English rock musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City, on Monday, 8 December 1980; Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.
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Durness
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Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is located on Secor Road in the hamlet of Hartsdale, town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, about 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. It was founded in 1902, and is non-sectarian. Ferncliff has three community mausoleums, a crematory, a small chapel, and a main office located in the rear of the main building.
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Fleetwood
Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,840 people at the 2001 Census. It forms part of the Greater Blackpool conurbation. The town was the first planned community of the Victorian era. For most of the 20th century, Fleetwood was a prominent deep-sea fishing port, but, since the 1970s, the fishing industry has declined precipitously and the town has undergone economic difficulties. Fleetwood is also a seaside resort, serving as a quiet contrast to nearby Blackpool.
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Indica Gallery
Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St. James's, London, England during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop co-owned by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles. It was supported by Paul McCartney and hosted a show of Yoko Ono's work in November 1966 at which Ono claims she first met John Lennon.
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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John Lennon Museum
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Kaiserkeller
Kaiserkeller is a night club in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. It was opened by Bruno Koschmider on October 14, 1959. The Beatles had a contract with Kaiserkeller to play there in 1960.
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Kinfauns (Surrey)
Kinfauns was a bungalow-style house, located at 16 Claremont Drive, Esher, Surrey, England, KT10 9LU, on the Claremont Estate. From 1964 to 1970 it was home of George Harrison, lead guitarist of The Beatles, and was where many of the demo recordings for the White Album were made. The house has since been demolished, and a new one built in its place.
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Liverpool
Liverpool () is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. Liverpool is the fourth largest city in the United Kingdom (third largest in England) and has a population of 435,500, and lies at the centre of the wider Liverpool Urban Area, which has a population of 816,216.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
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Penny Lane
"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney. Recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, "Penny Lane" was released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with "Strawberry Fields Forever". The song was later included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP (1967). The single was the result of the record company wanting a new release after several months of no new Beatles releases. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #449 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Savile Row
Savile Row (, both vowels short with accent on the first syllable) is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's bespoke tailoring. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers. The short street is termed the "golden mile of tailoring", where customers have included Winston Churchill, Lord Nelson and Napoleon III.
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Southern California
Southern California (SoCal) is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles, Greater San Diego, and the Inland Empire. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego, spilling over the border into Tijuana. Southern California, along with the San Francisco Bay Area, is a major cultural and economic center for the State of California and beyond.
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Strawberry Field
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, England.
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The Bag O'Nails
'''The Bag O'Nails''' club at 8 Kingly Street in Soho, London, was a meeting point for musicians in the 1960s, as well as being a venue for concerts.
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The Beatles in India
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The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is a rock and roll club in Liverpool, England. Opened on Wednesday 16 January 1957, the club is where Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles performing on 9 November 1961.
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The Star-Club
:For the band, see Starclub.
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Torremolinos
Torremolinos is a municipality on the Costa del Sol of the Mediterranean, immediately to the west
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Wigan Pier
Wigan Pier is the name given today to the area around the canal at the bottom of the Wigan flight of locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It is a popular location for visitors and the local community in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, situated just a few hundred yards south-west of the town centre.
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Wigmore Street
Wigmore Street is a street in the City of Westminster, in the West End of London, England. The street runs for about 600 yards parallel and to the north of Oxford Street between Portman Square to the west and Cavendish Square to the east.
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Woolton
Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by Gateacre, Hunts Cross, Allerton and Halewood. At the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 14,836.
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100 Greatest Britons
100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considers the greatest British people in history. The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate. All of the top 10 were deceased by the year of broadcast.
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Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American social and political activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies").
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's . Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
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Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro.
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Alan W. Pollack
Alan W. Pollack is a musicologist. He is best known for having musically analysed every Beatles song released. He started the task in 1989 and finished in 2000, with 187 original songs and 25 cover songs. The analyses have come to be known as the "Notes on..." Series, as each is entitled "Notes on Love Me Do", "Notes on Help!" and so on. The notes were released weekly, usually on Wednesdays, on the rec.music.beatles usenet group.
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Alfred Lennon
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Alistair Taylor
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Allan Williams
Allan Williams (born 17 March 1930 in Bootle, Liverpool), and is a former businessman and promoter of Welsh descent. He was the original manager (more precisely, booking agent) of The Beatles. He personally took the young band to Hamburg, Germany, where they gained the vital show business experience that led to their emergence on the world stage.
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Allen Klein
Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 – July 4, 2009) was an American businessman, talent agent and record label executive. His clients included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
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Andy White (drummer)
Andrew "Andy" White (born 1930) is a Scottish drummer, best known for replacing Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do". White featured on the American 7" single release of the song, which also appeared on the band's debut British album, Please Please Me. He also played drums on the "Love Me Do" single B-side, "P.S. I Love You".
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Anthony Newley
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Arthur Janov
Arthur Janov (born August 21, 1924) is an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness that involves repeatedly descending into, feeling, and expressing long-repressed childhood pain. Janov directs a psychotherapy institute called the Primal Center in Santa Monica, California. Janov is the author of many books, most notably The Primal Scream.
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Astrid Kirchherr
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Barry Miles
Barry Miles (or "Miles", born 1943, Cirencester, England) is a British author, luminary of the 1960s underground and businessman. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the International Times.
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Bert Kaempfert
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bill Harry
Bill Harry (born in Liverpool, England) is the creator of Mersey Beat, an important newspaper of the early 1960s, which focused on the Liverpool music scene. Harry had started various magazines and newspapers before attending the Liverpool College of Art, with fellow students John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, who both later performed with The Beatles.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Billy Preston
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Newhart
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as, Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart.
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bob Spitz
Bob Spitz is an American journalist and author best known for his celebrity biographies, including the New York Times best seller The Beatles: The Biography.
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Bobby Kimball
Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer, best known as the longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.
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Bobby Russell
Bobby Russell (19 April 1940, Nashville, Tennessee — 19 November 1992) was an American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit "Saturday Morning Confusion." Russell was also married to singer and actress Vicki Lawrence from 1972 to 1974.
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Bobby Seale
Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936), is an American civil rights activist, who along with Huey P. Newton, co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense on October 15, 1966.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein () (19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was a British music entrepreneur, and the manager of The Beatles. He also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black, The Remo Four & The Cyrkle. His management company was named NEMS Enterprises, after his family's music stores, called NEMS (North End Music Stores).
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Brian Jones
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (, ; born 28 September 1934) is a French animal rights activist and a former fashion model, actress and singer.
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Bruce Spizer
David "Bruce" Spizer (born July 2, 1955) is a tax attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, who is also recognized as an expert on The Beatles. He has published seven books, and is frequently quoted as an authority on the history of the band and its recordings.
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Bruno Koschmider
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Chas Newby
'''Charles 'Chas' Newby''' (born 18 June 1941, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England), was temporarily the bassist for The Beatles in December 1960, following the departure of Stuart Sutcliffe. When The Beatles returned from Germany for the first time, they were short of a bass guitarist. Pete Best suggested Chas Newby. Chas had been with The Blackjacks (Pete Best's group), and was now attending university, but was on vacation and so agreed to play with The Beatles. He appeared with them for three engagements in December 1960. John Lennon asked him to go to Germany, for the Beatles' second trip, but he chose to return to university.
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Cynthia Lennon
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Cynthia Powell
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois (, Respell|lan-) (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson. Lanois is best known for producing, with Brian Eno, a number of albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.
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Dave Dexter, Jr.
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. (1915-1990) was a music journalist, record company executive, and producer known primarily for his long association with Capitol Records. He worked with many important figures in jazz and traditional popular music, including Count Basie, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra. He is also known for his role in packaging and sometimes altering the recordings of The Beatles for the American market.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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David Hungate
David Hungate (b. August 5, 1948) is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto. Hungate's tracks featured the "hook" popping bassline on the single "Lowdown," and the lyrical bass fills on "Harbor Lights" and "We're All Alone."
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David Paich
David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records.
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David Shayler
David Shayler (born 24 December 1965) is a British journalist and former MI5 (Security Service) officer. Shayler earned notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for his passing secret documents to the Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman.
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Derek Taylor
Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 – 8 September 1997) was a British journalist, writer and publicist, best known for his work as press officer for The Beatles. He had started his career as a local journalist in Liverpool working for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo - then becoming a North England-based writer for national British newspapers including the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express.
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Dickie Valentine
Dickie Valentine (4 November 1929 — 6 May 1971) was an English pop singer in the 1950s.
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Domenico Modugno
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Donovan
Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Presley
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Fifth Beatle
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Francie Schwartz
Francie Schwartz, born 1944, is an American scriptwriter and the former girlfriend, during the late 1960s, of Paul McCartney, who referred to her as "Franny". At the time, McCartney was engaged to the actress Jane Asher who broke off the engagement when she found them in bed together, although Schwartz claims otherwise. One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney's Cavendish Avenue house says that "...Paul brought this American girl home...[and a little while later]...another car turned into Cavendish Avenue - it was Jane. She'd come back...earlier than she was supposed to. Jane went into the house. A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away." Later on, Jane's mother arrived to retrieve Jane's things.
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Frank Sinatra
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Geoff Emerick
Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London) is a recording studio audio engineer, who is best known for his work with The Beatles' albums Revolver, ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road''. He is widely regarded as one of the best engineers in all of recording history .
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George Dunning
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George Formby, Jr.
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George Harrison
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George Martin
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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George Toogood Smith
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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Giles Martin
Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of Sir George Martin, famed producer of almost all of The Beatles' records.
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Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns (born 15 February 1942 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a musician, recording engineer and record producer.
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Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.
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Harry Nilsson
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 5 February 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany.
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Hugh Padgham
Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won a string of awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year amongst them. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.
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Hunter Davies
Edward Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best known for writing the only authorised biography of The Beatles.
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Ian MacDonald
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Ivan Vaughan
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J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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James Hanratty
James Hanratty (4 October 1936, Bromley, Kent – 4 April 1962, Bedford Prison, Bedford) was the seventh-to-last person in Britain to be hanged for murder after being convicted of carrying out the 1961 "A6 murder" committed on the main path at Maulden Wood. The guilt of the later convicts was never in doubt, but Hanratty's guilt has been disputed. Hanratty, a professional car thief, was convicted of the murder of Michael Gregsten at Deadman's Hill on the A6, near the village of Clophill, Bedfordshire, England, on 23 August 1961. Gregsten's companion Valerie Storie had been raped and shot. She survived but was paralysed by her injuries. Charges on these additional crimes were kept in reserve.
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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor.
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Jann Wenner
Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone, as well as the owner of ''Men's Journal and Us Weekly'' magazines.
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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne (born 30 December 1947; Shard End, Birmingham) is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. His compositions include "Do Ya", "Livin' Thing", "Evil Woman", "Turn to Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Telephone Line", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Hold on Tight" and "Don't Bring Me Down".
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Jeff Porcaro
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Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He is a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.[]
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Jerry Rubin
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Jimmie Nicol
James George "Jimmie"/"Jimmy" Nicol (b. 3 August 1939), is a British drummer, best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a number of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964. He went from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and back in the space of a fortnight. Nicol hoped that his period with The Beatles would advance his career, but found that the spotlight moved away from him once Starr returned to the group. His subsequent lack of commercial success led him to bankruptcy in 1965. After then working with a number of different bands, he finally left the music business altogether to pursue a variety of employment. Nicol would later refuse to discuss his brief period with The Beatles, and has not sought monetary gain from it. He has a son, Howard, who is a BAFTA award-winning sound engineer.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer.
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Jimmy Driftwood
James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907–July 12, 1998), better known as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was a prolific United States folk songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud". Driftwood wrote more than 6,000 folk songs, of which more than 300 were recorded by various musicians.
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Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946 in Elk City, Oklahoma) is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", and "MacArthur Park". His songs have been recorded or performed by Glen Campbell, The 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, R.E.M., and Chet Atkins, among others. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 to 1990. He is the only artist to have ever received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.
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Joe Loss
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John Cage
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John Dunbar (artist)
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John Lennon
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John Sinclair (poet)
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Johnny Hutchinson
Johnny Hutchinson (born 18 July 1940 in Malta), also known as Johnny Hutch, was a Liverpudlian rock and roll drummer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the same time that The Beatles rose through the ranks of British rock bands. Hutch's group, The Big Three, were rivals of the Beatles, and his opinions of them were not the highest; one early remark he made was that the Beatles "weren't worth a carrot."
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Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel (November 23, 1925) is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz.
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Jon Wiener
Jonathan M. Wiener is an American professor of history at the University of California Irvine, a contributing editor to The Nation magazine, and a Los Angeles radio host. He was the plaintiff in a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for its files on John Lennon.
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João Gilberto
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Judy Garland
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Julia Baird
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Julia Lennon
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Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is also the first of John Lennon's two sons and only child of Lennon's first marriage to Cynthia Powell, with Beatles' manager Brian Epstein as godfather. He was named after John Lennon's late mother, Julia.
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Jürgen Vollmer
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Kaiserkeller
Kaiserkeller is a night club in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. It was opened by Bruno Koschmider on October 14, 1959. The Beatles had a contract with Kaiserkeller to play there in 1960.
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which are listed by Rolling Stone magazine among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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Ken Mansfield
Ken Mansfield is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, former U.S. Manager of Apple Records, a high-ranking executive for several record labels, songwriter and the author of three books.
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Ken Scott
Ken Scott (born 20 April 1947 in London) is an English record producer and recording engineer.
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Ken Townsend
Ken Townsend MBE is a renowned sound engineer who played an important role at Abbey Road Studios. He worked on several Beatles albums, such as Rubber Soul, Revolver and ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. In 1966 he invented automatic double tracking (ADT). He spent his whole working career at Abbey Road, and retired as the Chairman of the Studio Group after 42 years of service.
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Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is the drummer for the rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to , in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
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Larry Parnes
Laurence Maurice "Larry" Parnes (1930 Willesden, London - 4 August 1989, in London) Was an English pop manager and impresario. He was jocularly known as "Parnes, shillings and pence", because of his known reticence in paying performers their worth.
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Laurence Olivier
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Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman, born Leopold Vail Epstein, (12 January 1910 - 30 July 1991) was a New York show business attorney, and art collector the son of Louis (b. Russia ~1887, imm. 1906) and Stella (Freyer) Epstein. His sisters were Emmaline and Rose. He married Louise Lindner, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune; they had four children, including John Eastman and Linda (Eastman) McCartney, the late wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. Eastman became McCartney's business manager shortly before the breakup of The Beatles while his son John represented McCartney during his 1970 lawsuit to legally dissolve the Beatles. He is the maternal grandfather of potter Heather McCartney, photographer Mary McCartney, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and musician/sculptor James Louis McCartney.
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Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse (29 January 1931) is a British lyricist and composer.
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Lewis Carroll
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Lord Beeching
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
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Magic Alex
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (born May 5, 1942, Athens, Greece), better known as Magic Alex, the name given him by The Beatles when he knew the group between 1965 and 1969, is a self-styled electronics wizard and one-time head of The Beatles' Apple Electronics.
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Mal Evans
'''Malcolm Frederick 'Mal' Evans''' (27 May 1935 - 5 January 1976) is best known as the road manager, assistant, and a friend of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
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Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American prisoner who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He committed the crime as Lennon and Yoko Ono were outside their apartment in New York City. Chapman shot Lennon four times in the back, outside the Dakota apartment building. He remained at the scene until arrested by police, and pleaded guilty to the crime. He was sentenced to a prison term of twenty years to life and has been imprisoned at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York since 1981, having been denied parole six times. Each of Chapman's applications for parole has been opposed by Ono.
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Mark Lewisohn
Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English author and historian, regarded as the world's leading authority on British rock band The Beatles.
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Maureen Cleave
Maureen Cleave is a journalist who worked for the London Evening News and London Evening Standard in the 1960s, conducting interviews with famous musicians of the era, including Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
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Maureen Starkey
Maureen Starkey "Mo" Tigrett (4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994) was the first wife of The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr. They married in 1965 and divorced in 1975. The couple had three children, Zak, Jason and Lee.
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Max Bygraves
Max Bygraves OBE (born 16 October 1922 in Rotherhithe, London as Walter William Bygraves) is an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. Shows he presented included the gameshow Family Fortunes.
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May Pang
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Omartian
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mimi Smith
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Mitch Mitchell
John "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 1947 – 12 November 2008) was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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Mona Best
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Murray the K
Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred to himself as the fifth Beatle.
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Neil Aspinall
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Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
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Pattie Boyd
Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer, and the former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. She was the inspiration for love songs written by both musicians, Harrison's "Something," "For You Blue" and "Isn't It a Pity" and Clapton's "Layla," "Wonderful Tonight" and "Bell Bottom Blues."
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Paul Francis Webster
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Pete Best
Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician, best known as the original drummer in The Beatles.
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Pete Shotton
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Peter Shotton
Peter Shotton (born 4 August 1941) is an British businessman best known for his long friendship with John Lennon of The Beatles. Generally referred to as "Pete", he was a close childhood friend of Lennon's, and attended Dovedale Infants School and Quarry Bank Grammar School at the same time as the future Beatle. The two boys were frequently in trouble with their teachers and with their headmaster, and they came to be known at Quarry Bank as "Shennon and Lotton" or "Lotton and Shennon."
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
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Phil McDonald
Philip McDonald is an English recording studio audio engineer, best known as the engineer for EMI and later for Apple during The Beatles studio years alongside with Neil Aspinall, Geoff Emerick, Mal Evans, and others. In Apple, McDonald joined as senior balance engineer. He was just 25. He was responsible at EMI for engineering work on albums by John Lennon, The Shadows, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roy Harper and George Harrison.
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Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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Quincy Jones
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Ray Coleman
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Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly (born 1941 in Lancashire) is an English novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
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Richard Lester
Richard Lester (born 19 January 1932) is an American-born British-based film director notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s and his work on the Superman film series in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office as well as the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
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Rory Storm
Rory Storm (21 September 1939 - 28 September 1972) was an English singer and musician. He was born Alan Caldwell in Liverpool. Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who were contemporaries of The Beatles in the late 1950s, and early 1960s. Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Hurricanes before joining The Beatles in August 1962.
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Rosaura Lopez
Rosaura Lopez Lorenzo (16 March 1932, Pontevedra, Spain – 19 September 2005, Pontevedra, Spain) was a maid of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the Dakota apartment between 1976 and 1980.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
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Sonny Burke
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Stan Getz
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Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957, San Fernando Valley, California) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with countless artists, released several solo albums and, as a studio session guitarist, has been involved with arranging, composing, and recording on over 1,000 albums. He is also a member of jazz fusion bands El Grupo and Los Lobotomys, both collaborations of notable sessions musicians. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music, Lukather's solo and side-project work spans many genres including rock, prog, jazz and funk.
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Steve Porcaro
Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro (born September 2, 1957, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Strom Thurmond
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Stuart Sutcliffe
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Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (Punjabi, lang-ur|), born 21 October 1943, is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time".
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Tom Snyder
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Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan (born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on 21 May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk), is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles, (though the record was labelled as being with "The Beat Brothers") and one of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record with the group.
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Toto (band)
Toto is an American rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970's and 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut released in 1978. With the release of 1982's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV, Toto became one of the best-selling music groups of their era. They are best known for the Top 5 hits "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," and "Africa." Although their popularity in the United States diminished in the 1990s and 2000s, they continued to sell out arenas constantly internationally, only playing minimal shows in the USA.
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Vaughn Meader
Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F. Kennedy was equalled only by his obscurity after Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Victor Spinetti
Victor Spinetti (born 2 September 1933) is a Welsh comic actor.
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Vietnam War
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Winston Churchill
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
http://wn.com/Yoko_Ono
Lennon, John Filmography
Lennon, John Filmography
- Elvis Found Alive (2012)
- The Beatles: The Lost Concert (2012)
- Alexandra - Stimme der Sehnsucht: Der rätselhafte Tod eines Stars (2012)
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
- I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern (2011)
- The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD (2011)
- Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)
- War of the Gods (2010)
- Lennon Naked (2010)
- Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010)
- Losing Lennon: Countdown to Murder (2010)
- The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
- Strawberry Fields: Keeping the Spirit of John Lennon Alive (2009)
- The Beatles on Record (2009)
- Rare and Unseen: The Beatles (2008)
- Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney (2008)
- The Beatles: Destination Hamburg (2008)
- Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (2008)
- Kenny Everett: Licence to Laugh (2007)
- Pornorama (2007)
- Comedy Greats: Pete and Dud (2007)
- The Beatles in Help! (2007)
- Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity (2007)
- I Met the Walrus (2007)
- The Bare Necessities: The Making of 'The Jungle Book' (2007)
- Elvis: A Generous Heart (2007)
- Be My Baby: The Girl Group Story (2006)
- The Beatles: Era 60's - The True Story, Retold (2006)
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
- Cavett and the Lennons (2005)
- Who Buried Paul McCartney? (2005)
- Cançons per no oblidar, el disc de la Marató (2005)
- The Shot That Shook the World (2005)
- 50 Questions of Political Incorrectness (2005)
- Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle (2005)
- I Killed John Lennon (2005)
- Mordfall John Lennon - Das Idol und sein Attentäter (2005)
- Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)
- 20th Century Greats (2004)
- El cuarteto de Liverpool en México (2004)
- Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
- The Beatles with Tony Sheridan (2004)
- The Truth About 60s TV (2004)
- Les 40 ans de la 2 (2004)
- Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair (2004)
- Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003)
- I Knew John Lennon (2003)
- Ed Sullivan Presents: The Beatles (2003)
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
- Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
- 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment (2003)
- Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003)
- The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road (2003)
- Cilla in Black & White (2003)
- Inside John Lennon (2003)
- Elvis Lives (2003)
- Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats (2003)
- Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003)
- Imagine Imagine (2003)
- Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)
- Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2002)
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
- Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. (2002)
- John Lennon: The Messenger (2002)
- The Beatles... Off the Record: Newsreel Footage 1964-1966 (2001)
- Death of a Beatle (2001)
- George Harrison - Der sanfte Beatle (2001)
- The Old Grey Whistle Test at 30 (2001)
- Top of the Pops: The True Story (2001)
- Wingspan (2001)
- Hendrix (2000)
- Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album (2000)
- The Real John Lennon (2000)
- The Beatles Revolution (2000)
- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (2000)
- John & Yoko's Year of Peace (2000)
- Moonshot - the Spirit of 69 (1999)
- Nackt und frei - Die Geschichte der Freikörperkultur (1999)
- Sounds of 69 (1999)
- Grass (1999)
- The Beatles: Celebration (1999)
- Immer wieder geht die Sonne auf (1999)
- ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
- A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan's 50th Anniversary (1998)
- The Fifties (1997)
- Happy Birthday to John (1997)
- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996)
- Beatles Diary (1996)
- You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 3 (1995)
- Rock & Roll (1995)
- The Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy (1995)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (1994)
- The Beatles, The Long and Winding Road: The Life and Times (1994)
- Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993)
- Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen Vol. 2: Assassination in the 20th Century (1993)
- One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993)
- Secrets (1992)
- Death Scenes 2 (1992)
- The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show 2 (1991)
- The Beatles: On the Road (1990)
- Paul McCartney (1989)
- The 1960's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
- John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto (1988)
- Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
- Bye Bye Star-Club (1987)
- Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987)
- John Lennon Live in New York City (1986)
- Jimi Plays Monterey (1986)
- He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
- John Lennon Live in New York City (1986)
- Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (1986)
- Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live (1985)
- Ready Steady Go, Volume 2 (1985)
- The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
- The Compleat Beatles (1984)
- A Good Turn Daily (1983)
- Ready Steady Go, Volume 1 (1983)
- Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1982)
- The Killing of America (1982)
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
- The Beatles and Beyond (1977)
- Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala (1977)
- Fire in the Water (1977)
- The Day the Music Died (1977)
- Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol (1976)
- Salute to Sir Lew - The Master Showman (1975)
- The 17th Annual Grammy Awards (1975)
- The American Film Institute Salute to James Cagney (1974)
- Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert (1972)
- Imagine (1972)
- Eat the Document (1972)
- Imagine (1972)
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert (1972)
- Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
- Dynamite Chicken (1971)
- Erection (1971)
- Erection (1971)
- Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1971)
- Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
- The Museum of Modern Art Show (1971)
- Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1971)
- Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971)
- Fly (1970)
- Let It Be (1970)
- Apotheosis (1970)
- A.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970)
- Apotheosis (1970)
- Freedom (1970)
- Let It Be (1970)
- Fly (1970)
- Freedom (1970)
- Freedom (1970)
- Apotheosis (1970)
- Fly (1970)
- Freedom (1970)
- Rape (1969)
- Keep on 'Rockin (1969)
- Rape (1969)
- Rape (1969)
- Honeymoon (1969)
- Honeymoon (1969)
- Rape (1969)
- Honeymoon (1969)
- Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
- Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1969)
- Honeymoon (1969)
- Two Virgins (1968)
- No. 5 (1968)
- Two Virgins (1968)
- No. 5 (1968)
- Two Virgins (1968)
- The Beatles Mod Odyssey (1968)
- No. 5 (1968)
- Two Virgins (1968)
- No. 5 (1968)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- How I Won the War (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Our World (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Damals in Hamburg - The Beatles (1967)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Die Beatles und Ausschnitte aus dem Rahmenprogramm ihrer Deutschlandtournee (1966)
- The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1966)
- Reflections on Love (1966)
- Pop Gear (1965)
- Help! (1965)
- The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965)
- The Best on Record (1965)
- New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert (1965)
- Around the Beatles (1964)
- A Hard Day's Night (1964)
- Around the Beatles (1964)
- New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert (1964)
- What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964)
- The Beatles Come to Town (1963)
- The Mersey Sound (1963)
Lennon, John Filmography
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Power to the People
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Cold Turkey
- Move Over Ms. L
- Give Peace a Chance
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Kiss Kiss Kiss
- Cleanup Time
- Give Me Something
- I'm Losing You
- I'm Moving On
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Watching the Wheels
- Yes, I'm Your Angel
- Woman
- Beautiful Boys
- Dear Yoko
- Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
- Hard Times Are Over
- Working Class Hero
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Power to the People
- God
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die
- Gimme Some Truth
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Steel and Glass
- Meat City
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Remember
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- I Found Out
- Isolation
- Imagine
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Give Peace a Chance
- Only People
- Power to the People
- Gimme Some Truth
- Woman
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- Cold Turkey
- Jealous Guy
- #9 Dream
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Mind Games
- Watching the Wheels
- Stand by Me
- Imagine
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Give Peace a Chance
- Going Down on Love
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- Old Dirt Road
- What You Got
- Bless You
- Scared
- #9 Dream
- Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
- Steel and Glass
- Beef Jerky
- Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)
- Ya Ya
- Mind Games
- Tight A$
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- One Day (at a Time)
- Bring On the Lucie (Freda Peeple)
- Nutopian International Anthem
- Intuition
- Out the Blue
- Only People
- I Know (I Know)
- You Are Here
- Meat City
- Be-Bop-A-Lula
- Stand by Me
- Medley: Rip It Up / Ready Teddy
- You Can't Catch Me
- Ain't That a Shame
- Do You Wanna Dance
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Peggy Sue
- Medley: Bring It On Home to Me / Send Me Some Lovin'
- Bony Moronie
- Ya Ya
- Just Because
- Imagine
- Crippled Inside
- Jealous Guy
- It's So Hard
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die
- Gimme Some Truth
- Oh My Love
- How Do You Sleep?
- How?
- Oh Yoko!
- Power to the People
- Jealous Guy
- New York City
- Mind Games
- Bless You
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Here We Go Again
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Nobody Told Me
- Imagine (take 1)
- Give Peace a Chance
- Grow Old With Me
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Imagine
- Watching the Wheels
- Jealous Guy
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Stand by Me
- Working Class Hero
- Power to the People
- Oh My Love
- Oh Yoko!
- Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)
- Nobody Told Me
- Bless You
- Come Together (live)
- New York City
- I'm Stepping Out
- You Are Here
- Borrowed Time
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Imagine
- Instant Karma!
- Mother (single edit)
- Jealous Guy
- Power to the People
- Cold Turkey
- Love
- Mind Games
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- #9 Dream
- Stand by Me
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Woman
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Nobody Told Me
- Borrowed Time
- Working Class Hero
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Give Peace a Chance
- Watching the Wheels
- #9 Dream
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Working Class Hero
- Hold On
- Watching The Wheels
- Remember
- God
- Mother
- Sean's "Little Help"
- Imagine
- Steel And Glass
- I'm Losing You
- Going Down on Love (Instructions Only)
- Nobody Told Me
- Isolation
- Nobody Love You (When You're Down and Out)
- Jealous Guy
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Power to the People
- Nobody Told Me
- Working Class Hero
- I Found Out
- Bed Peace
- The Ballad of John & Yoko
- Give Peace a Chance
- Love
- Attica State (live)
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die
- Imagine
- How Do You Sleep? (instrumental score)
- New York City
- John Sinclair (live)
- Scared
- God
- Here We Go Again
- Gimme Some Truth
- Oh My Love
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Working Class Hero
- Love
- Well Well Well
- Look at Me
- God
- My Mummy's Dead
- Cold Turkey
- Luck of the Irish (live, 1971: Ann Arbor)
- John Sinclair (live, 1971: Ann Arbor)
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- What You Got
- Watching the Wheels
- Dear Yoko
- Real Love
- Imagine (live, 1971: The Apollo)
- It's Real
- Well (Baby Please Don't Go)
- New York City
- It's So Hard
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Well Well Well
- Instant Karma (We All Shine On)
- Mother
- Come Together
- Imagine
- Cold Turkey
- Hound Dog
- Give Peace a Chance
- Real Love
- Twist and Shout
- Help!
- In My Life
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- A Day in the Life
- Revolution
- The Ballad of John & Yoko
- Julia
- Don't Let Me Down
- Give Peace a Chance
- How?
- Imagine (Rehearsal)
- God
- Mother
- Stand by Me
- Jealous Guy
- Woman
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Imagine
- Be-Bop-A-Lula
- Ain't That a Shame
- Stand by Me
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Rip It Up
- Angel Baby
- Do You Want to Dance
- You Can't Catch Me
- Bony Moronie
- Peggy Sue
- Bring It On Home to Me
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Be My Baby
- Ya Ya
- Just Because
- Here We Go Again
- Since My Baby Left Me
- To Know Her Is to Love Her
- Do You Want to Dance
- Be My Baby
- Just Because
- Be My Baby
- Serve Yourself
- She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
- She Runs Them Around in Circles / Beautiful Boy
- Memories (Howling at the Moon) / Watching the Wheels
- Stranger's Room
- Woman
- I'm Stepping Out
- I'm Stepping Out
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Dream Lover / Stay
- Clean Up Time
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Watching the Wheels
- Watching the Wheels
- Watching the Wheels
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Living on Borrowed Time
- I'm Stepping Out
- Woman
- Lennon's Lost Diary Tape
- National Health Cow / Strawberry Fields Forever
- Get It Together
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Power to the People
- Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True) / Hound Dog
- I'm the Greatest
- I Know
- I Know
- I Know
- Rock and Roll People
- Meat City
- Meat City
- One Day (At a Time)
- Only People
- Tight A$
- You Are Here
- Going Down on Love
- #9 Dream
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradise)
- John on KHJ-AM Los Angeles
- Do You Want to Dance
- You Can't Catch Me
- Free as a Bird
- Steel and Glass
- Beef Jerky
- You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love)
- Serve Yourself
- Memories (Howling at the Moon)
- Real Life
- Watching the Wheels
- Don't Be Crazy
- Woman
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- I Don't Want to Face It
- Nobody Told Me
- Real Love
- I'm Losing You
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Nobody Told Me
- Clean Up Time
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- If I Fell
- I Sat Belonely
- Foyle's Speech
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- She Can Talk to Me
- Cry Baby Cry
- Two Virgins (outtake)
- Plastic Ono Band Jam
- Look at Me
- I'm the Greatest
- How / Child of Nature / Oh Yoko
- Oh Yoko
- Sally and Billy
- Come Together
- Happy Girl
- I'll Make You Happy
- How Do You Sleep
- It's So Hard
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier, I Don't Want to Die
- Intuition
- I Know
- I Know
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- Steel and Glass
- Walls and Bridges Rundown
- Mirror, Mirror (On the Wall)
- Memories (Howling at the Moon)
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- Honey Don't
- Glad All Over
- Lend Me Your Comb
- Wake Up Little Susie
- You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)
- Vacation Just Began
- Heartbeat
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Peggy Sue
- Maybe Baby
- Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
- Rave On
- What'd I Say
- Yellow Submarine
- Old Smokey Mountain
- Goodnight Irene
- He's Got the Whole World in Hands
- Medley
- Bring It on Home to Me
- Yesterday
- Tandoori Chicken
- Power to the People
- Maybe Baby
- Peggy Sue
- My Baby Left Me
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Crippled Inside
- Give Peace a Chance
- Crippled Inside
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
- Happy Birthday
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
- My Sweet Lord
- I'm Stepping Out #1
- I'm Stepping Out #2
- I'm Stepping Out #3
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Living on Borrowed Time [Aborted take]
- Living on Borrowed Time [Overdubs]
- (Just Like) Starting Over [Monitor mix]
- (Just Like) Starting Over [Rough mix]
- John Sinclair [David Frost TV Show]
- It's So Hard [Mike Douglas Show]
- The Luck of the Irish [Mike Douglas Show]
- Sisters O Sisters [Mike Douglas Show]
- We're All Water [Dick Cavett Show]
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World [Dick Cavett Show]
- Out of the Blue
- Old Dirt Road
- Steel and Glass
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- Rock 'n Roll Radio Spot
- Stand by Me
- Serve Yourself
- Everybody
- Everybody / Nobody Told Me
- Nobody Told Me
- Falling in Love Again
- Cathy's Clown
- You Send Me
- Real Love
- My Life
- My Life
- Dear Yoko
- I'm Stepping Out
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Watching the Wheels
- Beautiful Boy
- Interview: More Popular Than Jesus
- Interview: John's Book
- Tennesee
- Sally and Billy
- She Is a Friend of Dorothy's
- The Boat Song
- Pedro the Fisherman
- Many Rivers to Cross
- My Girl
- Instrumental 1979
- I'm Stepping Out
- Dear Yoko
- Woman
- Woman
- Woman
- Clean Up Time
- Nobody Told Me
- I Am the Walrus / Watching the Wheels
- Woman
- Woman
- Living on Borrowed Time
- I'm Losing You
- Imagine
- How Do You Sleep
- J.J.
- Rock Island Line / Maybe Baby / Peggy Sue
- I'm Ready to Sing for the World
- Clean Up Time
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Watching the Wheels
- Dear Yoko
- Clean Up Time
- You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love)
- Not for Love nor Money
- He Said He Said
- She Said She Said
- Yer Blues
- Oh My Love
- Oh My Love
- Because
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun
- Give Peace a Chance
- Give Peace a Chance
- Give Peace a Chance
- Give Peace a Chance
- Give Peace a Chance
- God
- My Mummy's Dead
- It's So Hard
- Come Together
- Honky Tonk Blues
- I Know
- Rock and Roll People
- Only People
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- Imagine
- J.J.
- Attica State
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Bless You
- Many Rivers to Cross
- Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)
- My Life
- I Watch Your Face
- Serve Yourself
- The Worst Is Over
- Watching the Wheels
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- I Don't Want to Face It
- Beautiful Boy / Memories / Club Dakota Rap / Across the River
- Real Love
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- I'm Stepping Out
- I'm Losing You
- Working Class Hero
- God
- How Do You Sleep?
- Imagine (take 1)
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Oh My Love
- God Save Oz
- I Found Out
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World (live)
- 'A Kiss Is Just a Kiss'
- Be Bop a Lula
- Rip It Up / Ready Teddy
- What You Got
- Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Real Love
- Only You
- Grow Old With Me
- Sean's 'In the Sky'
- Serve Yourself
- Working Class Hero
- God
- I Found Out
- Hold On
- Isolation
- Love
- Mother
- Remember
- Imagine (Take 1)
- "Fortunately"
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Oh My Love
- Jealous Guy
- Maggie Mae
- How Do You Sleep?
- God Save Oz
- Do the Oz
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier
- Give Peace a Chance
- Look at Me
- Long Lost John
- Julia
- Child of Nature
- The Continuing Story of Bungelow Bill
- I'm So Tired
- Yer Blues
- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
- What's the New Mary Jane
- Revolution
- Imagine
- Crippled Inside
- It's So Hard
- A Case of the Blues
- Sally and Billy
- Sally and Billy
- Send Me Some Lovin'
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- New York City
- Only You
- Down in Cuba
- Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- Watching the Wheels
- I'm Losing You
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Tobias Casuals
- Happy Birthday John
- Julia
- Honey Don't
- Glad All Over
- Lend Me You Comb
- Duane Eddy Jam
- #9 Dream
- 12-Bar Original
- Well, Well, Well
- Well, Well, Well
- He Got the Blues
- Look at Me
- My Mummy's Dead
- Real Life
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Cold Turkey
- I'm Stepping Out
- Watching the Wheels
- Run for Your Life
- The Maharishi Song
- Julia
- When a Boy Meets a Girl
- God
- Look at Me
- Oh Yoko!
- How?
- Imagine
- Jam
- How Do You Sleep?
- Oh My Love
- Just Gotta Give Me / Shoeshine
- How Do You Sleep?
- I Know
- Power to the People
- Love
- Out of the Blue
- Bony Moronie
- Be My Baby
- Power to the People [alternate take]
- Oh Yoko
- What You Got
- Real Love
- Woman
- Cookin' in the Kitchen of Love
- Free as a Bird [demo]
- Intuition [demo]
- Intuition [Rough mix]
- Call My Name [demo, Incomplete]
- Call My Name [demo, Complete]
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- One of the Boys
- Love
- I'm Crazy
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Walls and Bridges Promo
- Stranger's Room
- Woman
- I'm Losing You
- Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
- Peggy Sue
- Cold Turkey
- Dear Yoko
- Bless You
- Move Over Ms. L.
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Don't Let Me Down
- Oh My Love
- Jealous Guy
- Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
- Gone From This Place
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Michael Lindsey Hogg Talks With John Lennon
- Yer Blues
- Yer Blues
- Don't Let Me Down
- I'm Stepping Out
- I'm the Greatest
- Move Over Ms. L.
- Bring on the Lucie (Freda People)
- Bring on the Lucie (Freda People)
- #9 Dream
- People
- The Luck of the Irish
- The Luck of the Irish
- Only People
- Rock and Roll People
- Mind Games Promo
- (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
- Tower Records Spot
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, I Don't Want to Die
- How Do You Sleep?
- Well (Baby Please Don't Go)
- Move Over Ms. L.
- Tobias Casuals #5
- Clean Up Time
- (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
- Mother
- I'm Stepping Out
- Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)
- Radio Free London
- Rip It Up / Ready Teddy
- The Great Wok
- Yer Blues
- I Found Out
- Oh Yoko!
- People Get Ready
- Pill
- Out the Blue
- #9 Dream
- Tobias Casuals #3
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)
- She's a Friend of Dorothy
- Real Love
- Dear Yoko
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- The Return of Maurice Dupont
- Wedding Album Commercial
- Bed Peace
- Because
- Oh Yoko
- Grapefruit Excerpts
- Imagine
- Give Me Some Truth
- How?
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Oh My Love
- How Do You Sleep?
- Tobias Casuals Sportswear #4
- Stand by Me
- Watching the Wheels
- I'm Stepping Out
- Clean Up Time
- Woman
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On / It'll Be Me / One to One Radio Spot (outtakes)
- New York City
- God Save Oz
- Introduction
- Dirty Mac Jam
- Maurice Dupont
- That'll Be the Day
- Rave On
- Not Fade Away
- Maybe Baby
- Heartbeat / Peggy Sue Got Married
- Peggy Sue
- Corrine, Corrine
- Serve Yourself
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
- Eat the Document
- A Nice Noise
- Number Nine
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Strawberry Fields Backwards Talk Test
- Aeriel Tour Instrumental
- Cry Baby Cry
- Dear Prudence
- Sexy Sadie
- Tight A$
- Tight A$
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- One Day (At A Time)
- Out The Blue
- Out The Blue
- Only People
- I Know (I Know)
- I Know (I Know)
- I Know (I Know)
- I Know (I Know)
- Meat City
- I Promise
- Make Love, Not War
- Rock 'N' Roll People
- Call My Name
- Call My Name
- Call My Name
- Mother
- I Found Out
- What'd I Say?
- How
- Yellow Submarine
- Chi Chi's Cafe
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Memories (Howling at the Moon)
- Memories (Howling at the Moon)
- Stranger's Room
- Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Talking
- Nobody Told Me
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- New York City
- Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True)
- Hound Dog
- Send Me Some Lovin'
- I Found Out
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- John & Yoko's Happy Xmas Ditty
- Tobias Casuals # 2
- Living on Borrowed Time
- God
- Serve Yourself
- Imagine
- Mucho Mungo
- Mount Elgar
- Gone From This Place
- Stand by Me
- John & Yoko
- Amsterdam
- Who Has Seen the Wind?
- Listen the Snow Is Falling
- Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)
- Cambridge 1969
- No Bed for Beatle John
- Baby's Heartbeat
- Two Minutes Silence
- Radio Play
- Song for John
- Mulberry
- In the Studio
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Maggie May / Honey Don't / Don't Be Cruel / Matchbox
- Dear Prudence
- Cold Turkey
- Here We Go Again
- Woman
- The Neville Club
- Rock and Roll People
- Not Fade Away / Sweet Little Sixteen
- You Can't Catch Me
- Mirror, Mirror (On the Wall)
- Mind Games
- Cold Turkey
- One of the Boys
- Tight A$
- Studio Banter / Woman
- Dear Yoko
- I Don't Want to Face It
- Revolution
- Power to the People
- Attica State
- The Luck of the Irish
- John Sinclair
- I'm a Man
- 'Twas a Night Like Ethel Merman / Beyond the Sea / Blue Moon / Young Love
- Clean Up Time
- Good Morning Good Morning
- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Exept Me and My Monkey
- Everyone Had a Hard Year
- Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- Serve Yourself
- Lord, Take This Makeup Off Me / News of the Day
- Dear Prudence
- Jealous Guy
- God Save Oz
- Rock and Roll People
- Rock Island Line
- Real Life
- My Life
- My Life
- Don't Be Crazy
- The Worst Is Over
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- Happy Rishikesh Song
- Rock Island Line
- John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)
- Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
- Keep Right on the End of the Road
- (It's All Da-Da-Down To) Goodnight Vienna
- Tennessee (take 1-4)
- God Save Oz
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Power to the People
- Here We Go Again
- Mucho Mongo
- God
- Life Begins at Forty
- Woman
- Girls and Boys
- Clean Up Time
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Revolution
- Child of Nature
- She Said She Said
- I'm the Greatest
- Make Love Not War
- How Do You Sleep?
- Daddy's Little Sunshine Boy
- I'm the Greatest
- The Luck of the Irish
- Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- I Promise
- Sea Ditty / Leaning on a Lamppost
- Grow Old With Me
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- What's the New Mary Jane?
- Julia
- Across the Universe
- You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
- Help!
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- We Must Not Forget the General Erection
- The Wumberlog
- Dear John
- Whatever Happened To...
- Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)
- Peggy Sue
- Watching the Wheels
- Watching the Wheels
- I'm Losing You
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Clean Up Time
- One to One Radio Spot Outtakes
- Free as a Bird
- Real Love
- Now and Then
- Grow Old With Me
- Free as a Bird
- Dear John
- That's the Way the World Is
- India
- Mirror, Mirror (On the Wall)
- Gone From This Place
- Across the River
- Don't Be Crazy
- Illusions
- Baby Make Love to You
- Life Begins at Forty
- She's a Friend of Dorothy
- You Saved My Soul
- Sally and Billy
- Whatever Happened To...
- One of the Boys
- Help Me to Help Myself
- Real Love
- Just Gotta Give Me Some Rock and Roll (Meat City prototypes)
- It's So Hard (alternate take)
- Tight A$ (guitar demo)
- I'm The Greatest (studio rehearsal)
- Woman (alternate mix, early vocal)
- Julia (early home demo)
- I Found Out (alternate mix)
- How Do You Sleep (alternate mix)
- Beautiful Boy (alternate mix)
- Corrine, Corrina (home recording)
- Happy XMas (War Is Over) (acoustic demo)
- J.J. (Angela prototype)
- Watching The Wheels (demo)
- Imagine (alternate version)
- Steel And Glass (studio run through)
- Many Rivers To Cross (demo)
- Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love) (piano demo)
- Serve Yourself
- Dear Yoko (alternate mix)
- Give Me Some Truth (alternate version)
- Imagine (version 2, take 1)
- Crippled Inside (take 17)
- Jealous Guy (take 2)
- It's So Hard (take 2)
- I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, I Don't Want to Die (take 2)
- Give Me Some Truth (alternate vocal)
- Oh My Love (take 2)
- How Do You Sleep? (alternate vocal)
- How (alternate vocal)
- Oh Yoko! (take 9)
- Just a Little Story... (Studio Monologue)
- Well (Baby Please Don't Go) (take 1)
- The Long and Winding Road (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choral Society feat. conductor: Louis Clark)
- Penny Lane (feat. piano: John Bayless)
- Got to Get You Into My Life (Rochester Pops feat. conductor: Newton Wayland)
- She's Leaving Home (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choral Society feat. conductor: Louis Clark)
- Good Day Sunshine / Day Tripper (feat. piano: John Bayless)
- And I Love Her (Rochester Pops feat. conductor: Newton Wayland)
- Here, There and Everywhere (Rochester Pops feat. conductor: Newton Wayland)
- I Want to Hold Your Hand (feat. piano: John Bayless)
- Michelle (Rochester Pops feat. conductor: Newton Wayland)
- I Am the Walrus (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Louis Clark)
- A Day in the Life (feat. piano: John Bayless)
- She Loves You (karaoke)
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (karaoke)
- With a Little Help From My Friends (karaoke)
- Help (karaoke)
- Penny Lane (karaoke)
- All You Need Is Love (karaoke)
- Can’t Buy Me Love (karaoke)
- Love Me Do (karaoke)
- Eleanor Rigby (karaoke)
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand (karaoke)
- Back in the USSR (karaoke)
- When I’m Sixty Four (karaoke)
- Please Please Me (karaoke)
- Michelle (karaoke)
- From Me to You (karaoke)
- Let It Be (karaoke)
- Ticket to Ride (karaoke)
- Yellow Submarine (karaoke)
- A Hard Days Night (karaoke)
- Yesterday (karaoke)
- Hey Jude (karaoke)
- Imagine (acoustic)
- Come Together
- Cold Turkey
- The Luck of the Irish
- Attica State
- Mother
- Money
- Yer Blues
- John Sinclair
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Instant Karma
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Give Peace a Chance
- Imagine
- Dizzy Miss Lizzie
- Imagine
- Crippled Inside
- Jealous Guy
- It's So Hard
- How Do You Sleep? #1
- Give Me Some Truth
- Oh My Love
- How Do You Sleep? #2
- How?
- Oh Yoko!
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Serve Yourself
- You Saved My Soul
- The Worst Is Over Now
- When a Boy Meets a Girl
- She's a Friend of Dorothy's
- One of the Boys
- He Got the Blues
- John Henry (live) / I Ain't Got Time (live)
- Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)
- Free as a Bird
- People (Angela)
- On the Caribbian
- Well (Baby Please Don't Go)
- Only the Lonely
- Gone From This Place
- Howling at the Moon
- Memories
- Mucho Mungo
- Imagine
- Crippled Inside
- Jealous Guy
- It's So Hard
- Give Me Some Truth
- Oh My Love
- How Do You Sleep?
- How?
- Oh Yoko!
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- New York City
- John Sinclair
- Come Together
- Hound Dog
- Mind Games
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- One Day (at a Time)
- Intuition
- Out the Blue
- I Found Out
- Corrina, Corrina
- A Case of the Blues
- Everyone Had a Hard Year
- Revolution
- Good Morning, Good Morning
- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
- Julia
- Strawberry Fields
- What's the News Mary Jane
- Across the Universe
- Look Up the Number
- Help!
- The General Erection
- The Magic Dog
- Dear Prudence
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Strawberry Fields Forever (Talk Test)
- Aerial Tour Instrumental
- Cry Baby Cry
- Dear Prudence
- Sexy Dadie
- Child of Nature
- The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
- I'm So Tired
- Yer Blues
- What's the News Mary Jane
- Revolution
- He Said He Said / She Said She Said
- Daddy's Little Sunshine Boy
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Give Peace a Chance
- Instant Karma!
- Power to the People
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- #9 Dream
- Mind Games
- Love
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Imagine
- Jealous Guy
- Stand by Me
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Woman
- I'm Losing You
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Watching the Wheels
- Dear Yoko
- Move Over Ms. L
- Cold Turkey
- I'm the Greatest
- The Luck of the Irish
- Tell Me What I Say
- Yellow Submarine
- Old Smokey Mountain
- Come Together
- Dear Prudence
- Imagine
- Love
- Yer Blues / Her Blues
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- It'll Be Me
- One to One Radiospot Outtake
- Introducing by Lennon and Jagger
- Dirty Mac Jam
- That'll Be the Day
- Rave On
- Not Fade Away
- Maybe Baby
- Heartbeat
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Peggy Sue
- Eat the Document
- Lord, Take This Make Up Off Me
- The News of the Day
- Here We Go Again
- Rock and Roll People
- Angel Baby
- Since My Baby Left Me
- To Know Her Is to Love Her
- Steel and Glass (live)
- Scared (live)
- Old Dirt Road (live)
- Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out) (live)
- Bless You (live)
- Mind Games
- Tight A$
- Tight A$
- Tight A$
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
- One Day (at a Time)
- One Day (at a Time)
- One Day (at a Time)
- Bring on the Lucie (Feeda People)
- Bring on the Lucie (Feeda People)
- Intuition
- Out of the Blue
- Out of the Blue
- Out of the Blue
- Only People
- Only People
- Mother (acetate version)
- Remember (acetate version)
- I Found Out (rough mix)
- Mother (alternate version)
- Look at Me (rough mix)
- Well, Well, Well (studio outtakes)
- Rock 'n' Roll Jam: That's All Right (Mama) / Glad All Over / Honey Don't / Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog / Match Box
- God (demo version 1)
- God (demo version 2)
- God (demo version 3)
- God (demo version 4)
- Love (demo version)
- Mother (demo version)
- Well Well Well (demo version)
- When a Boy Meets a Girl (unreleased track)
- When a Boy Meets a Girl (unreleased track)
- I Found Out (demo version 1)
- I Found Out (demo version 2)
- Look at Me (demo version)
- My Mummy's Dead (complete version)
- Love (take 1)
- Mother (take 1)
- When a Boy Meets a Girl (take 1)
- When a Boy Meets a Girl (take 2)
- God (take 1)
- God (take 2)
- God (take 3)
- God (take 4)
- Well Well Well (take 1)
- I Found Out (take 1)
- I Found Out (take 2)
- My Mummy's Dead (take 1)
- My Mummy's Dead (take 2)
- Look at Me (take 1)
- Mother (take 2)
- I Found Out (take 1)
- I Found Out (take 2)
- Well Well Well (take 2)
- Look at Me (take 2)
- Look at Me (take 3)
- Medley: That's Alright Mama / Glad All Over / Honey Don't / Hound Dog / Unknown Matchbox Jam
- Love (take 2)
- Give Peace a Chance Remix 2005 (feat. The Voices of Asia)
- Gimme Some Truth (remix)
- Love (remix)
- Hold On (remix)
- Give Peace a Chance (2004 Y2K+)
- Imagine (remix)
- Bring on the Lucies (Freda Peeple) (remix)
- Mind Games (remix)
- I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier (remix)
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
- Power to the People (remix)
- Real Love (Speech Removed) (Short version)
- Help Me to Help Myself
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Bless You
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Listen the Snow Is Falling
- Give Peace a Chance
- Woman
- She Is a Friend of Dorothy
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Free as a Bird
- Howling at the Moon
- Memories
- Beautiful Boy
- Everybody's Talkin' (Nobody Told Me)
- Borrowed Time
- I'm Losing You (Piano version)
- I'm Losing You (Guitar version)
- Clean-Up Time
- One of the Boys
- Rock Island Line
- (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
- Real Life
- Boys and Girls (Real Love)
- I'm Stepping Out
- Sleepless Night
- I Don't Wanna Face It
- Don't Be Scared
- Nobody Told Me
- O' Sanity
- Borrowed Time
- Your Hands
- (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
- Let Me Count the Ways
- Grow Old With Me
- You're the One
- Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
- Stepping Out (Home version)
- I'm Moving On
- Serve Yourself [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- My Life [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- Nobody Told Me [16-track 1980 Sessions][Bonus Track]
- Life Begins at 40 [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- I Don't Wanna Face It [16-track 1980 Sessions][Bonus Track]
- Woman [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- Watching the Wheels [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- I'm Stepping Out [16-track 1980 Sessions][Bonus Track]
- Beautiful Boy [16-track 1980 Sessions][Bonus Track]
- Mr. Hyde's Gone (Don't Be Afraid) [Home Recording 1980][Bonus Track]
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Kiss Kiss Kiss
- Cleanup Time
- Give Me Something
- I'm Losing You
- I'm Moving On
- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
- Watching the Wheels
- Yes, I'm Your Angel
- Woman
- Beautiful Boys
- Dear Yoko
- Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
- Hard Times Are Over
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Sisters, O Sisters
- Attica State
- Born in a Prison
- New York City
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Luck of the Irish
- John Sinclair
- Angela
- We're All Water
- Cold Turkey (live)
- Well (live)
- Jamrag (live)
- Scumbag (live)
- Mother
- Hold On
- I Found Out
- Working Class Hero
- Isolation
- Remember
- Love
- Well Well Well
- Look at Me
- God
- My Mummy's Dead
- Imagine
- Jealous Guy
- Give Peace a Chance
- Instant Karma
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Power to the People
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- #9 Dream
- Mind Games
- Love
- Imagine
- Whatever Get's You Thru the Night
- Love
- Stand by Me
- Mind Games
- Power to the People
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Give Peace a Chance
- Mother
- Cold Turkey
- 9Dream
- Instant Karma
- Give Peace a Chance
- Cold Turkey
- Instant Karma!
- Power to the People
- Mother
- Woman Is the Nigger of the World
- Imagine
- Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
- Mind Games
- #9 Dream
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) / Give Peace a Chance: Reprise
Born: 1940-10-09
Died: 1980-12-08
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John Lennon - Jealous Guy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:18
- Published: 25 Oct 2006
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Fantástico
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Instant Karma - John lennon
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 09 Oct 2006
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
This , up there with imagine is one of John's best songs . Personally Intended or not , I don't think he ever wrote anything that wasn't a profound message to us all . happy 71th birthday John ! october 9th 2011 we need you now more than ever !
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John Lennon - Imagine
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- Duration: 3:32
- Published: 02 Feb 2007
- Updated: 29 Jun 2012
Video clip
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Watching The Wheels - John Lennon
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 19 Dec 2007
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
watching the wheels - john lennon
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Working Class Hero - John Lennon
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- Duration: 3:51
- Published: 10 Oct 2006
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Happy 70th birthday john !! As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and class less and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me
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John Lennon Google Doodle
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:32
- Published: 05 Oct 2010
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Join us in celebrating John Lennon's 70th birthday! Give peace a chance.
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Working Class Hero-John Lennon
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 24 Jun 2007
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Working Class Hero by John Lennon
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John Lennon - Beautiful Boy
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- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 24 Aug 2010
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
The official video for John Lennon 'Beautiful Boy'
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John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance
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- Duration: 4:56
- Published: 09 Oct 2009
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
"Give Peace a Chance" is a 1969 single by (John Lennon's) Plastic Ono Band that became an anthem of the American anti-war movement at that time. A different song with the same name, written by Leon Russell and Bonny Bramlett, was sung by Joe Cocker. Writing and recording The song was written during Lennon's Bed-In honeymoon: when asked by a reporter what he was trying to achieve by staying in bed, Lennon answered spontaneously "All we are saying is give peace a chance"; Lennon liked the phrase and set it to music for the song.[citation needed]. He sang the song several times during the Bed-In, and finally, on 1 June 1969, in Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, recorded it using a simple setup of four microphones and a four-track tape recorder rented from a local recording studio.[1] The recording session was attended by dozens of journalists and various celebrities, including Timothy Leary, Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, Joseph Schwartz, Allan Rock, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Petula Clark, Dick Gregory, Allen Ginsberg, Murray the K, Al Capp and Derek Taylor, many of whom are mentioned in the lyrics. Lennon played acoustic guitar and was joined by Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, also on acoustic guitar. The song was credited to Lennon/McCartney (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) and published by Northern Songs (now Sony/ATV Music Publishing). On some later releases of the song, only Lennon is credited; viz. the 1990s reissue of the 1972 album Live in New York <b>...</b>
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JOHN LENNON - "GIMME SOME TRUTH" HD
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 29 Apr 2010
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Video of the song "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon. The song and images are exclusively property of John Ono Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon and WMG. Edit by Giacomo A. Iacolenna This video was created by affection and esteem that I feel towards John Lennon and his music that I loved and I love since I was eight years! With the creation of this video does not intend to violate any copyright laws, the properties of music and images are the Lennon-Ono and WMG. Sorry if English is not perfect ....! Thanks
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I Met the Walrus
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- Duration: 5:15
- Published: 17 Jun 2008
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).
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John Lennon - Imagine (official video)
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 01 Oct 2008
- Updated: 29 Jun 2012
www.john-lennon-music-lyrics.com For Lyrics.
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John Lennon (1/7) - The Dick Cavett show Part 1
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- Duration: 10:01
- Published: 06 Jul 2008
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
John Lennon The Dick Cavett show Part 1
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The Comedy of John Lennon
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- Duration: 9:14
- Published: 24 Oct 2008
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Some of John Lennon's funnier moments with the Beatles.
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John Lennon - Be My Baby
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- Duration: 4:31
- Published: 19 Mar 2007
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Phil Spector's Cover by John Lennon during the "Lost Weekend" (1973-1974)
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John Lennon - Power To The People
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 11 Sep 2006
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
This is just a little jem I wanted to share.
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jealous guy - john lennon
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- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 30 Sep 2008
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions by musicians like Donny Hathaway, the Black Crowes, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Criss (of KISS), and Deftones. The most notable of the non-Lennon recordings were by Roxy Music and the Faces. The Roxy Music version was issued as a tribute single in 1981. Elliott Smith's simple acoustic rendering was a frequent part of his live performances, such as his 1998 Washington DC Black Cat show. Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground gave an emotional performance of "Jealous Guy" at the October 2001 Radio City Music Hall New York City show, Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music - a tribute to Lennon and the victims of the September 11 attacks. Youssou N'Dour covered the song for Amnesty International's 2007 CD benefit release, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. lyrics: I was dreaming of the past. And my heart was beating fast, I began to lose control, I began to lose control, I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry that I mad you cry, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy, I was feeling insecure, You night not love me any more, I was shivering inside, I was shivering inside, I was trying to catch your eyes, Thought that you were trying to hide, I was swallowing my pain, I was swallowing my pain.
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John Lennon- "Luck of the Irish"
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- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 25 Sep 2007
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Post Beatles, John comments on Irish politics
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John Lennon - Oh my love
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 18 Feb 2007
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Oh my love by John Lennon, from the album Imagine
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John Lennon - Instant Karma!
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 10 Jun 2008
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head You better get yourself together Pretty soon youre gonna be dead What in the world you thinking of Laughing in the face of love What on earth you tryin to do Its up to you, yeah you Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna look you right in the face Better get yourself together darlin Join the human race How in the world you gonna see Laughin at fools like me Who in the hell dyou think you are A super star Well, right you are Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Evryone come on Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna knock you off your feet Better recognize your brothers Evryone you meet Why in the world are we here Surely not to live in pain and fear Why on earth are you there When youre evrywhere Come and get your share Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on Come on and on and on on on Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on On and on and on on and on Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun
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John Lennon - Jealous Guy
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- Duration: 5:26
- Published: 11 May 2009
- Updated: 25 Jun 2012
John Lennon - Jealous Guy I was dreaming of the past And my heart was beating fast I began to lose control I began to lose control I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I make you cry Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy. I was feeling insecure You might not love me anymore I was shivering inside I was shivering inside I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I make you cry Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy. I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I make you cry Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy. I was trying to catch your eyes Though that you was trying to hide I was swallowing my pain I was swallowing my pain I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I make you cry Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy, I'm just a jealous guy, I'm just a jealous guy.
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John Lennon - Cold turkey (video)
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 26 May 2006
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
John Lennon - Cold Turkey
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John Lennon - Come Together
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- Duration: 4:01
- Published: 17 Sep 2006
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
Live performance of John Lennon.
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 Lennon rehearses "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal, Canada, in 1969 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Winston Lennon |
| Born | (1940-10-09)9 October 1940 Liverpool, England, UK |
| Died | 8 December 1980(1980-12-08) (aged 40) New York, New York, US |
| Genres | Rock, pop |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, writer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, harmonium, electronic organ, six-string bass |
| Years active | 1957–75, 1980 |
| Labels | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, EMI, Geffen, Polydor |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono |
| Website | www.johnlennon.com |
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| Rickenbacker 325 Epiphone Casino Gibson J-160E |
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film, and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2012 Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002 a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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1940–57: Early years[link]
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman who was away at the time of his son's birth.[1] He was named John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[2] His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother,[3] but the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944.[4][5] When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, but Julia—by then pregnant with another man's child—rejected the idea.[6] After her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpool's Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946 Lennon's father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[7] Julia followed them—with her partner at the time, 'Bobby' Dykins—and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her.[8] It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again.[9]
Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence he lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own, at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton.[10] His aunt bought him volumes of short stories, and his uncle, a dairyman at his family's farm, bought him a mouth organ and engaged him in solving crossword puzzles.[11] Julia visited Mendips on a regular basis, and when he was 11 years old he often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where she played him Elvis Presley records, and taught him the banjo, learning how to play "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino.[12]
In September 1980 he talked about his family and his rebellious nature:
Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents ... instinctively recognised what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did ... I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home, but I really did ... There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. Those women were fantastic ... that was my first feminist education ... One happened to be my mother ... she just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four-and-a-half, I ended up living with her elder sister ... the fact that I wasn't with my parents made me see that parents are not gods.[13]
He regularly visited his cousin, Stanley Parkes, who lived in Fleetwood. Seven years Lennon's senior, Parkes took him on trips, and to local cinemas.[14] During the school holidays, Parkes often visited Lennon with Leila Harvey, another cousin, often travelling to Blackpool two or three times a week to watch shows. They would visit the Blackpool Tower Circus and see artists such as Dickie Valentine, Arthur Askey, Max Bygraves and Joe Loss, with Parkes recalling that Lennon particularly liked George Formby.[15] After Parkes's family moved to Scotland, the three cousins often spent their school holidays together there. Parkes recalled, "John, cousin Leila and I were very close. From Edinburgh we would drive up to the family croft at Durness, which was from about the time John was nine years old until he was about 16."[16] He was 14 years old when his uncle George died of a liver haemorrhage on 5 June 1955 (aged 52).[17]
Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School.[18] From September 1952 to 1957, after passing his Eleven-Plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, and was described by Harvey at the time as, "A happy-go-lucky, good-humoured, easy going, lively lad."[19] He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called The Daily Howl,[20] but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time."[21]
His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations.[22] As Mimi was sceptical of his claim that he would be famous one day, she hoped he would grow bored with music, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it".[23] On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17 years old, his mother, walking home after visiting the Smiths' house, was struck by a car and killed.[24]
Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art only after his aunt and headmaster intervened.[25] Once at the college, he started wearing Teddy Boy clothes and acquired a reputation for disrupting classes and ridiculing teachers. As a result, he was excluded from the painting class, then the graphic arts course, and was threatened with expulsion for his behaviour, which included sitting on a nude model's lap during a life drawing class.[26] He failed an annual exam, despite help from fellow student and future wife Cynthia Powell, and was "thrown out of the college before his final year."[27]
1957–70: The Quarrymen to The Beatles[link]
Further information: The Quarrymen, Lennon–McCartney, Brian Epstein, The Beatles, Beatlemania, British Invasion, and More popular than Jesus
1957–65: Formation, commercial break-out, and touring years[link]
The Beatles evolved from Lennon's first band, the Quarrymen. Named after Quarry Bank High School, the group was established by him in September 1956 when he was 15, and began as a skiffle group.[28] By the summer of 1957 the Quarrymen played a "spirited set of songs" made up of half skiffle, and half rock and roll.[29] Lennon first met Paul McCartney at the Quarrymen's second performance, held in Woolton on 6 July at the St. Peter's Church garden fête, after which McCartney was asked to join the band.[30]
McCartney says that Aunt Mimi: "was very aware that John's friends were lower class", and would often patronise him when he arrived to visit Lennon.[31] According to Paul's brother Mike, McCartney's father was also disapproving, declaring Lennon would get his son "into trouble";[32] although he later allowed the fledgling band to rehearse in the McCartneys' front room at 20 Forthlin Road.[33][34] During this time, the 18-year-old Lennon wrote his first song, "Hello Little Girl", a UK top 10 hit for The Fourmost nearly five years later.[35]
George Harrison joined the band as lead guitarist,[36] even though Lennon thought Harrison (at 14 years old) was too young to join the band, so McCartney engineered a second audition on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, where Harrison played "Raunchy" for Lennon.[37] Stuart Sutcliffe, Lennon's friend from art school, later joined as bassist.[38] Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe became "The Beatles" in early 1960. In August that year The Beatles, engaged for a 48-night residency in Hamburg, Germany, and desperately in need of a drummer, asked Pete Best to join them.[39] Lennon was now 19, and his aunt, horrified when he told her about the trip, pleaded with him to continue his art studies instead.[40] After the first Hamburg residency, the band accepted another in April 1961, and a third in April 1962. Like the other band members, Lennon was introduced to Preludin while in Hamburg,[41] and regularly took the drug, as well as amphetamines, as a stimulant during their long, overnight performances.[42]
Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager from 1962, had no prior experience of artist management, but nevertheless had a strong influence on their early dress code and attitude on stage.[43] Lennon initially resisted his attempts to encourage the band to present a professional appearance, but eventually complied, saying, "I'll wear a bloody balloon if somebody's going to pay me".[44] McCartney took over on bass after Sutcliffe decided to stay in Hamburg, and drummer Ringo Starr replaced Best, completing the four-piece line-up that would endure until the group's break-up in 1970. The band's first single, "Love Me Do", was released in October 1962 and reached #17 on the British charts. They recorded their debut album, Please Please Me, in under 10 hours on 11 February 1963,[45] a day when Lennon was suffering the effects of a cold,[46] which is evident in the vocal on the last song to be recorded that day, Twist and Shout.[47] The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership yielded eight of its fourteen tracks. With few exceptions—one being the album title itself—Lennon had yet to bring his love of wordplay to bear on his song lyrics, saying: "We were just writing songs ... pop songs with no more thought of them than that–to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant".[45] In a 1987 interview, McCartney said that the other Beatles idolised John: "He was like our own little Elvis ... We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest".[48]
The Beatles achieved mainstream success in the UK during the beginning of 1963. Lennon was on tour when his first son, Julian, was born in April. During their Royal Variety Show performance, attended by the Queen Mother and other British royalty, Lennon poked fun at his audience: "For our next song, I'd like to ask for your help. For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands ... and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery."[49] After a year of Beatlemania in the UK, the group's historic February 1964 US debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show marked their breakthrough to international stardom. A two-year period of constant touring, moviemaking, and songwriting followed, during which Lennon wrote two books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.[50] The Beatles received recognition from the British Establishment when they were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1965.[51]
Lennon grew concerned that fans attending Beatles' concerts were unable to hear the music above the screaming of fans, and that the band's musicianship was beginning to suffer as a result.[52] Lennon's "Help!" expressed his own feelings in 1965: "I meant it ... It was me singing 'help'".[53] He had put on weight (he would later refer to this as his "Fat Elvis" period),[54] and felt he was subconsciously seeking change.[55] The following January he was unknowingly introduced to LSD when a dentist, hosting a dinner party attended by Lennon, Harrison and their wives, spiked the guests' coffee with the drug.[56] When they wanted to leave, their host revealed what they had taken, and strongly advised them not to leave the house because of the likely effects. Later, in an elevator at a nightclub, they all believed it was on fire: "We were all screaming ... hot and hysterical."[56] A few months later in March, during an interview with Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, Lennon remarked, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink ... We're more popular than Jesus now—I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity."[57] The comment went virtually unnoticed in England but caused great offence in the US when quoted by a magazine there five months later. The furore that followed—burning of Beatles' records, Ku Klux Klan activity, and threats against Lennon—contributed to the band's decision to stop touring.[58]
1966–70: Studio years, break-up and solo work[link]
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Lennon (right) performing "All You Need Is Love" with The Beatles in 1967 to 400 million viewers of "Our World".
Deprived of the routine of live performances after their final commercial concert on 29 August 1966, Lennon felt lost and considered leaving the band.[59] Since his involuntary introduction to LSD in January, he had made increasing use of the drug, and was almost constantly under its influence for much of the year."[60] According to biographer Ian MacDonald, Lennon's continuous experience with LSD during the year brought him "close to erasing his identity".[61] 1967 saw the release of "Strawberry Fields Forever", hailed by TIME magazine for its "astonishing inventiveness",[62] and the group's landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which revealed Lennon's lyrics contrasting strongly with the simple love songs of the Lennon–McCartney's early years.
In August, after having been introduced to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the group attended a weekend of personal instruction at his Transcendental Meditation seminar in Bangor, Wales,[63] and were informed of Epstein's death during the seminar. "I knew we were in trouble then", Lennon said later. "I didn't have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music, and I was scared".[64] They later travelled to Maharishi's ashram in India for further guidance, where they composed most of the songs for The Beatles and Abbey Road.[65]
The anti-war, black comedy How I Won the War, featuring Lennon's only appearance in a non–Beatles' full-length film, was shown in cinemas in October 1967.[66] McCartney organised the group's first post-Epstein project,[67] the self-written, -produced and -directed television film Magical Mystery Tour, released in December that year. While the film itself proved to be their first critical flop, its soundtrack release, featuring Lennon's acclaimed, Lewis Carroll-inspired "I am the Walrus", was a success.[68][69] With Epstein gone, the band members became increasingly involved in business activities, and in February 1968 they formed Apple Corps, a multimedia corporation comprising Apple Records and several other subsidiary companies. Lennon described the venture as an attempt to achieve, "artistic freedom within a business structure",[70] but his increased drug experimentation and growing preoccupation with Yoko Ono, and McCartney's own marriage plans, left Apple in need of professional management. Lennon asked Lord Beeching to take on the role, but he declined, advising Lennon to go back to making records. Lennon approached Allen Klein, who had managed The Rolling Stones and other bands during the British Invasion. Klein was appointed as Apple's chief executive by Lennon, Harrison and Starr,[71] but McCartney never signed the management contract.[72]
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Sample of "Give Peace a Chance", recorded in 1969 during Lennon and Ono's second Bed-In for Peace. As described by biographer Bill Harry, Lennon wanted to "write a peace anthem that would take over from the song 'We Shall Overcome'—and he succeeded ... it became the main anti-Vietnam protest song."[73]
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At the end of 1968, Lennon featured in the film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (not released until 1996) in the role of a Dirty Mac band member. The supergroup, comprising Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell, also backed a vocal performance by Ono in the film.[74] Lennon and Ono were married on 20 March 1969, and soon released a series of 14 lithographs called "Bag One" depicting scenes from their honeymoon,[75] eight of which were deemed indecent and most of which were banned and confiscated.[76] Lennon's creative focus continued to move beyond The Beatles and between 1968 and 1969 he and Ono recorded three albums of experimental music together: Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins[77] (known more for its cover than for its music), Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions and Wedding Album. In 1969 they formed The Plastic Ono Band, releasing Live Peace in Toronto 1969. In protest at Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War,[78] Lennon returned his MBE medal to the Queen, though this had no effect on his MBE status, which could not be renounced.[79] Between 1969 and 1970 Lennon released the singles "Give Peace a Chance" (widely adopted as an anti-Vietnam-War anthem in 1969),[80] "Cold Turkey" (documenting his withdrawal symptoms after he became addicted to heroin[81]) and "Instant Karma!".
Lennon left the group in September 1969,[82] and agreed not to inform the media while the band renegotiated their recording contract, but he was outraged that McCartney publicised his own departure on releasing his debut solo album in April 1970. Lennon's reaction was, "Jesus Christ! He gets all the credit for it!"[83] He later wrote, "I started the band. I disbanded it. It's as simple as that."[84] In later interviews with Rolling Stone magazine, he revealed his bitterness towards McCartney, saying, "I was a fool not to do what Paul did, which was use it to sell a record."[85] He spoke too of the hostility he perceived the other members had towards Ono, and of how he, Harrison, and Starr "got fed up with being sidemen for Paul ... After Brian Epstein died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us when we went round in circles?"[86]
1970–80: Solo career[link]
1970–72: Initial solo success and activism[link]
In 1970, Lennon and Ono went through primal therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov in Los Angeles, California. Designed to release emotional pain from early childhood, the therapy entailed two half-days a week with Janov for four months; he had wanted to treat the couple for longer, but they felt no need to continue and returned to London.[87] Lennon's emotional debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), was received with high praise. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock."[88] The album featured the songs "Mother", in which Lennon confronted his feelings of childhood rejection,[89] and the Dylanesque "Working Class Hero", a bitter attack against the bourgeois social system which, due to the lyric "you're still fucking peasants", fell foul of broadcasters.[90][91] The same year, Tariq Ali's revolutionary political views, expressed when he interviewed Lennon, inspired the singer to write "Power to the People". Lennon also became involved with Ali during a protest against Oz magazine's prosecution for alleged obscenity. Lennon denounced the proceedings as "disgusting fascism", and he and Ono (as Elastic Oz Band) released the single "God Save Us/Do the Oz" and joined marches in support of the magazine.[92]
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Sample of "Imagine", Lennon's "most famous post-Beatles' track."[93] Like "Give Peace a Chance", the song became an anti-war anthem, but its lyrics offended religious groups. Lennon's explanation was, "If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion, but without this 'my God is bigger than your God' thing—then it can be true."[94]
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With Lennon's next album, Imagine (1971), critical response was more guarded. Rolling Stone reported that "it contains a substantial portion of good music" but warned of the possibility that "his posturings will soon seem not merely dull but irrelevant".[95] The album's title track would become an anthem for anti-war movements,[96] while another, "How Do You Sleep?", was a musical attack on McCartney in response to lyrics from Ram that Lennon felt, and McCartney later confirmed,[97] were directed at him and Ono. However, Lennon softened his stance in the mid-1970s and said he had written "How Do You Sleep?" about himself.[98] He said in 1980: "I used my resentment against Paul ... to create a song ... not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta ... I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep'. I don't really go 'round with those thoughts in my head all the time".[99]
Lennon and Ono moved to New York in August 1971, and in December released "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".[100] To advertise the single, they paid for billboards in 12 cities around the world which declared, in the national language, "WAR IS OVER—IF YOU WANT IT".[101] The new year saw the Nixon Administration take what it called a "strategic counter-measure" against Lennon's anti-war propaganda, embarking on what would be a four-year attempt to deport him: embroiled in a continuing legal battle, he was denied permanent residency in the US until 1976.[102]
Recorded as a collaboration with Ono and with backing from the New York band Elephant's Memory, Some Time in New York City was released in 1972. Containing songs about women's rights, race relations, Britain's role in Northern Ireland, and Lennon's problems obtaining a green card,[103] the album was poorly received—unlistenable, according to one critic.[104] "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", released as a US single from the album the same year, was televised on 11 May, on The Dick Cavett Show. Many radio stations refused to broadcast the song because of the word "nigger".[105] Lennon and Ono gave two benefit concerts with Elephant's Memory and guests in New York in aid of patients at the Willowbrook State School mental facility.[106] Staged at Madison Square Garden on 30 August 1972, they were his last full-length concert appearances.[107]
1973–75: "Lost weekend"[link]
While Lennon was recording Mind Games (1973), he and Ono decided to separate. The ensuing 18-month period apart, which he later called his "lost weekend",[108] was spent in Los Angeles and New York in the company of May Pang. Mind Games, credited to the "Plastic U.F.Ono Band", was released in November 1973. Lennon also contributed "I'm the Greatest", to Starr's album Ringo (1973), released the same month. (an alternate take, from the same 1973 Ringo sessions, with Lennon providing a guide vocal, appears on John Lennon Anthology).
In early 1974, Lennon was drinking heavily and his alcohol-fuelled antics with Harry Nilsson made headlines. Two widely publicised incidents occurred at The Troubadour club in March, the first when Lennon placed a menstruation "towel" on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress, and the second, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers.[109] Lennon decided to produce Nilsson's album Pussy Cats and Pang rented a Los Angeles beach house for all the musicians[110] but after a month of further debauchery, with the recording sessions in chaos, Lennon moved to New York with Pang to finish work on the album. In April, Lennon had produced the Mick Jagger song "Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)" which was, for contractual reasons, to remain unreleased for more than 30 years. Pang supplied the recording for its eventual inclusion on The Very Best of Mick Jagger (2007).[111]
Settled back in New York, Lennon recorded the album Walls and Bridges. Released in October 1974, it yielded his only number-one single in his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", featuring Elton John on backing vocals and piano.[112] A second single from the album, "#9 Dream", followed before the end of the year. Starr's Goodnight Vienna (1974) again saw assistance from Lennon, who wrote the title track and played piano.[113] On 28 November, Lennon made a surprise guest appearance at Elton John's Thanksgiving concert at Madison Square Garden, in fulfilment of his promise to join the singer in a live show if "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"—a song whose commercial potential Lennon had doubted—reached number one. Lennon performed the song along with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There", which he introduced as "a song by an old estranged fiancee of mine called Paul".[114]
Lennon co-wrote "Fame", David Bowie's first US number one, and provided guitar and backing vocals for the January 1975 recording.[115] The same month, Elton John topped the charts with his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", featuring Lennon on guitar and back-up vocals (Lennon is credited on the single under the moniker of "Dr. Winston O'Boogie"). He and Ono were reunited shortly afterwards. Lennon released Rock 'n' Roll (1975), an album of cover songs, in February. "Stand by Me", taken from the album and a US and UK hit, became his last single for five years.[116] He made what would be his final stage appearance in the ATV special A Salute to Lew Grade, recorded on 18 April and televised in June.[117] Playing acoustic guitar, and backed by an eight-piece band, Lennon performed two songs from Rock 'n' Roll ("Stand By Me", which was not broadcast, and "Slippin' and Slidin'") followed by "Imagine".[117]
1975–80: Retirement and return[link]
With the birth of his second son Sean on 9 October 1975, Lennon took on the role of househusband, beginning what would be a five-year hiatus from the music industry during which he gave all his attention to his family.[13] Within the month, he fulfilled his contractual obligation to EMI/Capitol for one more album by releasing Shaved Fish, a compilation album of previously recorded tracks.[13] He devoted himself to Sean, rising at 6 am daily to plan and prepare his meals and to spend time with him.[118] He wrote "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)" for Starr's Ringo's Rotogravure (1976), performing on the track in June in what would be his last recording session until 1980.[119] He formally announced his break from music in Tokyo in 1977, saying, "we have basically decided, without any great decision, to be with our baby as much as we can until we feel we can take time off to indulge ourselves in creating things outside of the family."[120] During his career break he created several series of drawings, and drafted a book containing a mix of autobiographical material and what he termed "mad stuff",[121] all of which would be published posthumously.
He emerged from retirement in October 1980 with the single "(Just Like) Starting Over", followed the next month by the album Double Fantasy, which contained songs written during a journey to Bermuda on a 43-foot sailing boat the previous June,[122] that reflected Lennon's fulfilment in his new-found stable family life.[123] Sufficient additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album Milk and Honey (released posthumously in 1984).[124] Released jointly with Ono, Double Fantasy was not well received, drawing comments such as Melody Maker's "indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn".[125]
8 December 1980: Death[link]
Main article: Death of John Lennon
At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of the nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm.[126] Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.[127]
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John", ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him."[128] His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created.[129] Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2011, he remains in prison, having been denied parole six times.[130][131]
Personal relationships[link]
Cynthia Lennon[link]
Further information: Cynthia Lennon
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John Lennon and Cynthia Powell in 1959
Lennon and Cynthia Powell met in 1957 as fellow students at the Liverpool College of Art.[132] Although being scared of Lennon's attitude and appearance, she heard that he was obsessed with French actress Brigitte Bardot, so she dyed her hair blonde. Lennon asked her out, but when she said that she was engaged, he screamed out, "I didn't ask you to fuckin' marry me, did I?"[133] She often accompanied him to Quarrymen gigs and travelled to Hamburg with McCartney's girlfriend at the time to visit him.[134] Lennon, jealous by nature, eventually grew possessive and often terrified Powell with his anger and physical violence.[135] Lennon later said that until he met Ono, he had never questioned his chauvinistic attitude to women. The Beatles' song "Getting Better", he said, told his own story, "I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically—any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace".[13]
Recalling his reaction in July 1962 on learning that Cynthia was pregnant, Lennon said, "There's only one thing for it Cyn. We'll have to get married."[136] The couple were married on 23 August at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool. His marriage began just as Beatlemania took hold across the UK. He performed on the evening of his wedding day, and would continue to do so almost daily from then on.[137] Epstein, fearing that fans would be alienated by the idea of a married Beatle, asked the Lennons to keep their marriage secret. Julian was born on 8 April 1963; Lennon was on tour at the time and did not see his son until three days later.[138]
Cynthia attributes the start of the marriage breakdown to LSD, and as a result, she felt that he slowly lost interest in her.[139] When the group travelled by train to Bangor, Wales, in 1967, for the Maharishi Yogi's Transcendental Meditation seminar, a policeman did not recognise her and stopped her from boarding. She later recalled how the incident seemed to symbolise the ending of their marriage.[140] After arriving home at Kenwood, and finding Lennon with Ono, Cynthia left the house to stay with friends. Alexis Mardas later claimed to have slept with her that night, and a few weeks later he informed her that Lennon was seeking a divorce and custody of Julian on grounds of her adultery with him. After negotiations, Lennon capitulated and agreed to her divorcing him on the same grounds. The case was settled out of court, with Lennon giving her £100,000, and custody of Julian.[141]
Brian Epstein[link]
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Starr, McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Epstein at the preview of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964
Further information: Brian Epstein
The Beatles were performing at Liverpool's Cavern Club in 1962, when all four Beatles were introduced to Epstein after a midday concert. Epstein was homosexual. According to biographer Philip Norman, one of his reasons for wanting to manage the group was that he was physically attracted to Lennon. Almost as soon as Julian was born, Lennon went on holiday to Spain with Epstein, leading to speculation about their relationship. Questioned about it later, Lennon said, "Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship. It was my first experience with a homosexual that I was conscious was homosexual. We used to sit in a café in Torremolinos looking at all the boys and I'd say, 'Do you like that one? Do you like this one?' I was rather enjoying the experience, thinking like a writer all the time: I am experiencing this."[142] Soon after their return from Spain, at McCartney's twenty-first birthday party in June 1963, Lennon physically attacked Cavern Club MC Bob Wooler for saying "How was your honeymoon, John?" The MC, known for his wordplay and affectionate but cutting remarks, was making a joke,[143] but ten months had passed since Lennon's marriage, and the honeymoon, deferred, was still two months in the future.[144] To Lennon, who was intoxicated with alcohol at the time, the matter was simple: "He called me a queer so I battered his bloody ribs in".[145]
Lennon delighted in mocking Epstein for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish.[146] When Epstein invited suggestions for the title of his autobiography, Lennon offered Queer Jew; on learning of the eventual title, A Cellarful of Noise, he parodied, "More like A Cellarful of Boys".[147] He demanded of a visitor to Epstein's flat, "Have you come to blackmail him? If not, you're the only bugger in London who hasn't."[146] During the recording of "Baby, You're a Rich Man", he sang altered choruses of "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew".[148][149]
Julian Lennon[link]
Further information: Julian Lennon
Lennon's first son, Julian, was born as his commitments with The Beatles intensified at the height of Beatlemania during his marriage to Cynthia. Lennon was touring with The Beatles when Julian was born on 8 April 1963. Julian's birth, like his mother Cynthia's marriage to Lennon, was kept secret because Epstein was convinced public knowledge of such things would threaten The Beatles' commercial success. Julian recalls how some four years later, as a small child in Weybridge, "I was trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolour paintings. It was just a bunch of stars and this blonde girl I knew at school. And Dad said, 'What's this?' I said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'"[150] Lennon used it as the title of a Beatles' song, and though it was later reported to have been derived from the initials LSD, Lennon insisted, "It's not an acid song."[151] McCartney corroborated Lennon's explanation that Julian innocently came up with the name.[151] Lennon was distant from Julian, who felt closer to McCartney than to his father. During a car journey to visit Cynthia and Julian during Lennon's divorce, McCartney composed a song, "Hey Jules", to comfort him. It would evolve into The Beatles song "Hey Jude". Lennon later said, "That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian ... he turned it into 'Hey Jude'. I always thought it was about me and Yoko but he said it wasn't."[152]
Lennon's relationship with Julian was already strained, and after Lennon and Ono's 1971 move to New York, Julian would not see his father again until 1973.[153] With Pang's encouragement, it was arranged for him (and his mother) to visit Lennon in Los Angeles, where they went to Disneyland.[154] Julian started to see his father regularly, and Lennon gave him a drumming part on a Walls and Bridges track.[155] He bought Julian a Gibson Les Paul guitar and other instruments, and encouraged his interest in music by demonstrating guitar chord techniques.[155] Julian recalls that he and his father "got on a great deal better" during the time he spent in New York: "We had a lot of fun, laughed a lot and had a great time in general."[156]
In a Playboy interview with David Sheff shortly before his death, Lennon said, "Sean was a planned child, and therein lies the difference. I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they didn't have pills in those days. He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will." He said he was trying to re-establish a connection with the then 17-year-old, and confidently predicted, "Julian and I will have a relationship in the future."[13] After his death it was revealed that he had left Julian very little in his will.[157]
Yoko Ono[link]
Further information: Yoko Ono
Two versions exist of how Lennon met Ono. According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.[158] Lennon was intrigued by Ono's "Hammer A Nail": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono had supposedly not heard of The Beatles, but relented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."[13] The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on, Notations, but McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book, suggesting that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word".[159]
Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for an explanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit".[160] In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the Two Virgins album, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn."[161] When Lennon's wife returned home she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, "Oh, hi."[162] Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child they named John Ono Lennon II on 21 November 1968,[129] a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.[163]
During Lennon's last two years in The Beatles, he and Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War. They were married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for peace. They planned another Bed-In in the United States, but were denied entry,[164] so held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance".[165] They often combined advocacy with performance art, as in their "Bagism", first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles' song "The Ballad of John and Yoko".[166] Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Ono" as a middle name. The brief ceremony took place on the roof of the Apple Corps building, made famous three months earlier by The Beatles' Let It Be rooftop concert. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth.[167] After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles' last album, Abbey Road.[168] To escape the acrimony of the band's break-up, Ono suggested they move permanently to New York, which they did on 31 August 1971.
They first lived in the St. Regis Hotel on 5th Avenue, East 55th Street, then moved to a street-level flat at 105 Bank Street, Greenwich Village, on 16 October 1971. After a robbery, they relocated to the more secure Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street, in May 1973.[169]
May Pang[link]
Further information: May Pang
ABKCO Industries, formed in 1968 by Allen Klein as an umbrella company to ABKCO Records, recruited May Pang as a receptionist in 1969. Through involvement in a project with ABKCO, Lennon and Ono met her the following year. She became their personal assistant. After she had been working with the couple for three years, Ono confided that she and Lennon were becoming estranged from one another. She went on to suggest that Pang should begin a physical relationship with Lennon, telling her, "He likes you a lot." Pang, 22, astounded by Ono's proposition, eventually agreed to become Lennon's companion. The pair soon moved to California, beginning an 18-month period he later called his "lost weekend".[108] In Los Angeles, Pang encouraged Lennon to develop regular contact with Julian, whom he had not seen for two years. He also rekindled friendships with Starr, McCartney, Beatles' roadie Mal Evans, and Harry Nilsson. Whilst drinking with Nilsson, after misunderstanding something Pang said, Lennon attempted to strangle her, relenting only when physically restrained by Nilsson.[170]
On moving to New York, they prepared a spare room in their newly rented apartment for Julian to visit.[170] Lennon, hitherto inhibited by Ono in this regard, began to reestablish contact with other relatives and friends. By December he and Pang were considering a house purchase, and he was refusing to accept Ono's telephone calls. In January 1975, he agreed to meet Ono—who said she had found a cure for smoking. But after the meeting he failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, being exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment, stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress.[171]
Sean Lennon[link]
Further information: Sean Lennon
When Lennon and Ono were reunited, she became pregnant, but having previously suffered three miscarriages in her attempt to have a child with Lennon, she said she wanted an abortion. She agreed to allow the pregnancy to continue on condition that Lennon adopt the role of househusband; this he agreed to do.[172] Sean was born on 9 October 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday, delivered by Caesarean section. Lennon's subsequent career break would span five years. He had a photographer take pictures of Sean every day of his first year, and created numerous drawings for him, posthumously published as Real Love: The Drawings for Sean. Lennon later proudly declared, "He didn't come out of my belly but, by God, I made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and to how he sleeps, and to the fact that he swims like a fish."[173]
Former Beatles[link]
Although his friendship with Starr remained consistently warm during the years following The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Lennon's relationship with McCartney and Harrison varied. He was close to Harrison initially, but the two drifted apart after Lennon moved to America. When Harrison was in New York for his December 1974 Dark Horse tour, Lennon agreed to join him on stage, but failed to appear after an argument over Lennon's refusal to sign an agreement that would finally dissolve The Beatles' legal partnership. (Lennon eventually signed the papers while holidaying in Florida with Pang and Julian.[174]) Harrison incensed Lennon in 1980 when he published an autobiography that made little mention of him. Lennon told Playboy, "I was hurt by it. By glaring omission ... my influence on his life is absolutely zilch ... he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I'm not in the book."[175]
Lennon's most intense feelings were reserved for McCartney. In addition to attacking him through the lyrics of "How Do You Sleep?", Lennon argued with him through the press for three years after the group split. The two later began to reestablish something of the close friendship they had once known, and in 1974 even played music together again, before growing apart once more. Lennon said that during McCartney's final visit, in April 1976, they watched the episode of Saturday Night Live in which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer to get The Beatles to reunite on the show.[176] The pair considered going to the studio to make a joke appearance, attempting to claim their share of the money, but were too tired.[13] Lennon summarised his feelings towards McCartney in an interview three days before his death: "Throughout my career, I've selected to work with...only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono....That ain't bad picking."[177]
Along with his estrangement from McCartney, Lennon always felt a musical competitiveness with him and kept an ear on his music. During his five-year career break he was content to sit back so long as McCartney was producing what Lennon saw as mediocre "product".[178] When McCartney released "Coming Up" in 1980, the year Lennon returned to the studio and the last year of his life, he took notice. "It's driving me crackers!" he jokingly complained, because he could not get the tune out of his head.[178] Asked the same year whether the group were dreaded enemies or the best of friends, he replied that they were neither, and that he had not seen any of them in a long time. But he also said, "I still love those guys. The Beatles are over, but John, Paul, George and Ringo go on."[13]
Political activism[link]
Lennon and Ono used their honeymoon as what they termed a "Bed-In for Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel; the March 1969 event attracted worldwide media ridicule.[179][180] At a second Bed-In three months later at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal[181] Lennon wrote and recorded "Give Peace a Chance". Released as a single, it was quickly taken up as an anti-war anthem and sung by a quarter of a million demonstrators against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC, on 15 October, the second Vietnam Moratorium Day.[80][182]
Later that year, Lennon and Ono supported efforts by the family of James Hanratty, hanged for murder in 1962, to prove his innocence.[183] Those who had condemned Hanratty were, according to Lennon, "the same people who are running guns to South Africa and killing blacks in the streets. ... The same bastards are in control, the same people are running everything, it's the whole bullshit bourgeois scene."[184] In London, Lennon and Ono staged a "Britain Murdered Hanratty" banner march and a "Silent Protest For James Hanratty",[78] and produced a 40-minute documentary on the case. At an appeal hearing years later, Hanratty's conviction was upheld.[185]
Lennon and Ono showed their solidarity with the Clydeside UCS workers' work-in of 1971 by sending a bouquet of red roses and a cheque for £5,000.[186] On moving to New York City in August that year, they befriended two of the Chicago Seven, Yippie peace activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.[187] Another peace activist, John Sinclair, poet and co-founder of the White Panther Party, was serving ten years in prison for selling two joints of marijuana after previous convictions for possession of the drug.[188] In December 1971 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20,000 people attended the "John Sinclair Freedom Rally", a protest and benefit concert with contributions from Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party, and others.[189] Lennon and Ono, backed by David Peel and Rubin, performed an acoustic set of four songs from their forthcoming Some Time in New York City album including "John Sinclair", whose lyrics called for his release. The day before the rally, Michigan State had drastically reduced the penalties for Sinclair's crimes and three days after the rally, he was released on bail.[190] The performance was recorded and two of the tracks later appeared on John Lennon Anthology (1998).[191]
Following the Bloody Sunday incident in Northern Ireland in 1972, in which 13 unarmed civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army, Lennon said that given the choice between the army and the IRA (who were not involved in the incident) he would side with the latter. Lennon and Ono wrote two songs protesting British presence and actions in Ireland for their Some Time in New York City album: "Luck of the Irish" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In 2000, David Shayler, a former member of Britain's domestic security service MI5 suggested that Lennon had given money to the IRA though this was swiftly denied by Ono.[192] Biographer Bill Harry records that following Bloody Sunday, Lennon and Ono financially supported the production of the film The Irish Tapes, a political documentary with a Republican slant.[193]
According to FBI surveillance reports (and confirmed by Tariq Ali in 2006) Lennon was sympathetic to the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group formed in Britain in 1968.[194] However, the FBI considered Lennon to have limited effectiveness as a revolutionary since he was "constantly under the influence of narcotics".[195]
Deportation attempt[link]
Following the impact of "Give Peace a Chance" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", both strongly associated with the anti–Vietnam War movement, the Nixon administration, hearing rumours of Lennon's involvement in a concert to be held in San Diego at the same time as the Republican National Convention,[196] tried to have him deported. Nixon believed that Lennon's anti-war activities could cost him his re-election;[197] Republican Senator Strom Thurmond suggested in a February 1972 memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure" against Lennon.[198] The next month the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began deportation proceedings, arguing that his 1968 misdemeanor conviction for cannabis possession in London had made him ineligible for admission to the United States. Lennon spent the next three and a half years in and out of deportation hearings until on 8 October 1975, when a court of appeals barred the deportation attempt, stating " ... the courts will not condone selective deportation based upon secret political grounds."[199][103] While the legal battle continued, Lennon attended rallies and made television appearances. Lennon and Ono co-hosted the Mike Douglas Show for a week in February 1972, introducing guests such as Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale to mid-America.[200] In 1972, Bob Dylan wrote a letter to the INS defending Lennon, stating:
John and Yoko add a great voice and drive to the country's so-called art institution. They inspire and transcend and stimulate and by doing so, only help others to see pure light and in doing that, put an end to this dull taste of petty commercialism which is being passed off as Artist Art by the overpowering mass media. Hurray for John and Yoko. Let them stay and live here and breathe. The country's got plenty of room and space. Let John and Yoko stay![201][202]
On 23 March 1973, Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days.[203] Ono, meanwhile, was granted permanent residence. In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference on 1 April 1973 at the New York City Bar Association, where they announced the formation of the state of Nutopia; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people".[204] Waving the white flag of Nutopia (two handkerchiefs), they asked for political asylum in the US. The press conference was filmed, and would later appear in the 2006 documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon.[205] Lennon's Mind Games (1973) included the track "Nutopian International Anthem", which comprised three seconds of silence.[206] Soon after the press conference, Nixon's involvement in a political scandal came to light, and in June the Watergate hearings began in Washington, DC. They led to the president's resignation 14 months later. Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, showed little interest in continuing the battle against Lennon, and the deportation order was overturned in 1975. The following year, his US immigration status finally resolved, Lennon received his "green card" certifying his permanent residency, and when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president in January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball.[207]
FBI surveillance and declassified documents[link]
After Lennon's death, historian Jon Wiener filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files documenting the Bureau's role in the deportation attempt.[208] The FBI admitted it had 281 pages of files on Lennon, but refused to release most of them on the grounds that they contained national security information. In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. It took 14 years of litigation to force the FBI to release the withheld pages.[209] The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favourable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991.[210] The Justice Department appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in April 1992, but the court declined to review the case.[211] In 1997, respecting President Bill Clinton's newly instigated rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm", the Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues outside court by releasing all but 10 of the contested documents.[211] Wiener published the results of his 14-year campaign in January 2000. Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files contained facsimiles of the documents, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges".[212] The story is told in the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon. The final 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file, which reported on his ties with London anti-war activists in 1971 and had been withheld as containing "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality", were released in December 2006. They contained no indication that the British government had regarded Lennon as a serious threat; one example of the released material was a report that two prominent British leftists had hoped Lennon would finance a left-wing bookshop and reading room.[213]
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Further information: Jon_Wiener#Wiener_battles_with_the_FBI
Writing and art[link]
Lennon's biographer Bill Harry writes that Lennon began drawing and writing creatively at an early age with the encouragement of his uncle. He collected his stories, poetry, cartoons, and caricatures in a Quarry Bank High School exercise book that he called the Daily Howl. The drawings were often of crippled people, and the writings satirical, and throughout the book was an abundance of wordplay. According to classmate Bill Turner, Lennon created the Daily Howl to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen band mate, Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner said that Lennon "had an obsession for Wigan Pier. It kept cropping up", and in Lennon's story A Carrot In A Potato Mine, "the mine was at the end of Wigan Pier." Turner described how one of Lennon's cartoons depicted a bus stop sign annotated with the question, "Why?". Above was a flying pancake, and below, "a blind man wearing glasses leading along a blind dog—also wearing glasses".[214]
Lennon's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24. Harry writes that In His Own Write (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around The Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories, poetry, plays and drawings. One story, "Good Dog Nigel", tells the tale of "a happy dog, urinating on a lamp post, barking, wagging his tail—until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock". The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories "remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on, words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy". Book Week reported, "This is nonsense writing, but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me".[215]
In combination with A Spaniard in the Works (1965), In His Own Write formed the basis of the stage play The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write, co-adapted by Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy. After negotiations between Lennon, Spinetti and the artistic director of the National Theatre, Sir Laurence Olivier, the play opened at the Old Vic in 1968. Lennon and Ono attended the opening night performance, their second public appearance together to date.[216] After Lennon's death, further works were published, including Skywriting by Word of Mouth (1986); Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes: A Personal Sketchbook (1992), with Lennon's illustrations of the definitions of Japanese words; and Real Love: The Drawings for Sean (1999). The Beatles Anthology (2000) also presented examples of his writings and drawings.
Musicianship[link]
Instruments played[link]
Further information: John Lennon's musical instruments and List of The Beatles' instruments
His playing of a mouth organ during a bus journey to visit his cousin in Scotland caught the driver's ear. Impressed, the driver told Lennon of a harmonica he could have if he came to Edinburgh the following day, where one had been stored in the bus depot since a passenger left it on a bus.[217] The professional instrument quickly replaced Lennon's toy. He would continue to play harmonica, often using the instrument during The Beatles' Hamburg years, and it became a signature sound in the group's early recordings. His mother taught him how to play the banjo, later buying him an acoustic guitar. At 16, he played rhythm guitar with the Quarrymen.[218] As his career progressed, he played a variety of electric guitars, predominantly the Rickenbacker 325, Epiphone Casino and Gibson J-160E, and, from the start of his solo career, the Gibson Les Paul Junior.[219][220] Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles' numbers that occupied McCartney with another instrument.[221] His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including "Imagine", described as his best-known solo work.[222] His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of The Beatles' first US number one, "I Want to Hold Your Hand".[223] In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though it was not heard on a Beatles' recording until "Strawberry Fields Forever" in late 1966.[224]
Vocal style[link]
When Lennon recorded "Twist and Shout", the final track during the mammoth one-day session that captured the band's 1963 debut album Please Please Me, his voice, already compromised by a cold, came close to giving out. Lennon said, "I couldn't sing the damn thing, I was just screaming."[225] In the words of biographer Barry Miles, "Lennon simply shredded his vocal cords in the interests of rock 'n' roll."[226] The Beatles' producer, George Martin, tells how Lennon "had an inborn dislike of his own voice which I could never understand. He was always saying to me: 'DO something with my voice! ... put something on it ... Make it different.'"[227] Martin obliged, often using double-tracking and other techniques. Music critic Robert Christgau says that Lennon's "greatest vocal performance ... from scream to whine, is modulated electronically ... echoed, filtered, and double tracked."[228]
As his Beatles' era segued into his solo career, his singing voice found a widening range of expression. Biographer Chris Gregory writes that Lennon was, "tentatively beginning to expose his insecurities in a number of acoustic-led 'confessional' ballads, so beginning the process of 'public therapy' that will eventually culminate in the primal screams of 'Cold Turkey' and the cathartic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band."[229] David Stuart Ryan notes Lennon's vocal delivery to range from, "extreme vulnerability, sensitivity and even naivety" to a hard "rasping" style.[230] Wiener too describes contrasts, saying the singer's voice can be "at first subdued; soon it almost cracks with despair"[231] Music historian Ben Urish recalls hearing The Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show performance of "This Boy" played on the radio a few days after Lennon's murder: "As Lennon's vocals reached their peak ... it hurt too much to hear him scream with such anguish and emotion. But it was my emotions I heard in his voice. Just like I always had."[232]
Legacy[link]
Music historians Schinder and Schwartz, writing of the transformation in popular music styles that took place between the 1950s and the 1960s, say that The Beatles' influence cannot be overstated: having "revolutionized the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll's doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts", the group then "spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers".[233] Liam Gallagher, his group Oasis among the many who acknowledge the band's influence, identifies Lennon as a hero; in 1999 he named his first child Lennon Gallagher in tribute.[234] On National Poetry Day in 1999, after conducting a poll to identify the UK's favourite song lyric, the BBC announced "Imagine" the winner.[94]
In a 2006 Guardian article, Jon Wiener wrote: "For young people in 1972, it was thrilling to see Lennon's courage in standing up to [US President] Nixon. That willingness to take risks with his career, and his life, is one reason why people still admire him today."[235] Whilst for music historians Urish and Bielen, Lennon's most significant effort was "the self-portraits ... in his songs [which] spoke to, for, and about, the human condition."[236]
Lennon continues to be mourned throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous memorials and tributes. In 2010, on what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday, the John Lennon Peace Monument was unveiled in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, by Cynthia and Julian Lennon.[237] The sculpture entitled 'Peace & Harmony' exhibits peace symbols and carries the inscription "Peace on Earth for the Conservation of Life · In Honour of John Lennon 1940–1980".
Awards and sales[link]
The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century. As performer, writer or co-writer Lennon has had 25 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units.[238] Double Fantasy, released shortly before his death, and his best-selling, post-Beatles' studio album[239] at three million shipments in the US,[240] won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.[241] The following year, the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music went to Lennon.[242]
Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him eighth of "100 Greatest Britons".[243] Between 2003 and 2008, Rolling Stone recognised Lennon in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"[244] and 38th of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time",[245] and his albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, 22nd and 76th respectively of "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[245][246] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) with the other Beatles in 1965.[51] He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987[247] and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.[107]
Discography[link]
Main article: John Lennon discography
See also: The Beatles discography
- Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (with Yoko Ono) (1968)
- Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions (with Yoko Ono) (1969)
- Wedding Album (with Yoko Ono) (1969)
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
- Imagine (1971)
- Some Time in New York City (with Yoko Ono) (1972)
- Mind Games (1973)
- Walls and Bridges (1974)
- Rock 'n' Roll (1975)
- Double Fantasy (with Yoko Ono) (1980)
- Milk and Honey (with Yoko Ono) (1984)
- Menlove Ave. (1986)
Notes[link]
^ Note a: Lennon was responsible for 25 Billboard Hot 100 number one singles as performer, writer or co-writer.
- Solo (2): "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", "(Just Like) Starting Over".[248]
- With The Beatles (20): "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "A Hard Day's Night", "Eight Days a Week", "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", "Paperback Writer", "We Can Work It Out", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello Goodbye", "Penny Lane", "Hey Jude", "Something/"Come Together", "Get Back", "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue".[249]
- As co-writer of and performer on release by another artist (1): "Fame" (David Bowie).[250]
- As co-writer of releases by other artists (2): "A World Without Love" (Peter and Gordon),[251] "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Elton John).[252]
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- Wiener, Jon. The John Lennon FBI Files
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| Name | Lennon, John |
| Alternative names | Lennon, John Winston (birth name); Lennon, John Winston Ono |
| Short description | Rock musician |
| Date of birth | 9 October 1940 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 8 December 1980 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, United States of America |
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| Dick Cavett | |
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 Cavett in April 2010 |
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| Birth name | Richard Alva Cavett |
| Born | (1936-11-19) November 19, 1936 (age 75) Gibbon, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Years active | 1959–present |
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| Outstanding Variety Series - Talk 1972 The Dick Cavett Show Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement 1974 The Dick Cavett Show |
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Richard Alva Cavett (English pronunciation: /ˈkævɨt/; born November 19, 1936) — known as Dick Cavett — is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
In recent years, Cavett has written a blog for the New York Times, promoted DVDs of his former shows, and hosted replays of his classic TV interviews with Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, and others on Turner Classic Movies channel.[1][2]
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Early life[link]
Cavett was born in Nebraska,[3] but sources differ as to the specific town, locating his birthplace in either Gibbon,[4][5] where his family lived, or nearby Kearney, the location of the nearest hospital.[6][7] His mother Erabel "Era" (née Richards) and his father Alva B. Cavett both worked as educators.[8] When asked by Lucille Ball on his own show about his heritage, he said he was "Scottish, Irish, English, and possibly partly French, and, and uh, a dose of German." He also mentioned that one grandfather "came over" from England, and the other from Wales.[9] Cavett's grandparents all lived in Grand Island, Nebraska. His paternal grandparents were Alva A. Cavett and Gertrude Pinsch.[10] His paternal grandfather was from Diller, Nebraska and his paternal grandmother was an immigrant from Aachen, Germany.[citation needed] His maternal grandparents were the Rev. R. R. and Etta Mae Richards. Rev. Richards was from Carmarthen, Wales and was a Baptist minister who served parishes across central Nebraska.[citation needed]
Cavett's parents taught in Comstock, Gibbon, and Grand Island,[11] where Cavett started kindergarten at Wasmer Elementary School. Three years later, both of his parents landed teaching positions in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Cavett completed his education at Capitol, Prescott, and Irving schools and Lincoln High School. When Cavett was ten, his mother died of cancer at age 36. His father subsequently married Dorcas Deland, also an educator, originally from Alliance, Nebraska. On September 24, 1995 Lincoln Public Schools dedicated the new Dorcas C. and Alva B. Cavett Elementary School in their honor.[12][13]
In eighth grade, Cavett directed a live Saturday-morning radio show sponsored by the Junior League and played the title role in The Winslow Boy. One of his high-school classmates was actress Sandy Dennis. Cavett was elected state president of the student council in high school, and was a gold-medalist at the state gymnastics championship.[14][15]
Before leaving for college, he worked as a caddy at the Lincoln Country Club. He also began performing magic shows for $35 a night under the tutelage of Gene Gloye. In 1952 Cavett attended the convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in St. Louis and won the Best New Performer trophy.[15] Around the same time, he met fellow magician Johnny Carson, eleven years his senior, who was doing a magic act at a church in Lincoln.[16]
While attending Yale University, Cavett played in and directed dramas on the campus radio station, WYBC, and appeared in Yale Drama productions.[17] In his senior year, he changed his major from English to Drama. He also took advantage of any opportunity to meet stars, routinely going to shows in New York to hang around stage doors or venture backstage. He would go so far as to carry a copy of Variety or an appropriate piece of company stationery in order to look inconspicuous while sneaking backstage or into a TV studio.[18] Cavett took many odd jobs ranging from store detective to label-typist for a Wall Street firm, and as a copy boy at Time Magazine.[19]
Marriage[link]
At Yale School of Drama, Cavett met his future wife, Caroline Nye McGeoy (known professionally as Carrie Nye), a native of Greenwood, Mississippi. After graduation, the two acted in summer theater in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Cavett worked for two weeks in a local lumberyard in order to buy an engagement ring. On June 4, 1964, they were married in New York. Their marriage was at times tumultuous, but they remained married until Nye's death on July 14, 2006.
In 2010, Cavett married business author Martha Rogers, Ph.D. in a small ceremony in New Orleans, Louisiana.[20]
[edit] The Tonight Show
In 1960, Cavett was living in a three-room, fifth-floor walk-up on West 89th Street in Manhattan for $51 a month.
He was cast in a film by the Signal Corps, but further jobs were not forthcoming. He was an extra on The Phil Silvers Show, a TV remake of Body and Soul, and Playhouse 90 ("The Hiding Place"). He briefly revived his magic act while working as a typist and as a mystery shopper in department stores. Meanwhile, Nye landed several Broadway roles.
Cavett was a copyboy (gofer) at Time[21] when he read a newspaper item about Jack Paar, then host of The Tonight Show. The article described Paar's concerns about his opening monologue and constant search for material. Cavett wrote some jokes, put them into a Time envelope, and went to the RCA Building. He ran into Paar in a hallway and handed him the envelope.[21] He then went to sit in the studio audience. During the show, Paar worked in some of the lines Cavett had fed him.[21] Afterward, Cavett got into an elevator with Paar, who invited him to contribute more jokes. Within weeks, Cavett was hired, originally as talent coordinator. Cavett wrote for Paar the famous line, "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield," as an introduction for the buxom actress.[22] Cavett appeared on the show in 1961, interpreting Miss Universe of 1961, Marlene Schmidt of Germany.
While at Time, Cavett wrote a letter to Stan Laurel. The two later met at Laurel's apartment in Hollywood. Later the same day, Cavett wrote a tribute that Paar read on the show, which Laurel saw and appreciated. Cavett visited Laurel a few more times, up to three weeks before Laurel's death.
In his capacity as talent coordinator for The Tonight Show, Cavett was sent to the Blue Angel nightclub to see Woody Allen's act, and immediately afterward struck up a friendship. The very next day, the funeral of playwright George S. Kaufman was held at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home. Allen could not attend, but Cavett did, where he met Groucho Marx in an anteroom. From the funeral, Cavett followed Marx (who later told Cavett that Kaufman was "his personal god") three blocks up Fifth Avenue to the Plaza Hotel, where Marx invited him to lunch.[21] Years later, Cavett gave the introduction to Marx's one-man show, An Evening with Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall, and began by saying, "I can't believe that I know Groucho Marx."[23][24]
Cavett continued with The Tonight Show as a writer after Johnny Carson assumed hosting duties. For Carson he wrote the line, "Having your taste criticized by Dorothy Kilgallen is like having your clothes criticized by Emmett Kelly." He even appeared to do a gymnastics routine on the pommel horse on the show. After departing The Tonight Show, Cavett wrote for Jerry Lewis's ill-fated talk show, for three times the money. He returned to The Tonight Show, however, when Marx was interim host for Carson in July 1964.
Years later, when he was a guest on The Tonight Show, Carson told Cavett that his favorite joke Cavett wrote for him was the humorous caption to a newspaper photo of Aristotle Onassis looking at the home of Buster Keaton, which he was considering purchasing: "Aristotle Contemplating the Home of Buster."[citation needed]
Stand-up comic[link]
Cavett began a brief career as a stand-up comic in 1964 at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village.[25] His manager was Jack Rollins, who later became famous as the producer of Woody Allen's films.
His most famous line from this period may have been the following:
He also played Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and the Hungry i in San Francisco. In San Francisco, he met Lenny Bruce, about whom he said:
I liked him and wish I had known him better...but most of what has been written about him is a waste of good ink, and his most zealous adherents and hardest-core devotees are to be avoided, even if it means working your way around the world in the hold of a goat transport.[26]
In 1965, Cavett did some commercial voiceovers, including a series of mock interviews with Mel Brooks for Ballantine beer.[27] In the next couple of years he appeared on game shows, including What's My Line. He wrote for Merv Griffin and appeared on Griffin's talk show several times, and then on The Ed Sullivan Show.
In 1968, after the premiere of the international film Candy, Cavett went to a party at the Americana Hotel, where those who had just seen the film were being interviewed for TV.
When the interviewer, Pat Paulsen, got to me, he asked what I thought the critics would say about Candy. I said I didn't think it would be reviewed by the regular critics, that they would have to reconvene the Nuremberg Trials to do it justice. He laughed and asked what I had liked, and I said I liked the lady who showed me the nearest exit so that I would not be forced to vomit indoors.
After doing The Star and the Story, a rejected television pilot with Van Johnson, Cavett hosted a special, Where It's At, for Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear.[28]
In 1968 Cavett was hired by ABC to host This Morning.[25][29] According to a New Yorker article, the show was too sophisticated for a morning audience,[25] and ABC first moved the show to prime time, and subsequently to a late-night slot opposite Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.[25][30]
[edit] The Dick Cavett Show
Main article: The Dick Cavett Show
Intermittently since 1968, Cavett has been host of his own talk show, in various formats and on various television and radio networks:
- ABC (1968–1974)
- CBS (1975)
- PBS (1977–1982)
- USA (1985–1986)
- ABC (1986–1987)
- CNBC (1989–1996)
- Olympia Broadcasting (syndicated radio show, 1986–1990)
- Turner Classic Movies (2006–2007)
Cavett has been nominated for at least ten Emmy Awards and has won three. In 1970, he co-hosted the Emmy Awards Show (from Carnegie Hall in New York) with Bill Cosby (from Century Plaza in Los Angeles).[31] His most popular talk show was his ABC program, which ran from 1969 to 1974. From 1962 to 1992, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was arguably the most popular of late night variety and talk shows. Unlike many contemporary shows, Cavett managed to remain on the air for five years.[32] Although his shows did not attract a wide audience, remaining in third place in the ratings behind Carson and Merv Griffin, he earned a reputation as "the thinking man's talk show host" and received favorable reviews from critics.[1][29] As a talk show host, Cavett has been noted for his ability to listen to his guests and engage them in intellectual conversation.[14][21] Clive James described Cavett "as a true sophisticate with a daunting intellectual range" and "the most distinguished talk-show host in America."[14] He is also known for his ability to remain calm and mediate between contentious guests,[21] and for his deep, resonant voice, unusual for a man of his stature (5'7").[14][30][33]
His show often focussed on controversial people or subjects, often pairing guests with opposing views on social or political issues, such as Jim Brown and Lester Maddox.[30]
One particularly controversial show from June 1971 featured a debate between future senator and presidential candidate John Kerry and fellow veteran John O'Neill over the Vietnam War.[34] O'Neill had been approached by the Nixon administration to work through the Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace to counter Kerry's influence on the public.[35][36] The debate went poorly for the pro-war side, so angering President Nixon that he is heard discussing the incident on the Watergate tapes, saying, "Well, is there any way we can screw him [Cavett]? That's what I mean. There must be ways." To which H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff, answered, "We've been trying to."[37][38]
Cavett himself, asked during a Question and Answer segment with his audience in the late '60s why he wore long sideburns, replied, "It's a form of mild protest. Sort of like boiling my draft card."[citation needed]
Cavett also hosted many popular musicians, both in interview and performance, such as Sly Stone,[39] Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.[40] Several of his Emmy Award nominations and one Emmy Award were for Outstanding Musical or Variety Series, and in 2005 Shout Factory released a selection of performances and interviews on a three DVD set, The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons, showcasing interviews of and performances by musicians who appeared on the Dick Cavett show from 1969 to 1974.[41][42]
Clips from his TV shows have been used in films, for example Annie Hall (1977), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), and Frequency (2000). He also holds the distinction of being the only famous person to actually interact with the title character of Forrest Gump without the aid of archive footage or computer trickery. Cavett donned a wig and makeup was applied to make him appear as his 1971 self, and he was filmed with Tom Hanks on a recreated set (though archive footage of John Lennon from Cavett's show was digitally added).[citation needed]
Cavett was surprised at footage from his TV show appearing in Apollo 13. He said at the time of the film's release, "I'm happily enjoying a movie, and suddenly I'm in it."[43]
Bouts with depression[link]
Cavett has openly discussed his bouts with clinical depression, an illness that first affected him during his freshman year at Yale.[44] According to an interview published in a 1992 issue of People magazine, Cavett contacted Dr. Nathan Kline in 1975 seeking treatment. Kline prescribed antidepressant medication, which according to Cavett was successful in treating his depression.[45]
In 1980 Cavett suffered what he characterized as his "biggest depressive episode." While on board a Concorde prior to take off, Cavett broke out into a sweat and became agitated. After he was removed from the plane, Cavett was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he later underwent electroconvulsive therapy. Regarding this method of treatment Cavett is quoted as saying, "In my case, ECT was miraculous. My wife was dubious, but when she came into my room afterward, I sat up and said, 'Look who's back among the living.' It was like a magic wand."[45]
He was also the subject of a 1993 video produced by the Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association called A Patient's Perspective.[46]
In 1997 Cavett was sued by producer James Moskovitz for breach of contract after failing to show up for a nationally syndicated radio program (also called The Dick Cavett Show).[47][48] Cavett's lawyer, Melvyn Leventhal, asserted at the time that Cavett left due to a manic-depressive episode.[47] The case was later dropped.[46]
Other work[link]
Cavett has co-authored two books with Christopher Porterfield: Cavett (1974), his autobiography, and Eye on Cavett (1983). Cavett currently writes a blog, published by the New York Times, entitled "Talk Show: Dick Cavett Speaks Again."
He appeared as himself in various other TV shows, including episodes of The Odd Couple, Cheers, Kate & Allie, and The Simpsons episode Homie the Clown; in Robert Altman's HealtH (1980), and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). In Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, he played a rare bit part as a character other than himself. Cavett often appeared on television quiz and game shows; he appeared on What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth, Password, The $25,000 Pyramid and made a special appearance on Wheel of Fortune in 1989 during their week of shows at Radio City Music Hall, walking on stage after someone solved the puzzle "DICK CAVETT." In 1974, Cavett's company, Daphne Productions, co-produced with Don Lipp Productions a short-lived ABC game show, The Money Maze, although Cavett's name did not appear on the credits.[citation needed]
Cavett was the narrator (on camera and off) for the HBO documentary series Time Was. Each episode covered a decade, ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s, and relied on stock file footage and photographs. The show originally aired in November 1979 and ran for six months with a new show each month.[49]
Cavett also hosted a documentary series for HBO in the early '80s titled Remember When... that examined changes in American culture over time.
In April, 1981, Cavett traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to interview the pop group ABBA on the occasion of their tenth anniversary as a group. The special, titled Dick Cavett Meets ABBA, was taped by the Swedish TV network SVT and was broadcast mostly in Europe.
From November 15, 2000, to January 6, 2002, he played the narrator in a Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show.[21] He also had a brief stint as the narrator/old man in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods.[50]
Dick Cavett is featured in the 2003 documentary From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall about the fire that destroyed his Montauk home and his effort to rebuild it.[51]
Cavett's signature tune has long been a trumpet version of the vocalise "Glitter and Be Gay" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide. The tune was first played at the midpoint of his ABC late-night show, and later became the theme of his PBS show. The tune is also played as he walks on stage during guest appearances on other talk shows.[21]
Cavett was present when actor Marlon Brando broke the jaw of paparazzo photographer Ron Galella on June 12, 1973. Galella had followed Cavett and Brando to a restaurant after the taping of The Dick Cavett Show in New York City.[52]
In 2008 Cavett entered the Iraq war dispute with a New York Times blog entry criticizing General David Petraeus, stating "I can’t look at Petraeus — his uniform ornamented like a Christmas tree with honors, medals and ribbons — without thinking of the great Mort Sahl at the peak of his brilliance." Cavett went on to recall Sahl's expressed contempt of General Westmoreland's display of medals, and criticized Petraeus for not speaking in plain language.[53]
Bibliography[link]
- Cavett by Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield, Bantam Books, August 1974. ISBN 0-15-116130-5
- Eye on Cavett by Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield, Arbor House, 1983. ISBN 0-87795-463-1
- Talk Show by Dick Cavett, Times Books, 2010. ISBN 0-8050-9195-5
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jealous guy - john lennon
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jealous guy - john lennon
Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions by musicians like Donny Hathaway, the Black Crowes, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Criss (of KISS), and Deftones. The most notable of the non-Lennon recordings were by Roxy Music and the Faces. The Roxy Music version was issued as a tribute single in 1981. Elliott Smith's simple acoustic rendering was a frequent part of his live performances, such as his 1998 Washington DC Black Cat show. Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground gave an emotional performance of "Jealous Guy" at the October 2001 Radio City Music Hall New York City show, Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music - a tribute to Lennon and the victims of the September 11 attacks. Youssou N'Dour covered the song for Amnesty International's 2007 CD benefit release, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. lyrics: I was dreaming of the past. And my heart was beating fast, I began to lose control, I began to lose control, I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry that I mad you cry, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm just a jealous guy, I was feeling insecure, You night not love me any more, I was shivering inside, I was shivering inside, I was trying to catch your eyes, Thought that you were trying to hide, I was swallowing my pain, I was swallowing my pain.
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John Lennon - Instant Karma!
JacobL616
John Lennon - Instant Karma!
Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head You better get yourself together Pretty soon youre gonna be dead What in the world you thinking of Laughing in the face of love What on earth you tryin to do Its up to you, yeah you Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna look you right in the face Better get yourself together darlin Join the human race How in the world you gonna see Laughin at fools like me Who in the hell dyou think you are A super star Well, right you are Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Evryone come on Instant karmas gonna get you Gonna knock you off your feet Better recognize your brothers Evryone you meet Why in the world are we here Surely not to live in pain and fear Why on earth are you there When youre evrywhere Come and get your share Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on Come on and on and on on on Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on On and on and on on and on Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Yeah we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun
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