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The last “new” Beatles song, ‘Now and Then’, was released last week, with McCartney and Starr essentially finishing what was initially an old demo recording by Lennon.
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Even at the ripe old age of 80, McCartney was full of beans and played a mammoth 38-song, nearly three-hour set featuring his famous musical pals.
With a title that already evokes an olive branch, the song was McCartney’s way of saying enough is enough and this is a ceasefire.
You can buy six beautiful strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair, or perhaps Paul McCartney’s custom made jacket (if the hair isn’t your thing), in this rock memorabilia auction.
One contestant in particular really stood out in the final round of auditions for ‘America’s Got Talent’.
In a revealing interview focusing on untold stories from years gone by, Paul McCartney didn’t hold back. Here are some of the most interesting nuggets.
Sean Ono and James McCartney posted a selfie on Instagram, and the similarity to their dads is transporting Beatles fans back to the 1960s.
On this very day, a pair of John Lennon’s sunglasses is going up for auction – and, of course, they are the iconic round frames long associated with The Beatles member.
Yesterday was 35 years to the day that Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon outside of a New York hotel. This is the most he has ever said on the matter.
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Danny Collins stars Al Pacino in the titular role as an aging rock star, who decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year old letter written to him by John Lennon. The film is written and directed by Dan Fogelman, best known as the screenwriter behind Last Vegas, The Guilt Trip and Crazy, […]
Some of the outcomes from the marches in France on Sunday are just wonderful. Seeing so many people together for a cause, and to agree on something… we need more of that.
They’ve already cloned sheep, now they want to clone a Beatle. Not just any Beatle though, the most famous of the lot – John Lennon. Dr Michael Zuk, dentist and owner of John Lennon’s rotten tooth from the 1960s, hopes to sequence Lennoon’s DNA from the tooth and use “technology” to clone the Beatles’ frontman.
A tooth that used to reside in John Lennon’s mouth will be auctioned off next month. It is expected to fetch up to R130 000! Lennon gave it to his housekeeper’s daughter “as a souvenir” after he had pulled it out himself in his kitchen.
During the Vietnam War John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long “Bed-Ins for Peace” in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace. In the process, a very cool documentary was made from. Yoko Ono, bless her heart, has posted it for free online viewing for a couple of days. Watch inside!
Bar-room time travel talk usually centers around whether or not it would be cool to murder Hitler, because hey. But this misses a more important issue: whether or not Yoko Ono really killed the Beatles. Director Mark Waters wants to make a movie about that – time traveling Beatles fans, I mean.
Finally. Something to spend this R1.5 million I have lying around on. Lennon’s 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupe (I don’t know what most of that means!) is being auctioned off in February; they expect it go for slightly more than his dark green Chrysler station wagon, which was recently auctioned off for $5,500 (ZAR 37.5k).
It’s been thirty years since John Lennon was murdered by a man who got a little bit too excited about his music for his own good, and for John’s, for that matter. In any event, we bring you a truly remarkable short film made in 2007 by a man who as a teen interviewed Lennon in his hotel room. It bears repeating on this infamous day.