2021-04: Cinema salvo?

Classificação de edifício salva cinema que George Harrison e John Lennon frequentavam:

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-56832865.amp

Citando:

"The cinema was designed by renowned architect and Liverpool City Council leader Sir Alfred Ernest Shennan and opened in 1939.

Harrison and Lennon, who lived nearby, visited as teenagers and it featured in both The Beatles' personal writings and the original lyrics of the band's 1966 song In My Life.

It closed in 1979 and was later used as a bingo hall, snooker club and, most recently, a supermarket."

2018-09: Video de John Lennon e George Harrison a tocar "How do You Sleep"

How do You Sleep é uma música (de JL sobre PM) que faz parte de uma sequência de "troca de mimos" entre JL e PM com músicas editadas em álbuns de um e de outro motivada pelo mau estar que se gerou entre os Beatles com o anúncio de PM sobre o fim dos Beatles (e processo judicial que se seguiu) ao mesmo tempo que lançava o seu primeiro álbum a solo.

Vídeo de JL e GH que vai ser brevemente editado numa nova compilação (detalhes no artigo):
https://www.jambase.com/article/the-beatles-john-lennon-george-harrison-in-newly-surfaced-video

O vídeo no YouTube (How do You Sleep, John Lennon, takes 5 e 6) com Alan White (que integrou os Yes mais tarde):
https://youtu.be/FoJQAyrUHh

Citando:

"The Beatles’ co-founders John Lennon and George Harrison appear together in a newly surfaced video. The previously unseen footage features the pair recording “How Do You Sleep” for Lennon’s 1971 solo album Imagine.

Lennon plays guitar in the footage from Ascot Sound Studios, the recording facility he built with his wife Yoko Ono in Berkshire County, England. Harrison can be seen playing slide guitar alongside keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, drummer Alan White and bassist Klaus Voormann. According to NPR, Lennon described Harrison’s playing on “How Do You Sleep? (Takes 5 & 6, Raw Studio Mix Out-take)” as George’s “best guitar solo to date on this cut, as good as anything I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere.”"

2018-09: And now in English: Masturbation what?

Paul McCartney news on the GQ interview (now in English):
https://www.loudersound.com/news/paul-mccartney-recalls-masturbating-with-john-lennon

2018-09: Mais detalhes da entrevista de PM à GQ

Mais umas quantas histórias de Las Vegas e de GH perder a virgindade:
https://observador.pt/2018/09/13/prostitutas-alguns-mitos-e-aquele-momento-com-lennon-paul-mccartney-abre-o-livro-sexual-dos-beatles/

Citando:
"Por alguma razão que ainda não é totalmente clara, aos 76 anos de idade, Paul McCartney aceitou dar uma entrevista à edição britânica da revista GQ para falar sobre as suas aventuras sexuais. Nessa conversa, o cantor, autor, figura incontornável de uma das maiores bandas do século XX arrasta consigo um antigo companheiro de banda de que já se terá ouvido falar: John Lennon. Precisava de fazê-lo? Pode fazê-lo? Há quem diga que sim.

“As histórias nunca contadas de Paul McCartney” foi o título com que a revista embrulhou a conversa. Um dos episódios recordados pelo ex-Beatle — precisamente um que Lennon também protagoniza — é contado assim: “Estávamos em casa do John, éramos uns quantos. E, em vez de nos embebedarmos e de perdermos o controlo, sentámo-nos numa cadeira. Não havia luz e alguém começou a masturbar-se. E começámos todos a fazer o mesmo.”"

2017-11-29: Fotos de objectos de JL recuperados

Fotos de objectos ligados a JL apreendidos recentemente podem ser vistas aqui:
http://expresso.sapo.pt/internacional/2017-11-21-Tres-diarios-dois-oculos-e-uma-caixa-de-cigarros-recuperados-mais-de-100-objetos-roubados-de-John-Lennon

Citando:
"Um homem de 58 anos já foi detido pelas autoridades alemãs. Há ainda outra pessoa suspeita do roubo, que vive na Turquia e terá sido motorista de Yoko Ono, viúva do músico:
Há de tudo: três diários, dois óculos, pautas, cassetes, caixas de cigarros e muito mais. No total, foram recuperados mais de 100 objetos roubados que pertenceram a Jonh Lennon. Tinham desaparecido em 2006 de Nova Iorque, nos Estados Unidos da América, e agora foram encontrados em Berlim, na Alemanha.

Na segunda-feira, a polícia fez rusgas a casa do principal suspeito, um homem de 58 anos que entretanto já foi detido. Há ainda outra pessoa suspeita, vive na Turquia e que terá trabalhado como motorista da viúva do músico, Yoko Ono, referiu Martin Steltner, procurador de Berlim, citado pela BBC.

Foi em julho deste ano que mais de uma centena de objetos foram apreendidos numa casa de leilões em Berlim. Agora, todos os objetos foram reconhecidos e identificados por Yoko Ono através de fotos."

2017-12-08: Última actuação de Lennon

Faz anos que JL foi assassinado. Para o relembrar:
https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/john-lennon-imagine-final-performance
Citando:
"On this day, 37 years ago, John Lennon was shot to death outside of his New York home by Mark David Chapman.

Take a second to remember the former Beatle's brilliance with this video of him performing "Imagine"—one of his most enduring songs—at the ATV special, A Salute to Lew Grade. It would turn out to be Lennon's final live performance."

2017-11-22: Diários de Lennon (e gravação de concerto de Beatles) recuperados

http://www.nme.com/news/john-lennons-stolen-diaries-found-in-berlin-2162543#0lEXaBcmpwcbBjqW.99

Citando:
"They're among over 100 items belonging to The Beatles icon to be recovered

John Lennon’s diaries have been found in Berlin – and are among over a hundred stolen items belonging to the Beatles musician to be recovered by police.

Lennon’s diaries are currently on display at Berlin police headquarters – along with two pairs of his iconic round specs, a tape recording of a Beatles concert, sheet music and a cigarette case. The collection of items were stolen from Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono back in 2006."

2017-11-02: Assassino de JL, livro escrito e Jesus?

Parece que acredita que foi perdoado e escreveu um livro (já vendido):
http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/john-lennon/john-lennon-killer-thinks-jesus-has-forgiven-him/

Citando:
"The unusual item was sold by Eric Holler, who runs a website, known as Serial Killers Ink, that sells pieces from notorious criminals.
Speaking to The Mirror newspaper, Eric explained: "We initially obtained the letter from a private citizen who was a pen pal of
Chapman's.

"I have never been in touch with Chapman myself. It sold about an hour after it was listed on the website. I would love to obtain more
Chapman items as they sell extremely well.""

2017-10-26: Fotos nunca vistas de John Lennon de 1970 vão a leilão

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-41761334

Citando:
"The negatives, which date from February 1970, capture Lennon at a pivotal point in his career - The Beatles were breaking up and he had recently released his third single, Instant Karma.

It became the first solo single by a member of the iconic rock band to sell more than a million copies in America.

Ms Glover said the negatives and images taken from them would be on display at the attraction from November, before being auctioned in 2018.

She added that the valuation day had also uncovered a signed Beatles Christmas Show programme from a concert in Bradford in 1963, which was valued at £8,000, and a signed John Lennon postcard, which was estimated to be worth £5,000."

2017-10-09: Google Doodle para John Lennon

... por diversos dias:
https://tecnoblog.net/43208/feliz-aniversario-john-lennon-com-direito-a-doodle/

2017-10-09: Simbolo de paz em record de Guiness?

https://www.publico.pt/2015/09/17/culturaipsilon/noticia/e-o-aniversario-de-john-lennon-e-estao-todos-convidados-1707869

Citando:

"É o aniversário de John Lennon e estão todos convidados

Yoko Ono quer bater um recorde mundial no dia 6 de Outubro: o maior símbolo da paz formado por pessoas pode acontecer no Central Park de Nova Iorque."

2017-10-09: JL faria anos hoje, recordado por Brian May

... dos Queen:
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-05-09/rock-icons-john-lennon-brian-may-the-beatles-queen-lennon

2017-09-27: Reservar a suite do Bed Peace?

 http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/26/you-can-stay-in-the-suite-where-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-held-their-bed-in-for-peace-6956677/#ixzz4trezsLc3

Citando:
"If you didn’t know, that’s the hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their second bed-in for peace for eight days in 1969, an act of non-violent protest that involved John and Yoko refusing to move from their beds and inviting press in to hear them speak about peace.

They stayed in Suite 1742, which remained open for booking for years afterwards."

2017-09-21: Yoko Ono processa empresa do John Lemon (bebida)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4510270/yoko-ono-sued-for-john-lennon-name-as-lemon/

2017-08-08: Carta aberta de John Lennon a Cynthia vai a leilão

http://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lennon-yoko-ono-divorce-letter-2122463

Citação:
"The open letter to his ex-wife Cynthia was written in 1976 in response to claims in her first book about him

John Lennon disputed that Yoko Ono was to blame for the end of his first marriage in a newly discovered letter."
(...)
"The note was written in 1976 in response to excerpts from Powell’s book, A Twist Of Lennon, being published in the News Of The World, as Billboard reports. It is titled “An open letter to Cynthia Twist”, referring to her new name following her third marriage to John Twist.

“Dear Cynthia,” it began. “As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. or Yoko Ono… and that’s reality!

“Your memory is impaired to say the least. Your version of our first L.S.D. trip is rather vague, and you seem to have forgotten subsequent trips altogether!”"

2017-08-08: Mais sobre o Rolls de John Lennon

https://arstechnica.co.uk/cars/2017/08/picture-yourself-in-john-lennons-psychedelic-rolls/

Citando:
"Lennon had the Phantom V customized in true rock-star style. The rear seat was converted to a double bed, a television, telephone, and refrigerator were installed, along with a 'floating' record player and a custom sound system (which included an external loud hailer). Then, in April 1967, just as the recording of the game-changing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was finishing, Lennon asked Surrey coachbuilders, JP Fallon, to give the Phantom a new paint job. The freshly-painted Phantom was unveiled days before the worldwide release of Sgt. Pepper's on 1 June, and it seemed part of the overall concept of the album.

The new color scheme is often described as 'psychedelic' and certainly the colors, particularly the dominant yellow, reflected the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But look carefully and you will see it is no random swirl, but a floral Romany scroll design, as used on gypsy caravans and canal barges, with a zodiac symbol on the roof."

2017-07-28: A história do Rolls Royce de John Lennon

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/john-lennons-phantom-v-the-psychedelic-beatle-mobile-w494054

Citação:
""You swine! How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!" So screamed an outraged Englishwoman as John Lennon's Phantom V cruised past on London's posh Piccadilly promenade in the summer of 1967. The ornately decorated limousine, sprayed an electric yellow and bedecked with colorful floral tendrils, Romany scrolls and zodiac symbols like a hallucinatory gypsy caravan, so offended her sensibilities that she briefly attacked it with an umbrella – or at least that's the way Lennon always told the story."

2017-07-20: DF autografado vai a leilão de novo

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-mark-chapman-autographed-album/

Citando:
"One of rock’s more upsetting and morbid pieces of memorabilia is up for sale again.

The copy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s 1980 album Double Fantasy that Lennon autographed for his assassin just hours before being murdered is being sold by its current owner, with the exchange being brokered by Moments in Time, the same agency that handled its previous sale. According to the New York Daily News, the asking price is $1.5 million.

“It’s the most incredible artifact in rock ‘n’ roll history. There’s no question,” Moments in Time owner Gary Ziamet told the paper. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to sell it once again.”

Discovered behind a planter box after Lennon’s murder and used as a key piece of evidence in the trial, the copy of the album includes police reports and the killer’s “forensically enhanced fingerprints” as well as Lennon’s autograph. Photos of the LP, along with further background information regarding its history, can be seen at the Moments in Time sale listing."

2017-07-15: A relação de John Lennon e a Rolling Stone

A importância de John Lennon para a revista Rolling Stone e as entrevistas e capas:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/50th-anniversary-john-lennon-history-with-rolling-stone-magazine-w491961

Citando:
"Flashback: Inside John Lennon's Long History With Rolling Stone

John Lennon was the 'North Star' for 'Rolling Stone' since the magazine's earliest days, and his interviews in these pages made news around the world."
(...)
"A year later, Wenner heard record stores were selling Two Virgins in a plain brown wrapper, since Lennon and Ono appeared naked on the album's cover. Rolling Stone editor emeritus Ralph Gleason suggested the magazine contact Beatles publicist Derek Taylor and ask to see the images in full. "They said OK and sent it over," says Wenner. "It was as simple as that."

The cover – accompanied by an interview by Jonathan Cott – caused a national scandal. Featuring Lennon and Ono naked from behind (the full-frontal shots were inside), it hit newsstands on November 23rd, 1968. A New Jersey postmaster general stopped issues from going to East Coast subscribers. One San Francisco newsstand employee was arrested for selling obscene material. (nude beat-le perils s.f., declared a San Francisco Chronicle headline soon after.) Wenner was exuberant. "The point is this," he wrote in the next issue. "Print a famous foreskin and the world will beat a path to your door.""

2017-07-16: Fotos de JL e GH vão a leilão dia 16

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4674450/Unseen-photos-John-Lennon-George-Harrison.html
Citando:
"Pictures taken in July 1971, a month before New York Concert for Bangladesh 
The intimate pictures are expected to fetch more than £3,000 at an auction 

Candid photographs showing John Lennon and George Harrison reuniting a year after the Beatles split are set to go under the hammer. 

The intimate photos were taken by a music executive in a New York apartment where Harrison asked his former bandmate to perform in a landmark charity concert he was putting on for refugees in Bangladesh.

But soon after the pictures were taken things turned sour between the pair, as the meeting sparked a row between Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono."