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'Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert'

Ringo Starr to auction Beatles White Album No 0000001

It’s the ultimate rock’n’roll souvenir. Ringo Starr is to auction off the first ever copy of the band’s1968 album, The Beatles, more commonly known as the White Album. Each unit of the record, which acquired its name due to its minimalist packaging,...

Paris attacks: pianist 'drove 400 miles through the night' to pay tribute

The man who played John Lennon’s Imagine on a grand piano outside the Bataclan theatre has told the Guardian he felt it was his “duty” to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks. Davide Martello, who was in a pub in Konstanz in Germany when...

The night I partied with John Lennon. By James Kaplan

Forty-one years ago, on a cool spring night in Hollywood, I found myself standing across a pool table from John Lennon. He was a symphony in black, right down to his leather trousers. His hair hung to his shoulders. Little black-lensed sunglasses pe...

My hero: John Lennon by Kevin Barry

If there is a way in through the veins of a song, it may be with “Gimme Some Truth”, a headlong rant against the uptight and the narrow-minded, against the egocentric and the paranoiac, but here, as in all of John Lennon’s very best work, there is a...

Classic Motor Show 2015

Novel about John Lennon and primal screaming wins Goldsmiths prize

A novel about John Lennon setting out to take a course of primal scream therapy on an Irish island has won Kevin Barry the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction, with judges praising its “intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life”. The Iri...

Kevin Barry: ‘I want to go as wild as I can within my stories’

Kevin Barry’s first novel, City of Bohane, won the Impac Dublin literary award. He is also the author of two short story collections. His new novel, Beatlebone, has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize. It is an imagining of John Lennon’s fraug...

John Lennon's guitar sold for $2.4m at auction

A guitar stolen from the late John Lennon in the 1960s sold for $2.41m (£1.6m) on Saturday at an auction in Beverly Hills, California, and a Beatles drum head went for $2.1m, fetching some of the highest prices ever for items of rock and roll memora...

NBC6: John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Stops in South Florida

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Hallmarks of fame: a property portfolio of rock star homes

The house where Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run The property in Long Branch, New Jersey – which is new on the market – is a Boss-sized bargain. For just $299,000 (£193,000) – slightly more than surrounding properties – you can own the two-bedroo...