Category : John Lennon

New band of the week: The Lemon Twigs (No 112) – glam baroque starts here

Prodigious brothers from New York make lush, lo-fi pop inspired by the Beatles, Beach Boys and any number of eclectic influencesHome town: Long Island, New York. The lineup: Brian D’Addario (guitar, vocals, drums, horns, strings), Michael D’Addario (...

Bad vibraciones! The pop songs Franco didn’t want Spain to hear

From Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman to John Lennon’s Imagine and the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations, the fascist regime’s censors found the strangest reasons to prohibit certain recordsFor visitors to easy-going, freewheeling Spain, where same-sex marria...

Yoko Ono Donates Imagine Art In Response To Dallas Shootings

The Beatles LOVE: Evolution of Props

The Beatles LOVE: Evolution of Sound

The Beatles LOVE: Beginning of Evolution

The Fatback Band: 'Everything was just raw energy'

The disco-funk band were prolific in the 60s and 70s and laid the foundations for modern rap. Here, founder Bill Curtis tells their story“Street Music is what I always called it because it came from the top off my head and we never rehearsed,” says a...

The Beatles LOVE: Octopus's Garden

Kasabian's Unique Album

Making "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (LOVE Version)

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

John Lennon Blood Soaked Shirt Sells At Auction For Over $40,000

Top 10 books about the Beatles

Paul McCartney’s biographer picks out the best work in a field that has often been marked by ‘leaden paragraphs overstuffed with show-offy facts’Writing about the Beatles has saddled me with two heavy burdens. The first is that almost everyone consid...

THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS

Peter Owen obituary

Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinnersPeter Owen’s survival as a publisher across 60 years was against all commercial odds. In 1993 he described himself as “one of the few remaining independent publishers specialising in trans...