Tag : John Lennon

Tag: John Lennon

John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus | Brief letters

The other 1969 concert that changed music: ‘one of the most important stories in rock history’

Revival69 glimpses into starry Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which gave Beatles fans a new look at John LennonIn the summer of 1969, promoter John Brower thought he had a foolproof plan for a classic concert. Though just 22, he had already promoted...

Imagine there’s no Farage, it’s easy if you try | Brief letters

Dreaming of life under Reform UK | Hey Jude | Fashion faux pas | Cabbage butterflies | Failed experimentThe Reform UK Party Limited, with Nigel Farage as its leader, has produced five core pledges, all of which start with the word “imagine”. I much p...

John Lennon guitar sells for $2.9m, breaking Beatles auction record

Lennon’s 12-string Hootenanny, heard on Help! album and film, had not been seen or played for half a centuryA guitar used by John Lennon has sold for $2.9m (£2.3m), setting what organisers have called a new world record for the highest-selling guitar...

Spider John Koerner obituary

Musician who became a folk scene celebrity with his driving guitar style and love of the bluesWhen Bob Dylan enrolled as a teenager at the University of Minnesota in 1959 he went to check out the Minneapolis music scene in the Dinkytown area near the...

Expanded editions of John Lennon’s Mind Games to be released

John Lennon’s fourth solo album, 1973’s Mind Games, is to be reissued on 19 July 2024 in a range of formats, with an array of remixed audio, outtakes, and rarities. The physical formats will be a super deluxe and deluxe box sets, and 2xLP and 2...

Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody BluesThe last surviving original member of the Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, who has died aged 82, became an influential force in progressive rock as...

Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyricsA guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison in sessions for the al...

Pop is awash with nepo babies – Lennon and McCartney are just the latest. But why aren’t they better at it? | Simon Price

Other fields are plagued with famous people’s offspring too, yet musical genius seems particularly difficult to pass down the generationsTalent, sang Russell Mael of the band Sparks, is an asset. And that asset can be handed down from generation to g...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons team up for new single

James McCartney’s acoustic ballad Primrose Hill, co-written with Sean Ono Lennon, was drawn from childhood vision in ScotlandThe most famous songwriting credit in history, Lennon-McCartney, has been resurrected – though for a song written by the Beat...

The 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary

While Wes Anderson’s nomination has caused mild controversy there is an enticing and eclectic mix of strong contenders worthy of the winOscars 2024 – live updatesThe portmanteau genre remains stubbornly alive, if only because awards season keeps on b...

Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies

Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineupJust when we were getting sick of the Marvel Cinematic Universe … Sam Mendes comes along with the Beatles Cinematic Universe. It’s a quar...

‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member

Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George HarrisonSam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of two of the most successful ever James Bond films, is to t...

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Tate Modern, LondonInviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this painstaking retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instruc...

In 1999, I said Yoko Ono’s art would never make it big. I was so wrong | Vanessa Thorpe

This week Tate Modern is presenting the largest ever exhibition of work by the woman I wrote off after interviewing herTwenty-five years ago, I predicted a low-key future for the world-famous person I had just excitedly interviewed; a woman once at t...