Tag : Pop and rock

Tag: Pop and rock

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...

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 Lost Weekend: A Love Story review – vivid snapshot of Lennon’s dysfunctional liaison

Documentary about May Pang, the woman with whom John Lennon had an affair during his marriage to Yoko Ono, reveals that Ono was pulling the stringsAs Yoko Ono enters her 90s, it is perhaps a tactless time to release a documentary about the woman with...

Yoko Ono: her 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As her album Feeling the Space turns 50, we appraise the best of a bold and often underestimated artist“I felt like soldiers were dying next to me,” said bassist Klaus Vormann of the scourging Ono-led improvisation that ended the Plastic Ono Band’s s...

The Beatles: Now and Then review – ‘final’ song is a poignant act of closure

(Apple)Lennon’s demo was abandoned in the 90s due to technical difficulties. With a little help from AI – and subtle new vocals from Paul McCartney – it becomes an affecting tribute to the band’s bondLast night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broad...