John Lennon/Beatles Mega Thread

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Guardian.UK
June 11, 2011
The Beatles develop their own look for the first time

In October 1960, a German student took five young Britons to a Hamburg fairground for a photoshoot. Astrid Kirchherr had only just met the Beatles through her friend Klaus Voormann. She was determined to find common ground through the language barrier.Many of the negatives are now lost but one group shot remains: caught in a grid of metal, the Beatles stand and sit in a line. Dressed in leather, jeans and boots, they could be a street gang, were it not for the sharp intelligence of their faces. They're not sleazy deadbeats but existentialist heroes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011...e-beatles-look

Los Angeles Time
June 10, 2011
Expect Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary this year — Olivia Harrison

A documentary on the life of George Harrison directed by Martin Scorsese is nearly done and is expected to premiere this year, Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison said this week.“I assume we’re going to announce it sometime soon, the actual [premiere] date, but it will be this year,” she said Thursday in Las Vegas, where she had attended the fifth-anniversary performance of the Beatles-Cirque du Soleil show “Love” along with their son, Dhani, and Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon and longtime Beatles producer George Martin and his son Giles, who co-produced the “Love” soundtrack.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...cumentary.html


Bid on Lennon Gold Coin
June 2011
When listening to the song “When I’m 64” in 1967, what fan of the Beatles tune would have thought that 44 years later, when he may actually be 64, he would have the chance to bid on a unique gold John Lennon coin struck by the British Royal Mint ? The piece goes on the block June 29 in a Bonhams auction in London.The coin was specially created by the BRM for Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, to honor her late husband. He was selected in an online poll from a field of six individuals from Great Britain’s past to be depicted on a £5 silver coin of the English Channel Island of Alderney. The regular issue is from the Great Britons series. It was issued in 2010 on Lennon’s 70th birthday.

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...rticleId=20824


Art Daily
June 11, 2011
Unseen Pictures by U.S. Photographer Mike Mitchell Captured Outbreak of Beatlemania

LONDON (REUTERS).- They have been gathering dust in a basement for more than 40 years, but now U.S. photographer Mike Mitchell has decided to auction a group of pictures which capture the moment the Beatles became a worldwide phenomenon.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=48174