John Lennon/Beatles Mega Thread

[msLinds]

Yoko Ono on International Widows Day

Yoko Ono makes a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York on June 22, 2011, during an event marking the International Widows Day the following day. On her right is Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. (Kyodo)

http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2011/06/98871.html

http://sorbetbrutinternational.blogs...-blair-on.html

The Morton Report
June 20, 2011
Yoko Speaks: An Interview with Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is diminutive in size, but huge in spirit. She is a fearless artist who will attempt anything, whether it's topping the Billboard charts as a dance diva in her seventh decade or redefining our concept of space with her art installations

http://www.themortonreport.com/enter...with-yoko-ono/

[Nico]

Great interview with Yoko!!

[msLinds]

I was able to find a few photographs online of Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl from last nights River to River Music Festival.Also a article about a bed in.

The Record.com
June 24, 2011
Speed skater Groves gets interest from Yoko Ono in “bed-in for sustainability”

CALGARY — A “bed-in for sustainability” by speed skater Kristina Groves has drawn the attention of Yoko Ono, the originator of the protest-in-a-bed concept with late husband and Beatles member, John Lennon.Groves received an email from Ono prior to Friday’s bed-in at a downtown Calgary bed boutique. Groves, a winner of four Olympic medals, entertained civic leaders and politicians in a bed and discussed ways to make the city more environmentally sustainabOno and Lennon held two-week bed-ins in 1969 in both Amsterdam and Montreal to promote peace. They invited the world’s press to join them. Groves was stunned to receive a message from Ono.“Kristina, congratulations for your courage and wisdom, I love you, exclamation point,” Groves said incredulously while reading from her cellphone. “I wasn’t even born when they did that. To get that was really cool.”

http://www.therecord.com/news/canada...sustainability

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/sport...-25737369.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...ono-s-approval

The Goastt at the River to River Music Festival June 24, 2011

Sean Lennon’s The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger with Dev Hyne’s Blood Orange at Seaport Music Festival 2011 Opening Night,June 24, 2011.

http://tearntan.wordpress.com/2011/0...-24-june-2011/

http://lockerz.com/s/113816875

http://twitpic.com/5gcloo

http://yfrog.com/gyk2tswj

[msLinds]

I really love Sean playing his guitar and this performance by the Goastt.

The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger live at the South Street Seaport in New York City on June 24, 2011.

The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger - Pierrot

http://vimeo.com/25594696

[msLinds]

Saturday June 25, 2011
Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono attends an exhibition of Linda McCartney's photography

Paul McCartney attends an exhibition of his late wife Linda McCartney's photographs from a new book of her photography titled 'Life in Photographs' at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York June 23, 2011 in this publicity photograph released June 24. Yoko Ono is shown with McCartney.

http://cactusflowersmaccaandbeatlesb...o-attends.html

Day Trippin Beatles Magazine
June 22, 2011
Stuart Sutcliffe’s bass playing: “I’d like to set that one 'straight'

Shy and withdrawn, hardly able to play a chord, so unsure of his ability he hid behind dark glasses and turned his back to the audience—if this is your portrait of Stuart Sutcliffe, you’ve got the wrong rock bass guitarist.

http://daytrippin.com/2011/06/22/stu...-one-straight/

Business insider
June 24, 2011
Linda McCartney's Private Photos Of Paul And Other Rock 'N' Roll Legends

Linda Eastman was an American up-and-coming photographer of rock 'n' roll bands when she traveled to London to document the cultural revolution in the 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties," and met Paul McCartney in a bar.They married in 1969, and she became Linda McCartney -- the wife of a Beatle and the mother of Stella McCartney, the famous fashion designer to the stars.Throughout her life in the spotlight, Linda took some 200,000 photographers of musicians in their private and public lives.

http://www.businessinsider.com/linda...-photos-2011-6

http://www.stellamccartney.co.uk/en/...ok-launch.html

[Nico]

They're looking at the picture Linda took of John...

[msLinds]

Thats good that the photographer got Paul and Yoko together both looking at a photo of John that Linda took of him.I have a couple Julian Lennon updates.Taken off his official Facebook page.

Julian posted this on his Facebook page about June 25, 2011

Julian Lennon
Slowly but Surely
Julian Lennon Photography » Site under development

www.julianlennon-photography.com


Julian Lennon just announced on his official Facebook page that he has also just signed with his new record label, Conehead UK.His new music CD has been completely done for 2 or 3 years now. I am looking forward to it being released.

From Jules FB page June 24, 2011

Happy to be partnering 'Music from another Room' with 'ConeheadUK' for the forthcoming UK release of 'Everything Changes'

https://www.facebook.com/coneheadukofficial

http://www.coneheaduk.com/

[msLinds]

Sean Lennon his band The Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger and the band Cibo Matto.Monday, July 18, 2011 8:00 pm - 11:00pm
Bowery Ballroom, New York City

http://www.boweryballroom.com/

http://www.boweryballroom.com/calendar/

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215849578453578

[msLinds]

Goldmine Magazine
June 26, 2011
‘Never-before-seen’ Lennon photographs go to exhibit

Photographs of John Lennon have recently been discovered after having been hidden away for more than forty years. When Louis Gaudiosi, photographer on assignment for Rock Magazine met John Lennon and Yoko Ono, he recalls John and Yoko, lived in Greenwich Village in New York City before they took up residence in the Dakota on Central Park West.

http://www.goldminemag.com/news/neve...-go-to-exhibit

Universal Music poised to make bid for EMI records
June 25, 2011

Universal Music is preparing a bid for UK rival EMI that will break up the £2bn label that is home to the Beatles and Coldplay. The US group only wants to buy the recorded music half of the business, valued at £940m, said a source familiar with its plans.It will not bid for the publishing rights side of the business because Universal is the world's largest music publisher and EMI is the number two player, 'and that is too much for regulators to bear,' said the source.Time Warner and US private equity house gores group are also understood to be potential suitors for the whole of the group.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n...I-records.html

Yorkshirepost.uk
June 26, 2011
John and Ringo slept in my bed

VIRGINIA Mason talks to the owners of a Halifax hotel about the night the Beatles came to stay.It may be almost half a century since the Fab Four checked in at a Calderdale country house hotel but the event remains just as memorable today as back then.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifes..._bed_1_3501477

[msLinds]

The Flaming Lips and The Goastt at the Main Street Armory, Rochester, NY, Has been rescheduled for October 23, 2011. All tickets bought for the June 25th show will be honored.

http://www.rochestermainstreetarmory.com/event/43863/

http://www.last.fm/event/1956112+The...5+October+2011

[msLinds]

Sean Lennon in HELM Handmade
June 28, 2011
Sean Lennon wears Ray Ray Brown and the Jarmon Leather in the Summer 2011 issue of Guitar Aficionado!

http://helmhandmade.wordpress.com/20...ndmade/?like=1

[Nico]

^ Interesting. I don't really like the look on Sean with the pants tucked into the boots. Thank you msLinds for sharing!!! You rock!

[msLinds]

I am also fine with John being what ever he wanted to be, if he was a moderate liberal.But this former personal assistant and scumbag Fred Seaman who is saying this now publicly that John Lennon was a Republican. Is a convicted thief and has lied before about the crimes he did to John and his family after he was killed.He has no honor or integrity at all as far I am concerned.There is still I have read items that Yoko and Sean and John's estate have never seen again or got back that disappeared from the Dakota after John was assassinated.They are stolen properly from John Lennon's estate.I do feel John was at least a liberal on social issues and still left wing.I don't think John turned into a complete Republican toward the end of his life.I think John was somewhat of a Libertarian myself.I don't believe he was a complete socialist either.But anything that such a scumbag would say now.Should not be taken seriously coming from someone who did this to John and his family after he died.Here is some other older articles about this Seaman. For those that don't remember about who he is and what he did.

June 28, 2011
Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant
John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant.Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/28...ican-assistant

http://www.lfpress.com/news/world/20...enn-story.html


These two older articles talk about this thief and scumbag

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/28/arts.artsnews

http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com...ed-seaman.html

[msLinds]

I have one more interesting related article about the above posting and link.

The Daily Beast
June 30, 2011
Was John Lennon Conservative ?

A new documentary suggests the rock icon was drifting to the right before his death. Andrew Romano on the truly radical thing about late-stage Lennon: he wasn’t political at all.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...aggerated.html

[Nico]

MsLinds,

The second article is far more along the lines of MY thoughts. I don't trust Fred Seaman for the exact reasons you don't. He was untrustworthy, he stole many things from the Lennon estate almost immediately after John's death, and he was sued by Yoko and lost. He wasn't sitting on anything new for these 30 years. John was very vocal his ENTIRE career and he expressed himself very honestly. In his last interviews, he shared that he still believed in all the things like women's lib, peace, positive thinking but he didn't seem to be on any bandwagon. I think John was a liberal, to a degree, but had changed and matured into a different person than the man he was in 1971 who wrote "Imagine."