Starting today (May 18), people visiting London's King's Cross station will be encouraged to submit short poems on the subject of the British summer via their Twitter...
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A new John Lennon exhibit is particularly emotional for his widow, Yoko Ono. Besides Lennon's guitars, letters and other personal effects, it also includes a paper bag...
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Yoko Ono is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Acorn Peace"--when she and John Lennon planted acorns for peace in 1969--by contacting 123 world leaders and encouraging...
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John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his admirers are so protective of his legacy they don't want any of his original drawings photographed in full. Some are fragile and worth...
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The widows of former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison led an all-star tribute on Saturday to Sir George Martin, the producer who molded the Fab Four into the...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sir George Martin, the classically trained producer who helmed the Beatles recordings from their mop-top phase through their late musical...
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John Lennon's sons and widow, Yoko Ono, on Monday lost a battle to block the use of the song "Imagine" in the documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence allowed." Ono, her...
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Like the rest of us, Yoko Ono has to live in a world that's one with the fair-use doctrine. John Lennon's widow has lost her bid to keep 15 seconds of her late...
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Nobody told her they'd rip off John Lennon's music like this. Yoko Ono is suing the makers of the controversial anti-evolution documentary Expelled: No Intelligence...
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Yoko Ono is suing the producers of a movie that challenges the concept of Darwinian evolution, saying they used the song "Imagine" without her permission and led the...
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Footage of John Lennon smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon's tea is the focus of a court case...
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With a little help from his friends, John Lennon remains a shining example of the beauty that can arise from giving peace a chance.
On what would have been her late...
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Hey, Jude, take your dad's songs and make you richer.
Julian Lennon, John Lennon's eldest son, has decided to sell an economic stake in the compositions cowritten...
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New York venue Tonic has announced it will close its doors for the last time on April 13.
Owners of the nine-year-old Lower East Side venue announced the final show date...
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It's just like starting over for Yoko Ono's ex-chauffeur.
A federal immigration judge ruled on Wednesday that Koral Karsan, the former driver accused of trying to...
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John Lennon fans will have to settle for just "A Day in the Life" for now.
The world premiere of Three Days in the Life, comprising two hours of previously unseen...
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The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not...
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The man accused of trying to blackmail Yoko Ono has decided to give a plea a chance.
Koral Karsan pleaded guilty Friday in New York State Supreme Court to a lesser charge...
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Apple Inc. has settled its long-running
trademark dispute with The Beatles' company, Apple Corps Ltd,
in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Fab Four's
songs to...
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Yoko Ono still gets to imagine a world without trouble-making limo drivers…at least for the time being.
Koral Karsan, the chauffeur accused of trying to extort $2...
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Yoko Ono's former driver, accused of trying to blackmail the widow of John Lennon for $2 million, was denied bail again Friday.
State Supreme Court Justice Daniel...
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Yoko Ono's driver, accused of trying to blackmail her for $2 million, was indicted Tuesday on first-degree attempted grand larceny and jailed without bail after the judge...
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Yoko Ono's chauffeur was indicted on
Tuesday on four counts of first-degree attempted grand larceny,
accused of trying to extort $2 million from John...
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The chauffeur accused of trying to extort $2 million from Yoko Ono was indicted Tuesday on a charge of first-degree attempted grand larceny and jailed without bail because...
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Isn't this the opposite of giving peace a chance?
New York police arrested chauffeur Koral Karsan Wednesday for allegedly trying to bilk Yoko Ono for $2...
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Yoko Ono has appealed to people across the world to mark the anniversary of John Lennon's assassination today by healing the world.
The widow of the former Beatle has...
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All she is saying, is give peace a chance.
In a full-page advertisement that runs Sunday in the New York Times and various British newspapers, Yoko Ono appeals to readers...
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John Lennon's widow is calling for the anniversary of his death to become a day of worldwide healing.
In a full-page advertisement appearing Sunday in The New York Times,...
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Rapper Ice-T once
gained fame talking about killing cops. Now the controversy
over his latest album has led him to compare himself to a
peace-loving John...
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Sean Lennon, son of the late Beatle
John Lennon, will launch a 14-date tour in New York City later
this month in support of "Friendly Fire," his first solo album
in eight...
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Can a voice from the grave earn a
Grammy?
That question is swirling around music circles this week as
nomination ballots for the upcoming Grammy Awards -- the
industry's...
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John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has
filed a $10 million lawsuit against her late husband's old
record company accusing them of cheating his estate out of...
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Yoko Ono's longtime friend and
spokesman on Tuesday said an upcoming TV seance to contact her
late husband, ex-Beatle John Lennon, was tacky, exploitative
and far removed...
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John Lennon sat down at his piano on Jan. 17, 1967 and used a black felt-tip marker to start writing the lyrics to a song called "A Day In the Life."
He revised the song...
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A documentary focusing on the life
and career of late singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson will be
released next year.
"Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin'...
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Questions about John Lennon kept the curators and education staff busy at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on Thursday, the 25th anniversary of the rock icon's...
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Music, activism, vigils.
Things that were so much
a part of John Lennon's life are being used to mark the 25th anniversary
of his death.
In New York City, fans of...
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Time has been kind to John Lennon,
the former Beatle who was killed 25 years ago on Thursday just
as he was starting over.
Despite some erratic solo work and questionable...
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A television news producer. An emergency room doctor. Two NYPD beat cops. Before that December night 25 years ago, they shared little but this: As children of the '60s, the...
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The Black Eyed Peas, The Cure and Avril Lavigne are among the artists recording songs by John Lennon to raise funds for Amnesty International.
The first four tracks will...
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Twenty-five years ago, Mark David Chapman stamped his name into history by shooting four bullets into John Lennon's back — a desperate, senseless grab for the kind of...
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The song was only six years old, but might just as well have been 60.
Walking out of a college dormitory after visiting a friend one December night 25 years ago, I heard...
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Before he was Bob Dylan, before he was even a serious songwriter, a Minnesota college student named Robert Zimmerman was an aspiring poet musing about cigarettes,...
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The man who murdered John Lennon 25 years ago says "nothing could have stopped" his twisted quest to track down and assassinate the ex-Beatle.
"I was under total...
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In the beginning there
was John, the scruffy rebel who dazzled the good burghers of
Liverpool with song and story. Then came Paul, the doe-eyed
champion of all things bright...
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Yoko Ono is setting the record straight.
The oft-maligned
widow of John Lennon has apologized to Paul McCartney over comments made
last month at England's Q Awards that...
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Yoko Ono has apologized to Paul McCartney for insinuating that his songs are trite.
Accepting an award on behalf of John Lennon last month, Ono said Lennon had sometimes...
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Ten hours, 28 minutes. That was the sum of the music recorded and released by the Beatles before breaking up, a volume of work that changed lives, careers and the course of...
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A solitary white piano at a John Lennon retrospective invites visitors to play the song "Imagine."
Curator Emma Lavigne said it was a deliberate effort to make people...
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A solitary white piano at a thought-provoking John Lennon retrospective in Paris invites visitors to play the song that everyone knows but, in these times of terrorism and...
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So much for giving peace a chance.
In the latest
chapter of their ongoing feud, Yoko Ono dissed Paul McCartney's
songwriting prowess Monday at Britain's Q Awards.
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Yoko Ono picked up an award on behalf of John Lennon Monday — and appeared to take a dig at his former bandmate, Paul McCartney.
Accepting the special trophy at the Q...
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Is Mick Jagger having his Yoko moment?
The Rolling
Stones frontman was forced to release a statement Tuesday after some
U.K. tabloids ran with a story suggesting his...
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John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for
the Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping," scribbled on the back of
a final demand bill, failed to sell at an auction on Wednesday.
It had...
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In the end it wasn't instant karma but bad karma that got
Lennon.
Damned by critics and dissed by theatergoers,
the Broadway musical inspired by the life and songs of...
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"Lennon" is calling it quits on Broadway. The problem-plagued musical celebrating the life and music of John Lennon will close Sept. 24 after a disappointing, 49-performance...
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"Lennon," the musical about the life
and music of former Beatle John Lennon that earned dismal
reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway,
the show's...
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John Lennon's first wife says the late Beatle had a violent temper and once hit her in a fit of jealousy, according to excerpts from a new book published in a newspaper...
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The ads for "Lennon," the benign new musical celebrating the life of pop superstar John Lennon, proclaim: "His words. His music. His story."
What seems to be missing,...
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Twenty-five years after
she was buried in a pauper's grave in New Orleans, street
singer Sister Gertrude Morgan is getting her own remix album.
On September 6,...
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Twenty-five years after
she was buried in a pauper's grave in New Orleans, street
singer Sister Gertrude Morgan is getting her own remix album.
On Sept. 6, Brooklyn-based...
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It's an odd cast of characters: an
Armenian-American thrash-rock quartet; a cartoon band that
exists mainly in cyberspace; a pair of supposed siblings (or
exes) with a...
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Strawberry Field, the children's home that inspired a song by the Beatles, has closed after 69 years.
The Salvation Army, which ran the home, said it decided to close the...
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Veteran TV
producer-director Ken Ehrlich's got a hit -- and, despite his
long history in the music business, it's no run-of-the-mill
event.
"I've spent my life promoting...
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Late "Genius of Soul" Ray Charles
won the album of the year prize at the 47th annual Grammy
Awards on Sunday, only the second time the coveted honor has
gone to a deceased...
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The studio that churned out hits from Michael Jackson , Bruce Springsteen , Stevie Wonder and many more, is closing shop.
The legendary Hit Factory will close its New York...
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Strawberry Fields is not forever, after all.
The Liverpool children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song is to close, officials said Wednesday.
The psychedelic...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Rolling Stones recently
concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with
producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous
studio releases.
The...
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Yoko Ono is in a giving mood these days, especially when it
comes to doling out music from John Lennon's musical archives.
On Tuesday, the day before the 24th...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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John Lennon has defeated Elvis Presley
to be voted the greatest rock 'n' roll icon of all time in a
poll conducted by Q music magazine.
Paul McCartney , Lennon's fellow...
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It's no coincidence that two new
John Lennon albums, "Acoustic" and "Rock 'N' Roll," were
released simultaneously earlier this week via Capitol.
As its name implies,...
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Mark David Chapman felt like a nobody and wanted to "steal John Lennon's fame" when he shot the former Beatle outside his New York City apartment in 1980, according to a...
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Only in Las Vegas: Beatles songs,
as portrayed by the acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil, will
replace animal training duo Siegfried and Roy at one of the
city's biggest...
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The Beatles are teaming up with Cirque du Soleil to create a theatrical production that will replace the legendary Siegfried & Roy act at The Mirage hotel-casino.
It is...
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More than two decades after his death, John Lennon is apparently
still a threat to national security--or so the FBI still contends.
Now, at the behest of Jonathan...
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Yoko Ono has awarded peace grants to journalist Seymour Hersh and Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, men she says epitomize her late husband John Lennon's...
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We're guessing Chris Robinson is getting sick of being introduced
as Mr. Kate Hudson and former frontman of Black Crowes.
The Crowes have been all but dead since...
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Add Babyface and Missy Elliot to the growing list of artists
looking to get out the vote in the months before the Nov. 2 presidential
election.
The R&B star and hip-hop...
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Putting a current spin on a 1975 hit, anti-Bush musicians Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott and Eve are remaking "Wake Up Everybody" to mobilize new voters.
In 1976, Democrats...
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Yoko Ono has joined the chorus in support of gay marriage by recording "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him," a gay-friendly version of a song she wrote nearly a...
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In 1985, Yoko Ono released "Hell in
Paradise." The disco/rock jam, which appeared on the artist's
Bill Laswell -produced album "Starpeace," peaked at No. 12 on
the...
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Hip-hop singer Frankee has knocked Eamon
off top spot in the U.K. pop charts with a song that is
believed to be a response to his expletive-filled lament about
his...
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John Lennon memorabilia, including a leather collar he wore during the 1960s, was auctioned by Christie's for a total of $400,500.
The auction house called it the...
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David
Bowie wants you to make some ch-ch-changes to his tunes.
The Thin White Duke is giving fans a chance to bootleg his
music by using computer software that allows...
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A gallery owner who got into trouble in 1970 for selling sexually explicit lithographs by John Lennon may have escaped conviction because of concerns expressed by the art...
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Janet didn't show. Justin did. Beyonc won--a lot.
The
46th
Annual Grammy Awards, irrevocably shaped by last weekend's 38th
annual Super Bowl, played it safe with a...
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Rykodisc, recognized as one of the
world's foremost independent labels, will celebrate its
20-year-anniversay with a double-album compilation CD due Feb.
3.
Ryko issued...
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Everything old is new again.
For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of
Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley 's "Rubberneckin"' and the
Rolling Stones'...
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More than 100 paintings, doodles, caricatures and drawings by slain Beatle John Lennon were on display for a three-day show, wrapping up on Sunday.
Lennon's artwork...
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Two Beatles-oriented DVD
projects that are being released Nov. 18 pay tribute to the
departed members of the Fab Four.
George Harrison and John Lennon are remembered in...
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The world premiere of the George Harrison documentary concert film, Concert For George, was held Wednesday night (September 24) in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio....
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John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, says she will not fight with Paul McCartney over the changes he made to the songwriting credits on some of the Beatles songs he's recently...
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The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's...
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Yoko Ono and a former assistant to John Lennon cut a deal Friday (September 27), ending a 20-year fight over ownership of personal photos and other personal items belonging...
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Yoko Ono testified in New York's federal court Monday (September 23) against a former assistant of her late husband, John Lennon. Ono, 69, accompanied by son Sean, 27,...
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A lawsuit filed three years ago by Yoko Ono against John Lennon's former aide is being heard in New York's federal court this week. Ono sued Frederic Seaman in 1999,...
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Echoing the words of her late husband John Lennon, Yoko Ono offered the plea "Give Peace A Chance" in a short film aired by MTV in Europe on Wednesday (September 11), the...
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Declaring that it's "a very important time to remind people of this message," John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has rented a London billboard to deliver a message of peace. The...
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A new version of the 1984 John Lennon & Yoko Ono album Milk And Honey comes out today (October 23). The digitally remastered edition features the original album's 12 songs...
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A full-page ad with a simple message in the words of John Lennon--"Imagine all the people living life in peace"--ran in Sunday's (September 23) edition of The New York...
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Perhaps no one had a better view of John Lennon than the woman he loved, Yoko Ono. History has held Ono in a bad light as being one of the major factors in the breakup of...
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Some have speculated that Yoko Ono's decision to include "How Do You Sleep," John Lennon's scathing attack on Paul McCartney, on the recently-released John Lennon Anthology...
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(9/11/98)John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has reportedly inked deal with Columbia Pictures for an autobiographical movie that will depict her side of the Beatles' saga--and will...
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Capitol Records has unveiled more details on the forthcoming four-CD John Lennon Anthology, due Nov. 3 (myLAUNCH, 9/4), and has released comments from Lennon's widow, the...
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Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko and brother of Julian, joins the family business May 5th with his first album, Into The Sun.
The Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label will...
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Last week, myLAUNCH reported that self-proclaimed artist and police-proclaimed vandal Jake Platt had defaced five Yoko Ono paintings hanging in Cincinnati's Contemporary...
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Self-proclaimed Seattle artist Jake Platt used a red marker to deface several of Yoko Ono's black-and-white paintings (valued at $10,000 each), which were being displayed...
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John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has reportedly inked a deal with Columbia Pictures for an autobiographical movie that will depict her side of the Beatles' saga--and will...
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It's finally been confirmed that Ewan MacGregor, the dashing young star of Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary, will play John
Lennon in the film Yoko Ono is...
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Two local actors, Amana Fisher and Kioko Lawx, reenacted John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 anti-war publicity stunt, the "Bed-In," at the pricey Alexis Hotel in Seattle...
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