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  John-Lennon.com - Imagine An International Holiday Honoring John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon has been exhumed in print more than any other popular musical figure, including the late Elvis Presley, of whom Lennon said that he "died when he went into the army".
Such was the cutting wit of a deeply loved and sadly missed giant of the twentieth century.
What Lennon did achieve, however, was to educate us all to the idea of world peace.
www.john-lennon.com   (738 words)

  
  BBC ON THIS DAY | 8 | 1980: John Lennon shot dead
The Lennons are said to have left their limousine on the street and walked up the driveway when the gunman opened fire.
Mr Lennon is survived by his wife, their son Sean, and his son from a previous marriage, Julian.
John Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark Chapman who had asked the former Beatle for his autograph only hours before he laid in wait and killed him.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/8/newsid_2536000/2536321.stm   (483 words)

  
 Astrology: John Lennon - StarIQ.com
Lennon was, of course, the founder of the 60s rock group The Beatles, who were catapulted from very ordinary lives to fame and fortune almost overnight.
John Lennon, a Libra, was born on October 9, 1940, at 6:30 pm in Liverpool England.
Lennon’s Moon is in opposition to the planet Pluto, which adds intensity to whatever it touches.
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 John Lennon - Music Downloads - Online
Lennon was capable of inspired, brutally honest confessional songwriting and melodic songcraft; he also had a tendency to rest on his laurels, churning out straight-ahead rock & roll without much care.
Lennon's immigration battle neared its completion on October 7, 1975, when the U.S. court of appeals overturned his deportation order; in the summer of 1976, he was finally granted his green card.
Lennon's death inspired deep grief from the entire world; on December 14, millions of fans around the world participated in a ten-minute silent vigil for Lennon at 2 p.m.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/170/130/29/17013029.html   (1154 words)

  
 VH1.com : John Lennon : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
Lennon was capable of inspired, brutally honest confessional songwriting and melodic songcraft; he also had a tendency to rest on his laurels, churning out straight-ahead rock & roll without much care.
Before the release of "Cold Turkey," Lennon had told the Beatles that he planned to leave the group, but he agreed not to publicly announce his intentions until after Allen Klein's negotiations with EMI on behalf of the Beatles were resolved.
Lennon's immigration battle neared its completion on October 7, 1975, when the U.S. court of appeals overturned his deportation order; in the summer of 1976, he was finally granted his green card.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/lennon_john/bio.jhtml   (1283 words)

  
 LENNON - Roanoke.com
Lennon's death at age 40 was the final irony of a life fraught with paradoxes.
The morning of Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono left their home at the famous Dakota, the apartment complex that had been featured prominently in the horror movie "Rosemary's Baby." As Lennon walked toward his limousine, a young photographer snapped a picture of the singer signing an album cover for a fan.
Lennon and Ono spent part of the day in a recording studio, working on Ono's song, "Walking on Thin Ice." During the session, record label executive David Geffen popped by to tell Lennon that "Double Fantasy" had gone gold.
www.roanoke.com /extra\wb/43696   (1331 words)

  
 John Lennon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lennon was the first to break the band's all-for-one sensibility, and also the rule that no wives or girlfriends would attend recording sessions, as he brought Yoko into the studio.
Lennon began his love affair with Ono in 1968 after returning from India and leaving his estranged wife Cynthia; Cynthia filed for divorce later that year, on the grounds of John's adultery with Ono which was evidenced by Yoko's apparent pregnancy and miscarriage of their son.
Lennon, however, was determined to use his power as a superstar to help end the war, especially after he left the Beatles and teamed up with Yoko.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lennon   (8568 words)

  
 John Lennon Biography - hotshotdigital.com
Lennon on touring: "Oh, it was a room and a car and a car and a room and a room and a car." Fast-forward to Lennon in a 1966 interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave: "Christianity will go.
Lennon, switching his psychic allegiance and expectations from McCartney to Yoko, was ultimately traumatized by it, as his public statements and behavior of the time made clear.
Lennon was rushed to the hospital but pronounced dead on arrival from a massive loss of blood.
www.hotshotdigital.com /WellAlwaysRemember.2/JohnLennonBio.html   (1171 words)

  
 CD Baby: LENNON: Career Suicide
Lennon has studied the piano since the young age of 4 and has predominately used this instrument as her main tool in her writing process.
Lennon finished the end of last year with a headlining tour of the entire United States without tour support or industry help; just another sign of determination which in the end brought her into a lot of contact with radio stations as well as new Lennon fans all offering support towards her forthcoming album.
Lennon is not only doing that but also showing her diversity and that she is not limited to one way of doing things.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/lennonmusic   (865 words)

  
 LENNON :: Damaged Goods
And Lennon admits that sometimes her life, with ups and downs including tour bus accidents, fighting for the custody of her young sister after the death of their only parent, and record industry fiascos, is more like a horror movie.
Lennon was only too happy to release her next outings herself, via John Galt Entertainment, the label she founded with her manager.
Lennon is an anomaly: She's comfortable at truck stops, bold onstage, confessional in her lyrics, yet often shy in personal situations.
lennon.musiccitynetworks.com /index.htm?id=2095&loc=2   (1405 words)

  
 AlterNet: MediaCulture: Rocking the Youth Vote: 1972 to 2004
FBI was able to shut down John Lennon's efforts to use music to register voters to get rid of the guy in the White House.
Lennon came under FBI surveillance because he planned a U.S. concert tour for 1972 – when Nixon was running for re-election and the war in Vietnam was going strong.
Lennon did do one concert before the White House got to him: a trial run at the University of Michigan's Crisler Arena in December 1971.
www.alternet.org /mediaculture/20185   (851 words)

  
 John Lennon
Only late in life, Lennon discovered that his lifelong inability to spell and tendency to transform one word into another of similar sound was a sign of dyslexia.
Lennon signed the contract in January 1964 and the book - with 31 pieces of writing and enough drawings - was published three months later on March 23, 1964.
Lennon used Thai sticks, or heroin, left rarely his bed, and complained about television, his chronic indigestion, or the soap in the kitchen.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lennon.htm   (1684 words)

  
 John Lennon's murder explained
Chapman recognised that Lennon was sending him signals: the chiming bell of "Just Like Starting Over" on the 1980 "Double Fantasy" album, was a backward echo of the sombre funeral bell on the "Mother" track on the 1970 "Plastic Ono Band" album.
For Lennon, the use of these two bells completed a ten year cycle; for Chapman it was a signal, a call to action.
Lennon himself gave special significance to this song because it came to him almost complete, in the middle of the night - it came out of nowhere, like a message.
www.geocities.com /dp2spirits   (1406 words)

  
 THE POP LIFE; NEW JOHN LENNON MUSIC - New York Times
Lennon and Miss Ono had recorded enough material for two albums during the summer and fall of 1980, of which ''Double Fantasy'' was the first.
Lennon's fans have had to wait three years to hear his six songs on ''Milk and Honey.'' But in a series of recent conversations, Miss Ono indicated that the album could not have come out much sooner.
Lennon's songs on ''Milk and Honey'' have a looser, grittier sound than his tunes on ''Double Fantasy.'' Miss Ono wisely avoided the temptation to polish them.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E3DC1E38F93BA25752C0A962948260   (649 words)

  
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Dec. 8 marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, one of the world’s most beloved songwriters and musicians.
Lennon was a complex figure whose work continues to resonate, and whose personal life continues to fascinate, long after his tragic passing at age 40.
On Sept. 13, 1969, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band made their live debut as headliners of a Toronto concert called “The Rock and Roll Revival” (with support from the Doors, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and others).
www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?quiz=arts_lennon   (706 words)

  
 Aaron Lennon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A winger, Lennon started his professional career at Leeds United, where he became the youngest player ever to appear in the FA Premier League at the age of 16 years and 129 days - coming off the bench at White Hart Lane in a 2-1 defeat in August, 2003.
Lennon was one of ten Spurs squad members to be struck down by an alleged outbreak of food poisoning on the evening of 6 May 2006, before their crucial final game of the season against West Ham United.
Lennon was called up to the England under-21 team for the first time in October 2005 and on 8 May 2006 was picked in England's 2006 World Cup squad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Lennon   (591 words)

  
 John Lennon's strange sort of immortality, now 25 years long   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lennon, of the Beatles era and beyond, was that and something more, an artist who seemed to both describe and drive experience, to anticipate as well as celebrate, whether it was puppy love, politics, drugs, marriage, dissatisfaction, parenthood, despair, contentment or the conundrum of celebrity he addressed.
Lennon laid the foundation for everything from Madonna's art of perpetual self-creation to Michael Jackson's public spectacle of self-destruction to Bono's purposeful political activism.
Lennon is everywhere and nowhere, a maker of infinitely adaptable anthems ("Imagine," "All You Need Is Love," "Give Peace a Chance,") that seem almost creatorless and a complex, faceted, self-scrutinizing artist who died too young.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/08/DDG9QG409R1.DTL   (1140 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : 38) John Lennon
Lennon had just finished doing primal-scream therapy, and he was just unloading all this stuff, about his mother leaving him, about the Beatles and about who he was.
Lennon showed us who he was as a person.
Lennon was more than a musician; he was like a prophet.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5940018/38_john_lennon   (534 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Imagine: Music: John Lennon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The enduring legacy of John Lennon's best album has overshadowed a glaring historical irony: the Beatles' original architect was also responsible for some of the Fab Four's most erratic solo albums.
Lennon was writing structured songs and producing something cohesive, a sign that he would not forever be a rugged, tripped-out specter.
Lennon's soft and contemplative singing style is in alignment with the lyrics of hope and wisdom.
www.amazon.com /Imagine-John-Lennon/dp/B0000457L2   (2907 words)

  
 John Lennon - Official Website - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
We play excerpts of Lennon singing “Imagine” at the Apollo Theater in Harlem at a rally for the Attica prisoners and Lennon singing at the 1971 Free John Sinclair concert in Ann Arbor.
For the first time ever, the whole of John Lennon's solo catalogue will be available for exclusive digital access, starting with the new definitive greatest hits album "Working Class Hero", which was released on CD in the UK and US in October and which will be available to purchase in download form beginning November 7.
The entire Lennon solo catalogue will then be made available digitally beginning December 5th (December 6th in the US) on a variety of digital music services.
www.johnlennon.com /html/news.aspx   (1139 words)

  
 John Lennon and Beatles timeline
The Lennon family of Liverpool is descended from the O'Leannain's of Western Ireland.
The family tree shows five successive generations of Lennons, all of whom made at least part of their living through music.
John Lennon sang professionally in pubs in Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century.
lennon.net /timeline/index.shtml   (414 words)

  
 Lennon Lives - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
There's Lennon's first wife, Cynthia, who details severe emotional and financial wounds on behalf of herself and their son, Julian, in her new memoir, "John." And, of course, there's Paul McCartney, who has competed quite nakedly with Lennon's ghost.
One, of course, is the universal appeal of the music that Lennon made with the Beatles, though Lennon himself was famously weary of it by the time he died.
Lennon made only two solo albums that are indispensable: 1970's raw, furious and heart-rending "The Plastic Ono Band" and the more accessible 1971 classic "Imagine." In the past 15 years or so, they have sold just 153,000 and 412,000 copies respectively.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10115403/site/newsweek   (1220 words)

  
 John Lennon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The government went all-out to deny Lennon his longed-for permanent U.S. residency, and more than that, to deport him altogether (that was the subject of Thurmond's memo).
The FBI and the CIA tracked Lennon at least from his "Free John Sinclair" concert in 1969 until 1976 - even though by then Lennon had won his immigration battle and dropped out of not only political activism but public life altogether into what turned out to be a five-year period of seclusion.
And in a way that official paranoia might have been justified, because as embarrassing as Lennon and Ono's political publicity stunts occasionally became, John Lennon was always capable of seizing the spotlight and speaking directly to millions of young people who venerated him.
www.carpenoctem.tv /cons/lennon.html   (1735 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 2 - Lennon
When John Lennon was shot the impact on the world was both instant and lasting.
To begin the Radio 2 Lennon Night with an hour of context, Mark Radcliffe sketches a portrait of the twentieth century's most influential and iconic figure.
The programme examines Lennon the peacenik; the husband; the rock star; the songwriter; the philosopher; the father.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/events/lennon/lennon.shtml   (399 words)

  
 John Lennon Museum
The John Lennon Museum opened to the public on October 9, 2000, the 60th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth.
The John Lennon Museum will be holding the event "Wedding Days" for three days from March 21 to 23, 2007 in celebration of John and Yoko's wedding anniversary on March 20.
The John Lennon Museum will be holding the planning exhibition "John and Yoko's Love and Peace Activities Part 3" entitled "Ideal Society as Envisioned by John Lennon and Happy Xmas" from December 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007.
www.taisei.co.jp /museum/index_e.html   (378 words)

  
 ABC News: Remembering John Lennon
Former Beatle John Lennon was gunned down on Dec. 8, 1980.
Lennon was hit four times in the back.
For Lennon, sadly, there would be no future.
abcnews.go.com /GMA/story?id=1371071&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (419 words)

  
 John Lennon News
Snow Patrol are signing a Lennon classic County Down band Snow Patrol are to feature on an album which aims to raise awareness of the crisis in the Sudan.
Yoko Ono has donated the publishing royalties to the entire John Lennon back catalogue in an effort to make sure a new all-star tribute to her husband is a true charity event.
Comments John Lennon's sons Julian Lennon and Sean Lennon are now friends but have shunned Yoko Ono On a chilly February night in Milan, at the pricey Nobu restaurant, a group of diners are ordering tots of the...
www.topix.net /who/john-lennon   (844 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | John Lennon 1940-1980: History Professor Jon Wiener Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why ...
Lennon wrote some of the most famous songs of the anti-war movement: "Give Peace a Chance,” "Imagine" and "Happy Christmas, War is Over." He sang at political protests against the Vietnam War, in support of the radical John Sinclair and even for the prisoners of Attica.
Lennon tried to figure out ways that he could use his power as a celebrity to help end the war.
Lennon claimed this was motivated by a desire to silence him as a spokesman for the peace movement, and I think the F.B.I. files show Lennon was right about that.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/12/08/1421215   (5156 words)

  
 NPR : Sean Lennon Explores Love's 'Friendly Fire'
Friendly Fire, the second album from the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is accompanied by a DVD of short films, one for each song.
Lennon explains how he, LeRoy and Lennon's then-girlfriend, Bijou Phillips, were involved in a love triangle.
What strikes him as unnatural, Lennon says, is when people think of him as a "cardboard figure" onto which they project their ideas of what John Lennon's son should be like.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6189537   (276 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lennon: Definitive Biography, The: Books: Ray Coleman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lennon is not an angel, but nor is he a monster.
These contradictions in Lennon's life doesn't mean that one side of Lennon must be true and the other side not.
The most notorious extreme is Albert Goldman (The Lives of John Lennon): mean-spirited, doing whatever he can get away with to tear down the subject even if it means passing off rumors as fact, speculating on the flimsiest of evidence, and using obscuring resources to the point that you're hard-pressed to know what to believe.
www.amazon.com /Lennon-Definitive-Biography-Ray-Coleman/dp/0060986085   (2190 words)

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