Every day throughout 1964, a postman called Eric Clague would deliver another bulging sack of fan letters to 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, where Paul McCartney had been brought up, and where his father still lived. That year, The Beatles were the four most famous young men in the world. In the first week of April, … Read more
John Lennon’s hit single Mother is re-released with digitally remastered video on what would have been his mum Julia’s 107th birthday The John Lennon Estate revealed on Friday, March 12 that they had released an updated video for the song, on the anniversary of his mother’s birthday Reconstructed with the original photographs of Lennon and … Read more
In August 1967, Stephen Bayley, a 15-year-old pupil at Quarry Bank in Liverpool, wrote a letter to the school’s most famous pupil, John Lennon. Young Stephen told John, who had left Quarry Bank ten years earlier, that his English teacher was in the habit of playing Beatles records in class, and encouraging the boys to … Read more
Even for a famous presenter on BBC Radio 1 who had interviewed countless household names, a meeting with one of the most famous musicians on the planet promised to be a thrilling exclusive. Yet little did Andy Peebles know that his audience with John Lennon — the former Beatle’s first interview in a decade — … Read more
John Lennon’s Palm Beach home which he bought shortly before his death in 1980 but never visited has been sold for $36 million, $11 million less than the asking price. The luxury 14,145-square-foot home, located on on the street known as ‘Billionaire’s Row’, originally hit the market for a whopping $47.5 million in May. Strangely, Lennon and … Read more
John Lennon’s son Sean mocks the toppling of a Lincoln statue in Portland by suggesting The Pyramids should be ‘taken down immediately’ because they were ‘made under coercion of evil Pharaohs who were not very woke’ Sean Ono Lennon, 45, took to Twitter Monday in the wake of protests in Oregon He asked ‘why a Lincoln … Read more
John Lennon’s sister has opened up about growing up with the late singer in Liverpool, revealing their mother would rehearse with the Beatles as teens in the kitchen. Julia Baird, 73, who continues to live in Liverpool, appeared on This Morning today to mark what would have been the music legend’s 80th birthday , and told … Read more
Yoko Ono is suing the former personal assistant of her late husband John Lennon, claiming that he has once again tried to profit from her family, despite him previously agreeing not to give any interviews about working for The Beatles legend. According to a report by TMZ, Ono, 87, has filed a new suit against Frederic … Read more
The time is 4pm on December 8, 1980, a mild day in New York. As John Lennon leaves his home on Central Park West, he pauses to autograph a record album for a 25-year-old former security guard named Mark David Chapman, without a suspicion in the world. The moment is caught on camera by Paul … Read more