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Lennon song led to poignant 9.11 moment
THE star of a Beatles tribute show heading to Hereford’s Courtyard theatre next month has told how the classic John Lennon song Imagine led to a poignant moment in the aftermath of the 9-11 tragedy. Paul Moroney, who appears as Lennon in the Magic of the Beatles, was travelling from London to Texas for a live show as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York was taking place in 2001. His flight was one of 38, carrying a total of almost 7,000 people, diverted to Gander Airport in Newfoundland. “We were trapped on the plane for 36 hours while the FBI ran checks on ...
Was John Lennon really born during an air raid?
Was John Lennon born ‘during an air raid’ in Liverpool, as Beatles legend insists?New research suggests that no German attacks took place in Liverpool on the night of October 9, 1940.However, the official Beatles biographer Hunter Davies says: ‘That’s what John himself told me, ditto his Aunt Mimi and his father Fred.'It was the family legend, still going strong in 1968. I’m not changing it now.’That’s the spirit!John’s claim that he smoked marijuana in the lavatories at Buckingham Palace while collecting his MBE in 1965 can also be taken with a ...
Vatican newspaper sings praises of the Beatles
Vatican media are singing the praises of the musical legacy of the Beatles and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus. Saturday's edition of Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano recalls that Lennon's boast outraged many in 1966. But it says the remark now can be written off as the bragging of a young man wrestling with unexpected success.The newspaper was noting the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "White Album."Listening to the album, the newspaper says, makes clear how creative the Beatles were, compared to what it calls the ...
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My favourite Beatles song: Something Four readers tell us why they think Something, written by George Harrison, is the Beatles' best songWe continue our series in which readers tell us about their favourite songs from the Fab Four. If you'd like to take part in future weeks, simply visit this page and use the form to tell us about the Beatles song that means the most to you.This week's track of choice is Something, the second song on the band's 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by George Harrison, who also performs lead vocals, the track was supposedly inspired by Harrison's wife at the time, Pattie Boyd, although rumours abound as to its real origins, with Harrison himself once stating he was thinking of Ray Charles when he wrote it. A critical and commercial success, Something has been covered over 150 times, although Harrison picked James Brown's version as his personal favourite, keeping a copy in his jukebox. Lennon and McCartney both praised the song, with Lennon describing it as the best track on the album, and McCar |
New music: Fainting By Numbers – Watching the Wheels Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor starts another side project, teaming up with a German techno producer on a John Lennon coverReading on mobile? Click here to listenThe last single to be released from John Lennon's Double Fantasy album, Watching the Wheels – inspired by critics who questioned his decision to retire briefly from music to help raise his son, Sean – opens with the line "People say I'm crazy". Following his death, it was recontextualised as the line repeated by his killer Mark Chapman after he was held in police custody on murder charges. In the hands of Fainting By Numbers – who are made up of German techno producer Justus Köhncke and dance music polymath Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip – the opening lyric is given a kind of blank, almost robotic monotony, with the perky piano of the original replaced by the cold thrum of synths and electronic percussion. Released via Moshi Moshi, whose co-founder Stephen Bass first made Köhncke aware of Taylor's work in 2003, Watching the W |
Yoko Ono uses photo of John Lennon's bloodied glasses in plea for gun control Artist tweets picture of glasses worn by singer when he was shot dead in 1980, and says US has become like 'war zone'Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – "You are water. I'm water. We're all water in different containers. That's why it's so easy to meet. Someday we'll evaporate together." – Yoko Ono has taken to the social network site to offer a more visceral message, tweeting an image of John Lennon's bloodstained glasses as part of a call for greater gun control.The 80-year-old artist and musician tweeted a picture of the glasses worn by Lennon on the night he was shot dead coupled with the message: "Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980." The photo, showing the glasses on a windowsill with New York's Central Park in the background, was the cover of Ono's 1981 album Season of Glass, her first recording after her then husband was murdered by Ma |
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