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John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band (Apple)/ Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band (Apple)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971
BOTH OF THESE records are remarkable in some aspect, a sort of East-West five years after Butterfield and Allan Watts. Certainly, until this point, John ...
John Lennon: Please, Your Majesty, Can Our John Have A Free Pardon?
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
Heavy breathing over the phone as ANDREW TYLER gets the lowdown from LENNON in L.A. Genius is police harassment, says the Walrus ...
List of articles in the library
Report by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
John Lennon Talks About His New Book ...
John Lennon: Happy Birthday to the Head Beatle
Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 10 October 1964
Although The Beatles have never officially had a leader, John Lennon has always been regarded as Beatle-boss because of his major role in their success. ...
John Lennon: Beatle Rumors Ended!
Interview by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 14 April 1965
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of Beatle interviews by Dave Hull and Derek Taylor, who talked to John, Paul, George and ...
John Lennon: A Spaniard In The Works (Jonathan Cape, price 10s. 6d.)
Book Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 June 1965
THOSE CHARACTERS IN JOHN'S SECOND BOOK! ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
John Lennon knew all about the MM's Pop Think-in when he was approached to sit in the "hot seat". "Yeah, it'll be a laugh," he ...
My Missing Years, by Freddie Lennon, John Lennon's Father
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, February 1966
For eighteen years Freddie Lennon vanished. From the time he was six until he was twenty-four John heard nothing from him. When he returned he ...
How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
ON A HILL IN SURREY... A YOUNG MAN, FAMOUS, LOADED AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING ...
Letters to the Editor: Lennon Vs. Christianity
Readers' Letters by Various Writers, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
(Ed. NOTE: The BEAT has received hundreds of letters, both pro and con, concerning John Lennon's remarks about Christianity. Unfortunately, we do not have nearly ...
How I Won The War (Dir. Richard Lester, United Artists)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 19 August 1967
HOW DID JOHN LENNON WIN STAR BILLING? asks ALAN SMITH ...
How I Won The War (Dir. Dick Lester, starring John Lennon)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 21 October 1967
BEATLE JOHN Lennon reveals a talent for acting and a sense of bitter irony in the part of Private Gripweed in Dick Lester's How I ...
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 2 March 1968
TONY BARROW, the Beatles' press representative, concludes his four part series with this article on John Lennon. Barrow has been associated with the Beatles since ...
John Lennon: Fighting The Good Fight With All Of His Might
Comment by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
THIS IS addressed to those who love Lennon, who call him John and who give thanks for his being alive, hard by, at hand, dear ...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Two Virgins (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
MOST AMUSING part of this entertaining family album is the line on the label which states all the "compositions" are published by Northern Songs Ltd. ...
Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 December 1968
THE ROLLING STONES put in some overtime last Wednesday when they spent 17 hours working on their telethon production of The Rock and Roll Circus ...
Essay by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 24 January 1969
I KNOW YOU'RE tired of hearing all the bullshit about the Beatles and all, but there are things going on that nobody seems to be ...
Beatles Music Straightforward On Next Album: An Interview with John Lennon
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 May 1969
"IF I COULD ONLY get the time to myself right now, instead of all this Monopoly and financial business with Northern Songs, I think I ...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Life With The Lions (Apple)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 17 May 1969
JOHN AND YOKO DO THEIR OWN THING (Part 2) ...
John Lennon: Ringo's Right, We Can't Tour Again
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 7 June 1969
JOHN LENNON, over here in Canada with his wife Yoko, revealed for the first time that there had been considerable disagreement between him and Paul ...
Bedding In For Peace: John and Yoko in Canada
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 28 June 1969
TORONTO – It started like a pretty normal Sunday. The churches were filled, the radio news bulletins beamed out the latest on wars and starving ...
The Rolling Stones, Plastic Ono Band et al: New Singles
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
ROLLING STONES: 'Honky Tonk Women'/'You Can't Always Get What You Want' (Decca). An important single for the Stones, but a disappointment for us . ...
John and Yoko: Can YOU Afford To Laugh At Them?
Interview by Tony Norman, Top Pops, 9 August 1969
In Vietnam, young men are killing each other every day. In Biafra, young children are dying of starvation. Across the Continents of the world there ...
John Lennon/Yoko Ono Interview
Interview by Miles, unpublished, September 1969
These tapes were made on September 23rd and 24th, 1969, at Apple. When Allen Klein fired Ron Kass, the head of Apple Records, John and ...
An Evening with John and Yoko: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 September 1969
John Lennon — Genius or Just a Bore ...
John Lennon: "The Beatles' Wealth is a Myth"
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 September 1969
JOHN LENNON hasn't had a royalty cheque for two years. And, believe it or not, he's feeling the pinch. ...
John, Yoko, And Eric Clapton Kick Up Their Blue Suede Shoes
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 18 October 1969
LONDON – John Lennon and Yoko Ono were beaming when they arrived at their plush white office in Apple's Savile Row headquarters in London on ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 6 December 1969
"We had to do a lot of selling out. Taking the MBE was a sell-out for me". Part 1 of a new series by RICHARD ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 13 December 1969
"People prefer a dead saint to a living annoyance like John and Yoko. But we don't intend to be dead Saints for people's convenience". Part ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 December 1969
"We're always together, like 24 hours a day. We're never apart by more than a 100 yards". RICHARD WILLIAMS concludes his exclusive series ...
John Lennon: Bore, Fool or Saint?
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 20 December 1969
THEY SAY John Lennon is insane, a fool, and a bore. They call him an embarrassment, a joke, and a man too interested in his ...
John and Yoko Envisage Super Jam
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 January 1970
IT'S A WELL known fact that John and Yoko Lennon were in Toronto and Ottawa recently to talk about their Peace Festival to be held ...
John Lennon: A Private Talk With John
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970
YOU'VE BEEN talking lately about the fact that the Beatles aren't the musical group they were two or three years ago — that you are ...
Report by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970
TORONTO — The scene couldn't have been more appropriately peaceful if it had been staged by a film director. A color TV set flickered soundlessly ...
Report by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1970
AARLBORG, DENMARK — Tuesday, January 13th, had been a normal winter's day in this small city in the northern Jutland province of Denmark. It had ...
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Report by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1970
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was an entertainment extravaganza planned and put on by the Rolling Stones in December 1968. Originally done as ...
John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
Tender and Bitter — Lennon Says It All ...
Ringo Stars: Geoffrey Cannon on the Beatles' Solo Albums
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 December 1970
Ringo Starr: Beaucoups of Blues; Paul McCartney: McCartney; John Lennon: John Lennon Plastic Ono Band; George Harrison: All Things Must Pass ...
The Beatles: It's Open Warfare
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 March 1971
Why Beatles ended in a sordid mudbath.It isn't coincidence that these solo singles have just been released, says Alan Smith ...
Sounds Of The Seventies: Portrait Of A Naked Iggy
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 1971
ONE DAY late last December I came home and found this message on the tape recorder that answers my telephone when I'm not home: "This is ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 June 1971
JOHN AND Yoko Lennon have come to town. ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Doing The Rounds For Publicity
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 31 July 1971
He knows it, I know it – the next Lennon album is the greatest says Alan Smith ...
At Home With The Lennons, Part 2
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971
In which John burns down the Beatles 'cause he loves 'em ...
John and Yoko: The Apple and the Grapefruit
Report and Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 7 August 1971
A VISIT TO THE LENNONS WITH VAL MABBS ...
At home with the Lennons, Part 2: "Ringo's Sellers is my Paul"
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 14 August 1971
"THESE PAST two years have been very heavy," Yoko told me earnestly. "We've been having the Paul thing and the Kyoko thing going on for ...
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
JOHN SINGS LONG TRACK ABOUT PAUL ...
John and Yoko: A Press Conference at Apple
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 2 October 1971
THERE'S A GLINT of spectacles. Gathering recognition as the sandy hair, short and unfamiliar registers. Take in the smart grey trousers and the conventional shirt. ...
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 9 October 1971
All we need is Lennon ...
Essay by Felix Dennis, Ink, 2 November 1971
"I still think that kids are more influenced by us than by Jesus". ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 December 1971
NO SOONER did Bob Dylan astonish everyone by going back to "protest" and coming out with a song protesting the death of convict George Jackson ...
Rocking Chair: Popular & Vital
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 24 December 1971
JAMES TAYLOR came on the jukebox in the bar last night, singing that pretty Carole King song about "Call me and I'll come running and ...
John Sinclair: Free John & Yoko
Report by uncredited writer, Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1972
The new Plastic Ono Band comes to Ann Arbor to Free John Sinclair – Starring David Peel, Archie Shepp, Ed Sanders, Stevie Wonder, Commander Cody, ...
John Lennon: Sometime In New York City (Apple); Elephant's Memory: Elephant's Memory (Apple)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972
I'M LISTENING TO a tape of The New John and Yoko lp. If you thought, as I did, that Sometime in New York City was ...
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band: Some Time In New York City/Live Jam (Apple)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
INEVITABLY, SOME Time is another giant step in the rapid polarisation of opinions concerning the moral and musical stance of John Lennon. ...
Lennon-Ono: Deporting The Great Swan
Report by Jonathon Green, International Times, 2 November 1972
NEW YORK: 'It is with great pleasure that we wish to add PEN American Center's great Roc's voice to the vast chorus of poetic larks and ...
Yoko: How I Rescued John from Chauvinism
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 22 September 1973
DATELINE NEW YORK: A rare interview with a much maligned singer with a fine new album... ...
Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 28 October 1973
SHE IS — the late Bruce Lee aside — the most famous Oriental entertainer in the western hemisphere, half of the most notorious show-biz couple ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 3 November 1973
WHERE DOHENY DRIVE cuts Sunset at the edge of the Beverly Hills estate, there's a tobacconist shop that carries all makes and brands. It's called ...
John Lennon: The Beatle in exile
Interview by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 17 November 1973
PHOTONEWS with the full version of John Lennon's blues... and his song of love ...
Report by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, April 1974
AFTER YEARS of the Dylans, the Tim Hardins, the jazz aficionados, and the Elton Johns, almost nothing could shock either the people or the environment ...
Lurching Lennon: Beatle Bounced
Report by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, June 1974
WHAT IS happening to John Lennon? Last month it was the infamous Kotex caper. Recently the former Beatle with the mellow voice was at it ...
Report by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, 29 August 1974
NEW YORK – John was wearing shades, his chestnut hair glistening in the fancy studio lights, big ones over his cars, sitting in a booth ...
John Lennon: Walls And Bridges
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 October 1974
IT'S A FINE, warm day here in London, Johnny. What's the weather like in New York? ...
John Lennon: Walls And Bridges (Apple)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1975
WELCOME TO THE latest chapter in John Lennon's Identity Crisis. Fresh from troubles with the immigration authorites, the breakup with Yoko and public behavior reminiscent ...
Elton's Tour Ends: Tears, Lennon and Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
NEW YORK — Elton John's opening words to the audience at Madison Square Garden were: "Hello, New York! Happy Thanksgiving!" ...
Plastic Ono Band: The End Of Another Dream
Essay by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, February 1975
Idris Walters describes the strange marriage of rock'n'roll and conceptual art which produced some of the most arresting sounds of the last few years and ...
John Lennon Talks About Music, Money, Marriage, and Fame
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Viva, March 1975
ONE OF JOHN Lennon's friends, Elton John, spends $5,000 for a pair of sunglasses and buys his manager a yacht for a birthday present. Another ...
John Lennon: Rock 'N' Roll (Apple)
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, March 1975
IN OCTOBER 1973 John Lennon was reported cutting an album of oldies with Phil Spector. After only four sides had been cut, Spector was seriously ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975
It's a busy time for JOHN LENNON – hit singles, a new album of oldies and recording with Elton John and and David Bowie. Plus ...
John Lennon's battle with the US Immigration Department
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975
JOHN LENNON, IN his battle of wits with the US Immigration Department, is looking less like the stoical pre-doomed crazy of old, and more like ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1 November 1975
SHAVED FISH is all of John Lennon's post-Beatle singles scooped up and dumped onto one album, spiced up with a few relevant album tracks and ...
John Lennon: Shaved Fish (Apple)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1976
DID Y'EVER notice how each of the former Beatles has enjoyed a successive season in the sun as the rock critics' fave Fab Four survivor? ...
Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
Flourishing a revolver our weird hero enters his dark, refrigerated room to recount strange tales the likes of which may never before have been heard ...
John Lennon: Sue You, Sue Me Blues
Report by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 17 June 1976
ROCK STARS are easy prey for legal harassment; rather than have their time and money eaten up by fruitless months of litigation, most stars agree ...
John Lennon Gets His Ticket To Ride
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 August 1976
NEW YORK: John Lennon has won his five-year battle against the immigration authorities in the United States. ...
Report by Miles, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977
DAVID PEEL and the Apple Band have released an album dedicated to that all-American cause of re-uniting The Beatles. ...
Behind the Scenes: Iovine in the Right Place
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1977
NEW YORK — In 1973, when he was working with producer John Lennon as assistant engineer on Harry Nilsson's Pussycats album, Jimmy Iovine looked up ...
American Grandstand: Another Open Letter to John Lennon
Column by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1979
DEAR JOHN: It's been almost two years since I wrote my first open letter to you, imploring you to break your silence, make another record ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980
IN THE cocoon, something stirs. John Lennon – one of the people who used to be in The Beatles, a group reckoned to be hot ...
John Lennon: I Was Never Lovable – I Was Just Lennon
Obituary by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, December 1980
ONE OF THE more persistent myths surrounding John Lennon claims that he was brought up in poverty by working-class Liverpool parents. ...
The Snuff Of Dreams: The Death of John Lennon
Comment by Mick Farren, SoHo Weekly News, 10 December 1980
IT'S EASY IN more normal times to talk about the price of fame. By very definition the artist, the rock 'n' roll star is up ...
Obituary by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 13 December 1980
WHEN WE were growing up, my brother and I, he loved John Lennon especially. Our parents used to give us a Beatles album every Christmas. ...
Rolling Stone Gathers A Little Moss
Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1981
SIX LOS Angeles area supermarket chains, including Ralphs, Safeway and Alpha Bela, have refused to carry the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The ...
John Lennon: Ghoulish Beatlemania
Essay by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 22 January 1981
WHEN A ROCK star dies in a plane crash or from an overdose of drugs and alcohol, the accident may seem tragic or repulsive, but ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen GHS 2001)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, February 1981
John Lennon's Last ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen GHS2001)
Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, February 1981
John and Yoko: A Fond Farewell ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen Records)
Review by John Swenson, Creem, March 1981
CRY FOR A SHADOW ...
John Lennon 1940-1980: Nothing To Do To Save His Life
Obituary by J. Kordosh, Creem, March 1981
"...Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise 'cause all the serious people like Martin Luther King ...
John Lennon: My Brilliant Career
Obituary by Simon Frith, New York Rocker, March 1981
'Death Of A Hero' it said in big black letters across the front of the Daily Mirror, and if I hadn't known already I'd have ...
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, June 1981
IT IS FIVE months since the shots were fired. The Dakota Building shares in that relief which Spring fleetingly gives to New York. Beside the ...
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 11 February 1984
How does the widow of John Lennon face up to a world that won't leave her husband's memory alone, three years after his death? In ...
Julian Lennon: The Lennon Legacy
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 13 October 1984
Four years after a madman took out his father, JULIAN LENNON launches his own career in music. In his first major interview he tells Colin ...
Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 25 October 1984
• His father was one of the most famous pop stars ever. • Now he has a hit of his own and talks to Neil Tennant. ...
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, December 1984
ONCE YOKO Ono was the most unjustly maligned figure in I popular music; now that some measure of public sympathy has swung to her side, ...
A Strangely defanged portrait of John Lennon
Book Review by John Mendelsohn, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 1985
ACCORDING TO LABOR Department projections, John Lennon biographers will outnumber Elvis Presley impersonators by mid-October. ...
Dead Aid/Instant Bad Karma By The Mersey: The John Lennon Memorial Concert, Pier Head, Liverpool
Report by Michael Gray, The Times, 7 May 1990
IT HAS TAKEN the music industry five years to transform the rock-stars-for-charity mega-event from Bob Geldof's coherent effort to ameliorate a real tragedy to this ...
Live Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1990
AS WE ENTER the scene, we spy a rockin' Reverend on the stage performing a boisterous version of an old Beatles' tune. ...
Some Time in New York City: John Lennon’s Manhattan
Essay by Steve Turner, The Independent, 18 August 1990
"I SHOULD HAVE been born in New York," John Lennon once said. "I should have been born in the Village. That’s where I belong. Everybody ...
Albert Goldman: Double Fantasy?
Obituary by Miles, MOJO, 1994
The late Albert Goldman wrote two vicious character profiles, of Elvis and Lennon, and was crucified for his pains. He claimed their fans simply couldn't ...
Eyewitness: The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, April 29, 1967, Alexandra Palace, North London
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, June 1995
Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...
Bob Gruen: Just Like Starting Over
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 26 August 1995
New Yorker Bob Gruen is famous in the field of rock'n'roll photography but his association with John Lennon overshadows everything. GRAHAM REID hears the stories. ...
Eyewitness: John & Yoko record 'Give Peace A Chance'
Retrospective by Paul Williams, Q, November 1995
Give Peace A Chance may not be the last word in protest performances, but it can lay claim to one of the weirdest musical births ...
Interview by Miles, MOJO, November 1995
WE DID THESE interviews on September 23 and 24, 1969, at Apple. When Allen Klein fired Ron Kass, the head of Apple Records, John and ...
That's Another Fine Messiah You've Got Me Into
Comment by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 April 1996
John Lennon thought The Beatles were bigger than IT, some people think Elvis is/was IT and Michael Jackson seems to think he is IT. So ...
"Radically Festive": The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 1996
On December 10, 1968, some of the most exciting talent in rock history gathered for an event all the more legendary for having been quietly ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 24 June 1997
YOKO ONO was a lightning rod for the Sixties' most vicious currents. John Lennon was a man she'd barely heard of, a man she fell ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Various Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
A LOT of claims are being made for Yoko Ono. That those first albums she made with Lennon in the late Sixties weren't the random ...
John Lennon: So This Is Christmas…
Retrospective by Richard Williams, Uncut, January 1998
UP ON THE 17TH FLOOR OF THE St Regis Hotel in New York City, John Lennon is learning to type. P...I...M...P, he types. I AM ...
Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, January 1998
AND SO THIS is Christmas. Well, nearly. The stores in Manhattan are already sparkling with trees and tinsel, and here in Central Park, the traditionally ...
Overview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 June 1998
They maybe rock icons, mad, bad and dangerous to know. But somewhere, some long-suffering woman remembers them in nappies. Caroline Sullivan on that great institution, ...
Consuming Passions: Howard Marks
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, September 1998
Skinning up from Lennon's stash box, securing dentures with a luxury adhesive, and watching lizards drown in brandy — a typical evening at home with ...
John Lennon: The Lennon Anthology (Parlophone)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, November 1998
Four CDs of unused takes and unreleased post-Beatle home recordings, divided into four periods: Ascot, New York, The Lost Weekend and Dakota. Comes with intriguingly ...
John Lennon: The John Lennon Anthology
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998
WE GET USED TO THE VOICE. THE SOUND of a largely self-educated, rawly-talented, troubled and often wildly erratic Englishman who, by means of the various ...
What Killed Albert Goldman? A literary X-file
Retrospective by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, July 1999
In the 1980s, Albert Goldman became the most famous and despised biographer in the world because of his biographies of Elvis Presley (Elvis, McGraw Hill, ...
John Lennon: Imagine (Apple/EMI)
Review and Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, April 2000
Straight reissue of classic album, with digital remastering treatment. ...
John Lennon: From the Quarrymen to the MBE
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, October 2000
"THAT WAS THE day," said John Lennon. "The day that I met Paul, that it started moving." ...
Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, 2001
THE FIRST TIME I heard John Lennon’s voice was in mid-January 1963 in my father’s white Triumph Vitesse car, travelling from Skipton to York, going ...
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band/Double Fantasy
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, February 2001
The dream is over… ...
How I Almost Met the Late John Lennon
Memoir by John Mendelsohn, Rock's Backpages, 28 June 2002
LEGEND AND VH1 have it that when Elton John made his Los Angeles debut at the Troubadour in August 1970, he blew everyone away, and ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2002
Of all of rock's great legends, JOHN LENNON is the most widely-loved and sorely-missed. In this Uncut special, we look back on what he made ...
Book Excerpt by Paul Zollo, 'Songwriters on Songwriting' (rev. edn, Da Capo), 2003
IT WAS A SAD and a little spooky to walk into the Dakota on this dark and rainy winter night, an evening not unlike the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, September 2003
IT'S THE summer of 1969, and John and Yoko are in bed in room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal. They are in their ...
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut Legends, 2005
IN 1966 JOHN Lennon had approached Godhead status for a generation when he sounded the call to "relax turn off your mind and float down ...
Memoir by Maureen Cleave, Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2005
The man who changed the course of pop music would have been 65 this week. Maureen Cleave, who knew the Beatles at the height of ...
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 November 2005
When You Can't Really Function You're So Full Of Fear, A Digital Downloader Is Something To Be ...
Learning The Game: How John Lennon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Inner Geek
Essay by Tim Riley, Rock's Backpages, November 2006
LONG BEFORE "POST-MODERN" became pure jargon, Buddy Holly put quotes around his "normalcy" to disarm rock machismo. Holly, the "King of the Sixth Grade," hiccupped ...
The Vulnerable Beatle: John Lennon's Narrative-like Solo Catalog Tailor-made for Digital Delivery
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Paste, October 2007
ONE OF THE MORE telling songs in John Lennon's solo catalog is the tender 'Look at Me.' Not the well-scrubbed version on his first album, ...
Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, January 2008
THOUGHTS FROM YOKO ONO ON THE EVE OF JOHN LENNON'S BIRTHDAY (OCTOBER 9, 2007) IN ICELAND, WHERE SHE INAUGURATED THE IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN HIS ...
John Lennon: Give New York A Chance
Guide by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 3 December 2008
FEW EXILES have been so cherished by a city as John Lennon was by New York. Certainly, none has ever left such a legacy of ...
Sympathy for the Devil – A Kind Word for Albert Goldman
Essay by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
ALBERT HARRY GOLDMAN is inarguably the most controversial music biographer of the last generation. His biographies of first Elvis, then John Lennon, have been spit ...
Going Under: John Lennon's Lost Weekend
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, February 2010
Separated from Yoko, at war with McCartney, his phone tapped by the US government... by 1974 JOHN LENNON was a mess. The solution: hook up ...
Another December 8th and John Lennon is still dead
Comment by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 8 December 2010
I HAD PLANNED a personal remembrance of John Lennon today, the 30th anniversary of his untimely and tragically violent death. But I don't have much ...
The Domino Effect: How One of Toronto's Most Iconic Rock Concerts Almost Never Happened
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 13 April 2015
FOR MANY, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival of 1969 is the stuff of legends. For some, like famed rock promoter and pop culture icon ...
Book Excerpt by Everett True, '101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear', 2016
TO THIS DAY, I am not sure why I was so attracted to Lennon as a surly teen. He was egotistical, sexist verging on misogynist, ...
Rolling Stone founder falls out with biographer over candid life story
Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 22 October 2017
Jann Wenner, whose magazine charted pop music and culture since the '60s, gave Joe Hagan full access but is unhappy with the result, especially "the ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Toby Mamis, manager, Alive Enterprises
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 30 August 2018
YOU ARE GOING to have to wait for a film to make much sense of Toby Mamis' fabulously winding career. ...
Not the only one: how Yoko Ono helped create John Lennon's Imagine
Retrospective and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 6 October 2018
A new book about the making of his 1971 solo album restores his artist wife to her crucial role in his musical life. She looks ...
see also Beatles, The
see also Elephant's Memory
see also Sean Lennon
see also Yoko Ono
see also Plastic Ono Band
see also Freddie Lennon
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