Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
Christmas came early for Beatles fans with the worldwide release of the group's back catalogue on nine music streaming services. At one minute past midnight on Christmas Eve, local time in countries worldwide, their full canon was opened up on a range of sites including Spotify, Google Play Music, A...
John Lennon / Videos - 9 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
Bluegrass to country, Motown to soul and much more, it’s time to put on your musical boots, rope up and scale your shelves for songs that hit heady heights“Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills,” said Dolly Parton, flashing that ever radiant smile, and cleverly refreshing bot...
John Lennon / Videos - 9 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
“I am just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” Nina Simone, who sang the original of this song, also popularised by the Animals and others, appears to be making a clear statement. Or is she? Is this song about something deeply personal, or does i...
John Lennon / Videos - 9 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
A drum kit used by Ringo Starr from 1963-4 has been sold at auction for $2,110,000. The three-piece Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl kit was used by Starr on more than 200 live performances and in over 180 studio sessions. It was the first Ludwig kit owned by Starr, who took possession of it on 12 May 1963...
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
It’s the ultimate rock’n’roll souvenir. Ringo Starr is to auction off the first ever copy of the band’s1968 album, The Beatles, more commonly known as the White Album. Each unit of the record, which acquired its name due to its minimalist packaging, came with its own serial number stamped on the co...
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
The man who played John Lennon’s Imagine on a grand piano outside the Bataclan theatre has told the Guardian he felt it was his “duty” to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks. Davide Martello, who was in a pub in Konstanz in Germany when the attacks began, decided within minutes to put h...
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
Forty-one years ago, on a cool spring night in Hollywood, I found myself standing across a pool table from John Lennon. He was a symphony in black, right down to his leather trousers. His hair hung to his shoulders. Little black-lensed sunglasses perched at the end of his long thin-tipped nose as h...
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
If there is a way in through the veins of a song, it may be with “Gimme Some Truth”, a headlong rant against the uptight and the narrow-minded, against the egocentric and the paranoiac, but here, as in all of John Lennon’s very best work, there is a simple, radical truth underpinning the barbed wor...
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 9 years ago
A novel about John Lennon setting out to take a course of primal scream therapy on an Irish island has won Kevin Barry the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction, with judges praising its “intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life”. The Irish novelist, who has won the €100,000 (£70,000) Im...
John Lennon / Videos - 9 years ago