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Is John Lennon’s Imagine patronisingly sappy, or a moving meditation on hope? | Bridget Minamore and Peter Aspden

With the famous ballad back in the headlines, Bridget Minamore and Peter Aspden go head to headForty-six years after being recorded John Lennon’s Imagine is still generating headlines. Earlier this month the process to give Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono a s...

Donald Tusk echoes John Lennon to suggest UK could stay in EU

European council president uses lyrics from Imagine to express hope that Britain could change its mind and cancel BrexitDonald Tusk used the first EU summit since the general election and the start of the Brexit negotiations to suggest that there is...

Credit where credit’s due to Yoko Ono at last | Barbara Ellen

The news that a recording of Lennon crediting Ono as co-writer rather than muse for his 1971 hit Imagine is welcomeYoko Ono has been recognised as co-writer of John Lennon’s 1971 hit Imagine by the National Music Publishers’ Association at its centen...

Yoko Ono To Receive Songwriting Credit For John Lennon's 'Imagine'

Yoko Ono To Receive Writing Credit On Imagine

Yoko Ono could get songwriting credit for Imagine – 46 years late

The process to credit Ono on John Lennon’s 1971 hit has begun, decades after he acknowledged her poetic influence on itYoko Ono is being lined up for a songwriting credit on her husband John Lennon’s hit ballad Imagine, 46 years after it was written....

Guaranteed to raise a smile! Our pop critic's verdict on Liverpool's Sgt Pepper celebrations

Lucy in the Sky fireworks, A Day in the Life of the living dead, Lovely Rita’s parking meter parade … Beatlemania is gripping Liverpool. Our writer dives inAmong the selection of vast advertising hoardings lining Liverpool’s Erskine Street, one curre...

Alan Johnson's Sgt Pepper pilgrimage: ‘The album put me on a musical high from which I’ve yet to descend’

In May 1967, Johnson was 17, playing in a band and waiting for the Beatles’ new album. Fifty years after Sgt Pepper’s release, the retiring MP heads to Liverpool to join the city’s celebration of the LPI am standing “beneath the blue suburban skies”...

Sgt Pepper at 50: How the Beatles masterpiece could unite Brexit Britain

Unlike other psychedelic classics, The Fabs’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band doesn’t sound like hippy idealism. Instead, the diverse, inclusive vision of English identity it promoted couldn’t be more necessaryFifty years ago, The Beatles’ Sgt Pe...

Man arrested after three bodies found in John Lennon's former home

Thirty-year-old man arrested after bodies of woman and two children found at flat in LiverpoolA 30-year-old man has been arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of murder after the bodies of a woman and two children were found in the former home of John L...

Mark Morris: Pepperland review – Beatles with a touch of Broadway shuffle

Royal Court, LiverpoolThe celebrated American choreographer swings into town for Sgt Pepper’s 50th birthday partyIn May 1967, 50 years ago last Friday, the Beatles released their eighth studio album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Technically...

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! review – the Beatles' Sgt Pepper … without the tunes

This documentary about Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band picks up where Ron Howard left off – without any of the band’s music or even images Related: The Beatles: Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary Edition review – peace, love and rock star ennui It’s no...

John Lennon Bus, mobile recording studio tours SE Idaho

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