Category : Info générales

Yoko Ono Hospitalised For 'Flu-like' Symptoms, Not Stroke

The widow of John Lennon was admitted to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in New York with “extreme” flu-like symptoms, clarifies her publicist Elliot Mintz. He told People.com that the artist and activist shouldn’t be in the facility for too long....

Yoko Ono Hospitalised With 'Flu-Like' Symptoms

Yoko Ono is recovering after being hospitalised in New York on Friday and receiving treatment for flu-like symptoms. The 83-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai West hospital at just after 9pm on Friday evening on the advice of her doctors.Yoko Ono has...

Juniper Networks supports Lennon Bus

February 24 2016, Juniper Networks supports Lennon Bus stops in the Pacific Northwest, providing students with opportunities to create original projects and get hands on with the state of the art studios. KOIN (CBS), KPTV (FOX), NBC16, Register Guard...

Lock of John Lennon's hair sells for £25,000 at auction

Hair saved by German barber following haircut in 1966 – one month after release of Revolver album – is ‘good size with quite a lot of strands’A lock of John Lennon’s hair that was snipped from the Beatle’s head by a German barber half a century ago h...

Scat, scrapping songs and screaming: a guide to being the next Beatles

Beatlemaniac David Rowley believes the amateur rock world can be revolutionised with a few pointers from the Fab Four. In an extract from his new book, he gives a forensic breakdown on how to prosper in the world of writing stone-cold rock classics M...

John Lennon, 1980 and me: an appreciation of Kevin Barry's Beatlebone

Lorraine Berry was 17 when Lennon was assassinated in 1980. Kevin Barry’s acclaimed novel Beatlebone, about the musician’s experiments with primal therapy on a remote island just before his death, stirred up personal memories of that shocking autumnT...

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The book that declared pop music dead

Nik Cohn thought John Lennon ‘self-pitying’, Led Zeppelin ‘embarrassing’ and rated Del Shannon’s ‘Runaway’ above Van Morrison’s entire career. Bob Stanley revisits his 1969 book In the spring of 1968, the former Queen magazine pop columnist Nik Cohn...

It’s Wogan v Bowie in the battle of the obits today – but death wasn’t always such big news | Ian Jack

In the era of limited space and scarce newsprint, most papers stuck to a strict hierarchy of importance in reporting, and celebrity deaths just didn’t really rate – it has been a long path to 24-page specials and tribute fatigue“Why Wogan touched the...

LENNON BUS LAUNCHES 2016 TOUR AT NAMM SHOW

January 21 2016, The Lennon Bus kicks off its 19th year with blues legend Dr. John & the Nite Trippers, John Lennon Songwriting Contest ‘Song of the Year’ Winners The Rare Occasions, and Presenting Sponsor Canon U.S.A., Inc

Generation Bowie, how lucky you are | Letters

As an 85-year-old I was puzzled by the extent of the coverage of David Bowie’s death until I read the pieces by John Harris and Suzanne Moore (Opinion, 12 January). I had no idea he had such a profound influence on the younger generations. How lucky...

Readers recommend: songs about mountains | Peter Kimpton

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 th...

Readers recommend: songs that aren't what they seem | Peter Kimpton

“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 th...

'Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert'

Ringo Starr to auction Beatles White Album No 0000001

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,...

Paris attacks: pianist 'drove 400 miles through the night' to pay tribute

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...