Jim Carrey has released a spoof video 'Cold Dead Hand' which mocks the gun rights lobby and features actors dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon and Abraham Lincoln. ...
08:21 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Los Angeles: Director Dan Fogelman says it was beyond his wildest dreams to get Al Pacino and Julianne Moore to star in his John Lennon-inspired film debut. The film centres on an aging 1970s rocker played by Pacino, who decides to turn his life around, and marks the directorial debut and career highlight of the 'Crazy, Stupid Love' scriptwriter, reported Deadline. "Every writer has 'that one project'... the one they...
10:22 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: It is said that the rocker quartet from the British dockside town of Liverpool, The Beatles, started their big-league journey exactly fifty years back when on September 4, 1962, they recorded their first single 'Love Me Do' at the iconic Abbey Road Studios of EMI in London. Accordingly, tributes have been pouring in from all and sundry. People on social networking sites have had their profile pictures replaced...
01:41 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Albany, N.Y.: John Lennon's killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, said New York corrections officials. Mark David Chapman, 57, was denied parole by a three-member board after a hearing, the state Department of Corrections said. The transcript of his latest hearing wasn't immediately released. Chapman can try again for parole in two years. Chapman shot John Lennon in December 1980 outside the...
11:49 AM, Aug 24, 2012
London: Mark Chapman, who was jailed in 1981 for the murder of John Lennon, is up for parole for the seventh time and may be released, a media report said. The 57-year-old inmate at the Wende Correctional Facility will be interviewed by members of the parole board soon, and the board would make a decision on whether to release the murderer, the Daily Mail reported. Chapman shot Lennon in December...
12:02 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: Beatles legend Paul McCartney believes in the healing power of music and says an Elvis Presley song once cured his headache. The 70-year-old singer said songs have a powerful effect, reported Contactmusic. "The healing power of music is serious. I remember I had a mate called Ian James, just my little teenage mate, school mate, and we used to go down the fairs together and things. "I remember one...
05:56 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Artist Yoko Ono, wife of the legendary John Lennon, is in India for her first ever exhibition in the country. ...
08:59 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Artist, musician, wife of the Beatles' John Lennon - Yoko Ono is in the capital for her exhibition titled 'Our Beautiful Daughters'. ...
04:47 PM, Jan 13, 2012
London: Beatles legend George Harrison's sister Louise says she is writing a book about the guitarist and his famous bandmates. Louise Harrison is the older sister of the late guitarist - who died of lung cancer ten years ago on November 29 - at the age of 58. She said that she wants to tell the real story of her brother and his famous bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and...
06:40 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Today is the 71st birth anniversary of renowned English musician and singer-songwriter John Winston Lennon. He is also known as the one of the founding members of The Beatles. He was murdered at the age of 40, in 1980. Born in Liverpool, England Lennon grew up with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. He was hardly in contact with his father, but was very close to his mother...
01:14 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Buenos Aires: Beatles fan Gerardo Weiss ran a typical Buenos Aires barber shop until he had a dream that the Fab Four dropped in for a haircut. Seven years later, Weiss has made Beatles-inspired cuts his specialty. "The dream got etched on my memory," he said at the modest salon, the walls plastered with photos of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. "I decided to get rid...
11:24 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New York: Fifty lots of unpublished photographs of The Beatles' first US concerts taken by a teenager in 1964 are expected to fetch about $100,000 when they are sold at auction, Christie's said on Friday. The pristine, black-and-white photographs, which had been stored in a box for 45 years, chronicle The Beatles appearances in Washington, DC and Baltimore. They will be sold in individual lots when they go under the...
10:39 AM, May 21, 2011
New York: Yoko Ono has granted permission for the first collection of letters by John Lennon to be published, publisher Little, Brown and Company said on Friday. The book, titled "The Lennon Letters," will be published in October, 2012 and include hundreds of letters and postcards the late Beatle wrote to friends, family, newspapers and organizations, the publisher said in a statement. It will be edited by British journalist Hunter...
03:44 PM, Apr 09, 2011
London: On the 30th death anniversary of John Lennon on Wednesday, musicians and fans gathered in Liverpool, the home town of the Beatles, to celebrate the works of the legendary singer and activist. A recreation of Astrid Kircherr's famous 1964 photograph of the 'Fab Four' on the St George's Hall steps, a candlelit vigil and the inauguration of a sculpture dedicated to Lennon, are among the tributes the city is...
05:32 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New York: Three days before he was gunned down, John Lennon complained about his critics - saying they were just interested in "dead heroes" - and talked optimistically about his family and future, musing that he had "plenty of time" to accomplish some of his life goals. Lennon's final interview was released to The Associated Press by Rolling Stone on Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the musician's death. The issue...
02:38 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New Delhi: Had Mark David Chapman not fired that fatal shot on December 8, 1980 and John Lennon was alive today, he would have been pleased to see the Google doodle marking his 70th birth anniversary. While John Lennon's birthday is on 9 October, Google started celebrating the singer-songwriter's birthday a day in advance with an innovative doodle. On clicking on the logo a 32 second of Imagine, considered to...
06:09 PM, Oct 08, 2010
Google has a 32-second video on its page with legendary singer John Lennon's iconic song 'Imagine' being played. ...
03:46 PM, Oct 08, 2010
London: A set of John Lennon's fingerprints that were due for auction has been seized by the FBI from a memorabilia shop in New York, a media report said Friday. The agents from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security raided the shop in Manhattan Wednesday, the Independent reported on its website. The signed fingerprint card, made at a police station May 8, 1976, when singer Lennon was applying for...
02:22 PM, Oct 08, 2010
London: Imagine buying a toilet worth $ 14,740. Difficult, right? Well, that's just what a Beatle fan has done. A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon has fetched 9,500 pounds ($ 14,740) at an auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, organisers said. Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived...
10:23 AM, Aug 29, 2010
