John Lennon guitar sells for $2.9m, breaking Beatles auction record | The Beatles
A guitar played by John Lennon has sold for $2.9 million (£2.3 million), setting a new world record as the most expensive Beatles guitar ever sold at auction, according to organizers. The 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar used in the recording of The Beatles’ 1965 album and film “Help!” has not been seen or played in […]
Yoko Ono introduced John Lennon to heroin: book
Yoko Ono introduced her then-husband John Lennon to heroin and said she experienced “beautiful emotions” with the drug, in a new book about the Beatles that includes never-before-seen interviews from the 1980s. There is. According to an excerpt from “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words”, the 91-year-old Ono denied in […]
John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies at 82
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Poet, music producer, and counterculture figure, released after a series of small pot busts and a lengthy prison sentence to a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert. John Sinclair, the inspirational man released from prison, has died. He was 82 years old. Sinclair died Tuesday morning of congestive […]
Don’t let Taylor Swift be the new John Lennon, protect her at all costs
Taylor Swift's concert tour made $1 billion. She rerecorded her albums to get out of a bad contract and they all became best sellers again. She was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. There's not much Taylor Swift can't do. And I hope that includes finally getting New York lawmakers to see sense. The […]