John Lennon
King Krule – aka Archy Marshall – has shared a cover of John Lennon‘s 1971 hit ‘Imagine’ to his Bandcamp page. It arrived over the weekend accompanied by a brief message from Marshall: “recorded in sweat, last summer, for a friend.” Considerably more tasteful than a slew of celebrities singing the tune from their mansions, […]
Well this is creepy. James Taylor has just revealed he had a run-in with John Lennon‘s killer, the day before he fatally shot The Beatles’ icon. PB = PB || {}; PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptStandAlone || {}; PB.gptAutoRefresh = PB.gptAutoRefresh || {‘gptAds’:[], ‘gptStandAlone’:[]}; admiralCookie = null; if (typeof readAdmiralCookie === “function”){ admiralCookie = readAdmiralCookie(); } googletag.cmd.push(function() […]
If murderabilia is your thing, you’ll be tickled bloody to know that the album John Lennon signed for his killer Mark Chapman, just hours before the murderous fan fatally shot him four times at close range, is currently under the hammer. If you need a quick recap, as the blood-curdling story goes, Chapman approached Lennon […]
Late last week, Tame Impala bandleader Kevin Parker shared a stripped-down cover of John Lennon‘s ‘Jealous Guy’, paying tribute to the legendary Beatle on what would have been his 80th birthday. In the video – posted to Tame Impala’s Instagram account – Parker performs the song alone from the comfort of his own bed, delivering […]
Were he still alive today, John Lennon would be celebrating his 80th birthday this coming October. To mark the occasion, his family will be releasing a remix album containing reworks of some of his greatest hits. The album, titled Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes, will feature 36 songs that were, as reported by NME, “completely remixed from […]
‘Give Peace a Chance’, John Lennon’s first single outside of The Beatles, turns 50 this year. It was recorded during John and Yoko Ono’s bed-in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, on a four-track tape recorder backed by a chorus of celebrities and journalists. The song represented John and Yoko’s budding musical […]
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