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Illusionist Uri Geller says he was buyer of John Lennon’s glasses for £40,000

Performer reveals himself as winning bidder for the round spectacles, saying he had been a friend of the Beatle

The Guardian - UK

Journalist Banned From Commenting During The Olympics After Linking Performance To “Communism”

"Everyone is offended by everything all the time." The post Journalist Banned From Commenting During The Olympics After Linking Performance To “Communism” first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Polish journalist suspended for calling 'Imagine' a 'vision of communism' during Olympic opening

The Polish state broadcaster has suspended a television journalist who during the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris reacted to a performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine” by saying it was a “vision of communism.”

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Pianist And Singer Perform 'Imagine' On Flaming Piano In Seine

Pianist Sofiane Pamart and singer Juliette Armanet deliver a moving rendition of 'Imagine' on the Seine River, blending music and visuals for a powerful me...

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He taught John Lennon to fingerpick, shaping future Beatles classics, while the ’60s music press compared him to Bob Dylan – why Donovan is an under-appreciated acoustic guitar great

As legend tells it, he was the man who taught John Lennon to pick. And he sure could write a song. We pay tribute to the flying Scotsman of the Swinging Sixties, Donovan Phillips Leitch, with this lesson in his folk-informed style

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Watch Johnny Depp and Andrea Bocelli pay tribute to Jeff Beck – accompanied by a recording of the late guitar hero

The pair re-enacted Beck's 2020 performance of En Aranjuez Con Tu Amo, complete with a recording of the virtuoso's parts

Guitar World

“To me, it's kind of milking a dead cow”: Beatles engineer Ken Scott on the release of Now and Then, the band’s final single, in 2023

“It's more to do with the fact that I know that George was not particularly fond of finishing it off back in the day,” he says

MusicRadar

John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus

The Guardian - UK

Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

From its revolutionary first chord to its last bars, the Beatles’ overlooked third album transcends mere ‘pop’, says author Colin Fleming

The Guardian - UK

Lennon's Mind Games is better than ever

The edition features a richly curated selection of outtakes, elemental mixes and other assorted rarities

Salon

“It was like going back 60 years... You can imagine what it would have sounded like in the Cavern”: Could this be Lennon’s first Vox?

Could this rediscovered AC15 be Lennon's first Vox amp?

MusicRadar

“The serial number was the same as John Lennon’s amp. I couldn’t believe it”: John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used on early Beatles recordings and Cavern gigs – was lost for 60 years. Now it may have been found, covered in black paint, on an auction site

Heard on Please Please Me and Love Me Do, this unassuming 1962 Vox AC15 Twin may have just become the most valuable amp on the planet – and we’ve had the exclusive first look

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The Independent UK

From John Lennon to NWA: 14 of the best protest songs, ranked

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

The Guardian - UK

Wild-hearted hits: Stevie Nicks’ 20 best songs – ranked!

As she tours the UK, we rate the Fleetwood Mac singer’s very best solo material

MusicRadar

"John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits

"I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"

The Guardian - UK

Frank Duckworth obituary

Statistician who became a household name to cricket fans as the co-inventor of the Duckworth-Lewis method

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Revival 69: John & Yoko save a festival

Ron Chapman's film examines the Toronto concert where Lennon performed before announcing the Beatles' disbandment

Louder

The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"

Exclusive: Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley on the attempts by the owners of the Steve Marriott estate to replicate the singer's voice with AI – and why they're determined to fight it

The Guardian - US

The other 1969 concert that changed music: ‘one of the most important stories in rock history’

Revival69 glimpses into starry Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which gave Beatles fans a new look at John Lennon

Salon

Rosanna Arquette: "Yoko hugged me"

On "Everything Fab Four," the actress discusses friendship with Paul McCartney & how loving music led to filmmaking

MusicRadar

“The Beatles are my biggest inspiration and the main thing that was in my ears when I was a child, and this song is just incredible”: Billie Eilish names the Beatles song she wishes she’d written

Billie Eilish also praises brother Finneas as she discusses the making of Lunch

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19 Times Celebrities Have Met The Royal Family—With Some Forgetting All About Protocol

Prince Harry wasn't too pleased when, after a few drinks, Margot Robbie mistook him for none other than Ed Sheeran. The post 19 Times Celebrities Have Met The Royal Family—With Some Forgetting All About Protocol first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Independent UK

What to stream this week: Camila Cabello, Megan Thee Stallion, Eva Longoria and Celine Dion

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from Camila Cabello and Megan Thee Stallion, Amazon Prime has a documentary about Celine Dion dealing with a rare neurological disorder and Eva Longoria plays a woman whose life changes completely in “Land of Women.”

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