We can’t let this day go by without mentioning October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 68th birthday. Artist, Beatle, songwriter, musician, husband, father, activist and MBE, he just wanted to ‘imagine peace for all the world.’

Another rock ‘n roll auction recently sold music memorabilia from Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. This is a pretty common event these days, but the name behind the transaction is what caught my eye this time.
I hadn’t heard of The Fame Bureau before, but their website says…
Ted Owen, the Fame Bureau’s Managing Director [...]

The world’s most famous drum head, the hand-painted bass drum skin for The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” sold to a private buyer for $1.1 million on Thursday July 10th. That made it the star attraction at Christie’s rock and pop memorabilia auction in London, among other items from The Beatles, [...]

Classic Album: Plastic Ono Band John Lennon - DVD Release Date: April 29th
This DVD release is the latest addition to the ‘Classic Albums’ series that documents the making of important pop and rock albums.
This is John Lennon’s first solo album (from the studio) after leaving The Beatles. It was heavily influenced by John and [...]

$59,750.00 was the winning bid for this very famous set of autographs from all four of The Beatles, during their visit with Elvis on August 27th, 1965.
The auction was held on April 5th at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. I was talking to my friend at FansOnTheRun about what a big deal it is [...]

CNN just rebroadcast a Larry King interview with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr this past weekend. Originally broadcast last June, the interview also features Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. They celebrated the first year anniversary of the LOVE show, a high tech blend [...]

Do you remember John Lennon’s “lost weekend?” Most fans don’t. That so called “lost weekend” lasted 18 months, from 1973 to 1975, when Lennon split from Yoko in New York and headed to L.A.
Ono hooked John up with a former personal assistant by the name of May Pang, who has just released a [...]

I was reading one of the best informed and brutally honest music industry blogs around today, “The Lefsetz Letter” at lefsetz.com/wordpress when I came across Bob’s post about the famous Caribou Ranch Studio in Colorado.
It’s a fascinating story about the many famous hit artists who recorded there; Joe Walsh, John Lennon & Chicago, just to [...]

The NAMM Show ‘08 starts this Thursday January 17th and runs through Sunday the 20th, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. It should be interesting to see what this part of the music industry is doing. We already know the record labels are losing ground fast, so we need another part [...]

John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940, and assassinated on December 8, 1980 in New York City. He would be 67 today. But his musical legacy lives forever on CD, DVD and online.
John Lennon’s solo works available in digital download:
amazon.com
iTunes
Official Website
Cool Video @ imaginepeace.com
CD:
“Working Class [...]