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November 9, 2023
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Review: Mal Evans book, Living The Beatles Legend, provides the missing puzzle piece to Beatles history

At over 500 pages, the new book, Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans, will take months and even years for Beatles fans to digest. We finally have the missing puzzle piece to the Beatles story. Here … Continue reading

May 7, 2023
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May Pang talks about her book, “Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon”

by Shelley Germeaux Note: This article was originally published in February/March 2008 on Daytrippin’s website. (Copyright 2008 by Dayrippin’;Any or all parts of this interview may not be reprinted or reposted without the consent of Daytrippin’) [All photos copyright 2008 … Continue reading

December 4, 2017
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The story behind John Lennon’s Strawberry Fields in New York

For over 30 years, Beatles fans have been gathering at Strawberry Fields in Central Park to celebrate John Lennon’s life on his birthday, October 9, and also to mourn his death on December 8. Located across the street from the … Continue reading

March 30, 2017
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John Lennon may have never started his first band, The Quarrymen, without best friend Pete Shotton

Sad news in the Beatles community to hear that Pete Shotton, John Lennon’s best friend growing up, died on March 24, 2017. He was 75 years old, born in 1941 – surprising that he was one year younger than John … Continue reading

October 8, 2016
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John Lennon memorial, the Imagine Peace Tower, was 40 years in the making

It all started with Yoko Ono’s 1964 book, Grapefruit, where she talked about her artistic concept of creating a lighthouse. Ono’s “Light House” further described in her 1965 “Architectural Works Sales List” was a “house constructed of light from prisms, … Continue reading

October 8, 2016
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John Lennon memorial, the Imagine Peace Tower, was 40 years in the making

It all started with Yoko Ono’s 1964 book, Grapefruit, where she talked about her artistic concept of creating a lighthouse. Ono’s “Light House” further described in her 1965 “Architectural Works Sales List” was a “house constructed of light from prisms, … Continue reading

July 19, 2016
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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, director Ron Howard attend 10th anniversary of The Beatles LOVE show in Las Vegas

On July 14, 2016, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and many more celebrities gathered in Las Vegas to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Beatles LOVE show by Cirque du Soleil. The audio and visual experience of the show … Continue reading