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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 was a man — The Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend — that…

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 by May Pang] I recently had the opportunity to interview May Pang about the upcoming…

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 Lennon, since they were best friends in school. Pete and John met in Sunday school…

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, which exists in accordance with the changes in the day.” When her relationship started with…

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, which exists in accordance with the changes in the day.” When her relationship started with…

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 has been revamped and enhanced to give the production a fresh look. Giles Martin, who…