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Instamatic Karma by May Pang
May Pang is getting a lot of press with her new book Instamatic Karma. I am sure a lot of people do not even know who May Pang is. She was the woman that John Lennon spent 18 months with in the middle of his marriage to Yoko Ono. That period in Lennon’s life has been referred to as his “Lost Weekend”. The new book is of photographs from that period.
This type of News always amazes me. 27 years after John Lennon was killed a book of photographs can create such a buzz.
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Illustrating Lennon
Jerry Levitan, working iwth direction Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and digital artist Alex Kurina, has produced an animated version of an interview he made thirty-eight years ago with John Lennon. Levitan was fourteen at the time, and Lennon was generous in answering his questions. . via crap detector . Conceivably Related PostsNo related posts Post from blog.rightreading.com
Funny Irish Quotes
What do John Lennon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Henry Ford have in common? If that question stumped you, take a closer look...
Yoko Ono to launch exhibition in Newcastle
Yoko Ono, John Lennon's famous widow, will display an exhibition of her artwork in Newcastle, England, later this year. The event, a retrospective that spans Ono's 50 year career as an artist, is entitled "Between The Sky and My Head", and will be held at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, located beside the River Tyne.
Instant Karma is gonna get you!
Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is a "Big Mac enthusiast" who has eaten over 23,000 Big Mac hamburgers in his lifetime, winning a place in the 2005 Guinness Book of Records in the process. He claims the Big Mac constitutes 90% of his total solid food intake. He is featured in the documentaries Super Size Me (2004) and Don Gorske: Mac Daddy (2005). [Wikipedia] John Lennon Don Gorske [somiglianza a cura di dok]
Liam Gallagher Plans To Move Into John Lennon's Old Apartment Block
Liam Gallagher Plans To Move Into John Lennon's Old Apartment Block Published 11 hours ago The Oasis man eyes New York building for his...
Jimi Hendrix guitar sells for $500,000
Jimi Hendrix's torched 1967 Stratocaster from his debut 1967 London debut sold at auction on September 4th for $492,710.23. The other big seller at the Fame Bureau's It's More Than Rock and Roll memorabilia auction was the Beatles' first contract with manager Brian Epstein from 1962, which sold for $422,351. In addition to John Lennon and Ringo Starr's signatures, their fathers, Jim McCartney
Can An Animated Character Win a Songwriting Contest?
Well, when you're Gustafer Yellowgold, why, yes, you can. Morgan Taylor credited the writing of "Mint Green Bee" to the yellow dude with the mellow 'tude (except, of course, as pertaining to cheese or cake), and now Gustafer's won Session I of the Children's Division of the 2008 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Go there to download a copy of the song and congratulations to him for joining other previous Grand Prize Winners such as Joe McDermott, Kristen Andreassen, Thaddeus Rex, and Cathy Fink
On this Date in Beatles History 9-5
On this date in 1961, the Beatles performed at the Cavern Club along with Remo Four, the Bluegenes, and Gerry and the Pacemakers. On this date in 1962, Brian Epstein listened to the first acetates of “Love Me Do“, at George Martin’s office at EMI House in London’s Manchester Square. On this date in 1964, the Beatles were in concert at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, IL. On this date in 1966, Brian Epstein and John Lennon went to West Germany for the beginning of work on Richard L
Fast Facts
Fast Facts in Extra! George Harrison and John Lennon were the first Beatles to (inadvertently) try LSD; the two ingested the drug while they sat with their wives at a dinner party hosted by George's dentist, who reportedly slipped it into their coffee without telling them. In the 1960 black-and-white motion picture "Psycho," chocolate syrup was substituted for blood, as it had what Alfred Hitchcock felt was the perfect consistency.
Fast Facts
Fast Facts in Extra! George Harrison and John Lennon were the first Beatles to (inadvertently) try LSD; the two ingested the drug while they sat with their wives at a dinner party hosted by George's dentist, who reportedly slipped it into their coffee without telling them. In the 1960 black-and-white motion picture "Psycho," chocolate syrup was substituted for blood, as it had what Alfred Hitchcock felt was the perfect consistency.
Newslinks for Thursday September 4th, 2008
Sam Taylor-Wood via TelegraphUK Sam Taylor-Wood, YBA artist turned filmaker (and wife of White Cube Gallery owner Jay Jopling), to direct John Lennon film [FirstPost] Selling dealer weighs in on the Leonardo Da Vinci portrait authenticity debate [NYTimes] More on the contemporary art market’s surge in China [Financial Times] Louvre to lend 17th-century art to Japan [ArtInfo] Charlene Weisler documents NY Street art [New York Sun] A critique of Jeff Koons-in-Chicago as “overexposure” [Wa
And still more congratulations...
...this time to Morgan Taylor of Gustafer Yellowgold, for being named the grand prize winner for Children's Music in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest's session I. He'll go up against the Session II winner later this year.
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