MarcO Posted December 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 As taken from the New York Times http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/lennon/lennon-newyorktimes.htm LENNON DIES DECEMBER 8, 1980 John Lennon, who was widely regarded as the most thoughtful and outspoken of the four Beatles during their peak of popularity during the 1960's, dropped out of the music business, to devote his attention to his newly-born son, Sean, and to his wife, Yoko Ono. Then in November 1980, he reentered the pop mainstream with the introduction of a new album, "Double Fantasy," which, Lennon said at the time, was an extension of his family life, as the songs were direct celebrations of enduring love and the pleasures of home and hearth. On December 8, 1980 at around 5 p.m., John and Yoko left their apartment in the historic Dakota on Central Park West in New York City to go to their recording studio to supervise the transfer of some of the "Double Fantasy" album numbers to singles. David Geffen, their record producer and friend, said that more than 700,000 copies of the album had already been sold up to that time. As they were leaving the Dakota, they were approached by several people who were seeking autographs. Among them was a man who would be later identified as Mark David Chapman. John Lennon scribbled an autograph on the cover of "Double Fantasy" for Chapman. The Lennons spent several hours at the studio on West 44th Street, returning to the Dakota at about 10:50 p.m. They exited their limousine on the 72nd Street curb even though a car could have driven through the entrance and into the courtyard. Three witnesses--a doorman at the entrance, an elevator operator and a cab driver who had just dropped off a passenger--saw Mark David Chapman standing in the shadows just inside the arch. As the Lennons walked by, Chapman called, "Mr. Lennon." Then he dropped into "a combat stance" and fired four pistol shots. According to the autopsy, two shots struck John Lennon in the left side of his back and two in his left shoulder. All four caused internal damage and bleeding. According to police, Lennon staggered up six steps to the room at the end of the entrance used by the concierge, said, "I'm shot," then fell down. The first policemen at the scene were Officers Steve Spire and Peter Cullen, who were in the patrol car at 72nd Street and Broadway when they heard a report of shots fired at the Dakota. The officers found Chapman standing "very calmly" where he had been. The police said he had dropped the revolver after firing it, and said Chapman had a paperback book, J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," and a cassette recorder with 14 hours of Beatles tapes. The second police team at the Dakota, Officers Bill Gamble and James Moran, took Lennon to Roosevelt Hospital. Officer Moran said they stretched Lennon out on the back seat and that the singer was "moaning." He said he asked, "Are you John Lennon?" and that Lennon had moaned, "Yeah." Dr. Stephen Lyman of Roosevelt Hospital said Lennon was dead when the policemen arrived with him. He was pronounced dead at 11:15 p.m. Dr. Elliott M. Gross, the Chief Medical Examiner, said after the autopsy that Lennon had died of shock and loss of blood and that no one could have lived more than a few minutes with such injuries. Yoko Ono, crying "Tell me it's not true," was taken to Roosevelt Hospital and led away in shock after she learned her husband was dead. David Geffen later issued a statement in her behalf: "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him." Within minutes of the first broadcasts of the news of the shooting, people began to gather at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota, reciting prayers, singing Lennon's songs and burning candles. On December 14, all around the world, people paused to stand alone or come together in silence, heeding a plea from Yoko Ono that they take 10 minutes to remember the former Beatle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 So, being a straight guy and loving boyfriend I was watching Fashion television the other day (boobies!) and saw for a brief second that Paul and Linda produced a photofilm on the Grateful Dead. here's some information: The London Film Festival last November [1995] included the first public screenings of Paul McCartney's short "film" on the Dead-- actually an artful assembly of Linda's 1967/8 photo sessions with the band. Paul and Linda themselves turned up for the Leicester Square "Celebrity Shorts" showing, where the film shared the bill with the latest Wallace and Grommit epic, A Close Shave, as well as other works by David Thewlis and Nic Roeg . Also present at the sold-out show, Theresa Russell and Terry Gilliam. Paul arrived at the last possible minute, dishevelled looking and munching on a sandwich, purple scarf across his shoulders. Linda seemed rather strained but stopped on the steps to give the peace sign to photographers and say "Peace and Light!" The 9 min 17 sec film is made up from black and white photographs from two locations, the Dead 'house' at 710 Ashbury and a concert in Central Park. Some seemed quite familiar, and I hadn't previously associated them with Linda. The shots consist of group poses on the front porch of the house, close ups of individual band members clowning around, falling downstairs, meditating, etc., and another set taken on the external side steps up to the top floor. The Central Park photos show the band playing, and also the crowd, panning across stills and selecting closeups of faces. What's special is the way successive images from Linda's rolls are replayed to give an animated feel, the stills breaking into brief snatches of movement. The sequential effect is enhanced by digital video, with some playful morphing of faces into each other and a final image of the whole band appearing first one at a time, and all together in line, on the steps. Video effects specialists The Moving Picture Company get an end credit. Although Heads may already be acquainted with some of the the key images used, it's an absorbing piece of work, the mood a mixture of slapstick and nostalgia, with a few more disconcerting moments, as when a static shot of Pigpen suddenly "comes to life" in a slow, realistic live movement. Ultimately I appreciated the film more as a Deadhead than as a film buff. The technique is very accomplished, but not especially original. However, the nine minutes go by with tantalising swiftness, and I'd certainly like another look... Music is all from Anthem of the Sun: the electronics at the end of That's for the Other One; the start of New Potato Caboose; and Alligator (starting with the percussion section four minutes or so in). It all sounded great through the cinema's Dolby Digital sound system and I thought at first these were different mixes/tapes -- don't think so but it sounded a lot better than my CD! Afterwards Paul took a few audience questions ... Had Jerry seen the film? Paul: "I was trying to get the film to him when he died. No other band members have seen it yet." How long did it take to make? Paul: "I was working with four rolls of film, negatives, taken by Linda. I'm working on a similar one of the Beatles at the moment. Overall the whole thing took a couple of years - I work very slowly. [laughter] Once we were full at it it took about a couple of months." Who funded it? Paul: "Not Jake Eberts!" [laughter] What inspired you in the first place? Paul: "I was just looking through Linda's contact sheets from the sixties. and that's what gave me the idea. Especially one sequence of Bob Weir moving very fast, almost 24 frames a second... She'd shot some of the film like a cinematographer and it was the days before motor drive.[sic?] The four rolls were really all there was of the Dead, though there was a bit of colour which I decided not to use." Ever been to a Dead show? Paul: "I never got to a concert. Before I started this I wasn't that great a fan, and once I started work with the music I wished I had done. For the film's purposes, the Grateful Dead material was easy to work with, because they have long extended instrumentals, whereas our stuff was always very formalised. But for the Beatles one I found something we did for the Roundhouse in the sixties which is a fifteen minute instrumental of us banging on things... very avant garde! I'm not sure it would ever actually be released just as music..." Did you know the Dead had covered That Would Be Something? Paul: "I was aware that they did some of our stuff, several of our songs, and took it as a great compliment." Would you ever play one of theirs? Paul: "Oh, er, [flippant] tomorrow!" Who is the better bass player, you or Phil Lesh? Paul: "Hmmm, [laughter] good question." [mock-modest] "I dunno...me!!" Favourite directors? Paul: "Aw... there's so many... I like Fellini... come round to my place one evening and we'll talk about it! I 'm not really a filmmaker and this was really a labour of love. Even for the (Beatles) Anthology TV documentaries, we were asked our opinions of course, but I didn't want to look over people's shoulders..." Video release? Paul: "I don't like the idea of stuff going straight to video. I'd like to see this stay a film for a long time, five years or so, before it, er, cringes on to video." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 "I dunno...me!!" I guess that settles it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 But for the Beatles one I found something we did for the Roundhouse in the sixties which is a fifteen minute instrumental of us banging on things... very avant garde! Heady Dank! :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I woke up today and Rachael and I finished watching the Danny Clinch film "Ben Harper Pleasure + Pain." In DVD extras section their was the recording session of Harper recording "Strawberry Fields Forever" for the "I Am Sam" soundtrack. When I finally got behind the computer and realized that today is the anniversary of the passing of John Lennon, it made me think back to the Harper covering the Lennon Beatle track and how the Beatles are the greatest band of all time. I miss Lennon even though I was only six when he died and I never knew him. I don't wish we all knew him as that would have taken too much of his time. Though I wish we all got to see him live. PS On the DVD extras for the "Pleasure + Pain" film there is a recording session with Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama. The do two of Ben's songs the last of which "I Shall Not Walk Alone" brought Blind Boy Clarence Fountain to tears and it did for me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrtrhhrtgg Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I will remain mum on this subject for today, just outta respect... rest in Peace---John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I will remain mum on this subject for today, just outta respect... rest in Peace---John The Beatles are the greatest band of all time. The Beatles have done more to change the course of popular music than any other artist and/or group. Two and a half more hours of peace and quiet on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrtrhhrtgg Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 hahaha dude, I will be in bed before then... but, don't worry we will continue this discussion.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 hahaha dude, I will be in bed before then... but, don't worry we will continue this discussion.. You said mum's the word and it's not midnight yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 i dont get you, timmy... looks to me like he stayed mum on the subject... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 i dont get you, timmy... looks to me like he stayed mum on the subject... It's always about the last word in. By stating you will get into something later, isn't staying "mum" on the subject. John Lennon my he rest in peace, was one fourth of the greatest band that ever made music on this earth, the Beatles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 yes, but by stating you will remain mum on the subject for today , and then saying you will get into later, is still staying mum on the subject for today . have the last word... i hope you love it... put it in caps, too, so it shows up better. i've said what i have to say. cheerio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 from www.billboard.com New Lennon Songs in Show Broadway musical to unveil two lost songs Lennon, the upcoming musical built around the songs of John Lennon, will feature a pair of his unreleased works. Lennon's widow Yoko Ono granted the show's writer and director Don Scardino permission to use "India India" and "I Don't Want to Lose You" during a recent meeting. "We were going over the calendar and talking about how the show was moving forward when suddenly out of the blue she said, 'You know, I have these songs that might be perfect,'" Scardino says. "Of course I was jumping out of my skin with the possibility, but casually I said, 'Oh sure, that sounds good.'" "India India" was written during the Beatles' famed 1968 trip to meet with the Maharishi. "It's about coming to India and trying to follow his heart, but knowing that his heart was really back in England where his love waited," Scardino says. "I guess he didn't release it at the time because it would have blown the lid off his feelings for Yoko. His [first] wife [Cynthia] was with him. It's a beautiful, lilting sort of melody -- really pretty." Lennon recorded a piano-and-vocals demo of "I Don't Want to Lose You" late in his solo career. "At one point, Yoko suggested it for the reconstituted Beatles' Anthology stuff, along with 'Real Love' and 'Free as a Bird,'" says Scardino, "but they couldn't get a clean track out of it." Lennon will also feature the rarity "Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)," a Lennon-penned rocker that appeared on fellow Beatle Ringo Starr's out-of-print 1976 solo album, Ringo's Rotogravure. A lifelong Beatles fan -- who was waiting at the gate when the group touched down at New York's J.F.K. airport in 1964 and in the stands for a manic Shea Stadium concert -- Scardino recognizes the impact the unreleased songs will have on the musical. "You lean forward to hear something you've never heard before," he says, adding that they will be recorded for the cast album. "Yoko felt that if Broadway was going to be a part of his legacy, then this would be a good place to put these songs." Lennon opens a month-long run at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on April 12th and then moves to Boston May 31st for a month's engagement at the Colonial Theater. It will have its Broadway debut on July 7th at the Broadhurst Theatre. Today marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Lennon's death. COLIN DEVENISH (Posted dic 08, 2004) This will be the first time since The Who's "Tommy" that I will actually want to go to a Broadway play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 from www.billboard.com THIS DAY IN MUSIC December 9, 2004 1995 - The Beatles' first new tune in 25 years, "Free as a Bird," debuts on a six-hour ABC documentary on the Fab Four. The Beatles' "Anthology I" quickly shoots to the top of the charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 "Hullo! We're The Beatles - Paul, Ringo, George & John. We're the best band ever and don't you forget it. But never mind that - we just want to wish you all the best over this holiday season! Be safe and take of each other, and be sure to listen to a lot of our music over the holidays! We think you'll find it's really rather good. Ta for now!!" :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 And a Merry Christmas to you Beatles....a Merry Christmas.....to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 "We like bug music 'round these parts!" (Dee Margrock - The Flintstones) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 This reminder is for secondtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted January 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Paul McCartney gives almost $2 million US to help tsunami victims at 12:06 on January 12, 2005, EST. LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney and his wife Heather are donating $1.9 million US to help victims of the tsunami, the ex-Beatle's publicists said Wednesday. They are giving the money to the International Rescue Committee U.K., an aid group that works with the New York-based IRC network, McCartney's press office said in a statement. The charity was "overwhelmed by this generous gesture," according to the statement. The British government has pledged some $140 million in aid to affected countries, while the British public has donated about $190 million to charities helping with the aftermath of the tsunami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 How much did John Lennon give to the Tsunami victims? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayRay Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Wow marco, I thought that you were kidding when you said you were going to revive the Beatles thread. I have learned never to doubt you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted January 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Actually, Dave-O revived it, but I wasn't kidding. So, uh, how about those Beatles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalacePrincess Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 they're bigger than jesus. or so i hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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