On May 1968, John Lennon and Paul McCartney traveled to New York City, to announce the Beatles’ newly-formed company, Apple. They held a press conference at 1:30pm on the 14th at New York’s Americana Hotel. Later, John and Paul would tape an interview with TV-station WNDT and in the evening they made special appearance on […]
John Lennon appeared in Not Only… But Also in a sketch in which played Dan, the doorman of a trendy nightclub situated in an underground men’s lavatory.
In 1980 Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama spent five days with John and Yoko, taking photos for the cover of the couple’s album Double Fantasy but many of them have never been shown until now.
From a speech David Bowie gave to the Berklee College of Music’s Class of 1999…
“It’s impossible for me to talk about popular music without mentioning probably my greatest mentor, John Lennon. I guess he defined for me, at any rate, how one could twist and turn the fabric of pop and imbue it with elements from other artforms, often producing something extremely beautiful, very powerful and imbued with strangeness
Apple boutique was a shop located at 94 Baker Street, London W1 and was -as Paul said- “A beautiful place where you could buy beautiful things”. It opened on 7 December 1967
That’s funny. Both John & Paul wrote a song called “India” but never published it.
The song written by John Lennon is actually titled “India, India”. It was recorded in 1980