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John Lennon Peace Sign Sells for $154K

John Johnson — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:21:07 CST

A placard that got prominent play during a "bed-in" peace protest by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 has fetched the handsome price of $154,000, reports Bloomberg . The sign reading "Bed Peace" was on the window behind the couple as they staged their weeklong protest in Montreal's Queen...

Yoko Ono Has a Most Unusual Twitter Strategy

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:09:05 CDT

If Yoko Ono is following you on Twitter, don’t feel too special: At the moment, she’s following 693,368 people, the most of any Twitter user. She took over the top spot sometime during the past six months—it used to be occupied by President Obama, notes Time . Currently, Obama,...

John Lennon's Letters to Be Published

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:22:00 CDT

"Society only likes dead artists," John Lennon once wrote in a heartbreaking letter. "I'm afraid Yoko and myself cannot oblige." That note was scooped up by a private collector for $13,000, but soon some 200 other letters, postcards, and doodles of Lennon's will be available to the public in...

Yoko Ono on John: 'We Were a Couple Who Laughed'

Polly Davis Doig — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:55:05 CST

It's the 30th anniversary of the day John Lennon was gunned down in front of the Dakota, but today his widow's memory focuses upstairs, in their kitchen, in the middle of the night. He's making tea for them, gently teasing, "Yoko, Yoko, you’re supposed to first put the tea bags...

Lennon Talks of 'Dead Heroes' in Final Interview

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:48:00 CST

John Lennon chillingly discusses the media's thrall with "dead heroes" in the last interview of his life, just released by Rolling Stone on the 30th anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death. In a heart-breaking reflection made just three days before he was gunned down, Lennon also talks of all the time...

Yoko: It Was Paul Who Saved My Marriage to John

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:11:00 CDT

Marking what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, his widow Yoko Ono revealed yesterday that it was Paul McCartney who saved their marriage. Despite the bandmates' well-known post-Beatles feud, McCartney came to Lennon’s assistance during the infamous “lost weekend,” when he ran off with his personal assistant, Ono tells...

Yoko Ono Slams Parole for John Lennon's Killer

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:50:00 CDT

Yoko Ono spoke out yesterday against parole for John Lennon's killer, saying he remains a threat to her, her family and himself. Killer Mark David Chapman appealed for freedom at his last parole board hearing, arguing that he's a changed man, and is ashamed and sorry for gunning down Lennon...

Rock's Worst Career Moves

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:15:12 CDT

Bob Dylan’s decision to record a Christmas album is certainly ill-advised—“fans may have stuck by him throughout the musically self-destructive late '60s, the God-bothering late '70s, and the Grateful Dead-collaborating-Madonna-imitating mid '80s, but surely even Bob's fans have a limit,” writes John Matthew Hall for the Independent. But Dylan’s...

NY Exhibit Features Lennon's Bloody Death Duds

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:36:07 CDT

A new exhibit of John Lennon memorabilia includes a bloodied hospital bag holding the clothes he wore the night he was shot to death, reports the Guardian . The bag is the most jolting display of the new show launched by Lennon's widow at the Manhattan annex of the Rock and...