BritBox Buys U.S Rights To ‘Lennon’s Last Weekend’ Doc

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John Lennon‘s glasses and a detention sheet from when the late Beatle was in school have gone up for auction.The auction marks 50 years since the legendary band broke up.

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BBC Radio 2 are marking what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday with a two-part special dedicated to the star hosted by his youngest son Sean.The programme will see Sean, 44, sit down alongside Lennon’s bandmate in The Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney – who will provide some insight into the band’s early days.“I look back on it now like a fan, how lucky was I to meet this strange Teddy Boy off the bus, who played music like I did and we get together and boy, we complemented each other!” he says on the show.Speaking of the beginning of their partnership, McCartney adds: “There were a few songs that weren’t very good… you know, clearly young songwriters who don’t know how to do it.

Mark David Chapman, the man who killed The Beatles star John Lennon, has apologized to the singer’s widow, Yoko Ono, for his “despicable act”.The 65-year-old was denied parole for an 11th time following a hearing last month (August 2020) and has been locked up since murdering the beloved Imagine hitmaker in Manhattan in December 1980.Explaining he thinks about his crime all the time and accepts he may spend the rest of his life behind bars, Chapman, who shot Lennon four times outside the Dakota apartment building in the Upper West Side, as Ono looked on, reflected on the killing during the hearing.Lady Gaga: “Yoko Ono and John Lennon inspired my charity work”In a transcript obtained by the PA news agency under freedom of information laws,

The man who killed John Lennon in 1980 says he was seeking glory and deserved the death penalty for a “despicable” act.

John Lennon, has apologised to the late singer’s widow Yoko Ono, almost 40 years after his death.Chapman shot Lennon four times outside his Manhattan apartment as Ono watched on in December 1980.He was denied parole at a hearing in New York on August 19, as the Press Association confirms.During the hearing, Chapman said he deserved the death penalty for his shocking crime and revealed that he killed the 40-year-old Beatle for “glory”.“I just want to reiterate that I’m sorry for my crime,” Chapman told the parole board at New York’s Wende Correctional Facility.“I have no excuse. This was for self-glory.

John Lennon’s killer has apologised to the singer’s widow, Yoko Ono, saying he thinks about the “despicable act” all the time and accepts he may spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The final days of slain Beatle John Lennon are the focus of a new documentary, “Lennon’s Last Days”.

John Lennon documentary is coming to BritBox in December.Lennon’s Last Weekend, directed by Brian Grant (Video Killed the Radio Star) is set to focus on the musician’s final interview before his death on BBC Radio with Andy Peebles in December 1980.The interview with Peebles sees Lennon discussing the break-up of the Beatles, his album ‘Double Fantasy’ with Yoko Ono, his relationship with Paul McCartney and his work on his own solo albums.The film is set for a December release to honour’s the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death, and will include a number of new interviews about the musician.Discussing the exclusive premiere on BritBox, the streamer’s president and CEO Soumya Sriraman told Variety: “As the true home of great British

Naman Ramachandran BritBox U.S., the streamer operated by BBC Studios and ITV, has acquired “Lennon’s Last Weekend,” an original documentary that looks at legendary musician John Lennon’s final interview before his death.Directed by Brian Grant (“Video Killed the Radio Star”), “Lennon’s Last Weekend” features Lennon’s BBC Radio interview with Andy Peebles, the last he gave in person in December 1980, just before being murdered.With a new album to promote, “Double Fantasy” with Yoko Ono, Lennon spoke candidly to Peebles about everything from The Beatles break-up, his relationship with Paul McCartney, political issues in the U.S. and U.K., his family and his homesickness for Liverpool.