Yoko Ono: Celebs Rumors

Julian Lennon has revealed the beloved Beatles track “Hey Jude” was written about him.

John Peel – once branded by NME as “the king of the live session” – will be sold at an auction in London next month.Before his death in 2004, Peel amassed a weighty collection spanning over 26,000 LPs, 40,000 seven-inch singles and countless CDs. A selection of those, as well as various items of memorabilia, will be auctioned off at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge location on Tuesday June 14.

exchanged text messages with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows pushing him to overturn the 2020 election results.Clarence Thomas, played by “SNL” veteran Kenan Thompson, and Ginni Thomas, played by Kate McKinnon, appear as guests on the “Fox and Friends” morning news show.The hosts ask Ginni Thomas her reaction to the left “losing their minds over a couple of completely normal texts” that she allegedly sent to Meadows.“I don’t want any trouble. I take my duty as the Yoko Ono of the Supreme Court very seriously.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf you were expecting this week’s “Saturday Night Live” to kick off with a sketch parodying the Will Smith/Chris Rock slap at the Oscars, you may have been disappointed by the cold open. The slap was indeed mentioned, but it was just one of several topics brought up as the show once again turned to a Fox News parody to lead the episode.This week, it was another go at “Fox and Friends,” featuring hosts Steve Doocy (played by Alex Moffat), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Mikey Day). The hosts welcomed Clarence Thomas (Kenan Thompson) and wife Ginni Thomas (Kate McKinnon) — whose support of the January 6 attempted coup has become a lightning rod for scandal.

Patti Smith, Gogol Bordello, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Suzanne Vega and more in attendance.Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz, who was born in Ukraine, co-hosted the benefit at NYC’s City Winery, to raise funds for financial and humanitarian relief in the country. In total, $130,000 was raised, with proceeds going to Come Back Alive, a foundation that provides support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Care.org.Among the funds raised, there was a $50,000 donation by Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon to Doctors Without Borders.

Chris Willman Music WriterAs bombs continue to pummel Ukraine, musicians gathered in New York Thursday night to protest Russia’s war against the nation and raise funds for its defense. The Benefit for Ukraine at New York’s City Winery assembled a lineup of mostly local rock legends who “stand with Ukraine in the battle for its democracy and freedom.”The show was put together by headliner Gogol Bordello, New York’s beloved Slavic punk rock band, fronted by charismatic singer/guitarist Eugene Hütz.

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has shared an update on the film adaptation of her 2021 memoir, Crying In H Mart.As announced in June last year, the musician is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation and the soundtrack under the moniker, Japanese Breakfast.Speaking to Consequence about her progress on the film, Zauner said: “So I actually just finished the first draft of the screenplay.“My producers really like it, so hopefully the revision process won’t be too brutal. And yeah, hopefully that will come out sometime in the next couple years.

Japanese Breakfast has rescheduled her upcoming UK tour due to “lingering uncertainty” over COVID-related “travel protocols”.The Michelle Zauner-led project had been due to tour in the UK and Europe next month in support of her June 2021 album ‘Jubilee’.Zauner has now confirmed that she has had to move her upcoming UK live dates to later this year, while also cancelling a number of her scheduled European shows.“Due to lingering uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 travel protocols, we have decided to reschedule our UK and European dates from March to October 2022,” she said in a statement this afternoon (February 28).Zauner added that her planned gigs in Cologne, Hamburg, Antwerp, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Copenhagen had been cancelled: “I am truly devastated we can not make it work at this time but I promise we will be back as soon as possible.”A post shared by Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie)All tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled shows, though refunds are also available from the point of purchase.You can see Japanese Breakfast’s rescheduled UK and European tour dates below, and find more ticket information here.October20 – Marble Factory, Bristol21 – Brudenell, Leeds22 – Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow24 – Albert Hall, Manchester25 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London26 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands27 – Gretchen, Berlin, Germany Japanese Breakfast recently performed the track ‘Be Sweet’ live on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in the US, which followed on from a performance of ‘Slide Tackle’ on The Late Late Show last month.Japanese Breakfast’s cover of Yoko Ono’s ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’, meanwhile, recently featured on the tribute album ‘Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono’.

You might never hear The Beatles the same.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote countless songs for both The Beatles and some other artists. But Lennon said he peaked lyrically back in 1969 when he wrote a song for a charity compilation album: No One's Gonna Change Our World. For their contribution to the album - which also included such artists as Lulu, Cilla Black, and Rolf Harris - The Beatles included the song Across the Universe.

Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song are ready to say «I do!»According to multiple reports, the longtime couple is engaged to be married. Song was spotted out on Monday in Beverly Hills rocking a massive diamond ring on her finger.

Japanese Breakfast (a.k.a Michelle Zauner) has shared a cover of Yoko Ono’s 1981 track ‘"Nobody Sees Me Like You Do." The cover will feature on Ocean Child, an upcoming Ono tribute album to be released on February 18, the artist's 89th birthday. "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" first appeared on Ono's Season Of Glass album, her first solo effort following the death of John Lennon in 1980.

Japanese Breakfast (aka Michelle Zauner) has shared a cover of Yoko Ono’s 1981 track ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’, landing as the latest preview of the forthcoming ‘Ocean Child’ tribute album.Initially appearing on ‘Season Of Glass’ – Ono’s fifth studio album, and her first solo effort after the 1980 murder of husband John Lennon – Zauner’s take on the song swaps its dense, orchestrally flourished soundscape for crisp, spatial production carried by clean piano chords and her own soaring vocal.Take a look at the lyric video for Japanese Breakfast’s rendition of ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’ below:‘Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono’ will be released on February 18 via Canvasback Music / Atlantic. Curated by Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, it features 14 new versions of Ono’s tracks performed by a range of artists.David Byrne and Yo La Tengo, for example, took on a collaborative cover of ‘Who Has Seen The Wind?’, shared earlier this month as the record’s lead single.Elsewhere on the album are covers by Deerhoof and The Flaming Lips, who have both previously collaborated with Ono, plus contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Jay Som, US Girls, Death Cab For Cutie themselves, and more.The album will also be accompanied by a podcast hosted by Gibbard and music journalist Jenny Eliscu, which features in-depth discussions of Ono’s music and legacy.Pre-orders for ‘Ocean Child’ are available now, and a portion of all proceeds from the record will be donated to WhyHunger.

Badal Roy was a pioneering Indian tabla player who played with jazz legends Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman.  Badal Roy (born Amarenda Roy Chowdhury) moved from East Pakistan to New York City in 1968 to work on a PhD program in statistics. He learned tabla from an uncle and had taken lessons from renowned tabla player Alla Rakha.

The Beatles were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At that point, the band had split up 18 years prior in 1970, following the release of their 12th and final album Let It Be. Eight years earlier, On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was tragically murdered in New York City outside his home, leaving the Fab Four permanently down one member.

Yoko Ono’s 1971 track ‘Listen, The Snow Is Falling’ has today been made available on all streaming platforms for the first time – check it out below.The track was originally released as the B-side to John Lennon’s iconic ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ and features Lennon on guitar.Speaking about the track in 1993, Ono said: “The first pop song — if you can say pop song — I ever wrote was ‘Listen, the Snow Is Falling.’ I did that before (Lennon and I) got together. Then, when we got together, I made it into a real pop song.”‘Listen, The Snow Is Falling’ is out today (December 16) on all streaming platforms.

I know we’re all meant to think that ‘Fairytale Of New York’ by The Pogues is the best ever Christmas record, while secretly favouring Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’. But whenever I sit down to watch 79 hours of festive pop videos on whichever of the music channels it is that you get on Freeview – Christmas Day being the one day I still actually sit in front of an actual old school telly – for me the highlight is usually John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Merry Xmas (War Is Over)’, a 1971 classic that’s just had a 50th anniversary re-release.But this is no ordinary cash-in re-release.

John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980. The singer and guitarist from The Beatles was murdered outside his home, The Dakota, in New York City by a deranged fan.

There have been a lot of “fifth” Beatles over the years, but none quite like Gary Thump.

Denis O’Brien, who served as George Harrison’s manager for much of the former Beatle’s solo career and with Harrison co-founded the production company that backed such hits as the classic “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” has died at age 80.

Over 40 years after his death, John Lennon remains an icon in the music industry. The singer-songwriter and peace activist had such an incredible career as a co-leader and guitarist of The Beatles, which sent him to international stardom. But in December 1980, John was gunned down by Mark David Chapman, who still remains incarcerated until this day. At the time of his death, John was married to Yoko Ono. Before that, he had a complex marriage to Cynthia Powell from 1962 and 1968. Both relationships were widely-publicized in the press, and they’re still talked about today. Learn more about Cynthia and Yoko below.

Yoko Ono has shared an article online which says the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary, Get Back, dispels rumours that she broke up the group.On Saturday (November 27), Ono shared an article titled “Beatles Fans Think ‘Get Back’ Dispels The Idea That Yoko Ono Broke The Band Up” on Twitter, where she has 4.6 million followers.The director’s three-part film charts the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’, and shows their final concert on London’s Savile Row rooftop in its entirety.The archive footage in Jackson’s documentary shows Ono apart from The Beatles during the recording sessions for ‘Let It Be’ and busying herself with her own tasks, contrary to reports that she was involved while they were making the

Yoko Ono didn’t break up the Beatles — so say some Beatles fans after watching a new documentary about the legendary band.

“The Beatles: Get Back,” a three-part docuseries premiering Thursday on Disney+, which traces the making of “Let It Be.”With tensions already running high on a tight, two-week deadline to write and record an entire album before Starr begins filming the movie “The Magic Christian,” George Harrison was having creative differences with McCartney while John Lennon was increasingly tied to an ever-present Yoko Ono.

The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+. The six-hour three-parter features tons of unseen footage and audio of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr during their 1969 recording sessions of their last album Let It Be.

John Lennon was killed, but his incredible music legacy lives on to this day. During his short life, The Beatles legend had a couple of sons with his two wives.

John Lennon’s death in December 1980 sent shockwaves across the world. The singer-songwriter and peace activist, formerly a co-leader and guitarist for the famed English rock band The Beatles, was gunned down by crazed fan Mark David Chapman, who still remains incarcerated until this day. While he died that winter day years ago at the age of 40, his legacy continues to live on through the artists he has influenced and, of course, his family.

trailer was released on Wednesday and shows long-lost, restored archival footage from the Beatles’ old days and vintage band interviews.The series will feature the foursome’s intriguing songwriting and singing processes, as well as the struggles they underwent as friends and bandmates.Much of the special will showcase never-before-seen footage from the group’s January 1969 recording session and final live London show on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters on Savile RowMembers Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, George Harrison and John Lennon ultimately parted ways in 1970 after a decade on the road together. The miniseries will debut on Disney+ over the course of three days, starting Nov.

Ringo Starr has opened up about a bizarre reunion offer made to The Beatles in 1973, which they turned down.In a New Yorker profile on Paul McCartney today (October 11), it was revealed that McCartney had flown to Los Angeles to visit John Lennon that year, after his breakup with Yoko Ono.The duo’s brief time together – which reportedly involved studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Henry Nillsson – sparked rumours of a Beatles reunion.Starr is featured in the profile talking about the band turning down “a fortune” to reunite for a concert, which proposed an opening act of a man wrestling a shark.“We called each other and said no,” Starr said.

The Guardian. “Is that instigating the split, or not?”McCartney told John Wilson that Lennon referred to his decision to exit the bad as “quite thrilling” and “rather like a divorce.” That left him, Ringo Starr and George Harrison “to pick up the pieces,” in McCartney’s words.“John was making a new life with Yoko,” McCartney said.

Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono honored John Lennon on Lennon’s birthday in social media posts Saturday. Lennon would have been 81.The Beatles star was shot to death at the age of 40.

John Lennon playing an unreleased song in Denmark in 1970 has sold for £43,000 at auction in Copenhagen.It was announced earlier this month that a 33-minute cassette recording was being sold by four Danish men who met Lennon when they were teenagers.The Beatles star was spending the winter of 1969-1970 in a small Danish town on the west coast, spending time with his wife Yoko Ono’s daughter Kyoko, who was living with her father in Jutland.The audio, which was recorded after a press conference, includes a conversation between the four teenagers, Lennon and some local journalists.

John Lennon playing an unreleased song in Denmark in 1970 is going up for auction in Copenhagen this month.The 33-minute recording is being sold by four Danish men who met Lennon when they were teenagers.The Beatles star was spending the winter of 1969-1970 in a small Danish town on the west coast, spending time with wife Yoko Ono’s daughter Kyoko, who was living with her father in Jutland.The audio, which was recorded after a press conference, includes a conversation between the four teenagers, Lennon and some local journalists.

Yoko Ono has reacted to her and John Lennon‘s classic, ‘Imagine’, being used during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.Kicking off today (July 23), the ceremony marked the official opening of Tokyo 2020, a year later than planned, after it was postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic.Held at Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium, socially distanced and masked athletes walked out and waved to empty stands – something acknowledged by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).“Yes, it is very different from what all of us had imagined,” he said during the ceremony.

John Lennon married Yoko Ono on March 20, 1969 and enjoyed a few years with her as her husband. When Ono eventually felt a little crowded by Lennon, she urged him to give her some space while taking some time to see their new assistant at Apple Corps Headquarters, May Pang.

The Beatles split in 1970 John Lennon began working on his solo music. Between writing and recording albums alongside his wife, Yoko Ono, in the Plastic Ono Band, he was also fighting for peace and justice.