3 December 2023
But it didn’t happen that way.
Gainsbourg died in 1991 of a heart attack, a month shy of his 63rd birthday
(photo: cover of his album ‘Mauvaises Nouvelles Des Etoils‘)
26 September 2023
And vice versa, would Keef and Mick have fit into The Beatles? I don’t think so.
Full new Keef feature in NME right here
6 May 2023
LIAM GALLAGHER is a John Lennon fan
since he was born, and so is his brother.
If you didn’t know he’ll sing it to you with his version of John Lennon‘s
bluesy and moody reverie I DON’T WANNA BE A SOLDIER MAMA’
from his 1971 album Imagine.
Liam‘s take is quite galvanizing, on the other hand, it sounds
a bit too much like the original. Anyway here’s Liam G. signing
the blues.
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier, mama, I don’t wanna die
Well, I don’t wanna be a sailor, mama, I don’t wanna fly
Well, I don’t wanna be a failure, mama, I don’t wanna cry
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier mama, I don’t wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Well, I don’t wanna be a rich man, mama, I don’t wanna cry
Well, I don’t wanna be a poor man mama, I don’t wanna fly
Well, I don’t wanna be a lawyer mama, I don’t wanna lie
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier mama, I don’t wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier, mama, I don’t wanna die
Well, I don’t wanna be a thief now, mama, I don’t wanna fly
Well, I don’t wanna be a churchman, mama, I don’t wanna cry
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier, mama, I don’t wanna die
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Hit it!
Liam Gallagher
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John Lennon.
8 February 2023
Artist: JOHN LENNON
9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980
Single: WOMAN
Score: Topped the UK Singles Chart 42 years ago today,
on 8 February 1981, two months after he was killed.
Album: Double Fantasy
John Lennon: “‘Woman’ came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda,
it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although
I was thinking in those personal terms… but any truth is universal. What dawned on me
was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as
I whisper at the beginning of the song. It’s a ‘we’ or it ain’t anything.”
R.I.P. John…
JOHN LENNON: Facebook
27 December 2022
Eternal working class hero JOHN LENNON was killed on 8 December 1980.
More than 40 years later his songwriting Beatle brother PAUL McCARTNEY remembers the sad event in an interview with SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel: “It was difficult for everyone in the world cause he was such a loved character and such a crazy guy, you know, that he was so special. And so it had hit me so much so that I couldn’t really talk about it. I remember getting home from the studio on the day that we’d heard the news he died and turning the TV on and seeing people say, ‘Well, John Lennon was this,’ and ‘What he was, was this,’ and ‘I remember meeting him’.
And it was like, I don’t know, I can’t be one of those people. I can’t just go on TV and say what John meant to me. It was just too deep. It’s just too much. I couldn’t put it into words. I was in a building that would become my recording studio, and there were just a couple of little empty rooms upstairs,” he explained. “So I found a room and just sat on the wooden floor in a corner with my guitar and just started to play the opening chords to ‘Here Today.’”
You can listen here to the audio clip.
MACCA: Facebook – Instagram
28 years after its creation, The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus movie was released on 14 October 1996, 23 years ago today. The 1968 event included performances in a circus by artists such as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and a supergroup called
The Dirty Mac with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards.
THE DIRTY MAC with ‘YER BLUES‘
THE ROLLING STONES:
This genius doesn’t need an introduction. He was born John Winston Lennon
on 9 October 1940 in Liverpool, 82 years ago. Happy B. to one of the greatest
in rock history. As we know a psycho killed him in 1980. Lennon was only 40.
JOHN LENON: History
A couple of weeks ago, living beatle legend PAUL McCARTNEY celebrated
his 80th birthday and last Sunday he was the star headliner who got tens of
thousands of the sing-along crowd into ecstasy at the Glastonbury Festival.
He also surprised everybody with two giant guests, Dave Grohl and Bruce
Springsteen, who each played a couple of songs (and one as a trio) with
the imperishable King Of Melody.
My pick of the concert. The performance of Beatles song
I’ve Got A Feeling with his third guest… JOHN LENNON.
Magical moments…
Afterward, McCartney and Dave Grohl went on the run…
MACCA: Instagram
6 June 2022
John Lennon‘s oldest son Julian about covering Imagine for the very first time:
“I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing “Imagine” would be if it was the ‘End of the World’. The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy. As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could. The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for.
In April, he performed the track for the first time (with Nuno Bettencourt on acoustic guitar) as part of the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign event, a global fund-raising effort broadcast from Warsaw, Poland.
Watch here…
Now Julian released his Imagine cover officially with a great portion
of the proceeds going to the Stand For Ukraine charity organisation.
You can stream/buy the track here.
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JULIAN LENNON: Facebook
Lennon: “Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name”
