John Lennon & the Beatles

“Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.” -John Lennon

On sacking Pete Best from the group: In an interview with Hunter Davies , John admitted: “We were cowards when we sacked him. We made Brian do it. But if we’d told Pete to his face that would have been much nastier. . . . It would have probably ended in a fight.”

Here’s a photo of John and Cynthia Lennon during their art school days. It was probably taken in Hamburg around 1960. I seem to recall this photo was in Cynthia Lennon’s book, “John”. If you haven’t read her book yet, you should….. It’s fantastic.  

Rating: 3.5 out of 5  When the Beatles Rockband came out last September, I rushed out right away (being a crazy Beatle fan) and bought the game along with separately sold, John Lennon Rickenbacker 325, guitar controller. I have played the guitar and game on and off the last four months but I haven’t written a [...]

  Ringo Starr answered  a few questions from the audience before performing at the Grammy Museum. Most were silly questions from Beatles fanatics, but Starr came alive when asked about Disney’s newly announced remake of the Beatles’ 1968 animated classic ‘Yellow Submarine.’ “I had a long meeting with [director] Bob Zemeckis. It’s going to be great,” [...]