43 years ago John Lennon was shot dead by a lone gunman. His legacy grows and so does that of the Fab Four aka The Beatles.
Mark David Chapman asked John Lennon for his autograph in New York. Hours later, he fired four hollow-point bullets into Lennon's back, killing him.
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Back then, I was a young NBC News field producer covering the current events of the day and was subsequently tasked to edit an audio play about the events surrounding John Lennon's murder. JOHN LENNON @ 05:22 https://cimages.me/sites/
John Lennon was the founding member of The Beatles who became the first media reality national celebrity. He was no angel and not always friendly to journalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqfKGkrU8FU
Five years earlier, John considered the possibility of a reunion for The Beatles.
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Last month, The Beatles made history with new sounds released since “Real Love” and “Free as a Bird,” which were part of the Beatles Anthology album. Two songs were based on old demo tapes by the late John Lennon who recorded them in the 1970s. The then-surviving Beatles members George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr performed backing vocals and instrumentation. https://youtu.be/Opxhh9Oh3rg?s
A third song titled “Now and Then,” was recorded by Lennon, and to be completed by the remaining three members. However, the original recording was considered too poor in quality to have Lennon’s voice heard clearly due to both general decay and the overbearing sound of the piano. The song was consequently shelved. Harrison passed away in 2001 reducing the probability the song would be released. Over 25 years later, we heard a finalized and full production of “Now and Then?”
The piano and Lennon’s voice can be heard, almost as if this was a simple remaster of the original demo and not a fully produced Beatles song. However, just as the vocals begin, a steady drum beat from Starr plays along with guitar backing from both McCartney and Harrison, the latter from the original attempt in 1995.
Lyrically, this is reminiscent of Lennon's love songs. During the break of the song, an orchestral interlude of strings comes in, like that of “Let it Be” and “A Day in the Life.” Much of the current production for this song was overseen by McCartney himself, but his desire to preserve and forefront much of the original tracks and recordings of both Lennon and Harrison keep this song as authentic and close to a classic rendition of a Beatles song as possible.
John Lennon was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980. On the anniversary of his death, the Associated Press shares its story from that day. https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/john-lennon-beatles-death-1980-ann…
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The lyrics of this song are more akin to a Lennon solo song, yet the production and musical arrangement is much more akin to an “Abbey Road-like song. This song may only be a Beatles song because it simply features all four Beatles on it, but it is still a great song. For a song being advertised as “The Last Beatles Song,” this song is exactly that, the last song to feature all four Beatles performing on a song. This song may not reach the level of ingenuity and fame that “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” has, but it is still a great finale and a bittersweet ending to the Beatles’ career, something that everyone will remember fondly now and then. https://youtu.be/Opxhh9Oh3rg?
Here his writing partner and founding member of THE BEATLES, Paul looks back at how he met John and formed The Fab Four. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDChVcLWpGc
The Beatles reunion? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CizPypg7wms
Finally here are some songs you may not know John wrote https://youtu.be/NyC3eMk9cvE?s
Last but not least, according to published reports… Sources inside the Kremlin report that Vladimir Putin was recently lent a collection of The Beatles vinyl records and is rethinking his invasion of Ukraine.
Putin’s longtime stench of testosterone cut slightly by a new and subtle hint of Patchouli oil, “having recently been introduced to such vacuous and meaningless platitudes as ‘All You Need is Love’ and ‘Give Peace a Chance,’ he thought, ‘why not?’ I never considered these ideas were an option until now.” And so it goes.