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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, and peace activist, born in Liverpool, UK who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". He is ranked the second most successful songwriter in UK singles chart history after McCartney. |
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Latest News in english
about John Lennon
Nowhere Boy Date: 07 Nov 2009
IGN Movies -
John Lennon as you've never seen him before.
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Freddie Roach talks tough; Manny Pacquiao backs it up Date: 07 Nov 2009
Las Vegas Sun -
Freddie Roach has earned a reputation as boxing’s finest trainer. More than this, in recent years Roach has become a master of psychological gamesmanship. Roach has developed a knack for making just the right remark to get into the heads of his opposition before a fight, for playing those mind games — “pushing the barriers, planting seeds,” as ringside color commentator John Lennon put it.
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Yoko Ono looks back on early activism Date: 07 Nov 2009
AsiaOne -
NEW YORK, US (Reuters) - No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years. With late husband John Lennon she sparked a generation of celebrity cause campaigning with their 1969 "Bed-In" honeymoon to demonstrate for world peace as the Vietnam War raged.
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Yoko Ono looks back on early activism Date: 07 Nov 2009
The Malaysian Insider -
NEW YORK, Nov 7 — No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years. With late husband John Lennon she sparked a generation of celebrity cause campaigning with their 1969 "Bed-In" honeymoon to demonstrate for world peace as the Vietnam War raged. From Live Aid, Band Aid and even Farm Aid in the 1980s to Bono's tour of Africa with US Treasury Secretary ...
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John Lennon’s sons and Yoko Ono revive ‘Give Peace a Chance’ to help UN Date: 06 Nov 2009
Great News Network -
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance with the Plastic Ono Band, the United Nations announced today that the proceeds from the release of a commemorative single will garner funds for its peacebuilding efforts in countries emerging from conflict.
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Photographing food line was nourishing for the soul Date: 05 Nov 2009
The Villager -
I begin every day, weather permitting, in Tompkins Square Park, reading The New York Times, keeping my audio journal current, conversing with the regulars, meeting new people, feeding peanuts to the squirrels, getting my head together and just “watching the wheels go ’round,” as John Lennon sang a long time ago.
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Rain's John Lennon immerses himself in The Beatles' mystique Date: 05 Nov 2009
The Augusta Chronicle -
For Steve Landes, a member of the touring Beatles tribute band Rain, being John Lennon is more than picking up a guitar and playing the band's songs. It is, he said, an act of transformation.
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Timeless romance - Celebrity age-gaps Date: 05 Nov 2009
Evening Standard -
Sam Taylor-Wood, 42, and Aaron Johnson, 19, who announced their engagement last week. They began seeing each other after Taylor-Wood cast Johnson as a young John Lennon in her debut film, Nowhere Boy. They are not the first celebrity partnership to feature a large age gap Pic: Dave Benett
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