THE BEATLES - ED SULLIVAN SHOW
CURRENT MOON about the moon
ALL THOSE YEARS AGO
Tribute song for John Lennon
by George Harrison
I'm shouting all about love
While they treated you like a dog
When you were the one who made it so clear
All those years ago
I'm talking all about how to give
They don't act with much honesty
But you point to the truth when you say
All you need is love
Living with good and bad
I always looked up to you
Now we're left cold and sad
By someone the devil's best friend
Someone who offended all
We're living in a bad dream
They've forgotten all about mankind
And you were the one they backed up to the wall
All those years ago
You were the one who imagined it all
All those years ago
Deep in the darkest night
I send out a prayer to you
Now in the world of light
Where the spirit frees of the lies
And all else that we despised
They've forgotten all about God
He's the only reason we exist
Yet you were the one they say was so weird
All those years ago
You said it all, though not many had ears
All those years ago
You had control of our smiles and our tears
All those years ago.
JOHN LENNON & PAUL McCARTNEY: A ROCK-N-ROLL TRADEMARK
"LET'S 'AVE A LARF!" - photo by Linda McCartney
BEATLES '65 - 4th Capitol Records release and 6th American LP
1965 - HELP! "...and now my life has changed in oh so many ways - my independence seems to vanish in the haze..."
THE WORD "...spread the word and you'll be free - spread the word and be like me, spread the word I'm thinking of...
...have you heard the word is love - it's so fine, it's sunshine - it's the word, love..."
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the Universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy
are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai Guru Deva, Om
nothings gonna change my world ...
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the Universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as
they make their way across the Universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
nothings gonna change my world ...
Sounds of laughter, shades of love
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a millions Suns
It calls me on and on across the Universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
nothings gonna change my world
Jai Guru Deva ...
-John Lennon
NAMASTE, George -- b: February 25, 1943, died November 29, 2001
PHOTOGRAPH "...ev'ry time I see your face it reminds me...
...of the places we used to go - but all I got was a photograph and I realize you're not coming back anymore..."
1967 - STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER - the defining works of the psychedelic rock genre
WITHIN YOU AND WITHOUT YOU "...when you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there...
and the time will come when you can see that life flows on within you and without you."
FOR YOU BLUE "I loved you from the moment, I saw you - you looked at me that's all you had to do - I feel it now I hope you feel it too..."
..
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
"Ev'ry body's talking about
Bagism, shagism, dragism, madism, ragism, tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about ministers,
Sinisters, banisters and canisters
Bishops and fishops and rabbis and pop-eyes,
And byebyes, byebyes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masterbation
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance."
-John Lennon
1967 - THE BEATLES with MAHARISHI MAHESH - short term study of Yogi philosophy and Transcendental Meditation2/5/08 - Maharishi Mahesh, 91, died of natural causes."
8/22/69 - LAST-EVER GROUP SHOT taken outside John's estate, Tittenhurst Park. Photos from session were used on the front and back covers of HEY JUDE.
"...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
GONE AND NEVER FORGOTTEN - thanks for all the memories!
2007 - half-brothers, John's two sons, musicians and songwriters Sean & Julian Lennon reunite after a seven year stretch.
"...there is a place where I can go when I feel low, when I feel blue..."
1967 - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR step right this way!
REFLECTIONS: ARTIST, REBEL, HUMANITARIAN
BABY IT'S YOU
"...it doesn't matter what they say,
I know I'm gonna love you any old way,
What can I do, and it's true,
Don't want nobody, nobody, 'cause baby it's you
Baby it's you ..."
JAN 1969 - FINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE on rooftop of Apple building, London.
1969 - poet, MC5 manager and leader of the White Panther Party, John Sinclair was sentenced to 10 years in prison after giving two marijuana joints to an undercover narcotics officer.
1971 - "Free John Now Rally" -- true to his humanitarian nature, John Lennon, along with Allen Ginsberg, Stevie Wonder, Bob Segar and many others performed a televised benefit concert on Sinclair's behalf demanding Sinclair's freedom. The concert was held at the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, MI in front of 15-20,000 people. Sinclair was ultimately freed on appeal after serving 18 months in prison, 3 days after the concert.
INSTANT KARMA "...we all shine on - like the Moon, the stars and the Sun - we all shine on - everyone, come on...!"
1971 - John with music producer, Phil Spector
CRUSADER FOR PEACE
"Love is you - you and me - love is knowing, we can be..."
Love is free, free is love - love is living, living love - love is needing to be loved."
"OUR SOCIETY IS RUN BY INSANE PEOPLE FOR INSANE OBJECTIVES. I THINK WE'RE BEING RUN BY MANIACS FOR MANIACAL ENDS AND I THINK I'M LIABLE TO BE PUT AWAY AS INSANE FOR EXPRESSING THAT - THAT'S WHAT'S INSANE ABOUT IT." -JL
"...everybody's talkin' bout ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters - bishops and fishops and rabbis and pop eyes - and byebyes, byebyes..."
...ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE."
"Come together join the party, take a stand on human rights... feel that hatred, cloud our judgements free us all from endless nights..."
"anybody who sings about love and harmony and life is dangerous to someone who is singing about death..."
GOD "...the dream is over, what can I say - the dream is over, yesterday - I was the dreamweaver but now I'm reborn - I was the walrus but now I'm John - and so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on... the dream is over." 1940 - 1980
ART CAME FIRST: Etchings, screenprints & lithographs by Lennon are displayed and sold worldwide