I don’t know how I should feel about a legal system that treats murderers well in jail. John Lennon’s crazy killer is one of those people living a pretty good life in jail. He’s been enjoying conjugal visits with his wife for the past 16 years. Mark David Chapman killed the iconic Beatle back in December of 1980 and has since been serving time in the Attica Correctional Facility. Chapman was actually up for parole for the fifth time last week. He’s been denied four times since he became eligible back in 2000. Yoko Ono had submitted a letter in 2000 stating she feared for her safety, for Lennon’s kids’ safety and even for Chapman’s safety if he was released. 8 years later and Yoko says that her position has not changed.
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000.
Cameo Auctioneers said the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and had recently been discovered by a man in northern England while he was clearing out his father’s attic.
Pause while every reader rushes to their attic to see if they can unearth any quarter million dollar finds…no? Bad luck.
The half-hour tape sold to an Internet bidder Tuesday afternoon for 11,900 pounds ($23,446) including tax and the buyer’s premium, the auction house said, adding that it had yet to contact the winner.
The tape features John Lennon and Paul McCartney collapsing into fits of giggles as they try to finish the ballad I’ll Follow the Sun. It also carries versions of songs including I Feel Fine,I’m a Loser and Don’t Put Me Down Like This.
Amazing video footage of John Lennon smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon’s tea will be at the centre of a dramatic court case to start next week.
In a bid to keep the tape private Yoko is set to go against Lawrence, Massachusetts-based World Wide Video, which claims ownership of nine hours of raw footage of the former Beatle and Ono filmed only weeks before the legendry band parted in 1970.
World Wide, a consortium of Beatles collectors, are looking to release the historical footage as a 2 hour film “3 days in the life” detailing the break-up and mind set of Lennon at this crucial time.
Rolling Stone magazine dubs it “the most awesome John Lennon footage you might never see.”
Having paid $1 million for the tapes after legal costs and other expenses, it was almost premiered last year but the showing was pulled after Yoko’s lawyers asserted her copyright ownership of the videotapes.
The story looks to be a film in itself with legal parties get ready to fight.
The tapes in question were filmed between 8 to 11 February 1970, and show Lennon composing two hits, “Remember” and “Mind Games,” whilst openly discussing his drug use in scenes that World Wide describe as “intimate and no-holds-barred.”
The last unfinished John Lennon track could see the light of day as a tribute to “fifth Beatle” Neil Aspinall who died last week.
Now And Then was unearthed with Real Love and Free As A Bird during the Fab Four’s Anthology series in the 1990s. While the other two tracks were spruced up by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr and went on to become top ten hits, Now And Then was left untouched.
Neil worked as chief of Apple Corps until last year and ensured The Beatles profited from their back catalogue. An insider said: “There have been discussions about finishing Now And Then. It would be quite a task. The process of re-recording the two tracks that charted was fairly painless because the songs were almost complete. Now And Then will need a significant amount more work to get it into a condition where it could be released.”
With George also dead, I reckon Paul and Ringo should work together one last time in tribute to departed members of the group’s inner circle.
Mick Jagger feared he’d never find a long-forgotten song he once recorded with John Lennon - until the late Beatle’s ex-girlfriend revealed she had saved the recording. Ha Dig some cash out of that moth eating wallet of yours Mick and pay the women cause we all know your gonna want it for free ya cheap lump..I do not know how many of these so called past collaborations with dead artist are these old rockers going to unearth, guess we will have to wait until they themselves no longer exists. I know fans would be waiting for such old collaborations to come out and see the day light but is there some substantial authentication for these music collaboration or is it a fake that Mick has not revealed till now and suddenly he’s found one of his own songs in his old closet and thinks that the fans could be fooled to believing that it is an ex-John Lennon partnered collaboration, some food for thought here.
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