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Have fun and don't forget that we all shine on. ♡
John Lennon and Yoko Ono posing with their George Maciunas' Fluxus group anti-genocide poster, taken by George Konig, July, 1971.
Never seen before photo of John Lennon with Eddie Germano, the future owner of the Hit Factory, November, 1974.
🔗 This photo is listed for auction.
Never seen before photo of John Lennon at Hit Factory, October 16, 1980.
🔗 This photo is listed for auction.
Never seen before photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Hit Factory, taken by Bob Gruen, October 16, 1980. 🔗 these photos are listed for auction.
"A shoe-less Lennon opened the door and ushered me into a large sitting room. He was on the telephone to his son Julian and gestured for me to sit on the sofa alongside. After telling Julian he had to go since "there's a fella here come to take me picture," he asked if I didn't mind if we watched the telly for a bit first. The program John was most interested in was a live transmission of Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne's marriage to Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Cathedral in London. Sitting alongside John Lennon with our feet up on the coffee table watching the then shaky live pictures on the TV it was a far cry from the madness of Beatlemania. After about ten minutes he said, "come on, do you fancy a cup of real English tea?" after an enthusiastic yes on my part he said "then we can get these daft 'happy-snaps' out of the way." What a joy."
— Michael Brennan about photographing John Lennon in Los Angeles on November 14, 1973.
"I think I was suicidal on some kind of subconscious level.… Night and day drinking or taking Librium or whatever," he said recently, sitting in one of his luxury apartments at the Dakota building. "The goal was to obliterate the mind so that I wouldn't be conscious. I didn't want to see or feel anything. Part of me can't believe I would self-destruct — the youthful part that feels invincible. Yet another part realizes that I could have died. I was consuming at least a bottle of vodka a day, and a half bottle or more of brandy. Also, I did things like jumping out of cars. It was a crazy kind of teen-age game I had: telling myself, 'I wasn't meant to die at this moment so I can jump out of the car.' What I was ignoring, of course, was that the next car after us could have run over me. Making music was no longer a joy. For twenty years, I had been under this pressure to produce, produce, produce. My head was cluttered. Every time I’d sit down to write, there would be a cloud between me and the source, a cloud that hadn’t been there before. I was trapped and saw no way out."
— John Lennon for Robert Hilburn, L.A. Times, November 16, 1980
Portraits of The Beatles taken at Odeon Cinema on December 9, 1963.
GET THESE GRAMMY, BEATLES!
"You may love him, you may loath him, but this you should know: As a performer, composer, writer or talker, he will be around for a long time." ㅡ Leonard Gross about John Lennon for the Look Magazine, 1966.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Tittenhurst Park posing with figurines of themselves from the album cover "Two Virgins", November 5, 1969.
A new article/book excerpt about how Mal Evans' archives were preserved - and Yoko Ono's role in it - includes these paragraphs about what's actually in them:
It was around the second day on the job when Kutti happened upon the four bankers boxes. Almost immediately, she could tell that they held contents of a particular significance. As she sifted through the boxes, she gazed at what seemed like vintage photographs of the Beatles — thousands of them. And then she found a manuscript titled "Living the Beatles’ Legend: Or 200 Miles to Go." It was an oddly formatted specimen — printed in all caps. And further still, she discovered a spate of leather-bound diaries. Leafing through their pages, Kutti was able to ascertain that the boxes must be the property of Malcolm Evans, a name that meant nothing to her. From the looks of the booty that lay before her in the basement, he must have been some kind of chronic hoarder, an avid photographer apparently, and an enthusiastic journaler who peppered his voluminous diary entries with madcap, colorful — even psychedelic — illustrations. (...) But Kutti didn’t stop there. She was determined to make a thorough accounting of Mal’s forgotten archives. That Monday, she compiled a six-page inventory of the bankers boxes. As she began to organize the materials, they seemed even more tantalizing than before: there was an autographed color photo of Elvis Presley, a signed drawing of Mal by John Lennon, and yet another drawing of the roadie by McCartney, inscribed with the words “To Mal the Van from James Paul the Bass.” There were 10 Super 8 films in total, with titles like “Family Holiday,” “Beatles India,” “Africa,” “Greece” and “Plane Trip (Paul).”
John Lennon during the second record day of "Hey Jude", July 30, 1968.
John Lennon being a sunshine, July 30, 1968.
John Lennon saving my life in 3 gifs, July 30, 1968.
