Ani DiFranco to be honored at John Lennon benefit show

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Lise Pedersen Jane Campion, the first woman filmmaker to have received a Palme d’Or in Cannes (for “The Pianist” in 1993), is in Lyon for another first, as she becomes the first female filmmaker to pick up the Lumière Prize at the eponymous film festival.Warmly greeted by an enthusiastic crowd for a masterclass at the city’s historic Théâtre des Célestins, Campion answered questions by festival director Thierry Frémaux, who also runs the Cannes Festival.On the question of the place of women

Lorraine Kelly questioned why Sir Paul McCartney has put blame on John Lennon for ending the The Beatles over 50 years after the legendary band split up in 1970.

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Paul McCartney wants to set the record straight. The legendary musician is opening up and sharing his side of the story of who decided to break up the Beatles.As part of the new BBC interview special, the 79-year-old music icon reflected on his past, and addressed the long-standing belief that it was his decision to quit the Beatles and thus effectively end the band back in 1970.«Stop right there.

Ringo Starr has opened up about a bizarre reunion offer made to The Beatles in 1973, which they turned down.In a New Yorker profile on Paul McCartney today (October 11), it was revealed that McCartney had flown to Los Angeles to visit John Lennon that year, after his breakup with Yoko Ono.The duo’s brief time together – which reportedly involved studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Henry Nillsson – sparked rumours of a Beatles reunion.Starr is featured in the profile talking about the band

The Guardian. “Is that instigating the split, or not?”McCartney told John Wilson that Lennon referred to his decision to exit the bad as “quite thrilling” and “rather like a divorce.” That left him, Ringo Starr and George Harrison “to pick up the pieces,” in McCartney’s words.“John was making a new life with Yoko,” McCartney said.

Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, flatly disputing the suggestion that he was responsible for the group’s demise. Speaking on an episode of BBC Radio 4’s "This Cultural Life" that is scheduled to air on Oct.

In an excerpt of an interview with The Guardian, Paul McCartney has blamed John Lennon for initiating the breakup of The Beatles more than 50 years ago.

LONDON -- Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, flatly refuting the suggestion that he was responsible for the group’s demise.Speaking on an episode of BBC Radio 4’s “This Cultural Life’’ that is scheduled to air on Oct. 23, McCartney said it was John Lennon who wanted to disband The Beatles.“I didn’t instigate the split,” McCartney said.

Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono honored John Lennon on Lennon’s birthday in social media posts Saturday. Lennon would have been 81.The Beatles star was shot to death at the age of 40.

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The Beatles’ legacy lives one! Sean Lennon, 45, channelled his dad John Lennon‘s classic looks, while he was out in New York with his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, 34, on Thursday September 30. The Into The Sun musician was the spitting image of the “Imagine” singer during the late 60s, with long hair and prominent thick-rimmed glasses. Even his turquoise suit and star-covered black undershirt were reminiscent of some of the fabulous suits that John wore throughout his career!

John Lennon playing an unreleased song in Denmark in 1970 has sold for £43,000 at auction in Copenhagen.It was announced earlier this month that a 33-minute cassette recording was being sold by four Danish men who met Lennon when they were teenagers.The Beatles star was spending the winter of 1969-1970 in a small Danish town on the west coast, spending time with his wife Yoko Ono’s daughter Kyoko, who was living with her father in Jutland.The audio, which was recorded after a press conference,

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A cassette tape with a 33-minute audio recording of John Lennon being interviewed by four Danish teenagers 51 years ago as well as an apparently unpublished song by the late Beatle fetched 370,000 kroner ($58,240) at a Denmark auction Tuesday.The tape, recorded on Jan. 5, 1970, chiefly consists of Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, speaking about being in Denmark and world peace.