David Bowie was “terrified” of meeting John Lennon for the first time

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John Lennon was “bubbling over” with excitement about returning to the UK in a phone call the night before he was shot dead, a newly released letter written by his aunt has revealed.The former Beatle was killed by Mark Chapman outside the entrance to his Manhattan flat on December 8, 1980.A month later his aunt Mimi Smith replied in a letter to Daily Express journalist Judith Simons, who had written a letter of condolence following Lennon’s death.“Dear Judith, Thank you for your letter, kind

King Krule has shared a new cover of John Lennon‘s ‘Imagine’ – listen to it below.Taken from the former Beatle’s 1971 album of the same name, the iconic ballad was co-produced by his wife Yoko Ono and the late Phil Spector; it’s the biggest-selling single of Lennon’s career.Krule (real name Archy Marshall) released his cover on Bandcamp yesterday (January 23) along with a short statement.“Recorded in sweat, last summer, for a friend,” he wrote.Listen to the track below:The new cover follows last

Let It Be and many of John Lennon’s solo works. In 2009, he was jailed for a minimum sentence of 19 years for murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

OK! magazine reported.   Laura, 33, said that the pair wanted a reminder of Liverpool, where they and the music legend are from, as they no longer live there.

David Bowie‘s previously unreleased covers of John Lennon‘s ‘Mother’ and Bob Dylan‘s ‘Tryin’ to Get to Heaven’ have been released for the first time, to mark what would have been the music icon’s 74th birthday.The new take on Lennon’s 1970 track was originally recorded by Bowie in 1998 with longtime producer Tony Visconti.

the Metro reported. 'They had to get them through the screaming girls and they didn't know quite how they were going to do it.

the Antiques Roadshow and explained that her late father, Ivor Gordon Russell, had escorted The Beatles in the Birmingham Hippodrome. She told expert Marc Allum that a sergeant came up with an idea of dressing the band members as police officers to help escort them into the venue through the crowd, with the subsequent pictures becoming world-famous - reports the Daily Star.

BBC One show's guest was shocked when she discovered the value of her dad's police hat, which was sported by the Imagine singer as he made his way to the Hippodrome. Her late father, Ivor Gordon Russell, had escorted the Merseyside group to the city's theatre in the 60s.

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Antiques Roadshow was surprised to learn the value of a police helmet once worn by John Lennon. The hit series returned to BBC One on Sunday night (3 January) with viewers tuning into the first episode of its 43rd season.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile Jimmy Iovine is best known as one of the music industry’s biggest power players — a cofounder of both Interscope Records and the Beats by Dre headphone empire, and as an Apple Music executive — he began his career as music producer and engineer, working with Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Stevie Nicks, Dire Straits and many others from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.The ever-growing Hipgnosis Songs, which has invested more than