Lennon and Ono bed-in photos go on display

September 17th, 2009 Magazine signed by John Lennon sells for $12,713AMHERST, N.H. — A 1966 magazine signed by John Lennon containing his remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has sold for $12,713.

September 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - A new tape of late singer John Lennon's interviews has him saying that fellow Beatles member Paul McCartney was the most important person to him apart from his wife. "I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner," the New York Post quoted the Times of London as reporting as to what Lennon said in the tape.

September 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A series of exclusive interviews with John Lenon have now been published, giving an insight into the star' views on his bandmate Sir Paul McCartney and the Beatles' split. Previously unpublished chats of McCartney and Ringo Starr with British journalist Ray Connolly have also been released.

August 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has rubbished all criticism heaped on the Beatles Rock Band game, saying her late husband "would have loved it". Ono said the game would introduce the Beatles' music to a new generation of fans.

August 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Previously unseen interviews with an angry John Lennon have surfaced, offering insight into what may have caused the Beatles to split. The singer made a few revelations about the break up when interviewed by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who released the 1970 tapes for rock journalist Mikal Gilmore's Why The Beatles Broke Up article.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - The unpublished lyrics of late 'Beatle' John Lennon, believed to have been written about 40 years ago, have gone on display for the first time. The lyrics, written on a postcard, form part of an exhibition at The Beatles Story in Liverpool, put together by his first wife, Cynthia, and son, Julian.

August 3rd, 2009 John Lennon biopic to close London Film FestivalLONDON — London Film Festival organizers say this year's event will close with the world premiere of a new film about John Lennon's formative years in Liverpool. "Nowhere Boy" depicts Lennon at age 15 and follows his relationship with his estranged mother, Julia, and with his Aunt Mimi, who raised him.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - A new John Lennon song, inked by the murdered Beatle in the 1960s, may come to the foreground. The song "Tell Her Now" was said to have been the work of the late singer though no music was ever planned for it.

July 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A rare naked photo of John Lennon has been put up for online sale for 54,000 dollars. The photograph, said to be "too graphic to be shown online", is up for grabs on memorabilia website Momentsintime.com According to the New York Post, the shot is taken from a nude shoot for the Beatle's Two Virgins album, featuring his wife Yoko Ono, reports Contactmusic.

July 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon had come very close to reuniting The Beatles, according to a new book. In his new book "Paul McCartney: A Life," Peter Ames Carlin says that Macca missed making music with Lennon so much that he made a surprise midnight visit in the spring of 1974 to the Burbank studio where his former band mate was recording, the New York Daily News reports.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Unseen photographs of late Beatles legend John Lennon and his wife went on display at a museum in New York. The photos of Lennon and Yoko Ono were put up in an exhibition - "Give Peace A Chance: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In For Peace" - that opened at the museum in Bethel Woods June 12, reported dailyexpress.co.uk.

June 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Mel Gibson's pregnant girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva is said to have filed her second lawsuit in nine days, with the latest accusing a former manager of selling sexy lingerie photos to the media. Grigorieva, 38, had last week sued a web hosting company that claimed the domain name www.oksanagrigorieva.com, and she has now used the same high-powered Los Angeles law firm, Lavely and Singer, to file the new suit, reports News.com.au.

June 1st, 2009 Kindle display maker E Ink gets acquired for $215MNEW YORK — E Ink Corp., the maker of the innovative display for the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and other devices, has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million. The acquirer is Prime View International, which has been Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink's manufacturing partner in supplying "electronic ink" displays for Amazon's and Sony's e-book readers.

May 29th, 2009 Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibitWASHINGTON — Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway. A new exhibit, "Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants," opens Saturday at the National Museum of Natural History and continues through Oct.

May 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - John Lennon will be honoured with the performance of his peace anthem Imagine, on the bells of one of the churches in his native Liverpool, England. Cathedral chiefs had given the thumbs up to the bellringers to perform the particular song despite the number's controversial line, "Imagine there's no heaven." "Allowing Imagine to be pealed on our bells does not mean we agree with the song lyric," Contactmusic quoted a spokesman as saying.