‘Naked Lennon’ up for grabs

September 18th, 2009 LONDON - A magazine in which John Lennon had scribbled that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has been sold for 12,713 US dollars. In a 17 day online auction run by RR Auction of Amherst, New Hampshire, an orthopaedic surgeon at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Centre made the winning bid.

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 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 Previously unpublished chats of McCartney and Ringo Starr with British journalist Ray Connolly have also been released.

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.

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 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Actress Hayden Panettiere has revealed that she loves to roam around naked in her house. And the 'Heroes' star admits she's often caught by roommate.

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 4th, 2009 LONDON - Previously unseen black and white images of The Beatles taken when the band stayed at a south coast hotel in the mid-60s are up for sale. The unusual photographs, which show John Lennon playing with a Box Brownie camera and him and the other band members in a car, were taken when the Fab Four were at the Askers Road House Hotel in Bridport, Dorset.

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 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 24th, 2009 LONDON - More tickets for Michael Jackson's comeback concerts in London are to go on sale. The "limited" number of extra seats, estimated to cost hundreds per show, had previously been restrained while the production logistics were being tallied.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Liam Gallagher could barely gather words together when he met Yoko Ono, the wife of his late idol John Lennon. The Oasis frontman was such a huge Lennon fan that he had even considered shifting into the New York apartment block where the late Beatle was shot dead in 1980.

June 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - First pictures of John Lennon, Yoko Ono's "bed-in" protest have been unveiled at the museum on the site of the Woodstock festival. The exhibition called John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In For Peace celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival at Bethel Woods in New York, reports Contactmusic.

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.