Tag Archives: John Lennon

The Olympics Truce

August 2, 2012 – 10:54 pm

Last summer Lord Michael Bates set out from Greece to promote a world truce during the London Olympics. In early December I met the long-distance trekker in Luxembourg and shared his walk for twenty kilometers on the shoulder of a busy motorway in the rain. At the top of a hill I spied the approach […]

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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE John Lennon

May 7, 2011 – 11:00 pm

As much as I hate the Beatles, I do love John and on reflection Yoko was almost cute back in those days.

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John Lennon 70 Years Old If Not a Day

October 10, 2010 – 12:01 pm

Saturday would have been 70 this weekend. Mark David Chapman killed the ex-Beatle in front of the Dakota on Manhattan’s Uppper West Side to answer his obssession with JD Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His latest parole hearing ended with a denial of his freedom. Yoko Ono, John’s […]

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10 Million Love-You-Long-Time

July 5, 2010 – 9:34 am

John Lennon rightfully claimed that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus and now Lady Gaga has beaten out Barack Obama on Facebook by scoring over 10,673,476 fans in comparison the 2nd place Obama’s 9,824,885. The Beatles fan club have only 181,138, while the good old Messiah has outstripped the Fab Four with 126,876 fans, […]

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