john lennon - mendips

[sebmelmoth2003]

audio at link for a week or so.

Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary suburban semi in Liverpool?

Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the National Trust tour in 2009 and was so taken with its 1950s charm and with the spirit of it, that he's gone back; this time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and finding out what it's like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool.

He also talks to some of those who visited the house when John Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few of those 8000 visitors.

This half hour documentary runs as Liverpool celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v1qzc

clunky video page - yoko's perspective.
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there's an article in the liverpool echo as well but the original page keeps freezing the browser so here's the first page - cached.

but that keeps freezing as well - perhaps it's just my browser?

click at own risk :

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=to+cat ... f8,d8ad694

[Kush]

Dolly Parton's tribute to Lennon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW1H0u4s2yQ

[neo]

too bad Liverpool doesn't share the same enthusiasm for Ringo...

Ringo Starr's birthplace faces the bulldozers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... ozers.html

[sebmelmoth2003]

from 14.00 hours this afternoon on bbc radio 5 (or subsequently on iplayer)

Richard presents the show live from The Beatles Story on Liverpool's Albert Dock, in the week before the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death.

With Richard to assess Lennon's life and work, his biographer Philip Norman, who spent hours gathering memories from his wife Yoko Ono.

Also on the programme, BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris; Sam Taylor Wood, who directed Nowhere Boy, a feature film about the early days of Lennon and McCartney; and The Wirral's Miles Kane, from indie group The Last Shadow Puppets.

Plus live performances of some of Lennon's greatest work.

Text: 85058 (charged at your standard message rate). Email: bacon@bbc.co.uk Twitter @richardpbacon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w78y0

[Kush]

Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAQl7qq-aI


from the 'Imagine Project'

[sebmelmoth2003]

The Beatles: Get Back—An Exclusive Deep Dive Into Peter Jackson’s Revelatory New Movie

This fall Disney+ unveils the three-part documentary, which mines long-lost footage for a portrait of the band’s final chapter that’s so unexpected it surprised even Paul McCartney...

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20 ... 2ag4J_nIIc