Articles tagged "john lennon"

Sound Affects

Rosie & the Originals - “Angel Baby”

by Jennifer Cooke

[7.Oct.09] :. Tom Waits isn't the only Pride of National City

Sound Affects

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future Feature

John Lennon, In My Life

by Julia Karr

[21.Sep.09] :. I began identifying with the songs John was writing. His wit, his grittiness and his candor were reflections, not just of my own life, but of life in the world.

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary Feature

The White Album: Side Four

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Nov.08] :. The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end.

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary Feature

The White Album: Side Three

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Nov.08] :. It's back to basics once again as the band finds the musical muscle memory to mesh all their influences into seven sensational tracks.

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary Feature

The White Album: Side Two

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Nov.08] :. It's the Beatles 'unplugged' -- from stardom, from pressures, from the friendship that held them together -- while simultaneously reaching inward and outward.

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary

Sound Affects

None More White: The Beatle’s White Album

by Vince Carducci

[18.Nov.08] :. The Beatles is called ‘the White Album’, of course, because of its cover, which is completely devoid of imagery save for the group’s name blind-embossed on its face slightly...

Sound Affects

The White Album: Side One

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Nov.08] :. It's all guitars and good times as the Fab Four rediscover the joys of jamming -- as well as the hidden pain and problems poised to tear them apart.

John Lennon: The Life, by Philip Norman

by Michael Young [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[18.Nov.08] :. Niether Yoko Ono nor Paul McCartney seem pleased with Norman's book, but the reader should have no such problems.

Birthday: The White Album Turns 40

by Zeth Lundy and Bill Gibron

[17.Nov.08] :. In the first day of PopMatters' week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' self-titled double album, Bill Gibron and Zeth Lundy discuss the record's importance and impact, and why it continues to resonate within popular culture some four decades later.

John Lennon: John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band [DVD]

by Andrew Blackie

[16.Jun.08] :. The Classic Albums series manages to faithfully remember and do justice to John Lennon's solo masterpiece.

The Best Music DVDs of 2007

by Ron Hart

[25.Jan.08] :. The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

Paul McCartney – We Believe In Yesterday

by Gary Frenay

[2.Jan.08] :. Taken together, Help! and The McCartney Years, show the breadth of an artist's career, warts and all. Few have lived a life as well-documented or as successful as Paul McCartney.

Help!

by Zeth Lundy

[2.Nov.07] :. The Beatles' second (and second-best) movie, an absurdist romp with Bond-esque aspirations, gets an overdue clean-up on this new double-disc edition.

Various Artists: Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur

by Greg M. Schwartz

[3.Jul.07] :. What if today's musical stars were to wholeheartedly pursue the socially conscious vision that drove John Lennon's solo work?

Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Jun.07] :. Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.

‘Instant Karma’ a worthy cause, with mostly worthy efforts

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Jun.07] :. Surely acting in the spirit of John Lennon, Yoko Ono has donated all publishing rights to Lennon’s songs so that Amnesty International could put together a benefit album for Darfur. On...

Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. It was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world.

U2, R.E.M., Green Day and more cover Lennon for charity

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[21.May.07] :. I’m not entirely sure what good Avril Lavigne singing “Imagine” will do for the afflicted people of Darfur. Seems like 10 seconds of that could drive plenty of people here stark...

John Lennon: Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon

by Dan MacIntosh

[15.Nov.05] :. John Lennon may not be a true 'working class hero', but he is still a heroic figure, nevertheless.

John Lennon: Rock ‘n’ Roll

by Adam Williams

[10.Dec.04] :. There is a widening chasm between the necessity of re-releasing classic albums and the compulsion to feed off the bleached bones of departed icons. With the former, conventional marketing logic...

John Lennon: Acoustic

by Zeth Lundy

[19.Nov.04] :. Come 1970, the world found itself without Beatles. When the greatest songwriting duo in pop acrimoniously split in two, fans instinctively took sides: it was cool and progressive to favor Lennon, the...

A Hard Day’s Night (1964/2000)

by Sabadino Parker

A smooth amalgamation of Richard Lester's intricate direction, Alun Owen's hysterical screenplay, and the natural charms of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a film perfectly of its time and perfectly timeless.

John Lennon, Wonsaponatime

by Sarah Zupko

The most hyped set of the year has to be the new John Lennon anthology, assembled by Yoko Ono and containing 96 songs, mainly in demo and live form, from Lennon’s solo career....