Today, The Winsors and The Grandma have met JohnLennon and Yoko Ono, two of the most important artists of the last century, to celebrate SusanaWinsor'sbirthday.
The have been talking about peace and war, and about hippie and punk movements with the figures of CyndiLauper and GillianAnderson, and about the political situation in the USA and Europe during the Vietnam and Falkland Islands wars until nowadays.
Before the meeting, the family has revised again the Possessive Pronouns and they have studied the Comparative of Superiority.
John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940–8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded The Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member PaulMcCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960.
When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as Give Peace a Chance, Working Class Hero, and Imagine.After his marriage to Yoko Ono
in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged
himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean,
but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon
revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing,
drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political
and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism
of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's
administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as
anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
At around 10:50 p.m. on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in the Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the archway of the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00 p.m. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying There is no funeral for John, ending it with the words, John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him. His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry FieldsMemorial
was later created. Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and
was sentenced to 20-years-to-life. In 2016, he was denied parole for a
ninth time.
Today, The Grandma has been listening to some music. She has chosen Imagine,the song written by JohnLennon that has become an athem of peace and unity.
Imagine is a song by the English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, without materialism, without borders separating nations and without religion. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, Yoko Ono,and in 2017 she received cowriting credit.
Lennon and Ono co-produced the songwith Phil Spector. Recording began at Lennon's home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July.
In October, Lennon released Imagine as a single in the United States, where it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was first issued as a single in Britain in 1975, to promote the compilation Shaved Fish, and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart that year. It later topped the chart following Lennon's murder in 1980.
BMI named Imagine one of the 100 most performed songs of the 20th century. In 1999, it was ranked number 30 on the RIAA's list of the 365 Songs of the Century, earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
A 2002 UK survey conducted by the Guinness World Records British Hit Singles Book named it the second-best single of all time, while Rolling Stone ranked it number three in the 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Since 2005, event organisers have played the song just before the New Year's Times Square Ball drops in New York City.
In 2023, the song was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Imagine has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the UK. More than 200 artists have performed or covered the song, including Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Lady Gaga, Elton John and Diana Ross.
After Imagine was featured at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the song re-entered the UK Top 40, reaching number 18, and was presented as a theme song in the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The song remains controversial, as it has been since its release, over its request to imagine no religion too.
Several poems from Yoko Ono's 1964 book Grapefruit inspired Lennon to write the lyrics for Imagine -in particular, one which Capitol Records reproduced on the back cover of the original Imagine LP titled Cloud Piece, reads: Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in.
Lennon later said the composition should be credited as a Lennon/Ono song. A lot of it -the lyric and the concept- came from Yoko, but in those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted her contribution, but it was right out of Grapefruit. When asked about the song's meaning during a December 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine, Lennon told Sheff that Dick Gregory had given Ono and him a Christian prayer book, which inspired him the concept behind Imagine.
Imagine is performed every New Year's Eve in New York City, just before the countdown to midnight begins. This is a tradition dating back to 1986.
Today, The Grandma has remembered one of the saddest days in New York City.
It was 8 December 1980 when John Lennon was killed in the archway of his residence.
On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon,formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City.
His killer was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who was incensed by Lennon's lavish lifestyle and his 1966 comment that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.
Chapman said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, a phony-killer who despises hypocrisy.
Chapman planned the killing over several months and waited for Lennon at the Dakota on the morning of 8 December.
Early in the evening, Chapman met Lennon, who signed his copy of the album Double Fantasy and subsequently left for a recording session at the Record Plant. Later that night, Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned to the Dakota.
Chapman waited for Lennon outside
the Dakota in early-morning and spent most of the day near the entrance
to the Dakota, talking to fans and the doorman. During that morning,
Chapman was distracted and missed seeing Lennon step out of a cab and
enter the Dakota. Later in the morning, Chapman met Lennon's family
nanny, Helen Seaman, who was returning from a walk with Lennon's
five-year-old son Sean. Chapman reached in front of the housekeeper to
shake Sean's hand and said that he was a beautiful boy, quoting Lennon's
song Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy).
As Lennon and Ono approached the entrance of the building, Chapman fired five hollow-point bullets from a .38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back.
Chapman remained at the scene reading The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested by the police. Lennon was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital in a police car, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at around 11:15 p.m.
A worldwide outpouring of grief ensued; crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota, and at least three Beatles fans died by suicide.
The next day, Lennon was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York; in lieu of a funeral, Ono requested ten minutes of silence around the world.
Chapman was convicted of murdering Lennon and was given a sentence of 20-years-to-life imprisonment.
A judge remanded Chapman to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
On 6 January 1981, Chapman was charged with second-degree murder, as premeditation in New York state was not sufficient to warrant charge of first-degree murder. Despite advice by his lawyers to plead insanity, Chapman pleaded guilty to murdering Lennon, saying that his guilty plea was the will of God.
Under the terms of his guilty plea, he was sentenced to 20-years-to-life with eligibility for parole in 2000. Before his sentencing, he was given the opportunity to address the court, at which point he read a passage from The Catcher in the Rye.
He has been denied parole eleven times and remains incarcerated in Wende Correctional Facility, east of Buffalo, New York.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Today, The Grandma wants to go to the beach but it is crowded and she has decided to stay at home listening to good music and going to the beach in the evening, when people leave and you can enjoy sand and sea without the mass.
The Grandma has realized an important fact. Fifty years ago, at a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album AbbeyRoad. She has wanted to homage them listening to this masterpiece and searching more information about it. Before listening to The Beatles, TheGrandma has studied a new lesson of her Ms. Excel course.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. The recording sessions were the last in which all four Beatles participated. Let It Be was the final album that the Beatles completed and released before the band's dissolution in April 1970, but most of the album had been recorded before the Abbey Road sessions began. The two-sided hit single from the album Something backed with Come Together was released in October and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US.
Abbey Road incorporates genres such as blues, pop, and progressive rock, and it makes prominent use of the Moog synthesizer and the Leslie speaker. Side two contains a medley of song fragments edited together to form a single piece. The album was recorded amid a more enjoyable atmosphere than the Get Back/Let It Be sessions earlier in the year, but there were still frequent disagreements within the band. John Lennon had privately left the group by the time that the album was released, and Paul McCartney publicly quit the following year.
Abbey Road was an immediate commercial success and reached number one in the UK and US, although it initially received mixed reviews, with some critics describing its music as inauthentic and bemoaning the production's artificial effects.
Over time, the album became viewed as among the Beatles' best and many critics have ranked it as one of the greatest albums of all time. In particular, George Harrison's contributions in Something and Here Comes the Sun are considered to be among the best songs that he wrote for the group. The album's cover features the four band members walking across a zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios and has become one of the most famous and imitated images in popular music.
The Grandma & Abbey Road
After the tense and unpleasant recording sessions for the proposed Get Back album, ultimately released in 1970 as Let It Be, PaulMcCartney suggested to music producer George Martin that the group get together and make an album the way we used to do it, free of the conflict that had begun during sessions for TheBeatles, also known as the White Album.
Martin agreed, but on the strict condition that all the group -particularly JohnLennon- allow him to produce the record in the same manner as earlier albums and that discipline would be adhered to.
The first sessions for Abbey Road began on 22 February 1969, only three weeks after the Get Back sessions, in Trident Studios. There, the group recorded a backing track for I Want You (She's So Heavy) with Billy Preston accompanying them on Hammond organ.
No further group recording occurred until April because of Ringo Starr's commitments on the film The Magic Christian. After a small amount of work that month and a session for You Never Give Me Your Money on 6 May, the group took an eight-week break before recommencing on 2 July.
Recording continued through July and August, with the last backing track, for Because, being taped on 1 August. Overdubs continued through the month, with the final sequencing of the album coming together on 20 August -the last time all four Beatles were present in a studio together.
McCartney, Starr and Martin have reported positive recollections of the sessions, while George Harrison said, we did actually perform like musicians again. Lennon and McCartney had enjoyed working together on the non-album single The Ballad of John and Yoko in April, contributing friendly banter between takes, and some of this camaraderie carried over to the Abbey Road sessions.
Nevertheless, there was a significant amount of tension in the group. According to author Ian MacDonald, McCartney had an acrimonious argument with Lennon during the sessions. Lennon's wife Yoko Ono had become a permanent presence at Beatles recordings and clashed with other members. Halfway through recording in June, Lennon and Ono were involved in a car accident. A doctor told Ono to rest in bed, so Lennon had one installed in the studio so she could observe the recording process from there.
The album's two halves represented a compromise; Lennon wanted a traditional release with distinct and unrelated songs while McCartney and Martin wanted to continue their thematic approach from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by incorporating a medley.
Lennon ultimately said
that he disliked Abbey Road as a whole and felt that it lacked
authenticity, calling McCartney's contributions [music] for the
grannies to dig and not real songs and describing the medley as junk... just bits of songs thrown together.
Abbey Road Tribute
During the sessions, Lennon expressed a desire to have all of his songs on one side of the album, with McCartney's on the other. Nobody was entirely sure that the work was going to be the group's last, though Harrison said it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line. After the album was released, the Get Back/Let It Be project was re-examined, and work on it continued into 1970. Therefore, Let It Be became the last album to be finished by the Beatles, even though its recording had begun before Abbey Road.
By September 1969, after the recording of Abbey Road, Lennon had formed a new group, the Plastic Ono Band, in part because the Beatles had rejected his song Cold Turkey. While Harrison worked with such artists as Leon Russell, Doris Troy, Preston and Delaney & Bonnie through to the end of the year, McCartney took a hiatus from the group after his daughter Mary was born on 28 August.
On 20 September, Lennon formally announced his departure to the other Beatles, six days before Abbey Road was released. The single Something/Come Together followed in October, while Lennon released the Plastic Ono Band's version of Cold Turkey the same month. The Beatles did little promotion of Abbey Road directly, and no public announcement was made of the band's split until McCartney announced he was leaving the group in April 1970.
The cover was designed
by Apple Records creative director Kosh. It is the only original UK
Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title
on its front cover, which was Kosh's idea, despite EMI claiming the
record would not sell without this information. He later explained that we didn't need to write the band's name on the cover... They were the
most famous band in the world.
The front cover design was a photograph of the group on a zebra crossing based on ideas that McCartney sketched and taken on 8 August 1969 outside EMI Studios on Abbey Road. At 11:35 that morning, photographer IainMacmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo while he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the camera. Macmillan took six photographs, which McCartney examined with a magnifying glass before deciding which would be used on the album sleeve.
In the image selected by McCartney, the group walk across the street in single file from left to right, with Lennon leading, followed by Starr, McCartney, and Harrison. McCartney is barefoot and out of step with the others. Apart from Harrison, the group are wearing suits designed by Tommy Nutter. A white Volkswagen Beetle is to the left of the picture, parked next to the zebra crossing, which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio.
After the album was released, the number plate (LMW 281F) was stolen repeatedly from the car. In 1986, the car was sold at auction for £2,530 and in 2001 was on display in a museum in Germany. In 2004, news sources published a claim made by retired American salesman Paul Cole that he was the man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture. On the original cover, McCartney holds a cigarette; in 2003, several US poster companies airbrushed the cigarette out of the image without permission from Apple or McCartney.
John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940–8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded The Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960.
When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as Give Peace a Chance, Working Class Hero, and Imagine. After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon in Gibraltar, UK
At around 10:50 p.m. on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in the Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the archway of the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00 p.m. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying There is no funeral for John, ending it with the words, John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him. His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry FieldsMemorial was later created. Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life. In 2016, he was denied parole for a ninth time.
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