VH-1 will celebrate John Lennon's birthday by airing "John Lennon Live in New York"..the 1972 Madison Square Garden concert, plus they will re-run a famous interview. The tribute begins at 4PM October 9 with the concert film, followed by the entire 90-minute appearance of John and Yoko on "The Dick Cavett Show". The concert film will be repeated at 7PM. Also scheduled to be shown: a half-hour impromptu chat that followed the Cavett show. (From CNN)
It was reported on ABC News today that Yoko will take part in a book about the Beatles, which will be written by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr..and Yoko. The book is already being touted in Britain as "The Beatles' Bible." The book will not be published until next year, so we have lots of time for speculation!
(Entered 9/29/96)
JULIAN has turned out to be the mystery buyer of Paul McCartney's recording notes for "Hey Jude." Reuter's news agency reports that Julian paid $39,030 at a London auction house earlier this month. McCartney wrote the song for Julian, originally calling it "Hey Jules". Julian's manager, John Cousins, told the Sunday Times, "(Julian) is collecting for personal reasons. These are family heirlooms..."
In other auction news, CNN reported on their Hollywood Minute online site that "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" lyrics scribbled on a piece of paper by John Lennon, sold for $103, 000 at auction in London. Paul's lyrics for "Getting Better" sold for just over $250,000.
(Entered 9/26/96)
McCARTHY!!!! Tries Hand As "Deadhead"......OOOPS! USA Today's online Life section had a feature story about Paul McCartney's Grateful Dead movie, with a caption on a picture of Paul that called him "McCarthy".. as in Charlie McCarthy! Wow! Somebody's deadhead is going to roll!!!
It was reported in the September 20 edition of the radio station magazine FMQB Rock that Yoko attended a Beatles Anthology Home Video screening with Capitol Records biggies. A picture of Yoko with EMI-Capitol Chairman Charles Koppelman and Capitol President Gary Gersh appeared on the Daily Insider page.
"Yoko Ono: Fly" will open at Virginia Commonwealth University's Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia October 18. A series of Yoko's films will be shown October 19 and 20. On the 18th, members of the Anderson Gallery will be treated to a preview of the showing from 6 until 7 PM, then from 7 until 9 PM, the public will be allowed inside. It has not been announced yet whether Yoko will be there or not. Any IK readers who plan to attend and would like to file a report for IK, please contact me at mewing@up.net
(Entered 9/21/96)
Yoko has just launched a new website with "Grapefruit"-style instructions for 100 days. This is an interactive site - an instant way for Yoko to reach fans. Somehow we knew of all people, Yoko would take advantage of the amazing instant! feature of the internet age. This new site is located at http://dnp.sv.expo96.ad.jp/yoko/ This site has a very cool animation graphic of Yoko morphing from a young 20ish artist, to the more mature Yoko.
A second site submitted by The Museum of Contemporary Art has a great Yoko One Woman Show piece featuring flies. You can contribute to this piece quite easily and your contribution shows up immediately on the site. Go there: http://www.moca.org/
JULIAN TO RECEIVE CASH SETTLEMENT? After arguments and a threatened lawsuit by Julian, Yoko and Julian have reportedly come to some sort of agreement regarding his inheritance. There was no provision for any cash settlement in John Lennon's will (each of his sons had trust funds set up which would be due when they became adults), but Julian felt he had money coming to him. The will had been set up so that if anyone contested it, that person would receive nothing. Julian, however, will receive 20-million-pounds, according to an article in The Times (August 4, 1996) by John Harlow, their arts correspondent. Admitting that it might not have been wise for Yoko to have handed him a load of money several years ago (Julian said he spent much of the 1980's in a drug haze),Julian said, "It's not the money that is at issue here, but the principle." The Times also quoted Julian as saying, "God knows what would have happened if I had got that money 10 years ago. But I guess now maturity has set in to a degree and that's why Yoko and I are talking." Yoko has helped Julian in the past with financial difficulties, but Julian has always maintained he deserved to have a sizable cash settlement of his own.
(This article was posted on Ono-Net, 9/20/96 by Richard Layne)
(Entered 9/6/96)
SAVE ST. PETER'S CHURCH HALL..
We just received a news release from Liverpool Beatlescene and Yesterday
Once More regarding the razing of the Church Hall where John Lennon and
Paul McCartney met on July 6, 1957. At least 500,000 pounds will be
needed to restore the building. A final decision will be made this Fall
as to whether a fund-raising campaign will be launched, or the Hall will
be demolished. Jean Catharell and Bill Logan who signed the news release
from Liverpool Beatlescene said, "We all feel the powers that be at St.
Peters owe it not only to Beatle fans worldwide to ensure every effort is
made to save the building, but to Liverpool itself, (since in) years to
come, it will be of significant historical interest to those who will
still be discovering the Beatles' music and who may wish to visit the
place where Paul met John and began what we now know as the biggest musical
phenonmenon of the 20th Century." Fans are being urged to write to Canon
Rev. Roberts, St. Peter's Church, Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, England
to make your feelings known to him about the demolition of the place
where the Quarrymen played after the now famous Garden Fete.
HUH??
Yoko's "Talking to the Universe" cut from her RISING CD was included in a
sample CD attached to the rock music magazine HUH. Inside, there was a
brief paragraph about each artist represented on the disc. About Yoko's
cut HUH wrote: "Why does someone who's been a major artist since before
most of us were born want to rock out with her son? Maybe because she's
played with Ornette Coleman, been backed by Eric Clapton and Frank Zappa,
inspired everyone from the B-52s to Diamanda Galas. So let's get something
straight. Yoko's not just living off the widow rep. Uptempo reggae
lopestrums from Sean, tricked-out with hip-hop scratches? Why not? She's
done everything else. So what does the universe have to say back? Probably
something like: 'Cool. Your voice is still a trip, but I like the screaming
stuff, too.'" The other artists/songs on the CD are: EVERCLEAR/Heartspark
Dollarsign; ACETONE/I Don't Really Care; SPACE HOG/In the Meantime;
G/Z/R/Drive Boy Shooting; COCTEAU TWINS/Feet Like This; ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR/
Napoleon; LEVELLERS/Hope Street; PENELOPE HOUSTON/Fuzzy Throne; CRADLE OF
THORNS/Picture Perfect; VANGOGH'S DAUGHTER/Down; MADRADEUS/ O Paster;
EPPERLEY/If; LIFTER/The Rich Dark Sultry LRed of Hate/ BABBLE/Love Has No Name.
(Contributed by Jen Crawford)
At her Summerstage performance, also
in New York City on July 5th, Yoko didn't rip any pages of any books,
but a fan took it upon himself to do it - handing out pages of the
Bible to those of us near the front.
(New York Post article contributed by Eric Danville)