IK! NEWS ARCHIVE
AUGUST 1999 TO OCTOBER 1999
(Entered October 25, 1999)
CIBO MATTO PERFORMANCE ON "SESSIONS AT 54TH STREET"
Sean is playing with Cibo Matto in a special edition of "Sessions at
West 54th Street"..coming up Halloween weekend. You'll have to check
for the exact time on your local PBS t.v. station - each station can play
the show at its own time, or possibly not air it at all.
To look up the show in your area go to
http://www.sessionsatwest54th.com/
and look under "Upcoming Sessions". Click on CIBO MATTO under October
29th then scroll to the bottom of page and click on "stations listings" to
find air-time in your area.
(Our thanks to ENNVOY)
(Entered October 25, 1999)
"The Giant's Chair" by Marc A. Catone is currently available online in Adobe
Acrobat for $ 5.95. Catone is the man who gave us "As I Write This Letter:
An American Generation Remembers the Beatles."
This new book is about Adam Chance, a 60's man who saw the Beatles at Shea
Stadium, went to Woodstock and was active in the anti-war movement. He wrote
a best-selling book, but now in the 90's, Chance finds himself middle aged,
divorced and suffering from writer's block. His therpaist suggests he keep
a journal to do a life review. He recalls sharing a pizza with Jim Morrison
in a Greek restaurant and reminisces about a transcendent conversation with
John Lennon in Central Park.
Adam's road to understanding himself contains a few bumps along the way,
but his journal becomes the path to renewal. Ultimately, Adam Chance discovers
an answer that has always been inside him ... a basic truth as old as time itself.
Here's an excerpt from the book:
"I experienced both joy and fear in a fraction of a second. I hoped
he didn't see my reaction and think
he was sitting next to an idiot. I took another quick glance.
Thankfully, he didn't notice my
awkwardness in recognizing him. Time stood still as he crossed his
legs and took a drag off the Gitanes
dangling from the corner of his mouth.
"It was really him."
Download from 1stbooks.com
(Entered October 25, 1999)
Thanks to Onoweb's Richard Joly
rjoly@CAM.ORG
LONDON (Reuters) -
Highlights from an upcoming auction at Bonham's in November is a Dracula poster,
Harrison Ford's trenchcoat from "Bladerunner" and microphones from John Lennon's
house. If you have a few spare thousand pounds, there'll also be the 1959
Les Paul Cherry electric guitar Rolling Stone Keith Richards bought in 1964
as well as a Beatles numbered White Album No. 000001.
Can't afford those items? Cheaper items include punk bondage clothes from
the Sex Pistols, signed Andy Warhol prints, photos, posters and autographs
with estimated values of between 40 and 500 pounds.
($1-.6019 Pound)
(Entered October 15, 1999)
Threeways Publishing will be printing a book about John Lennon near the end of
January 2000 and you are invited to contribute. The book will consist of tributes
to and memories of John by fans. You can write how John affected your life,
what you most remember about him, where were you when you heard of his death.
The book will be a hardcover, numbered special edition. For more information,
contact Caroline Beynon at
lennon@threeways.netlineuk.net
(Entered October 8, 1999)
CANNES (Billboard) - A new film containing previously unreleased footage of John
Lennon at work in his recording studio will soon be making its way to television
viewers around the world and to DVD late next year. The 56-minute film,
"Gimme Some Truth," was taken from hundreds of hours of 16mm film
shot while John was recording the 1971 album "Imagine," his most
acclaimed solo work after the breakup of the Beatles. The sessions took place in the
recording studio John built in his estate in Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, England.
Fragments of the film, such as the clip of John playing "Imagine" on
his white piano, have been seen before, but the bulk of it has been sitting in the
archive of Yoko until now. Directed by Andrew Solt,
"Gimme Some Truth," was only completed last week and shown for the
first time Tuesday at the MIPCOM convention.
(Thanks to Larry McGahey for contributing this news story)
(Entered October 3, 1999)
Richard Joly reports to IK! that there is now a new "Lennon Street" in Rome
in the Laurentino neighborhood. The streets there are being newly-built. Rome
has apparently been going through a renovating boom after the first
democratic election of a mayor in that city and in celebration of the Year 2000.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/991001/1/6inp.html
(Entered October 3, 1999)
Cibo Matto Photo from "Teen People" by Jill Greenberg
Cibo Matto was scheduled to appear on "Sessions at West 54th Street" this past week.
This program will air on your local PBS station, whenever they feel like airing it,
so check your local listings. We contacted our local PBS station and were told
they would not be airing this episode until October 31.
(Entered October 3, 1999)
WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1999--ZineZone
http://www.zinezone.com
in cooperation with Rhino Records
http://www.rhino.com
has announced it is the first Internet site to Webcast video
excerpts from "The Mike Douglas Show with John Lennon and Yoko Ono," a
five episode series of television interviews with Mike Douglas,
co-hosted by John and Yoko, available on video only through Rhino Home
Video.
ZineZone is Webcasting video clips from the five
days of television interviews and provide the text of the interview
transcripts. In addition, fans will have access to a biography,
timeline, discography and links to purchase the full-length tapes
online, either individually or as a set. To ensure the highest quality
virtual experience, ZineZone will employ a combination of the latest
technology including video and audio streaming, Macromedia Flash and
Echo retrieval and filtering software.
Read the entire ZineZone news release
here .
(Entered October 1, 1999)
"I Am the Walrus" sold at the Christie's Pop Auction on September 30, 1999 for
$129,200, considerably higher than the estimate of $115,300. The song lyrics - scrawled
by John in ink, full of corrections, incomplete and often illegible - went to an anonymous
telephone bidder. Sarah Hodgson, the pop music specialist at Christie's said, "There was
a good turnout. A lot of people just came to watch, but we've very happy. The auction
raised a total of almost 450,000 pounds ($750,000)."
Among the other Beatle items that went for big bucks were a 1962 Rickenbacker guitar owned
by George Harrison that sold for $95,000 to an anonymous bidder; a handwritten letter
sent by John to a friend in 1962 was bought by the Hard Rock Cafe for $13,400.
Paul Wane, whose mail order service deals only Beatles memorabilia said about the
fast and furious bidding: "The Beatles are the only group you can be relatively sure of.
With all the other groups, it's a bit fickle, but the cost of Beatles stuff in good
condition is going through the roof." Yasuhiro Honda, another Beatles dealer who hosts
a weekly program about the group in Japan agreed. "It's so expensive. I bought
some Beateles autographs today, and I spent a bit more than I wanted to."
(Entered October 1, 1999)
Steve Marinucci (Abbeyrd's Beatles Page )
reported to the Ono-Net that "How I Won the War" will air on Turner Classic
Movies at 9AM ET/6AM PT October 16. The movie will be shown in letter-boxed
format. Older fans will recall that John Lennon took a break from being a
Beatle to appear in this film. A very big deal was made of the fact that he
got a non-Beatle haircut to play Pvt. Gripweed.
(Entered September 28, 1999)
'Walrus' Lyrics Up For Auction
LONDON (News Story Edited from Reuters) - One page of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for
"I Am the Walrus" is to be auctioned at Christie's in London Thursday and is
expected to fetch more than $115,300. The 20 lines in black ink are speckled with
corrections and deletions and differ somewhat from the final version, described by
one critic as "what might be the greatest Beatle song.'' With lines like
"Sitting on a corn flake, waiting for the van to come,'' the song provided
endless fodder for critics seeking a glimpse into John Lennon's genius. Richard
Goldstein of New York's alternative weekly Village Voice said John was inspired by
Lewis Carroll's poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter,'' James Joyce and comic book heroes.
"It is nothing less than a watershed in the Beatles oeuvre -- and in the culture of the
'60s. 'I am the Walrus' stunned even Beatles fans, since nothing quite like it had
ever existed before,'' Goldstein wrote recently.
The song also fed the "Paul is Dead" rumor in the 60s as some people interpreted the
lines "stupid bloody Tuesday'' and "waiting for the van to come'' as signs that
Paul had indeed been run over by a car. John said the song had been written while
he was on an acid trip or was inspired by the wailing of a police siren. In a later
song, "Glass Onion,'' he teased: "Here's a clue for you. The Walrus was Paul.''
Christie's thinks the sale will be a big hit. "We always get a lot of foreign interest
in Beatles' sales, especially from Japan where they are big Beatles fans,'' Sarah
Hodgson, a pop specialist at the auction house told Reuters. But closer to home,
pop star brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher from Oasis are said be battling over
which one will snap up the page penned by their idol and inspiration.
The John Lennon lyrics are the highlight of Christie's 300-lot pop and guitar sale but
there is much more for fans with money, including two reels of unpublished color film
shot in 1967 during the filming of "Magical Mystery Tour,'' expected to bring in between
$8,240 and $11,500.
(Entered September 19, 1999)
NEW YORK (Variety-By Richard Katz) - Aidan Quinn will portray Paul McCartney and Jared Harris will
play John Lennon in VH1's third original TV movie ``Two of Us.'' Paul reportedly has
approved of Quinn to play him in the film.
The film is set in 1976, six years after the breakup of the Beatles, when, according
to rock lore, McCartney paid Lennon an uninvited visit at his home in the Dakota
apartment building in Gotham. Though the meeting never occurred, the fictional
film explores the question of what might have happened had the encounter really come to pass.
It will be directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, whose credits include the Beatles'
final film together, ``Let It Be.'' Shooting is scheduled to begin in October.
Quinn's credits include ``This Is My Father,'' ``In Dreams,'' ``Practical Magic,''
and ``Legends of the Fall.'' Harris portrayed Andy Warhol in ``I Shot Andy Warhol.''
(Entered September 19, 1999)
Wall of Sound
reported that previously unseen film footage of the Beatles recording in London
in 1968 will be released along with the rest of the "Yellow Submarine" merchandise.
The footage is of the Beatles recording their song "Hey Bulldog" at the Abbey Road
Studios. It will be released to the media, but not for sale, Apple Corps said.
Commenting on the footage, Paul McCartney said, "We'd forgotten all about it. But
I think it makes a real cool video, it's very of the time. I like the moment when
I'm harmonizing with John, and he says something about a dog, and I just start barking,
I started being a dog."
The guitar that John was reportedly playing when he met Paul McCartney in 1957 was
auctioned off for $225,100 at Sotheby's on Tuesday, September 14. The undisclosed
winner in the bidding war paid $64,000 more than the auction house expected to get.
John was l6 when he purchased the Gallotone Champion guitar for 10-pounds. He was
using it with his band the Quarrymen at a Liverpool church fet on July 6, 1957 when
he met 15-year-old Paul.
On the neck of the guitar is a plaque which recalls what he was once told by his Aunt Mimi:
"Remember, you'll never earn your living by it."
Meanwhile, the price of the drum Ringo Starr was playing the day he approved the
script for "Caveman" continues to hold at $32.75.
(Entered September 19, 1999)
Liam Gallagher of Oasis and his wife British actress Patsy Kensit became the
proud parents of a baby boy Monday, September 13. The boy was named LENNON
after Gallagher's idol, who else? - John Lennon. Lennon was born one month
prematurely and was delivered by caesarean section. Doctors at London's
Portland Hospital confirmed they were not concerned about the early delivery
and that the six-pound baby was breathing well and unaided. Lennon is Gallagher's
first baby, but the second for Kensit. Rumors have it that Lennon was born
wearing a pair of round eyeglasses and cracking jokes with the hospital personnel.
One more thing about the name thing: Liam's brother Noel also wants his kid
to have a Beatle name. He supposedly said, "Lennon's a great name. I'm calling
mine Ringo." Noel's wife Meg Matthews is due in February.
(Entered September 6, 1999)
John's death was listed as Number One in the Top 12 saddest events of the past 100 years on E!
Online's web site. The complete story is at
http://www.eonline.com/Hot/Specials/Century/Sept/01.b.html
(Entered August 25, 1999)
LONDON (AP) -- The guitar that a 16-year-old John Lennon was playing
with the Quarrymen the day he met Paul McCartney will be auctioned next month.
The meeting on July 6, 1957, resulted in the 15-year-old McCartney being asked
to join the band, which evolved into the Beatles.
The Gallotone Champion is expected to fetch up to $160,000 US when it is sold Sept. 14.
John bought the black-and-red guitar by mail for about $28 a month before playing at
a church picnic near Liverpool.
McCartney approached JOL later that evening as the group set up for another session
at the church hall. He impressed Lennon by teaching him the chords and words to Eddie
Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock.A few days later, Lennon asked McCartney to join the group.
(Entered August 12,1999)
SPIN Magazine's September 1999 issue named the 90 Greatest Albums of the 90's. Included in
the issue was the Top 20 Reissues, of which, Yoko's ONOBOX was listed at Number 14. SPIN called
the Box, "The coolest revisionist moment in rock history. Includes: roots of punk rock,
noise-rock, improv-rock, found-sound rock, tape-collage rock, world-music rock, womanist-rock.
Dig." We do. Dig, that is.
(Entered August 12, 1999)
Julian appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Wednesday, August 11, 1999.
He sang "I Don't Wanna Know" from "Photograph Smile." Wearing his customary sleeveless
shirt and a new short haircut, Julian came over to the desk to talk to Jay.
When Jay commented that Julian's is gaining recognition as he tours, Julian said
that his band members are being recognized on the road as John Lennon's son,
while he sits by unnoticed. He says every member of the band has been approached
by fans thinking they are Julian. A guitarist in the band who has red hair
and a red goatee promised to pay everyone in the band $25 if he was mistaken for Julian
since he so obviously does not look like a Lennon. Sure enough, on Monday, a fan
came up to the red-haired guitarist and said, "Nice to meet you Julian."
(Entered August 10, 1999)
Jon Wiener, author of "Come Together: John Lennon In His Time," has written a book detailing
his years of doing battle with the FBI to gain access to their files on John Lennon using the
Freedom of Information Act. The FBI doesn't like the book. You can buy it by going
here.
(Entered August 3,1999)
In an article about Cibo Matto in
the Philadelphia Daily News,
staff writer, Jonathan Takiff told about Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori's first Dakota invite.
Yuka and Miho were invited to mix a track for Yoko's "Rising" album, then were invited to
her apartment in New York City. Honda recalls it as "the biggest day in our life."
Then along came Sean, who Yoko introduced to the Cibo Matto duo and he started jamming with
them. And the rest is history. But for those who don't know the history, Sean played various
gigs with Cibo Matto, Yuka Honda helped produce Sean's album, "Into the Sun" andd he is currently
on tour with them as their bassist. Yuka and Sean are also a love duo.
Honda has good things to say about Yoko: "I think she's really great, pretty brilliant.
Just being Japanese musicians, we're very psyched about each other. She's a role model,
one of the few Asians out there. I love her art so much, love a lot of things she's done.
And I'm pretty pissed about how the world treated her. I think her art is brilliant.
They couldn't deal with it at the time. When they see something they can't deal with,
they deny. That might not be the best instinct to have."
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"I was so absorbed in feeding my squirrel friend that I barely
noticed the man who sat down on the
bench some five feet away from me. I gave him a quick glance and
resumed reading. Then my brain
registered the observation. If a camera had been filming my face,
it would have captured the greatest
double-take in movie history. For there, seated just a few feet
away from me, was John Lennon.
There is a nice color photo spread of Cibo Matto in the latest Teen People magazine.
(November 1999 edition) Sean is quoted saying about his work with Cibo Matto:
"Working on someone else's project, you can be freer with your imagination.
It's really fulfilling. When it's personal, it's easier to get critical of yourself."
(Entered September 18, 1999)
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