Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of murder. Reader discretion is advised. John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman, was a fan of The Beatles and a former security guard from Hawaii, per USA Today. Chapman, a YMCA employee, fatally shot Lennon outside his New York City apartment on the night of December …
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Here Comes the Sons. James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon, children of The Beatles members Paul McCartney and John Lennon, have teamed up to release their first single together, called Primrose Hill. Both McCartney and Ono Lennon are musicians themselves. McCartney, 46, is the son of Paul McCartney and his …
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I’ve always dreamed of seeing a genuine honest-to-God UFO. Like Fox Mulder of The X-Files, I really want to believe there’s something Out There in the maybe two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. My grandparents lived just a few miles from the location of the infamous Falcon Lake Incident …
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Thanks to the help of artificial intelligence, the Beatles are (kind of) getting back together. Paul McCartney told the BBC Tuesday that a new Beatles song is set to be released this year, and it will feature John Lennon’s voice. “When we came to make what will be the last …
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On the last Wednesday in August, the good citizens of Buñol, Spain, gather in the main square to throw tomatoes at each other. No one is entirely sure why, either. All most people care about is that it’s fun to pelt friends and strangers with tomatoes, so the La Tomatina …
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Beatles musician John Lennon and his peace activist spouse Yoko Ono requested Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1969 to allow abroad launch of an unedited movie on the aftermath of the U.S. atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stop the same “atrocity,” the Japanese Overseas Ministry’s archives present. …
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