The Beatle Invasion

April 24th, 2008

Beatles Video - John Lennon Talks About Drugs

According to The Daily Mail, Yoko Ono is in court, battling to block the release of a documentary that includes footage of her dead husband, Beatles guitarist John Lennon smoking pot, writing Mind Games, and rehearsing Instant Karma. Apparently she has no problem with the content of the film, aside from claiming that it is […]

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April 10th, 2008

John Lennon’s Guitars Part Nine: 1964 Rickenbacker 325 Fireglo 1996 John Lennon Electric

John Lennon loved his Rickenbacker guitars. Read about his fourth Rickenbacker 325 below, or see earlier entries in this series on John Lennon’s guitars:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar.
Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E John Lennon acoustic/electric.
Part […]

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April 5th, 2008

John Lennon’s Guitars Part Eight: 1964 Jose Ramirez A-1 John Lennon Classical Guitar (with video)

And now another segment of my favourite weekly Beatles series, John Lennon’s Guitars. See previous entries in the links below:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar.
Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E John Lennon acoustic/electric.
Part Five: 1964 Gibson J-160E John […]

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March 30th, 2008

Beatles Track - “You’re Going to Lose That Girl” video

The sixth track off the Beatles album “Help!” is “You’re Going to Lose That Girl”. This is yet another John Lennon track about love troubles. Sometimes I wonder if that’s all he ever thought of. This one is lyrically unusually in that John is telling a friend to wise up. John threatens to take […]

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March 30th, 2008

John Lennon’s Guitars Part Seven: 1964 Rickenbacker 325-12 Jetglo John Lennon Electric 12-String

Part seven of this continuing series on John Lennon’s guitars has John venturing into 12-strings for the first time. See the previous entries in the series here:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar.
Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E John […]

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March 20th, 2008

John’s Guitars Part Six: 1964 Rickenbacker 325 Jetglo John Lennon Electric

Moving right along in the series on John Lennon’s Guitars, we have Rickenbacker, Gibson, Gibson and now, surprise, another Rickenbacker. See the previous entries in the series here:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar.
Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E […]

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March 15th, 2008

John’s Guitars Part Five: 1964 Gibson J-160E John Lennon acoustic/electric

This fifth part of the John Lennon’s Guitars series might seem like a re-run, but it’s actually not. See the previous entries in the series here:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar.
Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E John Lennon […]

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March 8th, 2008

John’s Guitars Part Four: 1962 Gibson J-160E John Lennon acoustic/electric

This is part four of a series on John Lennon’s Guitars. See also:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar here.
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar here.
Part Three: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar here.

On 10 September 1962, John Lennon and George Harrison bought identical new Gibson J-160E acoustic/electric guitars (acoustics […]

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February 28th, 2008

John’s Guitars Part 3: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar

This is the third part of a series on John Lennon’s Guitars. See also:

Part One: Gallotone Champion Acoustic John Lennon Guitar here
Part Two: Hofner Club 40 Electric John Lennon Guitar here.

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John Lennon’s most famous guitar was his 1958 Rickenbacker 325 electric. On the Beatles’ first trip to Hamburg in […]

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February 21st, 2008

John Lennon’s Guitars Part 2: Hofner Club 40 electric

This is the second entry in a series on John Lennon’s guitars. Click here for last week’s article about John Lennon’s first guitar, a Gallotone Champion acoustic.
While John had started The Quarrymen as a skiffle band, by 1959 he had lost interest in that style and was moving the band progressively towards rock ‘n’ roll. […]

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