John Lennon, who was a member of the legendary Beatles and songs like immortalized Imagine, will be an emotional tribute at Liverpool, the city where he was born September 1 October 70 years ago .
A benefit concert talks by those who knew the musician and a birthday party in the landmark Cavern Club are among the activities it has organized the birthplace of former Beatle to celebrate that anniversary.
The October 9, 1940, Liverpool saw the birth of one of its most famous sons, John Winston (after Winston Churchill) Lennon, the man who revolutionized the music of the sixties and seventies of last century with themes Strawberry Fields Forever as and became a legend when Mark David Chapman gunned down his life cut short at the door of his home on December 8, 1980.
In a year when we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth, three decades after his assassination in New York, half a century the formation of the Beatles and 40 years since the dissolution of the band, the tributes are continuing and commitment to Liverpool show that only this city knows: the origins of one of the greatest pop musicians of the twentieth century.
The festivities begin on Saturday in the iconic Cavern Club with a birthday party for the already sold out. There, between 1961 and 1963, the Beatles gave nearly 300 concerts in which honed their live performances, began to give fame to songs She Loves You as and met Brian Epstein, the manager.
A month before traveling to America for the first time in August 1963, the Beatles performed their last concert at the legendary pub with a promise to return someday.
Fame prevented them from returning to that stage, but a sculpture of a young Lennon to the club's entrance recalls the Beatles never got to leave the whole of Liverpool.
Lennon Before becoming a Beatle, in 1957, she began studying fine arts in art and design school in the city, the current John Moores University, which over the next week host a series of exhibitions with works of the artist.
This school is also buried a time capsule three recordings of Lennon, pictures and some memories, intended to preserve the legacy of the former Beatle for future generations, or at least until its opening, scheduled by 2040, the centenary of his birth.
was also born in Liverpool, Lennon's first son, Julian, as a result of the singer's marriage to Cynthia Powell. who inspired songs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds be one of the protagonists of this anniversary by opening with his mother's memorial "Peace & Harmony."
Julian and Cynthia, from which Lennon was separated in 1968 after beginning his affair with Yoko Ono, have also organized the exhibition "White Feather: The Spirit of John Lennon", with objects as Julian himself "reviewed the intimate and touching story of the family. "
The places of childhood and adolescence marked by Lennon, as the school where he studied and the house you grew up with her mother's sister, Mimi Smith, who took care of him when he was five years, may be visited in the next two months.
family Conferences and friends of the former Beatle, a film festival and a poetry contest round out the program of activities in honor of Lennon that will conclude with a mass concert.
has not yet been confirmed which artists will participate in the musical tribute to be held in the Liverpool Echo Arena, which is expected to attract over 11,000 people, but organizers hope that "Lennon Remembered" will be "a emotional and unforgettable night "for fans of former Beatle.
The concert will be held on December 9, when he met 30 years and one day the fatal shooting that killed John Lennon he returned to his home in the Dakota building in New York after doing an interview for a local station.
The murder took place just weeks after he published the album "Double Fantasy", which marked his return to the music scene after a hiatus of five years to raise her second son, Sean Ono Lennon.
The day he died, Lennon and Ono had been involved in a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz, who photographed them in a bed with a naked Lennon in a fetal position and embraced Ono. On 22 January, the instant the cover of the magazine "Rolling Stone" and became the emblem the end of one era and the beginning of a myth.
A benefit concert talks by those who knew the musician and a birthday party in the landmark Cavern Club are among the activities it has organized the birthplace of former Beatle to celebrate that anniversary.
The October 9, 1940, Liverpool saw the birth of one of its most famous sons, John Winston (after Winston Churchill) Lennon, the man who revolutionized the music of the sixties and seventies of last century with themes Strawberry Fields Forever as and became a legend when Mark David Chapman gunned down his life cut short at the door of his home on December 8, 1980.
In a year when we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth, three decades after his assassination in New York, half a century the formation of the Beatles and 40 years since the dissolution of the band, the tributes are continuing and commitment to Liverpool show that only this city knows: the origins of one of the greatest pop musicians of the twentieth century.
The festivities begin on Saturday in the iconic Cavern Club with a birthday party for the already sold out. There, between 1961 and 1963, the Beatles gave nearly 300 concerts in which honed their live performances, began to give fame to songs She Loves You as and met Brian Epstein, the manager.
A month before traveling to America for the first time in August 1963, the Beatles performed their last concert at the legendary pub with a promise to return someday.
Fame prevented them from returning to that stage, but a sculpture of a young Lennon to the club's entrance recalls the Beatles never got to leave the whole of Liverpool.
Lennon Before becoming a Beatle, in 1957, she began studying fine arts in art and design school in the city, the current John Moores University, which over the next week host a series of exhibitions with works of the artist.
This school is also buried a time capsule three recordings of Lennon, pictures and some memories, intended to preserve the legacy of the former Beatle for future generations, or at least until its opening, scheduled by 2040, the centenary of his birth.
was also born in Liverpool, Lennon's first son, Julian, as a result of the singer's marriage to Cynthia Powell. who inspired songs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds be one of the protagonists of this anniversary by opening with his mother's memorial "Peace & Harmony."
Julian and Cynthia, from which Lennon was separated in 1968 after beginning his affair with Yoko Ono, have also organized the exhibition "White Feather: The Spirit of John Lennon", with objects as Julian himself "reviewed the intimate and touching story of the family. "
The places of childhood and adolescence marked by Lennon, as the school where he studied and the house you grew up with her mother's sister, Mimi Smith, who took care of him when he was five years, may be visited in the next two months.
family Conferences and friends of the former Beatle, a film festival and a poetry contest round out the program of activities in honor of Lennon that will conclude with a mass concert.
has not yet been confirmed which artists will participate in the musical tribute to be held in the Liverpool Echo Arena, which is expected to attract over 11,000 people, but organizers hope that "Lennon Remembered" will be "a emotional and unforgettable night "for fans of former Beatle.
The concert will be held on December 9, when he met 30 years and one day the fatal shooting that killed John Lennon he returned to his home in the Dakota building in New York after doing an interview for a local station.
The murder took place just weeks after he published the album "Double Fantasy", which marked his return to the music scene after a hiatus of five years to raise her second son, Sean Ono Lennon.
The day he died, Lennon and Ono had been involved in a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz, who photographed them in a bed with a naked Lennon in a fetal position and embraced Ono. On 22 January, the instant the cover of the magazine "Rolling Stone" and became the emblem the end of one era and the beginning of a myth.
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