Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Anthony Dominick Benedetto – better known as Tony Bennett — may have been born and raised in Astoria, Queens, but his timeless love song to San Francisco would convince you he’d lived there all his life. Seriously, how could he NOT have left his heart in a place as beautiful as San Francisco? Well, the … Read more
April 24, 1976, marked the last night that Paul McCartney would spend with John Lennon. Paul and his wife Linda just happened to drop in on John and Yoko, unannounced, and the two former Beatles spent a few hours together in the Lennons’ apartment in the monolithic Dakota Building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Don’t … Read more
Each year on the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, his son Julian thanks his Facebook followers for their heartfelt condolences, and asks them to buck up, remember the good times, and not wallow in sadness. Right on, Jules. Even though I shed a tear each and every December 8th – the date of John’s murder … Read more
Imagine there’s no Billboard to measure record sales. No song’s the winner, no song ever fails. Imagine all releases treasured equally…. Imagine the most defining song of John Lennon’s career NOT reaching the number one spot on the Billboard charts when it was released in October 1971. I wonder if you can. Surprisingly, John’s iconic … Read more
It’s ironic that a tireless war protester like John Lennon would have ever accepted a film role as a soldier. But that’s just what he did back in 1966 when he appeared as Private Gripweed in Richard Lester’s movie “How I Won the War.” The film was an absurd black comedy about the misadventures of … Read more