Personal friend, Elliot Mintz, has written a book about the last ten years of John Lennon's life and his partnership with Yoko Ono.
The Tribeca Film Festival is ongoing, with both in-person and virtual components, and as usual, there are some major music documentaries. Here are three of the most notable ones.
Coda Collection, the channel will feature rare concerts and new documentaries as well as premiere films, alongside other music programming.
'Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes' is a new box set that will represent a retrospective of John Lennon’s solo career, featuring 36 tracks fully remastered from scratch.
It's official, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a box office hit and given Hollywood's never-ending copycat tendencies, that means we're about to get many more music biopics. So let's imagine an alternate world in which music rights are no object, nor is the necessary approval or control of surviving band members, and examine some music biopics that haven't happened yet, but should.
'Daytime Revolution' will revisit John Lennon and Yoko Ono's five-episode run on 'The Mike Douglas Show' where they discussed then-controversial topics.
This time around it's the 1969 music festival Toronto Rock'N'Roll Revival, which became best known for a rare solo performance by John Lennon (the first for the Plastic Ono Band), during his final days as a Beatle.
One is for the benefit of American Democracy, the other for the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and both compilations will be available on Bandcamp.
The auction was held online-only due to the escalating Coronavirus pandemic but that didn't stop it from fetching some incredible sums of money for the 250 Beatles items on offer.
