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Rock music is no stranger to controversy: here are some examples of album covers that were changed or banned for legal or ...

In 1980, two months before his assassination outside the Dakota Apartments in New York, John Lennon was gifted a Patek Philippe watch by his wife Yoko Ono for his 40th birthday. Ono purchased the ...

Inside John Lennon's Last Birthday and the Strange Saga of His Lost Gift from Yoko Ono That same year, he’d also begun working on his first album in five years, entitled Double Fantasy.

Few artists, however, wrote as fearlessly about their issues and inner demons as John Lennon. John Lennon was undergoing a kind of perfect storm of circumstances that informed the creation of his ...

A rare watch bought for John Lennon by Yoko Ono just months before his death is to be returned to her. The Patek Philippe watch, which is estimated to be worth $4.5million (£3.6million), was a ...

Lennon's watch is being held by the Italian dealer's lawyer, under an agreement that it can only be released to the owner designated by a state court. It should therefore return to Ono, now 91 ...

The former is an impressionistic collage of live streams from Andy ... to Warhol’s classic 1964 film “Sleep,” consisting of looped footage of the American artist’s lover John Giorno ...

When the great David Bowie reflected on the work of his friend John Lennon, he defined his influence as thus: “I just thought he was the very best of what could be done with rock ‘n’ roll, and also ...

John Lennon took inspiration for the melody of the song from George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby” that had been released in May 1974, before later topping the Billboard chart. According to John ...

A Swiss court has ruled that a rare Patek Philippe watch, gifted to John Lennon by Yoko Ono for his 40th birthday, does not belong to an Italian buyer who acquired it at auction, clearing the way for ...