"It was amazing, there were hundreds of people surrounding it.

"Everyone understood the message."

The instrument had never left Britain before.

George bought the plain-looking piano for £1.67m at an auction in 2000.

Was it you? - 25/02/03
Were you the lucky bidder that snapped up a rare musical collaboration between John Lennon and Mick Jagger for only £1,400?

The unlabelled acetate recording was made over 25 years ago, and was buried at the bottom of a box of records bought by Tom Fisher, who runs Rat Records in Camberwell, London. It cost him £20 to buy this box of goodies four years ago.

Mr Fisher celebrated his night’s earnings by saying ’It’s a pretty healthy mark-up, I can’t really complain’.

The track, a cover of the blues song Too Many Cooks, was recorded with Jagger on vocals, Lennon on guitar and Ringo Starr on drums in 1974, but was never released. The master copies have never emerged and are thought to have been lost.

A new Lennon dance hit! - 17/02/03
For all the people that were wondering if we would ever hear John Lennon’s voice again - I bet you weren’t expecting a dance floor smash.

Yoko Ono and The Pet Shop Boys have recorded a cutting edge underground dance version of John’s final song - ’Walking on Thin Ice’. It is the track that she and John were working on that December night when murderer Mark Chapman asked for John’s autograph - then later returned to shoot the Liverpudlian star.

Yoko has released the song previously, but this is the first time it has been heard with its new lease of life. The first public outing of the song will be at a New York club on the eve of Yoko’s 70th birthday - but she has been asked to perform it over here at electro clubs Nag Nag Nag and The Cock in London.

She said: "I’m very excited that people love the record. I’ve been asked to come over to Britain and play in some electro clubs and I think I will do that.

Visit John’s House! - 17/02/03
Mendips’ - which is the childhood home of John Lennon is finally going to be opened to the public from next month.

Yoko Ono bought the semi detached suburban house of Mr Lennon for more than £150,000, as she wanted it to be preserved the way it was when John lived there.She then donated the house to the National Trust.

John lived with his Aunt Mimi at the house from the age of five to twenty-three - often practising his guitar in the porch as Mimi couldn’t stand the noise!

Live in John’s house! - 09/01/03
The National Trust say more than 20 people have applied for the custodian job at Mendips - the suburban semi in south Liverpool where Lennon lived with his aunt Mimi. Applications have come from as far afield as Australia.

The legendary singer/songwriter’s widow Yoko Ono paid more than £150,000 for the Menlove Avenue property and then donated it to the National Trust.

She wanted to ensure the house - where her late husband wrote the early "Fab Four" hit Please Please Me - remained accessible to the people of Liverpool.

John Lennon moved into the house when he was five and was reportedly only allowed to play his guitar in the glazed front-porch of the property.

Mendips is due to open to the public in March and visitors will be offered combined tours of both it and Sir Paul McCartney’s boyhood home in nearby Forthlin Road.