Just imagine - new memrobelia! - 24/10/02
Two never heard before music tapes of John Lennon will be auctioned next month. Fans of the former Beatle and collectors of John Lennon memrobelia will be lining up to bid for the home-made tapes - which were made during 1970 while John was at the home of Yoko Ono’s former husband Tony Cox in Denmark.

They are to be auctioned as part of Cooper Owen’s Beatles sale on November 19th and are expected to reach the dizzying heights of between £60-80,000. That puts me out of the bidding then.

Yoko unveils John Lennon Statue - 14/03/02
On march 15th, Yoko Ono and Cherie Booth Q.C unveiled the new John lennon statue, inside the new terminal of Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The statue is a 7ft bronze, sculpted by Tom Murphey. The ceremony will take place on the main passenger walkway in the Airpot’s new £32.5 million passenger terminal.

The unveiling completes the re-naming of the airport to Liverpool John Lennon airport. A selection of John’s own drawings are being exhibited in the main check-in hall, this is only set to run for a few days though, as then they are being shipped back to New York.

Liverpool is one of Europe’s fastest growing airports.

Yoko Ono has recently forked out a fortune so that a huge billboard in Picadilly Circus can read John’s immortal line ’Imagine all the people, living life in peace’. She’s put it up because of the current extremely violent political climate. She already has one up in Times Square, New York and has also had one up in Japan.

A very simple gesture, but rather a nice one.

Yoko buys John’s old house - 19/03/02
Yoko Ono has bought the Liverpool house in which her late husband John Lennon grew up. Ono is believed to have paid more than £150,000 for 251 Menlove Avenue, where Lennon lived with his Aunt Mimi.

She plans to donate the terraced house to the National Trust because she worries that it might be bought and exploited by someone who does not respect its history.

Ono said, ’I am thrilled that we have managed to buy John’s main childhood home. It is especially pleasing that we will be able to keep such an important part of John’s and The Beatles’ history intact and out of the hands of unsympathetic private developers.’ Lennon rehearsed with the Beatles in the house and wrote Please, Please Me in one of the bedrooms.

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