John Lennon News

"Sure he was a freak who hung around with kids and monkeys but the man also had a talent so profound that it is hard to comprehend it." Neill O'Neill I CANNOT claim to be a hardcore Michael Jackson fan.

Record label mogul Allen Klein, who handled the affairs of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died in New York on Saturday after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, a spokesman said.

This article originally appeared in the November 17, 1995 edition of the Boston Phoenix .

Michael Jackson never did that much for me. His performances were childish and over-stylised. But the grief over his untimely death is genuine and impressive.

Within minutes of the Delhi High Court decriminalising gay sex, religious leaders across the spectrum were making statements about how homosexuality is against the will of God.

Now that Michael Jackson is dead-or to quote one of his album titles, 'HIStory'-an antidote is sorely needed to the gushing CNN and Fox News anchors I heard all last night and into this morning, eulogizing Jackson as if he had died on a cross instead of in his home of apparent cardiac arrest.

A surge in interest in Michael Jackson is forcing people around him to revise their initial assessment that his assets could be overwhelmed by the debts attached to them.

One of John Lennon 's guitars from the early years of his Beatles career sold for A 205,250 at auction yesterday, almost doubling its A 100,000 - 150,000 estimate.

Michael Jackson has outsold John Lennon and Elvis Presley in the week after their deaths, according to the UK's largest music retailer, HMV Group.

JOHN Lennon's widow has won a lawsuit against a group of collectors who disputed her rights to movie footage capturing intimate moments of the former Beatles legend.

Michael Jackson, the American pop icon and a household name in China who died Friday, had no substantial influence on Chinese pop music, a Chinese music critic said.

Afederal judge in Boston says Yoko Ono is the rightful copyright holder of rare, intimate footage showing John Lennon and his family in London in 1970.

Sometimes more than one famous person dies on the same day. If you're the less famous one, your tragic-death hype will be overshadowed by the tragic-death hype of the more famous person.

NEVER before... and if you are reading this, you are part of the statistics of the online frenzy that has captured the world with Michael Jackson's death.

A federal judge has found that the widow of John Lennon is the rightful copyright holder of rare, intimate footage showing the former Beatle and his family in London in 1970.

The scenes the other evening were all too familiar. We had seen them played out before.

Was the death of Michael Jackson one of those news events that will always remind you of where you were and what you were doing when you got the word? Will it be a memory like that of people who recall the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the murder of John Lennon? How did it strike you? When news broke Thursday ...

On Tuesday, dozens of celebrities began offering guided tours of Central Park highlights.

I'll admit, when I took a job writing about sports, athletics and athletes, Michael Jackson was way down on the list of people I ever thought I'd be writing about.

He recorded the best selling album in history. For a time, he pulled down $50 million a year, with an overall worth reported at $750 million.