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On this very sad day, 25 years after the brutal murder of a valiant human being important to all, The Rip Post offers this special page.


MUST LISTENING!
John Lennon 1940-1980: History Professor Jon Weiner Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why Richard Nixon Sought to Deport Him
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/08/1421215
LAST TEN PAGES OF LENNON'S FBI DOCUMENTS STILL WITHHELD
http://lennonfbifiles.com/pr120705.html


THE "LOST" LENNON INTERVIEW OF 1971
http://counterpunch.org/lennon12082005.html
"Of course, there are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything."

SEE "SHAFTS. . .BY THE LAMPLIGHTER" ON PAGE ONE FOR RIP POST LENNON COMMENT.

YOKO LAYS A WREATH AT ‘STRAWBERRY FIELDS’ MEMORIAL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10380857/
REMEMBER
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051208/LIVING/512080392/1007/LIVING
SOME AT LENNON MEMORIAL
CHARGE CIA WITH HIS KILLING

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4512224.stm


YOKO: JOHN'S PRESENCE
STRONGER THAN EVER

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity_interviews/97792004.htm

LENNON REVERED BY NEW GENERATION
by Bill King
Click HERE
"Because while Lennon may deserve his activist icon status on dorm room walls and T-shirts, it was always the music he took most seriously. And without it, none of the rest would have happened."

still a drag

by Martin Lewis
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/still-a-drag-john-lenn_b_11722.html
Paul McCartney's instantly-notorious first public comment on John Lennon's murder in December 1980 - "it's a drag" - was at the time held up as an example of gross insensitivity by an estranged friend. In reality it was the understatement of devastation.

BBC2 "LENNON NIGHT" CONCERT TO BE BROADCAST FROM BEATLES' ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS TONIGHT
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001614901
http://www.nme.com/news/john-lennon/21709

WATCH: CNN'S TRIBUTE
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/

‘IMAGINE’ DVD FEATURES NEW FOOTAGE:
NEVER RELEASED ACOUSTIC VERISON OF 'IMAGINE'

http://www.nme.com/news/john-lennon/20950
'IMAGINE' DVD HOMEPAGE

http://www.warnervideo.com/imaginedvd/
TWO LENNON ALBUMS REISSUED WITH EXTRA TRACKS
http://www.icemagazine.com/stories/225/lennon.shtm

Producer claims. . .
BEATLES WERE TO PLAY TOGETHER AGAIN
consider the source: Jack Douglas later had falling out with Yoko Ono
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1915287,00.html

Memories of John by those who knew him
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article331666.ece

JOHN LENNON, SON OF. . .EDINBURGH?
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2365672005
A JUBILANT but otherwise ordinary-looking schoolboy from Liverpool sits on a bus heading to Edinburgh playing The Happy Traveller non-stop on a harmonica to pass the time.

LENNON LIVES FOREVER
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/8898300/johnlennon?rssfeed=musicnews&rnd=1133980927046&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872

LISTEN: JOHN PEEL INTERVIEWS JOHN LENNON IN 1968
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/lennon/audiofeature.shtml


LENNON QUOTES
http://www.johnlennon.it/john_lennon_quotes_eng.htm


BBC RADIO SPECIAL LENNON SECTION
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/lennon/

LISTEN: TERRY GROSS INTERVIEWS BOB SPITZ, AUTHOR OF NEW BEATLES BIO
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029971

IMAGINE LENNON AS HIMSELF, NOT AN ICON
By Geoff Edgers
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/12/07/imagine_lennon_as_himself_not_an_icon/




LENNON, CONSIDERED
by Robert Sandall
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/03/bmlennon03.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/03/ixtop.html

HINDUSTAN TIMES: LENNON YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1565153,00110005.htm

NEWSWEEK: LENNON LIVES
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10115403/site/newsweek


“BEATLES BARB” COMMENTS
http://www.insidetoronto.ca/to/northy/story/3199449p-3705144c.html



LENNON SONGS TO AID AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/01/entertainment/main1091409.shtml
http://www.nme.com/news/john-lennon/21697

THE LENNON FBI FILES
http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/

PHOTO GALLERIES:
BEATLES ARRIVE IN NYC
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/photos/nyc-lennon-gallery,0,648895.photogallery?coll=nyc-fasttrack-top-utility
JOHN AND YOKO IN NYC
http://www.sohoweeklynews.com/Book/LennonOno/index.htm

ALL HE WAS SAYING. . .
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/performing_arts/13323576.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_performing_arts



"THE NIGHT I MET JOHN LENNON"
http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051207/LIFESTYLE/112070095
I was convinced the lads had had too much to drink and were being conned. ‘Get out, he’s not Lennon’, I told them. ‘That’s right, I’m actually ‘Arry ‘Arbottle’, said the pony-tailed guy.
“But he said it in the most distinctive, Liverpool accent. And I realised this was indeed John Lennon.


LENNON APPRECIATION SITE
http://www.johnlennon.it/#



THE JOHN LENNON MUSEUM
http://www.taisei.co.jp/museum/index_e.html

JOHN LENNON WIKIPEDIA ENTRY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon



THE LIVERPOOL LENNONS WEBSITE
http://www.lennon.net/

LENNON FAMILY TREE
http://www.lennon.net/familytree/familytree.html




There are places I remember
All my life
Though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
---John Lennon.

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