Bookride: In His Own Write. John Lennon, 1964. RARE BOOK GUIDE - THE RUNNERS, THE RIDERS & THE ODDS 15 April 2007 In His Own Write. John Lennon, 1964. "Puffing and globbering they drugged theyselves rampling or dancing with wild abdomen, stubbing in wild postumes amongst themselves . . ." John Lennon. IN HIS OWN WRITE. Jonathan Cape, London 1964. Current Selling Prices $150-$300 /£75 - £150 HUMOUR / POP / BEATLES Lennon's first book. A very easy book to determine as a first, it says 'First Published in 1964' and that's it. No reprints must be mentioned. English whimsy, showing some influence of Professor Stanley Unwin (the above 'globbering' quote is a good example), Lewis Carroll, Spike Milligan and James Joyce of the Finnegan period.... The major acknowledged influence on Lennon's prose style was Stanley Unwin (1911 - 2002).

His 'Pidey Pipeload of Hameling' gives a good example of why the thinking man's Beatle dug the Professor:- Once in a long far awow, in the Germanic land, there was a great city with Grubbelsberg or something like that, with an Obermeister-Bergelmasty who was in charge. Now there they had a surfeit or rat-suffery, where all they used to creep and out and gnaw sniff and gribble into the early mord (and the late evage) there, biting the bits of the table, also the tea-clothers; and when people were asleep in their beds, so these rats would gnaw into the sheebs and also the whiskers of those who was dangly hoaver. VALUE? Just sold a bright, clean first UK copy on ebay for $298 (that's our actual photo) which is pretty much it. We got alot of emails over the 10 days asking whether it was truly a first or a 'first edition, first impression' even though we illustrated the edition statement and insisted it was the true first.

It is not ignorance but distrust - too many punters have been fooled into buying reprints that have been described as first editions either by crooks or dimwits, often both. To get anymore than £150 it has to be some sort of advance or review copy or an uncorrected proof or a signed presentation from the author. One signed twice by Lennon and also by all 3 other Fabs is on sale at £15000 and could well sell. The Spaniard in the Works from 1965 is worth about the same money if not slightly more. Meanwhile it is said that prison guards (screws) short of a few bob get John's assassin Mark Chapman to sign copies of his favourite book 'Catcher in the Rye' and put them on ebay. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Conspiracy theories abound including an attempted connection with Billy J Kramer and the NY block where John was shot -- Billy's group was called 'The Dakotas' (geddit?) --also Mia Farrow who was at Rishikesh with the mantra muttering moptops was in 'Rosemary's Baby' which was filmed at the Dakota building. Say no more.

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For more recent exchange rates, please use the Universal Currency Converter This page was last updated: Dec-18 10:42. Number of bids and bid amounts may be slightly out of date. See each listing for international shipping options and costs. John LENNON Home | Encylopaedia | Composers | LENNON John LENNON (1940-1980) John Winston Lennon was born on the 9th October 1940 and was brought up by his aunt Mimi who became his legal guardian. He still maintained a good relationship with his mother who unfortunately died when he was only seventeen. Her death had a profound affect on Lennon and he participated in Primal Therapy as an adult to try and come to terms with his grief. From an early age Lennon was obsessed with Rock'n'Roll music and was influenced by Elvis and Skiffle. His first band was called the Quarry Men. Lennon also proved to be a talented artist and wrote a book "In his own write" (March 1964) which was a best seller, selling 100,000 copies.

His "Walls and Bridges" album cover featured his own art work from when he was aged eleven. A second book was published in June 1965, "A Spaniard in the Works". He started his solo career in 1968 with the decline of the Beatles after the "Sergeant Pepper" album and the death of their manager, Brian Epstein in 1967. Lennon had already met Yoko Ono in November 1966 at her art exhibition "Unfinished Paintings and Objects" at the Indica Gallery in London. He was intrigued by her book "Grapefruit" and they formed a bond which was to progress further into a relationship in May 1968. Lennon was divorced from his first wife Cynthia in 1968 (with whom he had a son Julian who was born in 1963). In 1968, Yoko and Lennon recorded a piece of work entitled "Unfinished music no. 1: Two virgins". They both embarked on a series of activist and political ventures from planting acorns for peace to being outspoken on certain issues.

Their relationship was not regarded as a good thing by certain members of the Beatles and from some fans. Paul, George and Ringo became to get frustrated that Yoko was continuously at John's Side in the recording studio and at Apple business meetings. John and Paul began a bitter feud and in Paul's first album "Ram", references were made concerning John and Yoko. John retaliated with "How do you sleep" on his LP "Imagine" (1971). The Beatles "White Album" (1968) was released during the same month as John and Yoko's "Two virgins". The cover depicted the couple standing naked and was therefore sold in a brown paper bag. "Revolution" was recorded in 1968 by John as an observation on violence on the streets. He was the first Beatle to do live work with Yoko, playing at Cambridge University's avant-garde jazz concert. They married in 1969 and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam at a "Bed-in" which attracted much publicity. John was initially refused a US visa, but after changing his middle name he was able to enter America. They also carried out a "Bed-in" in Montreal.

They released "Unfinished music no.2: life with the lions" (1969). While at the "bed-in" in America, "Give peace a chance" was recorded and the song became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, credited to the Plastic Ono band. The Plastic Ono Band was intended to be a conceptual band. The Plastic Ono band was formed from Eric Clapton , ex-Manfred Mann bassist Klaus Voorman and drummer Alan White. A concert took place in Toronto and a live album from the concert was released "Live peace in Toronto" (1969). The song "Cold Turkey" was released which reached the top 20 in the UK and the top 30 in the US, along with another album "Wedding album" (1969). A Christmas benefit gig was played in London that year with George Harrison and Keith Moon and the single "War is over! If you want it. Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" was released. John gave back his MBE in protest of Britain's stance towards Biafra and Vietnam. John wrote and recorded "Instant Karma" with producer Phil Spector in a single day in 1970.

He even performed this single on Top of The Pops with Yoko sitting alongside his piano, knitting. In April of the same year, Paul McCartney split from the Beatles. The next release was the album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" (1970). The beginning of 1971 was taken up with legal entanglements with the Beatles and with matters of money. John released the song "Power to the People" and the album "Imagine" (1971) was also released which included the tracks "How do you sleep?", "Imagine" and "Jealous guy" which he had written in India and which became his first no.1 hit in both the UK and US. Roxy Music took the song to no.1 in 1981. In 1971, John and Yoko moved to New York and they were accepted by the Greenwich Village underground and became further involved in political campaigns. The next album was the live "Sometime in New York City" (1972) which included the single "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World" which did not receive much radio play.

John then had to fight the authorities to remain in America supposedly due to his previous drug convictions, however probably based more on political grounds. Nixon attempted to deport John and there was intense surveillance of him during all of 1972. The FBI considered John to be an enthusiast of the demonstations at the Republic National Convention. In 1973, "Mind Games" was released which did not quite reach the top 10 in Britain. It included the tracks "Mind games", "Meat city" and "You are here". In 1974, John split up from Yoko and moved to Los Angeles to make another album "Rock'n'Roll" with Spector. He lived with Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon and drunken sprawls often occurred while recording. During his "Lost Weekend", John jammed together a few times with Paul McCartney with whom he had made a reconciliation. He finally abandoned the project with Spector when Spector locked himself away in his home with the tapes and he released "Walls and bridges" (1974) instead which reached no.1 in the US. Tony King introduced John to Elton John , who was then one of the most popular artists in America.

He played his last live performance with Elton John on 28th November 1974, after the track "Whatever gets you thru the night" on which Elton had played, reached no.1 in the US. Yoko was in the audience that night and within a month of the performance, Yoko and John were back together again after a sixteen month separation. It was not until July 1974 that Lennon managed to retrieve his tapes from Spector. He managed to rescue four tracks and recorded the other nine tracks in just five days. "Rock'n'Roll" was released in February 1975. Yoko became pregnant with Sean in 1975 and John turned to matters of domesticity and music was put on hold for a while. He let his contract with EMI run out and he lost touch with the music business except for his close friends who visited. Elton John became godfather to Sean. John returned to recording after five years with the release of the album "Double fantasy" (1980) which included the tracks "Beautiful boy" and "Watching the wheels". His "(Just Like) Starting Over" was released as a single.

Work was began on a follow up album "Milk and honey" and a batch of new songs were being prepared to give to Ringo for a 1981 album project. On December 8th 1980, John Lennon was shot dead by Mark Chapman to whom he had just given an autograph . "(Just like) starting over" became a posthumous no.1 in both the UK and US. A back catalogue was also issued and the incomplete "Milk and Honey" was released in 1984. Since John's death, Jon Weimer (UCLA professor and author) has spent many years involved in a lawsuit to attempt to retrieve all the files that the FBI had on him. He has managed to obtain all but a handful. Essential Albums: John Lennon collection to be auctioned off - NY Daily News John Lennon's doodles, drawings and nonsense poems to be sold in New York John Lennon collection to be auctioned off REUTERS John Lennon’s “ You Might As Well Arsk” collection is estimated to be auctioned for $800,000.

(PAUL HACKETT/Reuters) REUTERS Sunday, March 23, 2014, 8:43 AM The largest private collection of nonsense poems, doodles and comic drawings by the Beatles singer John Lennon will be sold in New York in June, auctioneer Sotheby's said on Friday. Ranging from gibberish descriptions of Lennon's native city Liverpool, in northern England, to a drawing of a "National Health Cow" in an apparent jab at Britain's national health service, the collection reveals a lesser known side of the celebrated British singer, who was shot dead in 1980. The drawings and original manuscripts are part of the collection of publisher Tom Maschler, creator of the prestigious literary award the Booker Prize, who published them in two books, "In His Own Write" (1964), and "A Spaniard in the Works" (1965). The collection, named "You Might Well Arsk", has a pre-sale estimate of around $800,000 over 89 lots, Sotheby's said.

The sale coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first appearance in America on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. Watched by 73 million Americans, it shot the band to stardom. The drawings and poems all date back to the early 1960s at the height of 'Beatlemania', Sotheby's said. One of the unpublished typescripts contains a reference to the record-breaking British band's first single "Love Me Do", released in 1962. "The Beatles (a band) hab jud make a regord ... a song they whripe themselves called 'Lub Me Jew'", Lennon wrote in his characteristic gibberish style. "It's very much like Lewis Carroll. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' were two of Lennon's favorite books from childhood and he read them on a yearly basis," said Philip Errington, director of printed books and manuscripts at Sotheby's. Original drawings, poems and prose written by John Lennon, from the private collection of publisher Tom Maschler, are to be auctioned by Sotheby's.

(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) An autographed manuscript of John Lennon's 'The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffiled' is among the items to be auctioned off. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) A member of Sotheby's staff looks at an illustration by John Lennon entitled 'Vote Here' Friday. (PAUL HACKETT/Reuters) A hand written piece of prose by John Lennon for his book 'In His Own Write' is displayed at Sotheby's on Friday in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) "It is gibberish, it is gobbledygook, and yet it's funny, it's humorous verse." Not everyone was as convinced of their literary value. In a parliamentary debate in 1964, a Conservative politician, Charles Curran, used Lennon's nonsense verse to attack Britain's education standards. "He (Lennon) is in a state of pathetic near-literacy," Curran said.

"He seems to have picked up bits of Tennyson, Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson while listening with one ear to the football results on the wireless." Maschler tracked Lennon down at a concert after coming across the drawings and writings in 1962 and convinced him to make a book out of them. The New York sale will take place on June 4. Join the Conversation: Collection of John Lennon drawings, poetry and prose to be auctioned | Music | The Guardian John Lennon Collection of John Lennon drawings, poetry and prose to be auctioned More than 100 of the artist’s creations, previously owned by London publisher Tom Maschler, will be sold at auction in June, with Sotheby’s expecting to raise more than £78,000 John Lennon: a nine-page manuscript of The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield is expected to fetch about $70,000 Close This article is 2 years old A collection of more than 100 of John Lennon’s drawings, poems and prose writings will be sold at auction in June.

Sotheby’s are expecting to raise more than $130,000 (£78,000) overall for 89 lots of papers from the making of Lennon’s books In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works, with pieces sold anywhere between $500 to $70,000. The New York Times reports that this cache of whimsical sketches and playful literaria is owned by Tom Maschler, former chairman of the London-based publisher Jonathan Cape. Maschler was the one who first persuaded Lennon to compile some of his writings for a book, published in 1964, and then worked with him again for the 1965 follow-up. After an initial meeting in 1963, “I had to inspire in [John] the confidence to write and produce the drawings,” Maschler said in a statement.

“My relationship with [him] was different to those I had with all the other authors I worked with over my years as a publisher.” Though he was at that time just Jonathan Cape’s editorial director, Maschler went on to become the house’s managing director and chief executive, and worked with authors such as Gabriel García Marquéz, Joseph Heller, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan. Maschler’s auction items include everything from hand-corrected Mersey Beat magazine pages to Lennon’s drawings of a magnifying glass, “a tiny man” and a four-eyed guitarist. The centrepiece is a handwritten version of a short story Lennon described in 1965 as his longest piece of prose writing. The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield, published as part of A Spaniard in the Works, is a send-up of Sherlock Holmes featuring the sleuth Shamrock Womlbs and his trusty sidekick Doctored Whopper. The nine-page manuscript is expected to fetch about $70,000 (£42,000). Sotheby’s will be auctioning Maschler’s Lennon items in New York on 4 June.

In the lead-up to the sale, the items will be on display at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on 13-14 March then at Sotheby’s London from 21-25 March. John Lennon as writer and artist John Lennon as writer and artist Read next by: Peter Aspden At Woolton village fete I met him. I was a fat schoolboy and, as he leaned an arm on my shoulder, I realised he was drunk . . . Aunt Mimi, who had looked after him since he was so high, used to tell me he was cleverer than he pretended, and things like that.” That is how Paul McCartney described his first meeting with John Lennon in the introduction he contributed to In His Own Write, Lennon’s book of poetry, drawings and surrealist rambles published in 1964. McCartney’s piece was succinct and, of course, a little cute. “He left school to join a group called The Beatles, and here he is with a book,” the introduction continued. “Again I think – is he deep?” The typescript delivered to the publisher, Jonathan Cape, hints that rather more may have been required of McCartney.

But 1964 was a busy year for him and the group: a flurry of hit singles, The Ed Sullivan Show, the indelible changing of the course of popular culture. “Dear Mr Cape,” he scrawled at the top of the page, “there are only 234 words but I don’t care.” The original manuscript of the introduction reveals that “Mr Cape” did care, a little bit. On its other side, an anonymous hand has attempted to rewrite the piece, while another has crossed out some of McCartney’s original words. But the author had his way, and the short introduction was published as written by him. Today that same piece of paper, describing the genesis of popular music’s most successful partnership, has become a historical document, freshly up for sale at Sotheby’s for an estimated $20,000-$30,000. John Lennon talking to Kingsley Amis at a Cape party The rest of the parcel of drawings and manuscripts being offered for sale at auction in New York on June 4 is all Lennon, a man who turned out to be a lot cleverer, and a lot deeper, than anyone suspected.

They are being sold by Tom Maschler, the publisher who commissioned In His Own Write and its successor, A Spaniard in the Works (1965). He kept the original manuscripts from the books, given to him by Lennon, “in a drawer” for 50 years. They are estimated to fetch more than $1m. Nobody had imagined, in 1964, that Lennon had anything as bizarre as In His Own Write up his sleeve. The early songs of The Beatles, mostly written on the hoof to meet tight deadlines, showed little signs of lyrical sophistication compared to the musical audacity and technical accomplishment with which they were delivered. Young boys and girls fell in and out of love, held each other, missed each other, got back together again. But Lennon’s imaginative world was already inhabiting a more curious space.

At Quarry Bank High School in the Liverpool suburbs, he had produced his own “newspaper”, the Daily Howl, out of scraps of paper – “Page after page of one-line gags, eccentric wordplay, spoof ads, cartoons, and the first evidence of a lasting obsession with Negroes, Jews and human grotesques,” writes Mark Lewisohn in Tune In, the magisterial first volume of his biography of The Beatles published last year. As his formal schooling began to fall apart, Lennon, writes Lewisohn, enjoyed the ritual of taking the exercise book containing his jokes and doodles into school, “to be read aloud and passed around – and then, after being confiscated by the teachers, enjoyed by the Quarry Bank staff before John got them back at the end of term”. Those snippets formed the basis of In His Own Write, and they surprised the wider world when the book was published. Many didn’t get it. The Conservative MP Charles Curran failed to appreciate the book’s plentiful and deliberate misspellings and puns, and used the opportunity to attack standards of education.

“He has a feeling for words and story-telling, [but] he is in a state of pathetic near-literacy,” he said of Lennon’s efforts during a debate in Parliament in June 1964. “He seems to have picked up bits of Tennyson, Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson while listening with one ear to the football results on the wireless.” On the whole, though, the reception for In His Own Write was positive. The Times Literary Supplement wrote that the book was “worth the attention of anyone who fears for the impoverishment of the English language and the British imagination . . . the humorists have done much more to preserve and enrich these assets than most serious critics allow. Theirs is arguably our liveliest stream of ‘experimental writing’ and Mr Lennon shows himself well equipped to take it farther.” . . . Lot 89 LENNON, untitled ink drawing of a four-eyed guitar player Speaking in his Holland Park apartment, Tom Maschler tells me he felt “curious” on the day of In His Own Write’s publication 50 years ago. Not just a little nervous, I ask? “Yes, I was nervous,” he confesses.

“But the only reason I was nervous is because I wanted the book to be correctly evaluated. I took it very seriously. I thought it was a work of art and, of course, I still do. But it was written by a Beatle.” He pauses, to add drily: “And everyone thought that no Beatle could ever write a work of art.” Maschler, now 80, has introduced a stream of prestigious writers to the British public, including John Fowles, Philip Roth, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan. By 1964, he was already acquiring a reputation for boldness and originality: his first signing for Cape had been Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, the UK rights of which he acquired for £250. But he was an unlikely figure to dip a toe into the nascent pop world and find inspiration. “I was not an enormous pop fan but I was aware of what was going on around me,” Maschler recalls. Curiosity led him to commission a book on popular music from the author Michael Braun, who one day in 1963 presented him with a handful of weird writings and drawings.

“They were done mainly on hotel notepaper, in scrawly handwriting, which I rather liked. I asked Michael who had done them, and he said, ‘John Lennon.’ I said, ‘When can I meet him?’ ” Maschler encountered Lennon two weeks later, at a Beatles concert for the group’s Wimbledon Southern Fan Club, and was plunged abruptly into the excesses of Beatlemania. “I remember the girls – it was 80 per cent girls – passing their programmes through these grilles to get them signed by the group. And then three out of four of them would faint! There were eight ambulances on hand to help them recover. I waited for an hour and a half, just watching these girls keel over!” It was unlike any other author meeting he’d had but Maschler and Lennon connected. They began to meet regularly at the Beatle’s London flat. “There were always kids screaming, it was like a zoo. I said to him, ‘This is insanity, come to my office,’ but he didn’t like going out because he was always mobbed.” Soon they were working together on a weekly basis. “I was doing a Diaghilev.

I was putting in far more time with him than I normally do with an author. He was unschooled. When the writing was bad, it was very bad. When someone like Ian McEwan goes off the rails, it might be for a sentence or two. But from time to time John would go right off the rails.” When Maschler talked of a contract, Lennon directed him to the group’s manager Brian Epstein. “I didn’t know what to say. Here’s this kid earning more money in a day than the book would ever generate! I came up with a figure of £10,000, and Brian said, ‘Fine.’ All he was concerned about was that I was the right person to work with John. I could sense he was very protective of John.” The book was published on a Thursday, and was favourably reviewed in most of the weekend papers. On Monday, Maschler found queues forming at the gates of Cape’s warehouse, booksellers desperate for more copies. In His Own Write went out of print within five days. . . . Lot 61 Lennon, 'The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield' Mark Lewisohn describes the Lennon manuscripts as “extraordinary”.

“We have his songs but this is another branch of his artistic expression. Some of it is in his own handwriting, written on hotel stationery: we have the ability to trace exactly when it was written. It is the archive in its purest and rawest form.” The differences between the versions of the stories and poems in the manuscripts, and the final versions contained in the books, are telling. Any references to The Beatles are excised, confirming Maschler’s stated wish to separate the writer from the pop star. This was an age that evidently preferred integrity to opportunism. One of the rejected pieces is a “news” item announcing the group’s first single: “A sog they whripe themselves called Lub Me Jew. The Beagles (Johb Paub, Georb and Rigo) hop to sell maby coddies of it. God luck lads . . . ” Other excisions are surprisingly prudish. On a mock letter, which satirises pop fanzines, Lennon signs off with an innuendo: “Your hardened admirer”, which prompts a blunt response from an editor: “Glib smut”.

An absurdist agony column didn’t make it to the book, for its less-than-wholesome advice: “Jealousy can wreck a marriage, try getting to know the postman.” The largest estimate in the sale, at $50,000-$70,000, is for a nine-page autograph manuscript of a Sherlock Holmes parody entitled “The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield”, from A Spaniard in the Works. The relatively neat writing testifies to a rare period of calm in The Beatles’ itinerary: a holiday in Tahiti in May 1964, taken just two months after the publication of In His Own Write. “I remember coming up with a lot of little phrases while he sat at the table,” recalled George Harrison of the holiday. “If anybody said anything it would go in the book.” “The Singularge Experience” was a strange and savage piece of work, revolving around the killing of a prostitute, murdered in her “happy hunting ground” by “Jack the Nipple” in revenge for giving him “the dreadfoot V.D.”. Lewisohn characterises Lennon’s “gentle spite” as a coping mechanism for dealing with his own discomfort.

For Beatles’ historians, a hard-set myth is dispelled: the phrase “a hard day’s night” was always said by Lennon to be an invention of Ringo Starr, uttered on the set of the as yet untitled film. But it appears here, in a story called “Sad Michael”, written before filming began. . . . Lot 81 Lennon, 'Oh dear sheep' Tom Maschler says that the principal reason he is bringing the material to auction is for the occasion to prompt a reassessment of Lennon’s drawings. “He is not very famous as an artist but he is really very good,” he says. His memory of Lennon is imbued with affection. “He was very wise, a mixture of immaturity and worldliness. We spent many hours together: I knew him but I didn’t know him. I was very moved by him. He was a very special person.” Lewisohn’s interest is more academic: he is already at work on the second volume of his biography, due to be delivered in 2020. He says the raw state of the manuscripts and drawings are compelling evidence of the hectic lives led by The Beatles at the time, and the ability of one of their number to carve out some personal space for himself.

“They were on the run and on the road at this moment in time. They couldn’t go out. You get a sense here of Lennon sitting in his room and going in another creative direction completely. He was completely switched on and on top of his game.” What bounces off the pages is a kind of restlessness, an impatience with the limitations of an admittedly spectacular day job. “I would imagine these were all done at incredible speed,” says Lewisohn. “John wasn’t one to labour over things. He needed to do something fast, and move on. He was capable of expressing himself very quickly in all media.” The archive also comes from a particular cultural moment. Those early reactions to Lennon’s work 50 years ago, from Tom Maschler but also from those reviewers who compared it to work by Edward Lear, Spike Milligan and Hilaire Belloc, were among the earliest attempts of high culture to engage with the pop world. Lennon’s work was a revelation: the man who helped write “I Want to Hold Your Hand” could also nurture demonic visions and a cruel sense of humour. There was substance beneath the shimmer, after all.

This was a surprise for a world in which sexual intercourse, pace Philip Larkin, had only just begun. But it was only a momentary state of innocence. Lennon soon reconciled the demons and the softer sentiments. Around the corner would be the songs that reflected his more shaded feelings: “In My Life”, “Nowhere Man”, the songwriting revolution that was “Tomorrow Never Knows”. The writer and the pop star became one, and culture was turned upside down. Peter Aspden is the FT’s arts writer Articles about John Lennon - tribunedigital-chicagotribune Was John Lennon right about Christianity? October 18, 2013 Contrary to what Steve Chapman wrote in his Oct. 17 column (“ Apocalyptic visions on the right ”), John Lennon never predicted that the Beatles would outlast Christianity. Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus (then), and Christianity will "vanish and shrink. " When it would vanish and shrink, Lennon did not surmise. In a sense, Lennon was right. The number of Americans who identify as Christians has decreased dramatically over the past 20 years, and in...

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Un total de 89 lotes, cuyos precios oscilan entre 500 y 70.000 dÃ³lares, producidos para el libro de 1964 "In His Own Write" y "A Spaniard in the Works" publicado en 1965, pasarÃ¡n... NEWS Reuters | August 23, 2012 CONVICTED JOHN LENNON KILLER MARK DAVID CHAPMAN IS DENIED PAROLE FOR 7TH TIME - NY PAROLE BOARD OFFICIAL NEWS John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction Reuters | May 29, 2014 By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - Original manuscripts and autographed drawings for two acclaimed books produced by former Beatle John Lennon in the mid-1960s will be sold at auction next week in New York, Sotheby's said on Thursday.

Eighty nine lots, ranging in price from $500 to $70,000, produced for the 1964 book "In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard in the Works," published in 1965, will go under the hammer. The event coincides with the 50th... NEWS John Lennon's killer denied parole for 7th time Reuters | August 23, 2012 Aug 23 (Reuters) - Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon 32 years ago, was denied parole for a seventh time, New York State's Department of Corrections said on Thursday. Chapman, 57, is serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life for shooting Lennon four times in the back outside the musician's New York City apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. His parole hearing was earlier this week. ...

FEATURES Review: 'The Dylanologists' by David Kinney By Jake Austen | May 23, 2014 Prior to John Lennon's 1980 murder at the hands of an obsessive Beatles aficionado, the most infamous rock fan was A.J. Weberman, a man who memorized every Bob Dylan lyric, taught Dylan classes, wrote Dylan books (including a Dylan-to-English dictionary), and most notably, spent the early '70s digging through Bob Dylan's garbage looking for clues to unlock his lyrics' secret codes. One day his digging led to a lengthy conversation with the folk singer, which Weberman transcribed and sent... NEWS John Lennon's first car on auction block in UK Reuters | May 10, 2013 May 10 (Reuters) - John Lennon's first car - a 1965 Ferrari 330 GT coupe - is going up for auction in England in July and could fetch up to 220,000 pounds ($337,950), auctioneers Bonhams said.

The Beatles star bought the blue Ferrari after he passed his driving test in early 1965, about the time the Liverpool band recorded its hit single "Ticket to Ride", Bonhams said in a statement. Lennon, who was 24 at the time, bought the car for 6,500 pounds and used it for... NEWS George Harrison guitar from Illinois fetches $657,000 at auction By Carlos Sadovi and Tribune reporter | May 19, 2014 A downstate Illinois man who was with the late Beatle George Harrison in 1963 when the music great bought an electric guitar at an Illinois music store was shocked to find out that the instrument fetched $657,000 at auction Saturday. "$657,000? Oh boy, I had that thing in my hands," said Gabe McCarty, 81. "It cost more than my house, I know. " Harrison, who died in 2001 at age 58, played the 1962 Rickenbacker 425 black-and-white electric guitar on 1963...

NEWS Manuscritos y dibujos de John Lennon, a subasta en Nueva York Por Patricia Reaney and Reuters | May 30, 2014 Por Patricia Reaney NUEVA YORK (Reuters) - Manuscritos originales y dibujos autografiados realizados por el ex 'beatle' John Lennon para dos libros publicados a mediados de la dÃ©cada de 1960 saldrÃ¡n a la venta en una subasta la prÃ³xima semana en Nueva York, dijo Sotheby's. Un total de 89 lotes, cuyos precios oscilan entre 500 y 70.000 dÃ³lares, producidos para el libro de 1964 "In His Own Write" y "A Spaniard in the Works" publicado en 1965, pasarÃ¡n...

NEWS Guitar bought by Beatle at discount in Illinois could fetch $600K at auction By Carlos Sadovi and Tribune reporter | May 10, 2014 Back in 1963, Gabe McCarty was living in downstate Benton and playing bass for the Four Vests when he got a call from a woman whose younger brother was visiting after scoring a hit in England. The woman was Louise Harrison and her younger brother, George, was visiting just as The Beatles were hitting it big in England. McCarty had just been laid off from his sheet metal job, and he and his band were playing country music and early rock and roll at... NEWS 25 years without John Lennon December 4, 2005 WHERE WERE YOU? An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City.

John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous perhaps of all of the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival." ENTERTAINMENT Lennon's doodles, drawings and nonsense poems to be sold in New York Julia Fioretti and Reuters | March 21, 2014 LONDON (Reuters) - The largest private collection of nonsense poems, doodles and comic drawings by the Beatles singer John Lennon will be sold in New York in June, auctioneer Sotheby's said on Friday. Ranging from gibberish descriptions of Lennon's native city Liverpool, in northern England, to a drawing of a "National Health Cow" in an apparent jab at Britain's national health service, the collection reveals a lesser known side of the celebrated British... ENTERTAINMENT John Lennon's life ... through art November 28, 2008 We are constantly reassured by the buy-in. If you are a fan of a performer, they can do no wrong. Such as John Lennon.

Chicago is getting a visit from "This is Xmas: A Look Into John Lennon's Life Through His Artwork." More than 100 pieces of Lennon art will be here for three days. From sketches to free hand work, caricature and illustration, it will be a veritable Lennon fest. And this isn't just an exhibition, as select pieces will also be for sale (surprise!). And not only can you get a... TRAVEL The Beatles' Liverpool By William Hageman, Tribune Newspapers | February 6, 2014 It's the same barber shop where John Lennon got haircuts as a kid, the place immortalized in the Beatles song "Penny Lane. " But instead of "a barber showing photographs" and "a banker sitting waiting for a trim," on this afternoon proprietor Adele Allan is snipping away on Jillian Keig. "I didn't know why people were making a fuss, actually," Keig says of the early days of Beatlemania, now a half-century gone. "I remember the first record they did. … I thought they should pack it in. " ...

NEWS John Lennon Drawings On Display In Liverpool June 23, 1999 A collection of drawings by John Lennon that trace his life from the later days of the Beatles to the birth of his son Sean has gone on display. The permanent display of limited edition prints, unveiled Tuesday, is housed at Liverpool's Matthew Street Gallery, yards away from the site of the Cavern Club, where the Beatles once played. The prints date to 1968 and show the years Lennon spent with Yoko Ono, starting with their meeting, their famous bed-in for world peace at the...

Question: Who wrote the book "In His Own Write", published in March 1964, and the follow up, "A Spaniard in the Works", published in June 1965?
Answer: John Lennon