John Lennon

German police presented on Tuesday diaries, pairs of glasses and other items belonging to late Beatle John Lennon that were stolen from his widow, Yoko Ono, in 2006 and eventually ended up in Berlin. Police arrested a man in Berlin on Monday suspected of receiving ...

The Beatles' career as a live band came to a — literally — screeching halt in August 1966, when on their final American tour, the howling of frenzied female fans became so deafening they could no longer hear themselves play. Author Tom Wolfe, describing ...

Fifty years ago this week, the Fab Four played some of their final live performances in Tokyo. We speak to fans who were ‘swept off their feet’ by the visit.

100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 7, 1916 Aviation ace dazzles with flight over palace Aviator Art Smith carried out another flight yesterday afternoon. He flew from Aoyama at about 3 o'clock and steered his machine in the direction of the Imperial Palace flying at an altitude ...

A lock of John Lennon's hair that was snipped as he prepared for a film role has sold for $35,000. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Saturday that the 4-inch (10-centimeter) lock of hair was purchased by Paul Fraser, a United Kingdom-based memorabilia collector. A German hairdresser kept ...

Thousands of people joined Yoko Ono in Central Park on Tuesday to try to set a world record for largest group of human bodies forming a peace sign. The record attempt to honor Ono's husband, John Lennon, didn't succeed. Still, the crowd celebrated the upcoming ...

Yoko Ono joined an international cast of musicians and other artists on Thursday at the United Nations to kick off a project using one of John Lennon's best-known songs to highlight the plight of children denied rights. The song, "Imagine," calls for the abolition of ...

The argument over President Barack Obama's legal authority to defer deportations began 42 years ago with a bit of hashish, a dogged lawyer and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. President Richard Nixon was seeking re-election and Lennon was in New York facing deportation from a ...

It's all thanks to the Spanish ambassador, really. Angeles and I were at the Spanish Consulate in Fukuoka, Kyushu's biggest city, to pick up her new passport. By midday, we'd done the business, slurped our way through the obligatory bowl of Hakata ramen, and ...