News featuring John Lennon

The following news stories mention John Lennon. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated less than 2 hours ago.

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  • “Meltdown festival: Yoko Ono's choices”

    Yoko Ono, curator of the Meltdown 2013 festival of music and ideas, picks out some highlights

    "I am so excited with the line-up," says Yoko Ono, curator of this year's Meltdown festival, which takes place at the Southbank 14-23 June. "It brings together old and new, performers from my generation like Marianne [Faithfull] and Iggy [Pop] as well as cutting-edge groups from Japan like Cibo Matto. Plus there will be some amazing talks and discussions … it's not just a music festival, it is also about ideas and action."

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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  • “Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery'”

    He co-wrote the Beach Boys' Smile and now works with everyone from Rufus Wainwright to Skrillex. But don't dare to call him quirky, says Van Dyke Parks

    With his snowy white hair, neat moustache and spectacles that sit low on his nose, Van Dyke Parks may look like a kindly shoemaker from a fairytale but don't mistake him for a soft touch. Between songs at the Borderline in London, the 70-year-old mocks rock critics who apply words such as "smarmy, quirky, idiosyncratic: adjectives that have lost their special charm to me". When we meet in an empty hotel dining room the next day, he peers over his glasses and says: "Inevitably you will want to use the word eccentric in your writing. If you run out of quirky."

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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  • “In Place of War: Egypt's artists after the Arab Spring”

    How did Egypt's creative minds respond to the revolution. We ask six artists, and talk to the founder of In Place of War, a project that champions work born out of conflict

    James Thompson first had the idea for what would become In Place of War when he was working in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2000, during the civil war. Thompson comes from an academic and theatre background and was invited there by Unicef, which had received a request from Jaffna community workers for someone experienced in developing theatre programmes for young people.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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