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BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Woman attacked and bitten at Nottingham Lost Weekend music festival
Police are appealing for information after a woman was bitten at a music festival in victim was attacked by another woman near to the toilets at the Lost Weekend event at Nottingham Moderns Rugby FC, in Main Road, Wilford, at about 16:45 BST on 14 Daniel Carter, of Nottinghamshire Police, said she suffered some "nasty injuries" and was shaken by the assault."We particularly want to speak to anyone who was at the event and witnessed what happened or has any recorded footage of the incident," he added.
CBS News
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
May Pang brings rare, intimate collection of John Lennon photographs to Sharpsburg
May Pang, John Lennon's lover during his infamous "Lost Weekend," has brought a rare collection of candid photos to Sharpsburg, showing sides of the legendary musician that have never been available to the public before. During a highly creative 18-month period of Lennon's life between 1973 and 1975, Pang took photos of Lennon that are now on display and available for purchase at Atithi Studios on North Canal Street. She was there on Tuesday and will be there Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Exhibition documents Lennon's Lost Weekend During the post-Beatles Lost Weekend, when Lennon was separated from his wife Yoko Ono and began a relationship with Pang, the couple's personal assistant, he wrote songs like "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" and "Rock and Roll," while collaborating with artists like Elton John, David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Pang also encouraged Lennon to reunite with Paul McCartney during this time, and she arranged for Julian Lennon to visit his father for the first time in nearly three years. One of her photos of Julian is on the cover of his latest album, "Jude." Before the show, Pang stopped by KDKA-TV studios to talk to Talk Pittsburgh's Heather Abraham and Boaz Frankel. She said taking photos of John Lennon started out as something she did for fun, but it came to mean something more. "It was only for us, it was our candid shots for at home, and you'd look at it. But as time went on, obviously, John asked me for one of the photographs after we split, and he said, 'we're releasing a 45 of Imagine and I want it for the sleeve,'" Pang said. Never-before-seen photos on display During this time, Pang rented a house in Santa Monica and moved in with Lennon, Ringo Starr, The Who's Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson. (Photo: May Pang) The exhibition at Atithi Studios includes photos from this period, as well as the only photograph that exists of Lennon signing the contract to dissolve The Beatles. It also has one of the last known photos of John Lennon and Paul McCartney together from March 29, 1974. It's the first time both photos have been available to the public. Pang remembers Lennon through her eyes Pang maintains that Yoko Ono gave her the green light to begin a relationship with Lennon, saying they were having problems in their marriage, and Ono wanted to do her own thing too. The photo exhibition shows Lennon as Pang saw him during the Lost Weekend. "There were times he was shy. He was very witty but he also had a sharp tongue. You didn't want to be in his way in case that happened. He was also naive," she said, sharing a story about a time Mick Jagger came over and shared a piece of gossip she knew but Lennon didn't. She said Lennon liked her taking photos of him. "John liked my eye on him," Pang said. "So he said, 'whatever,' he goes, 'carry on.' Because he looked at my photos and he goes, 'I like what you're doing, so just go ahead, keep taking them.' So I only took photos of us or Julian or everybody when I thought it was a nice photo that looked different from what you see." She said she didn't imagine that she'd share these photos with other people, but now they offer a glimpse into Lennon's life, just a few years before he was killed. "You're in the moment. It's not like 'oh I'm doing this or I'm capturing a time where, oh, it's going to be amazing.' It was just every day we were recording, and he goes, 'take a photo of this, I want this.' Or, you know, Julian's in town. And of course, it happens to be iconic times."
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sean Lennon says his parents John and Yoko were ‘the first power couple'
Musician Sean Lennon, the son of late Beatles star John Lennon and his wife, fellow musician Yoko Ono, has suggested his parents were the first true 'power couple'. John and Yoko are the subject of a new documentary from Kevin Macdonald that explores their relationship and work around the time that John was organising his only full post-Beatles concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972. The film, which was made with the cooperation of Sean, Yoko and the Lennon estate, includes extensive archive footage along with audio recordings of interviews and private phone calls. 'Anyone who pays attention to John and Yoko in the latter part of The Beatles, and then together through the Seventies, can see that my dad had this feeling that John and Yoko had sort of fused into one person,' Sean told The Telegraph in an interview this week. 'He had all these terms [such as] 'JOKO'! He said that they were one, and there should be one word: JohnandYoko.' 'I think a modern psychologist might say that [my dad] was a bit co-dependent,' he continued. But the reality is, he didn't want to individuate any more. 'They were the first power couple, like Brangelina or whatever. He wanted them to be an institution beyond just marriage and family. He wanted them to be an artistic union, a political union, a romantic union.' The documentary also delves into the racism and hatred Yoko received from Beatles fans and members of the public who blamed her for breaking up The Beatles. In 2021, Yoko appeared to agree with fans who suggested that Peter Jackson's three-part documentary, Get Back, had helped to dispel this notion, as archival footage showed her sitting quietly reading the newspaper or knitting while the band are at work. 'The thing with Yoko, though, that they have to say, is that she doesn't impose herself,' Jackson pointed out in an interview with 60 Minutes. 'She's writing letters, she's reading letters, she's doing sewing, she's doing painting, sometimes some artwork off to the side.' In an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music last year about the Grammy-nominated expanded box set edition of John's 1973 album, Mind Games, Sean discussed the influence his mother had on his father's work. At the time he was writing his fourth solo album, Mind Games, John was in the middle of his famous 18-month separation from Ono, a period referred to as the 'Lost Weekend'. 'A lot of people said like, 'Yoko wasn't around for this record, why are they featuring her in the booklet' or something,' Sean began. 'And I think there's a lot of history, there's a lot of assumptions made about that time period because they were sort of on their way towards that famous separation that people call the Lost Weekend. 'But the truth is, even when they were apart they were always talking, so I don't think they ever really broke up, all his stuff was still in the apartment with my mum. It's not like they had a real separation. And on top of it, all my dad was thinking about was her.' He pointed to the album artwork for Mind Games: 'It's a collage of my mum literally the size of a mountain, and he's this little tiny thing sort of fading into the background. 'And I think it's clear what his view of my mum was in his life. She was monumental, obviously. And the whole album is about her.' One to One: John & Yoko shows in IMAX exclusive previews on 9 and 10 April – and is in cinemas nationwide from 11 April.
The Independent
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sean Lennon says his parents John and Yoko were ‘the first power couple'
Musician Sean Lennon, the son of late Beatles star John Lennon and his wife, fellow musician Yoko Ono, has suggested his parents were the first true 'power couple'. John and Yoko are the subject of a new documentary from Kevin Macdonald that explores their relationship and work around the time that John was organising his only full post-Beatles concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972. The film, which was made with the cooperation of Sean, Yoko and the Lennon estate, includes extensive archive footage along with audio recordings of interviews and private phone calls. 'Anyone who pays attention to John and Yoko in the latter part of The Beatles, and then together through the Seventies, can see that my dad had this feeling that John and Yoko had sort of fused into one person,' Sean told The Telegraph in an interview this week. 'He had all these terms [such as] 'JOKO'! He said that they were one, and there should be one word: JohnandYoko.' 'I think a modern psychologist might say that [my dad] was a bit co-dependent,' he continued. But the reality is, he didn't want to individuate any more. 'They were the first power couple, like Brangelina or whatever. He wanted them to be an institution beyond just marriage and family. He wanted them to be an artistic union, a political union, a romantic union.' The documentary also delves into the racism and hatred Yoko received from Beatles fans and members of the public who blamed her for breaking up The Beatles. In 2021, Yoko appeared to agree with fans who suggested that Peter Jackson 's three-part documentary, Get Back, had helped to dispel this notion, as archival footage showed her sitting quietly reading the newspaper or knitting while the band are at work. Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign up 'The thing with Yoko, though, that they have to say, is that she doesn't impose herself,' Jackson pointed out in an interview with 60 Minutes. 'She's writing letters, she's reading letters, she's doing sewing, she's doing painting, sometimes some artwork off to the side.' In an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music last year about the Grammy-nominated expanded box set edition of John's 1973 album, Mind Games, Sean discussed the influence his mother had on his father's work. At the time he was writing his fourth solo album, Mind Games, John was in the middle of his famous 18-month separation from Ono, a period referred to as the 'Lost Weekend'. 'A lot of people said like, 'Yoko wasn't around for this record, why are they featuring her in the booklet' or something,' Sean began. 'And I think there's a lot of history, there's a lot of assumptions made about that time period because they were sort of on their way towards that famous separation that people call the Lost Weekend. 'But the truth is, even when they were apart they were always talking, so I don't think they ever really broke up, all his stuff was still in the apartment with my mum. It's not like they had a real separation. And on top of it, all my dad was thinking about was her.' He pointed to the album artwork fo r Mind Games: 'It's a collage of my mum literally the size of a mountain, and he's this little tiny thing sort of fading into the background. 'And I think it's clear what his view of my mum was in his life. She was monumental, obviously. And the whole album is about her.'
