Ono had previously performed the song once with John Lennon and once with Sean Lennon and told the audience of thousands that she will never perform it again.

Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting, and asked her why other musicians " always cover Paul's songs, and never mine ".

Elton John once said, " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a song that I never do in a set at a concert simply because it reminds me too much of John Lennon.

Lennon had changed his mind by 1972, saying " I should have never put that in about Chairman Mao ".

John Lennon felt that they were not well regarded in Japan, but Beatlemania has never really died there.

In 2003, Parker collaborated with Kate Pierson of the B-52's and Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom to record an album of lesser-known John Lennon / Paul McCartney compositions that had never been recorded by The Beatles.

John Lennon said, " We never play to segregated audiences and we aren't going to start now.

Pang replied that she could never start a relationship with Lennon as he was her employer and married.

" According to journalist Jade Wright, " Lennon was fascinated by the power of slogans to unite people and never afraid to create art out of propaganda.

The Beatles never formed ; years later, when Elvis was bodyguarding John Lennon MP, Lennon would remark that he might've stayed with music if Elvis hadn't retired ( a twist on their real-life meeting ).

" This is a reference to the Victorian painter Edward Lear, who wrote nonsense poems and songs of which Lennon was very fond ( though Lear never wrote novels ).

Lennon said, " I've never seen rain as hard as that, except in Tahiti ", and later explained that " Rain " was " about people moaning about the weather all the time ".

The recording subsequently drew comment from the band: Lennon said " I was ill after the accident when they did most of that track, and it really ground George and Ringo into the ground recording it ", adding later " I hate it, ' cos all I remember is the track ... did everything to make it into a single, and it never was and it never could have been.

For example, " Mr. Moonlight " has a much quicker tempo, a guitar-based instrumental break, and an intentionally altered lyric with Lennon proclaiming he is on his " nose " instead of his " knees "; " Roll Over Beethoven " was described as " never taken at a more breakneck pace ".

Lennon, which never charted in the UK or US, was deleted from Lennon's catalogue in the late 1990s.

Other figures close to Lennon who refused to speak to Goldman or were not contacted by him claim that incidents in the book in which they appear either never happened or did not occur in the way Goldman recounts them.

Lennon snapped, " Listen mate, shut up about that stuff ", and " You're making me feel like I've never been born.

The song was written mainly by McCartney, though John Lennon claimed in an interview with Playboy that his major contribution was the middle eight section (" A love like ours / Could never die / As long as I / Have you near me ").

For instance, Lennon said in an interview regarding " No Reply ": " I had the image of walking down the street and seeing her silhouetted in the window and not answering the ' phone, although I have never called a girl on the ' phone in my life!

" Lennon in 1980 said " That was Paul's .... It was a pretty poor song and I was never really interested in it.

It was typical of how Lennon and McCartney would work in partnership, as McCartney later commented: " I had ' She was just seventeen ,' and then ' never been a beauty queen '.

With lead vocals by John Lennon, " Ain't She Sweet " reached # 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1964.

Although it failed to chart in the United Kingdom, Acoustic reached # 31 in the United States, becoming John Lennon's best charting posthumous US release since 1988's Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack.

The hotel reached worldwide fame when John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had been refused entry into the United States, conducted their Bed-In in Room 1742 at the hotel between May 26 and June 2, 1969.

In 1974, Ringo Starr covered this song ( b / w " Call Me ") for his album Goodnight Vienna at the suggestion of John Lennon, and it became a number six hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the easy listening chart in early 1975.

The song was revived by Frankie Laine in 1952, and subsequently recorded again in 1956 by Patience and Prudence, who reached # 4 on the Billboard charts with their version, and also by Lawrence Welk with The Lennon Sisters and the duo of Karen Chandler and Jimmy Wakely, Ann Shelton and The Duprees.

Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon was critically well-received upon its release and reached # 11 in the United Kingdom.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Lennon played this guitar for The Beatles ' famous 1964 debut on The Ed Sullivan Show ( as well as for their third Sullivan appearance, pre-taped the same day but broadcast two weeks later ).

Two new 325s were created for Lennon and were shipped to him while The Beatles were in Miami Beach, Florida, on the same 1964 visit to the US: a one-off custom 12-string 325 model and an updated six-string model with modified electronics and vibrato.

Rowley found it to be an " obvious copy of Bob Dylan ", as where Lennon refers to the listener as a " friend ", Dylan does the same on " Blowin ' in the Wind ".

John Lennon complained to EMI Australia at a meeting about the changes, but the cover remained the same until the album's release on compact disc in 1988.

During the same visit to Knole Park, Goldman produced the promotional film for " Penny Lane ", the reverse side of the " Strawberry Fields Forever " single ( during this same stay in Sevenoaks, John Lennon wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that would inspire the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !").

* September 15-A 1957 audio tape of John Lennon performing with The Quarrymen on the same night he met Paul McCartney fetches £ 78, 500 at a Sotheby's auction in London.

Being so closely associated with The Beatles, Black became one of a select group of artists in the 1964-5 period ( the others in the same position being Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and Peter and Gordon ) to record more than one Lennon – McCartney composition.

The A-side was an instrumental composed by Lennon – McCartney called " Thingumybob " ( the theme to a Yorkshire Television sitcom of the same name starring Stanley Holloway ).

In the same year, he organized what he called a Fame Exchange during the New York Avant Garde Festival, where he hired a group of admirers to follow him around instead of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Lennon was inspired by a song he heard the previous evening, Nina Simone's version of " I Put a Spell on You ", which used the same phrase but with the emphasis on the last word, " I love you ".

Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presley's " All Shook Up ", wanted something equally as stirring: " I don't know where the ' yeah yeah yeah ' came from I remember when Elvis did ' All Shook Up ' it was the first time in my life that I had heard ' uh huh ', ' oh yeah ', and ' yeah yeah'all sung in the same song ".

Young shot William Lennon in the parking lot of the Marina Del Rey golf course ; two months later he used the same weapon to commit suicide.

Lennon called his 18-month relationship with Pang his " Lost Weekend ", a reference to the film and novel of the same name.

In March 1974, Lennon began producing Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats album, thus named to counter the " bad boy " image the pair had earned in the media with two drinking incidents at The Troubadour: the first when Lennon placed a Kotex on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress and, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers.

Gruen called the local police precinct which confirmed that three other people had reported a sighting, and the Daily News said that five people had reported a sighting in the same area of New York where Lennon and Pang lived.

Lennon would complete his oldies album, which would be called Rock ' n ' Roll, with the same musicians he used on Walls and Bridges.

" From Me to You " featured Lennon playing harmonica in a Jimmy Reed-inspired blues style he had learned from Delbert McClinton, another American who was on the same bill with the Beatles in the early Sixties.

| Sandra Lennon of Byfleet, Surrey gave birth to her son Joshua in the beginning of 2003, at the age of 57 ½, after IVF treatment ; she will still have a second son, Alex, by same treatment, in October 2004.

At the same time, Herring, who some say resembled Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and sounded like John Lennon of The Beatles, developed a great interest in The Beatles and began writing original ( if somewhat derivative ) songs.

A regular bus shuttle to the Liverpool John Lennon Airport is available from the same location.