Google for John

[Sharon W]

Check Google today, www.google.com/ for a nice tribute to John Lennon for his birthday - I thought of Nancy the instant I saw it.

[Roberta]

Thank you for starting this Sharon!

At the corner last night Nancy kindly offered me a ride down to today's Lennon birthday memorial at his star in front of Capitol Records, and I temporized but suspected without checking my calendar that I had too many other things scheduled today.

So with the memorial going on right now, I am sending my thoughts of John out to Nancy in Hollywood, and posting a link to a lovely article on John's deportation struggles:

articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/08/opinion/la-oe-wiener-john-lennon-deportation-20101008

The letters of support and other documents of the FBI and INS efforts (our tax dollars at work!) can be read at:

lennonfbifiles.com/

And since we guess we won't be in Central Park watching it tonight, info on the file LENNONYC coming on PBS next month:

www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/lennonyc/about-the-film/1551/

[Brian]

How beautiful to wake up on John Lennon's 70th birthday to Sharon's and Roberta's posts in this thread. Nancy won't be online until Monday, so in case she missed it: Google's homepage logo incorporated John's famous self-portrait alongside a You Tube connection. When you clicked on it, up popped a little animated video using the last 32 seconds of "Imagine." A touching, thoughtful tribute.

I've been enjoying all of the birthday buzz, including the reviews and videos of Yoko's two shows at the Orpheum downtown last weekend. Since I never bought any of John's original solo albums on CD -- I still play my old records -- I'm very eager to drop $190 for her remastered box set that came out this week:



Meanwhile, I'm remembering John while playing "The John Lennon Anthology." Yoko was the reason I finally bought a CD player in 1998. She put out that gorgeous four-CD box set of rarities, outtakes and demos by John, from the break up of the Beatles until the days before his death, but nothing on cassette.

[Nancy]

LENNON LIVES
Thanks to all of you at the Peace Vigil for remembering John, being so nice to me, being so nice & such great, great people. I love you & look forward to seeing you this Friday & - under much, much better circmustances - again & again - when people get it: WAR IS OVER.