Image: John Lennon.

John Lennon's struggle for Peace and social justice inspired millions.
He spoke of the Power of thought...
and of how we can all act upon the world to change it.

TRIBUTE TO LENNON.

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“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.”
John Lennon

I Met A Man Called Lennon, written by "Poet";
arrangement and musical instruments by Effran Kaye.

Image: Dove of Peace

Image: Lennon and Yoko

Yoko Ono has unveiled a lighthouse in Iceland
in honor of John and hopes it will
serve as an important beacon.

The Peace Tower, 25-metres high, is on Videy island,
off the north coast of Reykjavik.
It's dedicated to peace and carries the words
in 24 languages of John's song "Imagine."

The waterside building is lit on John's birthday, (Oct. 9th)
and the anniversary of his death, (Dec. 8th).

The tower will also be lit on New Year's Eve,
for one week in Spring and on special occasions
agreed between the city and Yoko.

Yoko, now 73, hopes the tower will one day
permanently light up the Icelandic sky.

"This is an answered prayer because my first time
in John's house he talked about building a lighthouse.
I never knew how to conceptualize that.

I never believed this could be reality.

Someday this tower will be lit 365 days for 24 hours,
but for now I'm not pushing it.
Forever is a long time.

"I realized that, with contrasting the two symbolic dates,
it gives an understanding of the shortness of life,
and eternity of the spirit.
It reminds one how brief life can be
and is significant even for those
not into John Lennon's life."

Image: across the universe

Nasa broadcast the song, Across the Universe,
through its deep space communications network on
the 40th anniversary of its recording
at London's Abbey Road studios.

Converted into digital data, the music will be sent
on a 431 light year-journey towards Polaris, the North Star.
It commemorates the space agency's 50th anniversary.

Nasa encrypted the song and beamed it into space
from its Madrid transmitter at the start of
a 2.5 quadrillion-mile trip to Polaris,
where it will finally arrive in the year 2439.

The day it is sent - February 4th - has also
been declared "Across the Universe Day"
by Beatles fans across the world,
who play their own recordings of the song
at the same time as Nasa begins its own broadcast;
midnight in the UK,
7pm in the US,
and 1am Tuesday in Spain.

"I see that this is the beginning of the new age
in which we will communicate with billions of
planets across the universe," says Yoko Ono.

Here's a really sweet article about
JOHN's "LOST WEEKEND"...





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New York Times website

Image: lennon in cuba

CUBA HONOURS LENNON


IMMORTALIZED in bronze, seated on a bench in
the capital park on 17th and 6th Streets, in the
Vedado district, we can bump into John Lennon,
the famous popular music composer and leader of the Beatles.

The life-sized sculpture by Cuban José Villa Soberón
pays tribute to the most controversial of the
members of the most famous musical group in their era.
"My idea was to pay tribute to an anti-establishment figure,
full of his own demons and dreams," he affirmed.

Lennon comes across as relaxed and with a
meditative look that suggests an enigma. The
space beside him on the bench seems to invite
passersby to stop and talk for a while so as to
transform his internal monologue into a conversation.

His placing here, in the open air and in the
garden’s generally peaceful environment, seems
to respond to one of his strongest statements:
"Above us only sky…"

The tranquil neighborhood, perfectly coherent
with the silence of the former Beatle, is in
contrast with the enterprising personality and
vital energy of the famous Liverpool singer-
songwriter, and that antithesis is acquired by
the force of the suggestion that reaches us via
Imagine, the composition that, on account of its
essence, has become the veritable pacifist anthem:

"Imagine… there’s nothing to kill or die for…
Imagine all the people living life in peace…
Imagine no possessions…"

However, that place in which he exists does not
exclude him from company. He is hardly ever
uninterrupted in his meditations; teenagers,
older people, youth walking by… All of them
notice the inescapable presence of the artist.
Whether the spectators are Cubans or foreigners,
he has a way of making an impact on them all and
of convincing more than a few – as the plaque
with its own calligraphy has perpetuated – that,
while many say that he is "a dreamer," he is
"not the only one."

Image: Lennon in Cuba too an all

Singer-songwriter David Llewllyn,
of Welsh birth and Nashville,
Tennessee residence, is the
grand prize winner of the John Lennon
Songwriting Contest's Folk category
for his coal miner's lament
on the sacrifice of his child to
the life of the mine, "Take Us Down."

Hear the song ( and a few others )
complete lyrics and exclusive
interview here:-

http://americymru.ning.com/Wpage/page/
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