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John Lennon 'resented having to be a Beatle' in the end, says son Sean Ono Lennon

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon says his father hated playing the fame game.

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John Lennon ‘resented having to be a Beatle’, says son Sean Ono Lennon

The 49-year-old said his father ‘wanted to move on and be a radical artist and activist’.

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The guitar Liam Gallagher destroyed on the night Oasis split is expected to fetch up to £500k at auction

Noel Gallagher's guitar which was smashed to smithereens by his brother Liam on the night the guitarist departed Oasis is set to go under the hammer.

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Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on the night Oasis split goes to auction

Noel Gallagher said the Gibson ES-355 was damaged on the night of the band’s backstage fight at Rock en Seine festival in Paris

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Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on night Oasis split up goes to auction

Red Gibson ES-355, damaged on night of 2009 Rock en Seine fight, being sold alongside acoustic used in Wonderwall

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The famous piece of Oasis memorabilia that could fetch £500,000 at auction

Liam Gallagher broken Noel’s 1960s red Gibson ES-355 on the night the band split

The Independent UK

Noel Gallagher’s guitar damaged when Oasis split goes under the hammer

The guitar will go under the hammer this October at Propstore’s music live auction with an estimated sale of £250k – £500k.

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“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

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“There's a tendency to misremember as ‘John Lennon was a rock ‘n’ roll badass and Paul was kind of like happy poppy guy,’ but Paul made the weirdest music”: Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney was just as experimental as any of the Beatles, and still is

“I went to his studio one time and he was literally like step sequencing a Moog keyboard to make the weirdest sounds I've ever heard," he recalls

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Harris Dickinson: Playing John Lennon felt 'frightening'

Harris Dickinson has admitted the idea of playing John Lennon is "frightening" because he is so iconic.

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Harris Dickinson All But Confirmed Which Actor ‘Humiliated’ Him Early In His Career

Let's read between the lines of this juicy interview, shall we??

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Harris Dickinson appears to name actor who ‘humiliated’ him on early film set

‘Babygirl’ star claimed an older middle to upper-class actor used a series of social class cliches to describe him

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John Lennon was a 'bully' at school

Tom Barry, who works as a teacher at the school in Liverpool attended by John Lennon, has revealed that staff tried to "remove any trace" of the late Beatles icon because of his misbehaviour.

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Why John Lennon’s old school removed any trace of him

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John Lennon branded a ‘bully’ by teacher after school uncovers Beatles frontman’s past

The former teacher added how staff did not want to acknowledge their link to pop history

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John Lennon’s school desk goes on display at Beatles Museum in Liverpool

Desk from Quarry Bank high school had been hidden by staff as teachers considered Lennon a ‘nuisance’

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“It’s pretty rancid! That brain mulching sound they put on vocals makes me feel slightly sick”: The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon isn’t a fan of modern pop music

He recorded his new album Abbey Road, but says that "I don’t believe that Syd Barrett’s hand is on your shoulder or John Lennon is guiding your fingers across the piano"

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“They basically declared war on him after these shows were broadcast”: When John Lennon alarmed the FBI after platforming radical political ideas in a week-long takeover of American TV

Lennon’s curated week of programming exposed viewers to some controversial figures - and drew the attention of the US government

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“I will never forget it as long as I live. I got to play Blackbird with him”: Paul Mescal had to learn guitar left-handed to play Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopic – but also got to jam with him

Mescal is set to star alongside Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison in the highly-anticipated four-part Beatles biopic

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Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’

Ahead of his new film Brave the Dark, the star of Mad Men and The Terror (and the son of Richard Harris) answers your questions about his favourite pub, feeling seasick in Hamlet and playing John Lennon

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John Lennon's killer Mark David chapman denied parole

John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole for the 14th time.

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John Lennon's killer denied parole for 14th time

The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 14th time

Evening Standard

Autograph book with signatures from the Beatles and the Stones to be sold

The autographs were collected by a 16-year-old who befriended a caretaker who worked at Salisbury City Hall where the Beatles were playing in 1963.

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Paul Mescal thinks it's 'crazy' to be playing Sir Paul McCartney

Paul Mescal thinks it is "crazy" that he's hung out with Sir Paul McCartney and will play the Beatles legend on film.

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Rearview Mirror at the Gagosian review: This glimpse of the Fab Four is really something

4/5 This collection of Paul McCartney’s photographs, taken over a two-month span before their fame took off, is simply fascinating

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