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Yoko Ono visited John Lennon's childhood home and school during a tour of Liverpool. Read more »

A porcelain lavatory which belonged to John Lennon has sold at auction for £9,500 ($14,740). Read more »

Eight digitally remastered solo albums by John Lennon are to be re-released in October, alongside three special compilations, to coincide with what would have been the singer's 70th birthday. Read more »

John Lennon handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song A Day In The Life have sold at auction for $1.2 million. Read more »

A monument honouring John Lennon is to be unveiled in Liverpool in October 2010. Read more »

John Lennon's life and legacy are to be celebrated in a two-month series of cultural events in the city of Liverpool. Read more »

A special screening of Nowhere Boy, the biopic of John Lennon's teenage years, was held at the famous Studio Two at Abbey Road Studios on 30 November 2009. Read more »

Details for the soundtrack to Nowhere Boy, the forthcoming John Lennon biopic, have been announced. Read more »

The first trailer for the forthcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy has been released. Read more »

Lucy Vodden, who helped inspire The Beatles' song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died at the age of 46. Read more »

A 1958 Hofner Senator guitar previously owned by John Lennon has sold for £205,250 (337,226) at auction. Read more »

John Lennon's former girlfriend, May Pang, visited the Beatle's childhood home during a visit to the city. Read more »

A new exhibition featuring works by John Lennon is to open at The Dome in Edinburgh. Read more »

A rough mix of The Beatles' Revolution 1, which reveals how the latter song evolved into Revolution 9, has surfaced on the internet. Read more »

A Vatican newspaper has forgiven John Lennon for claiming in 1966 that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Read more »

Artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood is to direct Nowhere Boy, a film about the life of John Lennon. Read more »

A new film depicting the early life of John Lennon is to be made, based on a book written by his half sister Julia Baird. Read more »

To mark the 60th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, remixed versions of his solo albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Double Fantasy were released in the United Kingdom.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band contained bonus tracks Power To The People and Do The Oz, as well as extra photographs and reproductions of handwritten lyrics.

Double Fantasy had bonus tracks Walking On Thin Ice, the previously unreleased Help Me To Help Myself, and dialogue between Lennon and Ono titled Central Park Stroll. Both reissues were released in the United States on the following day.

In Liverpool, a civic ceremony was held to celebrate Lennon's birthday. The event took place at Dovedale School, and guests included his half-sister Julia Baird.

Around 200 fans gathered around Lennon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. In Strawberry Fields in Central Park, New York City, fans watched five skywriting aeroplanes wrote the words 'Remember Love' repeatedly in three circles over Manhattan.

An exhibition of Lennon's work opened at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Tokyo, the world's first John Lennon museum opened at the Saitama Super Arena. Opened by Yoko Ono, it featured nine sections, each of which explored a chapter of Lennon's life.

MJI Broadcasting in the United States syndicated a three-hour radio special entitled John Lennon: A 60th Birthday Celebration. Hosted by Dennis Elsas, it featured interview with Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George Martin, Steven Tyler, David Crosby, Brian Wilson, Don Henley and Alice Cooper, as well as Lennon's friends Elliot Mintz and May Pang.

The show, which had been broadcast from 6 October until this day, also contained the world radio première of Help Me To Help Myself from the Double Fantasy reissue.

A six-hour tribute show was broadcast on the KGSR-FM station in the United States, beginning at 6pm. In an interview recorded in New York City on 7 September, Ono discussed the reissues. It was followed by the MJI Broadcasting show, and a two-hour tribute to Lennon titled Austin Celebrates John Lennon, featuring a number of Texan musicians performing his songs.

Elsewhere, VH-1 in Europe dedicated their evening programming to Lennon, with new interviews with Ono, a showing of the 1998 film Imagine: John Lennon, and a compilation of videos.

On the 58th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, Yoko Ono dedicates a tree in his honour at the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. Read more »

On the 50th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, his 1971 song Imagine is broadcast simultaneously by approximately 1,000 radio stations in over 100 countries. Read more »