John lennon new york

It was August 29, 1974, midday, and John Lennon, nearly 34 at the time, was up on the roof of his rented East 52nd Street penthouse. He had been at the Record Plant all week, mixing Walls and Bridges, his fifth solo album, and generally struggling to correct course after his first commercial failure (1972’s collection of mostly protest songs, Some Time in New York City). He was also recovering from his year and a half of carousing, most notoriously in Hollywood, while estranged from his…

After years of writing picture-perfect pop songs with The Beatles, John Lennon used the first album of his solo career to write with painful honesty about the forces that brought him to that point in his life. Much of 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was devoted to exorcising personal demons such as his troubled family […]

#JohnLennon at a photo shooting by Bob Gruen of the rooftop of The Dakota Hotel, 1974

36 Color Pictures of John Lennon on Streets in the Last Year of His Life ~ vintage everyday

I have always been fascinated by John Lennon, The Beatles and the guitars they played that changed musical history forever, for those of us who were there. I gathered these pictures and description…

In the latest Ben Stiller movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, one of the central components of the film are the enormous Life magazine covers scattered throughout the office where Walter works.…

John Lennon in 1974 wearing the iconic t shirt "NEW YORK CITY" Bob Gruen purchased this shirt for John for $5 off of a sidewalk vendor. (image source:BEATLES MAGAZINE page on Facebook)

A group of eight photographs of John Lennon taken by Bob Gruen for the Walls and Bridges album and publicity campaign. These prints were produced in