Kenwood

Les Anthony, John's driver from 1965-1971, has died. The story goes that John was having problems finding a suitable chauffeur, and s...

Did I mention that I have been to etc.? One of the 3 areas I was most interested in seeing was bush related - specifically an attempt t...

Hello everybody. Firstly, thank you to all who have written/commented over the last 3 years, and apologies for the lack of response. I re...

You wait 50 years for a photo of John's sojourn in Marrakesh and then 2 turn up at once... so here's the second. On a theme of ...

Wot a splendid pic. Just yer average psychedelic family, friend unt felines out for a stroll on a spring afternoon. I'd guess this w...

Master bedroom, Kenwood. 36 years.

Sotheby's is currently selling a few candid snaps at a ludicrous price. Still, one or two interesting ones including this; almost ce...

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a major new exhibition in the works: "You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebe...

I am back up in the auld ancestral home at the moment, struttin' aboot in mi tither, etc.. Occasional downtime vis-a-vis the aforemen...

Some of this is on the blog already - but the real find comes around half-way through: the kitchen at Kenwood, on film! Yoko prepares some...

Sara over at MTBFR has posted this great pic of George in 1969, and asks which house it is. It's the living room at Kinfauns: G...

Regular readahs will know of my fondness for Pete Shotton's tome "In My Life", and so I am always interested to track down a ...

A small bit of John and a slightly bigger bit of Mimi, on the plane to Oz, June 1964.

Here it was, at 5 Somers Crescent, that George Martin lived for around 20 years, from 1966 on. According to the Beatles' London, &quo...

Yet more out-takes from the 29th of June 1967 session at Kenwood, and these two will be up for grabs at the Tracks auction in April. Nice...

Were ye to offer a wager that in, say, 1000 years time, the world will not have been burned to a crisp by religious fanatics/asteroids/&q...

From the pages of the Irish Independent, dated (errr... I'll get back to you on that one), found amongst Dot Jarlett's clippings ...

I've read it through once but remain engrossed in Lennonology, not least because it is full of little leads to follow. Here, for examp...

On the above date, in the apartment recently vacated by John and May, French journo Jean-Francois Vallee interviewed 'imself. I'v...

Sara over at MTBFR has posted a great (mainly "new") set of Kenwood pics. No point in me posting them all again here, but a co...

A seasonal quickie... unt why not? Then unt now. Funnily enough, what now abuts the "War Is Over" wall is The Japan Centre.

Friends, we are living through a golden age of Beatles research. Mr Lewisohn's magisterial All These Years is at the top of the heap, b...

Sad news to report. Elmbridge Council, in their infinite wisdom, have waived through planning permission to demolish Sunny Heights. A Russi...

These have been on here before, in sub-standard quality. Here they are again, much bigger unt better... Thanks to Joe Baiardi.

Way back in the summer o' '67, had you made your way to St George's Hill and utilised the naughty knocker at Kenwood, this migh...

This is great. John in the Dakota, ca. autumn/winter 1975, sharing his thoughts about NYC for local radio station WNEW. The programme this...

If you are interested enough to occasionally peruse these pages, then ye will no doubt already be aware of Chip Madinger and Scott Raile&#...

Apologies for the lack of activity round these parts of late; it's surprisingly time consuming to get even a scrap of this rubbish to...