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Blacks began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. The Current Issue, a Texas periodical, used the word as early as 1909, and that year a book on San Antonio remarked, with condescension, on “June ‘teenth’”. When did they start calling Juneteenth? Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some […]
Juneteenth is a portmanteau of two words — June and nineteenth. It refers to June 19, 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and the day that troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to free those who were still enslaved there. How did Juneteenth get its name? Juneteenth gets its name by combining both “June” […]
For many, especially in the southern United States and particularly in Texas, Juneteenth has been an emancipation celebration observed for generations. It commemorates the announcement of General Order No. 3, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. That day was when every enslaved person in the U.S. finally knew that they were […]
The Bed-ins for Peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held one protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. What does […]
According to the radio DJ, John Lennon said, “He’s like a brother. I love him. Families, we certainly have our ups and downs and quarrels. But at the end of the day, when it’s all said and done, I would do anything for him. Were Paul McCartney and John Lennon friends? Now, in his new […]
He spoke admiringly of Paul’s masterpieces, including “Hey Jude” and “Yesterday” (a track that drove John Lennon nuts in later years). But John wasn’t really making news when he called those songs classics. Did John Lennon ever compliment Paul McCartney? The track was, of course, ‘Here, There and Everywhere’. Sharyn Alfonsi asked Macca whether the […]
John Lennon wrote “How Do You Sleep?” in the aftermath of Paul McCartney’s successful suit in the London High Court to dissolve the Beatles as a legal partnership. How many songs did John Lennon wrote about Paul McCartney? Lennon wrote 61 songs credited to ”Lennon-McCartney” entirely by himself, and McCartney composed 43 on his own.
Some consider John Lennon’s last song to be “I Don’t Want to Face It” while others regard his guitar performance on Yoko Ono’s “Walking On Thin Ice” — recorded just an hour before his death — as his last recorded track. What song was released when John Lennon died? On the day of John Lennon’s […]
I’ve Got a Feeling, Paul McCartney (with John Lennon on the Video Screen), MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey; June 16th, 2022; Got Back North American Tour, (New York area).
McCartney was worked up over several things, amongst them an impromptu TV eulogy Hunter delivered hours after John’s death which Paul considered “dead tasteless.” “He became so jealous in the end. You know he wouldn’t let me even touch his baby. He got really crazy with jealousy at times. Were John Lennon and Paul McCartney […]