Sunday Silliness

Monday Minutiae

John Lennon helped make Rolling Stone history - twice.

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published on November 9, 1967.
It featured John on the front page (there was no cover then) during filming of the black comedy How I Won The War, in which John played "Musketeer Gripweed", a soldier in a fictional regiment called the "4th Musketeers" in WW2.

John was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone many times, with and without the Beatles, but it was his last cover that would be most poignant.

Annie Leibovitz went to John and Yoko's apartment for a cover shoot on the morning of Dec 8, 1980. John insisted that Yoko be in the picture. Annie begrudgingly agreed. The photo that made the cover, featuring John nude and clinging to Yoko like a child, was breathtaking and is one of the most recognized John Lennon pictures today. John was killed in front of his apartment that night.

Thought for Thursday

It matters not
who you love,
where you love,
why you love,
when you love,
or how you love.
It matters only that you love.
~John Lennon





John and his Mom, Julia Lennon (nee Stanley) who died on this day in 1958.