Beatle news briefs: a tour of the Lennon exhibit with Yoko Ono

May 8, 9:56 PMBeatles ExaminerSteve Marinucci

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  Yoko Ono (Caio do Valle/Wikipedia Commons)

New York Times reporter Allan Kozinn gets an advance preview from Yoko Ono of the John Lennon Rock Hall Annex exhibit that opens next week in this interesting article from the New York Times. The exhibit will include Lennon's New York City t-shirt, lyric sheets and clothing, plus a piano and his posthumous Grammy Award for "Double Fantasy."

Licensing.biz reports a new line of children's t-shirts with Yellow Submarine designs is on the way.

In Friday postings, we updated our lead item in our most recent Beatle news briefs on the newly revealed George Harrison poem with a more extensive and historically informative post that features a link to a podcast with Hunter Davies discussing it and a picture of the lyric sheet. We also wrote about a Liverpool cathedral planning to ring out "Imagine" from its bell tower and a look at the words most often used in Beatle songs.

Jude Southerland Kessler, author of  "'Shoulda Been There,"  the first of a five-volume historical novel series on John Lennon's life, is using Twitter as she works on the second installment. The new book, called "Shivering Inside," will cover John Lennon's life from December 1961 to February 1964.  It's due to hit the streets in October, 2010.  "Shoulda Been There" covered John Lennon's life from 1940 to Dec. 1961. Kessler told us how she uses Twitter to keep people aware of her first book and "hopefully, interest people in 'Shivering' and excite them about the upcoming book." She's on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/JudeKessler.

Playwright Tim Baker is researching "Yesterday," a play based on the night that the Beatles played the Assembly Hall on High Street, Mold, Flintshire in the UK on Jan. 24, 1963, reports the Evening Leader. If you have any facts that can help him, you can write to him at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Civic Centre, Mold, CH7 1YA, England.

This week's "Beatles Universe" radio show features "The Beatles in the Movies." The show also includes solo films and a look at "Son of Dracula" starring Ringo.The show airs at 9 p.m. ET Sunday on 94.9, The Rock (www.therock.fm).

The new issue of Maccazine (Vol.37, No. 1) features a timeline of events in 2008. For more information and a subscription, go to www.maccazine.web-log.nl

If you're in the Baltimore area, you have a chance to see "Yellow Submarine on the big screen this weekend. Baltimore Animation Examiner Brett D. Rogers has the details.

And SF Rock Examiner Sarah-Jayne Cauhault did a little digging into the background of "A Day in the Life."

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We noticed a new George Harrison tribute disc on Amazon.com called "Thanks for the Pepperoni - A Tribute To George Harrison."