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Found Snaps Show John Lennon Playing Dead
- Posted on Feb 22nd 2010 5:59AM by Johnny Dee
Recently discovered photographs of the Beatles -- never seen before -- show John Lennon pretending to be dead in several shots.The pictures were taken in the summer of 1968, 12 years before Lennon was assassinated outside his apartment in New York.
Photographer Tom Murray found the series of 23 pictures -- which have become dubbed as Mad Day Out -- in an envelope while clearing out his studio. The session involved the Fab Four larking around at various London locations including Wapping Pier, Old Street and Waterlow Park. Now, the photographs, believed to be worth in the region of £300,000 ($460,000) are being displayed at the Three White Walls Gallery, Birmingham.
"From two rolls of film there are 23 surviving shots," said Murray. "The colours are astonishing and it's basically because the original slides were kept in the dark in an envelope for so many years."
Other pictures from the session show John, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr larking around by the river, sitting beside a sleeping man on a park bench and posing in a flower bed.
"We were originally heading for the Highgate Cemetery as the boys wanted to visit the tomb of Karl Marx," says the photographer, now in his 70s "But it was locked so we found this little park instead.
"It was an ideal location, the hollyhocks were in full bloom and the boys just ran into the flowerbeds and started to pull poses. It was just indicative of the whole day. Just them jumping in their Mercedes Pullman, me in my Jag following them and stopping off wherever we fancied to take a picture. It was so off-the-cuff and relaxed."
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STORMLEWIS
THE GOVERNMENT PUT CHAPMAN UP TO KILLING LENNON SINCE THEY COULDNT GET HIM DEPORTED...
NIXON/REAGAN PARANOIA.....AND BUSH WAS HEAD OF THE CIA...
Carmarger
1 reply to Carmarger's comment
Rich, Lisa, and Winston: It was actually Paul McCartney who said that John was more of a follower than many people knew about. Since then, I've read several articles which concurred with what Paul said. I would have to believe that Paul, along with any of the other Beatles who knew this to be a fact, wouldn't just put it out there with any kind of malice toward John. Yes, The Beatles' audience was far more vast than that of Jesus, but commom sense dictates that our civilization has grown, thereby, letting The Beatles' music reach far beyond anything at all that may have occurred two thousand years ago.
February 22 2010 at 5:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
MEJ
Paul McCartney is immensely concerned with his place in Beatles history (songwriting credits controversy, anyone?). If you read his autobiography, it is consists largely of "you thought John did this? well it wasn't really him, it was me". It would make perfect sense that he should call John a follower, when he, himself, is trying to write in history of himself as the leader, in every sense of the word.
April 07 2010 at 7:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Jimbo
Big deal. Just months before his death in 1955, James Dean posed in a coffin with his hands crossed on his chest. Now THAT was eerie...and prescient.
February 22 2010 at 4:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jidichand1080
mike:....Jesus Christ, at least put the comment about "Jesus Christ" into its' context and maybe, just maybe you will understand what the man said - and be able to step away from the southern-fired baboon intellect which caused the "uproar" in the first place....
February 22 2010 at 3:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Dale
GREATEST GROUP THAT EVER WAS OR EVER WILL BE !!!
February 22 2010 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
charlesharris53
i am really amazed that aol has this comment board open since the fbi was watching lennon as a revolutionary. i guess lennon was right after all. the thing is its been 3 months that aol said the comment boards are under construction. i guess mark lloyd, obamas hugo chavez loving media czar, is getting their way. these comment boards allowed some people, with common sense, to have a sensible conversation. notice i SAID people with common sense, not the brain dead ones. YOU WERE RIGHT JOHN LENNON.
February 22 2010 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
toysax
Having been a Beatles fan through my teens in the 60's and well into the 70's.. I can say that Lennon would have thought this all much ado about nothing... gossip fraks love to come out of the closet on this stuff... RIP.. he was a kid playing guitar.. at the right time at the right place... the synergy with Mcartney and Americas need for hope and happiness after the Kennedy assasination catapluted them into fame... yes.. its long over... thank god for the 60's and the Beatles... it was a time of innocence... long long gone from this world
February 22 2010 at 3:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Alvin
What pictures? I didn't see any on the post nor a link to see them. Where are they?
February 22 2010 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Maria
I'm sure a lot of people wonder what they will look like dead. It is going to happen to us all.
Makeup works wonders!!
Jeny
1 reply to Jeny's comment
It's over he was a man, he was killed so sad for his family. Lets move on, he is just one man, who played music. And, it was great. But, it's over. Lets talk about something useful.... Move on....
February 22 2010 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Winston O\'Boogie
The dream is over.
February 22 2010 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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