Curated playlist
Plastic Ono Band members
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New York apartment building, The Dakota. Just under six hours later, the same man shot…
- Yoko OnoYoko Ono walked into the Indica Gallery in London on the 7th of November 1966 carrying a ladder painted white. At the top of the ladder hung a magnifying glass, and through it, anyone willing to climb could read a single word printed in…
- George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet and a single coal fire for heat. He would grow up to become the lead guitarist of…
- Phil SpectorPhil Spector's father chose three words for his own gravestone: "To Know Him Was To Love Him." His son Harvey, nine years old when Benjamin Spector died by suicide in April 1949, turned that epitaph into a chart-topping song. "To Know Him…
- Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, to a sixteen-year-old mother and a Canadian soldier who had already shipped back across the Atlantic before his son drew a first breath. He grew up believing his…
- Ringo StarrRingo Starr was born on the 7th of July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool. His real name is Richard Starkey, and he grew up in a neighbourhood where, as his childhood…
- Klaus VoormannKlaus Voormann was standing in a Hamburg doorway on an ordinary evening in the early 1960s when the course of his life changed entirely. He had just walked away from an argument, wandered down the Reeperbahn in the St. Pauli district, and…
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston was the only artist to receive a co-performer credit on a Beatles recording after the band began recording as independent artists. The 1969 single "Get Back" bore the label "The Beatles with Billy Preston" not as a courtesy…
- Keith MoonKeith John Moon was born on the 23rd of August 1946, and dead by the 7th of September 1978 - a span of just 32 years that somehow contained enough chaos, genius, and wreckage for several lifetimes. His nickname was "Moon the Loon". His…
- Sean LennonSean Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1975, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, sharing a birthday with his father John Lennon, who turned 35 that day. His godfather is Elton John. His…