Beatles News: British TV Host Owns John and Ringo's Old House, Halifax Hotel Marks Historic Beatles Stay, Yoko on Post-Beatles Life

Alex Jones: ‘John Lennon and Ringo Starr used to own our house’ - The Times

last summer, after nearly four years of searching for the right property, we moved out of Chiswick, west London, to a Georgian house near Tittenhurst Park [in Sunningdale, Berkshire]. It has quite a colourful past. John Lennon owned it at one point and so did Ringo Starr. Our house is very symmetrical — the kind of house I always wanted when I was little. It also has a double front door. I don’t know why but that was really important to me.

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Beatles blue plaque to be unveiled at Halifax hotel to mark the night Fab Four stayed there - Halifax Courier

Iconic musicians The Beatles stayed at the hotel in Holmfield back on October 9, 1964 when they were in West Yorkshire for the opening night of their first UK tour at the Gaumont Theatre in Bradford.

That night also happened to be John Lennon’s 24th birthday.

...."They chatted to guests in the bar when they arrived, then had dinner in a private room upstairs.

"We still have a signed copy of the menu and their original bills which show a rather rich selection of trout, turtle soup, cold duckling and steak.

"Paul, George, Ringo and Brian Epstein drank in the Long Bar until the early hours along with John who, despite his toothache, was still the life and soul of the party, told endless jokes and did a brilliant imitation of a pompous Yorkshire mill owner - he was a great mimic.

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Yoko Ono details pain of post-Beatles life with John Lennon in new documentary - CNN

Audio recordings from the early 1970s – the years that immediately followed the Beatles’ split – are featured in new documentary “One to One: John & Yoko,” out Friday, in which Ono discusses the harassment she faced. While her presence during Beatles recording sessions in the late 1960s famously caused tension, Ono always denied playing such a starring role in the end of the Fab Four.

“I’m supposedly the person who broke up the Beatles, you know? When I was pregnant, many people wrote to me saying, ‘I wish you and your baby would die,’” Ono says in the film.

She goes on to say that when she’d walk down the street with Lennon, “people came to me saying things like I’m ‘an ugly Jap.’ They pulled my hair and hit my head and I was just about to faint.”