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on September 15, 2026

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John Lennon's Kenwood Fridge Up for Auction

Just listed at Omega Auctions: An incredible and unique item that was originally bought by John Lennon when they lived in their Kenwood home. The Westinghouse in its day was the Rolls Royce of fridges. This one has a freezer compartment at the top with a large fridge space below and it still includes the original metal drawers, ice cube trays and even instructions. The vendor bought the fridge direct from his friend Billy Atkins who became the owner of Kenwood in early 1970 after John Lennon sold the property in late 1968. Whilst at the property for a barbecue in 1970 the vendor mentioned that his fridge had packed in and Billy offered him the Westingland - after some bartering, the vendor bought it for around £80. He has owned it ever since and it was working up until a few years ago. The fridge was recently shown to Dot Jarlett's son who spent a lot of time at Kenwood in the '60s (Lennon's housekeeper at Kenwood) and instantly he recognised it as the fridge from John...

Drawings by Beatles John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe Up for Auction

Via Track Auctions: A page from a writing pad containing drawings by John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe. They were created by John and Stuart in Astrid Kirchherr’s apartment in Hamburg, Germany in 1961. The drawings are over two sides. On one side John Lennon has drawn two characters at the bottom of the sheet which resemble those he drew in his 1964 book ‘In His Own Write’, Stuart Sutcliffe has drawn a self-portrait and a portrait of Astrid Kirchherr above John’s. On the reverse side of the page John has drawn two facial doodles, one to the left and one in the centre. Stuart Sutcliffe has drawn a facial doodle on the right side of the paper. Provenance: given to the previous owner by Astrid Kirchherr. The sheet measures 21.75cm x 16.7cm (8.6 inches x 6.6 inches). The condition is very good minus. More info here .

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'Beatles Undercover' Streams Fab Cover Tunes

A new podcast to check out, details from creator ‘Beatles Undercover: The Best, Worst and Weirdest Versions of Beatles Songs Ever Recorded’ began as a radio show on my local community station. As a lifelong Beatles fanatic I’ve always been fascinated by the way that their songs could be translated into virtually any musical genre and by the seemingly infinite variety of interpretations that different artists could bring to them. So even after the radio show ended I continued to collect as many different versions as I could find, and still do. So in 2023, when I started thinking seriously about creating this podcast series, I began the gargantuan task of wading through all of the thousands of versions I’d collected and sorting them loosely by genre in order to make assembling these podcasts a little easier. I also tried to research some basic information about each track and artist, such as country of origin, year the recording was released and the name of the album or EP, if any, ...

I Read the News This Week: Beatles Headlines Roundup

14News: Lost 1964 George Harrison interview from Evansville radio station resurfaces The interview was found on a record that was in some memorabilia belonging to George’s sister, Louise, who lived in Benton, Illinois. Her friend, Warren Batts, restored the quality, and the six minute interview was recently played inside George’s childhood home in Liverpool. It’s the same home where the Beatles sometimes held rehearsals, and tours are now given to the public. New York Post : Monkees legend helps LA radio icon celebrate 25 years of Beatles Dolenz revealed he first saw the Beatles on a stolen TV at iconic LA hamburger joint Bob’s Big Boy. “There was a guy who had a TV in the parking lot with rabbit ears.” Just three years later, Dolenz would find himself hanging out with John Lennon at Abbey Road during recording sessions for the Beatles’ landmark “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. Liverpool Express : Liverpool John Lennon Airport named one of the best in the...

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