‘Summer of the Soul’: Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in Questlove’s documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival.I was watching intimate, long-lost footage of the world’s most famous band preparing for their final gig and I couldn’t stop watching Yoko Ono sit around doing nothing. My attention kept wandering to her corner of the picture. But as the hours passed and Ono stayed – painting at an easel, chewing a pastry, flipping through a Lennon fan magazine – I was impressed with her perseverance, then intrigued by the provocation of her existence, and finally blinded by her performance. Why is she there? I begged my television. The huge set only highlights the ridiculousness of their proximity. When George Harrison goes away and leaves the band for a short time, Ono is there, who restlessly whines into his microphone.Īt first I found Ono’s omnipresence in documentary films bizarre, even unsettling. Later, when the group squeezes into a recording booth, Ono is there, wedged between Lennon and Ringo Starr, wordlessly unwrapping a piece of chewing gum and working it between Lennon’s fingers. Lennon slips behind the piano and Ono is there, her head hanging over his shoulder. When the band begins “Don’t Let Me Down”, Ono is there reading a newspaper. When Paul McCartney starts playing “I’ve Got a Feeling”, Ono is there sewing a furry item in her lap.
She crouches within reach of John Lennon, her puzzled face turned to him like a plant growing to light. In 1980, at the age of 40, Lennon was murdered outside his New York apartment building by Mark Chapman.At the beginning of “The Beatles: Get Back”, Peter Jackson’s almost eight-hour documentary about the creation of the album “Let It Be”, the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a film soundstage. "For my family's sake it makes sense for me to say goodbye to my collection now while I can still tell all the stories behind everything," Herring concluded.
Herring said he never did get them fixed. The specs were bought by an unnamed bidder during an online auction that also included other collector's items from The Beatles, including a necklace with cowbells worn by guitarist George Harrison, which sold for $13,300 (€12,000). He told me not to worry they were just for the look!" I asked John if he'd like me to get them fixed for him. "In the summer of 1968, I had picked John up with Ringo and George in Ringo's Mercedes and driven the boys into the office," Herring recalled in a statement released by the Sotheby's auction house. "When John got out of the car I noticed that he'd left these sunglasses on the back seat and one lens and one arm had become disconnected. The Beatles legend left the green-tinted shades on the back seat of a car over 50 years ago.Īlan Herring, the chauffeur for The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr and bandmate George Harrison, came across the spectacles on the back seat after picking up Lennon, along with the other two members of the Fab Four. A pair of sunglasses worn by John Lennon sold for $183,500 (€165,000) at an auction in London on Friday, the news agency AFP reported.
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