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Edited By Barry A. Jeckell. September 16, 2005, 10:25 AM ET 'Lennon' Musical To Close On Broadway "Lennon," the musical about the life and music of John Lennon that earned dismal reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway. Created with the help of the former Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, the show had a troubled road to Broadway that involved major rewrites after it was first produced in San Francisco. Critics slammed it for what The New York Times called its "Ono-centric" view of Lennon's life, and audiences have dwindled since its Aug. 15 opening night, falling...

Bird Flu May Kill Millions of People A bird flu that is wide spread among Asian bird, and very lethal to humans, may acquire the ability to spread human to human. If this happens we may get a pandemic (world wide epidemic) that could kill between 2 million and 100 million people worldwide. Some cases of contagion from human to human have already been recorded. A flu in 1918 that may have been similar killed between 20 million and 50 million people. Major flu pandemics occur roughly every 20 years, and the last one was in 1968, so it could...

Lennon, the new musical about John Lennon's life set to open next August, will have two unpublished songs that Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, has given to Don Scardino, writer and director of the production. The songs, India, India and I Don't Want to Lose You, exist only on private recordings that Lennon made in his last years. I Don't Want to Lose You, a slow, introspective ballad, was one of three songs Ono gave to the surviving Beatles when they reunited in the early 1990s to complete a few Lennon songs for The Beatles Anthology. An electronic hum in the...

CHARTED: Yoko Ono, 71, has the No. 1 single on the dance chart, "Every Man Has A Man Who Loves Him"/"Every Woman Has A Woman Who Loves Her," a mix of techno beats and her somewhat off-key vocals that delivers a message in favor of same-sex unions. "This is a victory not just for me but for all Americans who are against the administration's decision to ban gay marriage," Ono says about the success of the tune, as quoted by the BBC.

Yoko Ono: Give peace a chance (again) She describes herself as an artist, but to us Yoko Ono will always be John's weird widow. At 70, she's as rebellious as ever, but how can she hope to put the world to rights from a sumptuous Manhattan apartment? David Usborne enters her worldYoko Ono admits that she has reasons to feel angry. The murder of her husband outside their apartment in the Dakota Building on the west side of Manhattan is one of them and, nearly a quarter of a century later, some of that anger is still with her. She...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Yoko Ono is to perform one of her art "happenings" in which she invites her audience to cut off her clothing until she is naked on stage. Ono, the widow of John Lennon, first performed the conceptual work Cut Piece as a peace protest in Japan in 1964. At the age of 70, she is to repeat the protest in Paris later this month because of growing political tension in the world. During the original stunt she took to the stage in a white gown, wielding a pair of scissors. Members of...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Beatle Paul McCartney hit back at critics on Saturday, saying a decision to reverse the traditional "Lennon-McCartney" songwriting credit on his new album was not a slur on his band mate but a chance to "put the record straight." In an interview with Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, 60-year-old McCartney -- currently on the European leg of his Back in the World tour -- said he was simply "letting people know that the songs I sing today are my own." He said he had no doubts that fellow Beatle John Lennon -- killed by a gunman...

Yoko Ono wins battle for return of family photographs By Marcus Warren in New York (Filed: 28/09/2002) John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, was last night celebrating a resounding victory in her courtroom battle with the couple's former personal assistant. As part of a settlement of their long-running dispute, Frederic Seaman issued a grovelling apology to his one-time employer and agreed to return documents and 374 photographs taken while working for the Beatle and his wife. "I just wanted them back," Ms Ono said of the pictures after the decision was announced in a New York court. "I don't want them...

LONDON (Reuters) - Yoko Ono Tuesday pleaded with the world to "Give Peace A Chance" with the release on the MTV music channel of a short film to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. John Lennon's widow said in a statement: "Let's create peace, unity and light. I think John's words are needed just as much now as when they were written -- 'Imagine all the people living in peace' and 'Give Peace A Chance."' The film starts with the viewer trailing down a dark corridor to reach a door with light pouring through it. Yoko Ono...