Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kinetic Tangle. Paik's own contribution to the exhibit was an antic collaboration with Charlotte Moorman, the cellist from Little Rock, Ark. In 1967, Paik (pronounced Pike) and Moorman established themselves as a sort of cerebral John Lennon-Yoko Ono act when Charlotte, topless, played Paik's composition Opera Sextronique. Again last week, Charlotte let her concert gown fall to her waist, but this time her breasts were covered by two 3-in. TV sets. Explained Paik with a broad smile: "By using TV as a bra, the most intimate belonging of a human being...
...Northern Songs, founded in 1963 to handle the songwriting business of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, was the object of a takeover bid by Britain's Associated Television, producer of The Avengers. Associated bought up 35% of the stock in March and made a $23.5 million tender offer for the rest; the company now has just over 36% of the shares. Lennon and McCartney, each of whom owns 15% of the company, fought the takeover by calling for help from the other Beatles and making their own tender for 20% of the shares...
...giveaway of more than $100,000 worth of bellbottoms, see-through blouses and other clothes. Then they shut down Apple's film operation. The firm grossed little more than $500,000 in its first fiscal year ending last month. "We tried to be the Ford Foundation," said John Lennon. "It was rubbish...
...Lennon, the senior Beatle, is ecstatic about Klein. As Lennon told TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath in Appie's Savile Row headquarters: "He's only been here three months, and he's sorted out seven years of crap. This guy talks our language. He just says, 'Where is it?' and 'When do I get it?' and 'How much do the tax boys take?' It's as simple as that...
Whatever the outcome, the lads will be free again to pursue lighter pastimes. Since each Beatle is still personally worth $5,000,000 to $9,000,000, they have plenty for the pursuit. As Lennon explains: "The point of Klein is for me not to be a businessman - to take it off me back so I don't have to worry about the details...