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Jones also sent a letter to long-time Beatles producer George Martin, but he said members have been reluctant to invite Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow...
...Cross-brokered cease fire, U.S. Marine helicopters flew another 1,200 foreign residents out of the beleaguered West African capital today, bringing the total number of evacuees to approximately 2,400 since Friday. The break in fighting allowed the rescue of many people from the beach front Mammy Yoko hotel, which had became the site of intense fighting since Nigerian troops made it their command post. Estimates of the number of military casualties range from a dozen to nearly 50 in Monday's fighting. So far, there are no reports of civilian death, but ten of the evacuees were carried...
...Road, in which Paul McCartney alternates verses of cooing falsetto and rapacious shout (he's Smokey Robinson; no, he's Howlin' Wolf). John, Paul and George Harrison harmonize on a beautiful a capella Because. Lennon, high on his new love, intones, "Yoko o no-no, Yoko o no-yes during a rough sketch for Happiness Is a Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs...
...unpolished gems from the band's last two years together. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, on video and CD, is a long-lost 1968 concert that Mick Jagger & Co. shared with the Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and--guess who--John Lennon and his bride Yoko Ono. The Fab Four and Their Satanic Majesties--together again for the first time...
...Lennon, backed by Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, rips into Yer Blues. Yoko, in one of her first rock gigs, wails like an abused hyena. And the Stones play a six-pack of their standards, including a pulverizing Sympathy for the Devil...