Loads of Lennon news today. Firstly the National Trust have announced the house where Lennon spent his childhood and wrote some of the Beatles' first hits will be open to the public next month. The house, which Lennon shared with his Aunt Mimi, was bought by Yoko Ono last year and immediately donated to the heritage organisation. The Trust, who have restored the house to how it would have looked when Lennon live there, will run a tour of both the Lennon home and of McCartney's childhood home down the road, which the Trust have owned for some time.
Secondly, more Beatles studio recordings have been found, this time in Sydney. Last month police found some lost Beatles tapes when raiding the offices of some music pirates in the Netherlands. In the latest raid tape recordings of the 'Abbey Road' and 'The Beatles' albums (the latter better known as 'The White Album') were found alongside some album artwork. Police reckon the tapes were probably stolen from the Abbey Road studios in the late sixties.
And finally Yoko Ono has teamed up with the Pet Shop Boys to make a dancey version of Lennon's last song 'Walking On Thin Ice'. She is expected to debut the remake in New York tonight, on the eve of her 70th birthday. She told reporters: "I'm very excited that people love the record. I've been asked to come over to Britain and play in some electro clubs and I think I will do that. I'm playing at 6 in the morning in New York, the day before my 70th birthday. Even my son thinks that's pretty good going for his mum."