easyJet offers ‘Ticket to Ride’ to celebrate Liverpool launch

GIBRALTAR (GibChronicle) Famed as the location of the real John and Yoko’s wedding more than 40 years ago, Gibraltar has strong links with Liverpool thanks to its Beatles connection that was immortalised in the lyrics of ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ in 1969. So it was not all that surprising that Lennon and Ono look-a-likes Alan James and Veninia Johnson were at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport (what else?) to launch the airline’s first flight from Liverpool to Gibraltar. The new route will provide Gibraltar travellers with a three-times-weekly service to Liverpool for as little as £27.99 (one-way, including taxes).>

Lennon's Strawberry Fields were in Almería

ALMERÍA (El País/Marta Soler) It's one of The Beatles most celebrated recordings, inspired by John Lennon's memories of playing in the park of the Salvation Army orphanage in Liverpool as a child. But the original spark for the song Strawberry Fields Forever - originally intended to feature on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but which ultimately appeared on the group's Magical Mystery Tour album - occurred 2,000 kilometers from Liverpool, in the city of Almería.>

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Did you see Google's tribute to John Lennon?

John Lennon would have been 70 today if that shithead (no need to excuse the French it's what Mark David Chapman is) hadn't shot him dead on December 8, 1980. Anyway, Google has paid tribute to John: if you click on the drawing, you'll hear a little of one of his best post-Beatle songs - and, because Google now owns the world, you'll be transported directly to the what else but Google page for John Lennon. We like the little movie (Google also owns YouTube now) that accompanies the music, but they went a little OTT, don't you think?