Perez Hilton — That's quite the price tag, but the John Lennon album (a copy of Double Fantasy) that fetched $23k at auction happened to be signed by him just hours before he was shot dead: The record - an edition of the former Beatles singer's 'Double Fantasy' alb... more info

ContactMusic — Musician Yoko Ono is auctioning off a personalised iPad and a signed photo to raise funds for the victims of the tornado-hit city of Joplin, Missouri. The Japanese star has donated a black and white shot of her in bed with her late husband John Lenno... more info

The Independent — An album signed by John Lennon hours before he was shot dead has fetched £23,750 at auction. more info

ContactMusic — An album signed by John Lennon hours before he was shot dead has fetched 23,750 at auction. The record - an edition of the former Beatles singer's 'Double Fantasy' album, signed in December 1980 shortly before he was assassinated - was one of number.... more info

Guardian Music — 21 January 1991: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith lines like "I laughed when Lennon got shot", Manic Street Preachers' first single for Heavenly, Motown Junk, was a shot across the bows, a kamikaze manife... more info

ContactMusic — John Lennon and Paul Mccartney almost reunited on U. S. TV in the mid-1970s - for a bargain $1,500 (940). MCCartney reveals he was visiting his former Beatles bandmate in New York when Lennon suggested they should take Saturday Night Live producer Lo... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe last time the Fugs played in London, recalls Ed Sanders, it was 1968, their support act came from a nearby Hare Krishna temple and they had just signed to the label Frank Sinatra founded, Reprise. "They played Ol' Blue... more info

NME - The Daily Download — The sounds rattling round the skulls of the NME staff this week... 1. Lil Wayne - 'How To Love' Dodgy reinvention alert… Lil Wayne, he of the tattooed face, metal teeth, codeine slur, self-inflicted gunshot wounds, serious criminal record, fuck-ev... more info

Guardian Music — August 1965: Number 9 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThere were psychedelic records before the Beatles made Revolver, but it took the Beatles to make psychedelia part of the mainstream. John Lennon's curiosity about LS... more info

Guardian Music — 10 April 1970: Number 21 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicRock groups had split before, and no one bar their fans really cared. But the parting of the Beatles? This was the first time four musicians deciding to work sepa... more info