Guardian Music — Away from mainstream pop, Japan's best rock'n'roll bands have always been female. And most of them make western music's masculine posturing look positively punyJapanese society might like to dogmatically adhere to gender roles, but for decades women ... more info

The Telegraph Blog — I was flicking through the news pages of one of the broadsheets last week when a photograph of a young woman caught my eye.  It was in black and white, and seemed to have been taken some time in the 1960s.  Slender, attractive, long flowing hair: s... more info

Undercover, Australia — In the early 70s. John Lennon classics such as `Instant Karma`, `Power To The People` and `Give Peace A Chance` were credited as the Plastic Ono Band. more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — John Lennon had no spare change. In November 1966 he wandered into Yoko Ono's Indica Gallery Exhibit in London. Ono made a piece that required five shillings for visitors to hammer a nail into a wooden board. Lennon had been invited to the preview by... more info