Following Lennon

Airtel

4/10/72

CONFIDENTIAL

To: SAC, New York (100-175319) (Enclosures - 2)

From: Director, FBI (100-469910)

1 - Mr. Horner
1 - Mr. Prousse
1 - Mr. Shackelford
1 - Mr. Pence

JOHN WINSTON LENNON
SM - NEW LEFT

ReNYtel 3/16/72.

Enclosed for information of New York are two copies of Alexandria airtel dated 3/31/72 captioned "White Panther Party, IS - WPP; CALREP; MIDEM," which contains information from Alexandria source relating to current activities of subject.

It appears from referenced New York teletype that subject and wife might be preparing for lengthy delaying tactics to avert their deportation in the near future. In the interim, very real possibility exists that subject, as indicated in enclosed airtel, might engage in activities in U.S. leading toward disruption of Republican National Convention (RNC), San Diego, 8/72. For this reason New York promptly initiate discreet efforts to locate subject and remain aware of his activities and movements. Handle inquiries only through established sources and discreet pretext inquiries. Careful attention should be given to reports that subject is heavy narcotics user and any information developed in this regard should be furnished to narcotics authorities and immediately furnished to Bureau in form suitable for dissemination.

In view of subject's avowed intention to engage in disruptive activities surrounding RNC, New York Office will be responsible for closely following his activities until time of actual deportation. Afford this matter close supervision and keep Bureau fully advised by most expeditious means warranted.

NOTE:
John Lennon, former member of Beatles singing group, is allegedly in U.S. to assist in organizing disruption of RNC. Due to narcotics conviction in England, he is being deported along with wife Yoko Ono. They appeared at Immigration and Naturalization Service, New York, 3/16/72, for deportation proceedings but won delay until 4/18/72 because subject fighting narcotics conviction and wife fighting custody child case in U.S. Strong possibility looms that subject will not be deported any time soon and will probably be in U.S. at least until RNC. Information developed by Alexandria source that subject continues to plan activities directed toward RNC and will soon initiate series of "rock concerts" to develop financial support with first concert to be hld Ann Arbor, Michigan, in near future. New York Office covering subject's temporary residence and being instructed to intensify discreet investigation of subject to determine activiteis vis a vis RNC.

McCartney

by Christopher Sandford

Revised and Updated

The eye-opening account of the Beatle who changed the shape of music, from his youth in Liverpool through the much-publicized dissolution of his marriage to Heather Mills

Between 1962 and 1970, Paul McCartney--the cute Beatle--did the following: sold 140 million albums throughout the world; co-authored with John Lennon twenty-six US and UK number one singles; recorded arguably the best rock album to date (Revolver), then took the whole thing to a pinnacle (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). As a member of the most important rock band ever, Paul McCartney convinced millions of fans to pick up electric guitars and others to denounce him as a degenerate--or worse. He helped usher in the Love Generation, took a personal stance on the "drug problem," and left the world dumbfounded when the Fab Four called it quits in the early seventies. However, to this day McCartney remains one of the most beloved and respected of musicians, not to mention the biggest box office draw in the world.

McCartney--drawing on dozens of original sources from court documents and files to interviews with members of Paul's family and colleagues--is a tale of self-destruction and epic excess as well as creative genius and brilliant music. The Beatles' bloody infighting, the sex, the drugs, and McCartney's extraordinary marriages are revealed here in full. McCartney is the definitive biography, charting not only the pop legend, but the man and his era.

"Sandford brings impressive skill to this portrait of Sir Paul McCartney . . . well researched and clearly written . . . Highly recommended."
--Library Journal

"Terrific stuff. If you only read one book about our Paul and the Beatles, this is it."
--Angie McCartney

Christopher Sandford is a veteran music, film, and sports writer, and the author of sixteen books, including the critically acclaimed McQueen and Keith Richards: Satisfaction. His biography of Kurt Cobain, reissued by Carroll & Graf in 2004, is currently in development to be made into a movie. His books have been sold to fifteen countries and have featured on both British and American bestseller lists. In 2005, the UK's national (GCSE) school examiners chose an excerpt from his Bowie: Loving the Alien as a set text. Sandford is married with one son, and lives in London and the Pacific Northwest.

June 24, 1966 - Circus Krone-Bau, Munich

Taped: Friday 24 June 1966

Circus-Krone-Bau, with Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, The Rattles and Peter & Gordon. Two sets, at 5.15 and 9.00pm, the second of which was filmed by ZDF, German television. Unusually, The Beatles staged an afternoon rehearsal to prepare for the TV performance.

Their set for the tour consisted of: 'Rock'n'Roll Music', 'She's A Woman', 'If I Needed Someone', 'Day Tripper', 'Baby's In Black', 'I Feel Fine', 'Yesterday', 'I Wanna Be Your Man', 'Nowhere Man', 'Paperback Writer' and 'I'm Down'. Among their guests at the hotel was Bettina Derlien, the barmaid from the Star-Club.

Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era

"I became like a band member whose instrument was the camera"
Linda McCartney

"A photographer's magical mystery tour"
People

"Thrilling, sweetly intimate pictures of...friends and heroes from that flower-bright, disorderly, uncompromising era."
New York Times Book Review

"The good, the bad and the ugly of 60s pop culture."
Florida Today

"McCartney's spontaneous style was a perfect match for the live-for-the-moment decade she reclaims nearly thirty years later."
American Photo

The Beatles from Liverpool to San Francisco

Label: Eagle Media

Includes Rare TV Interviews with John, Paul, George and Ringo from 1963 to 1969

They were four ordinary lads from Liverpool who became the biggest rock band the world had ever seen. Wherever they went they won hearts and sold millions of discs and cinema tickets. So what was so special about them that they could fill concert halls and airports from Tokyo to New York with thousands of fans? Why did the dream die and what have "The Fab Four" left behind? In short who were the Beatles and how did they conquer the world?

Chapter Listings:
1. "Four ordinary lads from Liverpool"
2. Beatlemania escalates
3. "Just rattle your jewelry"
4. Conquering Western Europe
5. "The Beatles have landed!"
6. Back to the U.K.
7. Hysteria reigns
8. Public appearances
9. First world tour
10. In movies, studio & hospital
11. Growing frustration
12. Going solo
13. "More popular than Jesus"
14. The end of an era
15. Drugs & the Maharishi
16. Staking out boundaries
17. An indelible mark

Bonus Feature:
Beatles Across America Documentary

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January 18, 1967 - Scene Special

Taped: Wednesday 18 January 1967
Aired: Tuesday 7 March 1967

Paul McCartney was interviewed in London by Jo Durden-Smith for a Granada Television documentary on the London underground scene, of which Paul was part. The film, for the Scene Special programme, was subtitled It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down.

Daddy, Come Home: The True Story of John Lennon and His Father

by Pauline Lennon

The truth about the alternately stormy and fond relationship John Lennon had with his father has always been concealed. Until now. Daddy, Come Home, the riveting story of Freddie Lennon's relationship with the young John, and their eventual deathbed reconciliation is told for the first time by Pauline Lennon - the girl who made front page news when as a 20-year-old she married the 55-year-old Lennon.