John Lennon Memorial Garden

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Durness, Scotland

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. Along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group would ascend to worldwide fame during the 1960s. He was born as John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, where he became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1957, he formed his first band, the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Lennon began to record as a solo artist before the band's break-up in April 1970; two of those songs were Give Peace a Chance and Instant Karma! Lennon subsequently produced albums that included John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as Working Class Hero, Imagine and Happy Xmas . After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added Ono as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the album Double Fantasy. He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building three weeks after the album was released. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture. By 2012, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States had exceeded 14 million units. He had 25 number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart as a writer, co-writer, or performer. In 2002, Lennon was voted eighth in a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Lennon was twice posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again in 1994 as a solo artist.
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13 Durness costa Nord - Trip to Scotland

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A Durness c’è la Smoo Cave
Situata a circa un miglio a est della città di Durness, la grotta è accessibile scendendo dalle scogliere con un sentiero. La grotta vanta uno dei più grandi ingressi a qualsiasi grotta marina in Gran Bretagna.
Noi visitiamo solo la grande grotta, ma non prendiamo il gommone per la visita interna, perché arriviamo quando l’ultima visita è già partita.
Con questa magnifica natura, gli amanti della fotografia qui si possono sbizzarrire.
A Durness c’è ben poco da vedere. Oltre alla grotta, presso il municipio c'è un giardino pubblico sferzato dal vento ove è stato eretto un piccolo monumento a ricordo di John Lennon il quale da bambino trascorreva qui le vacanze con la famiglia.
Noi preferiamo prendere la strada che costeggia la costa e andare verso est ad ammirare il panorama, le spiaggie, le scogliere dove la natura è la padrona.
Purtroppo, ad un certo punto siamo costretti a ritornare sul nostro percorso ripassando per Durness e seguire la strada che ci porterà a Gairloch dove pernotteremo.
I colori dell’acqua e delle spiaggie sono tali che durante il nostro percorso le soste sono continue, anche se pioggia e vento ci accompagnano costantemente.
La strada è panoramica e i chilometri da percorrere sono tanti. Alla fine raggiungiamo Gairloch

North Coast 500 - Travel to Scotland's Route 66 | Travel Vlog

The North Coast 500 is Scotland's Route 66 and a spectacular drive!
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Dave and Deb of The Planet D take you to Northern Scotland where they drive the North Coast 500 circular route from Inverness.
It's one of the great drives on earth passing through dramatic coastlines like Duncansby Head, AppleCross to Baelnabach Pass and Klinlochewe Viewpoint.

What You'll See in this NC500 Vide
1. Inverness
Inverness Attractions
Culloden Battlefield
Clava Cairns
3: Dornoch and Distilleries
Dornoch Castle and Whisky Bar
Glen Ord Distillery
Dunrobin Castle
4. Wick to Dunnet Head
Whaligoe Steps
Wick Heritage Centre
Ackergill Tower
Castle Sinclair Girnigo
Caithness Wildlife Tours
Duncansby Head
Dunnet Bay Distillery
5. Along the Northern Coast
People Surf in Scotland
Castle Varrich
Drive to Smoo
The Tongue Hotel Details
6. Tongue to Balnakeil
Smoo Cave
Balnakeil Bay
John Lennon
Belnakeil Craft Village
7. Lochinver to Ullapool
Rock Climbing and Adventure Tours
Ullapool
Corrieshalloch Gorge
Where to Stay in Ullapool
8. Kylesku to Achmelvich Bay
Drumbeg
Stoerhead Lighthouse
Coffee Stop
Clachtol
Achmevilch Beach
Where to Stay
9. Gairloch
Inverewe Gardens
Isle of Ewe Smokehouse
Loch Maree
Walk the trails of Beinn Eighe
Klinlochewe Viewpoint
Diabag Viewpoint
Where to Stay in Gairloch
10. Klinlochewe to Applecross
Viewpoint: town of Sheildag
Famous Red House
Non-stop pullovers
Applecross to Baelnabach Pass
Eat at the Kishorn Seafood Bar
11. Plockton - History and Wildlife
Reraig Forest Tour
Eilean Donan Castle
Strome Castle
Duncraig Castle
Where to Stay in Plockton
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Don't forget about the castles along the North Coast 500 route there's the famous Eilean Donan Castle, the Castley of Mey, Strome Castle, Glenrobin Castle, and many castle hotels to stay in as well.
And there is plenty of wildlife to see. A highlight of our tour was Reraig Forest tour to see the deer, stags and sheep on the property. Plus the wildlife of Duncansby Head where migrating and nesting sea birds soar through the air.

►Cities on the North Coast 500
Wick
Inverness
Gairloch
Dornoch
Plockton

This travel video features stops all the way around the North Coast 500 as we drove the entire route in 10 days.
Other stops on our route include the Glen Ord Distillery, The John Lennon Memorial in Durness, Whaligoe Steps, Belnakeil Bay, Smoo Cave, Stoerhead Lighthouse and many of the other famous stops on Scotland's answer to Route 66.

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Death of John Lennon

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.

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Me and Bobby McGee - Allison Crowe live

Canadian musician Allison Crowe performs live in concert Me and Bobby McGee, the Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson song recorded most famously, iconically, by Janis Joplin.

Allison Crowe is the best thing to happen to 'Me And Bobby McGee' since Janis Joplin changed Kristofferson's lyrics, says Allan Showalter of Cohencentric blog ( noted as “arguably the greatest living (Leonard) Cohen expert”.

Showalter explains: Of course, the credentials that matter most are her performances. If you haven't heard her powerful yet not strident version of 'Hallelujah'... I urge you to do so now. Then, for something completely different, listen to her take on Ronnie Shannon's 'I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)', which is (forgive me, Aretha) the best I've heard.

'Me and Bobby McGee,' the song authored by Kris Kristofferson and popularized by Janis Joplin (although Roger Miller's version was the first to rank as a hit), is not one of my favorites, but it is useful as an example of Allison Crowe's skills, in part because most readers of this blog have, I suspect, heard it sung by at least a couple of performers.

Also noteworthy, however, is the choice of this song itself. If Allison had asked me to select 100 possible covers for her to play in a concert, a real concert with a fancy piano set in the converted church chapel of the Conservatory of Music in Victoria, British Columbia, a concert that would become the album, Allison Crowe Live At Wood Hall (with album art... radiating dangerous levels of wholesomeness), 'Me and Bobby McGee would not have been on my list. Nor would it have been on my Possible Allison Crowe Covers #101-200″ list, nor the #201 to 300″ list. Me and Bobby McGee is a Kristofferson-Joplin-Miller kind of song. Kenny Rogers, when he was still the Kenny Rogers in Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, sang it, as did Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Haley & His Comets, Sam The Sham, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. Waylon sang it. So did The Grateful Dead and Dolly Parton. It is definitely not an Allison Crowe kind of song.

Until she sings it.

Although Allison introduces over a dozen significant adaptations to 'Me and Bobby McGee,' I'll point out only one nuance. Listen to her inflected pronunciation of 'Baton Rouge' in the first line, 'Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train.' It makes this version of the song her own from that point, giving the song a richer, more complex flavor than those rendered in flat Midwestern intonations. Yet, performed the same way by almost anyone else, the same tactic would come off as too precious by half.

Images are from Billie Woods, ( ), the terrifically talented photographer who regularly tours Europe with Crowe. These pics are from such locations as Frankfurt and Siegen, Germany and Durness, Scotland where Allison Crowe headlined the 'Northern Lights Festival', a benefit for the John Lennon Memorial Garden.