There's something about John Lennon...
- Alan Hulme
- 2 hours ago
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The life and work of legendary Liverpool musician John Lennon is celebrated in a new stage show, which starts a 26-date UK tour this month.
Something About Lennon – The John Lennon Story promises a tale of controversy, genius, politics and protest, charting Lennon's life from the breakup of the Beatles at the end of the 1960s to his shocking murder in New York in December 1980. The soundtrack includes Woman, Instant Karma and Imagine – as well as Fab Four classics.
West End performer and musician Daniel Taylor fronts the production’s band of five. He previously played Lennon in the award-winning Lennon Through a Glass Onion and is also known from his many years in Willy Russell musical Blood Brothers, as well as The Very Best of Tommy Cooper, Twopence to Cross The Mersey and most recently By The Waters Of Liverpool. He also played Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New York’s Central Park.
Daniel said: “It’s lovely, as a performer and actor, to have people trust you to tell such an incredible story and to celebrate someone as unique and timeless as John Lennon. And of course there are all those brilliant songs, which have formed the soundtrack to so many people’s lives and which we will perform live, with a brilliant band of musicians."
The show opens at Wrexham’s William Aston Hall on May 19 and will then go on to play at 25 locations across the country before it ends at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on July 6.
Info, full venue list and booking links here