Dec 15, 2025
And so we bring to an end Glass Onion’s 7th year…
John Lennon’s 1975 is mostly remembered for being the year that he became a father for the second time and dropped out of the music biz for 5 years, apparently to become the most famous househusband in the world (the jury’s still out on that one).
Before he...
Nov 19, 2025
For our final offerings of the year, we present a 2-part look at 1975, the year of Antony’s birth. As is traditional, we first cover the year itself in terms of world events, births & deaths, films and (non-Lennon) music, before turning to the John Lennon events of the year.
The Vietnam War is finally winding down,...
Oct 23, 2025
David ‘Ghosty’ Wills is back once more to look at another biopic that’s not really very good (we’ll do something classic next time, I promise!), though our levels of (non-)appreciation of 2010’s ‘Lennon Naked’ differ slightly
Christoper Eccleston gives something of a powerhouse performance as a very brutal...
Aug 6, 2025
We complete our look at ‘Birth of the Beatles’, the 1979 biopic which holds a unique place as the only one of its kind made while all 4 Beatles were still alive.
The timeline goes somewhat awry but we go from the boys having departed Hamburg in late-1960 to the tragic death of one of their band members and then the...
Jul 17, 2025
Following our last exploration of a biopic of dubious quality, Antony flies solo this time to explore another one which, despite having some sense of time and place, is also somewhat lacking and to some extent unintentionally comedic.
‘Birth of the Beatles’, which came out in 1979, will always hold a unique place as...