Nowhere Boy is based on a biography partially written by which half-sister of John Lennon?
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Nowhere Boy Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biographical musical drama film about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships with his aunt Mimi Smith and his mother Julia Lennon, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles. The film is based on a biography written by Lennon's half-sister Julia Baird. The film received its US release on 8 October 2010, coinciding with that weekend's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth (9 October 1940).
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Julia Baird Julia Baird (née Dykins) (born 5 March 1947) is the younger half-sister of English musician John Lennon and is the eldest daughter of John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins (1918 – December 1965) and Julia Lennon (12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958). She also has an older half-sister, Ingrid Pedersen. Her younger sister is Jacqueline 'Jackie' Dykins (born 26 October 1949).
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Caitlin Davies Caitlin Davies (born 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers. Hunter Davies wrote regularly about Caitlin and her brother Jake and sister Flora in a weekly "Punch" magazine column which ran in the 1970s, giving a broad insight into their upbringing. In her youth she was also frequently referred to by Auberon Waugh in his "Private Eye" diary.
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Riding the Bus with My Sister Riding the Bus with My Sister is a memoir by Rachel Simon, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin about the time she spent with her sister Beth, who has a developmental disability, whose lifestyle revolves around riding buses in her home city.
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Polly Perkins Polly Perkins (born Gillian Nessie Arnold, 31 May 1943) is a British actress, singer and writer. Perkins rose to fame in the 1960s as a popstar, going on to regularly appear in theatre and cabaret throughout the UK. She is currently known for playing Rose Cotton, the half sister of Dot Branning (June Brown), in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" between 2011-2012..
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Life (Keith Richards) Life is a memoir by the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, written with the assistance of journalist James Fox. Published in October 2010, in hardback, audio and e-book formats, the book chronicles Richards' love of music, charting influences from his mother and maternal grandfather, through his discovery of blues music, the founding of the Rolling Stones, his often turbulent relationship with Mick Jagger, his involvement with drugs, and his relationships with women including Anita Pallenberg and his wife Patti Hansen. Richards also released "Vintage Vinos", a compilation of his work with the X-Pensive Winos, at the same time.
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With a Little Help from My Friends "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" issued worldwide in June 1967. The song was written for and sung by the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr as the character "Billy Shears". The song, paired with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and featuring "A Day in the Life" as its B-side, was reissued as a single in the U.S. in August 1978 (#71) and in the U.K. in September 1978 (#63). "With a Little Help from My Friends" was ranked No. 311 on "Rolling Stone"' s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Mimi Fariña Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a white mother and a Mexican-American physicist, Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.
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Elizabeth Jagger Elizabeth Scarlett "Lizzy" Jagger (born March 2, 1984) is an American-English model and actress. Born in New York City, she is the eldest daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. She is the sister of James Leroy Augustin Jagger (born 1985), Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger (born 1992) and Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger (born 1997), and paternal half-sister of Karis Hunt Jagger (born 1970), Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born 1971), Lucas Maurice Morad-Jagger (born 1999), and Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger (born 2016).
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George Harrison George Harrison, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Hinduism and helped broaden the horizons of his fellow bandmates as well as their American audience by incorporating Indian instrumentation in their music. Although most of the Beatles' songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group included "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something", the last of which became the Beatles' second-most covered song.
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Olivia Grant (actress, born 1994) Olivia Grant (born 16 December 1994 in London, England) is a British actress and the oldest daughter of "Fame Academy" judges and singers David and Carrie Grant. She is best known for portraying Mia Stone in the children's television series "Half-Moon Investigations" based on the book by Eoin Colfer in 2009.
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Chrissie Shrimpton Christine Shrimpton (born 15 July 1945) is an English former 1960s model and actress. She is the younger sister of model Jean Shrimpton and was the girlfriend of Mick Jagger from 1963 to 1966.
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She's Leaving Home "She's Leaving Home" is a Lennon–McCartney song, released in 1967 on the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Paul McCartney wrote and sang the verse and John Lennon wrote the chorus, which they sang together. Neither George Harrison nor Ringo Starr was involved in the recording. The song's instrumental background was performed entirely by a small string orchestra arranged by Mike Leander, and was one of only a handful of Beatles songs in which the members did not play any instruments on the recording.
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Solacers Solacers is a 2012 memoir written by Iranian-American author . The book is a first-person narrative about an abandoned boy growing up on the streets in 1960s Iran, before the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
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Cathryn Harrison Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 25 May 1959) is an English actress. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and the granddaughter of actor Sir Rex Harrison. Her siblings, Simon and Harriet Harrison are also in the acting profession. Cathryn Harrison has half-siblings from her father's second marriage, Will and Chloe, and an older half-sister, Zoe, from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing. Her uncle is playwright and activist Carey Harrison.
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Julia (Beatles song) "Julia" is a song by the Beatles, but performed as a solo work by John Lennon. The song was written by Lennon (though credited to Lennon–McCartney) regarding his mother Julia Lennon, who died in 1958 at age 44.
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Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. He gained worldwide fame as the bass guitarist and singer for the rock band the Beatles, widely considered the most popular and influential group in the history of pop music. His songwriting partnership with John Lennon is the most celebrated of the post-war era. After the group disbanded in 1970, he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine.
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Paulina Irby Adeline Paulina Irby (19 December 1831 – 15 September 1911) was a Balkan heroine known as "Miss Irby". A British travel writer and suffragist, she founded an early girls' school in Sarajevo and organised relief to thousands of refugees. The centenary of her death was commemorated throughout Yugoslavia.
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What Goes On (Beatles song) "What Goes On" is a song by the Beatles, featured as the eighth track on their sixth British album "Rubber Soul". The song was later released as the B-side of the US single "Nowhere Man", and then as the tenth track on the North America-only album "Yesterday and Today". It is the only song by the band credited to Lennon–McCartney-Starkey.
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The Lennon Report The Lennon Report is a 2016 film written by Walter Vincent and directed by Jeremy Profe, about the night John Lennon was shot and killed in 1980. The film is produced by Gabriel Francisco and Rafael Francisco. The film stars Richard Kind, Adrienne C. Moore, and Stef Dawson. Karen Tsen Lee plays Yoko Ono.
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut studio album by English rock musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and "Live Peace in Toronto 1969", a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Ono's debut avant garde solo album, "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band", at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team and nearly identical cover artwork.
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J. Michael Lennon J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University and the late Norman Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. He published Mailer's official biography "Norman Mailer: A Double Life" in 2013. He edited Mailer's selected letters, which were published by Random House in 2014.