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Post by peregrine9 on Oct 23, 2011 22:00:16 GMT
The Royal Gazette Online October 20, 2011 Statue planned to remember John Lennon Thirty-one years ago a British musician was touring the Botanical Gardens when he came upon a particularly beautiful freesia. He was so inspired by the beauty of the flower he named an album after it.The album was called ‘Double Fantasy’, and the songwriter was the legendary John Lennon of The Beatles fame. Next year, the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary by erecting a statue honouring Mr Lennon on their premises at the Botanical Gardens.The statue is being designed by local artist Graham Foster and has been approved by John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono and his son, Julian.Tom Butterfield and Elise Outerbridge of Masterworks are working in conjunction with musician Tony Brannon, who spotted Mr Lennon in a nightclub in Bermuda when he visited in 1980. They first considered a bronze statue of John Lennon, but the idea was vetoed by Mr Lennon’s son, Julian, and Yoko Ono.“I put the idea to him, and he came back to me and said the last thing he wanted to see was another bronze statue of his dad,” said Mr Brannon. “He said ‘I haven’t seen a decent one yet. Plant a tree, do whatever you want to do, but don’t put up another bronze statue of my father’.“A similar answer came back from Yoko Ono, who oversees the John Lennon estate. We could have put up whatever we wanted, but the whole point is to really take it to the best level you can get it.” www.royalgazette.com/article/20111020/ISLAND/710209988/0
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