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| December 26, 2002
Report of Events from October to December 2002
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The John Lennon Museum (Jiro Kikuchi, General Manager of the Museum/Saitama-city, Saitama pref.) has presented or held in cooperation the following three events from John's birthday, October 9, to John's obit, December 8, this year.
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"Happy Birthday, John" (October 9, 2002) |
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A live performance, "Happy Birthday, John" was held at the Museum Cafe on Wednesday, October 9, from 7 p.m. Artists who love and respect John Lennon, "A.B.C." "Kiichi Morishige" "Naomi Tamura" "g o m" "Image of Hawaii," assembled and at the end of the event, they sang enthusiastically "Happy Birthday, John" with the audience.
(This was an invitation-only event of 50 couples, 100 people)
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Trying Out for the Guinness Book of Records - "The World's Biggest Coin Picture" (October 26, 2002) |
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On Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m., the above-mentioned event was held in the event space of Omiya Sonic City. At the request of the organizer, Saitama Chuo Junior Chamber, Corp., we cooperated in obtaining Ms. Yoko Ono's approval, etc as to creating the world's biggest John Lennon's portrait.
It was raining unluckily, yet participants including local elementary school children have completed the picture by 4 p.m. In our Museum, approximately 30,000 of 1 yen coin were taken up. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Later, we received a report of the total amount of the fund raising; it was approximately 1.02 million yen (coins). The amount after subtracting the expenses of the event will go to the Spirit Foundation, which was established by John and Yoko in 1980.
Unfortunately, they were not able to enter the Guinness Book of Records.
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<reference: Record as of June 6, 2002> |
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December 4, 2001 - A coin picture using approx. 1.66 million coins (large variety) |
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John Lennon Memorial Days (December 7 - 9, 2002) |
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22 years after John's death, a tribute event was held for three days from December 7th to 9th, 2002, straddling John's obit, December 8.
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Setting the Floral Tribute Space, which fans of John can gather
As we do every year, we set the floral tribute space in memory of John. Since "John Lennon Super Live 2002" was held in Saitama Super Arena on the same day this year, many John Lennon's fans offered flowers even after the concert.
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"Tribute Free Live Contest 2002"
We ran a live contest by amateur musicians as follows:
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<Contest Schedule>
| Saturday, Dec. 7 |
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Contest, Selection, Announcements of results, and Review |
| Sunday, Dec. 8 |
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Award ceremony and Commemorative live by prizewinners |
| Monday, Dec. 9 |
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Live concert by line-up etc. except prizewinners |
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Total 22 teams, which got through a demo tape screening or recommended by live houses, vied with each other playing John's songs, including the ones of his Beatles' time, and original songs dedicated to John. In result, prizewinners were decided as follows. For grand prize, we awarded the Museum original guitar plaque. For every prizewinner and the recommended live house, we presented a denim stage jumper signed by Ms. Yoko Ono.
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| *Grand Prize: |
"Ohsama Pants" (Sachio & Kotoe Saneyoshi) |
| *Love & Peace Prize: |
"Magic Alex" (Kenji Kubomura, Takamaru Iida, Yudai Negishi, Hiroyuki Hamano, and Masamichi Koike) |
| *Mersey Beat Prize: |
"Yesterday" (Shinsuke Yasui, Hiroshi Maruyama, Shoutaro Ishihara, Atsushi Kawasaki) |
| *Special Prize (VOX): |
Hiroki Shigeeda
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| We plan to hold the "Tribute Free Live Contest" next year. |
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<Operating Outline> |
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11 a.m. - 6 p.m. |
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Every Tuesday (Open when Tue. is a national holiday, and closed on the following Wed.), January 1 & 2 |
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Adults ¥1,500, High School/College Students ¥1,000, Elementary/Junior High School Students ¥500 |
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