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With the Help of Sweet Relief, 60's music icon Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers has overcome cancer, homelessness and is recording new music that is garnering national interest. Features spots of Mr. Chambers on CNN, NBC, YouTube and internet media news site, Reddit spurs huge support. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 09, 2013 Lester Chambers is now 72 years old. He has been performing professionally for 60 years. The highlight of his career was from 1965 to the early...
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In his iconic song "IMAGINE" John Lennon asked us all to picture a world free from hunger - a message that lives on today through the global IMAGINE THERE'S NO HUNGER campaign. For a fifth year artist and musician Yoko Ono Lennon generously lends her support to Hard Rock International and WhyHunger for IMAGINE THERE'S NO HUNGER, a global campaign to combat childhood hunger and poverty through the backing of sustainable...
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "Governor Cuomo: Imagine There's No Fracking" reads a large billboard up today on New York's Major Deegan Expressway, a route often used by the Governor. "Our message is simple: We want Governor Cuomo to imagine and guarantee a New York free of the fracking threat to our water, air, beautiful landscapes and climate," explained Yoko Ono, who designed and purchased the billboard space. "Every time New Yorkers pass this billboard, we also want...
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- We commend New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens and Governor Cuomo for launching a study of the health impacts of fracturing bedrock for gas. As the experts have shown, water supplies will inevitably be affected over time as the pipes for fracking leak and the concrete around the wells crack, releasing toxic chemicals and methane into the water and air. We are so pleased the full impact on health...
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Artists Against Fracking has been launched by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon as a new coalition of artists, musicians, filmmakers and public figures opposed to hydraulic fracking. The growing coalition now includes more than 180 members, including Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Anne Hathaway, Alec Baldwin, Marina Abramovic, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, MGMT, Wilco, Bonnie Raitt, Liv Tyler, Mario Batali, Roberta Flack, Robert De Niro,...
Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley, and Kevin Spacey join others urging action as talks open at UN NEW YORK, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As governments meet in New York to kick off month-long talks at the United Nations on arms control, more than 30 high-profile Oxfam and Amnesty International supporters, including Keira Knightley, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson, members of Coldplay, Tim Roth, Annie Lennox and Kevin Spacey, joined forces to demand governments take...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roberta Flack the four-time Grammy Award-winning artist is back after an eight year absence with a brand new album, "LET IT BE ROBERTA: ROBERTA FLACK SINGS THE BEATLES"--a collection of Beatles song interpretations. The first single "We Can Work It Out" is currently racing up the charts at several different radio formats including AC, Urban AC and Smooth Jazz. Buzz also continues to build with features in the WSJ, Huffington...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roberta Flack, the four-time Grammy Award-winning artist, is back after an eight year absence with a brand new album, "LET IT BE ROBERTA: ROBERTA FLACK SINGS THE BEATLES"--a collection of Beatles song interpretations. The first single "We Can Work It Out" is currently being worked at several different radio formats including AC, Urban AC and Smooth Jazz. Buzz continues to build as key press such as NPR, Billboard, Wall Street...
MUNICH, January 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Yoko Ono as guest of honor - Extensive art-sessions and exhibitions For the eighth time the "Digital-Life-Design" Conference takes place from January 22nd until January 24th in Munich. The name says it all as the dialogue about art and design is strongly connected with an interdisciplinary exchange. With this aspiration in mind DLD presents a series of discussions, organized and presented by the co-director of the...
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Gruen, an American photographer known for his iconic shots of legendary rock 'n' rollers, unveils his John Lennon "Peace & Freedom" Suite for collectors internationally. This museum quality artwork, released in partnership with Depiction Art, is a 30 X 40 silk screen in archival colors on Coventry 320 gram paper and available in four distinct versions, titled Yellow Afternoon, Blue Morning, Sunset and Fireworks Nite....
