A 21-year-old man suspected of striking a bicyclist in Oceanside last month while driving under the influence, then attempting to leave the crash scene with family members, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and hit-and-run causing death.
What inspired Lennon’s classic debut album?
By Randall Roberts - Los Angeles Times
John Lennon in Syracuse, New York, in 1971. Lennon’s debut solo album, “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” which came out in December 1970, is the subject of an exhaustively documented box set just released by Capitol/UME and the Lennon estate.
In the months before John Lennon and Yoko Ono entered Abbey Road Studios in London to start work on what would become the album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” the couple were renting a home on Nimes Road in one of LA’s fanciest neighborhoods, Bel-Air.