Posts Tagged ‘John Lennon’

4.00pm, Saturday 20 December 1969 (42 years ago) During his final Canadian peace campaign of 1969, John Lennon took part in a number of media engagements. Two occurred on this day, the first at the department of culture and technology at the University of Toronto. CBS-TV, a US television network, scheduled and filmed a summit between Lennon [...]


Elizabeth McLuhan. Marshall McLuhan and his wife Corinne on a friend’s boat in Toronto, Summer 1980. Source: Special to The Hamilton Spectator Daughter of an icon   -   September 14, 2011 Elizabeth McLuhan knew her father was famous. How could she not? He was the subject of a popular two-line poem (“What are you doin’, Marshall McLuhan?”) on [...]


-        From Norman, P. (2009). John Lennon: The Life. Toronto: Random House of Canada.  Before leaving Toronto, he and Yoko had a meeting with Marshall McLuhan, guru of the new science of communications, whose famous axiom “the medium is the message” might have been coined especially for them. Why choose Canada as their arena rather [...]


Of course John Lennon knew of McLuhan, followed his work, sought him out in Toronto and was later interviewed my McLuhan. More on that in another posting. JOHN LENNON AND MARSHALL McLUHAN, ECHOES IN THE UNIVERSE By: Jan Feldman It was 30 years ago today, well, 30 years ago December, when the light of two pop [...]



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