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Pay-Per-Viewing of John Lennon’s Spirit

by Administrator on April 21st, 2006

ATTEMPTS to contact the spirit of John Lennon for an American TV show have been branded “exploitative” by representatives of his widow, Yoko Ono.

Alocal psychic has been chosen by a US-based production company tocontact the spirit of the late Beatle for a controversial pay-for-viewTV show to be broadcast across North America later this month.

Skelmersdale-bornJoe Power was filming The Spirit of John Lennon at Lennon’s old hauntsaround Liverpool last week before being flown out to New York and LosAngeles to see if he can contact his essence there.

“I’vebeen going round where John Lennon used to be and see if I can pick upany of his thoughts and feelings,” said 40-year-old Mr Power, who hasvisited Lennon’s old school Quarry Bank - now CalderstonesComprehensive - as well as venues where the band played in the city,including the Jacaranda club, in Slater Street.

Butthe show has already kicked up a storm of controversy. Made by theLA-based Starcast company, it is a follow-up to another pay-for-viewshow, The Spirit of Diana, made three years ago in which a seance washeld to try to contact the late Princess who died in car crash in 1997.

That show, which for legal reasons was never screened in this country, drew half a million US viewers who paid $14.95 to watch it. The 90-minute Lennon show, which is due to be shown on April 24, will cost viewers $9.95.

However, Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Yoko Ono, has already branded the programme, “tacky, exploitative and far removed from Mr Lennon’s way of life.” “John Lennon was an amazing communicator of heart, mind and spirit,” said Mr Mintz.. “He still speaks to those who choose to listen to his recordings. That was the medium he chose to speak with us. A pay-for-view seance was never his style.”

Starcast president and the show’s executive producer, 72-year-old Paul Sharratt, who originally comes from Wolverhampton, accepts that the show, which also features an interview with

former Beatles manager Allan Williams, is considered unacceptable by Yoko.

“We’ve had to take very high legal advice about what we can actually screen because the John Lennon estate is not going along with it,” explained Mr Sharratt, who insisted he is a sceptic.

“People say this is disgusting and I accept that criticism. But we’re making a serious attempt to do something that many people around the world think is possible.”

He said that they chose Mr Power, who has his own clairvoyance show on British cable TV, because of his growing reputation as a medium in the States.

Mr Power, a former pupil of Digmoor High School, who has helped police on the Lynsey Quy, Helen McCourt and Sarah Payne murder investigations, says that he has already unearthed some interesting revelations about Lennon’s life.

He added, though: “I can’t go into detail what I’ve picked up or what Lennon has said to me because of my agreement with Starcast not to be specific until after the programme is broadcast.” via ICliverpool

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