Mark your calendar now.

You're invited to Lyric on October 9th to help us honor the great John Lennon on the 68th anniversary of his birth. We'll be playing his music on the world’s finest home music system all day long.

Don't miss this free event, which will take place in our Manhattan store's Soundroom A, a space that boasts better acoustics than most recording studios. We'll be spinning Beatles and solo Lennon CDs on our Super Fidelity Reference System, valued at over $500,000.

The music begins promptly at 10 am, when Lyric opens, and runs continuously through our 6 pm closing time. No reservations are necessary. Simply stop by at your convenience any time you like.

Lyric’s Super Fidelity Reference System includes benchmark components, the like of which appear on audiophile magazine covers. While it evolves as cutting-edge manufacturers introduce new top-of-the-line gear, in its current form it comprises a CD player, a preamplifier and power amplifiers by Audio Research, the Nola Grand Reference loudspeaker system and Nordost cable.

Few people will ever own such equipment, but Lyric’s tribute to the great singer-songwriter John Lennon will allow everyone who attends to experience the thrill of hearing momentous music played on it in an equally impressive setting.

John Lennon: Days In The Life

1940 – Lennon is born in Liverpool, England on October 9th during a German air raid and is given the middle name Winston in honor of his country’s Prime Minister.

1957 — His mother, Julia, who had taught him to play banjo, buys John his first guitar, and he starts the group that would morph into the Beatles.

1960 — The Beatles get a manager and a gig in Hamburg, Germany.

1962 — The group signs with EMI and releases a single that includes the Lennon/McCartney tune, "Love Me Do."

1963 — The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, recorded on a day Lennon was suffering from a cold, soars to #1 on the charts.

1964 — The Beatles invade New York, encamp at Manhattan’s staid Plaza Hotel, and on February 9th perform on the Ed Sullivan Show to an estimated 73 million viewers.

1965 — All four Beatles appear on Queen Elizabeth II’s Birthday Honours List and are named Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Several previous honorees give up their own MBEs in an unprecedented protest.

1966 — Lennon prophesies the death of Christianity and proclaims the Beatles more popular than Jesus. After some radio stations ban the group’s music and some performances are cancelled, he apologizes.

1969 — John Lennon parts company with the Beatles after 13 albums, a legacy that would prove utterly remarkable for its influence on the music it inspired from countless fellow musicians.

1970 — He begins releasing solo recordings and collaborations with his wife, Yoko Ono.

1972 — The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service begins deportation procededings against Lennon, a vocal opponent of the Viet Nam war, ostensibly for marijuana possession.

1973 — Lennon is ordered to leave the country. A series of appeals would ultimately allow him to stay.

1975 — Sean Lennon is born on his father’s 35th birthday, and John retires from the music business to pursue a career as a father.

1980 — He emerges from retirement with the release of the album Double Fantasy, which also features Ono. Then, on the evening of December 8th, the 40-year-old star is shot four times while returning to his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and dies at nearby Roosevelt Hospital.