Theatre
A new show celebrating the life and music of John Lennon to tour UK
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A brand-new celebration of Liverpool’s legendary icon John Lennon is set to tour the UK.
Something About Lennon – The John Lennon Story will embark on a 26-date tour from May to July 2025, playing at three locations across Liverpool City Region.
The show is a unique and powerful tribute to the life and music of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time.
It opens in Wrexham on May 19 before three dates in Scotland – at Arbroath on 20 May, Airdrie on 21 May and Dundee on May 22. From there the tour arrives at Ulverston on 23 May, Wolverhampton (25 May) and St Helens (27 May) before travelling to New Brighton (28 May), Southport (31 May), Crewe (1 June), Birmingham (4 June) Yarm (6 June), Hull (7 June), Cheltenham (10 June), Blackburn (12 June), Leeds (13 June), Alnwick (14 June), Hexham (15 June), Blackpool (18 June), Coventry (19 June), Shrewsbury (20 June), Swindon on 24 June, Peterborough (25 June), Sale (26 June) and Lincoln (4 July). The tour ends in Wakefield on 5 July.
West End performer and musician Daniel Taylor fronts the production’s band of five and tells the fascinating story of Lennon along with performing his best-known, best-loved hits. The band are Joe Smithson (MD, Guitar and Vocals), Callum Macmillan (Percussion/Drums), Jesse Eigen (Bass Guitar and Vocals) and James Breckon (Keyboard and Vocals).
Weaving together songs and stories, Something About Lennon is not a tribute show as we know it, but rather one musician authentically telling the tale and honouring the music of another in a story that will reveal a life that wasn’t always filled with peace and love.
A tale of controversy, genius, politics and protest, Something About Lennon charts John’s life from the breakup of the Beatles at the end of the 1960s to his shocking murder in New York in December 1980 and features an irresistible soundtrack of incredible songs including Woman, Instant Karma and Imagine – although of course the story wouldn’t be complete without a few of those Fab Four classics along the way too.
Something About Lennon is brought to audiences by producers Bill Elms, Jon Fellowes and Gary Edward Jones of Something About Productions.
It has also been announced that The Beatles Story is on board as a production partner.
Daniel Taylor trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and is an actor, producer, and director. He has previously played John Lennon in the award-winning Lennon Through a Glass Onion, and is also known from his many years in Blood Brothers, along with The Very Best of Tommy Cooper, Twopence to Cross The Mersey and most recently in By The Waters Of Liverpool. He also played Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New York’s Central Park.
Daniel Taylor said:
“Following the huge success of Something About George, I’m really looking forward to creating the same magic with Something About Lennon which tours to venues across the UK in 2025.
“It’s lovely as a performer and actor to have people put so much trust in you to tell such an incredible story, and to celebrate someone as unique and timeless as John Lennon.
“And of course there are all those iconic songs which have formed the soundtrack to so many people’s lives, and which will be performed live with a brilliant band of musicians.
“I can’t wait to revisit the man and the legend in this fantastic new show.”
Co-producer Bill Elms added:
“John Lennon was a fascinating, and a multi-faceted character, and more than 40 years after his untimely death he continues to be a towering presence both within popular culture and beyond.
“Something About Lennon explores the decade between the breakup of the Beatles and Lennon’s death – a time that saw him re-examining his life and career, pursuing new passions, finding domestic contentment and, tragically, being taken from his family and the world just at the moment he had started what was set to be an amazing and creatively fulfilling new chapter.
“I’m excited to be able to present this stunning new show to audiences across the UK, and I’m also really delighted that The Beatles Story has joined us as a production partner for what I’m certain is going to be a fantastic tour.”