From an Associated Press bulletin out of New York dated December 8^th, 1980:

Yoko Ono, wife of former Beatle John Lennon, is in critical condition tonight following an attempt on Lennon’s life outside the Dakota apartment complex in Manhattan. Police are giving out few details about the shooting, but it has been confirmed that Ono was hit twice in the abdomen as she sought to wrest the gun from the shooter. The attacker, who has not yet been identified, fled the scene of the crime and is being actively sought by police....

 

From the front page of the December 10^th, 1980 New York Post:

COME TOGETHER

McCartney in New York to visit Lennon, Ono after shooting

From the New York Daily News that same day, page 2:

From the front page of the December 13^th, 1980 New York Times:

SHOOTER IN ATTACK ON YOKO ONO ARRESTED; MCCARTNEY SAYS

"NO COMMENT" ON RUMORS OF BEATLES REUNION DISCUSSION WITH

LENNON

From the December 16^th, 1980 broadcast of The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite:

Yoko Ono, wife of ex-Beatle John Lennon, has been moved out of intensive care at Columbia University Hospital and is expected to be able to go home within seven to ten days...In a related story, Mark David Chapman, the suspected gunman in Ono’s shooting and the attempt to murder John Lennon, has been placed on suicide watch after guards at Riker’s Island found him trying to hang himself early this afternoon.…

From the December 24^th, 1980 Boston Herald-American, page 3:

Former Beatle John Lennon got an early Christmas present last night as his wife, Yoko Ono, was released from Columbia University Hospital....

 

From the front page of the January 6^th, 1981 New York Daily News:

LENNON, MCCARTNEY REUNITING?

From the February 17^th, 1981 edition of News of the World:

LENNON: BEATLES REUNION ‘POSSIBLE BUT NOT A CERTAINTY’

 

From the arts and entertainment section of the April 6^th, 1981 Chicago Tribune:

Speculation about a possible future Beatles reunion is on the rise today after a spokesman for Paul McCartney acknowledged yesterday that the ex-Beatle has contacted Chicago-area concert promoters about booking show dates at Chicago Stadium for next year; one of the promoters called by McCartney, however, tells the Tribune that the shows in question are for McCartney’s current band, Wings...

From the sports section of the June 27^th, 1981 Los Angeles Times:

The Lakers may be getting by with a little help from their friends if team officials can reach a deal with former Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon; the two legendary rock stars have been approached about the possibility of performing the national anthem at the team’s season opener in November....

From the December 8^th, 1981 Toronto Globe & Mail, page 5:

Tonight, exactly one full year to the day after she nearly lost her life to a bullet intended for her husband John Lennon, Yoko Ono will be appearing at a peace rally in London’s Hyde Park...

From the March 6^th, 1982 Hollywood Reporter:

Former Beatle drummer Ringo Starr confirmed in a short written statement last night that he has been approached by fellow ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison about the possibility of a group reunion…

From the May 13^th, 1982 New York Daily News:

IT’S TRUE, BY GEORGE! HARRISON SAYS BEATLES GETTING BACK

TOGETHER TO RECORD NEW ALBUM

Most of profits from new LP to be donated to Amnesty International

From the March 6^th, 1983 edition of Entertainment Tonight:

On the heels of the success of Free As A Bird, their first LP as a group in twelve years, the Beatles are heading back to the recording studio to make another album and have also started filming their first-ever music video...

From the July 19^th, 1983 edition of Time magazine:

One cannot help but note the irony that the very woman who thirteen years ago was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles is now being credited with playing an integral part in their rebirth...

From the cover of the August 22^nd, 1983 edition of Rolling Stone:

GEORGE HARRISON: The "Quiet Beatle" speaks out about the group’s reunion

From the arts & entertainment section of the October 12^th, 1983 edition of the Boston Herald:

Longtime Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who recently reunited with his bandmates after nearly thirteen years, will be visiting Boston University tomorrow to talk with students about his experiences in the music world and take questions concerning the group’s reunion and their two latest albums...

From the January 22^nd, 1984 New York Post:

LET IT BE....ON FILM

Beatles’ upcoming reunion tour to be subject of documentary movie

From the March 10^th, 1984 broadcast of MTV News:

The Beatles’ resurgence continues to be the main topic of conversation in the music industry this week...Real Love, the group’s second LP album since they re-formed almost two years ago, has just made number one on the Billboard album charts and plans for their much-anticipated reunion tour next year have kicked into high gear with word that the tour’s first concert has been booked for Candlestick Park, the same venue that hosted their last live US show in 1966…

From the arts & entertainment section of the September 2^nd, 1984 Toronto Globe & Mail:

From the October 15^th, 1984 Miami Herald:

THIRD SHOW ADDED TO BEATLES’ JUNE ORANGE BOWL CONCERT

From the October 20^th, 1984 broadcast of The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather:

Soviet cultural officials are emphatically denying rumors that they’ve started negotiating with the Beatles for the band to do three concerts in Moscow’s Red Square....

From the November 1^st, 1984 San Francisco Examiner, page 3:

SEATS FOR BEATLE REUNION TOUR DEBUT CONCERT SELL OUT IN UNDER

2 HOURS

"I haven’t seen anything like it in years", says local music promoter

From a CNN news report dated November 15^th, 1984:

Come next March, the eyes of the music world will be focused on Candlestick Park as the Beatles embark on a reunion tour fourteen years in the making. Meanwhile, here in Atlanta, a fourth show has been added to the band’s scheduled July 21^st-July 22^nd concert set at the Omni...

From the December 2^nd, 1984 broadcast of MTV News:

Anticipation for the Candlestick Park concert that will kick off next spring’s Beatles reunion tour has been heightened by the news that San Francisco’s own Grateful Dead will be opening for the Fab Four at that concert....

From the December 6^th, 1984 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight With Peter Jennings:

Beatlemania may be finally starting to break out in Cuba; in an interview in today’s edition of the official Cuban government newspaper Granma, Cuban president Fidel Castro extended an invitation for the Beatles to bring their reunion tour to the island nation...

From the December 8^th, 1984 Boston Globe:

4^TH SHOW ADDED TO BOSTON LEG OF BEATLES REUNION TOUR

From the December 16^th, 1984 Detroit Free Press:

PONTIAC SILVERDOME SHOW ADDED FOR BEATLES’ JULY VISIT TO

DETROIT AREA

From the December 22^nd, 1984 broadcast of MTV News:

The documentary film being made about next spring’s Beatles reunion tour may not be the only time we see the Fab Four on the silver screen in the near future if Walt Disney Pictures has its way. The House of Mouse is currently in talks with Apple Films to collaborate on a sequel to the 1968 animated movie adventure Yellow Submarine....

From the December 27^th, 1984 Dallas Morning Herald:

SELLOUT CROWD ANTICIPATED FOR SEPTEMBER BEATLES SHOW AT

REUNION ARENA

From the January 3^rd, 1985 San Francisco Examiner:

SFPD BEGIN SECURITY PREPARATIONS FOR MARCH BEATLES REUNION

CONCERT

From the January 11^th, 1985 Washington Post:

THIRD NIGHT ADDED TO BEATLES’ RFK STADIUM SHOW

From the January 14^th, 1985 Oakland Tribune:

As anticipation builds for the Beatles’ upcoming reunion concert in the San Francisco area, Alameda County sheriff’s deputies are working around the clock with San Francisco and Oakland police to crack down on would-be ticket scalpers....

From the January 20^th, 1985 New York Times, page A5:

IN D.C., BEATLES REUNION COMPETES WITH REAGAN’S SECOND

INAUGURATION FOR PUBLIC ATTENTION

From the January 22^nd, 1985 Jerusalem Post:

BEATLES FANS IN ISRAEL PLEAD FOR GROUP TO PLAY TEL AVIV & HAIFA

From the January 25^th, 1985 broadcast of Entertainment Tonight:

The Rolling Stones are declining comment on rumors that covers of the group’s hits "Satisfaction" and "Start Me Up" may be included on the playlist for the Beatles reunion tour’s opening concert in March in San Francisco...

From the January 27^th, 1985 San Francisco Examiner, page A4:

LENNON’S SONS TO JOIN BEATLES AT CANDLESTICK PARK CONCERT SET

From the February 3^rd, 1985 broadcast of MTV News:

With just over a month remaining before the start of the Beatles’ historic reunion tour, an unexpected complication has arisen that could jeopardize the tour’s planned West Berlin finale. The West German music promoter who was supposed to have produced that concert, tentatively set to take place in mid-September, has been arrested on tax fraud charges and is now in a Munich jail awaiting trial on those charges as well as two dozen other counts of embezzlement, forgery and breach of contract...

The band is now scrambling to salvage the concert, which has been one of the most eagerly anticipated music events in Europe since it was first announced, and according to sources close to the band John Lennon is said to be considering filing a civil suit in the West German courts against the jailed promoter....

 

From the February 7^th broadcast of MTV News:

The Beatles’ plans for closing their historic reunion tour in West Berlin appear to be back on track today as a new producer has stepped in to take the place of the original producer, who is set to be indicted tomorrow on fraud and embezzlement charges....

From the February 10^th, 1985 Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung:

EAST GERMAN YOUTHS CLAMOR FOR BEATLES TO VISIT THEIR TOWNS

From the February 12^th, 1985 broadcast of Nightline:

While the Berlin Wall may be good at hindering spies and would-be defectors, it’s apparently not much of a defense against Beatlemania; anonymous sources inside the East German foreign ministry are telling us tonight that the ministry’s visa office is seeing a dramatic increase in the number of applications for visas to West Germany thanks to the Beatles reunion tour’s scheduled concerts in several West German cities before the tour’s mid-September finale in West Berlin....

 

From the February 16^th, 1985 News of the World:

ANTICIPATION BUILDING FOR BEATLES REUNION TOUR PREVIEW CONCERT

AT WEMBLEY

From the February 22^nd, 1985 New York Times:

Beatles In Talks With Israeli Music Promoters To Hold Concert In Tel Aviv Next Summer

From the February 28^th, 1985 San Francisco Examiner:

If the reception that greeted John, Paul, George, and Ringo last night when they took the stage for their reunion preview concert at London’s Wembley Stadium is any sign, the reunion tour that will be starting at Candlestick Park in six days’ time is destined to be a huge success. The roar that filled Wembley at the sight of the Fab Four taking the stage for their first live performance in almost two decades could be heard all the way to the mouth of the Thames River....

From the March 4^th, 1985 broadcast of Entertainment Tonight:

With just two days to go before the kickoff of their historic reunion tour, the Beatles have revealed that there will be a surprise guest at the tour’s debut concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park....

From the March 7^th, 1985 broadcast of MTV News:

The debut of the Beatles’ reunion tour was everything it was cracked up to be and then some. When the Fab Four emerged from the tunnel at Candlestick Park to take the stage the crowd erupted with an ovation so loud you wouldn’t know they’d been apart fifteen seconds, much less fifteen years; the arrival of surprise special guest Elton John nearly blew out the walls. Add in the presence of the Grateful Dead as an opening act and you’ve got yourself the makings of a watershed moment in musical history.…

 

From the March 10^th, 1985 New York Times, arts & entertainment section:

Madison Square Garden Expected To Sell Out For Beatles Reunion Tour Appearance In June

 

From the March 12^th, 1985 Los Angeles Times:

BEATLES REUNION PLAYS TO SELLOUT CROWD AT LA COLISEUM

From the March 16^th, 1985 broadcast of MTV News:

From the March 22^nd, 1985 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

The Beatles today released the complete final schedule for the Canadian leg of their historic reunion tour....

From the April 5^th, 1985 broadcast of Entertainment Tonight:

The Beatles reunion tour continues to play to sellout crowds as it rolls across America, and just when you thought the hype couldn’t get any bigger comes word that the Fab Four have been approached by Band Aid organizer Bob Geldof to take part in the London phase of the Live Aid global televised mega-concert scheduled to take place in July to raise funds to relieve the plight of famine victims in Ethiopia....

From the April 13^th, 1985 Variety:

BEATLES FINALIZE DEAL WITH DISNEY FOR "YELLOW SUBMARINE" SEQUEL

From the April 24^th, 1985 broadcast of MTV News:

Like King Midas, the Beatles seem to turn everything they touch to gold. In just about every venue they’ve played so far on their reunion tour it’s been standing room only and concert promoters all across the United States and Canada have notched record profits; Forbes magazine estimates that the "Free As A Bird" tour is already the most financially successful rock concert series in music history.

In a related story, John Lennon has made it official: the Beatles will be appearing in Tel Aviv next summer for what Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono describe as "a musical bridge- building" directed at encouraging young Israelis and Palestinians to put aside the hatreds that have marred Israeli-Palestinian relations for decades...

From the May 10^th, 1985 Montreal Gazette, arts & entertainment section:

BEATLES REUNION TOUR EXPECTED TO BREAK FORUM CONCERT TICKET

SALES RECORDS

 

From the September 23^rd, 1985 broadcast of MTV News:

From the June 28^th, 1986 Jerusalem Post:

The long and bitter conflict between Israelis and Palestinians seemed to disappear, if only for a few fleeting moments, when the Beatles took the stage last night for their first-ever concert appearance in Tel Aviv. No one could fail to grasp the symbolism of Jewishand Arab concert-goers joining John Lennon on an impromptu acoustic rendition of "Give Peace A Chance"...

From the November 10^th, 1989 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

Four years on from the moment he first called for the Berlin Wall’s demolition, John Lennon has fittingly returned to the historic city to be a witness to the fulfillment of his pleas. The music icon and longtime political activist, in West Berlin to promote an upcoming European exhibition of some of his artworks, accompanied his wife Yoko Ono on a visit to the dividing line between West and East Berlin and watched German construction workers haul off vast blocks of the Wall while young Berliners chipped away at the sections still standing...

From the December 8^th, 1995 New York Daily News:

"I FEEL FOR HIM"

John Lennon’s surprising comments about Mark David Chapman as world marks 15^th anniversary of Yoko Ono’s brush with death

 

From the July 18^th, 2006 edition of NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams:

Tributes are pouring in from around the world tonight as music fans mourn the passing of Beatles founder John Lennon. The singer, political activist, and amateur artist was making final revisions to a requiem he’d written in honor of the victims of the 9/11 attacks when he died this afternoon at the age of 65. Lennon’s passing leaves guitarist Paul McCartney, longtime Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, and Starr’s predecessor Pete Best as the last surviving alumni of one of the world’s most famous rock groups...