John Lennon two of the tracks later appeared on "John Lennon Anthology" (1998). Following the "Bloody Sunday" incident in Northern Ireland in 1972, in which fourteen unarmed civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army, Lennon said that given the choice between the army and the IRA (who were not involved in the incident) he would side with the latter. Lennon and Ono wrote two songs protesting British presence and actions in Ireland for their "Some Time in New York City" album: "The Luck of the Irish" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In 2000, David Shayler, a former member of Britain's
Lennon Naked Lennon Naked Lennon Naked is a 2010 television biographical film focusing on the life of John Lennon between 1967 and 1971. It stars Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon and was directed by Edmund Coulthard. The film was first broadcast on 23 June 2010 on BBC Four, and received its US premiere on PBS on 21 November 2010 as part of "Masterpiece Contemporary", airing the day before the "American Masters" documentary "LennoNYC", which begins where "Lennon Naked" ended. The film premiered in Australia on 5 December 2010. In 1964, a reluctant John Lennon (Eccleston) is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein (Rory