{"id":52425,"date":"2022-04-11T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52425"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:12:12","slug":"can-you-identify-john-lennons-mystery-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/can-you-identify-john-lennons-mystery-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you identify John Lennon’s mystery radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0reader,\u00a0Robert Yowell, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas – you might recall several years ago I found a photo of a Sony ICF-2001 in the New York studio where John Lennon was recording his final album \u201cDouble Fantasy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Well I just recently found this photo of John Lennon which I believe is dated to the late 1970\u2019s<\/del> [correction: the photo was actually taken in November, 1980, just a few days before his death] tuning an unknown brand of portable radio. Do you think your readers might be able to identify it?<\/p>\n

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All the best,<\/p>\n

Robert<\/p>\n

Thanks for sharing this, Robert! No doubt, this will be a difficult radio to ID since we can’t see the front of it. Then again, we’ve some savvy radio enthusiasts here in the SWLing Post<\/em> community! If you think you can ID this radio, please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0reader,\u00a0Robert Yowell, who writes: Hi Thomas – you might recall several years ago I found a photo of a Sony ICF-2001 in the New York studio where John Lennon was recording his final album \u201cDouble Fantasy.\u201d Well I just recently found this photo of John Lennon which I believe is dated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,43],"tags":[2240,3349,2055,3351],"class_list":["post-52425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-beatles","tag-john-lennon","tag-mystery-radio","tag-robert-yowell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dDz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11199,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/john-lennon-and-the-sony-icf-2001\/","url_meta":{"origin":52425,"position":0},"title":"John Lennon and the Sony ICF-2001","author":"Thomas","date":"October 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Robert Yowell, who writes: \"I happen to be a huge Beatles fan, and especially a fan of John Lennon's solo music as well. 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