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JOHN LENNON'S ENGINEER SHORTLISTED FOR HEART TRANSPLANT

7/29/2010

Friends and fans of John Lennon's legendary recording engineer Dennis Ferrante (pronounced: Firr-ant-eee ) will be teaming up on August 4th at New York City's Highline Ballroom to raise money for a new heart for him. Examiner.com reported that Ferrante, who has suffered numerous heart attacks and whose heart is only functioning at 20 percent usage, is now classified as a "1-B heart transplant candidate." The benefit will partially cover Ferrante's medical insurance and living expenses. Among the assorted friends performing the Have A Heart For Dennis benefit are Wings members Denny Laine and Steve Holley, along with the Crystals' La La Brooks, Lou Christie, and Will Lee from the Fab Faux and CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman. Other special guests are expected to appear.

Ferrante worked side-by-side at the Record Plant East studio with Lennon throughout the 1970's and engineered most of Lennon's solo work, including Imagine, Some Time In New York City, Mind Games, Walls And Bridges, and Rock 'N' Roll.

Ferrante recently told us that the loss of Lennon -- and the aftermath of his death -- continues to hit him hard: "Yoko stole John from everybody because she had him cremated that night, or the next morning. And nobody got to pay our last respects to him, we never got to see him. She just cut everybody off from that. And I thought that was heartless on her part -- and I still think it was heartless. Because, y'know, it's not that it was just her husband, he had a lot of friends that wanted to be there to at least pay respects, and she stopped it from everybody -- she stopped everybody from doing that. Her claim was that she didn't want to put everybody through it, and I don't believe it."

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