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Stella McCartney Launches Charity Tees For Meat Free Mondays Apr 1, 2010

Fashion designer Stella McCartney has designed two new t-shirts to raise awareness of Meat Free Mondays. More →

Hard Rock Serves Up John Lennon For Charity Nov 11, 2009

Last week, Look To The Stars brought you the news that Yoko Ono had donated John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance to charity. Now we can reveal that she has also donated another of the singer’s songs to another charity campaign. More →

Yoko Ono Gives Song To United Nations Peacebuilding Fund Nov 5, 2009

To celebrate the unifying spirit and 40th anniversary of the Plastic Ono Band’s universal anthem, “Give Peace a Chance,” Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon have partnered with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to donate net proceeds from the sale of a commemorative 40th Anniversary digital single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). More →

Stars Write Letters To Themselves For Charity Book Nov 3, 2009

If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? More →

Legends Sign Guitars For Charity Auction Oct 20, 2009

A huge selection of guitars signed by rock legends both old and new will go under the hammer next weekend to aid in the fight against child cancer. More →

Yoko Ono Donates iPod To Charity Auction On John Lennon's Birthday Oct 6, 2009

Yoko Ono has given her support to a small Liverpool charity that is planning a fundraising initiative at a Beatles landmark to celebrate John Lennon's birthday on Friday. More →

World March For Peace Starts In New Zealand Oct 2, 2009

The World March for Peace and Non-Violence kicked off in Wellington, New Zealand, today, beginning a trek that will visit 90 countries on 6 continents, ending in Argentina on January 2 of next year. More →

Elizabeth Hurley Donates To Imagine Appeal Event Sep 22, 2009

Alder Hey Imagine Appeal has teamed up with the Racquet Club in Liverpool for it’s first ever Clothes Throw. More →

Beatlemania Returns For Charity Sep 10, 2009

Beatlemania has hit the headlines once again this week, with the release of the Fab Four’s remastered CD collection, their Rock Band video game, and a popular British presenter’s efforts to re-record their hits for charity. More →

Roving Billboards Marked Hiroshima Day Aug 13, 2009

Organizers of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence marked Hiroshima Day last week by launching roving celebrity billboards throughout midtown Manhattan. More →

John And Yoko's Bed-In Recreated For Peace Aug 10, 2009

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Yoko Ono and John Lennon's Bed-In, the organizing committee of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be holding a “Bed-In for Peace and Nonviolence” at the Cherry Hill Fountain Terrace in Central Park on August 16th from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m, where they will pay tribute to John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, and the timeless cause of peace. Cherry Hill Fountain Terrace is located adjacent to Strawberry Field inside the park. More →

Yoko Ono Supports Peace Initiative Jul 29, 2009

Yoko Ono is supporting the 40th anniversary celebrations of her famous Bed-In for Peace by encouraging a new public show of solidarity calling for nuclear disarmament and an end to war as a means of solving conflicts. More →

Yoko Ono Supports Call For Oneness Day Jul 17, 2009

Yoko Ono is calling on people to sign a petition that asks the United Nations to declare a Oneness Day. More →

Paul McCartney Launches Meat Free Mondays Jun 16, 2009

Sir Paul McCartney is spearheading a campaign to encourage people to “go vegetarian” for at least one day every week. Meat Free Monday is a food campaign to encourage the world to help slow climate change by reducing their meat consumption by having one meat free day a week. More →

Cyndie Lauper Launches Charity Auction Jun 12, 2009

Cyndi Lauper has launched the True Colors Fund online auction which aims to raise money to strengthen the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) and allied community by growing the number of volunteers and donors to the non-profit organizations working on their behalf. More →

Beatles Launch Game With Charity Download Jun 3, 2009

Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were in California earlier this week to launch the new Xbox The Beatles:Rock Band game. During the event, the musicians announced that one of the songs from the game, All You Need Is Love, will be released exclusively as a download through Xbox Live, with proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders. More →

Beatles Day 2009 To Benefit Charity Appeals May 13, 2009

Fans of the Fab Four around the world will have the chance to celebrate their favorite band during Beatles Day 09 and raise money for the Imagine Appeal for the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the Marina Dalglish Appeal for a radiotherapy centre in Liverpool. More →

Katy Perry And Friends Design T-Shirts For AIDS May 8, 2009

Singer Katy Perry has joined with Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono and hip hop group N.E.R.D. to design T-shirts as part of H&M’s second Fashion Against AIDS collection. More →

Yoko Ono Revisits Acorn Peace Campaign May 5, 2009

Yoko Ono is to recreate a peace promotion she originally carried out in 1969 with her husband, John Lennon, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. More →

Yoko Ono’s Promise On World Autism Day Apr 14, 2009

Artist Yoko Ono's two-metre jigsaw puzzle mural, called Promise, is being auctioned piece by piece to raise money for Autism Speaks. The art work was unveiled on April 2 on the United Nation’s World Autism Awareness Day. More →

Jarvis Cocker To Play For Children's Hospital Mar 31, 2009

British musician Jarvis Cocker is to play a special charity gig in Manchester next month. More →

Yoko Ono To Auction Artwork On World Autism Awareness Day Mar 18, 2009

Yoko Ono – artist, singer and widow of former Beatle John Lennon – is to unveil a new mural titled at UN headquarters next month in honor of World Autism Awareness Day. More →

John Lennon Serves Up Song For Charity CD Dec 30, 2008

Hot on the heels of John Lennon’s charity TV advertisements for lap tops, Hard Rock International is proud to announce the launch of its 2008 global “Imagine There’s No Hunger” campaign to benefit WHY, a nonprofit organization that strives to fight against hunger and poverty in America and around the world. More →

Stars Hold Bed-In For Peace Jun 3, 2008

Thirty nine years ago, celebrities didn’t have to travel round the world to give peace a chance. They didn’t need to rush to the poorest places, be seen at the flashiest charity parties, donate their old clothes to online auctions (well, they didn’t have the internet, so that last one was definitely out of the question). All they needed to do was stay in bed. Just ask John Lennon and Yoko Ono. OK, so you can’t exactly ask John Lennon, but you get the idea. Because back in 1969, when that illustrious pair held their famous bed-ins for peace, the world was a much simpler place – people wore their hair long, their feet bare, and smiled more than today. And believe it or not, history repeated itself last week. More →

Seal To Headline Charity Benefit Concert Jan 23, 2008

Seal is set to headline the 4th Annual Benefit Concert for More →

Bid Now For Christmas Gifts Nov 29, 2007

The countdown to Christmas has begun, and celebrities are doing their best to make holiday shopping easy this year. Several charity auctions have already kicked off to raise money for good causes, including one that may be eBay’s largest sale of celebrity items… ever! More →

New CD To Raise Aid For Darfur Jun 19, 2007

Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur is a new CD that seeks to raise aid for the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur. It features the music of John Lennon recorded by some of the world’s best known musicians. More →