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John Lennon - Purple Gradation

Music Icons

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue September 7, 2018
Year 2018
Quantity 10,000,000
Denomination
First-Class Mail Forever
Denomination Value $0.50
Perforation or Dimension 1.225 x 1.225 in./31.115 x 31.115 mm
Series Music Icons
Series Time Span 2013 - 2018
Issue Location New York, NY 10199
Postal Administration United States

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Layouts

Pane of 16 (4 Designs)

Quantity Produced - 2,500,000
Original Purchase Price: $8.00
SKU: 565404
Dimension: 7 x 7 in./177.8 x 177.8 mm
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Printed at: Browns Summit, NC
Printing Process: Offset
Gum Type: Pressure-sensitive
Paper: Phosphor, Block Tagged
Layout Number: None
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Press Sheet With Die-Cuts

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Original Purchase Price: $48.00
SKU: 565406
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First Day Cover

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Original Purchase Price: $3.76
SKU: 565416
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Digital Color Postmark

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Original Purchase Price: $6.60
SKU: 565421
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Ceremony Program

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Original Purchase Price: $6.95
SKU: 565430
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DCP Keepsake

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Original Purchase Price: $14.95
SKU: 565410
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Ceremony Memento

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Original Purchase Price: $20.95
SKU: 565434
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Vinyl Book

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Original Purchase Price: $32.95
SKU: 565427
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About Stamp

On September 7, 2018, in New York, NY, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the John Lennon stamps (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in four designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 16 stamps. The stamps will go on sale nationwide September 7, 2018.

The newest stamps in the Music Icons series honor singer-songwriter John Lennon (1940–1980), a rock-and-roll hero successful both as a founding member of the Beatles and as a solo artist. Still beloved around the world, Lennon‘s music remains an anchor of pop radio and continues to speak for truth, peace, and tolerance. The stamp design features a photograph of Lennon taken by noted rock-and-roll photographer Bob Gruen in August 1974 during the photo session for Lennon‘s 1974 album Walls and Bridges. For the stamps, the original black-and-white image has been treated in gradations of color.

The stamp pane is designed to resemble a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve. One side of the pane includes the stamps, brief text about Lennon‘s legacy, and the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. A black-and-white photograph of Lennon seated at his white piano appears on the reverse, along with Lennon‘s signature and the Music Icons series logo. Taken by photographer Peter Fordham, the original photograph was used to promote Lennon‘s landmark 1971 solo album, Imagine. Art director Antonio Alcalá worked on the stamp pane with designer Neal Ashby.

The newest stamps in the Music Icons series honor singer and songwriter John Lennon (1940–1980), a rock-and-roll hero successful both as a founding member of the Beatles and as a solo artist. Still beloved around the world, Lennon's music remains an anchor of pop radio and continues to speak for truth and peace.

The stamp design features a photograph of Lennon taken by noted rock-and-roll photographer Bob Gruen in August 1974 during the photo session for Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges. For the stamps, the original black-and-white image has been treated in gradations of color.

The stamp sheet is designed to resemble a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve. One side of the sheet includes the stamps, brief text about Lennon's legacy, and the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. A black-and-white photograph of Lennon seated at his white piano appears on the reverse, along with Lennon's signature and the Music Icons series logo. Taken by photographer Peter Fordham, the original photograph was used to promote Lennon's landmark 1971 solo album, Imagine.

Lennon was just a 16-year-old high school student in Liverpool, England, when he, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison formed the band that would eventually become the Beatles. With songs like “Love Me Do,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the band dominated the world's pop charts throughout much of the 1960s.

As a solo artist, Lennon recorded a mix of groundbreakingly confessional songs, tender tracks like “Jealous Guy,” 1950s classics, and the still popular holiday single “Happy Christmas (War Is Over).” “Imagine”—the best known song of his solo career—is still sung ritualistically at events like post-9/11 memorials. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1994.

Art director Antonio Alcalá worked on the stamp sheet with designer Neal Ashby.

The John Lennon stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.

Colors

Cool Gray 7, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black

Creators

Designer: Neal Ashby, Alexandria, VA.
Art Director: Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA.
Typographer: Neal Ashby, Alexandria, VA.
Existing Photo: Bob Gruen.
Existing Photo: Peter Fordham.
Modeler: Sandra Lane/Michelle Finn.

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Reference

USPS Postal Bulletin 22499. Copyright: USPS.

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