With a music catalog as extensive as John Lennon’s, it may be a matter of opinion to some fans which of his songs is most iconic. However, based on streaming data, it’s clear that his 1971 track ...
John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...
John Lennon only issued seven solo albums in the 10 years after the Beatles broke up. The posthumously released Milk and Honey and Menlove Ave. made for a total of nine. With such a small sample size, ...
McCartney and Lennon wrote “Baby’s in Black” in 1964 and recorded it together, singing cheek to cheek into the same microphone. They performed it live in very much the same way. Because the song ...
Released in 1965, “The Little Girl I Once Knew” became quite a hit for the Beach Boys. Following its release, the song peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 10 on the Canada Top ...
In the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon told writer David Sheff that ...
Lennon’s lyrics for “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” were inspired by late-night TV channel surfing while he lived with his girlfriend May Pang during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono in 1973, ...
Inspired by a new book on the life and times of Wings, we pick ten gems from Sir Paul's still-somehow-underrated post-breakup ...
Shepherding Julian Lennon across the Atlantic during the summer of 1974 came with an unexpected bonus for Davey Johnstone.
Bob Dylan was an "idol" to The Beatles, but John Lennon also had a fiercely competitive rivalry with the 'Blowin' in the Wind' folk icon.
The Beatles, renowned for their groundbreaking music, were no strangers to controversy. Songwriter John Lennon's audacious claim in 1966 that the band was "more popular than Jesus" incited a severe ...