This Yellow Submarine track from 1965 was written by John Lennon as part of The Beatles. On the surface, its meaning seems pretty clear. “Nowhere Man” is about a man with no direction in life ...
One John Lennon song needs to be accepted as a New Year’s standard. It mentions the holiday in its chorus! John Lennon wrote a song that’s a New Year’s resolution for all of us When people ...
John Lennon wasn’t always concerned with writing melodies. Despite this, he said two of The Beatles’ songs showed he could write melodies “with the best of them.” One of these tunes was a ...
Though, given its use of steel guitar, American roots lyrics, and the story behind it, it is, without a doubt, John Lennon’s most country-inspired solo song. The song came as a result of a wild ...
Has any artist from the Sixties-Seventies golden era of singer-songwriters ever mastered all of these arts with the regal flamboyance of Sir Elton Hercules John? The competition’s slim at best.
Though they were an unrivalled song writing partnership and at times the best of friends, John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not always agree. Their contrasting approaches to music often met in ...