The Beatles had provided them with the means to luxuriate outside of making pop music, and it seemed as though the two men, now wiser and with less pressure to be pop stars, oftentimes preferred just ...

It's no secret that John Lennon was a talented songwriter, with a career spanning decades that changed the trajectory of modern music. The musician, together with his bandmate Paul McCartney ...

In a 1972 interview with Hit Parader, Lennon discussed McCartney’s songwriting talents with fond nostalgia and picked out a few of his favourite McCartney-penned Beatles songs. John Lennon and Paul ...

John Lennon of Bag.” After his debut solo album, 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, which included the song “Working Class Hero” and whose sessions birthed the single “Power To The ...

The murder of John Lennon in 1980 shook the world, and his absence left a hole in the music world and the hearts of those who loved him. Naturally, quite a few musicians who cared for John Lennon ...

What was the very first Christmas song that a Beatle released after the band split? Well, let me tell you. “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono is the one. Well, you may be thinking ...

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 ...

The song raced straight to No.1 the following week, and then earlier in 1981, “Imagine” itself reemerged for a four-week run at the top. Listen to the best of John Lennon on Apple Music and ...

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 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 the ...

Mark David Chapman, convicted of murdering John Lennon in 1980, confessed in a 2020 parole hearing that he killed the music icon out of "pure selfishness" and a desire for notoriety. Chapman, ...

John Lennon wasn’t known as a religious man during much of his life. He even pondered what the world would be like without religion in one of his most famous songs, “Imagine.” His apparent ...