According to an account by Carl Perkins, Lennon’s final words to McCartney were “Think of me now and then, old friend.” “It is a brilliant sort of ending song. It does sound like John’s ...
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 ...
1. Lennon, ever the pessimist, disagreed. John told Lennon if the song ascended to the top of the charts, Lennon would have to join him onstage to sing it. The rollicking song became Lennon’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The cover of Phil Medley and Bert Berns’ song, which was popularised as a chart hit single by the Isley Brothers in 1962, was given another take by the Fab Four a year later. Paul McCartney and John ...
On January 2, 1969, more than 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins were seized by police at Newark Airport in New Jersey. The album was confiscated since the ...
The song’s call for a world with no religion ... The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, John discussed the origin of “Imagine” — and seemed to gently back away from ...
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 ...
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were an unrivalled song-writing partnership but their relationship soured in the late 1960s. Tensions within The Beatles simmered in the second half of the decade ...
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 ...